The Taj Mahal took about 20 years and some 20,000 workers to build. Shah Jahan raised it for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631.
10 November 2026
Geodar #5 answers
The five countries of day 5, in the order they were asked, and one thing worth knowing about each.
Spoilers. This page names every country of day 5. Rather play it first? Play day 5 from the archive, then come back.
El Dorado means 'the gilded one', and at first it was a man, not a city. A new ruler of the Muisca people, coated in gold dust, rode a raft onto Lake Guatavita and washed it off.
Angola's football team is nicknamed the Palancas Negras after the giant sable, whose curved horns can grow longer than 1.5 metres. The animal is the symbol of the national airline too.
Maldivians laid mats of coconut leaves on the water for cowries to cling to, then shipped the shells abroad. In Bengal they passed as small change, at more than 2,500 shells to the rupee.
Nauru is 21 square kilometres, about a third the size of Manhattan. Its parliament and its airport sit in the district of Yaren, but the country has no official capital.