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Penguins, Dolphins, Poleconomy & Self-Driving Cars (Wed, 2nd Sept, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: He called his twin sons Hose B and Hose A.
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  Speaker 1: Normally you'd say those around the other way, Hose A
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  Speaker 1: and Hose B, but then it wouldn't rhyme. Question one.
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  Speaker 1: Which of the following is a type of dolphin? Shovelhead,
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  Speaker 1: leatherback or bottlenose? You've got the shovelhead shark, the leatherback
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  Speaker 1: turtle and the bottlenose dolphin. Question two. Which thick cloud
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  Speaker 1: of tiny water droplets rhymes with log? Fog. Question three.
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame golfer Lee who was struck by lightning
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  Speaker 1: during the second round of the Western Open in June 1975?
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  Speaker 1: Lee Trevino. Question four, beginning with L. What is the
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  Speaker 1: legal term for non-violent theft of personal property? Larceny. Question five.
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  Speaker 1: The zip code first introduced in 1963 to speed up
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  Speaker 1: mail delivery is the what code? Improvement plan. What does
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  Speaker 1: the Z stand for? What improvement plan? The zone improvement plan.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. What divisive flavour is the classic French spirit Pernod? Aniseed.
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  Speaker 1: You tend to love it or you hate it, not
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  Speaker 1: much in between. Question number seven. Originally known as the
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  Speaker 1: Google Self-Driving Car Project, which company launched the first fully
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  Speaker 1: driverless commercial robo-taxi service in 2020? Waymo. Question eight. In
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  Speaker 1: the first five seasons of which TV series did Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Spacey play a manipulative politician? House of Cards. He played
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  Speaker 1: Frank Underwood. Question nine. In what city were an estimated
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  Speaker 1: 70,000 people killed on the 6th of August 1945? Hiroshima
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  Speaker 1: in Japan. It was the first atomic bomb Used in warfare.
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  Speaker 1: Question 10. Which complex carbohydrate, beginning with S, is broken
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  Speaker 1: down into glucose to fuel your muscles and brain? Starch.
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  Speaker 1: Question 11. In the classic board game Polyconomy, subtitled The
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  Speaker 1: Game of Australia, what animal were the coloured playing pieces?
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  Speaker 1: The playing pieces were kangaroos and the game featured actual
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  Speaker 1: companies of the era as the businesses that you could
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  Speaker 1: purchase and their prices changed according to the fluctuations of
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  Speaker 1: the inflation index. It was a ripper of a game.
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  Speaker 1: Question 12. A difficult task or project undertaken for fondness
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  Speaker 1: of the work itself is often called a labour of...
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  Speaker 1: A labour of love. Question 13. How many houses are
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  Speaker 1: there in the New Zealand Parliament? One house, the House
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  Speaker 1: of Representatives. It is a unicameral Parliament. Question 14. Carol
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  Speaker 1: who wrote the song You Make Me Feel Like a
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  Speaker 1: Natural Woman? Carol King. And the song's actually called A
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  Speaker 1: Natural Woman with the you make me feel like in
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  Speaker 1: brackets at the beginning. Question 15. Who sat in the
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  Speaker 1: corner according to the nursery rhyme? Little Jack Horner sat
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  Speaker 1: in the corner. Question 16. Called a Bessa block in
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  Speaker 1: Australia and a Breeze block in the UK... What do
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  Speaker 1: they call the building material originally made from concrete and
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  Speaker 1: coal and volcanic ash in North America? A cinder block.
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  Speaker 1: Question 17. What other bird lends its name to the
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  Speaker 1: children's division of publisher Penguin Books? Puffin Books. Question 18.
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  Speaker 1: In which city was clothing retailer Gap founded? Was it
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio, San Francisco or San Diego? Gap was founded
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco in 1969. Question 19. The albumen is
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  Speaker 1: the scientific name for which part of an egg... The
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  Speaker 1: albumen is the egg white. Question 20. Which movie set
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  Speaker 1: the following rules? Hurt nobody, don't steal from those who
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  Speaker 1: Rapid Fire. Let's get straight to it. Chicken ticker or
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  Speaker 1: pad thai? Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon?
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  Speaker 1: A screwdriver or a wrench? Lazy or crazy? Boots or sneakers?
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  Speaker 1: Wonder Woman or Supergirl? A tightrope walker or a knife thrower?
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  Speaker 1: Netflix or Disney Plus? Henry Lawson or Banjo Patterson? And
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  Speaker 1: the last one for today's rapid fire. A daydream on
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  Speaker 1: Elm Street or a nightmare on Cherry Tree Lane? And no,
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  Speaker 1: that is not a coincidence. I always try to leave
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  Speaker 1: a quandary or a conundrum for the last of our
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  Speaker 1: rapid fires. Thanks so much again for taking the time
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  Speaker 1: to join us and choosing Car Trip Trivia. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: another 20 family friendly questions coming your way this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Stay well and stay gold.