Wherio · October 15th, 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 marble temple to Athena is completed atop the Acropolis, the crowning glory of a city's golden age.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 438 BC
The Parthenon served as a church and mosque before an explosion severely damaged it.
2. A brilliant white castle called the White Heron is completed in the land of samurai and Mount Fuji.
Answer: 🇯🇵 Japan · 1609
Himeji, the White Heron Castle, survived wartime bombing intact.
3. A landlocked South American country between Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina makes Guarani co-official in a new constitution.
Answer: 🇵🇾 Paraguay · 1992
Most Paraguayans speak Guarani, often mixed with Spanish in the blend called Jopara.
4. A seafaring prince opens a grand museum of the deep on a cliff face, later directed for decades by a famous ocean explorer.
Answer: 🇲🇨 Monaco · 1910
Prince Albert I inaugurated Monaco's Oceanographic Museum, and Jacques Cousteau later directed it for decades.
5. An archaeologist excavates a desert pyramid complex in the Andean country home to Machu Picchu, later recognized as the oldest known city in the Americas.
Answer: 🇵🇪 Peru · 1905
Caral is considered the oldest city in the Americas.
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- A military coup topples an elected president in a South American republic famed for its ancient mountain citadel.
- A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name.