Wherio · November 7th, 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. Shona builders raise mortarless stone walls of a royal city whose name will one day rename the whole country.
Answer: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · 11th-15th century
Great Zimbabwe gave modern Zimbabwe its name, and eight soapstone birds were recovered from the site.
2. The heaviest airplane ever built, a six-engined giant designed to carry a spaceplane, makes its first flight from its home airfield.
Answer: 🇺🇦 Ukraine · Dec 21st, 1988
The only Mriya, whose name means dream, was destroyed at its Hostomel base.
3. Archaeologists begin excavating one of the world's oldest temple complexes in southeastern Anatolia, with rings of carved T-shaped pillars built by hunter-gatherers during early village life.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · 1995
Gobekli Tepe's carved pillars predate pottery or metal.
4. Leptis Magna, among Africa's finest Roman ruins, gains a grand new forum and basilica under Emperor Septimius Severus.
Answer: 🇱🇾 Libya · c. 193-211
Sand buried Leptis Magna and preserved the city Septimius Severus rebuilt in his hometown.
5. A museum beneath a vast perforated dome that scatters a rain of light opens on an island cultural district.
Answer: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Nov 8th, 2017
Jean Nouvel's 180-metre latticed dome scatters a rain of light over the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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- Three former Italian territories unite as an independent federal kingdom under King Idris.
- A solar-powered plane lands beside the Persian Gulf after completing the first fuel-free flight around the world.
- Renovating his home, a man breaks through a wall into a multi-level underground city carved from the volcanic rock of Cappadocia.
- The Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes.
- After months of protests in Eastern Europe, parliament voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office.