Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Dragons, Mix Tapes & Soap Operas (Fri, 8th May, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Here we go, folks, Welcome to your Friday episode of
- 0:10Speaker 1: car Trip Trivia standard format today twenty questions with something
- 0:13Speaker 1: for everyone, including a who am I? And a Friday
- 0:16Speaker 1: funny with our little mate Rudy Now open. Mike is
- 0:19Speaker 1: back on Wednesday. Lily, what would you do if the
- 0:22Speaker 1: spotlight was turned on you? Well, Dad, I think I'd
- 0:25Speaker 1: start with a little bit of stand up comedy, maybe
- 0:28Speaker 1: an impression or two, and well, you've heard how good
- 0:31Speaker 1: I am on the piano I have. I have indeed,
- 0:33Speaker 1: head to the car Trip Trivia cart Trip Trivia Facebook
- 0:36Speaker 1: page and not of the Messenger app, and then use
- 0:39Speaker 1: a little microphone to leave a thirty second or say
- 0:41Speaker 1: a performance, and we'll see if we can't get you
- 0:43Speaker 1: a nap. And Mike on Wednesday, never get some birthday
- 0:46Speaker 1: shout out its Patreon member James's dad Michael and his
- 0:49Speaker 1: aunt Regina from the UK. They're twins, by the way,
- 0:52Speaker 1: just celebrated their seventieth birthdays. All the very best from
- 0:55Speaker 1: cartrip Trivia. On Sunday, we have Harvey from Wavell Heights.
- 0:58Speaker 1: He's turning fourteen. Nick from Kensington in Perth is turning
- 1:02Speaker 1: forty two. Fred from Auckland will be thirty four. Tomorrow
- 1:06Speaker 1: Alex from Montreal is turning thirty five, Eva from Savoy,
- 1:10Speaker 1: Illinois will be fifteen, and today's birthdays Colson from Creston
- 1:14Speaker 1: also wa two years of age. Emily from Willoughby is eleven,
- 1:17Speaker 1: Matthew Chan from Redlands in California is thirty one, and
- 1:22Speaker 1: Tilly from Degan is thirteen. I'm Stephen Craye and I'm Lily.
- 1:27Speaker 1: But if anyone's going to rock a rhyme, it's trick k,
- 1:30Speaker 1: It's all right. Question one, first appearing in the Superboy
- 1:37Speaker 1: number seventy six comic from nineteen fifty nine, What is
- 1:41Speaker 1: the name of Superman's monkey? Is it Bepo, Aboo or Boots?
- 1:53Speaker 1: Just in case you word around. In nineteen fifty nine,
- 1:55Speaker 1: Superman did have a monkey. It was called Bepo the
- 1:58Speaker 1: super Monkey. Question two? What do Americans call a sand pit,
- 2:10Speaker 1: a sand box or occasionally a sand pile? Will take
- 2:14Speaker 1: both of those for a correct answer. Question three? What
- 2:17Speaker 1: food has the varieties portobello, oyster, and king trumpet? There
- 2:28Speaker 1: are all varieties of mushroom. Question four? How many eyes
- 2:34Speaker 1: in the word artificial? There are three eyes? A RTI
- 2:44Speaker 1: fi ci a l Question five? Who sang the theme
- 2:50Speaker 1: song to the nineteen eighty four movie Ghostbusters? Ray Parker Junior?
- 3:00Speaker 1: Question number six, what is the more common term for
- 3:05Speaker 1: alopecia baldness? Question seven? Which television soap opera came first?
- 3:17Speaker 1: The Young and the Restless or The Bold and the Beautiful.
- 3:25Speaker 1: The Young and the Restless premiered in March nineteen seventy three,
- 3:29Speaker 1: Bold was March nineteen eighty seven. Question eight. What type
- 3:35Speaker 1: of bird enjoys sliding across ice on its tummy? A penguin?
- 3:45Speaker 1: Question nine? What is the official Sydney residence of the
- 3:49Speaker 1: Australian Prime Minister Kirabilly House? Question ten? Which homophone? That's
- 4:00Speaker 1: a word that sounds the same but has a different
- 4:02Speaker 1: meaning and a different spelling. Which homophone completes this sentence?
- 4:08Speaker 1: I will blank the letter with my blank hand. Write.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I will write the letter write with my right hand right.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Question eleven. In relation to radios, what does DAB stand
- 4:31Speaker 1: for Digital audio broadcasting? Question twelve? Where are you most
- 4:43Speaker 1: likely to find an arboreal creature in a tree? Most
- 4:52Speaker 1: commonly in tropical rainforests? Question thirteen The very beginning or
- 4:57Speaker 1: the initial starting point? Of a project or endeavor is
- 5:00Speaker 1: sometimes referred to as square what back to square one?
- 5:11Speaker 1: Question fourteen Chantilly is what type of ornamental fabric lace?
- 5:22Speaker 1: Chantilly lace? Question fifteen In the Kenneth Graham story from
- 5:28Speaker 1: eighteen ninety eight, which Saint fought the Reluctant Dragon? There's
- 5:38Speaker 1: an Australian bank named after this particular gentleman. It's Saint George.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Question what are we? Sixteen? Beginning with t what sport
- 5:49Speaker 1: is associated with the cresta run? In Saint Moritz? Tobogganing?
- 5:58Speaker 1: Although this one's a bit unique. It's head first to
- 6:01Speaker 1: boggling using specialized led you normally go legs first. It's
- 6:04Speaker 1: a little less dangerous that way. Question seventeen. James Earl
- 6:09Speaker 1: who assassinated doctor Martin Luther King on the fourth of
- 6:13Speaker 1: April nineteen sixty eight. Was it James Earl Jacobs, James
- 6:17Speaker 1: Earl Ray or James Earl Jones. It wasn't the voice
- 6:27Speaker 1: of Darth Vader. It was James Earl Ray, who was
- 6:31Speaker 1: sentenced to ninety nine years in prison and died there
- 6:34Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. Question number eighteen on a cludo board,
- 6:39Speaker 1: what color is the billiard room. Not surprisingly, it's green
- 6:49Speaker 1: question nineteen in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy. Who
- 6:54Speaker 1: plays the awesome mixtape Volume one cassette on a Sony
- 6:58Speaker 1: Walkman star Lord also known as Peter Quill. Already we're
- 7:08Speaker 1: shuffling one family member out the door until next time,
- 7:11Speaker 1: Carl Trippers bringing Rudy in after who am I? And,
- 7:16Speaker 1: as is often in fact always the case, the last
- 7:18Speaker 1: question for the week is a who am I? Born
- 7:22Speaker 1: in London in February nineteen eighty three, the second of four.
- 7:25Speaker 1: My mother was a former actress and English teacher, and
- 7:28Speaker 1: my father is a barrister. I had a stutter as
- 7:31Speaker 1: a child and played the cello and was discovered after
- 7:33Speaker 1: appearing in a school play at the Edinburgh Festival, promptly
- 7:37Speaker 1: being signed by an agent. At eighteen, I began my
- 7:40Speaker 1: professional acting career opposite Judy Dench in the play The
- 7:43Speaker 1: Royal Family, and made my television deboo in the movie
- 7:47Speaker 1: Boudica in two thousand and three. My first cinematic appearance
- 7:51Speaker 1: was a year later in the British drama My Summer
- 7:53Speaker 1: of Love, but my international breakthrough came in two thousand
- 7:56Speaker 1: and six is The Devil Whars Prata, for which I
- 7:59Speaker 1: received a Golden Globe nomination. My run over the next
- 8:02Speaker 1: few years included the Jane Austen Book Club, Sunshine Cleaning,
- 8:06Speaker 1: and in the period horror movie The wolf Man. Due
- 8:09Speaker 1: to a scheduling conflict, I declined the role of black
- 8:13Speaker 1: widow in Iron Man two, but we feature in three
- 8:16Speaker 1: other sci fi flicks, The Adjustment Bureau, Looper, and as
- 8:20Speaker 1: a fearless Special Forces warrior in Edge of Tomorrow with
- 8:24Speaker 1: Tom Cruise. I have an Oscar nomination for Oppenheimer and
- 8:28Speaker 1: a Golden Globe win for the TV film Gideon's Daughter.
- 8:31Speaker 1: I managed to Keep my Mouth Shut in A Quiet
- 8:34Speaker 1: Place and its sequel, and played the title role in
- 8:37Speaker 1: the long awaited Mary Popins Returns. I am I Am
- 8:45Speaker 1: Emily Blunt. Imagine if she was black widow. Yeah, well
- 8:49Speaker 1: it was an option, but it didn't quite work out
- 8:51Speaker 1: for her. She was actually contracted to make the movie
- 8:53Speaker 1: Gulliver's Travels, you know, the comedy with Jack Black but
- 8:57Speaker 1: the Little People but time, Oh yeah, I love that movie.
- 9:00Speaker 1: It's so good. Well Rudy and introducing to our audience, Rudy,
- 9:05Speaker 1: this is the Friday Funday Time. Yeah, it's a good movie. Mate,
- 9:07Speaker 1: and we're very, very very pleased to have you on board.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Really comes in on Fridays and he tells us a
- 9:12Speaker 1: joke to entertain us, lead us into the weekend, make
- 9:15Speaker 1: us feel good about ourselves. What if you got from me, mate?
- 9:18Speaker 1: What kind of a car does a sheep like to drive? Mm?
- 9:25Speaker 1: A double decker bar No, a Lamborghini. Ah that's a
- 9:39Speaker 1: good one, okay, Rudy. I hope everyone has a great weekend.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Drive safe, stay safe, be safe, and of course stay gold.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Stay