Famous Name Changes
Celebrities, companies, and even cities sometimes ditch their old names for something new, try to keep up in this trivia game on famous name changes.
15 questions · Published August 18, 2025
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What is the name of this sports legend who changed his name from Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1964?
Cassius Marcellus Clay is better known as championship boxer Muhammad Ali, a name given to him by Elijah Muhammad from the Nation of Islam upon his conversion to the religion in 1964.
- Multiple Choice
2. What U.S. state was originally in the name of famous fast food company KFC?
KFC was founded as Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1952 by Colonel Harlan Sanders. However, in 1991 it was rebranded as KFC to distance itself from fried food thanks to its unhealthy connotations.
- Multiple Choice
3. What letter was Twitter's name changed to by Elon Musk after he took over the microblogging site in 2022?
Elon Musk took control of Twitter in October of 2022, changing its name to X.com in July of 2023. The move was in an effort to rebrand as an app that handled multiple disciplines and keep in his unification of many of his companies using the letter X in their names.
- Multiple Choice
4. What is the current name of the Major League Baseball team once known as the Cleveland Indians?
The Cleveland Guardians started life in 1894 as the Columbus Buckeyes, then the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers in 1899. They then became the Cleveland Lakeshores in 1900, this was followed by stints as the Bluebirds, Broncos, and Napoleons in the first part of the 1900s. They settled on the Cleveland Indians in 1914 and kept that until it was deemed outdated in 2021 when they assumed their current name.
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5. Founded in 1948 in Quincy, Massachusetts as ________ Donuts, the baked goods purveyor rebranded to just ________ in 2019.
Though originally focused on their donuts, Dunkin' Donuts became just Dunkin' in 2019 to rebrand as a seller of donuts, beverages, and other breakfast food.
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