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Kings & Queens · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Three down, three to go. Today's Cartridge Preview special edition
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  Speaker 1: is Kings and Queens. Now, this is especially poignant if
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  Speaker 1: you live in Queensland because it's the Kings' birthday public
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  Speaker 1: holiday today. Now, this episode was recorded before the NRL
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  Speaker 1: grand final, so I don't know what happened, OK? No comment.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you, though, that we have a whole
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  Speaker 1: stack of birthday shout-outs to get through. Let's get to it. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: from Friday's show, Tina from Fremantle is actually Tim... from Fremantle. Whoops.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about that, mate. Ollie from Gordon was a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of the Stranger Things episode. He got 23 out
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  Speaker 1: of 25. He turned 13 on the Friday just gone.
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  Speaker 1: And Matthew from New Orleans was 37 yesterday. Tomorrow, Frank
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  Speaker 1: from Slacks Creek is turning 11. And I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: this is a first. Saba from Tehran in Iran will
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  Speaker 1: be 29. Today's birthday's Emma from Bellevue Hill is 8.
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  Speaker 1: And James from Woolooin is 42. I'm Stephen Cray. And
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  Speaker 1: the other day, a mischievous monkey stole my shiny silver tray.
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  Speaker 1: Question one. Which song by rock band Queen opens with a...
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  Speaker 1: Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise, playing in
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  Speaker 1: the street, gonna be a big man someday. We will
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  Speaker 1: rock you. Question two. Which giant prehistoric ape is best
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  Speaker 1: known for scaling the Empire State Building and swatting planes
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  Speaker 1: like flies? King Kong, who has been appearing in movies
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  Speaker 1: for the last 93 years. Question three. Which bright orange,
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  Speaker 1: black-veined butterfly, known for its incredible long-distance journeys across North America...
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  Speaker 1: gets its common name from a royal title. Is it
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  Speaker 1: the Imperial Butterfly, the Monarch Butterfly, or the Majestic Butterfly?
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  Speaker 1: The monarch butterfly. It flies nearly 5,000 kilometres or 3,000
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  Speaker 1: miles during autumn. That's when it flies south and then
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  Speaker 1: it goes back home north in the spring again. Quite
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  Speaker 1: a journey. Question number four in the card game hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Capturing the trick containing which queen incurs a 13-point penalty?
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  Speaker 1: The queen of spades is the one that you want
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  Speaker 1: to avoid. In the game of hearts. Question five. Australian
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  Speaker 1: car company Holden produced which royal-sounding model that ceased production
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  Speaker 1: in April 1980? The Holden Kingswood. Question six. Which seven
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  Speaker 1: letters were spelt out, or rather sung out, by the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, in her 1967 hit single? R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respect.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. Raining for 59 years, three months and four days,
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  Speaker 1: who became King of Britain and Ireland in 1760? Was
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  Speaker 1: it Charles I, William IV or George III? Charles, William
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  Speaker 1: or George? It was George III. Question eight. What TV sitcom,
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  Speaker 1: running from 1998 to 2007, featured Kevin James as a
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  Speaker 1: delivery driver named Doug Heffernan? Kill two birds with one
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  Speaker 1: stone with this answer. The King of Queens. Question nine.
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  Speaker 1: In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, which
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  Speaker 1: is how many years on the throne? If you were
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  Speaker 1: listening to the quiz from a week or so back,
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  Speaker 1: you would have worked it out. It's 70 years. Question 10.
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  Speaker 1: Which NBA basketballer, about to commence his 24th season, is
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  Speaker 1: known as King James? LeBron James. He took a 93%
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  Speaker 1: pay cut to break his own record for years in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Question 11. Upon hearing that the starving peasants
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  Speaker 1: had no bread, what did Marie Antoinette, the last Queen
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  Speaker 1: of France before the French Revolution, suggest that they eat? Cake.
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  Speaker 1: Let them eat cake, she is said to have said,
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  Speaker 1: but she actually never said it. It was a false quote,
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  Speaker 1: weaponised by the anti-royalist revolutionaries to paint her as a
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  Speaker 1: cold and elitist woman. Question 12. What happened to everything...
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  Speaker 1: that King Midas touched? It didn't appear to be a
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  Speaker 1: big problem at first, but when you're trying to eat food,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes massive. Everything King Midas touched turned to gold.
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  Speaker 1: Question 13. What is the queen bee's primary job inside
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  Speaker 1: a honeybee colony? She lays the eggs, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: way you populate the colony. Question 14. Let's do another
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  Speaker 1: Queen Bee question. We did do a question about Beyonce
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  Speaker 1: in the last quiz, but somehow when it's relevant, this
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  Speaker 1: is how it rolls, okay? What name is given to
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce's fan base? The Beehive, but it's spelt B-E-Y, as
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  Speaker 1: in Beyonce, the Beehive. Question 15. In the TV show
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  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, what is the tragic nickname given to
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  Speaker 1: Eris II Targaryen, the ruler who sat on the Iron
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  Speaker 1: Throne before Robert's rebellion? Is it the Lame King, the
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  Speaker 1: Mad King, or the Dying King? He was known as
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  Speaker 1: the Mad King. Question 16. A traditional idiom to describe
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  Speaker 1: someone born into a noble or aristocratic family is a
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  Speaker 1: what blood? A blue blood. Question 17. Famous for its
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  Speaker 1: specialty cheeses, premium grass-fed beef and fresh seafood, King Island
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  Speaker 1: is administered by which Australian state or territory? Tasmania. Question 18.
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  Speaker 1: After the death of General Franco, in which year did
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  Speaker 1: Spain re-establish its monarchy? Was it 1775? 1875? Or 1975?
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  Speaker 1: King Juan Carlos I was officially crowned in 1975, marking
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  Speaker 1: 44 years without a sitting ruler. Question 19. What hygiene
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  Speaker 1: crisis forced the elegant Portuguese queen Carlota Joaquina to shave
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  Speaker 1: her head and inadvertently start a South American fashion trend?
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  Speaker 1: A head lice infestation on a voyage in 1807, the Queen,
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  Speaker 1: her daughters and all the noble ladies of the court
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  Speaker 1: shaved their heads and wore silk turbans to cover it up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the local Brazilian high society assumed it was the height
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  Speaker 1: of European sophistication and they copied it. Question 20. The
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  Speaker 1: ancient Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, belonged to which ruling dynasty?
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  Speaker 1: The New Kingdom, the Late Period... Or the Ptolemaic dynasty?
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  Speaker 1: The Ptolemaic dynasty, which was the Greek royal family who
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  Speaker 1: ruled from 305 to 30 BC. Back with more kings
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  Speaker 1: and queens. Five questions, in fact, to finish the show.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us. Kings and queens, question 21. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: In a standard deck of cards, which suited king is
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  Speaker 1: unique for facing sideways in profile instead of straight ahead?
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  Speaker 1: You got a one in four shot. The king of diamonds.
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  Speaker 1: Question 22. What is both an opening sequence of three
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  Speaker 1: moves in chess and a Netflix miniseries? Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Netflix miniseries is a bit of a play on words
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  Speaker 1: of both the opening sequence and the theme of the show.
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  Speaker 1: We're referring to The Queen's Gambit. Question 23. Which two
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  Speaker 1: American singers, both deceased and once with a marriage in
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  Speaker 1: the family, were both known as the kings of their
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  Speaker 1: respective genres? Elvis Presley was the king of rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Now, Jacko
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  Speaker 1: married Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, in May 1994. Sadly, and
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  Speaker 1: somewhat predictably, it did not happen. last very long. Question 24.
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  Speaker 1: What type of cake is a layered Victoria cake? Also
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  Speaker 1: known as a Victoria sandwich or a Victoria sponge. It's
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  Speaker 1: a sponge cake. Question 25. The 1944 semi-biographical novel entitled
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  Speaker 1: Anna and the King of Siam became which 1956 musical
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  Speaker 1: starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner? Used to love this
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  Speaker 1: one as a kid. The King and I. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Jeez,
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  Speaker 1: those guys were good, weren't they? Getting to know you,
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  Speaker 1: getting to know everything about you. OK, well, we're not
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  Speaker 1: doing a singing quiz on Wednesday, that's for sure. We're back, though.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing the H quiz. H is for holidays. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you can join us on another special edition of
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia. Until we meet again, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye and I wish you all the very best.
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  Speaker 1: Stay gold.