Wherio · October 19th, 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 concrete barrier dividing a Central European city at the Cold War frontier opens, and crowds begin tearing it down.
Answer: 🇩🇪 Germany · Nov 9th, 1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the end of the Cold War in Germany.
2. On the museum's weekly closing day, a former glazier in a staff member's white smock walks off with the world's most famous portrait.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · Aug 21st, 1911
Vincenzo Peruggia was caught trying to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence.
3. A six-day bank hostage drama ends with the captives defending their captors, giving psychology a famous new term.
Answer: 🇸🇪 Sweden · Aug 28th, 1973
Nils Bejerot coined the term Stockholm syndrome after the hostages sided with their captors.
4. Workers complete the world's tallest dam, a 300-metre earthen wall wedged into a mountain river gorge.
Answer: 🇹🇯 Tajikistan · 1980
The Nurek Dam rises about 300 metres and supplies most of Tajikistan's electricity.
5. A steep Ottoman era citadel quarter of whitewashed houses above a bay joins the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇩🇿 Algeria · 1992
The Casbah served as a stronghold for FLN independence fighters during the Algerian War.
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- Engineers at a Nordic telecom laboratory develop a short-range wireless system later named Bluetooth.
- Allied courts open the trials of major Nazi war criminals in the defeated enemy's own land.
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