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Monday, 3rd February, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: So we are in the middle of Chinese New Year celebrations.
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  Speaker 1: Our family enjoyed a succulent Chinese meal in Chinatown on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. But we're gonna throw in a few Chinese
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  Speaker 1: questions today. Keep your ears open for those ones. Please, folks,
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  Speaker 1: new listeners. A case shout out to Joel from Checkerboard
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  Speaker 1: Hill in Casino just turned forty four. Maizie from Balgowla,
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  Speaker 1: she was six yesterday. Tomorrow's birthdays, Aria from Jimboomba we'll
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  Speaker 1: be turning eight. And Day from Cranburn, North is turning
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  Speaker 1: forty five. Today's birthdays. Emmy from elevenon Oregon is seven,
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  Speaker 1: Rani from Redland Bays eight, Ollie from Somerville in Victoria
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  Speaker 1: is nine. Miss Haven Rose from Christian in wa is nine,
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  Speaker 1: Chloe from Ballina is ten, and Brook from Sumter, South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is eleven. Did you get that patterned seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
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  Speaker 1: It's not accidental. I'm Stephen Craye and last year was
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  Speaker 1: the Year of the Dragon. This year it's the Year
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  Speaker 1: of the SNAE. Question one, what type of bear is
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  Speaker 1: the national animal of China. I'll give you a clue.
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  Speaker 1: It's big, black and white and it eats bamboo. It's
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  Speaker 1: the panda bear, the giant panda bear. Question two. On
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  Speaker 1: which side of a car's floor is the accelerator pedal?
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  Speaker 1: It's always on the right hand side. Question three. What
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  Speaker 1: word beginning with B means relating to, composed of, or
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  Speaker 1: involving two things? Binary? Question three? I just did question
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  Speaker 1: Threequestion four? In which state would you find the great
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  Speaker 1: Australian bite? South Australia. Question five? Which British TV show
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy nine boasted a doctor who was a
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  Speaker 1: friend of the animal world? Was it Doctor Snuggles? Was
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  Speaker 1: it Doctor Doolittle? Or was it doctor who Dolittle could
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  Speaker 1: talk to the animals? Doctor who was a time lord?
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  Speaker 1: It was doctor Snuggles. Question number six? How many former
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  Speaker 1: presidents attended the second inauguration of Donald Trump, excluding of
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  Speaker 1: course Trump himself? Four of them, Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden.
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  Speaker 1: Strangely enough, the very same group that attended Jimmy Carter's
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  Speaker 1: funeral just ten days before. Question seven, which the metal
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  Speaker 1: derives its chemical symbol from its Latin name plum bum
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  Speaker 1: lead with the chemical symbol p B. Question eight typically
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  Speaker 1: for how many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
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  Speaker 1: Is it three? Nine or fifteen? Fifteen days of celebration?
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  Speaker 1: There's a headache at the end of it, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Question nine. In nineteen eighty two, what now deceased movie
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  Speaker 1: star created his own salad dressing, still popular today and
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  Speaker 1: with all proceeds going to charity the Great Paul Newman.
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  Speaker 1: Since inception it has raised five hundred and sixty million
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  Speaker 1: US dollars. Question ten? In which land might one run into?
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  Speaker 1: Tweedl D and tweedled dumb wonderland? Question eleven? What standard
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  Speaker 1: unit is used to measure an aircraft's altitude feet? Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: To barely succeed or narrowly escape is to do so
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  Speaker 1: by the skin of one's what the skin of your teeth?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen. What was the name of the ancient trade
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  Speaker 1: route that connected Asia with Europe? The Silk Road? Question fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: What is the most frequently occurring letter in scrabble? I
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  Speaker 1: ran into a few problems with this letter the other
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  Speaker 1: day playing with my cousin. It's E and there are
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  Speaker 1: twelve of them get a Luke Question fifteen, winning just
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  Speaker 1: two of their twenty three matches. Which team took home
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four AFL Wooden Spoon The Richmond Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. Which is Edinburgh's best known shopping street? Is
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  Speaker 1: it Queen Street? Is it Prince's Street or is it
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  Speaker 1: Royal Street? Located in Newtown? It is Prince's Street? Question seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: According to the song by Burt Bacharach, what kept falling
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  Speaker 1: on my head? Rain drops keep falling on my head?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen. Whilst never enforced, in which US state is
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  Speaker 1: it illegal to eat an orange in the bathtub? The
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  Speaker 1: state of California, Jack. It was thought at the time
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  Speaker 1: that the citric acid from the orange could react with
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  Speaker 1: the bath oils and cause an explosion. Question nineteen, which
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  Speaker 1: two animals, one real and one mythical, appear in the
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  Speaker 1: title of the two thousand epic adventure fantasy film considered
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  Speaker 1: one of China's best ever co productions, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
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  Speaker 1: and a very special thanks to our sponsors. Who you
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  Speaker 1: were hear from? Now back with her? Who am I
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  Speaker 1: just a moment? Monday Almost done? It's Question twenty who
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  Speaker 1: am I born in Orduna, Denmark in April eighteen o five.
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  Speaker 1: Some Danish historians speculate that I was the illegitimate son
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  Speaker 1: of King Christian the eighth. I was introduced to literature
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  Speaker 1: at a young age and worked as an apprentice to
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  Speaker 1: put myself through primary school, joining the Royal Danish Theater
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  Speaker 1: as a singer before leaning towards poetry and writing. So
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  Speaker 1: impressed was the theater director that he persuaded King Frederic
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  Speaker 1: the sixth to pay for my grammar school education, leading
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  Speaker 1: to my first published story, The Ghosts at Pelna Tocke's
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  Speaker 1: Grave in eighteen twenty two. The popularity of my short story,
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  Speaker 1: a journey on foot from Holman's Canal to the east
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  Speaker 1: point of Ammah, resulted in a grant from the King
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  Speaker 1: to travel through Europe, inspiring my first novel, The Improvisitore
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen thirty five. I would go on to write
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  Speaker 1: travelogs and novels and become friends with Charles Dickens, but
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  Speaker 1: will forever be synonymous with my fairy Tales for Children collection,
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  Speaker 1: published over nine volumes and containing such classics as The
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  Speaker 1: Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes and
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  Speaker 1: the Princess and the pa I Am I Am Hans
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  Speaker 1: Christian Anderson. Surely some of the greatest stories ever written
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  Speaker 1: in Some lessons in there, not just for the kiddies,
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  Speaker 1: but for the adults as well. Thanks so much for listening.
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  Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Car Trip Trivia. If
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