Wherio · October 8th, 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 king builds his palace atop a 180-metre rock column, entered through a gateway carved as a colossal lion.
Answer: 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · 5th century
Sigiriya still keeps its frescoes and a mirror wall covered in ancient graffiti.
2. A craftsman opens a small shop in an old imperial capital to make handmade playing cards, founding a future gaming giant.
Answer: 🇯🇵 Japan · Sep 23rd, 1889
Nintendo made hanafuda cards in Kyoto, and tried taxis and instant rice, before video games.
3. Something explodes over remote Siberian forest with the force of hundreds of Hiroshimas, flattening trees for 2,000 square kilometres.
Answer: 🇷🇺 Russia · Jun 30th, 1908
The Tunguska blast left no crater because the object burst in the air above the forest.
4. A caravan city on the Adrar Plateau at the Sahara's edge becomes a gathering point for Mecca pilgrims, its libraries guarding ancient manuscripts.
Answer: 🇲🇷 Mauritania · 13th century
Chinguetti has five important manuscript libraries containing scientific and Qur'anic texts.
5. A small Adriatic nation votes by the narrowest of margins, just over a required 55 percent, to dissolve its union with a larger neighbor.
Answer: 🇲🇪 Montenegro · May 21st, 2006
Montenegro's 55.5 percent vote just cleared the EU's 55 percent threshold for independence.
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- Studio Ghibli is founded.
- A day after Italy proclaims a puppet state in a small Adriatic land of limestone mountains, a mass uprising erupts.
- The hammer-and-sickle flag is lowered over this country's seat of Soviet power.
- Akihito becomes the first emperor to abdicate in 200 years.