Wherio · September 25th, 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 Burma Railway is completed using forced labor from captured Allied soldiers and Southeast Asian civilians.
Answer: 🇹🇭 Thailand · 1943
The real Burma Railway bridge stands at Kanchanaburi.
2. Thieves steal Munch's The Scream from a national gallery.
Answer: 🇳🇴 Norway · Feb 12th, 1994
The thieves who stole The Scream left a note mocking the museum's poor security.
3. After the Portuguese left, the MPLA proclaimed independence.
Answer: 🇦🇴 Angola · Nov 11th, 1975
Angola's independence came amid a civil war that would run for decades.
4. David Livingstone dies there, in Africa.
Answer: 🇿🇲 Zambia · May 1st, 1873
Livingstone's attendants buried his heart under a tree before carrying his body to the coast.
5. A pentagonal sanctuary was built at Surakhany on the Absheron Peninsula, above a natural gas field.
Answer: 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · c. 1745
The Ateshgah drew Zoroastrian and Hindu pilgrims.
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