Wherio · August 21st, 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. Formerly enslaved revolutionaries win independence from French colonial rule.
Answer: 🇭🇹 Haiti · Jan 1st, 1804
The Haitian Revolution was one of the only known slave revolts to found a state free from slavery.
2. A 1,500-room baroque palace is nearing completion for the tsars on Baltic marshes.
Answer: 🇷🇺 Russia · 1759
The Winter Palace later housed the Hermitage.
3. A citizen army repels a Persian invasion on a plain that gives the marathon race its name.
Answer: 🇬🇷 Greece · 490 BC
The Battle of Marathon was fought during the first Persian invasion of Greece.
4. At its youth congress, delegates pledge one motherland, one nation, and a unifying language.
Answer: 🇮🇩 Indonesia · Oct 28th, 1928
The Youth Pledge gave Indonesia's independence movement a shared language, Bahasa Indonesia.
5. A wooden horse ends a ten-year siege, as the poets tell it.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · c. 1200 BC
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks to sneak into Troy.
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- A newly independent nation builds a mountaintop fortress to repel a possible French return.
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