Wherio · July 30th, 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 great High Dam is completed on the Nile.
Answer: 🇪🇬 Egypt · 1970
The Aswan High Dam's reservoir threatened to submerge the Abu Simbel temples.
2. A 67.5-metre obelisk is raised in its capital to commemorate the city's 400th anniversary.
Answer: 🇦🇷 Argentina · 1936
The Obelisco de Buenos Aires marked the city's 400th anniversary.
3. A major Maya kingdom flourishes in the Copán Valley, filling its ceremonial center with temples, plazas, and carved stelae.
Answer: 🇭🇳 Honduras · 8th century
Copán's Hieroglyphic Stairway is the longest Maya text known.
4. Mountain gorilla research begins at Karisoke, a volcanic highland research station.
Answer: 🇷🇼 Rwanda · 1967
Dian Fossey set up camp in the Virunga volcanoes.
5. After a major war ends, unemployed privateers turn New Providence into a pirate stronghold.
Answer: 🇧🇸 Bahamas · 1713
The Republic of Pirates, a loose pirate confederacy, dominates the islands before a royal governor restores British control.
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