Bunkagame — September 20, 2026

Question 1

This lively music style, originally from Haiti, shaped popular dance music in both Portugal and Cape Verde after travelling with Caribbean and African diaspora communities. It is closely related to French Antillean zouk. Which style is it?

Accepted Answer

Compas (also called kompa or konpa) is a Haitian dance music genre developed in the 1950s by Nemours Jean-Baptiste. It travelled with Haitian and Cape Verdean diaspora communities to Portugal and beyond, evolving alongside zouk.

Question 2

In Angola this national commemoration is marked in April to remember Agostinho Neto's youth activism, and in Tunisia the same commemoration is tied to the anniversary of Habib Bourguiba's 1938 speech. Albania passed a parliamentary law formalising the same observance in 2010. Which annual observance is it?

Accepted Answer

Youth Day is celebrated in many countries to honour young people's role in national life. Angola marks it on 14 April to remember President Agostinho Neto's youth activism, while Tunisia observes it on 21 March.

Question 3

This 2022 lead single from a K-pop girl group's second full-length album charted at number nine on the Vietnam Hot 100 and reached platinum status in South Korea, Canada and New Zealand. It preceded 'Shut Down' and the album 'Born Pink'. Which song is it?

Accepted Answer

'Pink Venom' is Blackpink's first single from 'Born Pink' (2022), the first Korean girl-group album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200. The song's music video hit 100 million YouTube views in its first day.

Question 4

This 1937 international expo in central Japan featured pavilions from participating nations and colonies including Peru, each promoting its products and culture. It closed just two months before the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted. Which exposition was it?

Accepted Answer

The Nagoya Pan-Pacific Peace Exposition was held from March to May 1937 as Japan's showcase of Pacific-rim ties. Its 'peace' framing was undercut only weeks later when Japanese forces sparked a full war with China in July 1937.

Question 5

The Rotterdam International Film Festival has awarded a KNF Prize to films from this South American national industry, and its films have also won prizes at Mar del Plata and other festivals; Silvio Caiozzi's 'Coronación' scooped honours at Montreal, Huelva, Cartagena and Havana. Which national cinema is it?

Accepted Answer

Cinema of Chile has flourished since the country's return to democracy in 1990, with directors like Silvio Caiozzi, Andrés Wood, Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio winning major international awards.

Question 6

Cameron Mackintosh's stage adaptation of a beloved Disney film had its world premiere at the Bristol Hippodrome in 2004, and the first Japanese-language production opened in Osaka in 2018, produced by Toho. Which stage musical is it?

Accepted Answer

The 'Mary Poppins' musical, adapted from the 1964 Disney film and P. L. Travers' books, premiered in Bristol in September 2004 before opening in the West End. Toho's Japanese production launched in Osaka in 2018.

Question 7

This Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock musical, first staged in the early 1970s, ran a 2014 Portuguese-language production in Brazil (São Paulo, starring Igor Rickli) and its portrayal of the story from Judas's perspective sparked debate in South Africa and other markets, especially among Jewish communities. Which musical is it?

Accepted Answer

'Jesus Christ Superstar' opened as a concept album in 1970 and hit Broadway in 1971, telling the last week of Jesus's life from Judas Iscariot's perspective. It has been staged worldwide, from Vienna to Brazil to South Africa.

Question 8

In the summer of 1980, this American theatre and opera director staged 'Don Giovanni' in New Hampshire, later served as director of the Boston Shakespeare Company for the 1983–84 season, and has been a frequent presence at Manchester International Festival. Which director is he?

Accepted Answer

Peter Sellars, born in Pittsburgh in 1957, is renowned for radical restagings of Mozart and Handel operas, often collaborating with composer John Adams. He led the Boston Shakespeare Company as a young director in the early 1980s.

Question 9

The London Lightning of London, Ontario, were founding members of this Canadian professional basketball league until it folded in 2023, when they moved to the Basketball Super League, and the Quebec Kebs of Quebec City also briefly played in the same league in 2011 before folding. Which league is it?

Accepted Answer

The National Basketball League of Canada operated from 2011 to 2023 as the country's second-tier professional basketball league. The London Lightning were its winningest franchise before its collapse and move to the Basketball Super League.

Question 10

Komae, in western Tokyo, takes its name from a word linked to Korean-peninsula migrants and preserves ancient burial mounds from the same era, and Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture has the Sakuradani group of two nationally protected examples of the same monument type. Which ancient Japanese tomb form is it?

Accepted Answer

Kofun are large burial mounds built for elites in Japan roughly from the late 3rd to the 7th century CE. Their signature keyhole shape has become an icon of the era; sites survive across the archipelago from Komae to Takaoka.