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Wednesday, 19th February, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: How's your week. You're finding your feet well. Over the
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  Speaker 1: next eight or nine minutes, we're going to take you
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  Speaker 1: on a little trivia trip to test your wits and
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  Speaker 1: clear your mind of your everyday troubles. Just drift away
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit. Of course, you're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: County of Trivia. It's the Wednesday edition. Thanks folks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. We have the bonus round of Sound included
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  Speaker 1: today at no extra cost. We've got some birthday shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: We just missed Ben from Melbourne's birthday. He was twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: big fan of the show. Tomorrow Alex from Kent in
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  Speaker 1: England will be twenty six, Arthur from Springshore in Queensland
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  Speaker 1: will be ten, and Chase with no registered address because
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  Speaker 1: he's car tripping around the country, he will be ten.
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  Speaker 1: Today's birthdays. Tyler from Werribee is fifteen, Will from win
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  Speaker 1: Malee he is twenty one. And Troy from Tallawong in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: He's a brand new listener, just joined us yesterday. He
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  Speaker 1: turns twenty eight today. Thanks for being a part of
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  Speaker 1: the show. I'm Stephen Cray and if you're seeking question
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  Speaker 1: number one, well you could do worse than follow the Mandalorian,
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  Speaker 1: for this is the way. What word beginning with E
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  Speaker 1: explains what happened to the dinosaurs sixty five million years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Extinction or you could say extinct? Question two. In the
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter series, earthworm, rotten egg, and booger are all flavors? Flavors? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: of what jelly bands? They're the Bertie Bots everyday flavor bands,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I might vomit. Question three? What a
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  Speaker 1: country lost the Crimean War? Russia? Question four? True or false?
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  Speaker 1: It took Cristiano Ronaldo twenty seven games to score his
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  Speaker 1: first first Champions League goal. Sometimes something's so outrageous that
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  Speaker 1: it just has to be true. That's the case here
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  Speaker 1: it is true. Question five. The town of Glenrowan in
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  Speaker 1: Victoria's High Country is known for its iconic tourist attraction
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  Speaker 1: Big Who big Ned Kelly? Question six? Which classic British
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  Speaker 1: TV comedy series features a bumbling waiter named Manuel Faulty
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  Speaker 1: Towers See Mister forty? Question seven from what a country
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  Speaker 1: is the automotive brand Chevrolet the United States of America?
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  Speaker 1: Question sate? Question eight, which actress from the Greatest Showman
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  Speaker 1: shares her name with a former member of Destiny's Child
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Williams. Question nine. On the twentieth of July twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, adelaide man omkar Palav broke the Guinness World
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  Speaker 1: Record for the fastest time to type the alphabet with
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  Speaker 1: which body part his nose, with the time of twenty
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  Speaker 1: point five to one seconds, which is more than a
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  Speaker 1: second faster than the previous record. Yeah, okay. Question ten.
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  Speaker 1: Which moisturizing substance is generally applied to one's hair after
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  Speaker 1: using shampoo conditioner? Question eleven. What number does X V
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  Speaker 1: represent in Roman numerals? X means ten, V means five.
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  Speaker 1: Together they mean fifteen. Question twelve. In which series of
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  Speaker 1: books did Marvin the Paranoid Android feature The Hitchhiker's Guide
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  Speaker 1: to the Galaxy. Question thirteen. Which Asian country's flag has
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  Speaker 1: a five pointed yellow star against a red background? Vietnam?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen, Which of the following words means to instill
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  Speaker 1: by persistent instruction? To instill by persistent instruction? Is it inculcate,
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  Speaker 1: is it abdicate, or is it abrogate inculcate I nculcate.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. Which planet has the tallest mountain in our
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  Speaker 1: Solar System Mars. It's a shield volcano known as Olympus
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  Speaker 1: Mons and it's two and a half times taller than
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  Speaker 1: Mount Everest. Question sixteen. Since the nineteen nineties in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: it is illegal to ride a bicycle without wearing what
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  Speaker 1: a helmet? Question seventeen Green and which other color are
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  Speaker 1: the most popular for a pool? Table's felt? Green? And blue?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen. What is the only continent without rainforests Antarctica?
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen, which is the odd one out? Refuse stockpile
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  Speaker 1: or debris? That's refuse stockpile or debris stockpile. That's something
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  Speaker 1: that you keep. Refuse and debris are things that you
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  Speaker 1: would throw away. Question twenty which Jaws and Close Encounters
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  Speaker 1: of the Third Kind star narrates but doesn't appear in
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  Speaker 1: the movie? Stand by me? Richard Dreyfus, Well, we know
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  Speaker 1: that's the sound of a motor vehicle, but can you
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  Speaker 1: pick the next three? It's the round of sound up
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  Speaker 1: in a jiffy. Never a better opportunity to use your
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  Speaker 1: pause and rewind buttons on your little podcast device. There.
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  Speaker 1: This is the round of sound. We'll play the sounds
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  Speaker 1: twice if you need to hear them again. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what to do. Here's the first one for today.
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  Speaker 1: What does this sound? Is that something exploding or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: being popped. That is three balloons being popped, one after
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  Speaker 1: the other. They came. Here's the next one. What's this sound?
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  Speaker 1: Sounds very much like something of value being manhandled. What
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  Speaker 1: is that sound? That's a big pile of coins with
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  Speaker 1: someone's hand running through them, celebrating their value. All right,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Here's the last one. What's this sound?
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  Speaker 1: It's two actions part of one thing. Let's play that
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  Speaker 1: once more. You can hear a dog barking in the
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  Speaker 1: background there too. That's not what we're after. That is
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  Speaker 1: a toaster, the action of pulling it down and then
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  Speaker 1: the toast bursting up from within. And that's the round
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  Speaker 1: of sound. Folks. If you've been listening each week, you'd
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  Speaker 1: know that sometimes they're easier than others. I would classify
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  Speaker 1: that last one as on the more difficult end of
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  Speaker 1: the scale. Anyway, to be back next week, we'll do
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  Speaker 1: another three sounds, and we'll be back on Friday with
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  Speaker 1: episode three hundred and eighty five of Car Trip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: or a little joke at the end from our boy Rudolph,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you can join us for that. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: i'd like to say stay, go,