Bunkagame — August 22, 2026

Question 1

Antwerp hosts Middelheim, an annual summer music festival in the Middelheim Park that features mostly local Belgian musicians. Denmark, meanwhile, is home to the internationally recognized Copenhagen Music Festival. What music genre connects these two European destinations?

Accepted Answer

Both Antwerp and Denmark are known for jazz. Antwerp's Jazz Middelheim runs each summer in the Middelheim Park, while Denmark hosts the internationally recognized Copenhagen Jazz Festival, one of Europe's largest.

Question 2

Catriona Gray was the fourth Filipina to win Miss Universe and had previously been crowned Miss Universe Philippines in 2018. In 2022, she served as a judge on a national qualifying pageant for Miss Universe in which Southeast Asian country?

Accepted Answer

Catriona Gray judged Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 after her Miss Universe reign. The Philippine-born pageant winner has also judged competitions in Colombia, South Africa, and other countries.

Question 3

Greece issued a 1987 stamp set illustrating Aesop's fables, with one 130 drachma stamp showing a famous racing pair. Monaco marked the 350th anniversary of La Fontaine's birth in 1971 with a composite 50 centime stamp featuring the same fable. Which classic fable appears on both?

Accepted Answer

Both Greece and Monaco depicted 'The Tortoise and the Hare' on postage stamps. Greece featured it in its 1987 Aesop's fables set, and Monaco included it in a composite 50 centime stamp marking the 350th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine, who retold Aesop's fables in French verse.

Question 4

In Bangladesh, the Maldives, and several other South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, this British chat show airs on Saturday nights on Comedy Central, a week after the original BBC broadcast. Which show is it?

Accepted Answer

The Graham Norton Show, hosted by Irish comedian Graham Norton, has aired on BBC since 2007. In South Asia, including Bangladesh and the Maldives, it airs on Comedy Central a week after the UK broadcast.

Question 5

The Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg is one of the film academies associated with the Cinema of Germany. An early example of German artistic cinema, the 1913 Edgar Allan Poe adaptation 'The Student of...', was set in which European capital, now known for its historic old town and Charles Bridge?

Accepted Answer

Prague is the answer. 'The Student of Prague' (1913), co-directed by Paul Wegener and Stellan Rye, was a landmark of early German artistic cinema and is often cited as one of the first true German art films.

Question 6

From 2017 to 2020, the Toronto Wolfpack were North America's only active professional team in this sport, competing in the English league system. In Yuma, Arizona, a team plays this same sport in the Division III Arizona Men's league. Which sport connects them?

Accepted Answer

Rugby league connects both. The Toronto Wolfpack briefly gave Canada a top-flight rugby league team, and Yuma's college-level rugby league team competes across the American Southwest. Rugby league differs from rugby union in its 13-player format.

Question 7

The Broadway musical 'Wicked' had a Swedish production premiere on September 16, 2023, at the Gothenburg opera house. The Shiki Theatre Company staged a full Japanese production of the same musical that opened in Tokyo in 2007 and toured Osaka, Fukuoka and Nagoya. In which Japanese city did that Japanese tour close on November 6, 2016?

Accepted Answer

The Japanese production of 'Wicked' closed in Sapporo on November 6, 2016 after nearly a decade of touring. Sapporo, the largest city on the northern island of Hokkaido, hosts the Sapporo Snow Festival each winter.

Question 8

Atlanta's State Farm Arena hosted the July 12, 2025 broadcast of this WWE professional wrestling special, aired on NBC and Peacock. Dallas's American Airlines Center hosted an earlier edition of the same broadcast on July 15, 2006. Which wrestling program connects the two arenas?

Accepted Answer

Saturday Night's Main Event is a WWE special that returned in 2024 after a decades-long hiatus. The Atlanta and Dallas broadcasts are numbered installments in a run stretching back to the mid-1980s.

Question 9

Alabama ended a 29 game win streak by defeating this Georgia college football team 27 to 24 in the 2023 SEC Championship game. South Carolina appeared behind them in that year's East Division media poll (with Georgia ranked first). Which college football team is being described?

Accepted Answer

The 2023 Georgia Bulldogs football team was chasing a third straight national title before Alabama upset them in the SEC Championship game. The team went on to beat Florida State in the Orange Bowl for a 13 and 1 season.

Question 10

In 1272, this Venetian traveler visited Yazd in Persia and remarked on its fine silk-weaving industry. Later, on China's southeast coast, he praised the port city of Quanzhou as one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Which explorer connects them?

Accepted Answer

Marco Polo (1254–1324) was a Venetian merchant whose 24-year journey through Asia in the late 13th century produced 'The Travels of Marco Polo', a book that shaped European views of Asia for centuries.