Wherio #40 — August 21st, 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. Enslaved revolutionaries declare the world's first Black republic.
Answer: 🇭🇹 Haiti · January 1st, 1804
The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in history to found a nation.
2. A 1,500-room baroque palace is completed for the tsars on Baltic marshes.
Answer: 🇷🇺 Russia · 1762
The Winter Palace later housed the Hermitage.
3. A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 490 BC
The legend of a runner's 26-mile dash gave the race its name.
4. Delegates from thousands of islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans pledge one homeland, one nation, and one language.
Answer: 🇮🇩 Indonesia · October 28th, 1928
The Youth Pledge gave Indonesia's independence movement a shared language, Bahasa Indonesia.
5. A wooden horse ends a ten-year siege, as the poets tell it.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · c. 1180 BC
Troy's ruins stand at Hisarlik near the Dardanelles.
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- Renovating his home, a man breaks through a wall into a multi-level underground city carved from the volcanic rock of Cappadocia.
- An 85-metre statue of a sword-raising mother crowns a battle-scarred hill above the Volga.
- Divers recover the mysterious Antikythera mechanism from a shipwreck off the coast of an island with the same name.
- Heinrich Schliemann begins excavating the site of Troy.
- An Olympic flame relay tradition is invented.
- The deepest hole ever drilled reaches over 12km deep.