Wherio · October 5th, 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 transcontinental railway is completed after a western province joins Confederation, linking a vast northern country from Atlantic to Pacific.
Answer: 🇨🇦 Canada · Nov 7th, 1885
The Canadian Pacific Railway was the price of British Columbia joining Confederation.
2. The modern Olympic Games are revived in the country that invented them, with the marathon won by a local water carrier.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · Apr 6th, 1896
Spyridon Louis won the marathon, and Athens champions received silver medals.
3. A Nordic country famed for saunas expands a baby-supply maternity package to all expectant mothers who receive prenatal care.
Answer: 🇫🇮 Finland · 1949
Finland's maternity box requires a prenatal checkup, though there is no evidence it cut infant mortality.
4. Scientists analyzing uranium ore from the Oklo mines realize the deposits ran as natural nuclear reactors two billion years ago.
Answer: 🇬🇦 Gabon · 1972
Oklo is the only place on Earth where natural fission reactors are known to have run.
5. A microstate ruled jointly by a Spanish bishop and a French president joins the UN.
Answer: 🇦🇩 Andorra · 1993
Andorra's co-principality rests on a pact; today its co-princes are the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France.
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- A vast new Arctic territory is carved out, giving its Inuit majority self-government.
- A giant rodeo billed the 'Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth' debuts on the northern prairies.
- A queen picks a lumber town as a compromise capital for a new confederation of British colonies.
- A canal finally cuts through the isthmus linking the Peloponnese to the mainland.
- A French colony on the Atlantic coast becomes independent under Léon M'ba.