Wherio #36 — August 17th, 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 canal linking two oceans opens across a narrow isthmus.
Answer: 🇵🇦 Panama · August 15th, 1914
The Panama Canal cut the New York to San Francisco voyage by about 8,000 miles.
2. A world's fair transforms former docklands beside the Tagus estuary under the theme "The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future."
Answer: 🇵🇹 Portugal · May 22nd, 1998
Expo '98 marked 500 years since Vasco da Gama reached India.
3. Soviet forces cross the eastern border at dawn, beginning a winter invasion across forests and frozen roads.
Answer: 🇫🇮 Finland · November 30th, 1939
The Winter War began with Soviet attacks across the Finnish border on several fronts.
4. Welsh settlers found a colony in the Chubut valley of eastern Patagonia.
Answer: 🇦🇷 Argentina · July 28th, 1865
Welsh is still spoken in parts of Chubut province.
5. A Norse colony disappears after centuries of farming along Greenland's southwestern fjords.
Answer: 🇩🇰 Denmark · c. 1450
The vanished Norse settlements lie in Greenland, now part of the Danish Realm.
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- A king signs a constitution that ends absolute monarchy.
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- Gentle white trolls debut in a wartime picture book.