Same... or Different?

Decide whether these two things are different... or just different names for the same thing.

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First submitted	February 17, 2022
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1. New York and Newark

Same

Different

2. Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Same

Different

3. Uluru and Ayers Rock

Same

Different

4. Yellow River and Huang He

Same

Different

5. Pony and Baby Horse

Same

Different

6. Donkey and Ass

Same

Different

7. Lamb and Baby Sheep

Same

Different

8. Guangzhou and Canton

Same

Different

9. Dhaka and Dacca

Same

Different

10. Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque

Same

Different

11. Pharos of Alexandria and The Great Library of Alexandria

Same

Different

12. Chennai and Madras

Same

Different

13. Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee

Same

Different

14. Cougar and Puma

Same

Different

15. Collar Bone and Scapula

The scapula is the shoulder blade. The medical term for the collar bone is the clavicle.

Same

Different

16. Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali

Same

Different

17. Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee

Same

Different

18. Buddha and the Dalai Lama

Same

Different

19. John the Baptist and John the Apostle

Same

Different

20. Mary Magdalene and Mary, mother of Jesus

Same

Different

21. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and North Korea

Same

Different

22. Dwayne Johnson and The Rock

Same

Different

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44 Comments

+24

Level 86

Apr 7, 2022

Taking this quiz, I wished I had a New Yorker looking over my shoulder - just to click "same," and watch them get totally triggered!

Level 71

Apr 7, 2022

SO true

Level 88

Apr 7, 2022

I'm a New Yorker, and if I saw you do that, I wouldn't get triggered, I'd just think you were ignorant.

Level ∞

Apr 7, 2022

Also confusing is that there is a nearby placed named "Nyack".

Level 88

Apr 7, 2022

Where the Three Stooges live.

Level 27

May 20, 2022

as a new jersian i wouldve gotten triggered, as newark is a city in nj

Level 83

Apr 4, 2023

Looking over your scapula?

D'oh !

+13

Level 91

Apr 7, 2022

I got them all right except for Dhaka/Dacca. I've never seen Dacca in my life, so I took guess...

Level 77

May 18, 2022

Never seen Dacca either.

Level 68

May 18, 2022

Would've been interesting to see Dhaka and Dakar as the one used is similar to Chennai/Madras, Guangzhou/Canton etc.

Level 79

Apr 8, 2022

4% of quiz takers thought Jackie Chan was Bruce Lee? That’s just straight up illogical.

Level 32

Apr 11, 2022

b r u h

+13

Level 63

May 18, 2022

And Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali being the same person is? 🤷‍♂️

If you’ve no interest in those fields of knowledge, then answering questions on them amounts to no more than just random guesswork.

Level 77

May 18, 2022

This one had a few points of more general historical and political significance.

Level 79

May 18, 2022

Well why would a famous Hong Kong person with an anglicized first name change it to a different anglicized first name? AND change their last name to another common Hong Kong name? Not to mention that they’re both obviously stage names, so why would someone have two well-known stage names?

Level 79

May 19, 2022

I think there are many logical scenarios where a Clay becomes Ali or vice versa. Religious conversion, keeping ethnic or religious background private in your stage name, etc. if you don’t know them, it’s 50/50. I think this is not the case with Chan and Lee.

Level 77

May 19, 2022

I have no interest in boxing yet knew the Ali one. It's called general knowledge.

As for the Lee/Chan one, I also have no interest in their movies, but one's been dead for decades, the other one's still alive. I'd say this one's a lot more obvious.

Level 86

Apr 8, 2022

Nice quiz! Fun questions.

Level 32

Apr 11, 2022

12/22, idk.

Level 75

Apr 17, 2022

Super quiz, some really good options here and I did much worse than I expected to! Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan seems a little out of place though perhaps...

Big cats always especially confuse me - mountain lions/cougars/pumas/jaguars/leopards/panthers :S

Level 56

Apr 25, 2022

Guangzhou and Canton should be different, Canton is the province while Guangzhou is a city in Canton (aka Guangdong)

Level 80

May 5, 2022

Read the last bit in the toponymy section (link).

Level 65

May 18, 2022

Ghangzhou got massively expanded but the change of name is the same as Peking to Beijing, an update of the rules of transliterating chinese.

Level 56

May 18, 2022

Got the average score, fun!

+13

Level 66

May 18, 2022

People from Dubai don't like the Flintstones.

But people from ABU! DHABI! DOOOOOO!

Level 41

May 18, 2022

Great quiz

Level 62

May 18, 2022

Good quiz idea and great questions. I guessed there may be some tiny differences between donkeys and wild asses due to domestication, but fair enough, they're the same thing.

Level 71

May 18, 2022

What about Will Farrell and Chad Smith? Are they the same or different? https://brobible.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/will-ferrell-chad-smith-drum-off.png?resize=650,384

Level 79

May 18, 2022

I had no idea what the last question was about.

Level 70

May 18, 2022

Little too much Christianity biased for my taste

Level 32

May 19, 2022

I was rather expecting it to be even more so: If "Virgin Birth" and "Immaculate Conception" had been one of the questions, it would be a trap for an amazing number of people who think they're the same.

Level 96

Oct 4, 2022

Really, 2 questions makes something too biased? This quiz is far more zoologically biased, one should complain about that instead.

Level 56

May 20, 2022

Are not Pumas and Cougars different things? Cougars are a species of puma they are not the same thing.

Donkeys are not asses, ass is the common name for the sub-genus Equus Asinus and donkeys are the subspecies Equus Africanus Asinus.

So donkeys are asses but asses aren't donkeys and the same goes for cougars and pumas.

Level 71

May 30, 2022

Dwayne Johnson, who knew? One of the worlds most influential people apparently and I had never heard of him.

Level 49

Jul 14, 2022

You must of been living under the rock that prevents you from seeing the famous people

Level 65

Oct 2, 2023

"While donkeys have been domesticated, there are still wild asses. They include the African wild ass, the onager and the kiang. The domestic donkey is called ass or donkey, but wild asses are rarely called donkeys."

An ass is not always a donkey but a donkey is always an ass

https://www.animalwised.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-donkey-a-mule-and-an-ass-188.html

Level 61

Oct 7, 2023

I feel silly for not knowing that Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary were two different figures in Christianity.

Level 65

Mar 20, 2024

There is an old famous politician named Cassius clay in American history and that confused me

Level 73

Apr 3, 2024

Hardly more than 50% knew that a pony is not a small horse... wait?? That outcome is not much higher than random guessing. This is quite shocking. Thank god the sheep question didn't end up at 20 percent or something.

Now I do wonder, have those people seen ponies and thought they were baby horses (which I really couldn't imagine if you had seen a "normal" baby horse*). Or did they just think it was a nickname for a baby horse and are totally not aware of the breed of ponies?

*Edit I was thinking about shetlanders in specefic. A clear difference. Though I think any baby is easily distinguished from an adult.

Level 73

Apr 3, 2024

Also quite surprised to see scapula so low. That is less awkward though, not like thinking a donkey is the same as a horse. It is scientific terminology, but still I would have expected it muuucch higher especially on a quizsite like this with inquisitive minds, but even on an average quiz like a tv show. I kind of thought it was almost common knowledge, not just advanced knowledge. Not thinking of it I could totally get, but when the answer is already given.

Nonetheless I think it is always intriguing so see on these quizzes which things score high and which score low. The surprises are what keeps it interesting.

Level 67

Jul 11, 2024

I always get scapula and clavicle confused. This question included.

Level 51

Mar 9, 2025

I mixed puma up with panther, thought it was a broad term for felines…

Level 73

Mar 18, 2025

Fun quiz, 19/22

Level 57

Mar 23, 2025

im from bangladesh and guess which one i got wrong :) never seen it spelt or reffered to as dacca even once in my entire life.