Wherio · June 8th, 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. A coalition of Babylonians and Medes sacked the Assyrian capital on the Tigris.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · 612 BC
The Battle of Nineveh in Iraq brought about the destruction of the Assyrian capital.
2. Elections chose 28 members of a new Legislative Assembly for a Pacific island kingdom.
Answer: 🇫🇯 Fiji · 1871
The Fijian general election chose members of Fiji's new Legislative Assembly.
3. Government troops defeated a Jacobite army in a moorland battle in the Highlands.
Answer: 🇬🇧 Scotland · Apr 16th, 1746
The Battle of Culloden in Scotland ended the Jacobite rising.
4. A kingdom centered on a stone-walled capital dominated the gold trade of southern Africa.
Answer: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · 13th century
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe was a medieval Shona state centered on Great Zimbabwe and enriched by trade.
5. Voters in an Andean country approved a constitution recognizing legally enforceable rights of nature.
Answer: 🇪🇨 Ecuador · Sep 2008
The Constitution of Ecuador was approved by referendum and became the first constitution to recognize legally enforceable rights of nature.
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- Golf's first Open Championship is played at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire.
- Voters between the Tigris and Euphrates approve a permanent constitution after the fall of a dictatorship.
- Darwin's Beagle expedition reaches the Galápagos Islands.
- Between the Limpopo and the Zambezi, Cecil Rhodes' pioneers raise a flag at a fort that will become their colony's capital.
- Armed men seized Parliament and took the prime minister hostage in an island country in the South Pacific.