Wherio · October 25th, 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 carol composed for guitar after possible damage to a church organ is first performed at a village church on Christmas Eve.
Answer: 🇦🇹 Austria · Dec 24th, 1818
Joseph Mohr wrote Silent Night's words, and Franz Xaver Gruber composed its melody and guitar accompaniment.
2. A leak of toxic gas at a pesticide plant kills thousands in a central South Asian city.
Answer: 🇮🇳 India · 2–3 Dec 1984
The Bhopal disaster released toxic gas from a pesticide plant, causing one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
3. An Israeli invasion, joined by Britain and France, follows a president's nationalization of the canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Answer: 🇪🇬 Egypt · Oct 29th, 1956
The Suez Crisis followed Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal and the ensuing attack on Egypt.
4. A farm burial mound yields an elaborately carved Viking ship holding the burial of two women.
Answer: 🇳🇴 Norway · 1904
The Oseberg ship held two women, sledges and a carved cart, and is displayed in Oslo.
5. Thousands of ancient rock engravings of giraffes and rhinos become the country's first World Heritage Site.
Answer: 🇳🇦 Namibia · 2007
Twyfelfontein's Lion Man has an extremely long, rectangular kinked tail ending in a six-toed pugmark, among thousands of engravings.
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