Wherio · October 21st, 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. In the Caribbean, rebel forces overthrow Fulgencio Batista's government.
Answer: 🇨🇺 Cuba · Dec 31st, 1958
The Cuban Revolution brought Fidel Castro's rebel movement to power after Batista fled.
2. A chemist risks injecting a nine-year-old boy savaged by a rabid dog, and his untested vaccine saves the child.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · Jul 6th, 1885
Joseph Meister survived, and donations founded the Pasteur Institute, where he later worked.
3. Mahatma Gandhi begins a nonviolent march to the Arabian Sea to defy colonial salt laws.
Answer: 🇮🇳 India · Mar 12th, 1930
The Salt March became a defining act of civil disobedience in India's independence movement.
4. In mainland Southeast Asia, insurgents capture the capital and force its population into the countryside.
Answer: 🇰🇭 Cambodia · Apr 17th, 1975
The Fall of Phnom Penh gave the Khmer Rouge control of Cambodia and began the city's forced evacuation.
5. A Dutch territory on the Guianas coast becomes an independent republic, prompting a wave of emigration to Europe.
Answer: 🇸🇷 Suriname · Nov 25th, 1975
Roughly a third of Surinamese left for the Netherlands around independence.
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