Statistics for Former Names of Places

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This quiz has been taken 29 times
The average score is 15 of 64

Answer Stats

Place (Modern Name)	Answer	% Correct
Beijing (English)	Peking	91%
Saint Petersburg	Leningrad	87%
New York City (Dutch)	New Amsterdam	87%
Mumbai	Bombay	83%
Istanbul	Constantinople	83%
Kolkata	Calcutta	78%
Ho Chi Minh City	Saigon	70%
Volgograd	Stalingrad	70%
Nur-Sultan (1998)	Astana	65%
London	Londinium	65%
Yangon	Rangoon	57%
Gdansk	Danzig	52%
Londonderry (This name is a name still used, but it is not an official name)	Derry	52%
Chennai	Madras	43%
Jakarta	Batavia	35%
York (Roman)	Eboracum	35%
Podgorica	Titograd	35%
York (Viking)	Yorvik	35%
New York City (UK)	New York	30%
Ankara	Angora	22%
Utqiagvik	Barrow	22%
Ljubljana	Laibach	22%
Harare	Salisbury	22%
Kaliningrad	Koningsberg	17%
York (Anglo-Saxon)	Eoforwic	13%
Rjeka	Fiume	13%
Tyver	Kalinin	13%
Lviv	Lemburg	13%
Gqeberha	Port Elizabeth	13%
Sydney	Botany Bay	9%
Beijing (Fourth)	Dadu	9%
New York	New Orange	9%
Bratislava	Pressburg	9%
Nur-Sultan (1961)	Tselinograd	9%
Weihai	Weihaiwei	9%
Nur-Sultan (Before 1961)	Akmolinsk	4%
Kandahar	Alexandria Arachosia	4%
Herat	Alexandria Ariana	4%
Ghazni (Ancient)	Alexandria in Opania	4%
Nur-Sultan (1992)	Aqmola	4%
Podgorica (First)	Birziminium	4%
Cambridge (England)	Cantabrigia	4%
Cleveland	Cleaveland	4%
Cambridge (Roman)	Duroliponte	4%
Ghazni	Ghaznin	4%
Cambridge (Anglo-Saxon)	Granta Bryg	4%
Beijing (First)	Ji	4%
Beijing (Fifth)	Jingshi	4%
Beijing Mongol	Knanbalik	4%
Sarov	Kremlyov	4%
Luanda	Loanda	4%
Cincinnati	Losantville	4%
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Monkchester	4%
Huambo	Nova Lisboa	4%
Gorno-Altalsk	Oyrot-Tura	4%
Beijing	Peiping	4%
Podgorica (Second)	Ribnica	4%
Lubango	Sa da Bandeira	4%
Mbanza Kongo	Sao Salvador	4%
Perth, Australia	Swan River	4%
Ulan-Ude	Verhneudinsk	4%
Austin	Waterloo	4%
Beijing (Second)	Yanjing	4%
Beijing (Third)	Zhongdu	4%