Wherio #24 — August 5th, 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. Armored forces capture the southern capital near the Mekong Delta, ending a long war.
Answer: 🇻🇳 Vietnam · April 30th, 1975
Helicopters evacuated the US embassy as tanks entered the city.
2. Instant noodles are invented in a backyard shed.
Answer: 🇯🇵 Japan · 1958
Momofuku Ando flash-fried noodles in oil.
3. After a long siege, Cortés and Indigenous allies capture the Aztec island capital in Lake Texcoco.
Answer: 🇲🇽 Mexico · August 13th, 1521
Mexico City now stands on the ruins of the island capital.
4. An earthquake topples a giant bronze statue of the sun god at the harbor of an island off Anatolia's southwestern shore.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 226 BC
The Colossus of Rhodes stood barely 54 years.
5. Two rival republics merge to form one state at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
Answer: 🇾🇪 Yemen · May 22nd, 1990
The northern and southern governments combine institutions under a unity agreement.
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- Forty-seven masterless samurai storm an official's mansion in the shogun's eastern capital, then are ordered to die by seppuku.
- The Pyramid of the Sun is completed in a great ceremonial metropolis of a highland basin in central Mesoamerica.