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Katniss Everdeen, Aussie Rules & The Waterboys (Wed, 5th Aug, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: off that old lone Ranger, and you don't mess around
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  Speaker 1: with Jim. Well that's what they say. Question number one,
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  Speaker 1: What does kunichiwa mean? It means hello or good afternoon
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  Speaker 1: in Japanese. Question two, According to the Limerick, what bird's
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  Speaker 1: bill will hold more than his belly can? What a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful bird is the pelican? His bill will hold more
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  Speaker 1: than his belly can. He can take in his beak
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  Speaker 1: enough food for a week. But I'm damned if I
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  Speaker 1: see how the hell he can. Now that's two Limerick
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  Speaker 1: type scenarios before we've got to question three. This is
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  Speaker 1: getting eerie, isn't it. Question three? How many years is
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  Speaker 1: a quinquinium? Five years a quinquanium? Question four? Which country
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  Speaker 1: finished second to Australia in the recently completed Glasgow Commonwealth
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  Speaker 1: Games Medal tally England? They won twenty nine gold, forty
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  Speaker 1: five silver and thirty six bronze. Question five? Who was
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  Speaker 1: the lead singer of nineties alternative rock band Whole Courtney Love?
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  Speaker 1: Who used to hang around the frontman for Nirvana Kurtkbain?
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  Speaker 1: Question six? What is the more common term for steno
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  Speaker 1: palatine ganglio neuralgia? Now that's speno palatine ganglio neuralgia. Is
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  Speaker 1: it fainting, dandruff or brain freeze? Stenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is more
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  Speaker 1: commonly known as a brain freeze or an ice cream headache,
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  Speaker 1: or a cold head or a brain chill, or whatever
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  Speaker 1: else you might call it. Question seven. Which coal rich
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  Speaker 1: district is Catnus everdined from? In the Hunger Games district twelve?
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  Speaker 1: Question eight? Lema for l and which other city are
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  Speaker 1: the only ones used in the phonetic alphabet quebec for
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  Speaker 1: the letter Q. Also is a province not just a city?
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  Speaker 1: Question nine? The phrase ready, steady slow is used to
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  Speaker 1: signal the start of which type of animal race they're
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  Speaker 1: not the most entertaining to watch snail races? Question ten.
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  Speaker 1: A federal agency of the United States Department of Health
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  Speaker 1: and Human Services? What does FDA stand for? Food and
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  Speaker 1: Drug Administration? Question eleven? What does a cobbler repair and
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  Speaker 1: restore shoes and boots? Question twelve. When one acts irrationally
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  Speaker 1: due to panic, anger, or over excitement, what body part
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  Speaker 1: are they said to lose? When someone can't keep it together,
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  Speaker 1: they lose their head? Question thirteen. Which of the following
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  Speaker 1: wars did not take place in the twentieth century? Did
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  Speaker 1: not take place in the twentieth century The Soviet Afghan War,
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  Speaker 1: the Mexican Revolution, or the Franco Prussian War. The Franco
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  Speaker 1: Prussian War took place in eighteen seventy to eighteen seventy one.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the nineteenth century. Question fourteen. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, Scottish folk rock group The water Boys released
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  Speaker 1: the album Life Death and Who Life Death and Marlon
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  Speaker 1: Brando Life Death and Paul Newman Or Life Death and
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper Life Death and Dennis Hopper And as the
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  Speaker 1: name suggests, it's a pretty interesting album, very entertaining. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: What shape is an Aussie rules field? It's oval in shape.
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  Speaker 1: It's generally the same field that cricket is played on.
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. Which dual purpose human organ acts as an
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  Speaker 1: exo cream gland for digestion and an endo cream gland
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  Speaker 1: for blood sugar regulation the pancreas Question seventeen. The Knesset
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  Speaker 1: is the parliament of what country Israel? Question eighteen. Former
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  Speaker 1: Australian music retailer HMV stood for his masters? What his
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  Speaker 1: master's voice? The logo had a Jack Russell Terrier listening
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  Speaker 1: to a gramophone kind of makes sense when you put
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  Speaker 1: it together. Question nineteen. No sodium glutamat aside, What is
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  Speaker 1: the more modern interpretation? Of the abbreviation MSG. These days,
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  Speaker 1: MSG means message question twenty. In the original film from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, the name of the island location of
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  Speaker 1: the ill fated theme park, Jurassic Park is isla what
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  Speaker 1: isla noubla? Ten pairs of items? You choose which one
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  Speaker 1: wrap up Wednesday's show with something a little different. It's
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  Speaker 1: or wrong. Okay, it's just a little bit of fun
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  Speaker 1: to finish the show. Let's get straight into it. Would
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  Speaker 1: And last month for today, would you rather know the
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  Speaker 1: future or be able to change the past? And a
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  Speaker 1: very philosophical way to finish today's episode of Car Trip Trivia.
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