Wherio · October 12th, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
Loading archive game...
Reveal answers and mapHide answers and map
1. A monastic establishment crowns the tidal island known as the Marvel, reached across sands that the sea races in to cover.
Answer: 🇫🇷 France · 8th-16th century
Mont-Saint-Michel's abbey, nicknamed the Marvel, doubled as a fortress the English never took.
2. Golf's first Open Championship is played at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire.
Answer: 🇬🇧 Scotland · Oct 17th, 1860
The inaugural Open Championship at Prestwick was won by Willie Park Sr., who defeated Old Tom Morris by two shots.
3. A small bronze statue of a fairy tale sea creature, a brewer's gift, is unveiled on a harbor rock.
Answer: 🇩🇰 Denmark · Aug 23rd, 1913
Carlsberg's Carl Jacobsen commissioned the 1.25-metre bronze of Andersen's mermaid for Copenhagen.
4. An explorer declares the northern outflow of Lake Victoria to be the source of the White Nile.
Answer: 🇺🇬 Uganda · Jul 28th, 1862
Speke's Lake Victoria claim sparked a feud with Richard Burton.
5. An island of umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees, where a third of the plants grow nowhere else, becomes a World Heritage Site.
Answer: 🇾🇪 Yemen · 2008
About a third of Socotra's plants grow nowhere else, including the dragon's blood tree.
More historical events
- A chemist risks injecting a nine-year-old boy savaged by a rabid dog, and his untested vaccine saves the child.
- On the museum's weekly closing day, a former glazier in a staff member's white smock walks off with the world's most famous portrait.
- Commandos fly 4,000 km to storm Entebbe airport terminal at night and free hijacked airline hostages held with a dictator's blessing.
- The world's tallest bridge, its masts rising more than 300 metres, opens across the Tarn valley.
- Four teenagers following a dog down a hole find a cave painted with Ice Age bulls and horses.
- A carpenter in a small Jutland town founds the Lego company.