Bunkagame — August 21, 2026

Question 1

This Auckland sports ground hosted the first-ever match between New Zealand and Australia during the 1931 rugby union tour, and also welcomed Vienna club FK Austria Wien for a football friendly in 1957. It staged four 2015 Cricket World Cup matches, including a NZ vs South Africa semifinal. Which venue is this?

Accepted Answer

Eden Park is Auckland's largest stadium and New Zealand's premier rugby ground, home to the All Blacks. It has hosted Rugby World Cup finals, cricket internationals and football friendlies dating back nearly a century, including the 1931 Australia rugby tour and the 1957 FK Austria Wien match.

Question 2

As of January 2024, this deep-dish pizza chain had 425 franchises in 22 US states including Minnesota and Pennsylvania, alongside outlets in Michigan (its home state), Ohio, Florida and Texas. Which restaurant brand is being described?

Accepted Answer

Jet's Pizza is an American pizza chain founded in 1978 in Sterling Heights, Michigan by brothers Eugene and John Jetts. Its signature deep-dish square pizza in a caramelized-crust corner style built a devoted regional following before national expansion across the Midwest and South.

Question 3

This American fast-food chain, known for its charbroiled burgers, operates in more than 25 countries outside the US, including Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Denmark, France, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Japan. It shares a parent company with Hardee's. Which chain is it?

Accepted Answer

Carl's Jr. was founded in Los Angeles in 1941 as Carl's Drive-In Barbeque. Its parent company, CKE Restaurants, also operates the Hardee's chain in the US Midwest and East, and both brands share menu items overseas.

Question 4

In the mid-1990s, Rick Schaden, then 23, and his aviation-attorney father opened their first franchise of this sub sandwich chain at a shopping center in Boulder, Colorado. In September 2014, the chain opened its first United Arab Emirates outlet in Abu Dhabi. Which chain is it?

Accepted Answer

Quiznos, best known for its toasted subs and 1990s and 2000s TV jingles, was founded in Denver in 1981. Rick Schaden's franchise push in the 1990s helped grow the chain, though it later shrank sharply after 2010 as competition from Subway and Jimmy John's tightened.

Question 5

This Pakistani qawwali group participated in the Voices of God festival in Marrakesh, Morocco in May 1999. In 2006, they performed at the Sufi shrine of Ajmer Sharif and later in Pune, Maharashtra. Which musical group is this?

Accepted Answer

The Sabri Brothers were a family qawwali ensemble from Karachi, Pakistan, led by Ghulam Farid Sabri and Maqbool Ahmed Sabri. Their sacred Sufi devotional music brought them global tours from Morocco to India and to Western concert halls.

Question 6

This aquatic team sport is popular in many countries, particularly in Europe including Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Romania. It's also played strongly in Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. Which sport is it?

Accepted Answer

Water polo pits two teams of seven in a pool, throwing a ball into the opposing goal. Hungary is the sport's traditional powerhouse, with 9 Olympic gold medals, and Greece has climbed into the elite tier over the past two decades.

Question 7

This country has played cricket internationally since 1975, when it first appeared at the Cricket World Cup. Its national team won the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship, defeating Pakistan in the final by an innings and 175 runs. Which country's is this?

Accepted Answer

Cricket is Sri Lanka's most popular sport. Sri Lanka won the 1996 Cricket World Cup upset over Australia and produced global stars like Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara across the 1990s and 2000s.

Question 8

Paulista, based at Jayme Cintra Stadium in Jundiaí, won this Brazilian national cup competition in 2005. Criciúma won the same trophy back in 1991. Which knockout competition is it?

Accepted Answer

The Copa do Brasil is Brazil's premier knockout football cup, launched in 1989 to give clubs from smaller states a shot at national glory. Both Paulista's 2005 win and Criciúma's 1991 triumph counted as major upsets by non-traditional powers.

Question 9

The Malaysian Warriors and Beijing Bombers are among the clubs that regularly play this sport at the Asian Championships. The Manila Cup tournament in the Philippines and leagues run from Hong Kong to Vietnam are all part of the same regional scene. Which sport in which region is this?

Accepted Answer

Australian rules football has a small but tight-knit expat and local following across Asia, with clubs in most East and Southeast Asian capitals. The Asian Championships pit teams like the Beijing Bombers and Manila Eagles against each other every year.

Question 10

This Finnish state-owned energy company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. In 2013, it opened two new combined heat-and-power plants that use waste as fuel, one in Klaipėda, Lithuania and one in Sweden, as well as biomass CHP plants in Jelgava and Järvenpää. Which company is this?

Accepted Answer

Fortum Oyj is a major Nordic and Baltic energy player. Its portfolio includes district heating, hydro and nuclear, and it expanded steadily into the Baltic states in the 2010s with waste-to-energy and biomass CHP plants like the Klaipėda facility.