Wherio #44 — August 25th, 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. Cabinet ministers descend six metres into a lagoon and sign a declaration underwater.
Answer: 🇲🇻 Maldives · October 17th, 2009
The Maldives cabinet signed its climate appeal on the floor of a lagoon.
2. A coral 'Stonehenge of the Pacific' trilithon is raised.
Answer: 🇹🇴 Tonga · c. 1200
Ha'amonga 'a Maui may have tracked the solstice.
3. After returning from pilgrimage, a gold-rich emperor commissions a great mosque on the southern edge of the Sahara.
Answer: 🇲🇱 Mali · 1320s
Mansa Musa's patronage helped make Timbuktu a byword for scholarship and wealth.
4. Cecil Rhodes' pioneers halt between the Limpopo and the Zambezi and raise a flag at a fort that will become their colony's capital.
Answer: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · September 13th, 1890
The site became Harare, the future capital.
5. A prince proclaims full independence from Ottoman rule in the medieval hilltop capital of Tarnovo.
Answer: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · September 22nd, 1908
Bulgaria became a kingdom and Prince Ferdinand took the title tsar.
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