Bunkagame — September 21, 2026

Question 1

Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia were introduced to this Italian staple through colonization by the Italian Empire, and Russia is also a large consumer of it. Italy remains the world's biggest producer, making about 3.2 million tonnes each year. Which food is it?

Accepted Answer

Pasta became a staple in Eritrea and neighbouring Horn of Africa countries through Italian colonial rule starting in the 1890s. Dishes like spaghetti al sugo di carne remain everyday food in Asmara.

Question 2

This American rock guitarist's band famously protested at Lollapalooza 1993 by standing on stage naked with duct-taped mouths, and in 2008 played shows in Denver and Minneapolis to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. Which guitarist, best known for Rage Against the Machine, is it?

Accepted Answer

Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, is known for radically political staging. In 2008 RATM's Denver and Minneapolis shows deliberately shadowed the DNC and RNC conventions being held in each city.

Question 3

This eccentric American rock duo released a three-disc live album drawn from performances in Austin, Texas at Stubb's, and their first overseas shows were a run of dates in the Netherlands in December 1990 and January 1991. Which band is it?

Accepted Answer

Ween, formed in New Hope, Pennsylvania in 1984 by 'Gene' and 'Dean' Ween, are known for genre-jumping recordings. Their Live at Stubb's set captured their Austin, Texas base of loyal fans.

Question 4

A 17th-century epigram by Polish poet Fryderyk Hoffman famously listed 'the vodka of Gdańsk, the maidens of Kraków, and the ___ of Toruń' as four of the best things in Poland. Which sweet baked speciality fills that blank?

Accepted Answer

Toruń gingerbread ('pierniki toruńskie') has been made in Toruń since the 14th century, using rye flour and honey. The epigram from Fryderyk Hoffman remains the classic Polish shorthand for four regional excellences.

Question 5

The Quad Cities' Rock Island Independents football team counted this legendary Sac and Fox Nation athlete as a member in 1924, and later in the 1920s he served as player-coach of the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoesteels in Portsmouth, Ohio. Which Olympic gold medallist and NFL pioneer is it?

Accepted Answer

Jim Thorpe (1887–1953) won pentathlon and decathlon gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics before turning to professional football and baseball. He was the first president of what became the NFL.

Question 6

The 'popping' style emerged in Oakland, California from the earlier boogaloo street-dance movement of the late 1960s, while Puerto Rican dancers in New York City were central to developing the b-boy and b-girl breakdance styles. Which dance form encompasses both?

Accepted Answer

Hip-hop dance covers popping, locking, breakdancing and later 'new school' styles, all born from Black and Puerto Rican street cultures in Oakland, Los Angeles and the Bronx from the late 1960s onwards.

Question 7

The KPT Sports Complex in Karachi hosts events in this combat sport alongside squash, field hockey and polo, and the main Korona sports club of Góra Kalwaria in Poland runs the same sport as one of its sections alongside football and chess. Which combat sport is being described?

Accepted Answer

Boxing is an Olympic combat sport in which two competitors throw punches at each other, typically wearing gloves, inside a roped square ring. From Pakistan's KPT Sports Complex to small Polish town sports clubs like Korona Góra Kalwaria, it has a widespread grassroots following.

Question 8

Which Canadian athlete recorded a shutout against Jamaica in the semi-final of a 2007 World Cup qualifier, before going on to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and amass 119 appearances for the national team?

Accepted Answer

Erin McLeod is a Canadian soccer goalkeeper who first appeared for the national team at the 2002 Algarve Cup. Her shutout against Jamaica in semi-final play helped Canada reach the 2007 World Cup, and she went on to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Question 9

In India this bat-and-ball sport had organised teams as early as the 1920s, while Sri Lanka today runs a 50-over Division One Tournament. In 1926-27 the Delhi Ladies beat the men's Marylebone side on their India tour. Which specific form of the sport is being described?

Accepted Answer

Women's cricket in India dates to the 1920s, when the Delhi Ladies Cricket Club defeated the men's Marylebone Cricket Club on their 1926-27 tour. Sri Lanka's domestic circuit features the 50-over Division One Tournament for the women's game.

Question 10

In 1778 skirmishers from the Austrian army led by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser fought at Bystrzyca Kłodzka in this brief Prussia-versus-Austria conflict. In its 1779 Treaty of Teschen settlement Austria won the Innviertel region including Ried im Innkreis. Which war was it?

Accepted Answer

The War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–79) pitted Prussia against Austria over the fate of Bavaria's throne. It was largely fought via manoeuvre rather than pitched battle and became known as the 'Potato War' from soldiers' scavenging.