Bunkagame — September 24, 2026

Question 1

Which American fast food chain, founded by two former firefighters, opened its first Canadian store in Oshawa, Ontario in October 2015, and has more than 1,200 restaurants across 46 U.S. states with plans to open in Australia in 2025?

Accepted Answer

Firehouse Subs, an American sandwich chain, arrived in Canada in October 2015 with its first store in Oshawa, Ontario, and planned to open in Australia by 2025 as part of a global push into more than a dozen countries.

Question 2

Which spiced rice dish from South Asia was brought to Sri Lanka in the early 1900s by Indian Muslim traders, and in versions that also spread to Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania thanks to centuries of Indian Ocean trade and later British colonial migration?

Accepted Answer

Biryani reached Sri Lanka in the 1900s through Indian Muslim traders, while regional versions appeared in Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia through the long-standing Indian Ocean trade and later British-era Indian migration.

Question 3

Which springtime symbol do people in Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine tap and crack together at Easter to see whose is strongest, and are also sometimes carved from wood and hand painted, and used in painted-porcelain gifts?

Accepted Answer

Easter eggs are a shared spring tradition in Russia and Serbia. In Russian folk custom they are carved from wood and hand-painted or made as porcelain gifts, and in Serbia they are dyed with onion skins, joining a wider Slavic and Orthodox tradition.

Question 4

The centre of Sofia mixes Neo-Baroque, Neo-Rococo and Neoclassical buildings, but also shows a bold Austrian art movement from around 1900 led by Gustav Klimt. Museum collections in Lviv include works by artists from this movement. Which turn-of-the-century movement links them?

Accepted Answer

Both Lviv and Sofia bear the mark of the Vienna Secession, the turn-of-the-century Austrian art movement led by Gustav Klimt. Its influence spread across Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Question 5

Which 2017 horror film, based on a Stephen King novel about a shape-shifting clown, broke opening-week records for horror movies in Greece and pulled in about 27.6 million dollars in Mexico, one of its biggest overseas markets?

Accepted Answer

It (2017), based on the Stephen King novel about the killer clown Pennywise, set opening records for a horror film in Greece and Germany and became a huge hit in Mexico, where it earned around 27.6 million dollars.

Question 6

Which American playwright, born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, became a regular visitor to Key West starting in 1941, and is said to have drafted A Streetcar Named Desire while staying at the La Concha Hotel in Key West in 1947?

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, spent long stretches in Key West, where he drafted A Streetcar Named Desire at the La Concha Hotel in 1947.

Question 7

Which Congolese dance and music style, rooted in the soukous scene of Kinshasa, spread through Congolese diaspora communities in Belgium, France and Canada in the 1990s and 2000s, and also fed into Ivory Coast's coupé-décalé and shaped that country's own dance-pop sound?

Accepted Answer

Ndombolo, the fast, hip-swaying Congolese dance style, grew popular in Belgium and France through the diaspora and directly shaped Ivory Coast's coupé-décalé genre, which emerged in the early 2000s.

Question 8

Which specific Games held in Los Angeles did Laos, Cuba and 13 other countries join a Soviet-led boycott of in 1984, in a move seen as tit-for-tat after the United States and its allies had stayed away from the previous Games in Moscow four years earlier?

Accepted Answer

The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles were boycotted by the Soviet Union and 14 allies including Cuba and Laos, in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. It was a low point in Cold War sport.

Question 9

Chile is a major hub for sandboarding, where athletes ride down big sand dunes strapped to a board. The Medanoso dunes near Copiapo and the beach dunes at Iquique are popular spots. Which Gulf country, home to the Empty Quarter desert and cities such as Dubai, is another well-known sandboarding destination?

Accepted Answer

The United Arab Emirates is a popular sandboarding destination thanks to its vast desert dunes, while Chile draws riders to the Atacama's Medanoso dunes near Copiapo. Both offer some of the world's biggest ridable slopes.

Question 10

Which 15th century religious teacher, the founder of Sikhism, was born in 1469 in a village of the Delhi Sultanate's Lahore province, and, according to tradition, later travelled widely including a visit to Mecca where he debated with Muslim clerics about God?

Accepted Answer

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was born in 1469 in the village now called Nankana Sahib near Lahore, then part of the Delhi Sultanate. Sikh tradition also holds he journeyed in the Middle East, with some writers claiming visits to Mecca, Jerusalem and Baghdad.