Wherio · September 13th, 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. The white Lipizzaner stallions of a Habsburg court riding school perform.
Answer: 🇦🇹 Austria · 18th century
The Lipizzaner tradition continues in the same baroque hall.
2. A day after Italy proclaims a puppet state in a small Adriatic land of limestone mountains, a mass uprising erupts.
Answer: 🇲🇪 Montenegro · July 13th, 1941
Montenegro's July Uprising briefly freed most of the country before a huge counteroffensive.
3. A Central American country famous for abolishing its army experiences a major two-year volcanic eruption near its capital in the 1960s.
Answer: 🇨🇷 Costa Rica · March 13th, 1963
Ash from Irazu repeatedly blanketed Costa Rica's central highlands.
4. A sultan's son removes him in a near-bloodless palace coup and begins rapid modernization.
Answer: 🇴🇲 Oman · July 23rd, 1970
Sultan Qaboos opened schools, hospitals and roads across a previously isolated Oman.
5. Grand Prix cars first race through the streets of a tiny Mediterranean principality.
Answer: 🇲🇨 Monaco · April 14th, 1929
The Monaco Grand Prix circuit has been altered several times since, notably in 1972, 1973, and 1976.
More historical events
- The Habsburg monarchy collapses as its ruler renounces participation in government affairs and its Alpine empire dissolves.
- 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.
- A sultan's first siege of a great Danube city fails in autumn rains.
- A 16-year-old kitchen apprentice invents a chocolate cake for a prince at the Habsburg court.
- On June 5, 2017, a small mountainous state on the Adriatic coast became NATO's 29th member.