Wherio · November 10th, 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. At a research institute in Midlothian, a sheep called Dolly becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Answer: 🇬🇧 Scotland · Jul 5th, 1996
Dolly was cloned at the Roslin Institute from a cell taken from an adult sheep's mammary gland.
2. Africa's largest mosque, with one of the world's tallest minarets, opens on the Atlantic coast of North Africa.
Answer: 🇲🇦 Morocco · Aug 30th, 1993
The Hassan II Mosque stands partly on land reclaimed from the Atlantic and has a retractable roof.
3. After decades of civil war and a referendum, the world's newest country is born by splitting from its northern neighbor.
Answer: 🇸🇸 S. Sudan · Jul 9th, 2011
Nearly 99 percent of voters chose to secede, and South Sudan joined the UN within days.
4. A tiny island republic gains independence, and phosphate mining briefly makes its people among the world's richest.
Answer: 🇳🇷 Nauru · Jan 31st, 1968
Nauru's rich phosphate deposits were extensively strip-mined, leaving much of the island's interior damaged.
5. Tens of thousands of ancient burial mounds in an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf join the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇧🇭 Bahrain · 2019
Bahrain's Dilmun Burial Mounds are necropolis areas dating to the Dilmun and Umm al-Nar cultures.
More historical events
- A small island state between the Qatar peninsula and the Saudi coast, heartland of ancient Dilmun, declares independence as Britain withdraws east of Suez.
- Voters approved constitutional reforms following protests in a North African kingdom with Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.
- A vast, landlocked East African territory voted by 98.83 percent to become the world's newest country.
- A woman founds one of the world's oldest universities in a North African kingdom across the strait from Spain.
- Golf's first Open Championship is played at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire.
- Divers descend from wooden dhows to rich offshore pearl banks before oil transforms the regional economy.