Bunkagame — September 22, 2026

Question 1

Which American brand opened its first France shop, in Paris, in December 2023 with plans to make around 45,000 doughnuts a day, and also operates stores in Turkey, Egypt, the UK and dozens of other markets alongside its US and Canada footprint?

Accepted Answer

Krispy Kreme, founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1937, is best known for its hot glazed doughnuts. Its late-2023 Paris opening extended its footprint across dozens of countries.

Question 2

Which annual prizes recognise the best entries at the Eurovision Song Contest, and were handed out in both Athens (host in 2006) and Istanbul (host in 2004) on the nights those cities staged the contest?

Accepted Answer

The Marcel Bezençon Awards have been presented at Eurovision each May since 2002, named after the Swiss broadcaster who launched the contest in 1956. They are voted on by the participating jury heads, composers and press.

Question 3

Which Los Angeles pop-rock band, fronted by Adam Levine, has played major world-tour venues in both New York City and Hong Kong, and released their second album 'It Won't Be Soon Before Long' worldwide in May 2007?

Accepted Answer

Maroon 5 evolved from an earlier band called Kara's Flowers, releasing debut album 'Songs About Jane' in 2002. Their 2007 follow-up spawned major singles 'Makes Me Wonder' and 'Wake Up Call'.

Question 4

Which 2015 lead single from a British boy band's fifth studio album 'Made in the A.M.' charted in Switzerland and Austria's year-end top-100, and was the group's first release after Zayn Malik's departure?

Accepted Answer

'Drag Me Down' was One Direction's July 2015 comeback single, released as a surprise track after Zayn Malik left the group in March. It debuted at number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia and elsewhere.

Question 5

Which 1993 Steven Spielberg blockbuster, based on a Michael Crichton novel about resurrected dinosaurs, set all-time box office records in Japan (in US dollars), New Zealand, Germany, Hong Kong and many other countries?

Accepted Answer

Jurassic Park (1993) was the highest-grossing film ever until Titanic in 1997. Its ILM-designed CGI dinosaurs revolutionized visual effects and spawned a franchise still running three decades later.

Question 6

Which Polish football club lost 0–5 to Legia Warsaw in a Polish Cup final in Częstochowa, and in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League knocked out FC Dnipro of Dnipro during one of their most successful European campaigns?

Accepted Answer

Lech Poznań, founded in 1922 in Poznań, are eight-time Polish champions. Their 2010–11 Europa League run reached the round of 16 before being knocked out by Braga, having previously beaten Ukrainian side Dnipro.

Question 7

Which offbeat sport, played in boot-swallowing mud, holds its world championships in Finland and has since spread to Iceland, the UK and Turkey, with roughly 260 registered teams worldwide?

Accepted Answer

Swamp football (or swamp soccer) was invented in 1998 in Hyrynsalmi, Finland, originally as a training exercise. The mud drains most of the pace out of the game and rewards sheer stamina.

Question 8

Which national literature, with Marrakesh as a leading centre and roots in medieval poetic exchanges with the Iberian Peninsula including from Viator in southern Spain, has drawn critical disagreement about when its novelistic tradition first emerged, given the variety of novel-like texts appearing between the 1800s and 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Moroccan literature encompasses works in Arabic, Berber, French and Spanish reflecting the country's layered cultural inheritance. Marrakesh, along with Fez and Rabat, has been a major literary centre for centuries.

Question 9

North Korea has produced World Championship medallists in this Olympic discipline, including Sun Duk Jo and Myong Sim Choi, while Romania enjoyed peak success in the 1980s and 1990s with silver medallist Doina Stăiculescu and later Irina Deleanu. Which judged sport, performed with clubs, ribbons, hoops and ropes, is it?

Accepted Answer

Rhythmic gymnastics is judged on grace and precision using handheld apparatus like clubs, ribbons, hoops and ropes. Romania's silver medal through Doina Stăiculescu in 1984 and North Korea's World Championship medallists show the discipline reaches beyond its European heartland.

Question 10

Accra hosts churches of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Kara in Togo houses parishes of the Togolese Evangelical Presbyterian Church, all of which belong to the same global Christian fellowship. Which international communion is it?

Accepted Answer

The World Communion of Reformed Churches, formed in 2010, unites over 100 million Christians in some 230 Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies worldwide, including many across West Africa.