Wherio · August 29th, 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. Darwin's Beagle expedition reaches the Galápagos Islands.
Answer: 🇪🇨 Ecuador · Sep 15th, 1835
The Galápagos Islands' finches helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
2. The hammer-and-sickle flag is lowered over this country's seat of Soviet power.
Answer: 🇷🇺 Russia · Dec 25th, 1991
Gorbachev resigned and transferred his presidential powers to Boris Yeltsin.
3. A monumental statue is dedicated above a famous Atlantic coastal metropolis.
Answer: 🇧🇷 Brazil · Oct 12th, 1931
The 30-metre statue stands atop Corcovado mountain.
4. El Cid captures a Mediterranean city and rules it himself.
Answer: 🇪🇸 Spain · 1094
The mercenary hero took Valencia in his own name.
5. A blue gate of glazed dragons and bulls rises over a processional way.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · c. 569 BC
The Ishtar Gate now stands rebuilt in a Berlin museum.
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- A purpose-built modernist capital shaped like an airplane is inaugurated on an empty inland plateau.
- Something explodes over remote Siberian forest with the force of hundreds of Hiroshimas, flattening trees for 2,000 square kilometres.