Bunkagame — July 20, 2026

Question 1

Oslo hosted the very first Luge World Championships in 1955, shortly after the sport replaced skeleton on the Olympic programme. Which city's Olympic Park, built for its Winter Games, houses one of the world's few full-length competition luge, bobsleigh and skeleton runs?

Accepted Answer

Oslo hosted the first luge World Championships in 1955, after the sport of luge was chosen to replace skeleton at the Olympic Games. Near Salt Lake City, the Utah Olympic Park at Park City has one of the world's few luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton runs.

Question 2

Alabama made a string of early Rose Bowl appearances between 1926 and 1931 (including a 1926 win over Washington) before joining the SEC in 1932. In which US state is the Rose Bowl stadium itself located: the Pasadena-area venue that has hosted the New Year's Day college football classic since 1923?

Accepted Answer

The Rose Bowl Game is played in Pasadena, California, and Southern California once appeared in four straight Rose Bowls from 1967 to 1970. The 2024 Rose Bowl, a College Football Playoff semifinal, went to overtime, with Michigan beating Alabama 27-20.

Question 3

Shanghai opened the Hello Kitty Shanghai Times theme park in 2019, joining Japan's Harmonyland and Sanrio Puroland on the character's global map. Which city hosts a Hello Kitty cafe inside the Park MGM resort, part of a chain that also touches Seoul, Bangkok, Adelaide and California?

Accepted Answer

Hello Kitty theme parks include Hello Kitty Shanghai Times in Shanghai, which opened in 2019 as one of only a few outside Japan. Hello Kitty cafes have also opened around the world, including at the Park MGM in Las Vegas, alongside outposts in Seoul, Bangkok, and Adelaide.

Question 4

Christopher Scott Cherot's 1997 indie 'Hav Plenty' was the opening night film at the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival, where it won Best of Festival. Which city's September 1997 international film festival led directly to Harvey Weinstein's multimillion-dollar handshake deal to buy the movie?

Accepted Answer

In June 1997, the movie Hav Plenty was the opening film at the first Acapulco Black Film Festival. Three months later, after a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein offered to buy Hav Plenty for between $1.5 million and $2.3 million.

Question 5

Edinburgh's history with the short-form game of rugby sevens dates to at least 1896, and the city today hosts its own leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series. Which city hosted the sport's landmark international debut in 1998, its first appearance at a Commonwealth Games?

Accepted Answer

Rugby sevens spread across Scotland in the late 1800s, with Edinburgh hosting sevens tournaments starting in 1896. Rugby sevens then made its Commonwealth Games debut at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, the first major international multi-sport event to include rugby sevens.

Question 6

Polish shot putter Tomasz Majewski won his first Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 with a 21.51 m throw, ending a 36-year Polish drought in the event dating back to Władysław Komar's 1972 triumph. Which host city saw him defend that title four years later with a mark of 21.89 m?

Accepted Answer

Polish shot putter Tomasz Majewski won Olympic gold in Beijing on 15 August 2008 with a throw of 21.51 meters. Four years later, Tomasz Majewski defended his shot put title in London 2012 with a throw of 21.89 meters, becoming the first man to defend an Olympic shot put title since Parry O'Brien in Melbourne 1956.

Question 7

Atlanta fields an amateur club in the fourth-division National Premier Soccer League. Which US city, self-proclaimed Pickleball Capital of the world and host of the annual U.S. Open Pickleball Championships since 2016, also fields an NPSL side founded in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Atlanta is home to an amateur club that plays in the National Premier Soccer League. In Naples, Florida, Naples United FC also plays in the National Premier Soccer League, alongside another local side Naples City FC in the United Premier Soccer League.

Question 8

China's peacock dance is a totem tradition of the Dai people of Yunnan province, one of the country's 56 recognized ethnic groups. In which other Asian country is the peacock dance rooted specifically in the western and northern regions?

Accepted Answer

In China, the peacock dance belongs to the Dai people of Yunnan, who treat the peacock as a totem. In Cambodia, a related peacock dance tradition grew up in the western and northern parts of the country, alongside similar dances in Myanmar and Indonesia.

Question 9

The Pomeranian coastal town of Darłowo is the burial site of a 15th-century monarch who once wore the crowns of Denmark, Norway and Sweden simultaneously under the Kalmar Union. Which Nordic town, whose civic privileges he extended in 1430 (later confirmed by Christopher of Bavaria in 1441), was among the beneficiaries of his patronage?

Accepted Answer

Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, extended the town privileges of Aalborg in 1430, and Christopher of Bavaria expanded them in 1441. St. Mary's Church in Darłowo is the burial site of Eric of Pomerania, who spent his final years on the Pomeranian coast.

Question 10

In 1887 the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a north-south branch through Whitewater, Kansas that was absorbed by the Rock Island after the 1891 foreclosure. Which Oklahoma town was reached by the same Rock Island subsidiary's extension through the Cherokee Outlet, its first train arriving in September 1889?

Accepted Answer

In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a north-south branch line from Herington through Whitewater to Caldwell, later folded into the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. The same Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ran a line through the Cherokee Outlet, with the first train reaching Hennessey in September 1889.