Wherio #52 — September 2nd, 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 king announces that his realm will abandon its colonial-era name and use its indigenous one.
Answer: 🇸🇿 Eswatini · April 19th, 2018
Swaziland became Eswatini, meaning land of the Swazis.
2. A 16-year-old kitchen apprentice invents a chocolate cake for a prince at the Habsburg court.
Answer: 🇦🇹 Austria · 1832
The original Sachertorte recipe is still a guarded secret.
3. Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in a secret annex above a canal-side warehouse.
Answer: 🇳🇱 Netherlands · July 6th, 1942
Anne's diary from the secret annex became world famous.
4. Amundsen's expedition quietly leaves a southern fjord, secretly bound for the South Pole.
Answer: 🇳🇴 Norway · 1910-06
Amundsen let even most of his crew believe they were sailing north, not south.
5. A ruling junta secretly moves its Southeast Asian capital upcountry to a vast, empty planned city.
Answer: 🇲🇲 Myanmar · November 6th, 2005
Naypyidaw's 20-lane roads carry little traffic.
More historical events
- A hidden girl's diary is published by her father.
- A 17th-century canal ring joins the World Heritage list.
- A former British colony spanning the Irrawaddy valley becomes an independent republic, declining to join the Commonwealth.
- A cathedral-like national museum of a low country's golden-age art opens.
- A museum devoted to Van Gogh's work opens in the low-country capital of his birth nation.
- A 640-year dynasty relinquishes power.