Wherio · August 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. Soviet tanks enter the capital before dawn to crush a nationwide uprising in central Europe.
Answer: 🇭🇺 Hungary · November 4th, 1956
Some 200,000 Hungarians fled the country after the revolution was crushed.
2. The world's oldest living human-planted tree with a known planting date grows in this country's historic UNESCO World Heritage City.
Answer: 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · c. 236 BC (traditional)
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi grew from a cutting of Buddha's fig tree.
3. A cathedral-like national museum of a low country's golden-age art opens in 1885.
Answer: 🇳🇱 Netherlands · July 13th, 1885
The Rijksmuseum's current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers.
4. Voters become the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by referendum.
Answer: 🇮🇪 Ireland · May 22nd, 2015
Ireland's marriage equality amendment passed with about 62 percent of the vote.
5. Chariot-race factions nearly topple an emperor; 30,000 die.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · 532
The Nika riots ended in a hippodrome massacre.
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- A 17th-century canal ring joins the World Heritage list.
- The luxury rail service that would later reach its Ottoman terminus beside the Bosporus begins its first journey.
- An 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule seeks independence for a kingdom on the Danube.