Bunkagame — August 20, 2026

Question 1

This 1996 Spice Girls single, their second UK number-one, charted across Europe, Australia and Canada. In its year-end reckoning, it hit 89 in Belgium's Ultratop 50, 36 on the Eurochart Hot 100, and appeared on charts from the Netherlands to Sweden. Which song is it?

Accepted Answer

Say You'll Be There, the Spice Girls' second single from their debut album Spice, was released in October 1996. Its Western-themed music video and R&B-tinged sound helped push it to number one in the UK and top 10 across most of Europe.

Question 2

This 2016 concert tour by the American rock band Garbage was in support of their sixth studio album of the same name. It included dates across Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada and Mexico. Which tour was it?

Accepted Answer

Garbage's Strange Little Birds Tour ran through 2016 in support of their sixth album, Strange Little Birds, with Shirley Manson on vocals. It marked the group's return to touring after a nearly 20-year gap between full studio-album cycles.

Question 3

Chile banned this controversial 1972 film outright for nearly thirty years under its military government, and Portugal similarly suppressed it until the 1974 Carnation Revolution, when its Lisbon premiere became a symbol of democratic freedom. Which movie is being described?

Accepted Answer

Last Tango in Paris (1972) is Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic drama starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. It was heavily censored around the world for its sexual content, and its post-1974 Portuguese release became a landmark for the country's return to political and cultural openness.

Question 4

This global culinary tradition varies by community, with distinctive styles among Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi diaspora groupings. It also includes notable dishes from communities in Greece and Iran, blending local ingredients with kosher rules. Which cuisine is it?

Accepted Answer

Jewish cuisine spans the wide Jewish diaspora, from Iranian gondi and Greek keftedes to Eastern European gefilte fish and Yemenite kubaneh. Kosher dietary laws (dairy and meat kept separate; no pork or shellfish) give the varied traditions a common frame.

Question 5

This 2012 police drama starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as LAPD officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, partners in the Newton Division patrolling South Central Los Angeles. It premiered on 8 September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Which film was it?

Accepted Answer

End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, uses a found-footage style to follow two LAPD officers as they stumble into a cartel plot. It grossed over 57 million dollars against a small budget and became a cult favorite in the buddy cop genre.

Question 6

In the Ming dynasty, Jin Guanger's troupe of this Chinese regional opera style traveled from its home region to Jiangsu, where it caused a stir in Nanjing and rivaled Southern Opera. The style has four schools, one of which is named for the Ziyang River. Which regional opera is it?

Accepted Answer

Sichuan opera, from southwestern China, is famous for its bian lian face-changing technique, where performers switch painted silk masks in the blink of an eye. Its four regional schools all trace back to the Chengdu region.

Question 7

Alexandria, Virginia hosted the 2018 Indoor Championship of this sport, and Prague, Czech Republic held its own edition of the same championship in 2023. Other host cities have included Long Beach, Paris and Mississauga, with COVID forcing virtual competitions in 2021 and 2022. Which sport is this?

Accepted Answer

World Rowing (FISA) is the international federation for the sport of rowing, founded in Turin in 1892. It oversees the World Rowing Championships, indoor championships and Olympic and Paralympic rowing programmes, with member federations across every populated continent.

Question 8

The Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in Cieszyn (Poland, 1910) and the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn (1924) are stops on this cultural itinerary, which also links Kraków's Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, the Latvian National Opera in Riga and the Theatre in the Castle Museum at Łańcut. Which route is this?

Accepted Answer

The European Route of Historic Theatres is a cultural itinerary certified by the Council of Europe, linking preserved historic playhouses across the continent, from Warsaw and Kraków to Vilnius, Tartu and Tallinn. Cieszyn's Adam Mickiewicz Theatre features too.

Question 9

In 2020, archaeologists excavated a 2,600-year-old Phoenician press at Tell el-Burak south of Sidon in Lebanon, and Armenia holds the earliest known evidence of steady production of this product, including the celebrated Areni-1 cave complex. Both sites feature prominently in producing what beverage?

Accepted Answer

The history of wine spans thousands of years, with the earliest solid evidence of grape wine coming from Georgia and Armenia. Phoenician traders later spread viticulture across the Mediterranean, and modern wine industries in France, California and beyond ultimately descend from these ancient roots.

Question 10

In this pageant, Panama's Justine Pasek was originally first runner-up but assumed the crown after Russia's Oxana Fedorova was disqualified. Venezuela's Cynthia Lander placed fourth runner-up, and China's Ling Zhuo took second runner-up. Which pageant is this?

Accepted Answer

Miss Universe 2002 was held on 29 May 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Panama's Justine Pasek took over the title in December that year when the Miss Universe Organization terminated Fedorova's reign, citing her failure to meet the role's obligations.