Wherio #18 — July 30th, 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. The great High Dam is completed on the Nile.
Answer: 🇪🇬 Egypt · 1970
Its reservoir required relocating the Abu Simbel temples.
2. A 67-metre obelisk is raised in nine weeks in a capital on the River Plate.
Answer: 🇦🇷 Argentina · 1936
It marked the city's 400th anniversary.
3. A major Maya kingdom flourishes in the Copán Valley, filling its ceremonial center with temples, plazas, and carved stelae.
Answer: 🇭🇳 Honduras · 8th century
Its hieroglyphic stairway is the longest Maya text known.
4. Mountain gorilla research begins at a volcanic highland research station.
Answer: 🇷🇼 Rwanda · 1967
Dian Fossey set up camp in the Virunga volcanoes.
5. Privateers turn a coral archipelago into a pirate stronghold during the Golden Age of Piracy.
Answer: 🇧🇸 Bahamas · 1713
A loose pirate confederacy dominates the islands before a royal governor restores British control.
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- A central African territory becomes an independent republic.
- Welsh settlers found a colony in the Chubut valley of eastern Patagonia.
- An ancient library is reborn as a glass disc on the harbor.
- Soldiers seize the president at his residence and fly him across the southeastern border to Costa Rica.