Wherio · October 29th, 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. Clockmakers mount an astronomical dial on a Gothic town hall, where carved apostles will parade for six centuries.
Answer: 🇨🇿 Czechia · 1410
Prague's Orloj features apostles and a figure of Death.
2. After a 300-year pause, builders finally finish a twin-spired Gothic cathedral begun in the Middle Ages beside the Rhine.
Answer: 🇩🇪 Germany · Oct 15th, 1880
Cologne Cathedral's 157-metre spires went up more than 600 years after the foundation stone.
3. A volcanic island between Java and Sumatra blows itself apart in a blast heard 3,000 kilometres away.
Answer: 🇮🇩 Indonesia · Aug 27th, 1883
Krakatoa's eruption and tsunamis caused at least 36,417 deaths, with effects felt worldwide.
4. One of the world's largest raised coral atolls, home to 100,000 giant tortoises, becomes a World Heritage Site.
Answer: 🇸🇨 Seychelles · 1982
Aldabra is home to giant tortoises.
5. Archaeologists surveying desert shelters find vivid 5,000-year-old paintings of cattle in ceremonial robes and their herders.
Answer: 🇸🇴 Somalia · 2002
Laas Geel's shelters hold painted cattle, herders, dogs and giraffes, around 5,000 years old.
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