Bunkagame — September 4, 2026

Question 1

This South Korean girl group toured through Singapore on their Wonder World Tour in September 2012. Their music also topped the charts in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the group broke into American TV with a made-for-TV movie in early 2012. Which K-pop group is it?

Accepted Answer

Wonder Girls were a pioneering K-pop girl group active from 2007 to 2017, famous for hits like 'Nobody' and 'Tell Me'. They played Singapore on the Wonder World Tour and topped charts in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and appeared in a 2012 American TV movie.

Question 2

The American alternative duo twenty one pilots released this 2015 album globally, with Australia getting an early release on May 15 and Poland getting it on May 17. It went on to spawn hits like 'Stressed Out' and 'Ride'. Which album is it?

Accepted Answer

'Blurryface' by twenty one pilots was released in May 2015 to global rollout, with Australia getting it two days before Poland. The album's singles 'Stressed Out' and 'Ride' both became major hits.

Question 3

This German composer dedicated his Opus 91, often called 'Wellington's Victory', to the 1813 Battle of Vitoria in Spain. He also visited the Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary twice for health treatments and performed at the Grandhotel Pupp in 1812. Which composer is it?

Accepted Answer

Ludwig van Beethoven composed 'Wellington's Victory' to celebrate the Duke of Wellington's rout of French forces at Vitoria in 1813. He also visited Karlovy Vary for spa cures and performed a concert at the Grandhotel Pupp the year before.

Question 4

This British dating television format has been sold to over 20 countries, including Iceland, Hungary, India and Israel. Contestants pick a stranger to cook for based only on menu previews. Which TV show is it?

Accepted Answer

'Dinner Date' is a British ITV dating show where a single person picks three blind dates from menu descriptions and dines with each. Its format has been licensed to over 20 countries including Iceland and Hungary.

Question 5

This 2019 synthwave hit by The Weeknd reached number 24 in Brazil on Pro-Música Brasil and hit number 2 on Slovakia's Singles Digitál Top 100. It topped charts across Europe and became one of the biggest songs of the 2020s. Which song is it?

Accepted Answer

'Blinding Lights' by The Weeknd, released in late 2019, went on to become the biggest Billboard Hot 100 song of all time. It topped charts across Europe including Slovakia, and reached number 24 in Brazil.

Question 6

This National Theatre production, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's novel, opened in London in October 2007 and featured life-size horse puppets designed by Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. Its UK tour visited the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin in 2014. Which play is it?

Accepted Answer

'War Horse' by Nick Stafford, based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel, opened at the National Theatre in London in 2007 and became a global sensation. Its Handspring puppets and touring productions have reached audiences from Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre to Broadway.

Question 7

The Angel Mounds site near Evansville, Indiana was a permanent settlement of this pre-Columbian civilization from around AD 1000 to AD 1400, and archaeologists believe the same civilization's Oneota tribe lived in the area around Little Chute, Wisconsin before European exploration. Which mound-building indigenous civilization is being described?

Accepted Answer

The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished across the American Midwest and Southeast from around AD 800 to AD 1600. Angel Mounds near Evansville was one of its northernmost major settlements, and the related Oneota culture reached as far north as Wisconsin.

Question 8

This 1947 Broadway play by Tennessee Williams centres on Blanche DuBois arriving in New Orleans. The first all-black production, in 1953, was directed by Thomas D. Pawley, a former University of Iowa classmate of Williams. Which play is it?

Accepted Answer

'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams premiered on Broadway in December 1947 and became one of the most produced American plays. Williams wrote it in New Orleans' French Quarter; the pioneering all-black 1953 staging was directed by his Iowa classmate Thomas D. Pawley.

Question 9

The Armenia Sports Union in Yerevan competes in this small-ball racket sport alongside boxing and wrestling, and in the Brazilian city of Erechim, students aged 7 to 15 play the same paddle game at municipal school games. Which Olympic sport is being described?

Accepted Answer

Table tennis (also called ping-pong) is an Olympic paddle-and-ball sport played on a hard table divided by a net. It emerged in Victorian England as a genteel indoor version of lawn tennis and became a full Olympic medal event in 1988 in Seoul.

Question 10

Madurai in Tamil Nadu is one of India's ancient temple cities, and Kataragama in Sri Lanka lies on the Murugan pilgrimage route traversed by the medieval Tamil poet Arunagirinathar, with stops at Maviddapuram Kandaswamy Temple and Nallur Kandaswamy in Jaffna. Which category of sacred travel destinations connects them?

Accepted Answer

Hindu pilgrimage sites include famed dhams, jyotirlingas and Murugan-Skanda shrines across South Asia. Madurai's Meenakshi Temple has drawn devotees for over two millennia, while Kataragama's Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya is one of the most sacred multi-faith shrines in Sri Lanka.