Bunkagame — August 1, 2026

Question 1

This 2014 romantic comedy about a filmmaker in a love triangle first showed at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2014. It also played at the film festival in Tromsø, Norway in 2015. What is the film called?

Accepted Answer

Meet Me in Montenegro was written and directed by Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen, who also starred in it. It first showed at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2014, then played at festivals across Europe including Edinburgh, Munich, Dublin and Tromso in early 2015, before hitting North American theatres that summer.

Question 2

This band from Iceland is famous for their singer Jónsi's high, floating voice and for using a violin bow on the guitar. They played shows in Switzerland, Germany, France, and Italy in 2012, and toured New Zealand and Australia in 2017. Which band is it?

Accepted Answer

Sigur Ros formed in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1994. Their music is soft and dreamy, with lots of long, drawn-out sounds. Their return-to-touring run in 2012 hit Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy, and their 2017 tour visited 20 countries including New Zealand and Australia.

Question 3

The American artist Robert Rauschenberg had a big show in Los Angeles in 2018 and 2019. Twenty years earlier his 1997 art show also travelled to Houston, Cologne, and one more Spanish port city that has a famous shiny silver Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Gehry. Which city hosted that final leg?

Accepted Answer

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened in 1997 and quickly became one of the most famous buildings in the world. Robert Rauschenberg's touring show ended its journey there in 1999, after starting at the original Guggenheim Museum in New York. Two decades later, in 2018 and 2019, his 'The 1/4 Mile' show was mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Question 4

The Japanese-Brazilian painter Tikashi Fukushima had art shows in La Paz, Lima, and Caracas, paid for by the Brazilian embassy. In 1987 he had a solo show in a big southern Brazilian city called the Art Exchange. Which city was it?

Accepted Answer

Porto Alegre is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul in the far south of Brazil, and Tikashi Fukushima had a solo show there at the Art Exchange in 1987. His shows in La Paz, Lima and Caracas were paid for by the Brazilian embassy, and his paintings hang in museums in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba and Sao Paulo.

Question 5

Woody Allen's movie 'To Rome With Love' has this squeeze-box instrument (played with bellows and reeds) on part of its soundtrack. Pietro Deiro led a big orchestra of this instrument, alongside sister orchestras in Springfield, Houston, and Philadelphia. In which US city was Deiro's orchestra based?

Accepted Answer

The New York Accordion Symphony played in Manhattan in the mid-1900s, led by Italian-American accordion star Pietro Deiro. In 1960 he recorded an album capturing the orchestra at its best. The accordion also features on part of Woody Allen's movie 'To Rome With Love,' set in Rome.

Question 6

The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was hosted across six Canadian cities including Moncton in New Brunswick, plus Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Montreal. Which national capital, where the tournament draw was held at the Canadian Museum of Nature, hosted matches at TD Place Stadium (renamed Lansdowne Stadium for the event)?

Accepted Answer

The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was hosted by six Canadian cities, with Ottawa staging matches at TD Place Stadium (temporarily rebranded Lansdowne Stadium under FIFA's rules against commercial stadium sponsorship). The tournament draw took place at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa in December 2014, while Moncton in New Brunswick was one of the six chosen host venues.

Question 7

UCLA in Los Angeles gives out a scholarship named after Sidney Lanier, an 1800s poet and flute player from Georgia. There's also a small residential street named after him in a wealthy town on the Long Island Sound shore. Which town is it?

Accepted Answer

Sidney Lanier was born in Macon, Georgia in 1842 and became famous both as a flute player and for poems like 'The Marshes of Glynn'. In Georgia, there's a whole lake and a county named after him. In Los Angeles, UCLA gives out a scholarship in his name, and in Greenwich, Connecticut, there's a small residential lane that honours him.

Question 8

Finland's Tampere has hosted motorcycle speedway races (fast oval-track motorbike racing) for many years. Which town in central Serbia, once called Svetozarevo, held qualifying races for the 1964 and 1968 World Championships at its speedway stadium?

Accepted Answer

Jagodina got its old name Svetozarevo (used during the time of Yugoslavia) from a national hero named Svetozar Markovic, and changed back to Jagodina in 1992. Its speedway stadium hosted qualifying rounds of the 1964 and 1968 World Championships. Finland's Tampere has held motorcycle speedway races at several venues over the decades.

Question 9

The biathlon is a winter Olympic sport that mixes cross-country skiing with rifle shooting. Its first World Championship was in Austria in 1958, and it joined the Winter Olympics in 1960. It's shown on TV in Austria on the ORF channel and on ETV in which small Baltic country just north of Latvia?

Accepted Answer

Biathlon's first World Championship was held in Austria in 1958 and the sport joined the Winter Olympics in 1960. It is shown on TV in Austria on the ORF channel and in Estonia on ETV. Estonia's biathlon team is small and has never won an Olympic medal, but the sport still has a devoted following through the long Baltic winters.

Question 10

In 1907, Brazil and Colombia signed a treaty setting their border along the line where the Amazon and Orinoco rivers split. Which other country to the north of Brazil signed a similar border treaty on 5 May 1859, using the same river split for the border?

Accepted Answer

The 1859 treaty settled Brazil's northwest border with Venezuela, using the natural line where rainwater flows either into the Amazon River or the Orinoco River. Only three of Brazil's northern neighbours (Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana) share this same watery divide with Brazil.