Wherio · September 30th, 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. Johannes Gutenberg prints the Latin Vulgate Bible with mass-produced movable metal type in Mainz.
Answer: 🇩🇪 Germany · 1450s
About 49 copies of Gutenberg's 42 line Bible survive from an edition of roughly 180.
2. The dodo, a flightless bird native to an Indian Ocean island east of Madagascar, is last widely recorded as sighted.
Answer: 🇲🇺 Mauritius · 1662
The dodo, undone by hunting and invasive species, became a symbol of extinction.
3. The world's tallest bridge, its masts rising more than 300 metres, opens across the Tarn valley.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · Dec 16th, 2004
The Millau Viaduct has a structural height of 343 metres.
4. Newborn gorillas are publicly named in a ceremony drawn from traditional baby-naming practices to support mountain-gorilla conservation.
Answer: 🇷🇼 Rwanda · 2005
Rwanda's Kwita Izina names newborn gorillas in a ceremony promoting their conservation.
5. A volcanic ridge on a Canary island erupts for 85 days, its lava burying thousands of buildings on the way to the sea.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · Sep 19th, 2021
Cumbre Vieja's 85-day eruption, La Palma's longest known, destroyed about 3,000 buildings.
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