Wherio · September 4th, 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. Trapped miners are rescued after 69 days underground.
Answer: 🇨🇱 Chile · Oct 13th, 2010
An estimated 5.3 million people watched the 33 Copiapó miners emerge live.
2. A military coup topples an elected president in a South American republic famed for its ancient mountain citadel.
Answer: 🇵🇪 Peru · Oct 3rd, 1968
Peru's new military government nationalized the International Petroleum Company after the coup.
3. Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize under house arrest.
Answer: 🇲🇲 Myanmar · 1991
Aung San Suu Kyi remained confined through much of the next two decades.
4. Nearly all the nation's women stop paid and unpaid work for a day.
Answer: 🇮🇸 Iceland · Oct 24th, 1975
Iceland's Women's Day Off saw 90% of women skip paid and unpaid work nationwide, closing fish factories and disrupting workplaces.
5. Marines storm a tiny coral atoll in the central Pacific at terrible cost in 76 hours.
Answer: 🇰🇮 Kiribati · Nov 1943
Tarawa's reefs stranded the landing craft.
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