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Conquistadors, Motorways & Heavyweight Boxers (Wed, 22nd Apr, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: And as the southern winter approaches, you'll notice there are
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  Speaker 1: far fewer mosquito larvae. Question number one. In Minecraft, what
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  Speaker 1: do we call the green creatures that sneak up on
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  Speaker 1: players and explode? They're called creepers. Question two. Winnie the
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  Speaker 1: Pooh's home is located in which wood? One hundred acre wood,
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  Speaker 1: burnham wood, or mirkwood. It's not Shakespeare or Tolkien, it
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  Speaker 1: is one hundred acre wood. Question three. What color is
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  Speaker 1: the skin of fresh root ginger? It's brown or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you might say beige. Question four? In which now non
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  Speaker 1: existent country was champion tennis player Martina navrattleoverbourn Czechoslovakia. It's
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  Speaker 1: now Checkia and Slovakia. Question five? What name is given
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  Speaker 1: to a flexible diving board? A springboard? Question six. Alanis
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  Speaker 1: Morissett's smash hit nineteen ninety five album featured what type
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  Speaker 1: of pill? A jagged Little pill? That was the name
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  Speaker 1: of the album, Jagged Little Pill. Question seven? In which
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  Speaker 1: state is the Huon Valley? I should say which state
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  Speaker 1: of Australia? It's in Tasmania. Question eight. What do we
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  Speaker 1: call the layer of fat on a whale blubber? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: What letter do all French motorways begin with a? For
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  Speaker 1: auto route? Question number ten? Published in nineteen fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: What was the first book in the James Bond series
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  Speaker 1: by Ian Fleming Casino Royal? Oddly enough, it was the
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  Speaker 1: twenty first Bond film and the first with Daniel Craig,
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  Speaker 1: although fun fact there was an unofficial Spice spoof movie
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  Speaker 1: with the same name released in nineteen sixty seven. Question eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The connections that exist between people through birth, ancestry and
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  Speaker 1: genetics are known as blood. What blood ties? Question twelve?
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  Speaker 1: What do we call the round stones that were once
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  Speaker 1: commonly used to pave streets cobblestones? Question thirteen? Which company
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  Speaker 1: supplied chocolate to the Australian Armed Forces in World War Two?
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  Speaker 1: When you think of chocolate, you think of Cadbury? Question fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: In which Italian city is Lascala Opera House Milan? Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Who became the youngest ever boxing heavyweight champion of the
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  Speaker 1: world in nineteen eighty six Mike Tyson. He was twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: four months and twenty three days old when he beat
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Berbick for the title. Question sixteen. Conquistadors were sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: century explorers and soldiers from Portugal and where else Spain?
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. What portable music player did Apple introduce in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one? The iPod? Question eighteen? Who pioneered
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  Speaker 1: the process of vulcanization of rubber in eighteen thirty nine?
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  Speaker 1: Was it John Dunlop, Charles Goodyear or the Michelin brothers.
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  Speaker 1: They all had significant parts to play with the tire business,
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  Speaker 1: but it was Charles Goodyear who invented the process of vulcanization.
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen. What do the words post mortem mean after death?
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  Speaker 1: Question twenty? What syndrome forms the title of the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy nine thriller about a cover up at a nuclear
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  Speaker 1: power plant starring Michael Douglas and Jane Fonder, The China
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  Speaker 1: All right, we've got one more for you today. Here
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name's Poppy and I'm from Brisbane and one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite little rituals is getting ready for a
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night with my girlfriends. Before the night even begins,
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  Speaker 2: we are tuning into Car Trip Trivia. One minute I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing random facts, and then the next I'm laughing at
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  Speaker 2: how wildly wrong my answers are. It turns out girls
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