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Desmond Tutu, Figure Skating & Fast Food Jokes (Wed, 14th Oct, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Keeping your brain on its toes and providing sanity on
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  Speaker 1: those road trips when things start to get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit uncomfortable. The kids are in the backseat punching each other.
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  Speaker 1: They're frustrated and restless. They're hungry. You're getting annoyed. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. Rapid Fire, it's coming up. Birthday
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  Speaker 1: shout-outs right now. Oliver from Cootamundra just turned 11. Angela
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  Speaker 1: from Butcherwell turned 40 recently. Thanks for listening, Angela. And
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  Speaker 1: Rinky Kelly from Ireland. She's heading to Hong Kong and
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  Speaker 1: she was nine yesterday. Tomorrow, Nick from Reno, Nevada. He's
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  Speaker 1: sitting on 21. which is a lot better than busting.
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  Speaker 1: Donna from Agnes Water hits a major milestone. That's 50 years. Congrats, Donna.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have Little Letty from Darwin, 33. Adeline from
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  Speaker 1: Coburg North is 7. Daily Listener Evie from Adelaide is 11.
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  Speaker 1: Grey from Maui is 12. Vincent from Pakenham, he's at
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  Speaker 1: camp in Canberra, and he's also 12 today. And last
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  Speaker 1: but not least, my father-in-law, John. Happy 80th birthday, mate.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you tonight. I'm Stephen Cray, and it's never
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  Speaker 1: too late to learn a sliding dance step in ballet.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the chassé. Question one. What spooky event will
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  Speaker 1: be celebrated worldwide on the last day of October? Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Question two. Spell delicious. Give you a couple of extra
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  Speaker 1: seconds there if you need to work it out. Delicious. Okay. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. Delicious. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to a podcast. You can always push pause
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  Speaker 1: in between the questions. Question three. Speaking of delicious. Popular
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  Speaker 1: with Kiwis and Aussies. Which Pascal coated chocolate has a
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  Speaker 1: soft pineapple flavoured centre? Is it pineapple bumps? Pineapple Lumps
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  Speaker 1: or Pineapple Humps? Hopefully you've come up trumps with Pineapple Lumps.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. Who was the first and only singer in
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  Speaker 1: history to have her first five singles all go to
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  Speaker 1: number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart? Mariah Carey.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. In reference to legal documents, what does JP
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  Speaker 1: stand for? Justice of the Peace. Question six. Not a JP,
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  Speaker 1: but winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, from which
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  Speaker 1: country was Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu? South Africa. Question seven,
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  Speaker 1: a figure skating ice dance competition comprises of two sections,
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm dance and the what dance? Is it the
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  Speaker 1: free dance, the pattern dance or the solo dance? You'll
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  Speaker 1: notice I didn't include the chassé in your options there.
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  Speaker 1: It's the free dance. Question eight, which word meaning to
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  Speaker 1: swear at... Rhymes with purse. We don't want to hear
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  Speaker 1: any of this in the back of the car, all right? Curse.
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  Speaker 1: Question nine. To commence a new project or activity immediately
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  Speaker 1: with enthusiasm and success is to hit the ground... Hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground running. Question ten. Which Australian capital city... is
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  Speaker 1: closest to our national capital, Canberra. Sydney, at 287 kilometres
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  Speaker 1: by road. Question 11. Also starting with E-M-O, and similar
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  Speaker 1: to an emoji, but made up of standard keyboard characters
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  Speaker 1: to look like a face or an object, is a what?
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  Speaker 1: An emoticon. Question 12. Hot dogs. So the story goes.
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  Speaker 1: There was a running joke in the 1890s at some
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  Speaker 1: American universities where the student food carts were mockingly called
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  Speaker 1: dog wagons, implying that the meat came from you-know-where. Question 13.
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  Speaker 1: On which large Italian island are the cities of Marsala,
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  Speaker 1: Messina and Palermo? Sicily. Question 14. What is both a
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  Speaker 1: rotating machine part and an informal term for clothes? Gear.
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  Speaker 1: What gear are you wearing tonight? Question 15. What creatures
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  Speaker 1: have the varieties Basking and Thresher? Basking sharks and Thresher sharks.
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  Speaker 1: Question 16. Who is the only US president to have
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  Speaker 1: had his wedding at the White House? Was it Grover Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson or Dwight Eisenhower? Cleveland, Wilson or Eisenhower, it was?
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  Speaker 1: It was Grover Cleveland who married Francis Folsom in June 1886.
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  Speaker 1: Question 17. Which lightweight umbrella beginning with P is designed
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  Speaker 1: to provide shade from the sun, not protection from the rain?
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  Speaker 1: A parasol. Question 18. Which of your opponent's pieces... Do
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  Speaker 1: you need to immobilise in order to win a game
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  Speaker 1: of chess? They're king. Question 19. Which portmanteau is the
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  Speaker 1: hybrid of a spoon and a fork? A spork. Question 20.
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  Speaker 1: The 1951 musical starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron that
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  Speaker 1: won six Oscars was called An American in... Which European capital?
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  Speaker 1: An American in Paris. Is it this or is it that?
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  Speaker 1: Which will you choose? Rapid Fire up next. MUSIC PLAYS
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  Speaker 1: If you've never played Rapid Fire before, you'll work it
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  Speaker 1: out pretty quickly. It's either one thing or the other.
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  Speaker 1: You choose. Let's get to it. Baton Rouge or the
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  Speaker 1: Moulin Rouge. Carpet or timber flooring. The Scarlet Pimpernel or
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  Speaker 1: the Green Lantern. Pancakes or waffles? Heartburn or heartache? Only
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  Speaker 1: being able to whisper or only being able to shout? Forever.
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  Speaker 1: That's a horrible choice. Honda or Hyundai? A scarf or
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  Speaker 1: a beret? Iced coffee or hot chocolate? Last one today.
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  Speaker 1: It's always the toughest. Would you rather fight Rocky Balboa
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  Speaker 1: or wrestle a boa constrictor? And the best part about that, folks,
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  Speaker 1: is there's no score. You can't get it wrong and
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  Speaker 1: you can't get it right. That's rapid fire. Back next Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: This coming Friday, we're going to do another episode of
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia. It's going to contain 20 questions, including
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  Speaker 1: a who am I? And then we're going to invite
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  Speaker 1: my youngest son, Rudy, into the studio and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to tell us a joke. I look forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you do too. Until we meet again, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say adios, goodbye, fare thee well.