Wherio · October 1st, 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 bushranger wearing armor fashioned from plow moldboards is severely wounded during a hotel siege and captured.
Answer: 🇦🇺 Australia · 1880
Ned Kelly, the only gang member to survive Glenrowan, was severely wounded by police fire and captured.
2. The Bauhaus, a hugely influential art-and-design school, opens and reshapes modern design.
Answer: 🇩🇪 Germany · 1919
The Bauhaus closed under Nazi pressure, and former key figures became influential in the United States.
3. Construction of a colossal monument depicting four national leaders ends.
Answer: 🇺🇸 United States of America · Oct 31st, 1941
Each Mount Rushmore head is about 18 metres tall, and most of the shaping was done with dynamite.
4. A roughly 1,400-kilometre railway linking the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf is completed, funded without foreign loans.
Answer: 🇮🇷 Iran · 1938
The Trans-Iranian Railway was funded by taxes on tea and sugar rather than foreign loans.
5. A president's St Peter's-inspired church, billed as the world's largest, is consecrated.
Answer: 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire · Sep 10th, 1990
Guinness lists the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace at Yamoussoukro as the world's largest church.
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- Militants storm a US embassy and hold 52 hostages for 444 days.
- A bridge nicknamed 'the coathanger' opens over a harbor.
- Allied courts open the trials of major Nazi war criminals in the defeated enemy's own land.
- The Eureka Stockade rebellion flies a Southern Cross flag.
- The last known thylacine dies in a zoo.