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Jack Reacher, Constellations & Fleeing Spaniards (Mon, 27th July, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Well, this is the five hundred and ninety ninth time
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  Speaker 1: I've done an introduction to cartrip Trivia, so really there's
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  Speaker 1: I can bring up my little list here, it is
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  Speaker 1: Sarah from Carlisle just turned twenty nine tomorrow, the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: as I stand here before myself drenched in deep thought,
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  Speaker 1: I questioned my propensity to mispronounced words. Oh sorry, please
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  Speaker 1: forgive my soliloquay. Question number one what goes the weasel?
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  Speaker 1: In the children's nursery rhyme? Pop goes the weasel? Question two?
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  Speaker 1: How many syllables are there in the word recreational? There
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  Speaker 1: are five syllables in recreational recreation nol. That's five. Question three?
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  Speaker 1: Which chemical elements on the periodic table has the Latin
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  Speaker 1: name plum bum? It's not what happens when you see
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  Speaker 1: it on a bowl of fruit. It's actually the chemical
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  Speaker 1: element lead, hence pb for lead plumbum. Question four? What
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  Speaker 1: animal do the people of Pamploma, Spain run away from?
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  Speaker 1: Once every year? Balls? The Running of the Balls takes
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  Speaker 1: place in July every year, and I reckon it's up
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  Speaker 1: there with that game hurling as the world's most guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: method of acquiring an injury. Question five? Who sings the
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  Speaker 1: current number one song on the Australian Aria charts? Choos
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  Speaker 1: in Texas? Ella Langley? Question six? In Egyptian mythology, who
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  Speaker 1: was the sun god ra? Question seven? Who was the
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  Speaker 1: original author of the Jack Reacher novel Lee Child? Now
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  Speaker 1: I say original author because he has handed over the
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  Speaker 1: reins to his brother Andrew. Okay? Question eight, it's a
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  Speaker 1: follow up question. How's this child? Is neither Lee or
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  Speaker 1: Andrew's real surname? What is their real surname? Is it
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  Speaker 1: Graham Grant or Gransbury Grant? And to add to that,
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  Speaker 1: Lee's real name isn't Lee, It's James. So James Grant
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  Speaker 1: took the pen name Lee Child, and Andrew Grant, who
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  Speaker 1: also writes novels under his real name, became Andrew Child.
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  Speaker 1: You got it good? Question nine? What name is given
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  Speaker 1: to the meeting place of Freemasons, a lodge or a
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  Speaker 1: Masonic lotch Question ten? Beginning with j what is the
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  Speaker 1: culinary term for vegetables that are cut into thin matchstick
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  Speaker 1: sized strips? Julianne Julianne vegetables. Question eleven. The fast paced
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  Speaker 1: two player card game where players draw and discard to
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  Speaker 1: form sequences is called Gin What Gin? Rummy? Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Barber, Rob Bruff, Bert Newton and Grant Dania have
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  Speaker 1: all hosted the Australian version of which television game show
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  Speaker 1: Family Feud. I stumbled upon the American version with the
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  Speaker 1: host Steve Harvey the other day, and it's quite entertaining
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  Speaker 1: I've got to say. Question thirteen, which of the following
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  Speaker 1: is not a a type of cloud, cumulus, omnibus or
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  Speaker 1: nimbo stratus. Which of those is not a cloud? Omnibus
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  Speaker 1: is not a cloud. It's a collection of multiple works,
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  Speaker 1: you might say, omnibus. Question fourteen, What type of animal
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  Speaker 1: is a sandpiper? No, it's not a beach dwelling scotsman
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  Speaker 1: playing a traditional instrument. It is a bird. Question fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Which sport do we associate with Ossie Olympic silver medalist
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Hall? Is it pole vault, equestrian or running? Running?
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  Speaker 1: She's a middle distance runner and she came second in
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred at the Paris Olympics. Question sixteen, beginning
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  Speaker 1: with S, what adjective describes something that can be dissolved
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  Speaker 1: in water soluble? Question seventeen. To be in a state
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  Speaker 1: of nervous anticipation, anxiety, or excitement is to wait with
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  Speaker 1: baited what baited breath? The term comes from Shakespeare's The
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  Speaker 1: Merchant of Venice, and the word baited b ated is
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  Speaker 1: a shortened form of abated. Question number eighteen, visible from
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  Speaker 1: both the northern and southern hemispheres, which five letter constellation
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  Speaker 1: is also known as the Great Hunter oryon rn ryon
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  Speaker 1: question nineteen, the lethal henchman of the title character, who
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  Speaker 1: was the main villain in the Bond film Goldfinger? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we're not talking about Auric Goldfinger, the main guy.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about his henchmen from the nineteen sixty four
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  Speaker 1: film what was his name? Odd job? You know that
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  Speaker 1: big bloke with the razor edged bowl hat, threw that
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  Speaker 1: thing around, coursed all sorts of damage back in a flash. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: we have a who am I? To wrap up the show.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us, Thanks for staying with us. Let's finish
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  Speaker 1: the quiz up now with question twenty. It's a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Who Am? I? Born on a kitchen table
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  Speaker 1: in New York City in June nineteen twenty six to
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  Speaker 1: Max and Katie Kaminski. I had three older brothers and
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  Speaker 1: was raised in Brooklyn. I saw the musical Anything Goes
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  Speaker 1: when I was nine and was hooked on showbiz. But
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  Speaker 1: I was drafted into the US Army and served in
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  Speaker 1: France and Belgium and participated in the Battle of the
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  Speaker 1: Bulge in the final years of World War Two. After returning,
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  Speaker 1: I was hired as a joke writer for Sid Caesar
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  Speaker 1: and first appeared on screen in The Jack Parr Show
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty one, alongside Carl Reiner, whom I would
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  Speaker 1: later develop the two thousand year Old Man Routine with.
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  Speaker 1: I co created the spy sitcom Get Smart, and won
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  Speaker 1: a Best Original Screenplay OSCAR for the producers in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine. I have since added four Emmys, three Grammys,
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  Speaker 1: and three Tonys, putting me in the exclusive list of
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  Speaker 1: just twenty eight people who have won the Big Four Awards.
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  Speaker 1: I am best known for my comedy parodies Blazing Saddles
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  Speaker 1: and Young Frankenstein, both from nineteen seventy four Silent Movie
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  Speaker 1: and History of the World Part One, but also produced
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  Speaker 1: The Elephant Man and the nineteen eighty six horror remake
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  Speaker 1: of The Fly. I recently turned one hundred and will
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  Speaker 1: next year release the sequel to my nineteen eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: sci fi send up Space Balls. I am. I am
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  Speaker 1: the legendary mel Brooks still with us after one hundred
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