Wherio · August 12th, 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 diverse island colony east of Madagascar becomes independent while keeping the British monarch.
Answer: 🇲🇺 Mauritius · Mar 12th, 1968
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam became independent Mauritius's first prime minister.
2. The communal kimchi-making tradition joins UNESCO's list.
Answer: 🇰🇷 South Korea · 2013
Kimjang brings families, relatives, and neighbors together to make kimchi.
3. Mariachi music joins UNESCO's cultural heritage list.
Answer: 🇲🇽 Mexico · 2011
UNESCO recognized mariachi as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
4. Fossil hunters uncover partial skeletons and numerous skulls of a giant crocodylomorph in this country's Ténéré Desert.
Answer: 🇳🇪 Niger · 2000
Sarcosuchus fossils emerged from the Sahara's Ténéré desert.
5. Firefighters extinguish hundreds of well fires left burning across the desert after forces retreat from the small Gulf state they occupied.
Answer: 🇰🇼 Kuwait · Nov 1991
The Kuwaiti oil well fires took approximately ten months to extinguish.
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- A sheikhdom at the head of the Persian Gulf, wedged between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, ends its British protectorate agreement.
- A French territory in West Africa becomes an independent republic.
- The golden Angel of Independence is unveiled.
- A magnitude-8 earthquake devastates its city built on an ancient lakebed.
- The Japanese bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off an Indian Ocean island nation and later spilled oil.