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- 0:07Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's twenty twenty six and it's another year
- 0:10Speaker 1: of Car Trip Trivia. If you are a returning listener,
- 0:13Speaker 1: terrific to have you on board. If you're a new listener,
- 0:15Speaker 1: well thanks for joining us. I hope you enjoy the show.
- 0:18Speaker 1: It's all about the trivia, of course, but to keep
- 0:21Speaker 1: things fresh, we've got a new segment coming up in
- 0:23Speaker 1: the show this year. More details in a couple of
- 0:25Speaker 1: weeks when we finished with these school holiday special editions.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Now we have dozens of catch up birthday shout outs.
- 0:32Speaker 1: So sorry we misjib, but the family needed a little
- 0:34Speaker 1: bit of a beach break and that's what we did.
- 0:36Speaker 1: We'll do those at the end of the show. As
- 0:37Speaker 1: far as current shout outs are concerned, here we go.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Well yesterday, Leilani from Layla Park was eighteen. Reminds me
- 0:45Speaker 1: of the song Sweet Lei Lani Heavenly Flower. Jonathan from Boulder,
- 0:50Speaker 1: Colorado was eight, Jack from Blacktown was ten, Ivory from
- 0:53Speaker 1: Dalmore was eleven, and my good mate Amy from Chalmer
- 0:56Speaker 1: she's forty six. And Rupert from Kirabilly how are you?
- 1:00Speaker 1: He's fifty four. Today Anthony from Rurreton in New Jerseys
- 1:05Speaker 1: twenty one, and we've got another cartrip trivia Golden Birthday
- 1:08Speaker 1: Anika from Queen bian Is twelve years of age. I'm
- 1:12Speaker 1: Stephen Craye. Now, thanks for telling your friends and family
- 1:14Speaker 1: about the show. Hopefully they two will drink the kool aid.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Question one, it's the nicknames, pseudonyms and alter egos. Quiz
- 1:24Speaker 1: here we go in the Disney television show Who is
- 1:28Speaker 1: Miley Stewart's alter ego? Hannah Montana? Question two? Which former
- 1:39Speaker 1: American president was nicknamed slick Willie war Bill Clinton from
- 1:49Speaker 1: his days as Arkansas governor in reference to his political dexterity.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Question three, adopting the Swedish pseudonym Nils Shoebag to co right.
- 2:00Speaker 1: The twenty sixteen hit song This Is What You Came For?
- 2:04Speaker 1: Was who Lana del Ray, Gracie Abrams or Taylor Swift?
- 2:15Speaker 1: It was Swifty. The song was written for her ex
- 2:18Speaker 1: boyfriend Calvin Harris and Rhianna, big hit for them, and
- 2:21Speaker 1: she assumed the pseudonym to avoid their relationship overshadowing the song.
- 2:26Speaker 1: How very noble of her. Question four. Legendary golfer Jack
- 2:29Speaker 1: Nicholas was nicknamed the Golden The Golden Bear. Question five,
- 2:40Speaker 1: which actor transformed himself into the character of Missus Doubtfire
- 2:45Speaker 1: in the movie of the same name, Robin Williams. Question six.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy from the autobiographic
- 3:00Speaker 1: album of the same name were the author egos of
- 3:03Speaker 1: which acclaimed songwriting partners will perhaps the most famous songwriting
- 3:12Speaker 1: partnership of all time, Elton John and Bernie Taupen. Question seven,
- 3:17Speaker 1: appearing in the novels A Portrait of the artist as
- 3:20Speaker 1: a young man and Ulysses is the character Stephen Day Dallas.
- 3:25Speaker 1: The alter ego of which Irish author was it James Joyce,
- 3:30Speaker 1: Jonathan Swift or George Bernard Sure.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Will James Joyce.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Don't forget, folks, some of these questions may seem a
- 3:42Speaker 1: little complicated. You can always rewind, you can pause, take
- 3:46Speaker 1: your time. Question eight. In the television show The Incredible Hulk,
- 3:50Speaker 1: what was Bruce Banner's first name changed to? In the
- 3:59Speaker 1: television show, he was known as David Banner. Question nine,
- 4:03Speaker 1: which supergroup from the eighties and nineties featuring some of
- 4:06Speaker 1: the greatest singer songwriters of all time, was made up
- 4:09Speaker 1: of the alter egos Nelson Otus, Charlie t, Lefty and
- 4:16Speaker 1: Lucky Will. The traveling Wilbury is now in the same order.
- 4:24Speaker 1: That's George Harrison, Jeff Lynn, Tom, Patty, Roy Orbison and
- 4:29Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. Question ten, in the television series Breaking Bad,
- 4:33Speaker 1: which German theoretical physicist's name did school teacher Walter White
- 4:38Speaker 1: assume Heisenberg his full name was Werner Heisenberg. Question eleven,
- 4:49Speaker 1: in the classic book by Robert Louis Stevenson, which of
- 4:52Speaker 1: Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde is the evil alter ego?
- 5:02Speaker 1: Mister Hyde is the one that you don't want to
- 5:05Speaker 1: see in a dark alley? Question twelve picked the odd
- 5:08Speaker 1: one out? Nom de plume, alias, antagonist or sobriquet. I'll
- 5:15Speaker 1: say them again. Nom de plume, alias, antagonist or sobriquet.
- 5:21Speaker 1: What's the odd one out? Antagonist is the odd one out?
- 5:30Speaker 1: It pretty much means bad guy. Nom de plume and
- 5:33Speaker 1: alias are synonyms for pseudonym, and sobriquet means nickname. Question thirteen,
- 5:41Speaker 1: stemming from a mispronunciation as a child, which Australian born
- 5:45Speaker 1: Hollywood actress and producer has the nickname maggot, Margot Robbie.
- 5:55Speaker 1: I can't imagine she'd love that, but she still mentions
- 5:58Speaker 1: it in interviews. Question fourteen, and anonymous English street artist
- 6:01Speaker 1: and political activist known for his stenciled graffiti, goes by
- 6:06Speaker 1: what singular nickname Banksy? Question fifteen. From nineteen ninety three
- 6:17Speaker 1: to two thousand, the artist formerly known as who adopted
- 6:22Speaker 1: his moniker the love symbol Number two Prince Question sixteen.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Kevin Wendell Crumb, with twenty four distinctive personalities, including the Beast,
- 6:38Speaker 1: first appears in which film from the Unbreakable trilogy played
- 6:48Speaker 1: by James McAvoy. He first appeared in Split from twenty
- 6:52Speaker 1: sixteen and then its sequel, Glass, which was three years later.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Question seventeen. Which literary sisters published their original works under
- 7:01Speaker 1: the pseudonyms Cura Ellis and Acton Bell the Bronte Sisters.
- 7:12Speaker 1: It wasn't until eighteen fifty, after the deaths of Emily
- 7:16Speaker 1: and Anne, that Charlotte revealed their identities. Question eighteen. Who
- 7:21Speaker 1: is Slim Shady better known as Eminem? Question nineteen. A
- 7:32Speaker 1: film director who wishes to disown himself from a movie
- 7:35Speaker 1: project will often appear in the credits as Alan, who
- 7:40Speaker 1: is it? Alan Smithy, Alan Soppless? Or Alan Spielberg Wi
- 7:51Speaker 1: Alan Smithy Question twenty until twenty twenty four. Which former
- 7:56Speaker 1: writer for thirty Rock performed under the stage name Childish Gambino.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Wi.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Donald Glover also played Lando Calrisian in the Star Wars
- 8:11Speaker 1: spin off solo. All right, we're going to be back
- 8:15Speaker 1: in just a couple of seconds. We've got five more
- 8:17Speaker 1: questions to wrap it up. Twenty down to five to
- 8:22Speaker 1: go for the first episode of twenty twenty six. Thanks
- 8:24Speaker 1: for joining us on cartrip trivia. Question twenty one. Which
- 8:27Speaker 1: pseudonym did American author Stephen King adopt to write the
- 8:31Speaker 1: books The Running Man, The Long Walk, Thinner and others?
- 8:37Speaker 2: Will Richard Bachman?
- 8:42Speaker 1: Question twenty two. Which influential British musician had the au
- 8:46Speaker 1: Thore egos aladdinsane and ziggy stardus.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Will Win David Bowie.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Question twenty three. The Reverend Sir Doctor Stephen T. Mos
- 9:01Speaker 1: Deaf Colbert d F A heavyweight Champion of the World
- 9:05Speaker 1: is the fictionalized persona of which political satirists, Well, the
- 9:14Speaker 1: clue really is in the name. It's fully revealed. It's
- 9:16Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert. Question twenty four. Who was affectionately nicknamed the
- 9:22Speaker 1: Saint of the Gutters, will Mother Theresa question twenty five,
- 9:31Speaker 1: Let's finish this thing up? Vegas Lounge singer Tony Clifton
- 9:35Speaker 1: was the alter ego of comedian Andy Kaufman, whose life
- 9:39Speaker 1: was the subject of which Jim Carrey movie The Incredible
- 9:42Speaker 1: Bert Wonderstone Man on the Moon or Mister Popper's Penguin
- 9:52Speaker 1: will Win Man on the Moon from nineteen ninety nine. Okay,
- 9:57Speaker 1: if you've been patiently waiting for your birthday sh out
- 10:00Speaker 1: of the last couple of weeks, once again, Sorry we
- 10:01Speaker 1: missed you, but here we go. We've got some catch ups.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Brian from Crescent Beach in Florida, Laura from Atlanta, Georgia,
- 10:08Speaker 1: Evy from Burley Heads, Jared from Daverren Park, Matt from
- 10:13Speaker 1: Berkeley Vale, Fox from Perth, Sophia from Woodonga, Beck from
- 10:17Speaker 1: q TJ from Elizabeth Hills, Jacob from Macclesfield, Louis from
- 10:22Speaker 1: Burley Heads, Xander from Port Stephens, John from Home Hill,
- 10:26Speaker 1: Jason and Collette from Houston, Texas, Milly from the Gap,
- 10:30Speaker 1: Marcus from Warrialda, Andrew from Melbourne, Joel from Mount Pritchard,
- 10:35Speaker 1: Loomy from Westport in Ireland, bestis Henry, Noah, Alfie and
- 10:39Speaker 1: Darcy all celebrated in December. Another Alfie from Jamboree Heights,
- 10:43Speaker 1: Charlotte from Louisville, Kentucky, Liam from Cockatoo, Alessandro from Beluno
- 10:48Speaker 1: in Italy, Caitlin from Inverell, Matilda from the Gap Ariana
- 10:53Speaker 1: and Asher from Connecticut, Brad from Orange County, Shelley from
- 10:58Speaker 1: Beautiful Early Beach, Alexander from Oatly, Aiden from Coburg, North,
- 11:02Speaker 1: Mitch from Madison, Wisconsin, George from Hong Kong, Toby from Ligo,
- 11:06Speaker 1: Remy from Melbourne, Evelyn from Oconto Falls in Wisconsin, Aisher
- 11:11Speaker 1: from Melbourne, Fraser from Wanneroo, Isabel from Penshurst, Milly from Adelaide,
- 11:16Speaker 1: Finn from the Travis Air Force Base in California, Kieran
- 11:20Speaker 1: from Leeds in London, Nadine from Adelaide, A, Tina from
- 11:23Speaker 1: Coopertino in California, Trish from Lota Alva from Bathhurst, Owen
- 11:28Speaker 1: from Boondle in bris Vegas. Cohen from morn Bar had
- 11:31Speaker 1: a golden birthday, Mickey t from Dubbo, Annie from Austin, Texas,
- 11:36Speaker 1: Kelly from Grand Junction, Colorado, and Lizzie from Narramine. Quite
- 11:42Speaker 1: a mouthful. Hope you've enjoyed the show. We're back and
- 11:45Speaker 1: we'll catch you again on Wednesday. Until then, well stay gold.