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Things That are "New"

Can you guess these answers that all contain the word "new"?
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Last updated: September 2, 2020
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First submittedOctober 2, 2010
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Capital of India
New Delhi
City where jazz music started
New Orleans
Star Wars: Episode IV
A New Hope
The northeastern part of the U.S.
New England
Second part of the Bible
New Testament
It comes before waxing crescent
New Moon
Spiritual movement popular in the 1970s
that might involve crystals
New Age
Double plus good language from 1984
Newspeak
FDR's economic program
New Deal
City home to Yale University
New Haven
The western hemisphere
New World
English city on the Tyne
Newcastle
Soda introduced in 1985 and
discontinued in 2002
New Coke
Countries
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
 
U.S. States
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
 
Canadian Provinces
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
(Nova Scotia)
 
Australian State
New South Wales
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Level 67
May 5, 2013
I don't speak French, but I'd bet the "nova" in "Nova Scotia" is the translation of "New." Perhaps that could be a bonus or something?
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Level 53
May 5, 2013
It means New Scotland, but that's Latin, not French.
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Level 78
May 5, 2013
Still, it should be put on this.
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Level 89
Sep 4, 2020
This was a new question.

After it was asked 14,000 separate times it got very old.

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Level 70
Sep 4, 2020
What if it he was just making an unrelated preface? Like, "I've yet to visit the European Union Parliament is Strasbourg, but I wish NPR would stop airing Prairie Home Companion".
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Level 51
Jun 22, 2014
I absolutely agree.
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Level 80
Jan 1, 2017
The quiz is looking for the word "new", not another word which means the same so it shouldn't be accepted.
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Level 67
Aug 26, 2019
You said it yourself, it means the same thing, so it should be accepted!
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Level 59
Nov 6, 2019
It's something that contains "new" not something that has words meaning new.
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Level 34
Jul 7, 2023
It's Latin, in French it's Nouvelle-Écosse
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Level 84
Oct 8, 2013
I'm actually happy for the 80% of people that were able to forget about New Coke. Sadly, I am not one of them...
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Level 60
Apr 11, 2014
New Coke was better anyways.
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Level 71
Sep 4, 2020
I've never heard of this soda. :S
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Level 75
May 17, 2014
I didn't even see the ones on the right the first time I took it. (Face in hands.)
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Level 35
Jun 22, 2014
I remembered every Australian state except New South Wales.
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Level 22
Jun 28, 2016
:(
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Level 37
Sep 5, 2020
Don't worry, learning the states of australia is like 6 times more easier to learn then the US States.
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Level 52
Jul 25, 2014
Only 35% got my hometown. :/
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Level 65
Nov 25, 2022
I've been there, on the way home from a job on Long Island in treacherous snow.

Beautiful swans on the edge of the sound, and nice people. Our van didn't get ticketed, good food.

Will stop by again.

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Level 33
Sep 19, 2014
if you tilt your head you'll see a duck in the north & south america photo thats added to this quiz
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Level 44
Feb 14, 2015
missed New Zealand *facepalm

I did get Papua New Guinea, though, go figure :P

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Level 65
Apr 13, 2016
There's a third Canadian province: Nova Scotia
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Level 47
Jan 1, 2017
And where is the word new in Nova Scotia?
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Level 58
Jan 2, 2017
Nova, translation means new
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Level 70
Feb 7, 2018
Then you could also include Novosibirsk which means New Siberia in Russian
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Level 70
Sep 2, 2020
Or better: the river Newa / Neva .
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Level 62
Sep 4, 2020
@Gassu that's irrelevant. we're talking about provinces.
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Level 84
Nov 18, 2016
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah! How did Papua New Guinea get into this quiz? I know it says that "new" only has to part of each answer, but every other answer starts with "new" (except for "A New Hope", where the article doesn't count).
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Level 76
Jan 1, 2017
New Caledonia would be a good one to add
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Level 67
Jan 1, 2017
21/24. Awesome!
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Level 74
Jan 1, 2017
Happy ___ Year, dear Jetpunk people :)
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Level 67
Jan 1, 2017
Ha. I said that at the start of last year and it was not a happy year. Hopefully this will be better.
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Level 89
Jan 1, 2017
Be careful what you wish for...
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Level 74
Sep 3, 2020
Imagine thinking 2016 was a bad year. How naive we were...
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Level 37
Dec 29, 2020
Couldn't agree more! 2020 will be a year to remember that's for sure.
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Level 22
Jan 10, 2024
Uhhh u sure? Covid 🦠
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Level 75
Jan 1, 2017
Got Newport but didn't get New Zealand...I can already tell 2017 is gonna be a fun year..
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Level 53
Jan 1, 2017
OH MY GOSH! I forgot New Jersey and I live in the USA!!!
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Level 78
Jan 2, 2017
maybe you could add New Caledonia?
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Level 51
Jan 2, 2017
New Caledonia?
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Level 70
Jan 3, 2017
"New" delhi = 106 years old

"New" York = 229 years old

"New" Testement = 1900 years old

"New" Jersey = 230 years old

"New" Hampshire = 229 years old

"New" Mexico = 105 years old

"New" World = 135 million years old

"New" Zealand = 161 years old

"New" Balance = 111 years old

"New" Deal = 84 years old

"New" Orleans = 299 years old

"New" Kids on the Block = 33 years old

"New"foundland = 69 years old

Star Wars: A "New" hope = 40 years old

"New" South Wales = 229 years old

Papua "New" Guinea = 68 years old

"New"castle = 1800 years old

"New" Brunswick = 150 years old

"New" Haven = 97 years old

"New"port = 378 years old

"New" Coke = 32 years old

"New" Order = 37 years old

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Level 65
Feb 7, 2018
The new testament should be called 'The Most recent testament' - Steven Wright
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Level 83
Mar 9, 2018
I find it amusing that New College in Oxford is among the very oldest of them.
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Level 59
Sep 4, 2020
The oldest bridge in Paris is the Pont Neuf, which means "new bridge".
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Level 37
Dec 29, 2020
Which is strange considering the french word "neuf" translates to nine in english
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Level 71
Jul 7, 2023
Not really strange, but an opportunity to learn that neuf also means "new".
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Level 82
Jun 8, 2022
but all of those things they were named after are even older.
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2017
Anyone else start to question whether "new" was a real word towards the end of this quiz?
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Level 54
Jan 3, 2017
sorry to be pedantic, but couldn't nova scotia be one here, as in latin it means new scotland
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Level 69
Jan 10, 2017
Totally agree
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Level 71
Feb 11, 2017
How can "NOVA Scotia" be used for Things that are NEW in an English Language quiz. If you had a quiz wanting the word 'Yellow' would you put Jaundice because Jaune means Yellow in the French Language.
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Level 34
Jan 17, 2017
You could also add the French overseas territory "New Caledonia" :)
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Level 44
Feb 14, 2017
I love New York and New Jersey!
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Level 51
Jul 8, 2017
The New World and the Western Hemisphere aren't quite the same. London is marginally in the Western Hemisphere, and Iceland, Ireland, and Portugal all sit completely within it. Perhaps adjust the question to be 'the Americas'.
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Level 41
Feb 7, 2018
Wasn’t New Coke horrible? If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
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Level 59
Apr 11, 2019
More like if it isn't broken don't break all the reputation you have been building up as one of the best beverage companies. Or just "If it isn't broken, don't break it beyond repair"
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Level 82
May 19, 2019
Coke was the market leader for a long time, but then in the 80s they started losing to Pepsi. Badly. They were desperate and decided to rebrand and reformulate and came out with a drink that was sweeter and tasted more like Pepsi - New Coke. They discontinued selling "old Coke" at the same time. People were very upset. After a period of protests and petitions and boycotts, they brought back "Coca-Cola Classic," which instantly went on to outsell Pepsi, and in the USA has ever since. After some time New Coke was discontinued. I don't think that this was their intention, but it turned out to be a pretty ingenious marketing strategy even if by accident.
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Level 84
Sep 5, 2020
Actually, New Coke does live on, in a sense. The formula for Diet Coke is based on New Coke. They swapped in artificial sweetener to match New Coke's sweetness. I was the first on my block to try it. Had a doctor appointment the day it was introduced and Mom took me to McD's for lunch after. Came back to English class and reported that I was not a fan at all.
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Level 82
Sep 5, 2020
really? Don't recall them tasting at all similar. And I always actually preferred Diet Coke to Coca Cola Classic in large part because I find regular Coke to be *too* sweet. Also too thick and syrupy. In addition to being 100+ calories per serving. Basically liquid candy.
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Level 76
Jul 7, 2023
When Coke president and COO Donald Keough was asked whether they had purposefully introduced New Coke to be a disaster in order to drive up sales of "Classic" Coke when they brought it back, he said "We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart."
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Level 71
Jul 7, 2023
The other "conspiracy" theory regarding New Coke's introduction was that when they went back to Coke Classic, it wasn't really the original, but a new formula based on high-fructose corn syrup rather than sugar (Coke from Mexico famously still uses sugar and is available in bottled form in some places in the U.S. to serve this preference).

This conversion was actually already underway and partially completed before New Coke's introduction, but was certainly completed when the old formula was introduced (according to Wikipedia), so there's some truth to it.

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Level 75
Sep 5, 2020
I was one of those strange people who liked New Coke better, but that makes sense because I always liked Pepsi better than Coke. Coca-cola always tasted like medicine to me except the ones sold in the little 8 oz. glass bottles - for some reason those didn't seem to taste as bad.
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Level 76
Jul 7, 2023
It wasn't that it was horrible, it's that it was different. As Kal says, Coke came out with it to compete with Pepsi, who at the time was advertising that Pepsi beat Coke in blind taste tests. The formulated New Coke to be more like Pepsi, and it beat both original Coke and Pepsi in blind taste tests, so they felt pretty confident it would be a success. However, people really didn't like that they used this new formula to completely replace the old one that everyone had grown up with for a century, so it bombed badly.
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Level 41
Feb 7, 2018
No better place to spend a summer than “down the shore”, as they say. I lived in New Jersey a while, and I live in Philadelphia now. Wildwood is the best.
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Level 67
Feb 23, 2018
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say...
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Level 77
Sep 2, 2020
People just liked it better that way.
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Level 73
Aug 30, 2018
I knew I knew these news
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2018
You should accept 'new kid on the block' as well!
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Level 39
Dec 15, 2019
I type "castle" and get Newcastle, but I type "port" and DON'T get Newport?
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Level 43
Mar 4, 2020
what about nova scotia?
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Level 69
Sep 6, 2020
Ah. This question is just as fresh and unique now as it was seven years ago!
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Level 59
Sep 2, 2020
The word 'new' became stranger and stranger the more it went round in my head- I was completed frazzled by the end of the quiz
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Level 70
Sep 2, 2020
Please add something like "precursor of general relativity" with the answer "NEWton's law of gravity". Please don't miss this easteregg! :-D
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Level 77
Sep 2, 2020
Suggestion for a replacement clue if you ever need one...Duran Duran and the Talking heads = New Wave
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Level 56
Sep 3, 2020
Please accept NZ
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Level ∞
Sep 3, 2020
Okay
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Level 59
Sep 4, 2020
I put Nova Scotia before New Brunswick... Oops
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Level 78
Sep 4, 2020
Neuschwanstein? Pont Neuf?
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Level 84
Sep 4, 2020
Surprised the 1984 answer is the lowest score. Especially today, people need to read that book; living through some newspeak in 2020.
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Level 74
Sep 4, 2020
If you like this quiz, check out my quizzes about Things That Are Soft, Low, Sweet, Thin, Fat, and Flat!
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Level 75
Sep 4, 2020
Based on the current state of society, not surprising that 'Newspeak' was the least-gotten answer.
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Level 60
Sep 4, 2020
New World and Western Hemisphere are not the same thing. The Western Hemisphere is bigger.
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Level 48
Sep 5, 2020
I now find it difficult to look at the word 'New'
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Level 50
Sep 6, 2020
I think you should make it a bit more obvious that 1984 is referencing the novel as opposed to the year as I thought it was a language that they made in 1984
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Level 62
Jul 7, 2023
Agree. I always thought the book was called Nineteen Eighty-Four. Only at the last minute did I think of the book and get the answer.
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Level 50
Sep 6, 2020
I think you should make it a bit more obvious that 1984 is referencing the novel as opposed to the year as I thought it was a language that they made in the year 1984
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2020
FDR as a non English world native I had to think it twice to remember what it was... can you switch it to his full name?
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Level 90
Jan 19, 2021
That second country really stumped me. Wasn't expecting the first word not to be "new".
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Level 64
Jan 21, 2021
Nothing for New Caledonia?
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Level 62
Apr 9, 2021
What about 'Norway' for a country?
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Level 77
May 26, 2021
Yes, it has the "N" and "w", but no "e", which is one of the letters in "new". Unless you want to spell it Neway
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Level 39
Jul 10, 2021
Wait, isn't Neway a good name for a country? Actually it would be very cool
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Level 66
Jul 10, 2021
New Caledonia
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Level 64
Aug 23, 2021
If the question had been Roosevelt, I'd have got the answer New Deal. Nobody outside the US would know what FDR stands for
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Level 82
Sep 7, 2021
Are you intentionally trolling just to provoke a correction from somebody?
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Level 64
Jul 7, 2023
Do you understand the difference between trolling and making a legitimate comment? I've reported your comment. It's offensive.
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Level 80
Dec 10, 2021
Nunavut should surely be accepted
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Level 76
Jul 7, 2023
Why? It doesn't contain "new," and there isn't even the gray area of containing a word meaning "new," as with Nova Scotia.
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Level 29
Feb 8, 2022
I didn't see the australian state part
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Level 67
Jul 7, 2023
PNG threw me off a little, considered it was alphabetical I couldn't for the life of me think of another "New Zsomething".. then it clicked as I was going round the world in my head.
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Level 79
Jul 7, 2023
I tried New Cola but not Coke 🤦‍♂️
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Level 64
Jul 7, 2023
The New World is specifically the Americas, not the western hemisphere
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Level 34
Jul 7, 2023
I'm sorry but what does « FDR » even mean ? Can't you just spell out the acronym ?
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Level 71
Jul 7, 2023
Hm. I don't disagree with spelling it out, but... it's hard for me to imagine someone knowing that the New Deal was Franklin Roosevelt's signature policy, or really, anything about either one, without knowing the very common trigram FDR. I think maybe JFK is even more well-known, but only just.

To me, it's a less extreme version of asking "Hey, who is this 'El Greco' guy? Can't you just call him Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos like normal?"

But that's my perspective, it might be quite narrow, because I am an American and I don't really know how, or if, others around the world refer to FDR and his New Deal.