Wherio · November 14th, 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. Climbers setting out from the village of Zermatt finally conquer an iconic pyramid peak, but four fall to their deaths descending.
Answer: 🇨🇭 Switzerland · 1865
Edward Whymper's party lost four men on the descent.
2. The Taliban dynamites two giant Buddhas carved into a valley cliff despite global pleas.
Answer: 🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Mar 2001
The Bamiyan Buddhas measured 55 and 38 meters before their destruction.
3. A doomsday vault for backup copies of the world's crop seeds opens deep inside a frozen Arctic mountainside.
Answer: 🇳🇴 Norway · Feb 26th, 2008
The Svalbard vault made its first withdrawal so ICARDA could regenerate seeds.
4. A narrow West African strip barely 115 km wide at the coast gains independence from France.
Answer: 🇹🇬 Togo · Apr 27th, 1960
Sylvanus Olympio was killed in a military coup.
5. A king dies after more than 82 years on the throne, the longest precisely dated reign in recorded history.
Answer: 🇸🇿 Eswatini · Aug 21st, 1982
Sobhuza II was chosen king as an infant and led Swaziland to independence.
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