Bunkagame — September 17, 2026

Question 1

This 2008 Spanish-language studio album reached number one across Latin America, including Chile and Peru, as well as in Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador. Its second single 'Te Desean' also topped the chart in Chile. Which Latin pop album is it?

Accepted Answer

Cómplices was a 2008 Luis Miguel album that hit number one in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain, and also topped the US Billboard Latin Albums chart.

Question 2

In Portugal and Kenya, this savoury pastry is enjoyed as an entrée, appetizer or snack. It is a key part of East African food in Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, and takes its own local name in Angola and Goa. Which triangular South Asian snack is it?

Accepted Answer

The samosa is a triangular fried or baked pastry traditionally filled with spiced potato or meat. Popular across South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Asia, it travelled with trade and diaspora routes to Portugal, East Africa (including Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda), the UK and the Caribbean.

Question 3

In 1988 Rotterdam hosted an exhibition titled 'Kunst uit een andere wereld' (Art from another world) documenting a global movement, and Glasgow's Art Gallery and Museum has hosted travelling exhibitions on the same subject, curated by Peter Sinclair and Emma Wallace. Which category of art do these shows represent?

Accepted Answer

Contemporary African art has gained major museum visibility since the late 1980s. Rotterdam's 'Art from another world' show helped introduce it to Dutch audiences, while Glasgow has hosted UK-wide touring surveys of the same movement.

Question 4

In 17th-century Germany, diatonic single-row versions of this ancient stringed instrument were fitted with manually turned hooks to allow key changes, and Iran has some of the oldest depictions of the same instrument, dating back to antiquity across Asia, Africa and Europe. Which instrument connects both traditions?

Accepted Answer

The harp has one of the longest histories of any instrument, with ancient Iranian and Egyptian depictions. Baroque-era Germany produced hooked single-row harps that let players change keys without retuning.

Question 5

This annual Ukrainian music festival takes place on three stages in Lviv, including its main stage in Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Culture Park (the city of Khmelnytskyi is named for the same 17th-century Cossack leader). Past programmes have included Swedish contrabass and bass player showcases. Which festival is it?

Accepted Answer

Leopolis Jazz Fest is one of Eastern Europe's biggest jazz festivals, held each summer in Lviv. Its main stage sits in Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Culture Park; the city of Khmelnytskyi is named for the same 17th-century Cossack leader.

Question 6

Venetian traders lost their supply of sweet wine from Cyprus, Greece, Romania and Hungary to the emerging Ottoman Empire, and centuries later this drink fell out of fashion in emerging markets like the United States, Japan and Australia at the end of the 20th century. Which fortified wine's history is being described?

Accepted Answer

Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes grown around Jerez in southern Spain, aged in a distinctive solera system. Its centuries of trade history saw supply shocks as far back as the Ottoman conquest of the eastern Mediterranean, and it slipped out of fashion in the United States and other new markets toward the end of the 20th century.

Question 7

Nafia Kuş won gold in the women's +73 kg at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Three years earlier at the 2020 German Open Tournament, an annual taekwondo event, she also became the +73 kg gold medalist. Which German city hosted that 2020 tournament?

Accepted Answer

Nafia Kuş is a Turkish taekwondo athlete who competes in the women's +73 kg category. She won gold at the 2020 German Open Tournament in Hamburg and again at the 2023 World Championships in Baku, defeating athletes from Greece, Australia, Colombia and Russia along the way.

Question 8

Born in Pereiaslav in 1859 and raised in the nearby shtetl of Voronkiv, this Yiddish writer emigrated to New York City after the 1905 pogroms and died there in May 1916; his funeral drew an estimated 100,000 mourners, one of the largest in the city's history. Which author, famous for the Tevye stories that inspired 'Fiddler on the Roof', is this?

Accepted Answer

Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) was a Yiddish author whose Tevye the Dairyman stories inspired the musical 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Born in Pereiaslav, he emigrated to New York City in 1906 and is buried at Old Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens.

Question 9

Spain has won this women's continental basketball title four times, and in 1995 Ukraine became the first post-Soviet team to win the tournament, led by Maryna Tkachenko and Olena Zhyrko. Which biennial competition is this?

Accepted Answer

EuroBasket Women is the top continental women's basketball championship. Spain leads current-era winners with four titles; Ukraine's 1995 win in Brno made them the first post-Soviet champion of the event.

Question 10

This revolutionary movement was founded in Oakland, California in the mid-1960s and shaped much of the East Bay's political culture. It also inspired links with the American Indian Movement that took root in Minnesota's Twin Cities Native community. Which organization is it?

Accepted Answer

The Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, remained deeply rooted in the East Bay. Its example directly influenced the American Indian Movement, launched in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968.