Wherio · September 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. A military head of state is killed in traffic during a failed coup in an oil-rich state at the Niger River's delta.
Answer: 🇳🇬 Nigeria · Feb 13th, 1976
Olusegun Obasanjo succeeded Murtala Muhammed and later led Nigeria's transition to civilian rule.
2. Salvador Dalí opens his own surreal theater-museum at his Catalan hometown.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · Sep 28th, 1974
Salvador Dali is buried in a crypt beneath the stage of his museum in Figueres.
3. A small Mediterranean island shaped like a frying pan, lying just south of Turkey, ends British colonial rule.
Answer: 🇨🇾 Cyprus · Aug 16th, 1960
Cyprus's constitution split representation between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
4. In a second referendum, voters in a narrow anglophone enclave within francophone West Africa approve a republic.
Answer: 🇬🇲 Gambia · Apr 24th, 1970
Dawda Jawara became the Gambia's first president when the monarch ceased to be head of state.
5. A physician raised beside a Silk Road oasis west of Samarkand writes a Canon that rules medicine for 600 years.
Answer: 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · c. 1025
Avicenna was born near Bukhara.
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