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Quiz: How well do you remember these corporate rebrands?

Changing names.
10.00pm, 29 May 2022
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THIS WEEK, WE saw the dubious “great news” that Passport Express was being renamed as Post Passport to reflect “slower turnaround times of the service”. 

How well do you remember these rebrandings?

Before Aviva was Aviva, what was the insurer known as in Ireland?
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Irish Life
Hibernian

Quinn
Axa
After Cablelink came NTL, after NTL came.....
Wikimedia
Eircom
Virgin Media

TV3
UPC
In what decade did Opal Fruits become Starbust in Ireland?
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1980s
1990s

2000s
2010s
He's changed the spelling a couple of times, but how does this Irish pop star currently spell his name?
Twitter
Brian McFadden
Bryan McFadden
Our sporting colleagues at The42 were formerly known as TheScore.ie. Their name is partly based on the GAA's now relaxed Rule 42. What did the Rule 42 previously prevent?
The42
Non-GAA sports being played at GAA grounds
British security forces becoming members of the GAA

Members from also playing soccer or rugby
Matches being played on Holy days
As of a corporate restructure in 2015, Google's parent company is now known as what?
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Abacus
Alphabet

Aladdin
Meta
Service station chain Circle K was previously known as what?
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Texaco
Topaz

Applegreen
Maxol
Ah Meteor, what network were you consumed by when you left us in 2017?
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Vodafone
O2

Three
Eir
Two years ago, Mars dropped the Uncle Ben's name following criticism over racial stereotyping. What is the brand now called?
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Just Ben's
Only Ben's

Ben's Original
Best of Ben's
And finally, on what day of the year did Marathon become Snickers, according to Fr. Dougal?
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June 4th
June 16th

July 19th
August 18th
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Lovely result
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C
'I'll take it'
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D
You just about scraped it!
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