Wherio · October 31st, 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 aircraft maker pivots to a nimble scooter whose name means wasp, putting a war-torn country back on wheels.
Answer: 🇮🇹 Italy · Apr 23rd, 1946
Roman Holiday was the biggest sales promotion for Vespa, whose name came from its wasp-like body shape.
2. Physicists at a research laboratory in Meyrin announce the discovery of a long sought particle that gives others mass.
Answer: 🇨🇭 Switzerland · 2012
Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
3. Shakira, a singer from South America's Caribbean coast, releases "Hips Don't Lie," a song that becomes a global hit.
Answer: 🇨🇴 Colombia · Feb 28th, 2006
Hips Don't Lie became Shakira's first number-one single in the United States.
4. A ceremonial city near Lake Titicaca, home to the Gateway of the Sun, declines.
Answer: 🇧🇴 Bolivia · c. 1000 CE
Tiwanaku's Gateway of the Sun stood in a city whose society collapsed.
5. Young militia and regular troops fight a desperate campaign along a single file mountain track through jungle toward Port Moresby.
Answer: 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Jul 1942
The Japanese advanced to within sight of Port Moresby but withdrew on September 26.
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