Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Pirates, Traffic Signs and French Blunders (Wed, 18th Mar, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Come for the trivia, stay for the open mic. This
- 0:10Speaker 1: is Cartrip Trivia giving our listeners a chance to showcase
- 0:13Speaker 1: their unique talents. And we've got two brothers and some
- 0:16Speaker 1: music coming your way. In today's edition, meantime, Birthday shout
- 0:21Speaker 1: outs Galore. Okay Cassidy is having a birthday. I don't
- 0:25Speaker 1: have any further details. I hope you had a good one.
- 0:27Speaker 1: If it's now, when, tomorrow, yesterday? I don't know tomorrow.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Andrew Gleeson from Savoy, Illinois is turning forty. Bonnie from
- 0:35Speaker 1: wavel Heights will be six. Timmy from Ipswich is also
- 0:38Speaker 1: turning six. He'll be in Australia Zoo for his birthday.
- 0:40Speaker 1: How good is that? James from Port Macquarie is celebrating tomorrow.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Max from Camperdown will be ten. Ben from Newcastle will
- 0:49Speaker 1: be a teenager. Jack from Cockatoo is turning sixteen. Darren
- 0:53Speaker 1: from Bunderberg is partying hard. Richie from christ Church is
- 0:57Speaker 1: turning forty three and his mum Marie turns eighty on
- 1:01Speaker 1: the very same day. That's special stuff. Today's birthday, just
- 1:04Speaker 1: the one. Marcella from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Marcella
- 1:10Speaker 1: is twenty one. I'm Stephen Craye. Now Bruce Willis he
- 1:14Speaker 1: turns seventy one tomorrow Hebb. I'll leave the rhym to you.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Question one? What is Homess Simpson's beer of choice? You
- 1:30Speaker 1: can't get enough of that wonderful stuff. It's duff. Question two?
- 1:34Speaker 1: What is the second letter in the word certain e?
- 1:44Speaker 1: Is the second letter c er t an? Question three?
- 1:50Speaker 1: In which year did trams officially stop running in the
- 1:54Speaker 1: city of Brisbane? Was at nineteen sixty three, nineteen sixty
- 1:59Speaker 1: seven or nineteen sixty nine. Trams stopped running in Brisbane
- 2:09Speaker 1: on the thirteenth of April nineteen sixty nine. Question four.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Which British rock band released the nineteen seventy three album
- 2:18Speaker 1: Houses of the Holy led Zeppelin. Question five, When referring
- 2:28Speaker 1: to the sale of a property, what does EO I stand?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Four expressions of interest? Question six? How many can play
- 2:43Speaker 1: at that game? According to the popular saying two can
- 2:51Speaker 1: play at that game? Question seven? Which anagram of mop
- 2:57Speaker 1: is a colloquial term for someone from England pom pom?
- 3:06Speaker 1: Question eight? What surname is shared by the entertainers Steve
- 3:13Speaker 1: Dean and Ricky Steve Dean and Ricky Martin. Question nine.
- 3:24Speaker 1: A situation that is completely settled in advance or has
- 3:27Speaker 1: no need for thought or discussion is said to be
- 3:31Speaker 1: cut and cut and dried dri e d not dry.
- 3:40Speaker 1: No points for that cut and dry. Question ten? With
- 3:44Speaker 1: the initials f P, which two word French term means
- 3:49Speaker 1: a social blunder? Faux pas? Question eleven? What is the
- 3:58Speaker 1: scientific name for one's armpit, the axilla, the bracium, or
- 4:05Speaker 1: the menum. One's armpit may also be known as the axilla?
- 4:15Speaker 1: Question twelve? What type of animal is a suffolk punch?
- 4:24Speaker 1: It's a horse? Question thirteen, first played in three thousand BC.
- 4:30Speaker 1: What is the second best selling board game of all time?
- 4:39Speaker 1: Trailing chess by stacks, its drafts or checkers? Question fourteen?
- 4:46Speaker 1: What does a traffic sign with a P in a
- 4:49Speaker 1: red circle with a diagonal line through it? Main? It
- 4:57Speaker 1: means no parking? Question fifteen. An acronym for Sea air
- 5:04Speaker 1: and Land is the name of which elite unit in
- 5:08Speaker 1: the US Navy Sea Air and Land that is seal,
- 5:17Speaker 1: as in Navy Seal Question sixteen, whose nineteen ninety four
- 5:22Speaker 1: autobiography was titled The Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Question seventeen, What is cyber phobia? An irrational fear of cyberphobia?
- 5:44Speaker 1: Is an irrational fear of computers? Question eighteen? By what
- 5:49Speaker 1: name do we know? The set of beliefs and practices
- 5:53Speaker 1: created by author L. Ron Hubbard in the nineteen fifties,
- 6:02Speaker 1: popular among the Hollywood celebrity types, it is scientology. Question nineteen,
- 6:08Speaker 1: beginning with B. What is another name for a pirate buccaneer?
- 6:18Speaker 1: I tell you Question twenty. Let's go for it. In Sweden,
- 6:21Speaker 1: which season of the year is always incorporated in the
- 6:25Speaker 1: titles of comedy movies by director mel Brooks. You got
- 6:29Speaker 1: four choices? Spring Now, there's a reason for it. The
- 6:37Speaker 1: original title of his nineteen sixty seven comedy The Producers
- 6:41Speaker 1: was Springtime for Hitler. Now. They changed the name everywhere
- 6:45Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, but for some reason in Sweden they
- 6:48Speaker 1: decided to keep it. And it was such a hit
- 6:50Speaker 1: that his next movie, Blazing Saddles became Springtime for the Sheriff,
- 6:55Speaker 1: Young Frankenstein became Springtime for Frankenstein, and so on. Now
- 7:03Speaker 1: it's time for open mic. That's up next. Hope you
- 7:06Speaker 1: can stay with us. Okay, So I've got Sam who
- 7:13Speaker 1: became a Patreon member during the week and giving him
- 7:15Speaker 1: access to stacks of videos and bits and pieces associated
- 7:18Speaker 1: with the show, and his chance for his two boys
- 7:22Speaker 1: to be part of open Mic. So they're both in
- 7:24Speaker 1: New South Wales. They sent me separate messages and I
- 7:27Speaker 1: thought i'd use them both in the same episode. All right,
- 7:31Speaker 1: so let's start.
- 7:32Speaker 2: With Hey, it's Roy from Sydney here. I just want
- 7:35Speaker 2: to say that I love the idea for the open
- 7:37Speaker 2: mic and stay Gold.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Roy. It's very nice of you to
- 7:41Speaker 1: have mentioned that we liked the idea of it too,
- 7:43Speaker 1: and if you'd like to be part of it, you've
- 7:45Speaker 1: just got to become Patreon member. That's easy enough. Patreon
- 7:47Speaker 1: dot com forward slash car Trip Trivia. You can get
- 7:50Speaker 1: more details on the Car Trip Trivia facebook page. Okay,
- 7:55Speaker 1: so Roy's brother is here as well.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Hi, My I'm Eddie and I'm from tam This is
- 8:01Speaker 2: my version of money for Ick and buy nice traits Stay.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Gold and I'd say that's a pretty dargrid version of
- 8:23Speaker 1: that song. That's the whole point, folks. It's a talent show.
- 8:26Speaker 1: It's whatever you want it to be. That's Wednesday's open Mic.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Look forward to your
- 8:30Speaker 1: company on Friday, and then we'll do it all over
- 8:33Speaker 1: again next week. N tell that well, you know how
- 8:36Speaker 1: it goes