Wherio #26 — August 7th, 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 Pyramid of the Sun is completed in a great ceremonial metropolis of a highland basin in central Mesoamerica.
Answer: 🇲🇽 Mexico · c. 200 AD
The city's builders remain unidentified.
2. The Acropolis Museum opens beneath the sacred rock.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · June 20th, 2009
Its top floor awaits marbles still held abroad.
3. A famous statue-lined stone bridge is begun across a river in a Bohemian capital.
Answer: 🇨🇿 Czechia · 1357
Legend says egg yolks were mixed into the mortar.
4. A military ruler crowns himself emperor in a lavish ceremony modeled on Napoleon.
Answer: 🇨🇫 Central African Rep. · December 4th, 1977
The extravagant coronation consumes a large share of a poor state’s resources.
5. People of the Rus' capital are baptized en masse in the Dnieper River, binding the realm to Byzantine Christianity.
Answer: 🇺🇦 Ukraine · 988
The mass baptism took place on the Dnieper in the territory of the modern blue-and-yellow republic.
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