Wherio · July 23rd, 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 magnitude-8 earthquake devastates its city built on an ancient lakebed.
Answer: 🇲🇽 Mexico · Sep 19th, 1985
After the Mexico City earthquake, citizens dug survivors out with bare hands for days.
2. A Normandy farmer is credited with first making a famous soft cheese.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · 1791
Marie Harel is credited with first making Camembert in a town by the same name.
3. Nelson's fleet captures or destroys 18 ships from a combined enemy fleet off Cape Trafalgar.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · Oct 21st, 1805
The Battle of Trafalgar took place in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain's southwest coast.
4. Under its Eighteenth Amendment, a nation begins a nationwide alcohol ban.
Answer: 🇺🇸 United States of America · Jan 17th, 1920
Prohibition fostered black markets and crime syndicates that distributed alcohol.
5. Its war of independence ultimately succeeds with the fall of the Derg regime.
Answer: 🇪🇷 Eritrea · 1991
Eritrean fighters entered Asmara as Ethiopia's regime fell.
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