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Monday, 18th August, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. This is episode four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty one of Cartrip Trivia. If you'd care to explore
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  Speaker 1: our back catalog. In addition to the regular shows, you'll
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  Speaker 1: find themed editions ranging from the twenty twenties quiz Unusual
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  Speaker 1: Occupations all the way through to movie sequels. There's plenty
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  Speaker 1: to choose from, and there's bound to be something for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Birthday shout out time. Victoria from Connecticut just turned thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: Kieran from Plymouth in England was thirty three over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: ray Lynn from Barkerdale Air Force Base in Louisiana just
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  Speaker 1: turned five. All Up from Montreal and Quebec was twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight yesterday and Brendan from Melbourne was twenty five on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and Joseph from Freeman's Reach was sixty one yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Now tomorrow, Jasmine from Cockatoo in Victoria will be eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Fabby from South Ballina is turning forty three. Saskia from
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  Speaker 1: Crumbin will be seventeen. Happy Birthday, Saskia Hugo from Upper
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  Speaker 1: Ferntree Gully is turning nine. Matilda Finn from arre Leah
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  Speaker 1: in New South Wales will be eleven today, we have
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  Speaker 1: Amy from Hamilton in Victoria is thirty eight, Jeff from
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  Speaker 1: Roanoke in Virginia is forty six, Lizzy from Brookfield is
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  Speaker 1: forty three, and John from Post Falls, Idaho is forty
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  Speaker 1: righty quick question in the Force Awakens? Do you more
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  Speaker 1: relate to Kylo, Ren or Ray? Question number one? What
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  Speaker 1: food is round in shape, packed in a square but
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  Speaker 1: served in triangles? Pizza? Question two? What do we call
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  Speaker 1: pigs feet? Trotter's Question three? Which of the four presidents
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  Speaker 1: on Mount Rushmore is not in the United States National
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling Hall of Fame? Is it George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson is the only
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  Speaker 1: one of the four not in the US National Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame? Question four? In which musical does Frank N.
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  Speaker 1: Furter appear? The Rocky Horror Show later to be filmed
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  Speaker 1: and called the Rocky Horror Picture Show? Question five? What
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  Speaker 1: was finally abolished in every Australian state and at federal
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  Speaker 1: level in nineteen eighty five the death penalty, although the
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  Speaker 1: last time it was administered was in nineteen sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Question six, beginning with p What is the French word
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  Speaker 1: for butterfly? Papillon pap il n Question seven? In which
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  Speaker 1: country was the Caesar salad created? Was it Mexico, Italy
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  Speaker 1: or Laos Mexico at Caesar's restaurant in Tijuana in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty four? Question eight? What was the name of the
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  Speaker 1: housekeeper on the Brady Bunch Alice? Question nine? In which
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  Speaker 1: year of the twenty tens did Theresa May become the
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom two thousand and sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: Question ten? Which came first? Netflix or Google? Netflix started
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven, one year ahead of Google, but
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  Speaker 1: when Netflix first started it was originally a DVD postal service.
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven. What name do we give to the grounds
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  Speaker 1: or buildings of a university or college campus? Question twelve,
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  Speaker 1: excluding the sun, but beginning with S. What is the
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  Speaker 1: brightest star visible in the night sky? You'd need to
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  Speaker 1: know your stars if you're going to get this one right.
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  Speaker 1: Serious Question thirteen, sharing its name with a curry dish?
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  Speaker 1: What was the former name of the Indian city of
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  Speaker 1: Chennai Madras? Question fourteen? In the nursery rhyme, who ran
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  Speaker 1: after the farmer's wife? Three blind mice. They all ran
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  Speaker 1: after the farmer's wife, who cut off their tail with
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  Speaker 1: the carving knife. Charming Question fifteen. What is the second
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  Speaker 1: most spoken language in Australia? Mandarin? Question sixteen In golf,
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  Speaker 1: which seabird lends its name to a player's score that
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  Speaker 1: is three strokes under par in a single hole Albatross?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen. At the Utah Summer Games opening ceremony in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven twelve, two hundred and fifteen people
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  Speaker 1: participated in the world's biggest ever game of Monopoly Hide
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  Speaker 1: and Seek or Simon Says, Simon says Question nineteen, which
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  Speaker 1: sport features in the two thousand and seven Will Ferrell
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  Speaker 1: comedy Blades of Glory figure skating, And there's who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Just around the corner? BA, Can I say it's Question twenty? Today?
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Born in Brooklyn, New York,
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  Speaker 1: in June nineteen forty three, with the surname Pincus. My
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  Speaker 1: parents were Edna and Harold, and I was raised in Williamsburg,
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  Speaker 1: graduating from the Eastern District High School, which no longer exists.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty one. I worked at the television network
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  Speaker 1: CBS and attended the New York College of Music and
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  Speaker 1: the Juilliard Performing Arts School. In the late sixties, I
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  Speaker 1: began writing TV commercial jingles for the likes of Pepsi,
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  Speaker 1: Dr Pepper and Bandaid, and later arranged the theme song
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  Speaker 1: for The Ed Sullivan Show. In the seventies, I penned
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  Speaker 1: four unsuccessful solo tracks as Featherbed, before playing piano for
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  Speaker 1: BT Midler and being nominated for a Grammy for producing
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  Speaker 1: her album The Divine Miss m I released myself titled
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  Speaker 1: debut album in nineteen seventy three, featuring the single Could
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  Speaker 1: It Be Magic. I would go on to release thirty
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  Speaker 1: one studio albums, six live albums, seventeen compilation albums, and
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven singles with Mandy Can't Smile Without You, I
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  Speaker 1: write the songs and Coco Kabana, the best known of
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  Speaker 1: my thirteen number ones. I've produced albums for Dion Warwick
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah Vaughan, and I'm one of the best selling
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  Speaker 1: artists of all time with more than eighty five million
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  Speaker 1: records sold. I am Barry, I am Barry Manilow, and
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  Speaker 1: he's still with us after all these years now. If
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to get a birthday shout out onto the show.
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  Speaker 1: Your best bet, in fact, your only bet, is to
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  Speaker 1: go to the Facebook page, the Carture Trivia Facebook paratge.
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  Speaker 1: You get on to the messenger app and give me
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  Speaker 1: all the details whose birthday is, when their birthday is,
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  Speaker 1: where they're from, and how old they are, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get you on the podcast. Thanks for listening, it's been
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  Speaker 1: another beauty. We'll catch you next time on Cartrick Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: Stay gold no