Wherio · November 4th, 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 emperor links two great river systems with the world's longest artificial waterway, moving grain to northern capitals.
Answer: 🇨🇳 China · 7th century
The Grand Canal runs about 1,800 kilometres and carried the grain tribute to northern capitals.
2. A physician discovers an antibacterial substance in a mold extract at a hospital in its capital.
Answer: 🇬🇧 England · Sep 1928
Florey and Chain purified penicillin a decade later, and shared the Nobel Prize with Fleming.
3. A boy reporter with a quiff and a white terrier makes his debut in a newspaper's children's supplement.
Answer: 🇧🇪 Belgium · Jan 10th, 1929
Herge's Tintin and his fox terrier Snowy filled two dozen albums and sold 200 million copies.
4. A stonemason fleeing religious persecution founds a mountaintop community that will claim to be the world's oldest republic.
Answer: 🇸🇲 San Marino · Traditionally 301
San Marino's statutes provide for two captains regent chosen twice a year.
5. Five scuttled Viking ships are raised from a fjord bottleneck where they had been sunk to block an invasion route.
Answer: 🇩🇰 Denmark · 1957 to 1962
One Skuldelev warship turned out to have been built in Dublin, and all five are now in Roskilde.
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- The Atomium, a giant iron-crystal model, is built for a World's Fair.
- A carpenter in a small Jutland town founds the Lego company.
- Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution.