Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Wednesday, 5th March, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Hello again and welcome to another episode of Car Trip Trivia. Today,
- 0:11Speaker 1: the fifth of March is International Learn What Your Name
- 0:15Speaker 1: Means Day, So after you finished with the podcast, if
- 0:18Speaker 1: you're really interested to find out what your name means,
- 0:21Speaker 1: a simple Google search should get you home. Okay, we've
- 0:25Speaker 1: got some shout outs. We'll do the roundest sound a
- 0:27Speaker 1: little later on. Willow from Griffin turn five yesterday. That
- 0:30Speaker 1: was the same day as her parents' wedding anniversary. Tarleie
- 0:33Speaker 1: from barden Ridge was seven yesterday. Tomorrow we have Taylor
- 0:37Speaker 1: from Parish in Florida turning twenty two, Hamish from Belgowa
- 0:41Speaker 1: will be eight, and Eleanor from New Gisborne. We'll be
- 0:45Speaker 1: celebrating her golden birthday. She's six tomorrow. Today we have
- 0:49Speaker 1: Charles from spring Shore he's nine. Ryan from Williamstown is seven.
- 0:52Speaker 1: We've got a couple of fourteen's Jaden from Wynham and
- 0:55Speaker 1: Frank from Wentworth falls Aiden from Pannania is eleven and
- 1:00Speaker 1: Freddy Cray our part Time Friday Funny Extraordinary, Happy twelfth
- 1:04Speaker 1: birthday for tomorrow mate. I'm Stephen Cray and it's a
- 1:08Speaker 1: little too hot for a Vietnamese soup, so I think
- 1:10Speaker 1: I might settle for a by May. Question one, do
- 1:17Speaker 1: cats have more bones than humans? Yes? They do. Cats
- 1:26Speaker 1: have two hundred and thirty bones. We have two hundred
- 1:29Speaker 1: and six. Question two? What comes next in this number pattern? Seven? Fourteen,
- 1:37Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty eight. We're increasing by increments of seven?
- 1:48Speaker 1: Question three? Which automotive company manufactures the Kona Yundai? Question
- 1:59Speaker 1: four or the study of which foreign language is mandatory
- 2:03Speaker 1: in the Norwegian school curriculum English? Question five, beginning with
- 2:14Speaker 1: z which video conferencing platform dramatically accelerated its growth and
- 2:18Speaker 1: profitability during COVID zoom? Question six. The television show Lavernon
- 2:30Speaker 1: Shirley was a spin off from which other hit TV
- 2:34Speaker 1: show Happy Days? They were indeed? Question seven? In what
- 2:43Speaker 1: parlor game might you execute a jump shot? Billiards or snooker,
- 2:54Speaker 1: or pool or eight bore, whatever you want to call it?
- 2:58Speaker 1: Question eight? Which is the fastest fish in the ocean?
- 3:01Speaker 1: I have options? Is it a striped violin, a salefish,
- 3:05Speaker 1: or a yellowfin tuna. It's the salefish, reaching speeds of
- 3:13Speaker 1: nearly one hundred and ten kilometers per hour. Question nine,
- 3:17Speaker 1: Which New York skyscraper was the tallest building in the
- 3:20Speaker 1: world when it officially opened in April nineteen thirty one,
- 3:29Speaker 1: The Empire State Building. Question ten. Michael Jackson considered buying
- 3:34Speaker 1: Marvel Comics in the nineteen nineties because he was desperate
- 3:37Speaker 1: to play which character in a movie adaptation? Michael Jackson
- 3:47Speaker 1: as Spider Man? I don't know about that. Question eleven.
- 3:51Speaker 1: What do we call the massive explosion when a star
- 3:55Speaker 1: dies a supernova? Question twelve? Which side of the brain
- 4:05Speaker 1: deals with language? The left side of the brain? Question thirteen?
- 4:14Speaker 1: What name is given to a digital currency transacted through
- 4:18Speaker 1: a computer network with no reliance on a central authority?
- 4:26Speaker 1: Crypto currency or crypto? Question fourteen. In the famous painting
- 4:32Speaker 1: American Gothic by Grant Wood, what is the farmer holding?
- 4:42Speaker 1: He's holding a pitchfork? Question fifteen? In two thy fifteen,
- 4:47Speaker 1: which country began thanking donors by text message when their
- 4:52Speaker 1: blood was used in a patient? Was it Sweden? Iceland
- 4:57Speaker 1: or Bolivia? Sweden? Question sixteen. Once commonplace in fire stations
- 5:06Speaker 1: around the world, what device transported fireman quickly to the
- 5:10Speaker 1: ground from an upper floor The fireman's pole? They not
- 5:19Speaker 1: used so much these days because of safety concerns. Question
- 5:22Speaker 1: seventeen In the US, what are you required to do
- 5:26Speaker 1: when traveling on a turnpike? A turnpike is the Australian
- 5:35Speaker 1: equivalent of a toll road, so you are required to
- 5:38Speaker 1: pay a toll? Question eighteen, beginning with B. What sort
- 5:43Speaker 1: of haircut is common in the military A buzzcut? Question nineteen?
- 5:53Speaker 1: Is verbascum a plant, a chemical or a disease? Verbascom
- 6:03Speaker 1: is a plant? A flowering plant? Question twenty, sharing his
- 6:08Speaker 1: name with a beverage, Who is the gigantic prisoner with
- 6:11Speaker 1: mysterious healing powers in the movie The Green Mile John Coffee?
- 6:21Speaker 1: In the movie, he says, it's just like the drink,
- 6:24Speaker 1: only not spelled the same. We'll play a little guessing
- 6:27Speaker 1: game with three sounds up next on cartrip Trivia. Thanks
- 6:31Speaker 1: for sticking Wethers. Time to play the round of sound,
- 6:36Speaker 1: and it is as it sounds. Will play three sounds
- 6:39Speaker 1: in this round, and you just need to guess what
- 6:42Speaker 1: those sounds are. Here's the first.
- 6:44Speaker 2: One, not so common these days, although making a bit
- 6:52Speaker 2: of a resurgence, I might add, let's do that one again.
- 7:00Speaker 1: That is the crackling of an LP record. Although you
- 7:04Speaker 1: probably should get the what do they call it the
- 7:07Speaker 1: stylus up off the record. If you're hearing that sound,
- 7:09Speaker 1: you've come to the end of the album. All right,
- 7:11Speaker 1: here we go. What's this one? That's a quick, short,
- 7:15Speaker 1: sharp and relatively easy one. Let's go again. That is, folks,
- 7:21Speaker 1: a golf swing. Third and final one for today. What
- 7:24Speaker 1: is this sound? There may be some relevance over the
- 7:31Speaker 1: next few days for many Australians. Here it is again.
- 7:38Speaker 1: That is the sound of a cyclone. Elsewhere in the
- 7:42Speaker 1: world it may be known as a hurricane. And if
- 7:45Speaker 1: you're on the East coast of Australia, look after yourselves,
- 7:48Speaker 1: your friends and your family as Alfred makes its way
- 7:51Speaker 1: to the coastline. This is cartrip trivia. Thanks for listening.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Stay high and dry.