Wherio · October 30th, 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 black-and-white film reconstructing an FLN guerrilla struggle in the Casbah wins the Golden Lion.
Answer: 🇩🇿 Algeria · 1966
Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, filmed in Algeria, won the Golden Lion.
2. German and Italian planes level a Basque market town on market day, inspiring one of history's most famous protest paintings.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · Apr 26th, 1937
The German Condor Legion struck on market day, and Picasso answered with Guernica.
3. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · Jun 6th, 1944
The Normandy landings put Allied troops ashore in France in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
4. Island rulers build a ceremonial city of basalt log walls on nearly a hundred artificial islets atop a coral reef.
Answer: 🇫🇲 Micronesia · c. 1180-1200
Nan Madol contains 92 artificial islets of stone and coral fill, bordered by tidal canals.
5. The world's most isolated tree, a lone acacia, is knocked down by a truck driver.
Answer: 🇳🇪 Niger · 1973
The Tree of Tenere was considered the most isolated tree on Earth, and its remains are in Niamey.
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