Wherio · November 1st, 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. The Persian Empire begins building Persepolis, its grand ceremonial capital of monumental stairways and columned halls.
Answer: 🇮🇷 Iran · c. 518 BC
Alexander's army took Persepolis, after which its wooden parts were destroyed by fire.
2. In the dynamite inventor's homeland, the first prizes endowed by his will are handed out for physics, chemistry, medicine and literature.
Answer: 🇸🇪 Sweden · Dec 10th, 1901
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first physics prize for X-rays, five years after Nobel's death.
3. An ash plume from a glacier-capped volcano disrupts air travel across northern and western Europe for nearly a week.
Answer: 🇮🇸 Iceland · Apr 15th, 2010
Eyjafjallajokull's ash disrupted air travel across Europe and affected approximately 10 million travelers.
4. A bush pilot hunting for gold crash lands his plane atop a tepui beside the world's tallest waterfall.
Answer: 🇻🇪 Venezuela · Oct 9th, 1937
Jimmie Angel's bogged plane cost his party an eleven day trek, and the falls took his name.
5. A 1,700-year-old phonolite obelisk, carted off by an occupying army, is flown home in pieces aboard giant cargo planes.
Answer: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Apr 2005
The Axum obelisk, taken to Italy, was re-erected in its original home.
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- A roughly 1,400-kilometre railway linking the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf is completed, funded without foreign loans.
- The Shah hosts elaborate October celebrations at Persepolis marking 2,500 years of the Persian Empire.
- Engineers at a Nordic telecom laboratory develop a short-range wireless system later named Bluetooth.
- Militants storm a US embassy and hold 52 hostages for 444 days.
- Nearly all the nation's women stop paid and unpaid work for a day.