Wherio · November 3rd, 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 Anschluss ends a Danube country's independence through annexation.
Answer: 🇦🇹 Austria · Mar 12th, 1938
The Anschluss incorporated Austria into Nazi Germany.
2. A bay of nearly 2,000 limestone karst islands, named for a descending dragon, joins the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇻🇳 Vietnam · 1994
Ha Long means descending dragon, from a legend of dragons spitting out jewels as islands.
3. A lander named Vikram touches down near the Moon's south pole, a first for any nation.
Answer: 🇮🇳 India · Aug 23rd, 2023
India was the fourth country to land on the Moon, and its Pragyan rover ran for about two weeks.
4. King Ur-Nammu raises a great terraced platform to the moon god at the Mesopotamian city of Ur.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · c. 2100 BC
Ur-Nammu's ziggurat honored the moon god Nanna, and its facade and monumental staircase were partially reconstructed decades later.
5. A battered spacecraft's capsule, carrying the first samples ever taken from an asteroid, streaks down over the Woomera Test Range.
Answer: 🇦🇺 Australia · Jun 13th, 2010
Hayabusa brought back the first asteroid samples, tiny grains from Itokawa, after a seven-year mission.
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