Wherio · August 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. The Pyramid of the Sun is completed in a great ceremonial metropolis of a highland basin in central Mesoamerica.
Answer: 🇲🇽 Mexico · 100 CE
Teotihuacan's builders remain unidentified.
2. A museum opens beneath a celebrated ancient hilltop citadel.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · June 20th, 2009
The Acropolis Museum includes a gallery designed to display the Parthenon Marbles.
3. A famous statue-lined stone bridge is begun across a river in a Bohemian capital.
Answer: 🇨🇿 Czechia · 1357
Legend says egg yolks were mixed into the mortar.
4. A military ruler crowns himself emperor in a lavish ceremony modeled on Napoleon.
Answer: 🇨🇫 Central African Rep. · December 4th, 1977
Bokassa's coronation cost over US$20 million and caused serious damage to the state.
5. People of the Rus' capital are baptized en masse in the Dnieper River, binding the realm to Byzantine Christianity.
Answer: 🇺🇦 Ukraine · 988
The mass baptism took place on the Dnieper in the territory of the modern blue-and-yellow republic.
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- A magnitude-8 earthquake devastates its city built on an ancient lakebed.