Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Monday, 6th October, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: If you prefer your trivia family friendly and three times
- 0:11Speaker 1: weekly with no need for a pen and paper, then
- 0:14Speaker 1: car trip Trivia is streets ahead of the rest. Welcome
- 0:18Speaker 1: to the show. You are joining us for episode four
- 0:20Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one, so if it's your first ever episode,
- 0:23Speaker 1: you've got some catching up to do now. Birthday shout
- 0:25Speaker 1: out Tomorrow. Ozzie Isabella living in Stavunga, Norway, will be eight.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Car tripping. Olie is turning nine. He'll be somewhere south
- 0:34Speaker 1: of cans on that special occasion. Erica from Nevato, California
- 0:38Speaker 1: will be twenty six. We've got a few for today.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Evy from Glenmore Park is nine, Imagen from the Gap
- 0:44Speaker 1: is ten, and Jason from Innis Park is thirty eight.
- 0:47Speaker 1: If you'd like to know how to get your birthday
- 0:49Speaker 1: shout out on the podcast, I'll tell you at the
- 0:51Speaker 1: end of the show. I'm Stephen Craane and for his
- 0:54Speaker 1: theory of cognitive development in children, we thank Jean Biaje.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Question number one do eagles have better eyesight than lions? Yes,
- 1:11Speaker 1: they do. Lions have excellent vision, but they're nowhere near
- 1:14Speaker 1: as good as eagles. Question two, what beats paper? In
- 1:19Speaker 1: a game of rock paper scissors, the scissors beat the
- 1:27Speaker 1: paper because they cut them up. You see Question number three.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Which language has the most number of words English with
- 1:41Speaker 1: more than one million of them? Question number four. Rapper, singer,
- 1:46Speaker 1: record producer and actor Andre Benjamin is better known as
- 1:51Speaker 1: who Andre three thousand? Question number five. Suburb of Cairo
- 2:01Speaker 1: beginning with G is home to Egypt's best known pyramids,
- 2:11Speaker 1: Gezer g is a Gezer. Question six, with an average
- 2:15Speaker 1: of seven and a half trips per person per annum.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Which of the following are statistically the most well traveled
- 2:22Speaker 1: nation in the world. Is it Finland, Hong Kong or Sweden?
- 2:31Speaker 1: What do you get when you cross high incomes with
- 2:34Speaker 1: a passionate love for travel or you get Finland? Question seven?
- 2:40Speaker 1: Which Major League Baseball team is nicknamed the Padres? The
- 2:49Speaker 1: San Diego Padres? Question eight? In automobile speak, what does
- 2:55Speaker 1: s w B stand for? Short wheelbase? Question nine? Which
- 3:06Speaker 1: television medical drama starred Hugh Laurie in the title role
- 3:15Speaker 1: House also known as House MD. Question ten, beginning with
- 3:20Speaker 1: S and often used in the Lord of the Rings.
- 3:23Speaker 1: What's another word for County Shire? The Hobbits lived in
- 3:33Speaker 1: the Shire Question eleven. Which American drink brand has become
- 3:38Speaker 1: synonymous with unquestioning, obedience or loyalty? Have you drunk the
- 3:47Speaker 1: kool Aid? Question twelve? Which two digit number has the
- 3:53Speaker 1: most syllables when spoken aloud? I'm going to implore you
- 3:58Speaker 1: to hit the pause button and have a think about it.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Which two digit number has the most syllables when spoken aloud?
- 4:10Speaker 1: Seventy seven? It has five syllables. No other two digit
- 4:14Speaker 1: number has more. Question thirteen. What animal fills the barrel
- 4:19Speaker 1: in the toy game first released in nineteen sixty five
- 4:22Speaker 1: but still popular today monkeys? Barrel of monkeys? Question fourteen,
- 4:32Speaker 1: beginning with a what is the Spanish word for friend? Amigo?
- 4:43Speaker 1: Question fifteen Which video game title won Game of the
- 4:47Speaker 1: Year at the Game Awards in twenty twenty two? Was
- 4:51Speaker 1: it God of War Ragnarok? Was it Zeno Blade Chronicles three?
- 4:57Speaker 1: Or was it elden Ring? It was elden Ring. Question sixteen.
- 5:07Speaker 1: What do we call a heterogeneous mixture where larger solid
- 5:11Speaker 1: particles are dispersed but not dissolved in liquid. It's not
- 5:16Speaker 1: a solution, it's a a suspension. Question seventeen who in
- 5:27Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five said, I'd rather be dead than singing
- 5:30Speaker 1: satisfaction when I'm forty five? How about at eighty two, Mick,
- 5:39Speaker 1: because you're still going strong? That was Mick Jagger. Question eighteen.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Slander and libel are both types of defamation? Which one
- 5:49Speaker 1: is written and which one is spoken? Slander is spoken?
- 5:59Speaker 1: Libel written or published? Question nineteen? Which musical fantasy did
- 6:05Speaker 1: Olivia Newton John starr in in nineteen eighty just two
- 6:09Speaker 1: years after the make a success of Greece Xanadu, which
- 6:18Speaker 1: unfortunately didn't quite achieve the same levels of success. Our
- 6:24Speaker 1: first Who am I? For a couple of weeks. It's
- 6:26Speaker 1: up next here at Countrip Trivia. Let's go question twenty
- 6:31Speaker 1: Today it's a who Am Ark? Born in Portsmouth, England,
- 6:36Speaker 1: in September nineteen twenty five. To Variety Entertainer's Bill and Peg.
- 6:41Speaker 1: I was christened Richard, but my parents addressed me by
- 6:45Speaker 1: my still born brother's name. I made my theater deboos
- 6:48Speaker 1: at just two weeks old, and was shy as a child,
- 6:51Speaker 1: learning stagecraft by accompanying my family on the variety show circuit.
- 6:55Speaker 1: My gift for improvisation would prove fruitful in years to come.
- 7:00Speaker 1: The Royal Air Force in nineteen forty three, but poor
- 7:03Speaker 1: eyesight restricted me to ground duties. After various television and
- 7:06Speaker 1: radio productions throughout the nineteen forties, I joined three other
- 7:10Speaker 1: entertainers for The Goon Show, which tabooed on BBC Radio
- 7:14Speaker 1: in May nineteen fifty one and ran for nine years.
- 7:18Speaker 1: My breakthrough film role was with Donald Pleasants in Ers
- 7:21Speaker 1: Are Orders in nineteen fifty five, and I would go
- 7:24Speaker 1: on to be nominated for three Academy Awards, including for
- 7:27Speaker 1: Best Actor for nineteen sixty four as Doctor Strangelove and
- 7:31Speaker 1: for Being There from nineteen seventy nine. I would go
- 7:34Speaker 1: on to feature in more than thirty films, including Lolita,
- 7:38Speaker 1: Murder by Death and The Party, and was well known
- 7:41Speaker 1: for playing multiple roles in the same film. I died
- 7:44Speaker 1: from a heart attack in July nineteen eighty at the
- 7:47Speaker 1: age of fifty four, and have been described as the
- 7:50Speaker 1: greatest comic genius that Britain has produced since Charlie Chaplin. Undoubtedly, however,
- 7:55Speaker 1: my most beloved role was the accident prone French detective
- 8:00Speaker 1: Inspector Cluso in six Pink Panther movies. I Am, I Am,
- 8:08Speaker 1: the Wonderful wonderful Peter Sellers. Thanks to your company. Folks,
- 8:13Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed the show. If you're a first
- 8:15Speaker 1: time listener to Car Trip Trivia and you would like
- 8:17Speaker 1: to know how to get a birthday shout out onto
- 8:19Speaker 1: the podcast, Well it's simple. It's so very very simple.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Just go to the car Trip Trivia Facebook page and
- 8:25Speaker 1: get onto the Messenger app where you can send me
- 8:27Speaker 1: all the details, for example, whose birthday it is, when
- 8:31Speaker 1: their birthday is, how old they are, and where they're from.
- 8:35Speaker 1: We'll be back on Wednesday. Thanks for joining us again,
- 8:39Speaker 1: talk to you soon. By now