Alpaca Farm (beta)

By Any Other Name by LeiA

Champion(s):

RoseM
De docta ignorantia

Runner(s)-Up:

IrwinK

Quiz Description

I shall give you the old name. You tell me the new name or the name by which a person, place, or thing is now better known. For example, Constantinople is now Istanbul, since it was conquered by the Turks (you should now have that song in your head).

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1 RoseM 423 99 15
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2 IrwinK 415 98 15
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3 WareD 408 97 15
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4 UllspergerA 405 96 15
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5 GoodmanDL 394 94 15
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7 gregariouschinchilla 389 92 15
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8 AlexanderD 385 91 15
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9 KelsoT 377 90 15
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Questions:

Question 1

Ceylon is now what democratic socialist republic?

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Sri Lanka

Question 2

Abyssinia is now better known as what African nation, an important country for the Rastafarians?

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Ethiopia

Question 3

Bohemia, more or less, is now...

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Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia)

Question 4

He was Gordon Matthew Sumner now he’s better known as...

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Sting

Question 5

He was Michael John Douglas but then he became _____________. His stage name reflects his fondness for a certain silent film star.

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Michael Keaton

Question 6

This sex symbol was once known as Norma Jean Mortenson.

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Marilyn Monroe

Question 7

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became…

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Pope Francis I

Question 8

"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web” (1994 debut) became this….

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Yahoo!

Question 9

It debuted in 1893, and was originally known as Brad’s Drink.

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Pepsi

Question 10

Once known as Tsaristyn, then as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961, this Russian city is now known as ________

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Volgograd

Question 11

His birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III is now better known as....

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Bill Clinton

Question 12

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, author of the novels Consuelo and Indiana, is better known as...

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George Sand