Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Monday, 20th May, 2024
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- 0:07Speaker 1: You know it's time when you hear the rhyme this
- 0:10Speaker 1: is Cartroop Trivia. Thanks for being a part of episode
- 0:12Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy three, and a special shout out
- 0:16Speaker 1: to all the folks who attended the Young Care Trivia
- 0:19Speaker 1: night in Brisbane on Saturday night. It was fantastic to
- 0:21Speaker 1: be part of it and a whole stack of money
- 0:23Speaker 1: raised for a really fabulous cause. Now we have a
- 0:26Speaker 1: who am I at the end of the show. We've
- 0:28Speaker 1: got birthday shout out at the beginning, so let's get
- 0:29Speaker 1: to it. Pete from Rye doing the MBO shift in
- 0:32Speaker 1: Mornington Peninsula. He just turned forty five. His daughter Anna
- 0:36Speaker 1: will be eleven tomorrow. We'll get a stack for tomorrow.
- 0:38Speaker 1: In fact, Evan from park Dale's twenty five, Dottie from
- 0:41Speaker 1: Newcastle will be five, Tristan from Klanger turning eight. Everly
- 0:45Speaker 1: Marie from Oxley Park is ten, Archie from the Sunshine
- 0:48Speaker 1: Coast is seven and vil Jannie from Quebec is having
- 0:53Speaker 1: a birthday tomorrow. Today's birthdays Alease from Mittigong is thirty five,
- 0:57Speaker 1: Zach from Aubrey hits thirty and a happy first wedding
- 1:01Speaker 1: anniversary to loyal listeners Peter and Anna from Minnesota. I'm
- 1:04Speaker 1: Stephen Craye, and most good critics would agree that the
- 1:08Speaker 1: quintessential film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet is the one with
- 1:11Speaker 1: Lawrence Olivier. Question number one? What lights up the sky
- 1:17Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve? Fireworks? Question two? Ozzis call it
- 1:27Speaker 1: soft drink? What do Americans call it soda? Question three?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Who was the most recent Australian to be awarded a
- 1:39Speaker 1: star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Nicole Kidman, just
- 1:47Speaker 1: last month, April twenty twenty four. Question four. Before alarm clocks,
- 1:52Speaker 1: a professional window tapper would wake you up for work
- 1:55Speaker 1: with a long stick. They were known as window whackers,
- 2:00Speaker 1: morning callers, or knocker uppers. Knocker uppers legitimately they existed.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Question five? What is the name of Toyota's luxury division Lexus?
- 2:20Speaker 1: Question six? How many stooges were there in the famous
- 2:24Speaker 1: comedy act? There were three stooges, Larry, Mow and Curly.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Question seven? Which small dog has a name that in
- 2:37Speaker 1: Welsh means dwarf dog? The corgy? Question eight? In which
- 2:47Speaker 1: Australian state or territory is Alice Springs, the Northern territory.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Question nine, formed in nineteen ninety one. What was the
- 3:01Speaker 1: American heavy rock band famous for Raging against the Machine?
- 3:10Speaker 1: Rage against the Machine? Question ten? What are the most
- 3:13Speaker 1: number of dots that can appear on a single Domino tile?
- 3:22Speaker 1: Twelve dots? Question eleven. What was Picasso's first name, Pablo?
- 3:33Speaker 1: Question twelve. When on a ship, what is an alop
- 3:42Speaker 1: an all loop is the ship's lowest deck? Question thirteen.
- 3:47Speaker 1: On a musical scale, which two notes do not have
- 3:51Speaker 1: a sharp B and e? Question? In fourteen, Japan's national
- 4:02Speaker 1: anthem was written in the style of a hiku poem,
- 4:06Speaker 1: true or false false. It is one of the shortest
- 4:14Speaker 1: in the world, with only thirty two syllables, but to
- 4:17Speaker 1: be a high coup you have to have only seventeen syllables.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Question fifteen. What birthday milestone did Barbie celebrate in two
- 4:26Speaker 1: thousand and nine, fifty years old? Question sixteen What came first?
- 4:36Speaker 1: The car or the traffic light? Strangely enough, the traffic
- 4:44Speaker 1: light came first in eighteen sixty eight. It was gas
- 4:47Speaker 1: lit and it was located outside the Houses of Parliament
- 4:50Speaker 1: in London before the automobile. Question seventeen. In what year
- 4:55Speaker 1: did the Soviet Union collapse nineteen ninety one. Question eighteen
- 5:04Speaker 1: A rubber version of which animal has become an iconic
- 5:08Speaker 1: bath toy? The duck? The rubber ducky question nineteen. Sissy
- 5:18Speaker 1: Spacek starred in the nineteen eighty film about real life
- 5:21Speaker 1: country singer Lorette Lynn. What was it called cole Miner's mother,
- 5:26Speaker 1: Colemaner's daughter or Colemaner's stepsister coal Miner's daughter. We've got
- 5:38Speaker 1: more Cartrick trivia coming your way. Don't go anywhere, now
- 5:44Speaker 1: here we go. Question twenty today is who am I? So?
- 5:48Speaker 1: Who am I? Born in Brooklyn, New York City, in
- 5:51Speaker 1: April nineteen sixty one. My mother was a telephone switchboard operator,
- 5:55Speaker 1: and my father, who was a transit police officer and
- 5:58Speaker 1: occasional actor and comedian, was murdered in nineteen sixty nine.
- 6:02Speaker 1: My older brother, Charlie, and I lived briefly in foster
- 6:05Speaker 1: care when I was eight years old. With early influences
- 6:08Speaker 1: including Richard Pryor, Peter Sellers, Bill Cosby, and Robin Williams,
- 6:12Speaker 1: I was inspired, and in July nineteen seventy six, I
- 6:15Speaker 1: impersonated Al Green at a Roosevelt Youth Center talent show,
- 6:19Speaker 1: leading to opportunities in clubs and late night venues. I
- 6:22Speaker 1: became a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live, known
- 6:26Speaker 1: for the characters Buckwheat and Gumby. I made my film
- 6:29Speaker 1: debut in nineteen eighty two's Forty eight Hours, and starred
- 6:32Speaker 1: in a stand up comedy special Delirious in nineteen eighty
- 6:35Speaker 1: three before my breakout movie Hit the following year. I've
- 6:38Speaker 1: won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Grammy, have
- 6:41Speaker 1: released three studio albums, and my movies, including The Golden Child,
- 6:45Speaker 1: Daddy Daycare, Beverly Hills, Cop, and Shrek and all of
- 6:48Speaker 1: its sequels, have grossed more than six and a half
- 6:51Speaker 1: billion dollars at the global box office. I was nominated
- 6:54Speaker 1: for an Academy Award for my role in dream Girls
- 6:57Speaker 1: and am recognized as one of the finest comedians of
- 7:00Speaker 1: all time. I am. I am Eddie Murphy. So how
- 7:09Speaker 1: did you originally find car trip trivia? Was it through
- 7:11Speaker 1: a mate or did you type in trivia into your
- 7:14Speaker 1: podcast search engine and up we came. Well, we're all
- 7:17Speaker 1: new listeners at some stage, so to help out our
- 7:19Speaker 1: new listeners and to get those algorithms rolling in our favor.
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- 7:26Speaker 1: or Apple. Thanks for being a part of it. Look
- 7:29Speaker 1: forward to your company next time. This is cartrip trivia.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Stay well, stay golf.