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Mutiny on the Bounty, Former First Ladies & Heavy Metal Records (Mon, 17th Aug, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: It's the thirty fourth week of twenty twenty six at
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  Speaker 1: our six hundred and eighth episode of Car Trip Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in the quiz. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: just moments away. But one of the great privileges and
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  Speaker 1: joys of hosting this podcast is acknowledging all of our
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  Speaker 1: listeners from all around the world. Yes, indeed, it's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: shout our time. Scarlett from Kedron just turned thirteen. Samuel
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  Speaker 1: from Leaton was ten yesterday. Tomorrow Brendan from Melbourne will
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  Speaker 1: be twenty six. Hamis from Etelong is turning thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: A Seafer from Washington, DC will be thirteen. Amy from
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton is celebrating her thirty ninth birthday in Bali, and
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  Speaker 1: the lovely Lizzie from Brookfield is forty four today. Nicholas
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  Speaker 1: from Concord, North Carolina is twenty two. Ellen from Adelaide
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  Speaker 1: is thirty eight, Casper from Norman Park is eighteen. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a good one, mate, and my good
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  Speaker 1: friend James from the Arabian Ranchers in Dubai is fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday everyone. I'm Stephen Cray and to walk with
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  Speaker 1: an exaggerated yet confident sway of the hips is to sashet.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Question one, Which is faster the
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  Speaker 1: speed of light or the speed of sound? The speed
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  Speaker 1: of light is much faster at nearly three hundred million
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  Speaker 1: meters per second versus three hundred and forty three meters
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  Speaker 1: per second in air for the speed of sound. Question two?
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  Speaker 1: In which sport might you hold a paddle with a pengrip,
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  Speaker 1: table tennis or ping pong? Question three? What type of
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  Speaker 1: fruit does an Arthur Turner plant produce? Apples? Question four?
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  Speaker 1: Which mechanical body part was developed by French surgeon Ambois
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  Speaker 1: Paree in the sixteenth century. Was it knee, hand or foot?
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  Speaker 1: Ambois Parree invented an iron hand with working gears and
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  Speaker 1: catch springs. Question five. In December twenty thirteen, which heavy
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  Speaker 1: metal band set a world record as the first musical
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  Speaker 1: act to perform a concert on all seven continents Metallica?
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  Speaker 1: They played in Antarctica in the freezer or concert to
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  Speaker 1: complete the set. Question six. The alloy brass is made
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  Speaker 1: by combining zinc with which other element copper? Question seven?
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  Speaker 1: What type of pet did Dick Whittington have? Dick Whittington
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  Speaker 1: and his cat is the old English folklore tale about
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  Speaker 1: the streets of gold and a plague of rats. Question eight.
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  Speaker 1: Is Tippy Hedron, the star of the Hitchcock classics, The
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  Speaker 1: Birds and Marni alive or dead? Tippy Hedron the mother
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  Speaker 1: of actress Melanie Griffith, turned ninety six in January, and
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  Speaker 1: she is alive and well. Question nine? Which ancient Roman
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  Speaker 1: god shares his name with the hub at the end
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  Speaker 1: of a transit line? Terminus the god who protects boundary
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  Speaker 1: markers and property borders. Question ten Complete this saying there
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  Speaker 1: is no such uncertainty, then with a sure what There
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  Speaker 1: is no such uncertainty, then with a sure thing. It
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  Speaker 1: plays on the truth that in life the things we
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  Speaker 1: feel most certain about can often surprise us the most
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven. Which country has the longest stretch of straight
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  Speaker 1: railway track in the world? Is it Australia, Russia or China. Australia,
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  Speaker 1: we have a four hundred and seventy eight kilometers stretch
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  Speaker 1: across the nullabor plane. Question twelve, what might I do
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  Speaker 1: with a set of jumper leads? You'd be using jumper
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  Speaker 1: leads if you were trying to start a car with
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  Speaker 1: a flat battery. Question thirteen. Who was the first former
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  Speaker 1: first lady to be elected to the US Senate? Hillary
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  Speaker 1: Clinton in November two thousand. Question fourteen, which two months
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  Speaker 1: does the zodiac sign Capricorn cover? Capricorn stretches between December
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  Speaker 1: and January? Question fifteen. Rock and roll pianist Antoine Domino
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  Speaker 1: was better known by what nickname Fats Domino? Question sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: Where on the human body would you find lune yulee? Lune?
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  Speaker 1: You lee? Are the crescent shaped bits at the very
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  Speaker 1: base of your fingernails and toenails? Question seventeen. In which
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  Speaker 1: century did the mutiny on the Bounty take place? The
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth of April seventeen eighty nine, so that's the
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth century. Question eighteen. When the long, difficult or painful
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  Speaker 1: situation is coming to a close, there is said to
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  Speaker 1: be light at the end of the What light at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel? Question nineteen. In the Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars universe, where is Gungan City located? Is it floating
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds, underwater or on an icy mountain? Gungan City,
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  Speaker 1: home of the character jar Jar Binks, is underwater. The
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  Speaker 1: questions nearly done, but there's one left don't go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: an old school. Who am I up? Next question twenty,
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Who Am I? Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: in August nineteen twelve, the third of five children to
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  Speaker 1: Patrick and Harriet. I reluctantly joined my siblings for dance
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  Speaker 1: lessons from the age of eight, but after getting a
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  Speaker 1: hard time at school, I quit until I was fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: I graduated from Peabody High School and to dance com
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  Speaker 1: tests for cash prizes, and became involved in the University
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh's Cap and Gown Club, staging original musical productions.
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  Speaker 1: I worked in the family's dance school and hit Broadway
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty eight in Coalporter's Leave It to Me.
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  Speaker 1: After great success in Pal Joey in nineteen forty, I
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  Speaker 1: signed with Hollywood and starred with Judy Garland in my
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  Speaker 1: first motion picture, Me and Mike Gal in nineteen forty two.
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  Speaker 1: My career was disrupted by two years in the US
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  Speaker 1: Naval Air Service from nineteen forty four, but international superstart
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  Speaker 1: and was to follow with the films Take Me Out
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  Speaker 1: to the Ballgame with Frank Sinatra and an American in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: which won six Oscars. I received an Honorary Academy Award
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty two and directed Hello Dolly in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine, along with the three That's Entertainment retrospective movies.
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  Speaker 1: I died in February nineteen ninety six and a best
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  Speaker 1: remembered for my energetic and athletic dancing style which revolutionized
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Musical's Best showcased by my unforgettable performance in the
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  Speaker 1: timeless Singing in the Rain. I Am, I Am Gene Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: And there's your Monday episode of Car Trip Trivia, neatly
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  Speaker 1: wrapped with a little bow on top. Now, if you're
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