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Can you name the cities by their former name? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: GeoExpert Also try the first Renamed Places Quiz You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4717 TV Shows (U.S.) 3314 Broadway Opening Lines 3279 You Do Know Jack 1400 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1356 Same Last Name 1158 And more...
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Former Name	Current Name
Edo
Batavia
Londinium
Bytown
Saigon
Christiania
Madras
Leningrad
Lourenço Marques
Constantinople

Former Name	Current Name
Dacca
Salisbury
Bearbrass
Porto dos Casais
Lutetia
Hanyang
Leopoldville
Dongrae
Yerba Buena
Oea
Temasek

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	MovieDynamic:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	9 points
	Londinium? LOL! Sounds like an element.

	Deadpool:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:37 GMT	5 points
	Well, I knew Istanbul thanks to They Might Be Giants.

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	IHateRegistering:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	0 points
	That would be cool if there were a way to reverse the quizzes. For example guess the former name by looking at the current name.

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	enough:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	2 points
	Its a similar quiz, but the answers are different. Its no different than having multiple Corporate Logos quizzes

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	Rhys:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	3 points
	As a person from Melbourne who studied Australia History, it's pretty embarrassing that I only got Melbourne by randomly typing it. Who knew it was ever called Bearbrass?

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	Guinevere:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT	-3 points
	Got 9/20 - I knew six and the other three were lucky guesses. I had no clue about the others except I knew Leopoldville was in the Congo somewhere, but my knowledge of Belgian (?) colonizers far outstrips my ability to name cities in Africa. Challenging but fun. I knew Edo from crossword puzzles, and Yerba Buena 'cause I was born there.

	agrigator717:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:01 GMT	9 points
	Yerba Buena translates to "good grass". And all this time I thought the reason people headed west was for the gold. No wonder the hippies from San Francisco were always so happy!

	llewdor:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:03 GMT	0 points
	@ IHateRegistering: Then the quiz would have to list only cities that had had only one other name in their history, or allow a great many alternate answers. Istanbul used to be Constantinople, sure, but before that it was Byzantium.

	Rifsun:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	9 points
	MovieDynamic has one of the only Positively Rated comments (at least at time of this posting). What has the world come to.

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	Dudeman612:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:26 GMT	1 point
	Tough quiz. I figured Bombay/Mumbai would be on here.

	RedLIon:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:28 GMT	1 point
	Fun and surprisingly difficult!

	hscer:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	-3 points
	Very interesting. Got 8. Leopoldville was a clever inclusion, that was one I got.

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	davo499:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 10:41 GMT	-4 points
	I'm from melbourne, and have never heard that name for it, even in a historical context

	JimKatz:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 11:22 GMT	1 point
	I saw Batavia, and being a Napoleonic Wars buff thought "Batavian Republic! Must be Amsterdam!" Didn't go the extra mile and think of the Dutch East Indies. Did, however, get Seoul because the old name sounded like Annyong from Arrested Development. Also, does Dhaka really count when it's not even a phonetic change?

	janwillemvandijk:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 11:57 GMT	0 points
	found an extra: Temasek, you won't be able to guess what the new name is...

	cysion:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 12:16 GMT	-1 points
	Tough, yet interesting :)

	confused:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 12:35 GMT	10 points
	Who's got a vendetta? I've never seen a list where all comments have negative ratings. And it was an interesting quiz!

	Niques:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 12:52 GMT	-1 points
	Yet another Australian here who's never heard of Melbourne as Bearbrass. What the...! That was hard! Wasn't Constantinople on the original 'old names' quiz?

	C:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 13:14 GMT	-4 points
	I found the bonus too! Temasek, eh?

	oohsalmon:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 13:37 GMT	-4 points
	This was haaaard.

	JoeGrzzly:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 14:12 GMT	0 points
	Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

	Maltus:	Sep 24th, 2009 at 14:13 GMT	3 points
	Leopoldville should be obvious given the Democratic Republic of Congo's Belgian connection. DRC was King Leopold II's private property, back in the day...