Wherio #46 — August 27th, 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 desert mandate between the great rift valley and the Arabian sands becomes an independent kingdom under its Hashemite emir.
Answer: 🇯🇴 Jordan · May 25th, 1946
Jordan's parliament proclaimed Emir Abdullah king of the new state.
2. A 17th-century canal ring joins the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 2010
Amsterdam's canals were a giant planned expansion.
3. A former British colony in Melanesia gains independence during a ceremony on its largest island.
Answer: 🇫🇯 Fiji · October 10th, 1970
Fiji had been a British colony for 96 years.
4. A Pacific territory administered by Australia becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
Answer: 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · September 16th, 1975
The new state begins self-government with Michael Somare as prime minister.
5. A buccaneer crosses the jungle from the Caribbean and burns a wealthy Pacific port.
Answer: 🇵🇦 Panama · 1671
Henry Morgan's raid ended Panamá Viejo.
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- Rembrandt completes his huge group portrait The Night Watch.
- Separatists declare independence while a foreign warship blocks government troops.
- A museum devoted to Van Gogh's work opens in the low-country capital of his birth nation.
- A Swiss explorer rediscovers the rose-red city of Petra.
- A cathedral-like national museum of a low country's golden-age art opens.