Wherio · July 27th, 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. The ancient Olympic Games begin at Olympia in classical antiquity.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 1901
The Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000-year-old device, is called the first computer.
2. A former South African mandate on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa becomes independent after decades of liberation struggle.
Answer: 🇳🇦 Namibia · March 21st, 1990
A United Nations-supervised election precedes the transfer of power.
3. Rebels seize a fortress on the eastern side of Hispaniola, helping establish a new republic.
Answer: 🇩🇴 Dominican Rep. · February 27th, 1844
The Dominican War of Independence ends twenty-two years of rule from the island's western side.
4. Authorities enter a university in the mountainous Kabylia region, intensifying protests for Berber language and cultural rights.
Answer: 🇩🇿 Algeria · April 20th, 1980
The movement seeks recognition of Amazigh identity and language.
5. A powerful earthquake ruptures faults in this country's north, devastating nearby communities.
Answer: 🇦🇲 Armenia · December 7th, 1988
The Spitak quake killed between 25,000 and 50,000 people.
More historical events
- A canal finally cuts through the isthmus linking the Peloponnese to the mainland.
- The first modern Olympic Games are held there.
- Monasteries perch atop the sandstone pinnacles of Meteora.
- A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name.
- A museum opens beneath a celebrated ancient hilltop citadel.
- An earthquake topples the Colossus, a giant bronze statue of the sun god, after 54 years.