Bunkagame — August 18, 2026

Question 1

This folk, rock, psychedelic and progressive rock group formed in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1963, when its members were classmates at the Liceo Guillermo Rivera Cotapos, near Calle Montaña. They performed publicly for the first time on 15 August 1963. Which Chilean group is it?

Accepted Answer

Los Jaivas built a distinctive Andean sound that fused progressive rock with folk instruments like the charango and quena. They are best known for the 1981 album Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a musical adaptation of Pablo Neruda's poem cycle.

Question 2

This 2007 superhero film set opening-weekend records in 29 markets, including India, Indonesia, Italy, China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. It featured Tobey Maguire against Venom and Sandman. Which film was it?

Accepted Answer

Spider-Man 3, released in 2007, was the third and final Sam Raimi Spider-Man film, and set opening-weekend records across Asia and Latin America. It was later dethroned in South Korea by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End weeks later.

Question 3

Curators at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta note this photographer's work as decisive documentation of the Jim Crow South. His photographs are also held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and he directed the 1971 film Shaft. Which photographer is he?

Accepted Answer

Gordon Parks (1912 to 2006) was a Kansas-born photographer, writer, composer and filmmaker who documented American racial inequality for Life magazine and later directed Shaft in 1971. His work is preserved in museums nationwide, including Atlanta and Kansas City.

Question 4

This South American country's football teams have beaten Brazil regularly, one of the few nations that can claim that. Its Pan American Games record puts it in second place among South American countries and fifth in the Americas, behind the US, Canada, Brazil and Cuba. Which country's sporting culture is this?

Accepted Answer

Argentina has a deep sports culture led by football, alongside strong traditions in rugby, polo, tennis and basketball. Its national football team is one of only two sides to have beaten Brazil more times than it has lost to them.

Question 5

This Swedish pop group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton and celebrated in the Napoleon suite of the Grand Brighton Hotel. Thirty years later, at the semi-final of Eurovision 2004 in Istanbul, all four members made cameo appearances in a comedy interval video. Which group is this?

Accepted Answer

ABBA's 1974 Eurovision win with Waterloo launched them into international superstardom. The Grand Brighton hosted their post-victory celebration, and the group's brief 2004 reunion cameo in Istanbul was one of their few public appearances together after their 1982 split.

Question 6

Spanish tennis player Nicolás Almagro announced his retirement during the Murcia Open in April of this tennis season, his last professional tournament. Fellow Spaniard David Ferrer bid farewell that same year at the Madrid Open. Which ATP season is being described?

Accepted Answer

The 2019 ATP Tour saw the retirements of David Ferrer at Madrid and Nicolás Almagro at Murcia, closing the book on a generation of Spanish clay-court specialists. Rafael Nadal won the French Open that year for a 12th time.

Question 7

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls averaged 35.7 points per game in this NBA postseason, while Sleepy Floyd of the Warriors scored 51 in a single game. Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton led the playoffs in steals. Which NBA playoffs were these?

Accepted Answer

The 1987 NBA playoffs saw the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics for the title, but they are also remembered for Jordan's 63-point game against Boston, Sleepy Floyd's 51-point playoff performance, and John Stockton's early playoff appearances with Utah.

Question 8

This sport is now estimated to be the third most popular team game in its country, behind football and basketball. In the 1980s and 1990s, players of Italian ancestry from Australia and Argentina were brought in, along with stars like Frano Botica, David Campese, John Kirwan and Michael Lynagh. Which sport in which country is this?

Accepted Answer

Rugby union in Italy grew rapidly through Serie A recruitment of Italian-heritage stars from the southern hemisphere. Italy was later admitted to the Six Nations in 2000, cementing rugby's place as a top-three team sport there.

Question 9

In October 2015, a game featuring the Detroit Lions still drew over 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London, encouraging NFL executives that this hypothetical concept was viable. The league's UK operation has since focused on growing a younger fan base without existing team loyalties. Which long-discussed NFL project is this?

Accepted Answer

A potential London NFL franchise is a hypothetical American football team based in London, either as a new expansion team or by relocating one of the existing 32 US-based clubs. British interest in the NFL grew after Channel 4 began showing game highlights in 1982.

Question 10

On 10 June 1940, when Italy entered the Second World War on the side of Germany, roughly 300 of these biplane fighters had been delivered, and by war's end they had seen combat on further fronts including Iraq, the Eastern Front, and the Italian mainland. Which Italian aircraft is being described?

Accepted Answer

The Fiat CR.42 Falco was Italy's last biplane fighter, produced from 1938. Around 1,780 were built and it served through most of World War II across North Africa, the Balkans, the Eastern Front and Italy itself before being overtaken by monoplane fighters.