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Monday, 12th August, 2024 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: In the spirit of keeping things fresh here at Cartrip Trivia,
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  Speaker 1: we have a very different Who am I to finish
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  Speaker 1: the show off today? We've got a batch of questions
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  Speaker 1: to get through first, and don't forget for your birthday shoutouts.
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  Speaker 1: Get on the Cartrip Trivia Facebook page, Messenger app, tell
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  Speaker 1: me who, when, how old and where from and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get him on the air. Here we go. Liam from
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  Speaker 1: Engadeen turn thirty eight over the weekend. Tomorrow, Ryan from
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  Speaker 1: Dubbo will be seven. Winnie from Trealgon is turning eight.
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  Speaker 1: Our young man Lucian racks up another one. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: nine years of age and is this our first treble?
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  Speaker 1: Cousins Mandy and Tamson from South Africa both turned thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine and Tamsan's mum, Aloma Aloma, is sixty eight. On
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  Speaker 1: the same day today's birthdays. Alana from Cockatoo in Victoria
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  Speaker 1: she's celebrating. Amy from Durant in Oklahoma is having a party.
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  Speaker 1: Leonardo from Tanna eight is eight, Amelia from Ginderbyne is
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  Speaker 1: eight and Jimmy from Melbourne is ninety. Is keen to
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  Speaker 1: hear his name on the show. Jimmy, I'm Stephen Craye
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the most successful Olympics ever for Team Australia. Does
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  Speaker 1: that count? Question one? Which animated kids show has the
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  Speaker 1: characters Buttercup, Bubbles and Blossom The Powerpuff Girls? Question number two?
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  Speaker 1: What name is given to someone who works in a library?
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  Speaker 1: A librarian? Question three? According to the proverb what can't
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  Speaker 1: you make without breaking eggs? You can't make an omelet
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  Speaker 1: without breaking some eggs. Question four, over multiple Olympic events,
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  Speaker 1: what abstance is applied to one's hands to assist athletes
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  Speaker 1: with grip and to prevent blisters? Chalk? I always thought
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  Speaker 1: that it'd make it a bit slippery, but clearly not.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. The direct manipulation of DNA to alter an
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  Speaker 1: organism's characteristics is known as what engineering genetic engineering? Question six?
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  Speaker 1: Which country has more toxic species per square kilometer than
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  Speaker 1: any other country in the world. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we should be proud of it. It's Australia. Question seven.
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  Speaker 1: From the Marvel Universe, name two of the six Infinity stones, Space, Reality, Power, Minded, Time,
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  Speaker 1: and Soul. We need two of those to give you
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  Speaker 1: a point. Question eight. Which US city boasts the oldest
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  Speaker 1: and longest boardwalk? In the world, first opening in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy and spanning nearly nine kilometers Atlantic City. Question nine,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with f what is the common name for a
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  Speaker 1: domesticated pole cat? A ferret? Question ten? What shape is
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  Speaker 1: a river? Delta? A triangle? Perhaps a fan shape? Question eleven?
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  Speaker 1: Which red fruit might I put in a green salad? Tomatoes? Question? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you could put an apple in there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bit unusual, though, Tomatoes is the answer we're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve. American soldier, bison hunter and showman William Frederick
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  Speaker 1: Cody was better known as Buffalo Who Buffalo Bill? Question thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: In grammar, a word used to describe a person, animal, place,
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  Speaker 1: or thing is a what a noun? Question fourteen, which
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  Speaker 1: came first? Backgammon or chess? Backgammon did? It was first
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  Speaker 1: played in around three thousand BC. Chess was around six
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  Speaker 1: hundred a d Question fifteen. After leaving the Eurythmics, who
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  Speaker 1: had the nineteen ninety two hit song Walking on Broken
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  Speaker 1: Glass Annie Lannox. Question sixteen. A slightly unusual but popular
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  Speaker 1: ice cream flavor is rum? And what rum? And raise?
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  Speaker 1: And you can have as much as you want, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not for me? Question seventeen. What nickname is traditionally
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  Speaker 1: given to London police Bobby's Question eighteen. As of April
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, what is the basic postage rate for
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  Speaker 1: a letter sent within Australia? A dollar fifty up from
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  Speaker 1: one dollar twenty? Question nineteen. In the all female remake
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  Speaker 1: of Ghostbusters from twenty sixteen, what cameo role did Dan
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  Speaker 1: Akroyd play? He was a cab driver. Rev those engines
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  Speaker 1: we have? Who am I? It's a special one coming
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  Speaker 1: up next? Stay with us? Okay? Question twenty Today it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different. Which Olympic Games am I? I
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  Speaker 1: commenced on the twenty eighth of July and ran until
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth of August, the second time I had been
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  Speaker 1: held in my host city, the first being in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. Only two cities formerly bid for the event,
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  Speaker 1: with my main competitor withdrawing twelve months before the official
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  Speaker 1: announcement for political reasons. I was the first Summer Games
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  Speaker 1: to be presided by the IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch
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  Speaker 1: and was officially opened by my country's head of state,
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  Speaker 1: Despite boycott's by a number of Eastern Bloc countries. Six thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred athletes from a record one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: nations took part. The host nation won the most gold
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  Speaker 1: medals and the overall medal count, but Australia did pretty
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  Speaker 1: well with four gold medals Dean Lucan in the weightlifting,
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  Speaker 1: Glennis Nunn and the heptathlon, John Seben in the two
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  Speaker 1: hundred meter butterfly and the men's team pursuit in cycling.
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  Speaker 1: My Olympic theme was composed by John Williams and the
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  Speaker 1: spectacular closing ceremony featured a prop ufo that hovered over
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, joining Paris and London as the only others
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  Speaker 1: to host three events. The Games of the thirty fourth
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  Speaker 1: Olympiad in twenty twenty eight will once again be staged
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  Speaker 1: in my host city. Which Olympic Games am? I? I am?
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  Speaker 1: I am? The nineteen eighty four Los Angeles Olympics and
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  Speaker 1: the ones we've just had in Paris weren't too bad
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  Speaker 1: either with the record or for Australia. We're pretty happy
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  Speaker 1: with that. Once again, folks, i'd like to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for listening to the show. If you'd like to support
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  Speaker 1: podcast platform. That's the little summary of the show below
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  Speaker 1: the show itself does that explainer. Catch you next time.