Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Picasso, the Berlin Wall & Gymnastics (Mon, 1st June, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Streets ahead of the rest. This is Carter of Trivia
- 0:10Speaker 1: with your thrice weekly trivia hit. It's pretty straightforward if
- 0:13Speaker 1: you haven't listened to the show before. We get twenty
- 0:15Speaker 1: questions including who am I? There's a bit of something
- 0:18Speaker 1: for everyone. If you're ten, you'll get a couple right.
- 0:20Speaker 1: If you're thirty you should do okay as well. Now,
- 0:23Speaker 1: birthday shout outs get him in via the Facebook page,
- 0:26Speaker 1: Messenger app. Do it nice and early if you can.
- 0:28Speaker 1: We would hate few to miss out. Now, speaking of
- 0:31Speaker 1: said shout outs, phoebe Holding from Brisbane just had a
- 0:35Speaker 1: birthday tomorrow, Amelia from Castle Hill will be thirty nine.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Jensen from Woodcroft is turning nine. Today's birthdays Lawrence from
- 0:44Speaker 1: a Hobart it's twenty seven. I was gonna throw in
- 0:46Speaker 1: a cricket gag, but you've got me stumped. Ollie from
- 0:49Speaker 1: Portland is thirty four, Charlotte from Canberra is eleven and
- 0:53Speaker 1: her sister Georgia is seven. Tomorrow also got Griffin from
- 0:57Speaker 1: Madison in Wisconsin turning two. Well of happy birthday to everyone.
- 1:02Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Craye and a ship registration Did you know
- 1:07Speaker 1: requires a survey? Question one rhyming with land? What are
- 1:14Speaker 1: tiny grains of weathered rock sand? Question two? What do
- 1:24Speaker 1: we call a ballet dancer's spin on one foot a pirouette?
- 1:34Speaker 1: Question three? When referring to the TV and radio provider?
- 1:39Speaker 1: What does the C stand for in BBC Corporation British
- 1:49Speaker 1: Broadcasting Corporation? Question number four? What sort of pizza helped
- 1:55Speaker 1: launch the career of Julia Roberts in nineteen eighty eight?
- 2:03Speaker 1: Mystic pizza? That was the name of the film? Question five.
- 2:07Speaker 1: The two gymnastic events that are done in competition by
- 2:10Speaker 1: men and women are vault and what else? Vault and floor?
- 2:21Speaker 1: Question six? Which anagram of leaf is a parasitic insect?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Leif l eaf becomes flee fl ea? Question seven. A
- 2:39Speaker 1: volcano that has previously erupted but is not currently active
- 2:43Speaker 1: is called dormant dormant volcano. Question eight. Picasso's iconic nineteen
- 2:53Speaker 1: thirty seven anti war mural Gernica is housed in which museum?
- 2:59Speaker 1: I have three options, mussell or Reina Sofia, the Louver
- 3:04Speaker 1: or the British Museum. It's the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
- 3:13Speaker 1: I've had the pleasure of viewing this masterpiece about twenty
- 3:15Speaker 1: years ago, and it is worth the trip. Question nine.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Which heavyweight boxer and his pet tiger featured in the
- 3:22Speaker 1: twenty fourteen book Taming the Beast Mike Tyson? Question ten?
- 3:33Speaker 1: In which decade of the nineteen hundreds was the Berlin
- 3:37Speaker 1: Wall built the nineteen sixties, so the seventh decade construction
- 3:47Speaker 1: started in August nineteen sixty one. Question eleven. What is
- 3:52Speaker 1: the common name for the tiny flat piece of silicon
- 3:56Speaker 1: used in electronic circuits? That's a microchip? Question twelve. On
- 4:06Speaker 1: the human body, what does the halx refer to? Hallix
- 4:15Speaker 1: is a fancy word for your big toe? Question thirteen.
- 4:20Speaker 1: On a balance sheet? What's starting with L is the
- 4:24Speaker 1: opposite of assets? Assets and liabilities? Question fourteen? Which island
- 4:35Speaker 1: country was formerly known as Formosa Taiwan? Question fifteen which
- 4:46Speaker 1: band features the Gallagher brothers? I think they were in
- 4:54Speaker 1: Australia last year on a huge nostalgic reunion tour. We
- 4:58Speaker 1: are talking about oasis. Question sixteen. A volatile person or
- 5:03Speaker 1: unresolved situation that is likely to cause serious harm or
- 5:06Speaker 1: damage might be described as a ticking What a ticking
- 5:16Speaker 1: time bomb? Question seventeen. Which author's famous last words were,
- 5:22Speaker 1: I want nothing but death. Was it Agatha Christie, Jane
- 5:27Speaker 1: Austen or Virginia Wolf? It was Jane Austen. She died
- 5:37Speaker 1: in eighteen seventeen. Question eighteen. Riboflavin is the scientific name
- 5:43Speaker 1: for vitamin B? What B two? Vitamin B two? Question nineteen?
- 5:54Speaker 1: What is the nickname of Morgan Freeman's character in the
- 5:58Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four movie The Shawshank Redemption? Read great movie,
- 6:09Speaker 1: great movie. Bag in a sec We've got a who
- 6:12Speaker 1: am I? To wrap up today's show. Hope you can
- 6:14Speaker 1: stay with us aik Daikey. Question twenty today is a
- 6:20Speaker 1: who am I? Born in South London in January nineteen
- 6:25Speaker 1: sixty to a future chancellor under Margaret Thatcher and the
- 6:29Speaker 1: heiress to a restaurant and hotel fortune. I have five
- 6:32Speaker 1: siblings and half siblings. I've changed schools regularly and was
- 6:35Speaker 1: considered highly strung, but graduated from Lady Margaret Hall at
- 6:39Speaker 1: the University of Oxford with a degree in Medieval and
- 6:42Speaker 1: Modern Languages. Before a stint in Florence, Italy, I was
- 6:46Speaker 1: a book reviewer and restaurant critic at the Spectator magazine
- 6:49Speaker 1: before becoming the Deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times
- 6:53Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six. I freelanced for many of the
- 6:56Speaker 1: major newspapers, wrote a food column for Vogue, and had
- 6:59Speaker 1: various television hosting roles before selling three hundred thousand copies
- 7:03Speaker 1: of my book How to Eat in nineteen ninety eight.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Its follow up, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, won
- 7:10Speaker 1: the British Book Award for Author of the Year and
- 7:12Speaker 1: led to My Own Cooking Show, a short lived daytime
- 7:15Speaker 1: chat show, and a number of specials, all featuring my
- 7:18Speaker 1: first name in the title I Have My Own cookwere
- 7:22Speaker 1: arranged Living Kitchen and have sold more than eight million
- 7:25Speaker 1: books worldwide. I Am I Am Nigella Lawson. And on
- 7:35Speaker 1: Wednesday's episode of car Trip Trivia, we welcome back a
- 7:38Speaker 1: listener favorite. It's been a few years, but rapid Fire
- 7:42Speaker 1: returns this Wednesday on Cartrip Trivia. I hope you can
- 7:46Speaker 1: join me for that. If you don't know what it is,
- 7:47Speaker 1: well you're just gonna have to chain in, aren't you
- 7:49Speaker 1: all right? This has been fun. Look forward to your
- 7:52Speaker 1: company soon. Stay well, Stay gold