Wherio · October 14th, 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. Nasrid sultans build a red-walled palace city of courtyards, fountains and carved stucco on a hill above Granada.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · 13th-14th century
Alhambra means the red one, and Nasrid Granada was the last Muslim ruled state in Iberia.
2. A Padua professor turns his improved spyglass on the night sky and finds four moons circling Jupiter.
Answer: 🇮🇹 Italy · Jan 15th, 1610
Galileo published Jupiter's moons in Sidereus Nuncius, backing Copernicus against the church.
3. Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope, setting out from the Atlantic coast to run across the world's second-largest country.
Answer: 🇨🇦 Canada · Apr 12th, 1980
Terry Fox ran 5,373 kilometres in 143 days before cancer in his lungs stopped him near Thunder Bay.
4. Wadi Rum, a desert of sandstone arches, canyons and red dunes, a favorite film stand-in for Mars, joins the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇯🇴 Jordan · 2011
Wadi Rum was traversed by T. E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt and stood in for Mars in The Martian.
5. Thousands of giant stone jars, their makers unknown, lie across upland plateaus in Southeast Asia's only landlocked country.
Answer: 🇱🇦 Laos · 500 BC to AD 800
Several Plain of Jars sites have been cleared of unexploded bombs and opened to visitors.
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- A volcanic ridge on a Canary island erupts for 85 days, its lava burying thousands of buildings on the way to the sea.
- A world's fair celebrating the 100th anniversary of Confederation draws more than 50 million visitors in six months.
- 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.
- Nutella goes on sale, born of postwar chocolate rationing.
- A famous bareback horse race is run around Siena's medieval Piazza del Campo.