Bunkagame — June 20, 2026

Question 1

What legendary performer graced the stages of jazz hotbeds like the Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah and the Morton Building in Athens?

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington played the Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah as part of the touring Chitlin' Circuit, alongside Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and B.B. King. He also performed for the Athens 'Hot Corner' community at the Morton Building, a 1910 theater popular with Black musicians.

Question 2

What fictional desert planet had filming locations in both Iran and Tunisia?

Accepted Answer

George Lucas first pictured filming the Tatooine desert scenes for Star Wars in Iran, Libya, or Algeria, but 20th Century Fox turned those locations down. Lucas then chose Tunisia, and even took the name Tatooine from the southern Tunisian town of Tataouine.

Question 3

What organization supports music competitions in both Graz and Indianapolis?

Accepted Answer

Graz hosts the Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Music Competition, part of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. Indianapolis is home to another member competition, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

Question 4

What professional baseball team has had affiliations with both Trenton, New Jersey and Boston?

Accepted Answer

The Trenton Thunder minor league team, based in Trenton, was once an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, along with the Yankees, Tigers, and White Sox. Boston is home to the Boston Red Sox themselves, an American League team named by early owner John I. Taylor.

Question 5

What unusual sport, first introduced in Sonkajärvi, Finland in 1992, has found enthusiastic participants in both Germany and Latvia?

Accepted Answer

Wife-carrying contests, once a mainly Finnish tradition, have spread to Germany and other countries. Latvia is another host of these contests, and the sport now has its own category in the Guinness Book of Records.

Question 6

County Mayo was defeated by which county in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final?

Accepted Answer

County Donegal won the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, beating County Mayo 2-11 to 0-13 in front of 82,000 fans at Croke Park. Coach Jim McGuinness ended a 20-year wait to bring the Sam Maguire trophy back to Donegal.

Question 7

What Portuguese track and field athlete's career milestones are marked by appearances in both Athens and Berlin?

Accepted Answer

Naide Gomes made her second Olympic appearance for Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Five years later, she competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin, Germany.

Question 8

What railway company's construction directly led to the founding of both Nampa, Idaho and West Yellowstone, Montana?

Accepted Answer

Nampa got its start in the early 1880s when the Oregon Short Line Railroad built a line from Wyoming to Oregon that passed through the site. West Yellowstone was founded in June 1908, when the same Oregon Short Line Railroad reached that spot.

Question 9

Which city, besides Trakai, was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1503, a form of self-administration that remained in use until 1795?

Accepted Answer

Trakai received Magdeburg Rights in 1409, making it one of the first towns in Lithuania to gain city rights. Kamyenyets got similar Magdeburg Rights in 1503, which gave the townspeople limited self-rule until Russia annexed the area in 1795.

Question 10

What grim historical designation did both Kraków and Piotrków Trybunalski share during World War II?

Accepted Answer

The first large Jewish ghetto in Europe during World War II was set up in Piotrków Trybunalski on 8 October 1939, followed by the Lodz Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto. In Kraków, the creation of the Kraków Ghetto forced ethnic Polish families out of their homes, and later Nazi Operation Reinhard deported Jews to extermination camps.