Bunkagame — August 14, 2026

Question 1

The Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota hosted the opening night of a famous Led Zeppelin North American tour. Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona was pencilled in for a later leg that never happened, cancelled after Robert Plant's serious car crash in Greece that August. Which of the band's tours was this?

Accepted Answer

The 1975 North American tour opened at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington. A follow-up leg had Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium on the schedule for August, but those shows were cancelled after Robert Plant's serious car crash in Greece.

Question 2

In 2011 and 2012, this hit French comedy topped the box-office charts in Switzerland for eleven straight weeks and in Poland for three weeks. In Switzerland it became the most successful French-language film ever released there. Which movie was it?

Accepted Answer

The Intouchables, released in 2011, was a French box-office phenomenon that spread across Europe. It topped charts in Switzerland for eleven weeks and Poland for three, and became the most successful French-language film ever released in Switzerland.

Question 3

In August 2013, the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the American family pizza and arcade chain Chuck E. Cheese made history as the first location in 11 years to open without any animatronic characters. In February 2023, the chain opened a new Caribbean location, its third in the same twin-island nation. Which capital city hosted that new outlet?

Accepted Answer

The Port of Spain restaurant was the third Chuck E. Cheese to open in Trinidad and Tobago and the last new outlet to open with a traditional "Circles of Light" stage. Meanwhile, the Montgomery branch in 2013 was the first in over a decade to open with no animatronic Chuck E. character at all.

Question 4

Iranian cultural influence shaped the food of Tajikistan and southern Uzbekistan, reaching into northern Pakistan with elaborately spiced rice dishes. In Turkmenistan, a nomadic diet of meat and dairy is common, and fried dough balls called bogursak are a staple. Which regional food tradition connects these two countries?

Accepted Answer

Central Asian cuisine spans the region from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan and into northern Pakistan. Nomadic Turkmen cooking is meat and dairy heavy, while Iranian-influenced dishes with rice and stewed vegetables spread south into Pakistan.

Question 5

The American pop rock band Maroon 5, fronted by Adam Levine, has cited Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Stevie Wonder as major influences. In September 2014 they played the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in London. Which California city, where two of their founding members attended UCLA, is the band's hometown?

Accepted Answer

Maroon 5 formed in Los Angeles. Two founding members, Dusick and Madden, attended UCLA locally while Adam Levine and Carmichael moved east to Five Towns College on Long Island before the band came together back home in LA.

Question 6

Wesley College in Dover, Delaware is a football powerhouse in this NCAA tier, and Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee fields teams at the same level through the USA South Athletic Conference. Wesley began New Jersey Athletic Conference play in 2015. Which NCAA tier connects the two schools?

Accepted Answer

NCAA Division III is the largest of the association's three divisions and prohibits athletic scholarships. Wesley College's Wolverines were a longtime D-III football contender, and Maryville College in Tennessee fields D-III programs in the USA South Athletic Conference (previously the Great South Athletic Conference).

Question 7

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats had its 2015 London revival nominated for two Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival. The first non-replica production of Cats, set in an abandoned film studio instead of a junkyard, opened in January 2004 at the Teatr Muzyczny Roma. Which Polish capital city hosted that production?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw's Teatr Muzyczny Roma hosted the first Polish production of Cats, which ran from 2004 to 2010. It was the first non-replica staging of the show, with designers moving the action from a junkyard into an abandoned film studio.

Question 8

North Wilkesboro, North Carolina is known as one of the birthplaces of American stock-car racing, and its speedway was the first-ever track sanctioned by NASCAR. Backers of the proposed New England Motorsports facility hope to build a New England NASCAR flagship in which small town in western Hampden County?

Accepted Answer

Palmer, Massachusetts is the site of the proposed New England Motorsports track, meant to become a NASCAR flagship for the region. Currently the sport's New England fixtures are the New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, both heavily used.

Question 9

In Bulgaria, every region has its own version of this circle dance, and similar dances go by related names across Romania, Moldova and Greece. In Montenegro, an unrelated paired courtship dance called Oro is sometimes confused with it. Which circle dance is being described?

Accepted Answer

The Hora is a Balkan and Eastern European circle dance with strong regional traditions in Bulgaria. On New Year's Eve 2006-2007, when Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union, celebrants danced the Hora Bucuriei in Bucharest's boulevards.

Question 10

Framingham, Massachusetts offers direct Amtrak rail service to Chicago via a long-distance train, with links to the rest of the network through connections elsewhere. Schenectady, New York is a stop on the same train, along with the Ethan Allen, Adirondack, Maple Leaf and Empire Service. Which Amtrak service is it?

Accepted Answer

The Lake Shore Limited is Amtrak's Boston/New York-to-Chicago overnight service, and both Framingham and Schenectady are stops on the route. It's named for its path along the shores of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo.