Bunkagame — September 5, 2026

Question 1

This Dutch sprinter was born in Utrecht in 1992 and grew up there; a bridge is named after her in the city. She won the 100 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam. Which athlete is it?

Accepted Answer

Dafne Schippers is a Dutch sprinter and former world 200 m champion. Born in Utrecht in 1992, she won the 100 m in Amsterdam at the 2016 Europeans, and the Dafne Schippersbrug in Utrecht was opened in her honour in 2017.

Question 2

This Indian chess grandmaster and former World Champion played the London Chess Classic and the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam in 2012. He is famous for his 2000 world title match with Alexei Shirov and his blitz-chess speed. Which player is it?

Accepted Answer

Viswanathan Anand became India's first chess grandmaster and held the undisputed World Chess Championship from 2007 to 2013. He played both the London Chess Classic and the Bilbao Masters in 2012.

Question 3

This Brazilian footballer, known for his toothy grin and dazzling flair, made his senior Brazil debut in a 3-0 friendly against Latvia in June 1999. In March 2020 he was detained in Paraguay after allegedly entering the country on a fake passport. Which player is it?

Accepted Answer

Ronaldinho, born Ronaldo de Assis Moreira in 1980, is a Brazilian former forward and two-time FIFA World Player of the Year. He debuted for Brazil against Latvia in 1999 and won the 2002 World Cup, and later spent months in Paraguayan custody in 2020.

Question 4

In 2005, the Minnesota Department of Health flagged four salmonella cases linked to this ice cream chain. A wider 2015 investigation identified 25 cases across nine states, including Michigan, tied to its cake batter flavour. Which chain is it?

Accepted Answer

Cold Stone Creamery is an American ice cream parlour chain known for mixing ingredients on a frozen granite slab. The cake batter flavour was linked to salmonella cases in Michigan, Minnesota and seven other states in 2015 investigations.

Question 5

This Polish-Lithuanian woman painter studied under Ivan Trutnev in Vilnius and later completed her formal artistic education in Kraków under Józef Siedlecki. Her works hang in state museums across Lithuania. Which painter is it?

Accepted Answer

Zofia Romer was a Polish-Lithuanian painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She trained in Vilnius, Kraków and Munich, and her works are held in state museums in Kaunas, Šiauliai, Vilnius and the National Museum in Warsaw.

Question 6

The Ohio State Buckeyes are a Power Five football program in this university athletic league. The Indiana Hoosiers have won 22 basketball championships in the same league, one of the oldest in American college sport. Which conference is it?

Accepted Answer

The Big Ten Conference is one of the oldest US college athletic conferences, home to the Ohio State Buckeyes football program and the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program. It expanded to 18 members in 2024 with the addition of USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington.

Question 7

A Catalan-language production of this stage adaptation ran at the Teatre Coliseum in Barcelona from December 2024 to March 2025. A Finnish version had previously played the Helsinki City Theatre in 2020. Which musical, based on a Bill Murray film, is it?

Accepted Answer

'Groundhog Day: The Musical' is Tim Minchin and Danny Rubin's stage adaptation of the 1993 Bill Murray film. It premiered at London's Old Vic in 2016 and has been staged in Helsinki in 2020 and in Barcelona's Teatre Coliseum in 2024-25.

Question 8

This Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori musical, set in Louisiana in 1963, had its Chicago premiere at the Court Theatre in fall 2008 and won four Jeff Awards. The Human Race Theatre Company staged it in Dayton, Ohio in November 2011. Which musical is it?

Accepted Answer

'Caroline, or Change' is Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's 2003 musical about a Black maid working for a Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana. Its Chicago Court Theatre production won four Jeff Awards, and it toured to Dayton in 2011.

Question 9

Minnesota sits in Region III with Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, while Massachusetts sits in Region I with Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Which annual US college theater competition whose regional heats culminate in Washington D.C. is this?

Accepted Answer

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), founded in 1969, is a nationwide programme run by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Its eight regional festivals feed a national showcase in Washington D.C., recognising outstanding US undergraduate theater productions.

Question 10

This defunct US regional airline, later branded as CCAir, served a network anchored in the Southeast with routes to Jacksonville, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina, plus Raleigh, Norfolk and Winston-Salem. Which airline is it?

Accepted Answer

Sunbird Airlines was a North Carolina-based regional carrier that eventually became CCAir, serving Southeastern hubs like Charlotte and Atlanta. Its route map covered small cities from Jacksonville, Florida to Asheville, North Carolina.