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Peter Pan, the Rubik's Cube & New York Cops (Fri, 23rd Oct, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: One more for the road. Well, at least for this week.
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  Speaker 1: This is Captured Trivia, episode 636 on this Friday, the
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  Speaker 1: 23rd of October, 2026. All right, as always, there are
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  Speaker 1: plenty of fun questions in today's quiz and a humorous
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  Speaker 1: climax with Rudy joining me in about, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: seven or eight minutes' time. Let's do some birthday shout-outs.
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  Speaker 1: Big-time listener Noah Nathaniel just turned 11. Sarah from Springfield, Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: was 38 yesterday. This coming Sunday, Frank Brown from Bathurst
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  Speaker 1: is one year older. Jeff from Queenbin is turning 47.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica from Lane Cove is turning nine. Joe from Morfitt
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  Speaker 1: Vale will be partying away. Sean from Scotland will be 28.
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  Speaker 1: Nelson from Holden, Massachusetts will be nine. Today's birthdays, Evie
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  Speaker 1: from French's Forest is 11. Dean from Bellevue Hill is
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  Speaker 1: celebrating in Christchurch. And Milo from Sale in Victoria has
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  Speaker 1: a major milestone. He is one. I'm Stephen Cray. And
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  Speaker 1: remember the stable table? A very efficient cushioned lap tray.
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  Speaker 1: Question one. Who was the pirate captain in Peter Pan?
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  Speaker 1: Captain Hook. Question two, what do we call a software
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  Speaker 1: program that is downloaded onto a smartphone or tablet? An
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  Speaker 1: app or an application. Question three, I don't know anyone
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  Speaker 1: who calls them applications, but that's what app is short for.
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  Speaker 1: Question three, in millimetres, what was the standard film format
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  Speaker 1: used by all major movie studios in the golden age
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  Speaker 1: of Hollywood? 35 millimetres. Most films are showed in digital
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  Speaker 1: these days, but every now and then there's an old
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  Speaker 1: school projection of a 35 millimetre film. Question four. By
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  Speaker 1: adding a two-letter prefix, what is the opposite of direct? Indirect.
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  Speaker 1: Adding an IN at the beginning of the word. Question five.
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  Speaker 1: showcasing a significant change in musical direction, which band's album, Deadbeat,
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  Speaker 1: currently sits at number five on the ARIA Top 50 chart?
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  Speaker 1: Tame Impala. They normally go the psychedelic rock route. This one,
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  Speaker 1: a bit more electronic dance. Question six. Which product was
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  Speaker 1: accidentally melted... leading to the invention of the microwave oven. Butter,
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  Speaker 1: chocolate or wax? Chocolate. Whilst working on a magnetron machine,
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  Speaker 1: a bloke named Percy Spencer, who was an engineer, realised
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  Speaker 1: that the chocolate in his pocket had melted, sowing the
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  Speaker 1: seeds for the microwave oven. Question seven. At nearly three
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  Speaker 1: times the distance of the other... Which of Canada and
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  Speaker 1: Mexico share the longest land border with the United States?
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  Speaker 1: Canada at 8,891 kilometres or 5,526 miles. Question eight. Which
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  Speaker 1: meat is saved should you rescue someone from failure, danger
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  Speaker 1: or disaster? Bacon. You've saved their bacon. Question number nine.
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  Speaker 1: Who was born in France, raised in Switzerland and created
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  Speaker 1: a wax empire in London? Madam Tussauds. Question ten. In law,
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  Speaker 1: what is a written statement of facts beginning with A?
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  Speaker 1: An affidavit. Question 11, one for the oldies. Telly who
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  Speaker 1: played New York City Police Detective Theophilus Kojak in the
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  Speaker 1: long-running TV series from the 70s? Telly Savalas. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving myself away as a bit of an oldie there
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  Speaker 1: because I remember that TV show. Maybe the repeats in
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  Speaker 1: the 80s. Question 12, what type of animal is a
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Ruff? It's a fish native to temperate coastal Australian waters.
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  Speaker 1: It's also known as the Australian herring, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: not a herring. Question 13. Which country in the British
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  Speaker 1: Isles sustained four major military invasions by the Romans over
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  Speaker 1: a period of 300 years? Scotland. Question 14. Which soft
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  Speaker 1: drink had the famous tagline, image is nothing, Thirst is everything.
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  Speaker 1: Obey your thirst. Sprite. Question 15. What stratospheric layer protects
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  Speaker 1: the Earth from UV rays? The ozone layer. Question 16.
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  Speaker 1: Which comic entertainers wear traditional exaggerated make-up and costumes... To
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  Speaker 1: perform slapstick, physical comedy and pantomime. They're called clowns. Question 17.
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  Speaker 1: The well-known permanent rip current at the southern end of
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  Speaker 1: Bondi Beach is known as the backpacker's what? The Backpackers Express.
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  Speaker 1: It's due to the number of backpackers who get off
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  Speaker 1: the bus, they go straight into the water, not realising
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  Speaker 1: what they're going into, and subsequently they get dragged out
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  Speaker 1: to sea. Question 18. Because a Rubik's Cube can be
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  Speaker 1: solved in 26 quarter turns or fewer, what do serious
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  Speaker 1: fans of the contraption call the number 26? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the magic combo, the revsolution, or God's number? In Rubik's speak,
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  Speaker 1: the number 26 is God's number. Question 19. This is
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  Speaker 1: the movie question. The romantic comedy High Fidelity from the
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  Speaker 1: year 2000, starring John Cusack and Jack Black, was set
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  Speaker 1: in what type of retail store? A record store or
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  Speaker 1: a music store. It was called Championship Vinyl. And the
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  Speaker 1: championship round is up next. It's a Who Am I?
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  Speaker 1: followed by the Friday Funny. After this one, you can
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  Speaker 1: switch off your brain for a couple of days and
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  Speaker 1: we'll catch you on Monday. This is question 20. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Born in Pomona, California in April 1981 to
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  Speaker 1: Catherine and Mark. I have a little brother. My father
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  Speaker 1: was in the Air Force, so we moved a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but settled in Claremont. I have asthma and had many
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  Speaker 1: ailments as a child, including multiple pneumonias, partially collapsed lungs
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  Speaker 1: and a ruptured appendix. I won an acting competition when
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  Speaker 1: I was 11 and appeared in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Television followed with the Nickelodeon series The Secret Life of Mac,
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  Speaker 1: two seasons of The Flipper reboot, a run in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: South and two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210. I attended
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Theatre Company after finishing school and studied with
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  Speaker 1: acclaimed actor William H. Macy. I starred in the movies
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  Speaker 1: Never Been Kissed and Idle Hands before landing the lead
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  Speaker 1: role in James Cameron's sci-fi series Dark Angel. I played
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  Speaker 1: an aspiring dancer in 2003's Honey. have featured in five
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  Speaker 1: movies from director Robert Rodriguez, including Sin City, Machete and
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  Speaker 1: Spy Kids All the Time in the World. And I
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  Speaker 1: portrayed the invisible woman slash Susan Storm in the first
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  Speaker 1: two Fantastic Four movies. In 2012, I launched The Honest Company,
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  Speaker 1: selling consumer goods and have been recognised many times by
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  Speaker 1: many magazines as one of the world's most beautiful women.
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  Speaker 1: I am... I am Jessica Alba.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday Funny Time and I will be delivering the joke.
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  Speaker 2: But first, I've got to ask, Dad, do you have
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  Speaker 2: any plans for the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I do, but first, g'day, Rudy. Hello, Dad. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No problem at all. But I do, I'm going on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night to go and see a good old schoolmate
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  Speaker 1: play in a band and he is one hell of
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  Speaker 1: a musician. He was actually in the Elvis movie. as
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  Speaker 1: one of the guitarists. You haven't seen him? You've seen
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  Speaker 1: the Elvis movie?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going to see him on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty excited about it, mate. Let's do what people are
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  Speaker 1: listening in for, and that's your joke.
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  Speaker 2: Why was the smartphone's camera blurry?
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  Speaker 1: Why was the smartphone's camera blurry? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Because it lost its contacts.
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  Speaker 1: So blurry and no one to call as well. Lonely,
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  Speaker 1: a lonely old joke for a lonely old phone. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's terrible. All right, mate. Thanks for joining us. That's
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks to the listeners for listening in. And I
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  Speaker 2: hope you have a really good weekend. So stay gold,
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  Speaker 2: but also stay well.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one. Thanks, mate. Catch you next time. Thanks, folks.