Bunkagame — September 19, 2026

Question 1

This annual event runs regional tournaments in Vancouver, Toronto, Regina, Ottawa, Winnipeg and other Canadian cities, culminating in a national final. It gives high-school students a stage to compete in unscripted comedy. Which competition is it?

Accepted Answer

The Canadian Improv Games, founded in 1977 in Ottawa, is a national high-school tournament in improvisational theatre with regional heats in Vancouver, Toronto and many other cities before the annual final.

Question 2

This close-harmony Irish folk band was formed in Slane, County Meath, by siblings Adrienne, Luci and Michael, and later moved to London to further their career, at which point Luci resigned and stayed in Dublin. Which band is it?

Accepted Answer

The Johnstons were an Irish folk band founded in Slane in the 1960s who reached wide UK audiences after moving to London. They recorded songs by Ewan MacColl, Joni Mitchell, and Ralph McTell before splitting in the mid-1970s.

Question 3

This 2021 comeback single reached number one in Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Germany, Iceland, Ireland and Israel. It was the lead single from a British singer's fourth studio album, released after a six-year hiatus. Which song is it?

Accepted Answer

'Easy on Me' was Adele's October 2021 lead single from the album '30', debuting at number one across Europe and beyond. It broke Spotify and Amazon Music streaming records for a single-day launch.

Question 4

In Yucatán this traditional craft uses around eighty different plant species, depending on regional vegetation, while in central Mexico, including Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán and Querétaro, weavers work with different fibres to produce distinctive shapes. Which craft tradition links these regions?

Accepted Answer

Basketry of Mexico is a huge regional craft ecosystem, working with palm, reed, sotol and other native fibres. Weavers in Yucatán and central Mexico maintain quite different local styles.

Question 5

In Ankara's historic mosques, inscriptions record decoration work completed in 1424 by Nakkaş Ali, a craftsman from Bursa, while in Manisa, blue-and-white ceramic tiles feature in the 1522 Hafsa Hatun Mosque and the Çoban Mustafa Pasha complex. Which decorative tradition unifies both?

Accepted Answer

Ottoman decoration is a sweeping term for the mosque tilework, calligraphy and inlaid stone that flourished across the empire from the 15th to 17th centuries. Ankara and Manisa preserve some of its earliest and most refined examples.

Question 6

In Finland, Lithuania and neighbours like Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Sweden, producers successfully lobbied for EU rules restricting this clear spirit to grain or potato bases; in Lithuania it is famously blended with honey to make krupnik. Which iconic Eastern European drink is being described?

Accepted Answer

Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Sweden are traditional producers whose EU campaign ultimately shaped how the drink is legally defined. In Lithuania and Poland, a honey-blended version called krupnik has been made for centuries.

Question 7

Norway is among the newer European nations to take up this 13-a-side football code alongside Sri Lanka, Hungary and Thailand, while Australia has embraced it as one of its largest television sports since 1908, with a 1999 Grand Final drawing over 107,000 fans to Stadium Australia in Sydney. Which football code is being described?

Accepted Answer

Rugby league is a 13-a-side football code that split from rugby union in northern England in 1895, and today has strongholds in Australia, New Zealand and England. Its growth into countries like Norway, Chile and Ghana has been driven by the Rugby League European Federation and Asia-Pacific Rugby League Confederation.

Question 8

Rathgar in Dublin is where this Irish modernist author was born, at 41 Brighton Square, on 2 February 1882. Sandymount Strand, a nearby Dublin coastal spot, provided the setting for two episodes of his epic novel 'Ulysses'. Which author is this?

Accepted Answer

James Joyce (1882–1941) grew up in the Rathgar and Sandymount area of Dublin, later exiling himself to Trieste, Zurich and Paris. Sandymount Strand appears in the 'Proteus' and 'Nausicaa' episodes of Ulysses.

Question 9

In Egypt's Western Desert this sport is practised at the Great Sand Sea near Siwa Oasis and on the Qattaniya dunes, and in Western Australia enthusiasts head to Lucky Bay south of Kalbarri for the same dune adventure. Which board-based sport is being described?

Accepted Answer

Sandboarding is a board sport akin to snowboarding but performed on sand dunes rather than snow, popular in desert regions worldwide. Egypt's Western Desert and the coastal dunes of Western Australia are two of its global hotspots, alongside Peru and Namibia.

Question 10

Spanish authorities in colonial St. Louis referred to their western holdings as the District of Illinois, mirroring a broader French colonial term whose key village of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, sat on the east bank of the Mississippi. Which colonial region is being described?

Accepted Answer

The Illinois Country ('Pays des Illinois') was the heart of French Louisiana in the mid-Mississippi valley from the late 1600s. It included Prairie du Rocher, Kaskaskia and later, on the Spanish-controlled west bank, St. Louis.