Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Monday, 9th June, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Testing one, two three. Today, folks, we're back in the saddle.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Let's cart trip trivia Hape. You had a great weekend.
- 0:14Speaker 1: We have another week of carefully curated trivia coming your way.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Thanks for being a part of the shot. Now let's
- 0:19Speaker 1: get these birthday shout outs out of the way. Georgia
- 0:21Speaker 1: from Bellerine Peninsula just turned nine. George from Perth was
- 0:26Speaker 1: six on Saturday, Reggie from Chugen just turned eight, and
- 0:29Speaker 1: Kurt the Big Dog was forty seven yesterday. Tomorrow we
- 0:33Speaker 1: have Samantha from East Hills in New South Wales twenty
- 0:36Speaker 1: seven years of age. Rachel from Bowmanville in Ontario will
- 0:39Speaker 1: be forty three, Kent from Tico Fotterer in New Zealand
- 0:43Speaker 1: will be twelve, and today Lindsay from Kingston in Canada
- 0:47Speaker 1: is twenty one. That's a last date, happy birthday. And
- 0:49Speaker 1: Nate from Geelong is four. I'm Stephen Craig. Now this
- 0:53Speaker 1: is a family podcast, Nothing risky. Question one? What month
- 1:02Speaker 1: comes immediately after July? Genia very much? August? Question two?
- 1:12Speaker 1: Which gas is commonly used to fill balloons? Helium? Question three?
- 1:23Speaker 1: Which multi sport endurance race combines swimming, cycling and running
- 1:32Speaker 1: The triathlon. Question four. Robert Lawrence, who created the humorous
- 1:38Speaker 1: magazine Bananas before going on to write scary stories for children.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Robert Lawrence or R. L. Stein. Question five. The Korean
- 1:53Speaker 1: dish borgogie translates in English to fire What fire meat?
- 2:05Speaker 1: Question six? Which six season TV show features survivors of
- 2:10Speaker 1: the Oceanic Airlines? Flight eight one five? One of my
- 2:17Speaker 1: favorite shows lost? Question seven? Generally speaking, which lives longer
- 2:23Speaker 1: a small animal or a large animal? Larger animals? It's
- 2:31Speaker 1: thought that it comes down to metabolic rate see Smaller
- 2:34Speaker 1: animals burn energy faster and wear out quicker, although there
- 2:38Speaker 1: are some exceptions. Question eight. Which commuter transport vehicle is
- 2:43Speaker 1: generally red in color and has two levels? A double
- 2:52Speaker 1: decker bus? Question nine? Rhyin and Mozelle are both grapes
- 2:57Speaker 1: named after which geographical feature rivers? Question ten. Of Australia's
- 3:08Speaker 1: flightless birds, which is the heaviest the cassowary? They can
- 3:17Speaker 1: be nearly twenty kilograms heavier than an emu. Question eleven.
- 3:23Speaker 1: What do we call the physical components of a computer hardware?
- 3:32Speaker 1: Question twelve? Which card game shares its name with a
- 3:36Speaker 1: structure designed to cross an obstacle? Can Asta not just
- 3:44Speaker 1: kidding Bridge? Question thirteen, which Australian Prime Minister did President
- 3:50Speaker 1: Joe Biden refer to as that fella from down under?
- 3:58Speaker 1: Scott Morrison? Question fourteen, which curved Manhattan Museum opened in
- 4:04Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine, just six months after the death of
- 4:07Speaker 1: its architect, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, better known as the Guggenheim.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Question fifteen. Which instrument can be described as a little
- 4:22Speaker 1: flute the piccolo? Question sixteen? Which Disney character first appeared
- 4:33Speaker 1: in the cartoon The Wise Little Hen on this very
- 4:37Speaker 1: day in nineteen thirty four, Donald Duck. Question seventeen. What
- 4:49Speaker 1: type of business is associated with? Three golden spheres suspended
- 4:54Speaker 1: from a bar above the shop front a pawnbroker? Question eighteen?
- 5:05Speaker 1: What do we call the center of an atom? The nucleus?
- 5:13Speaker 1: Question nineteen? This is the movie question? All right? What
- 5:17Speaker 1: color was the rose of Cairo? In the title of
- 5:20Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty five Woody Allen movie starring Mia Farrow
- 5:24Speaker 1: and Jeff Daniels, The Purple Rose of Cairo? Got who
- 5:34Speaker 1: am I for? The history buffs just moments away here
- 5:36Speaker 1: at countered Trivia, and we're back. It's question twenty It's
- 5:41Speaker 1: a who Am I? Who Am? I born in Atchison, Kansas,
- 5:45Speaker 1: in July eighteen ninety seven, the first of two children
- 5:48Speaker 1: to Samuel and Amy, who instilled the spirit of adventure
- 5:51Speaker 1: in US, with sledding, catching worms, climbing trees, and shooting
- 5:55Speaker 1: rats being commonplace at our house. We were homeschooled in
- 5:59Speaker 1: our early year and I was a passionate reader, attending
- 6:02Speaker 1: Hyde Park High School, where I was described in my
- 6:04Speaker 1: yearbook as the girl in Brown who walks alone. I
- 6:08Speaker 1: began working in the Voluntary Aid detachment of the Spadina
- 6:11Speaker 1: Military Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where I developed an interest
- 6:15Speaker 1: in aviation. After attending an aerial show in Long Beach,
- 6:18Speaker 1: California in nineteen twenty, I paid ten dollars for a
- 6:21Speaker 1: passenger flight and within a month was taking flying lessons.
- 6:24Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty two, I set a world record for
- 6:27Speaker 1: female pilots by flying the Kinner airsta, a two seat
- 6:30Speaker 1: single engine biplane, to fourteen thousand feet, and in nineteen
- 6:34Speaker 1: twenty eight became the first woman to cross the Atlantic
- 6:36Speaker 1: Ocean in an aeroplane. In nineteen thirty seven, during an
- 6:40Speaker 1: attempt to circumnavigate the Globe, My navigator and I disappeared
- 6:44Speaker 1: in the Central Pacific Ocean, presumed dead, although neither the
- 6:47Speaker 1: plane or our bodies were ever found. I was inducted
- 6:50Speaker 1: posthumously into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and have
- 6:54Speaker 1: had bridges, museums, airports, and even minor planets named after me.
- 6:59Speaker 1: I am I Am Amelia Earhart. And just a reminder
- 7:07Speaker 1: for those folks who want to get a birthday shout
- 7:09Speaker 1: out on the podcast, all you gotta do is go
- 7:11Speaker 1: to the car Trip Trivia Facebook page and get onto
- 7:14Speaker 1: that messenger app thing and send me all the details
- 7:17Speaker 1: whose birthday it is, when it is, how old they are,
- 7:20Speaker 1: and where they're from, and I'll tell you what I'll
- 7:23Speaker 1: get you on the show. Thanks for joining us car
- 7:25Speaker 1: Trip Trivia. We'll catch you next time. Stay gold.