Bunkagame — July 3, 2026

Question 1

The bearded blues-rock band ZZ Top formed in Houston, Texas in 1969. They played the Houston Rodeo in 2009, and on 2 March 2024 they kicked off their Elevation Tour in which island town at the very southern tip of the continental US, reached by the long Overseas Highway?

Accepted Answer

ZZ Top formed in Houston, Texas in 1969, where guitarist Billy Gibbons had earlier led the band Moving Sidewalks. On 2 March 2024, ZZ Top kicked off the Elevation tour in Key West, playing dates through 24 November.

Question 2

The Canadian rock band Rush wrote and practiced their 1980 album 'Permanent Waves' at a farm near Flesherton, Ontario, then moved to a Toronto recording studio. In September 1979 they travelled to a studio called Le Studio in the town of Morin-Heights to record it. Morin-Heights is in which Canadian province?

Accepted Answer

Rush regrouped in July 1979 at Lakewoods Farm near Flesherton, Ontario to write and rehearse Permanent Waves, then tracked ideas at Sound Kitchen Studio in Toronto. In September 1979, Rush moved to Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec to record Permanent Waves, the first of seven Rush albums made at that Quebec studio.

Question 3

The savory triangle-shaped pastry called a samosa is common across East Africa - from Kenya and Tanzania to Uganda and Rwanda. In which large western country, where you can now buy frozen samosas at stores like Trader Joe's, are they also getting more and more popular?

Accepted Answer

In Tanzania, samosas are a key part of everyday food, common alongside those in Kenya, Uganda, and other East African countries. Frozen samosas are also spreading in the United States, where Trader Joe's has featured mini vegetable samosas in its Fearless Flyer catalog.

Question 4

'The Katzenjammer Kids' is an American comic strip created in 1897 by Rudolph Dirks, who was born in Germany and moved to Chicago when he was seven. Almost every year since 1911, a Christmas comic book with the same characters (called 'Knoll og Tott') has come out in Norway and in which Scandinavian country, home to the capital Copenhagen?

Accepted Answer

The Katzenjammer Kids was created in 1897 by Rudolph Dirks, who moved with his family from Germany to Chicago at age seven. In Denmark, the strip is called Knoll og Tott, and a Christmas Katzenjammer Kids comic book has come out there almost every year since 1911.

Question 5

The corrido is a kind of folk story-song from Mexico, with local styles like the valona from Michoacan. During the Mexican Revolution, southern corridos flourished, including one called 'Soy Zapatista de tierra caliente' about a soldier from which small Mexican state just south of Mexico City - the home state of the famous revolutionary Emiliano Zapata?

Accepted Answer

In Michoacán, the corrido has a local sister genre called the valona, sung alongside the more familiar corrido form. A famous southern corrido from Morelos, 'Soy de Morelos', was written during the Mexican Revolution about Zapata's war.

Question 6

Most Algerian wine today is shipped to Italy, France and Spain, where it is mixed into other wines. But in the 1950s, Algeria, Morocco and which other North African country, home to the ancient city of Carthage, made almost two-thirds of the wine traded internationally?

Accepted Answer

By the 1950s, Algerian wine, together with wines from Tunisia and Morocco, made up nearly two-thirds of the world's internationally traded wine. Most Algerian wine today is exported to France, Italy, and Spain, where it is blended and sold under other labels.

Question 7

Real tennis is an old racquet game whose modern rules were first written down in 1599. It was popular with nobles in France, Spain and the Netherlands in the 1600s. Only 45 courts are still in use worldwide, split between the UK, Australia, France and which large country whose national championship moves between the Racquet Clubs of Philadelphia and Chicago?

Accepted Answer

Real tennis thrived among 17th-century nobles in Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Habsburg Empire. Today just 45 active real tennis courts remain in the world, including several in the United States, where the game is also called court tennis.

Question 8

The French composer Saint-Saens's Bible-story opera 'Samson and Delilah' was staged at the Hamburg State Opera in 1882. It did not appear in France until 1890, when it was performed at a theater in Rouen. On the US West Coast, which Bay Area opera company has staged the show ten times since its first performance in 1925?

Accepted Answer

The San Francisco Opera has staged Samson and Delilah ten times, starting with its first production in 1925 and running through a 2008 revival with Olga Borodina and Clifton Forbis. The opera's first new production after its premiere came in 1882 at the Hamburg State Opera in Hamburg.

Question 9

In February 2019, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the city might try to host the 2036 Summer Olympics. China's own plan for 2036 pairs the giant city of Chongqing with which other large city in southwestern China, capital of Sichuan province and famous for giant pandas?

Accepted Answer

In February 2019, London Mayor Sadiq Khan floated the idea of London hosting a bid for the 2036 Summer Olympics. In China, a joint bid pairing Chengdu with Chongqing was launched for either the 2032 or 2036 Summer Olympics, proposed in March 2018 by a Chengdu committee member.

Question 10

The Franciscan Order, a Catholic religious group started by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209, has built monasteries all over the world. In the pretty planned city of Zamosc in southeastern Poland, Austrian rulers shut down the Franciscan church in 1784. In which town in southern Spain's Andalusia region, in the Seville area, has the Church of San Francisco (started in 1585) always been run by Franciscans?

Accepted Answer

In 1784, Austrian rulers shut down the Franciscan Order church in Zamość, and the building was later used as a cinema and secondary school. The Convent and Church of San Francisco in Lebrija, founded in 1585, has always been tied to the Franciscan Order.