Wherio · October 22nd, 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. An earthquake and tsunami destroy a seafaring empire's capital on All Saints' Day, followed by a firestorm that burns for hours and shakes Europe's faith in providence.
Answer: 🇵🇹 Portugal · Nov 1st, 1755
The Marquis of Pombal rebuilt Lisbon with earthquake resistant design, and the disaster provoked Voltaire.
2. An aging printmaker publishes a woodblock of a towering wave dwarfing boats, with a sacred peak small in the distance.
Answer: 🇯🇵 Japan · c. 1831
Hokusai was in his seventies when he made The Great Wave, using newly available Prussian blue.
3. A former racing driver's first car under his own prancing horse badge rolls out of a workshop in Maranello.
Answer: 🇮🇹 Italy · 1947
Ferrari's 125 S won at the Rome Grand Prix that May, and the prancing horse came from a flying ace.
4. The Lipizzaner horse breed begins at an imperial stud farm on the Karst plateau, in a small country between the Alps and Adriatic.
Answer: 🇸🇮 Slovenia · 1580
Lipica is the origin of the Lipizzan horse, and its stud farm breeds horses for haute-école riding.
5. A Communist president demolishes much of his capital's old city center for a monumental building that became the world's heaviest.
Answer: 🇷🇴 Romania · 1984-1997
Construction of Ceaușescu's palace continued, and it contains 1,100 rooms.
More historical events
- The world's first high-speed bullet train line opens between two great cities, days before an Olympic games.
- Diggers begin uncovering a Roman town frozen under volcanic ash for seventeen centuries.
- Nutella goes on sale, born of postwar chocolate rationing.
- In the village of Săpânța in Maramureș County, a local artist begins a cemetery of witty painted epitaphs.
- A fire destroys Kinkaku-ji, the famous Golden Pavilion.
- Studio Ghibli is founded.