Wherio · July 28th, 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. Soldiers seize the president at his residence and fly him across the southeastern border to Costa Rica.
Answer: 🇭🇳 Honduras · Jun 28th, 2009
Congress installs its speaker as interim leader, triggering an international crisis.
2. One of the world's oldest amusement parks, Tivoli Gardens, opens in its capital.
Answer: 🇩🇰 Denmark · Aug 15th, 1843
Tivoli Gardens' founder told the king that amused people don't plot.
3. Rock-hewn churches rise at a pilgrimage center about 2,500 metres above sea level in the Lasta highlands.
Answer: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · 12th-13th century
Eleven churches were cut straight down into the rock.
4. Voters approve a constitution establishing its Fourth Republic, decades after it became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence.
Answer: 🇬🇭 Ghana · Apr 28th, 1992
Ghana's constitution entered into force, founding the Fourth Republic.
5. A vast Hindu temple compound rises on southern Java near the boundary between two present-day provinces.
Answer: 🇮🇩 Indonesia · c. 850
Prambanan's spires honor Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.
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