Wherio · October 10th, 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. Two brothers achieve the first sustained powered flight of a controlled heavier-than-air aircraft.
Answer: 🇺🇸 United States of America · Dec 17th, 1903
The Wright Flyer's first hop covered 37 metres in 12 seconds, and the day's longest ran 260 metres.
2. After years of fruitless searching, an excavator finds a single cut step, the first trace of a boy king's intact tomb.
Answer: 🇪🇬 Egypt · Nov 4th, 1922
Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb nearly intact, down to the pharaoh's gold funerary mask.
3. Between 8 and 10 July, divers sedated and brought twelve young footballers and their coach out of Tham Luang, a flooded cave.
Answer: 🇹🇭 Thailand · Jul 10th, 2018
Divers sedated the boys and swam them out of Tham Luang, and rescuer Saman Kunan died in the effort.
4. Soldiers corner a famous Argentine revolutionary in a ravine and hold him overnight in the schoolhouse of La Higuera.
Answer: 🇧🇴 Bolivia · Oct 8th, 1967
Che Guevara was executed at La Higuera, and his remains were found and reburied in Cuba decades later.
5. A chain of Sahara desert lakes, including freshwater lakes sustained by ancient groundwater amid dunes, joins the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇹🇩 Chad · 2012
An underground aquifer supplies the Lakes of Ounianga, while reed mats slow evaporation in the smaller freshwater lakes.
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- The 14 October uprising ends Thanom Kittikachorn's military dictatorship.
- The Burma Railway is completed using forced labor from captured Allied soldiers and Southeast Asian civilians.
- A national revolution topples a military government and brings universal suffrage and land reform.
- A country named after Africa's shrinking great lake becomes independent from France.