Wherio · August 21st, 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. Formerly enslaved revolutionaries win independence from French colonial rule.
Answer: 🇭🇹 Haiti · January 1st, 1804
The Haitian Revolution was one of the only known slave revolts to found a state free from slavery.
2. A 1,500-room baroque palace is nearing completion for the tsars on Baltic marshes.
Answer: 🇷🇺 Russia · 1759
The Winter Palace later housed the Hermitage.
3. A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 490 BC
The Battle of Marathon was fought in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece.
4. At its 1928 youth congress, delegates pledge one motherland, one nation, and a unifying language.
Answer: 🇮🇩 Indonesia · October 28th, 1928
The Youth Pledge gave Indonesia's independence movement a shared language, Bahasa Indonesia.
5. A wooden horse ends a ten-year siege, as the poets tell it.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · Late Bronze Age
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks to sneak into Troy.
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- Renovating his home, a man breaks through a wall into a multi-level underground city carved from the volcanic rock of Cappadocia.
- An 85-metre statue of a sword-raising mother crowns a battle-scarred hill above the Volga.