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Friday, 10th May, 2024 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: We're a pretty simple lot here at Car Trip Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: We do a 20-question family-friendly quiz every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We throw a joke in on Friday and we do
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  Speaker 1: school holiday special editions. Now, if you've missed the technology
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  Speaker 1: edition or the 50-50 edition or any of the other
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  Speaker 1: 35 odd ones, you can track them down wherever you
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  Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Shout-outs for today. Jacob from Ipswich just
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  Speaker 1: turned 33. Bernie from Corindy. Just turned eight. Lucy from
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  Speaker 1: Bulimba is having a birthday on Sunday. Also on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Patrick from Narrabeen will be seven. Jacob from Bellevue Hill
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  Speaker 1: will be sharing his eighth birthday with the Eurovision final. Go!
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  Speaker 1: I'd say go Aussies, but they've been knocked out. Brodie
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  Speaker 1: from Jolton, Tennessee is turning 34. Tomorrow, Adriana from Anglevale
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  Speaker 1: in South Australia is eight. Adam from Indianapolis will be seven.
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  Speaker 1: And today's birthday is Mary Alex from Massachusetts is 28
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  Speaker 1: years old. And Edison from Brisbane is I'm Stephen Cray,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to my next footlong meatball subway.
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  Speaker 1: With a couple of cookies, maybe. Question one. Starting with C,
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  Speaker 1: what is pottery made of? Clay. Question two. In the
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  Speaker 1: nursery rhyme, to where did Mary's little lamb follow her?
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  Speaker 1: It followed her to school one day, to school one day,
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  Speaker 1: to school one day. Question three. Astrophobia is the abnormal
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  Speaker 1: fear of what? It's not the Holden Astra, no. It's
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  Speaker 1: thunder and lightning. Question four. Constantly craving attention, which pop
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  Speaker 1: star's first two names are Catherine Dorne? That's Catherine with
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  Speaker 1: a K. KD Lang. Question five. What is the name
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  Speaker 1: of the giant kangaroo that was the mascot for the
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  Speaker 1: 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games? Matilda. Question six. What is the
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  Speaker 1: first primary colour that babies see? They see red. They
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  Speaker 1: see red, they see red. Question seven. The what West
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  Speaker 1: is often used to describe the American frontier? The Wild West.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. Who wrote the book The Vampire Lestat? Anne Rice.
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  Speaker 1: Question nine. Which is the odd one out? Pancakes? Toast? Pasta?
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  Speaker 1: Or waffles? Pasta. All of the others are commonly eaten
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  Speaker 1: for breakfast. Now, maybe you have pasta for breakfast. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that another time. Question 10. In the year 1900,
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  Speaker 1: which was the world's first city to reach a population
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  Speaker 1: of 5 million? London. Question 11. What do you call
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  Speaker 1: an earthquake on the moon? A moonquake. I didn't make
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  Speaker 1: that up. That's what they're called. Question 12. What does
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  Speaker 1: the Latin phrase sui generis mean? It means of its
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  Speaker 1: own kind or unique. Question 13. Rhyming with flair, what
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  Speaker 1: type of drum produces a sharp Staccato sound. A snare drum.
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  Speaker 1: Question 14. How many children did Queen Victoria have? Was
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  Speaker 1: it 5, 9 or 12? She had nine children, including
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  Speaker 1: a future Queen of Germany and the future King of England.
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  Speaker 1: Question 15. Is the heaviest ever pumpkin... Heavier than the
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  Speaker 1: heaviest ever human. Yes, the heaviest ever human weighed in
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  Speaker 1: at 635 kilograms, but the pumpkin weighed in at 1,247 kilograms.
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  Speaker 1: Question 16. Renowned pool player Rudolph Wanderone Jr. was better
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  Speaker 1: known as Minnesota Whoop. Just a coincidence that this one
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  Speaker 1: came after the last question. Minnesota Fats. Question 17. What
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  Speaker 1: is the world's smallest ocean? The Arctic Ocean, but it
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  Speaker 1: still covers, would you believe, 15 million square kilometres. Question 18.
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  Speaker 1: Cedric who was the first student to die in the
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter series? Cedric Diggory in The Goblet of Fire. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the last question before the Who Am I is always
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  Speaker 1: a movie question, so today's is a follow-up question. Who
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  Speaker 1: played Cedric Diggory in the film The Goblet of Fire?
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  Speaker 1: Batman himself, Robert Pattinson. OK, stay with us. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a Who Am I and a joke with the Friday Funny.
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  Speaker 1: Freddie's back in town. See you in a sec. It
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  Speaker 1: was like we never left. Question 20 today is a
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  Speaker 1: who am I? Who am I? Born in Essex, England
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  Speaker 1: in August 1899 in the flat above my parents' fruit
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  Speaker 1: and veg shop. The youngest of three. After misbehaving as
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  Speaker 1: a five-year-old, my father sent me to the local police
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  Speaker 1: station with a note. This is what they do to
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  Speaker 1: naughty boys, said the officer after briefly locking me in
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  Speaker 1: a cell. I attended multiple schools as the family moved
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  Speaker 1: around the country and through geography classes... developed a fascination
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  Speaker 1: with train, tram and bus timetables. My father's death in
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  Speaker 1: 1914 forced me to give up engineering school to work
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  Speaker 1: in order to support myself and my mother. I took
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  Speaker 1: an interest in creative writing and co-founded the Henley Telegraph
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  Speaker 1: in 1919 before working as a title card designer for
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  Speaker 1: Islington Studios, which led to an assistant director's job on
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  Speaker 1: the film Woman to Woman in 1923. My first job
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  Speaker 1: as a director was the commercial flop The Pleasure Garden
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  Speaker 1: just two years later. After a stint in Germany, I
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  Speaker 1: returned to England to direct the silent thriller The Lodger
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  Speaker 1: in 1927, Blackmail in 1929 and more than 50 other
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  Speaker 1: movies in a career that finished with Family Plot in 1976.
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  Speaker 1: My films were nominated for 46 Academy Awards with six wins,
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  Speaker 1: including Best Picture for Rebecca in 1940. I was knighted
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  Speaker 1: just four months before my death in April 1980 at
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  Speaker 1: the age of 80. And with a resume including rope,
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  Speaker 1: rear window, vertigo and psycho, I am one of the
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  Speaker 1: most influential figures in the history of cinema, known simply
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  Speaker 1: as the master of suspense. I am... I am Alfred Hitchcock.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us for the first time in a month
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  Speaker 1: or so is young Frederick for the Friday Funny. G'day, mate.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of movies on that list which I
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  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have seen. Okay. Well, none of them are
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  Speaker 1: really bad, I might add. I'm not going to ask you. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Does it start with P and end in O? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I think I know which one you're talking about. Right.
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  Speaker 1: No showers for the whole weekend. All right. What's your gag, mate?
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a detective who sings softly while
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  Speaker 1: solving crimes? A singing detective? No. I don't know. What?
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock hums. All right. Okay, well, I suppose that kind
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  Speaker 1: of fits in with the Alfred Hitchcock thing. Freddie, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us, buddy. And thanks to our listeners for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. All right, we'll be back next week. And
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  Speaker 1: until then... Stay gold! Stay gold!