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Friday, 14th February, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day, folks. It's that one day of the
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  Speaker 1: year where love finds away and what better way to
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  Speaker 1: show our affection for each other than through general knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: This is car trip Trivia. Thanks so much for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to the show. We'll do a Friday funny
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  Speaker 1: in about eight minutes time and we'll do some shout
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  Speaker 1: outs to open. Mason from Williamstown just turned ten. A
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  Speaker 1: few for Sunday. Nathan from Early Beach will be sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jake from Melbourne is turning nine and Joe from Botany
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  Speaker 1: will be thirty one. Tomorrow's birthdays. Anya from cardip in
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  Speaker 1: Western Australia is turning fifteen. On the family road trip
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  Speaker 1: to Melbourne. I hope you have a safe and enjoyable drive.
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  Speaker 1: Twins Evan and Jake from Ganadar are turning thirteen. And
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  Speaker 1: we've just got the one Valentine's Day birthday today. It's
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  Speaker 1: Imagen from Townsville and she is eleven. I'm Stephen Craye
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  Speaker 1: and why not toast this special day with a glass
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  Speaker 1: of chilled rose? Question number one? What name is given
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  Speaker 1: to the flying baby like creature that we associate with
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  Speaker 1: love Cupid? Question two? Which of the following is actually
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  Speaker 1: a fish, a crayfish, a jellyfish, or a swordfish. The
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  Speaker 1: swordfish is a fish. I wonder how many more times
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  Speaker 1: I can say fish in the one question? Question three?
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  Speaker 1: What is the tallest mountain in Asia? Mount Everest also
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  Speaker 1: the tallest mountain in the world. It is on the
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  Speaker 1: border of Nepal and China. Question four? How many winks
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  Speaker 1: can be used to describe a nap or a short sleep?
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  Speaker 1: Forty winks? Question five? Sour kraut is made up of
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  Speaker 1: what shredded vegetable cabbage? Question six? Which Taylor Swift album
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  Speaker 1: features the song love Story? Love Story is track three
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  Speaker 1: on the album Fearless. Question seven. In the UK and
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  Speaker 1: many other countries around the world, you need a license
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  Speaker 1: for your belly, jelly or telly. You need a license
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  Speaker 1: for your telly. It's a television license and the money
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  Speaker 1: raised helps fund the public broadcasting services. Question eight. What
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  Speaker 1: bone is a V shaped pattern of diagonal lines that
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  Speaker 1: alternate in direction herring bone? Question nine? True or false?
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  Speaker 1: The position of a horse's hoofs in a statue indicate
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  Speaker 1: how the rider died. False. It's an urban myth known
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  Speaker 1: as hoof code. Where one hoof raised means the rider
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  Speaker 1: was injured in battle. Two hoofs raised means the rider
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  Speaker 1: died in the battle, And all hooves on the floor
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  Speaker 1: means the rider survived. However, it's false because there are
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  Speaker 1: many many examples that don't stand up, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Question ten? What three letters name the Domestic Intelligence and
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  Speaker 1: Security Service of the United States the FBI Federal Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Investigation. Question eleven. Author of two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five romance novels, Nora who wrote the two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: nine best seller Vision in White Nora Roberts. Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: The island of Mikinos is part of which country? Greece?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen. How many pawns are there in a game
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  Speaker 1: of chess? There are sixteen, eight white and eight black.
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen which pop star did Orlando Bloom proposed to
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  Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day in twenty nineteen Katie Perry. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most successful sporting teams in history, the
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand All Blacks were beaten by which which country?
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  Speaker 1: In a nineteen forty nine rugby international was it Sweden?
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  Speaker 1: Was it Rhodesia or was it Wales? It was Rhodesia,
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  Speaker 1: and the final score was ten to eight, putting it
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  Speaker 1: on the podium. I reckon for one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: upsets in sporting history. Question sixteen, which complementary medicine involves
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  Speaker 1: the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the
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  Speaker 1: body acupuncture. Question seventeen rhyming with mustard, what dessert is
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  Speaker 1: made with eggs, milk, and sugar custard? Question eighteen to
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  Speaker 1: the nearest ten percent? What percentage of the world's population
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  Speaker 1: lives in the Northern hemisphere percent sounds ridiculous, but when
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  Speaker 1: you consider that it covers North America, Europe, and most
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  Speaker 1: of Asia and Africa, it kind of makes sense. Question nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: which nineteen ninety three romantic comedy has Tom Hanks and
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  Speaker 1: Meg Ryan meeting at the top of the Empire State
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  Speaker 1: Building on wait for it, Valentine's Day, Sleepless in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? Well, we'll find out in a moment
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  Speaker 1: than a joke from master joke teller Rudolph. Last question
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  Speaker 1: for the week, it's question twenty, and it's a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Who am I? Born in Ontario, Canada in
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  Speaker 1: January nineteen sixty two. My middle name is Eugene, and
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  Speaker 1: I have three older siblings. My talent for impressions was
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  Speaker 1: evident by the age of eight, and I was inspired
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  Speaker 1: by the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, the funniest joke
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  Speaker 1: in the world, where Michael Palin laughed himself to death.
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  Speaker 1: For a period of time, my family was so poor
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  Speaker 1: that we lived in a Volkswagen van, and my brother
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  Speaker 1: and I worked as janitors before I quit school on
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  Speaker 1: my sixteenth birthday. My first stand up comedy routine bombed
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  Speaker 1: when I was fifteen, but persistence led to paid performances
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  Speaker 1: and the first of three failed auditions for Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 1: My first movie, Introducing Janet, was made for TV in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, and I toured North America as the
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  Speaker 1: opening act for Rodney Dangerfield before landing a major part
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighty five horror comedy Once Bitten and
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  Speaker 1: a recurring role in the comedy series In Living Colour,
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  Speaker 1: My career defining film from nineteen ninety four spawned a
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  Speaker 1: successful sequel and catapulted me into the twenty million dollar
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  Speaker 1: salary range, opening the door to dramatic roles in the
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  Speaker 1: film's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless, Mind, Man on the
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  Speaker 1: Moon and The Truman Show, winning two Golden Globes in
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  Speaker 1: the process. But really, comedy is my thing, with highlights
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  Speaker 1: including The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, The Cable Guy, and
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  Speaker 1: ace Ventura Heck Detective. More recently, I've played Doctor Eggman
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  Speaker 1: in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. I am I Am
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  Speaker 1: Jim Kerrey. Alrighty, then good day, guys. I gotta push
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit because I'm late for something. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is really Friday funny time, mate, that you want
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  Speaker 1: to get to it. Yeah, I'm really sorry. But Dad,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before the crowbar was invented, crows just drank
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  Speaker 1: at home. Is that your contribution today? Okay? Probably, but
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  Speaker 1: we've put enough of you for this week, So can
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  Speaker 1: you go? Why now? Now that I'm on my own,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play with this console and press a few buttons.
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  Speaker 1: Queue the creature effects O.