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- 0:07Speaker 1: Three times a week, every week. This is Character of Trivia.
- 0:10Speaker 1: It's episode five hundred and forty one. Thank you for
- 0:13Speaker 1: joining us, Thanks for being part of the show. All right,
- 0:15Speaker 1: let's do some birthday shout outs. Aiden from Pannania just
- 0:18Speaker 1: turned twelve, Tammy had a birthday yesterday, and Harne from Canberra.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Harni is one of our most loyal of loyal listeners
- 0:26Speaker 1: who was ten yesterday. Tomorrow Isabella from Lawson and the
- 0:29Speaker 1: Blue Mountains will be six. Amelia from Jambury Heights is
- 0:33Speaker 1: also turning six, and Stanley from Parks will be twelve.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Today's birthdays Karli from Denver, Colorado It's twenty nine, Daisy
- 0:41Speaker 1: from Duril but she's hanging out in swan Hill is
- 0:44Speaker 1: six today, and Lavina from Beverly Hills is three. I'm
- 0:48Speaker 1: Stephen Cray and if you get all the questions right today,
- 0:52Speaker 1: well you could say you're a suit saye. Question one?
- 0:58Speaker 1: If I have a dozen eggs and crack three of them,
- 1:02Speaker 1: how many do I have left? Take your time? Nine
- 1:09Speaker 1: eggs left? Question two. When comic book cat Garfield dons
- 1:15Speaker 1: his blanket cape, he becomes the caped who the caped Avenger?
- 1:25Speaker 1: Question three, beginning with H. What is a color or
- 1:29Speaker 1: a specific shade of a color? A Hugh hu E Hugh.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Question four, first used in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty nine,
- 1:43Speaker 1: was which method of reconstructing facial features of criminals from
- 1:48Speaker 1: witnesses descriptions? Identic kit? Question five? Which city is widely
- 1:59Speaker 1: recognized as the coffee capital of Australia? Melbourne? Question six
- 2:09Speaker 1: with the initials MC. Which singer has had a number
- 2:13Speaker 1: one billboard hit in each of the last four decades?
- 2:22Speaker 1: Mariah Carey. Question seven. The line from Rudyard Kipling's if
- 2:28Speaker 1: if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat
- 2:31Speaker 1: those two impostors just the same, adorns the player's entrance
- 2:35Speaker 1: to Which British sporting arena is it Twickenham, Wimbledon or
- 2:41Speaker 1: Lord's Wimbledon Center Court also known as the All England
- 2:50Speaker 1: Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Question eight? Who are the
- 2:55Speaker 1: four authors of the Gospels? Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
- 3:05Speaker 1: Question nine, continually using an actor or actress in similar
- 3:09Speaker 1: roles is called what casting typecasting? Question ten? Where would
- 3:20Speaker 1: you find a horse's bit in the horse's mouth? Question eleven,
- 3:30Speaker 1: beginning with P what term is used for the written
- 3:33Speaker 1: record of a pure bred animal's ancestry or lineage its pedigree.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Question twelve. A worthless promise is said not to be
- 3:49Speaker 1: worth the paper. It's not to be worth the paper
- 3:56Speaker 1: it's written on. Question thirteen. What is the surname of
- 4:00Speaker 1: the US president whose first names were Harry S? Harry S? Truman?
- 4:11Speaker 1: And a fun fact here the s It's not short
- 4:14Speaker 1: for any name, It's just an S for the sake
- 4:17Speaker 1: of it. Question fourteen. Which Chinese dish literally translates to
- 4:22Speaker 1: odds and ends? Is it chowmain dim sum or chop
- 4:28Speaker 1: suey chop suey? Question fifteen which Seinfeld character removes his
- 4:38Speaker 1: shirt when he goes to the toilet. I suppose he'd
- 4:46Speaker 1: probably got two choices here. It's either George or Kramer,
- 4:49Speaker 1: and it's George Costanza. He says it's to maximize comfort
- 4:52Speaker 1: and freedom and keeps his shirt free from contamination. Wow.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Question sixteen. Which country is born by? Norway, Sweden and
- 5:03Speaker 1: Russia Finland? Question seventeen are wolves classified as carnivores? Yes,
- 5:21Speaker 1: they are carnivores. They may eat some plant matter, but
- 5:24Speaker 1: their diet is ninety nine percent meat. Question eighteen, which
- 5:29Speaker 1: barbecuing tool is designed to grip, maneuver and lift objects
- 5:34Speaker 1: instead of holding them directly in one's hands. Tongs Question nineteen.
- 5:44Speaker 1: In Monty Python's Life of Brian, members of the crowd
- 5:48Speaker 1: listening to Jesus deliver the Sermon on the Mount mistakenly
- 5:51Speaker 1: heard what instead of blessed are the Peacemakers. It's a
- 6:00Speaker 1: very funny movie, and blessed are the Cheesemakers is what
- 6:05Speaker 1: they mistakenly hear. All right, Well, wrap up today's show
- 6:09Speaker 1: with her Who am i? And just a moment, it's
- 6:15Speaker 1: question twenty editsor who am I? Who Am I? Born
- 6:19Speaker 1: in Norwich in Norfolk, England in January nineteen seventy four
- 6:23Speaker 1: as Sarah Caroline. I completed my studies at Gresham's School,
- 6:27Speaker 1: where I performed in the school play, before briefly studying
- 6:30Speaker 1: primary education at Homerton College in Cambridge. I graduated from
- 6:34Speaker 1: Bristol Old Vic Theater School in nineteen ninety nine. I
- 6:38Speaker 1: appeared in many British television shows, including People Like Us,
- 6:41Speaker 1: Black Books and the Office, and did multiple voices for
- 6:45Speaker 1: BBC Radio four comedies, small parts in the movies Grow
- 6:49Speaker 1: Your Own and Hot Fuzz followed before Meatia roles as
- 6:52Speaker 1: Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep and
- 6:55Speaker 1: with Colin Farrell in The Lobster. I was acclaimed for
- 6:59Speaker 1: my performance in The Night Manager TV mini series. Guests
- 7:02Speaker 1: starred in season thirty two of The Simpsons and won
- 7:05Speaker 1: the Golden Globe Bafter and Best Actress Academy Award playing
- 7:09Speaker 1: Queen Anne in the satirical dark comedy The Favorite in
- 7:13Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Other notable works include Fleabag Wonka, Paddington and Peru,
- 7:19Speaker 1: and as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown. I Am Olivia.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I Am Olivia Coleman and if all goes to plan,
- 7:32Speaker 1: the next time we meet will be open Mike Wednesday
- 7:35Speaker 1: and just a couple of days time. This is your
- 7:37Speaker 1: chance to get your voice onto the podcast. It's a
- 7:40Speaker 1: bit of fun, so I'm made to be serious. You
- 7:41Speaker 1: can tell Jake sagod A do whatever you want early.
- 7:44Speaker 1: You can play a stringed instrument if that's your thing.
- 7:47Speaker 1: All right. Check out the Car Trip Trivia Facebook page
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- 7:57Speaker 1: it is, catch you next time. Good bye,