Bunkagame — August 2, 2026

Question 1

Ozzy Osbourne's tragic 1981-82 tour finished with a last show at the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Earlier, on 16 February 1982, the tour played the Fair Park Coliseum in a Gulf Coast oil city near the Louisiana border. Which city was it?

Accepted Answer

Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman tour is best remembered for a very sad reason: on 19 March 1982 a small plane crashed near Leesburg, Florida and killed the band's guitarist Randy Rhoads. The tour played Fair Park Coliseum in Beaumont, Texas on 16 February 1982 and finished with a last show at the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles.

Question 2

Kanye West first played this 2007 song for the rapper Young Jeezy in a Los Angeles studio. The line "Wait 'til I get my money right" plays during the scene where the guys in 'The Hangover' drive to a big desert city for a bachelor party. Which city are they driving to?

Accepted Answer

'The Hangover' came out in 2009 and made Kanye West's 'Can't Tell Me Nothing' one of its most memorable songs, playing during the drive to Las Vegas for the bachelor party. West made the beat himself in a Los Angeles studio, first playing it for Young Jeezy after reworking a Jeezy song called 'I Got Money' to build it.

Question 3

Mariya Stadnik, a wrestler born in Ukraine who now competes for Azerbaijan, wrestled at the Junior World Championship in July 2005 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Two years earlier, in August 2003, she wrestled at the European Junior Championship in a big Spanish city famous for flamenco. Which city was it?

Accepted Answer

Mariya Stadnik wrestled at the European Junior Championship in Seville, Spain in August 2003, and at the Junior World Championship in Vilnius, Lithuania in July 2005. She later won three Olympic silver medals for Azerbaijan (2008, 2012 and 2016) and a bronze at Tokyo 2020, all in women's freestyle wrestling.

Question 4

This Italian Renaissance painter's 1523 painting called 'Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria' hangs in a famous museum called the Prado. His 1548 portrait of a monk from Vicenza hangs there too, and another one of his paintings is nearby at the Thyssen-Bornemisza. In which European capital are all these paintings?

Accepted Answer

Lorenzo Lotto lived from about 1480 to 1556. He worked mostly in northern Italy but died in the town of Loreto. His 1523 'Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria' and other works ended up at the Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, because the Spanish royal family bought lots of Italian art in the 1500s and 1600s.

Question 5

The American sculptor Mary Callery showed her work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 1939, along with museums in New York and Chicago. Ten years later, in 1949, she took part in the 3rd Sculpture International at the art museum of which big east-coast city in the Delaware Valley?

Accepted Answer

Mary Callery lived from 1903 to 1977. She trained as an artist in Paris and worked with bronze, wire and welded steel. She showed her work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 1939 alongside museums in New York and Chicago, and took part in the 3rd Sculpture International at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1949.

Question 6

The Copa America is South America's oldest big football tournament, having started in 1916. Ecuador and Venezuela are the only two South American members who have never won it. Which country from the island of Hispaniola (which it shares with the Dominican Republic) has been invited to play as a guest?

Accepted Answer

Haiti played in the special 2016 Copa America in the United States, when the tournament grew to 16 teams. Ecuador and Venezuela are the two South American members that have never won the tournament. (Bolivia is in South America already, so it isn't a guest, and Suriname is in the Caribbean group but has never been invited.)

Question 7

In August 2023, the New England qualifying round for the Little League World Series was played in Bristol, Connecticut, and the team from Gray, Maine won it. From August 3-8, the Southeast qualifying round was played in which Deep South city known for its big Robins Air Force Base?

Accepted Answer

The team from Nolensville, Tennessee won the Southeast round in Warner Robins, Georgia with a 5-1 record and moved on to the Little League World Series in Williamsport. Warner Robins has been hosting this round every year since 2001. The New England round in Bristol, Connecticut was won by the team from Gray, Maine, whose league is based near Gloucester.

Question 8

One of the biggest surprises of Euro 2024 came when the small eastern European country Slovakia beat Belgium 1-0 in Frankfurt on 17 June. When Slovakia first entered qualifying for Euro 1996, they came third in a group behind Romania and which other big Western European country that shares a border with Belgium?

Accepted Answer

Slovakia also beat Israel and Azerbaijan twice in the 1996 qualifying group behind Romania and France (which shares its northern border with Belgium). At Euro 2024, Ivan Schranz scored the winning goal against Belgium in Frankfurt, and Slovakia went on to reach the round of 16 before losing to England.

Question 9

Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth opened in 1997. Every year it hosts six of America's top NASCAR stock-car races across three big weekends. Which Mid-Atlantic state capital's Motor Speedway pulls in about 65,000 fans for its single NASCAR weekend each spring?

Accepted Answer

Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Delaware is nicknamed the 'Monster Mile' because it's a one-mile track made of concrete, and first opened back in 1969. Fort Worth's Texas Motor Speedway, opened in 1997, is much bigger and hosts six of America's top NASCAR races across three race weekends a year.

Question 10

The 'Periplus of the Erythraean Sea' is a 2,000-year-old Greek-Roman guidebook about trading ports around the Indian Ocean. It calls the port of Varkala in Kerala 'Balita'. Which port on the other side of India, in Gujarat, sacred to Krishna, does the same book call 'Baraca'?

Accepted Answer

Dwarka sits at the tip of the Kathiawar peninsula in western India and is one of Hinduism's four most important pilgrimage places. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea calls it 'Baraca', and calls the Kerala port of Varkala 'Balita'. Old Roman coins have been found near Dwarka, showing the Periplus was right about the busy trade between Rome and India.