Wherio · October 6th, 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. Rare striped tulip bulbs reach extraordinary prices before contracts collapse abruptly.
Answer: 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Feb 1637
Tulip mania's prized striped bulbs owed their streaks to a virus, and prices crashed.
2. Diggers begin uncovering a Roman town frozen under volcanic ash for seventeen centuries.
Answer: 🇮🇹 Italy · 1748
At Pompeii, decayed organic remains allowed archaeologists to create moulds of victims in their final moments.
3. Climbers make the first ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook, their country's highest mountain, on Christmas Day.
Answer: 🇳🇿 New Zealand · Dec 25th, 1894
Aoraki was once believed to mean “Cloud Piercer,” and Fyfe, Clarke and Graham reached its 3,724-metre summit before FitzGerald's party.
4. Monks complete a monastery clinging to a cliff 900 metres above a valley where a guru is said to have arrived flying on a tigress.
Answer: 🇧🇹 Bhutan · 1692
Paro Taktsang, the Tiger's Nest, was damaged by a fire and later restored.
5. Families near Puno maintain villages built on floating islands woven from totora reeds on a high Andean lake.
Answer: 🇵🇪 Peru · 21st century
The Uros' totora reed islands on Lake Titicaca rot from below and are renewed from above.
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- Its capital moves from its largest city to a harbor on the southern tip of its North Island.
- Rembrandt completes his huge group portrait The Night Watch.