Wherio · October 3rd, 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 retired count's cigar-shaped airship lifts off from a floating hangar on Lake Constance for its first flight.
Answer: 🇩🇪 Germany · Jul 2nd, 1900
Zeppelin's LZ 1 carried five people and flew 6.0 kilometers in 17 minutes before an emergency landing.
2. Cathy Freeman lights the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony.
Answer: 🇦🇺 Australia · Sep 15th, 2000
Cathy Freeman won the 400 metres before 112,000 people and lapped the track carrying both flags.
3. A famed reconstructed stone bridge spans the Neretva River, where a centuries-old tradition sees divers leap from its arch.
Answer: 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herz. · Jul 23rd, 2004
Mostar's Stari Most was rebuilt with local tenelija stone, and its divers now leap from it again.
4. Silla begins constructing Bulguksa, whose twin stone pagodas become landmarks of Buddhist art.
Answer: 🇰🇷 South Korea · AD 751
Bulguksa contains the Dabotap and Seokgatap stone pagodas and is considered a masterpiece of Silla Buddhist art.
5. An inland river delta that fans into the Kalahari and never reaches the sea becomes the 1,000th World Heritage Site.
Answer: 🇧🇼 Botswana · Jun 22nd, 2014
The Okavango's flood peaks in Botswana's dry season, concentrating elephants, lions and hippos.
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- A young nationalist assassinates an imperial heir, helping trigger the First World War.
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- Allied courts open the trials of major Nazi war criminals in the defeated enemy's own land.
- The last known thylacine dies in a zoo.