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Oprah Winfrey, British PMs and Waterproof Jackets (Wed, 24th June, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Halfway hump Day, whatever you want to call it. There's
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  Speaker 1: always something a bit different about Wednesdays, which is why
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  Speaker 1: here at Cartrip Trivia, today being Wednesday, we follow the
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  Speaker 1: quiz with rapid fire. It's a silly game. It's unrelated
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  Speaker 1: to trivia, but it's worth sticking around for. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: some birthday shout outs tomorrow. Bit of a sneaky one.
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  Speaker 1: Here Aaron whose real birthday is Christmas Day but never
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  Speaker 1: really gets to celebrate. He's celebrating his thirty seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half years tomorrow. Also, Hayden from Armadale in Wa
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  Speaker 1: will be seven today, Idris from Auckland is six, and
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  Speaker 1: Lee listens on his road trips between Melbourne and Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty one and his mum, Justine is sixty both today.
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  Speaker 1: How's that happy birthday, folks? I'm Stephen Craye And do
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  Speaker 1: you know what they call Wednesday in Sweden and Finland Lillidoc,
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  Speaker 1: which means little Saturday. Question one? What was the name
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  Speaker 1: of the two thousand and four sequel to the children's
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  Speaker 1: book The Gruffalo. The sequel to The Gruffalo was The
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  Speaker 1: Gruffaloes Child? Question two? This is perhaps unheard of. It's
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  Speaker 1: a follow up question for question one at question two, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Julia who wrote The Gruffalo and its sequel, Julia Donaldson.
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  Speaker 1: Question three? In which of the US Armed Forces did
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  Speaker 1: Elvis Presley serve? Elvis was in the army? Question four?
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  Speaker 1: On which lake is Australia's capital? Canberra built on Lake
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  Speaker 1: Burley Griffin. Question five, When asked why he robbed banks,
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  Speaker 1: US career criminal Willie Sutton's reply was because that's where
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  Speaker 1: the what is because that's where the money is. Now.
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  Speaker 1: That was quoted in many newspapers, but he explicitly denied
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  Speaker 1: ever making that statement. But I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to believe a bank robber. Question six, beginning with H,
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  Speaker 1: which spare time activity or pastime is pursued for pleasure
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  Speaker 1: or recreation a hobby? Question seven? The pineal gland is
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  Speaker 1: located in the center of which human organ the brain?
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  Speaker 1: Question number eight. An Australian brand of heavy duty waterproof
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  Speaker 1: coats is dryser What drys a bone? That's dr A
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  Speaker 1: drys a bone as in dry as a bone of course.
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  Speaker 1: Question nine, beginning with P and now an established sport?
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  Speaker 1: What is the French word for free running parkour Question ten,
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  Speaker 1: Which anagram of rag is a type of fish? Gar
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  Speaker 1: gar gar? Question eleven. What is unusual about the name
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  Speaker 1: of Oprah Winfrey's multi media production company. I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: a point if you can just tell me what the
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  Speaker 1: production company is called. It's called Harpoe Productions, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a bit unusual because Harpoe is Oprah spelt backwards. Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Used to express disappointment or regret about a fact or situation,
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  Speaker 1: is the saying More's the what Moore's the pity? Question thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: Which famous artist wrote more than six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: letters to his younger brother and art dealer theo Vincent
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  Speaker 1: Van Goch. Question fourteen, first introduced in nineteen thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The American brand of male grooming products is Old What
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  Speaker 1: Old Spice? Question fifteen. Who succeeded Tony Blair as British
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister? It was Gordon Brown in June two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven. Question sixteen. The nineteen sixty three song by
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  Speaker 1: Leslie Gore was Sunshine Lollipops and Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows.
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. What is Hawaii's largest city Honolulu? Question eighteen
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  Speaker 1: which unlikely animal is raced annually in the outback town
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  Speaker 1: of Windra. Is it cane, toads, snails or yabbies. It's
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  Speaker 1: the annual International yabby Race at Windra Now for our
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  Speaker 1: international listeners, Yabbis are freshwater crustaceans native to Australia, a
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  Speaker 1: bit like little lobsters or crawfish. Question nineteen. A euphemism
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  Speaker 1: used to soften a potentially sudden or violent death is
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  Speaker 1: to say one has bought the What bought the farm? Now?
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  Speaker 1: There are a few theories on where it came from.
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  Speaker 1: One is from World War II life insurance payouts, where
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  Speaker 1: a surviving family member had enough money to buy a farm.
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  Speaker 1: Question twenty In which Bond film did actress Eva Green
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  Speaker 1: play the enigmatic British Treasury agent vesper Lynde. It was
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  Speaker 1: the first one with Daniel Craig Casino Royal. Up next,
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  Speaker 1: we'll finish the show with a better rapid fire. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we used to do this ages ago and we've
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  Speaker 1: brought it back. It's rapid fire. If you've never played.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say two objects to things to people, two scenarios,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they are, and you just got to choose which
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  Speaker 1: one you prefer the easiest way to do it is
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  Speaker 1: to scream it out. All right, here we go. Elegance
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  Speaker 1: or patience, a mouse or a touchpad, fiction or nonfiction,
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  Speaker 1: dim sim or dim sum, dressing gown or eider down,
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  Speaker 1: joke book or cookbook, honey mustard or mustard honey, printing
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  Speaker 1: or cursive, Attila the hun or Vlad the Impala. Not
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  Speaker 1: a good choice and the last one today. So for
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  Speaker 1: when you're watching a foreign movie, would you prefer subtitles
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  Speaker 1: or for the film to be dub me. I prefer subtitles.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like watching people's lips move at the wrong
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  Speaker 1: speed and the wrong sounds coming out. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: personal thing, now, don't know. And I do like foreign films. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's us for today. Thanks for joining us. We look
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  Speaker 1: forward to catching up with you on Friday. We'll bring
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  Speaker 1: my little mate Rudy in. He'll tell a joke, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll all enjoy a nice weekend. Next week, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, we'll start the school holiday special editions. Look
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  Speaker 1: forward today's until then, stay gu