Former Country Names Quiz
Countries change their names more often than you might think. Siam became Thailand, Ceylon became Sri Lanka and Persia became Iran. Each prompt is an old name; tap the country that carries it today.
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How it works
A prompt appears at the top of the screen. Tap the country that used to have this name. Your first tap scores 3 points and a second try scores 2; miss twice and the answer is shown on the map before the next prompt. Ten prompts, 100 seconds, so a perfect round is 30 points.
It is also one of the categories in the daily geography challenge: one shared round a day, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep.
Every prompt in this quiz (22)
Each round draws ten of these former names. The answers are on the map, not here.
Abyssinia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, British Honduras, Burma, Byelorussia, Ceylon, Dahomey, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Guiana, Formosa, Gold Coast, Kampuchea, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Persia, Siam, Southern Rhodesia, Swaziland, Tanganyika, Upper Volta, Zaire