Bunkagame — June 28, 2026

Question 1

Punk rock singer Mike Ness of the band Social Distortion was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 2003 his band recorded a live concert DVD at the House of Blues club in Orange County, California. In which Orange County city, famous for Disneyland, was that club?

Accepted Answer

Mike Ness, the musician who founded the rock band Social Distortion, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mike Ness and Social Distortion later recorded their Live in Orange County DVD at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California in 2003.

Question 2

One popular lottery game in Finland is called Vikinglotto. People buy tickets in every Nordic country and in three small countries on the Baltic Sea. Which of those small Baltic countries sits between Estonia and Lithuania?

Accepted Answer

Finland's national lottery, run by Veikkaus, sees about six million euros in prize winnings go unclaimed each year. Finland also takes part in Vikinglotto, a shared Nordic lottery played in Latvia as well as in Estonia and Lithuania.

Question 3

American poet Lydia Sigourney's 1845 book of poems includes one called 'Sunrise at New London'. It also has a poem about a pretty coal-mining valley in northeastern Pennsylvania, near the city of Wilkes-Barre. This same valley is where Buck Rogers gets trapped in an abandoned coal mine in a 1928 sci-fi story. What is that Pennsylvania valley called?

Accepted Answer

In her 1845 book Scenes in My Native Land, Lydia Sigourney included the poem 'Sunrise at New London' about New London, Connecticut. The same book contains Lydia Sigourney's poem 'Vale of Wyoming', celebrating the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Question 4

British singer Passenger had his first big worldwide hit in 2013 with a gentle folk-pop song that reached number one in Israel, Germany, Australia and many other countries. In which country in the middle of Europe, whose capital city is Prague, did the same song also reach number one?

Accepted Answer

Passenger's song 'Let Her Go' hit number one in the Czech Republic starting in 2013, alongside chart-toppers in Australia, Germany, and Sweden. It also reached number one in Israel and hit number two on the UK Singles Chart.

Question 5

The triangle-shaped fried pastry called a samosa is a favorite snack all over East Africa. In 2011, an armed group in Somalia even banned them, saying the meat inside was going bad. In which small East African country, just south of Rwanda and sitting on the edge of Lake Tanganyika, are samosas also popular?

Accepted Answer

Samosas are a common East African snack, popular in Somalia, Burundi, and nearby countries like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. In 2011, the extremist group Al-Shabaab banned samosas in parts of Somalia over worries about rotten meat filling.

Question 6

Brian Nelson, the head brewer at a craft brewery in the US wine-growing state of Virginia, said he ages his beer in old wine barrels to give it extra flavor. Beer has been aged in wooden barrels for hundreds of years in one Belgian region famous for sour beer, whose main city is Bruges. Which region is that?

Accepted Answer

In Virginia's wine country, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery makes barrel-aged beers, aging them in wine barrels to draw out extra flavors and aromas. Barrel-aged beer, meaning beer aged in wooden barrels, is a tradition long associated with West Flanders in Belgium.

Question 7

The 1958-59 European Cup, an early version of today's Champions League, brought together big clubs like Real Madrid, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Dukla Prague. A Bulgarian army club called CDNA also played. In which Bulgarian capital city, sitting at the foot of Vitosha mountain, was that club based?

Accepted Answer

In the 1958-59 European Cup, Sofia's CDNA (later CSKA Sofia) took part alongside Dukla Prague from Prague. Real Madrid won the whole 1958-59 European Cup that year, their fourth title in a row.

Question 8

Louisville City FC plays in the USL Championship, the second-tier American soccer league below Major League Soccer. In 2019, the USL started a new lower league called League One. A junior team belonging to a big-league club from Canada's largest city, where you can visit the CN Tower, joined that new league. Which city is that team from?

Accepted Answer

Louisville City FC of Louisville, Kentucky is a professional soccer team in the second-division USL Championship, playing at Lynn Family Stadium. In Toronto, Toronto FC II left the USL Championship for the new USL League One in 2019 with Richmond, Orlando, Pennsylvania, and Rochester.

Question 9

Since 1987, the towns of LeClaire, Iowa and Port Byron, Illinois have held a summer festival called Tug Fest, pulling a rope across the Mississippi River. Every Fourth of July, a similar tug of war happens between Stinson Beach and a small artist-and-surfer town in Marin County, California, separated from it by a narrow water channel. Name that town.

Accepted Answer

Since 1987, Port Byron in Illinois and Le Claire in Iowa have pulled a rope across the Mississippi River in a tug of war every August during Tug Fest. Every Fourth of July, Bolinas and Stinson Beach in California hold their own tug of war across a channel.

Question 10

The German plastic-figure toy Playmobil is made in three main European factories. Germany makes the bigger items like ships and castles, and Malta makes the little figures themselves. In which country in southwestern Europe, where the toys were once sold as 'los clicks de Famobil', are the tiny accessories made?

Accepted Answer

Playmobil has three main factories in Europe: Germany, Malta, and Spain, with Malta making the characters and Spain making accessories. In Spain, doll maker Famosa was once licensed to produce and sell the figures under the name 'los clicks de Famobil'.