Wherio · June 3rd, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
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1. In 1612, English colonists founded the archipelago's first permanent settlement in the North Atlantic.
Answer: 🇧🇲 Bermuda · 1612
St. George's was founded as Bermuda's first permanent English settlement in 1612.
2. In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson declared the southern islands of an archipelago east of New Guinea a British protectorate.
Answer: 🇸🇧 Solomon Is. · 1893
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in 1893 and later became Solomon Islands.
3. In 1462, Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra's expedition reached a West African Atlantic coast whose enduring name may be linked to his voyage.
Answer: 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · 1462
Pedro de Sintra reached the coast of Sierra Leone in 1462, though it is uncertain who named the area.
4. In 1798, a Portuguese expedition reached the capital of a Lunda kingdom on the eastern bank of the Luapula River in Central Africa, but its leader died soon after arrival.
Answer: 🇿🇲 Zambia · 1798
Francisco de Lacerda's expedition reached Kazembe in what is now Zambia in 1798, where Lacerda died soon afterward.
5. Beginning around 300 BC, makers sculpted stone spheres that were placed near settlements along the Grande de Terraba River in southern Central America.
Answer: 🇨🇷 Costa Rica · c. 300 BC
The Diquis stone spheres of Costa Rica are pre-Columbian petrospheres, some dating from 300 BC.
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- In 1787, a British charitable committee established the Province of Freedom on West Africa's Atlantic coast for Black Poor settlers.
- A Central American country famous for abolishing its army experiences a major two-year volcanic eruption near its capital in the 1960s.
- A landlocked southern African country famous for Victoria Falls and copper mining gains independence from Britain as a republic.
- A Central African federation dissolves, and this country becomes independent the following year.
- On February 7, 1568, a Spanish expedition sighted Santa Isabel, the first European discovery of a western Pacific archipelago.