Former Country And City Names

Question 1

What was known as Siam

Answer 1

Thailand

Question 2

What was known as Persia

Answer 2

Iran

Question 3

What was known as Rhodesia

Answer 3

Zimbabwe

Question 4

What was known as Ceylon?

Answer 4

Sri Lanka

Question 5

What was known as Zaire

Answer 5

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question 6

What was known as Upper Volta

Answer 6

Burkina Faso

Question 7

What was known as British Honduras?

Answer 7

Belize

Question 8

What was known as Bechuanaland?

Answer 8

Botswana

Question 9

What was known as Dutch Guiana?

Answer 9

Suriname

Question 10

What was known as Kampuchea?

Answer 10

Cambodia

Question 11

What was known as Trucial States?

Answer 11

United Arab Emirates

Question 12

What was known as Dahomey?

Answer 12

Benin

Question 13

What was known as The Gilbert Islands?

Answer 13

Kiribati

Question 14

What was known as Basutoland?

Answer 14

Lesotho

Question 15

What was known as New Hebrides?

Answer 15

Vanuatu

Question 16

What countries are named for Old Testament figures?

Answer 16

Israel (Jacob) and Solomon Islands

Question 17

What country is named for a New Testament apostle?

Answer 17

São Tomé and Principe

Question 18

What country is called Bharat in its native language?

Answer 18

India

Question 19

What country is named for the founder of the Friar’s preachers” religious order?

Answer 19

Dominican Republic

Question 20

What country is named for the Hapsburg king of Spain from 1556 to 1598?

Answer 20

The Philippines (King Philip II)

Question 21

What Italians are countries names after?

Answer 21

Ameriprise Vespucci
Christopher Colombus

Question 22

What country’s name is the local pronunciation of the name of its British discoverer Thomas Gilbert?

Answer 22

Kiribati

Question 23

Which world country is named after the figure who lived most recently?

Answer 23

Bolivia

Question 24

What Pacific Island chain is named for Philip IV’s Austrian Queen?

Answer 24

Marianas