Bunkagame — August 7, 2026

Question 1

Which song by Australian singer Gotye, featuring a spoken vocal by New Zealand singer Kimbra, topped the charts in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand and became the biggest recording of 2012 in the UK?

Accepted Answer

Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know reached number one in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and topped the charts in Australia and the United States too. It was the most commercially successful recording of 2012 in the UK.

Question 2

The World Federation of International Music Competitions lists dozens of member events, including the Maj Lind International Piano Competition in Helsinki, Finland. Which Austrian city, birthplace of Mozart, hosts the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart International Music Competition on that same list?

Accepted Answer

Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, hosts the Mozart competition, while Helsinki hosts the Maj Lind piano competition. Both are members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions, a global network of classical music contests.

Question 3

In the 1990s, small Canadian opera companies such as Tapestry Opera and Autumn Leaf Productions were founded in Toronto. Which other Canadian city, home to the company Chants Libres, was also part of this growth in Canadian opera production?

Accepted Answer

Montreal was home to Chants Libres, one of a wave of new small opera companies that also included Toronto's Tapestry Opera and Autumn Leaf Productions. Together they produced many new Canadian operas during the 1990s.

Question 4

Finland has seen a strong revival of its folk music, which has become part of popular music there. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands share many common folk music traditions. What broader regional grouping do these countries form?

Accepted Answer

The Nordic countries share many folk music traditions across Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. Finland is often included in this cultural grouping, where its folk music has also been through a roots revival.

Question 5

Which international electronic dance music festival, whose main event runs at Long Marston Airfield in Warwickshire, England, has held satellite editions at the Chaika Airfield in Kyiv, Ukraine and at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in South Korea?

Accepted Answer

Global Gathering was a British-born electronic dance music festival that expanded to satellite events in Kyiv and Seoul, along with sites in Poland, Belarus, Russia and Georgia. The main event ran at Long Marston Airfield in Warwickshire, England.

Question 6

Which Norwegian playwright, whose surname comes from a Danish patronymic meaning 'son of Ib' and whose works were published in Copenhagen through Gyldendalske boghandel, is honoured every year in Delhi by a festival organised in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy?

Accepted Answer

Henrik Ibsen, author of Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler, was published in Copenhagen through Gyldendalske boghandel. Since 2008 the Delhi Ibsen Festival has celebrated his work in India, run in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy.

Question 7

Which street dance form, first developed among youth in New York City in the 1970s, is depicted in the 2010 German documentary Neukölln Unlimited, which follows two brothers in Berlin trying to make a living through it?

Accepted Answer

Breakdancing, also called b-boying, developed in New York City in the 1970s and became a global street dance. In Berlin, the documentary Neukölln Unlimited captured how two brothers used the dance to build livelihoods.

Question 8

Which South American club football tournament was won by Atlético Nacional of Medellín, Colombia in 1989 and again in 2016, and requires Peru to run additional playoff stages to decide which of its clubs qualify?

Accepted Answer

The Copa Libertadores is the top South American club football competition. Colombia's Atlético Nacional won it in 1989 and 2016, while Peru is one of several nations that runs a separate playoff to decide its entrants.

Question 9

Which fast folk dance in six-eight time is popular in southern Italy, Greece, and Malta, and takes its name from a wolf spider whose supposed bite was said to be curable only by frenzied dancing?

Accepted Answer

The Tarantella is a fast folk dance from southern Italy that spread to Greece and Malta. Its name traces to the tarantula spider, whose supposed bite was said to cause a frantic dance believed to cure the venom.

Question 10

Which world religion connects Bodh Gaya in India, revered as the place where its founder reached enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, with the Japanese city of Sōka, whose name is carried by the modern lay movement Sōka Gakkai?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism connects Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha gained enlightenment, with Sōka, home of the modern lay Buddhist movement Sōka Gakkai. Together they span the tradition from its ancient Indian origins to its modern Japanese expressions.