Wherio · 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 · Apr 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 · Jul 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 · Jun 1910
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 · Nov 6th, 2005
Naypyidaw's 20-lane roads carry little traffic.
More historical events
- Thieves steal Munch's The Scream from a national gallery.
- At the Congress of Vienna, European powers redraw the map after Napoleon's defeat.
- Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams from a Habsburg capital at the eastern edge of the Alps.
- The first Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the only Nobel given outside Sweden.
- Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize under house arrest.
- A hidden girl's diary from the Secret Annex is published by her father.