1) Abyssinia is the old name of African country
(a) Algeria
(b) Angola
(c) Ethiopia
(d) None of these
2) Angora is the old name of
(a) Ankara
(b) Izmir
(c) Antalya
(d) None of these
3) Basutoland is the old name of
(a) Benin
(b) Lesotho
(c) Burkina Faso
(d) None of these
4) Batavia is the old name of
(a) Djakarta
(b) Mataram
(c) Jayapura
(d) None of these
5) Mayanmar is the new name of
(a) Burma
(b) Magway
(c) Bago
(d) None of these
6) Bechuanaland is the old name of
(a) Guinea-Bissau
(b) Liberia
(c) Botswana
(d) None of these
7) Guyana is the new name of
(a) British Guiana
(b) Seychelles
(c) Gabon
(d) None
8) Combodia is the new name of
(a) Cape Verde
(b) Kampuchea
(c) Cameroon
(d) None
9) Cape Canaveral is the old name of
(a) Cape Kennedy
(b) Melbourne
(c) Tallahassee
(d) None
10) Ceylon is the old name of
(a) McDonald Islands
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Kerguelen Islands
(d) None
11) Christina is the old name of
(a) Oslo
(b) Rogaland
(c) Østfold
(d) None
12) Congo is the old name of
(a) Côte d’Ivoire
(b) Zaire
(c) Comoros
(d) None
13) Constantinople is the old name of
(a) Istanbul
(b) Adana
(c) Ankara
(d) None
14) Dacca is the old name of
(a) Dhaka
(b) Dakar
(c) Dar es Salaam
(d) None
15) Dutch East Indies is the old name of
(a) Isle of Man
(b) Ireland
(c) Indonesia
(d) None
16) Surinam is the new name of
(a) Dutch Guiana
(b) Guyana
(c) Gibraltar
(d) None of these
17) Formosa is the old name of
(a) Tallinn
(b) Taiwan
(c) Tbilisi
(d) None
18) Gold Coast is the old name of
(a) Gaborone
(b) Ghana
(c) Guam
(d) None
19) Holland is the old name of
(a) The Netherlands
(b) Solomon Islands
(c) Finland
(d) None of these
20) Japan is the new name of
(a) Daegu
(b) Guangzhou
(c) Nippon
(d) None of these
21) Thanganyika Zanzibar is the old name of
(a) Tanzania
(b) Rwanda
(c) Uganda
(d) None
22) South-West Africa is the old name of
(a) Equatorial Guinea
(b) Namibia
(c) Guinea Bissau
(d) None
23) Thailand is the new name of
(a) Sam
(b) Afars and Issas
(c) Nyasaland
(d) None of these
24) Salisbury is the old name of
(a) Kigali
(b) Kampala
(c) Harare
(d) None
25) Rhodesia is the old name of
(a) Kiribati
(b) Malawi
(c) Zimbabwe
(d) None
26) Rangoon is the old name of
(a) Kingstown
(b) Yongon
(c) Lomé
(d) None
27) Persia is the old name of
(a) Iran
(b) Abadan
(c) Piranshahr
(d) None
28) Peking China is the old name of
(a) Beijing
(b) Chongqing
(c) Changsha
(d) None
29) Nyasaland is the old name of
(a) Namibia
(b) Mozambique
(c) Malawi
(d) None of these
30) Northern Rhodesia is the old name of
(a) Equatorial Guinea
(b) Zambia
(c) Swaziland
(d) None
31) Mesopotamia is the old name of
(a) Al Anbar
(b) Babil
(c) Iraq
(d) None
32) Manchukuo is the old name of
(a) Manchuri
(b) Transjordan
(c) Byelorussia
(d) None
33) Malaya is the old name of
(a) Malaysia
(b) Moldova
(c) Siam
(d) None
34) Tanzania’s new administrative capital is
(a) Tabora
(b) Dar es Salaam
(c) Morogoro
(d) None of these
35) Tanzania’s new legislative capital is
(a) Pemba North
(b) Kilimanjaro
(c) Dodoma
(d) None
36) Cote D’Ivoire’s new legislative capital is
(a) Yamoussoukro
(b) Bouaké
(c) Abidjan
(d) None of these
37) Swaziland’s new legislative capital is
(a) Savannas
(b) M’babane
(c) Maputo
(d) None
38) Swaziland’s new legislative capital is
(a) Lobamba
(b) Yamoussoukro
(c) Morogor
(d) None of these
39) Calcutta;s new name is
(a) Tamralipta
(b) Kolkata
(c) Kapilavastu
(d) None
40) The new name of Indian city Madras is
(a) Pataliputra
(b) Kusinagara
(c) Chennai
(d) None
41) Koramangala is the new name of
(a) Sravasti
(b) Bangalore
(c) Kapilavastu
(d) None
42) The new name of Calicut (Indian City) is
(a) Kozhikode
(b) Mathura
(c) Sankasya
(d) None
43) The new name of Indian city Trivandrum is
(a) Kausambi
(b) Thiruvananthapuram
(c) Kapilavastu
(d) None of these
44) Indian state UTTARANCHAL is also known as
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Jharkhand
45) Slovenia was the part of former
(a) Czechoslovakia
(b) Yugoslavia
(c) Russia
(d) None of these
46) Slovakia was the part of former
(a) Russia
(b) Yugoslavia
(c) Czechoslovakia
(d) None
47) Eritrea was the part of former
(a) Ethiopia
(b) Somalia
(c) Sudan
(d) None
48) Palau‘s new capital is
(a) Melekeok
(b) Ngarchelong
(c) Koror
(d) None
49) The city name of Pretoria, South Africa changed 26 May 2005 to:
(a) Bloemfontein
(b) Tshwane.
(c) Polokwane
(d) None
50) The new name of Greenland is
(a) Kalaallit Nunaat
(b) Rigsfællesskabet
(c) Kiel
(d) None of these
51) Free State’s old name is
(a) Free Land
(b) Orange Free State
(c) Orange Island
(d) None of these
52) Puducherry is the new name of
(a) Tripura
(b) Pondicherry
(c) Andaman / Nicobar Islands
(d) None of these
53) Van Diemens Land is the old name of
(a) Gdańsk
(b) Kiel
(c) Melekeok
(d) None
54) Dún Laoghaire, Ireland is the new name of
(a) Queenstown
(b) Georgetown
(c) Kingstown
(d) None
55) Gdańsk, Poland – known as Danzig when Free City and part of
(a) Spain
(b) Germany.
(c) Norway
(d) None
56) Ho Chi Minh City is the new name of
(a) Hai Duong
(b) Saigon,
(c) Thai Binh
(d) None
57) Sunda Kelapa is the old name of
(a) Jakarta
(b) Bangka-Belitung
(c) Lampung –
(d) None of these
58) Kitchener, Ontario was known as Berlin until
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918
(c) 1979
(d) None
59) Mumbai is the new name of Bombay from
(a) December 1990
(b) December 1995
(c) December 1998
(d) None of these
60) New Amsterdam was the old name of
(a) Austin
(b) New York
(c) Miami
(d) None
61) Polokwane, Russian city changed from Pietersburg in
(a) 2003
(b) 2008
(c) 2007
(d) None
62) Tokyo is the new name of formerly
(a) Edo
(b) Nido
(c) Fiji
(d) None
63) Tokyo – formerly Edo, until it became the capital of Japan in
(a) 1878
(b) 1868
(c) 1888
(d) None
64) Egypt and Syria were briefly joined as the
(a) United Arab Republic
(b) Great Arab
(c) UAE
(d) None
Answers
| 1. | c | 2. | a |
| 3. | b | 4. | a |
| 5. | a | 6. | c |
| 7. | a | 8. | b |
| 9. | a | 10. | d |
| 11. | a | 12. | b |
| 13. | a | 14. | a |
| 15. | c | 16. | a |
| 17. | b | 18. | b |
| 19. | a | 20. | c |
| 21. | a | 22. | b |
| 23. | a | 24. | c |
| 25. | c | 26. | b |
| 27. | a | 28. | a |
| 29. | c | 30. | b |
| 31. | c | 32. | a |
| 33. | a | 34. | b |
| 35. | c | 36. | a |
| 37. | b | 38. | a |
| 39. | b | 40. | c |
| 41. | b | 42. | a |
| 43. | b | 44. | a |
| 45. | b | 46. | c |
| 47. | a | 48. | a |
| 49. | b | 50. | a |
| 51. | b | 52. | b |
| 53. | d | 54. | c |
| 55. | b | 56. | b |
| 57. | a | 58. | a |
| 59. | b | 60. | b |
| 61. | a | 62. | a |
| 63. | b | 64. | a |
