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Monday, 1st September, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: If you're new to this thing, well you wouldn't have noticed.
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  Speaker 1: But every single episode of Car Trip Trivia is family friendly.
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  Speaker 1: We pride ourselves on it, so there is never ever
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  Speaker 1: a risk when you're turning it on with your kids around.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we recommend you do exactly that. Now. Due
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  Speaker 1: to a big family event, I've recorded today's show earlier
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  Speaker 1: than usual, so we're a bit light on the shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: If I've missed your birthday shout out, we'll do a
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  Speaker 1: catch up on Wednesday's episode. Here we go. They are
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  Speaker 1: all for tomorrow. Alli from Birmingham in Michigan will be
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, Vinni from New Zealand will be ten. Twins
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  Speaker 1: Lucas and William from Melbourne will be nine. And how's this.
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  Speaker 1: Denise from Proserpine is turning ninety years of age tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hell of a milestone. Congratulations Denise. I'm Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Cray and with the NFL season kicking off this week,
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  Speaker 1: keep your eyes on those packers from Green Bay. Question one,
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  Speaker 1: do baby zebras have black stripes or brown stripes? They
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  Speaker 1: have brown stripes. Question two, what do we call the
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  Speaker 1: thrower in a game of baseball? The picture. Question three,
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  Speaker 1: it's a multi choice to relieve stress. In the early
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  Speaker 1: days of Apple, Steve Jobs would occasionally do what soak
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  Speaker 1: his feet in the toilet, boil apples, or deflee the
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  Speaker 1: company cat. I'll give them to you again. Soak his
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  Speaker 1: feet in the toilet, boil apples, or deflee the company. Cat.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Jobs would soak his feet in the bathroom toilets.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit gross, but it's a true story, according
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  Speaker 1: to his biography. Question four, what does PPM stand for
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  Speaker 1: in relation to the atmosphere parts per million? Question five?
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  Speaker 1: Which novel from eighteen ninety seven includes a series of
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  Speaker 1: entries from the diary of Jonathan Harker Dracula. Question six,
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  Speaker 1: prior to the current flag, which central African country's flag
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  Speaker 1: had a large R in the center of it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a clue. There's only one that starts with
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  Speaker 1: R Rwanda. Question seven, which professional dancer and pop star
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  Speaker 1: was the first Canadian finalist on the US version of
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  Speaker 1: So You Think You Can Dance? Season thirteen. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those ones where you either know it or
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  Speaker 1: you don't know it. It's take McRae. Question eight, beginning
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  Speaker 1: with tea by which process do plants release water vapor
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  Speaker 1: into the air transpiration? Question nine? Characterized by intense throbbing,
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  Speaker 1: nausea and sensitivity to light. What do we call severe,
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  Speaker 1: recurring and often debilitating headaches migraines? Question ten is a
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  Speaker 1: follow up question, do men or women suffer more migraines?
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  Speaker 1: Women suffer migraines at a rate of nearly three to
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  Speaker 1: one over men. Question eleven. What is sold at the
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  Speaker 1: Billingsgate markets in London antiques, fruit and veg fish? The
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  Speaker 1: Billingsgate markets in London are fish markets? Question twelve? In accounting,
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  Speaker 1: what is the opposite of debit credit? Question thirteen? Which
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  Speaker 1: European soccer star recently proposed to his girlfriend with a
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  Speaker 1: blindingly big engagement ring estimated to be up to sixty
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  Speaker 1: carrots Cristiano Ronaldo. His fiance is Georgina Rodriguez. Question fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: What is the sweet orange flavored liqueur that is the
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  Speaker 1: main ingredient in a sidecar cocktail? Contro? Question fifteen in
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  Speaker 1: the nursery rhyme sing a song of sixpence? Which two items?
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  Speaker 1: Is the queen eating in the parlor? The king was
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  Speaker 1: in the counting house counting out his money. The queen
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  Speaker 1: was in the parlor eating bread and honey. Question sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which primate is the world's largest tree dwelling mammal the orangutan?
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. What do they call Ronald McDonald in Japan?
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  Speaker 1: Reginald McDonald, Donald McDonald or Arnold McDonald. For reasons I
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  Speaker 1: won't explain here, they call him Donald McDonald Question eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The clothing or fashion industry is often referred to as
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  Speaker 1: the what trade the rag trade? Question nineteen which Alec
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  Speaker 1: avoided a jail sentence after a fatal shooting on the
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  Speaker 1: set of the movie Rust Alec Baldwin. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Let's find out in just a few moments and We're
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  Speaker 1: back Question twenty is a who am I? Born in
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  Speaker 1: July nineteen eighty nine in Sydney, Australia. I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Mossmann, learning various styles of dance from the age
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  Speaker 1: of four, and attending the Australian Theater for Young People
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  Speaker 1: in my preteens before graduating from Queenwood School for Girls.
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  Speaker 1: My big break came when I was cast as a
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  Speaker 1: mermaid on the Ossie children's series H two oh Just
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  Speaker 1: add Water, reaching a worldwide audience of two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million viewers and running for three seasons. This led
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  Speaker 1: to appearances in Home and Away and Packed to the
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  Speaker 1: Rafters before my first movie role in the adventure war
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  Speaker 1: drama Tomorrow. When the War began. In twenty ten, I
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  Speaker 1: moved to la and scored a role in the supernatural
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  Speaker 1: drama series The Secret Circle, which was followed by the
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  Speaker 1: Australian horror movie Bait three D and the recurring role
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  Speaker 1: of Hailey in The Vampire Diaries. Next was the SBS
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  Speaker 1: drama Safe Harbor, which won an international Ammy, the TV
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  Speaker 1: show Bloom, and a starring role as the troubled mother
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  Speaker 1: of Eli and Gus Bell in the highly acclaimed adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of the Brisbane set novel Boys Swallows Universe. I am
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  Speaker 1: I Am Phoebe Tonkin. And there it is another episode
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  Speaker 1: of Car Trip Trivia for your listening pleasure. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you learned something and perhaps got a few of the
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  Speaker 1: questions right. Don't forget we have quite an extensive back
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  Speaker 1: catalog of episodes around four hundred and sixty six or thereabouts,
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  Speaker 1: and in the school holidays, which aren't coming up for
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  Speaker 1: another three or four weeks, we do themed editions which
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  Speaker 1: you can always backtrack and find something that might appeal
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  Speaker 1: while you're on your next car trip. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: We'll catch you next time.