Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Monday, 13th October, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: It's Monday, the thirteenth of October and it is International
- 0:11Speaker 1: Skeptics Day. I'm not so sure about that, but what
- 0:15Speaker 1: I can tell you is it's another family friendly episode
- 0:17Speaker 1: of character at trivia with a who am I to
- 0:20Speaker 1: wrap it up at the end of the quiz some
- 0:21Speaker 1: birthday shout outs? How about this? Mackenzie from Panawonica in
- 0:25Speaker 1: Wa was ten last Friday, which was the tenth of
- 0:29Speaker 1: the tenth. Now that is a golden birthday on steroids.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Scarlet from Narrangba just turned ten. Josh from Darby in
- 0:36Speaker 1: England just turned thirty. We've got a fear fair few
- 0:38Speaker 1: a few fair foo for tomorrow. Henry John from Geelong
- 0:42Speaker 1: is celebrating one year of life. Congrats. Paul from Bridgeman
- 0:45Speaker 1: Downs is turning fifty six. Happy birthday mate, And from
- 0:48Speaker 1: Coburg will be twelve. Vincent from Pakenham will be eleven.
- 0:51Speaker 1: John from fair Lawn and New Jersey is turning twenty nine.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Gray from Maui, Hawaii will be eleven. Glenn from christ
- 0:58Speaker 1: Church is turning thirty seven and another the one from Coburg,
- 1:00Speaker 1: this time Coburg North. The age of Adeline is six
- 1:05Speaker 1: and tomorrow one birthday Oscar from Bentley East is ten
- 1:09Speaker 1: years of age. I'm Stephen Cray and so I don't
- 1:12Speaker 1: have to brush every day. I use an old school
- 1:14Speaker 1: trick and I use a dash of hairspray. Question number one,
- 1:19Speaker 1: rhyming with pie, what word means nervous or timid in
- 1:23Speaker 1: front of other people? Shy? Question two? What is a snapper?
- 1:38Speaker 1: A snapper is a fish? Question three? What do we
- 1:44Speaker 1: call a two or three wheeled passenger cart that is
- 1:47Speaker 1: pulled by one person a rickshaw? Question four? An alloy
- 1:57Speaker 1: is a combination of two or more? What two or
- 2:06Speaker 1: more metals? Question five? Which kingdom is The nineteen fifty
- 2:11Speaker 1: six musical The King and I set in the Kingdom
- 2:19Speaker 1: of Siam now known as Thailand. Question six, Other than
- 2:24Speaker 1: an opponent? What does one require to play a game
- 2:27Speaker 1: of jin rummy? A pack of cards? It's a card game?
- 2:36Speaker 1: Question seven? Beginning with M, what name is given to
- 2:39Speaker 1: the inflammation of the tissues around the brain and the
- 2:43Speaker 1: spinal cord meningitis? Question eight? How many days are there
- 2:53Speaker 1: in October and November combined? Thirty one in October, thirty
- 3:02Speaker 1: in November. That's sixty one. Question number nine, which general
- 3:07Speaker 1: made his last stand at the Battle of Little Big
- 3:09Speaker 1: Horn in eighteen seventy six General Custer. Question ten. Which
- 3:20Speaker 1: Australian city won both the twenty twenty five AFL and
- 3:24Speaker 1: NRL Grand Finals. That's Brisbane. It was the Lions and
- 3:32Speaker 1: the Broncos, both coming up. Trump's question eleven. What does
- 3:36Speaker 1: the acronym goat stand for? Greatest of All Time? Question twelve?
- 3:48Speaker 1: In which television show does the anthropomorphic dog Brian Griffin appear?
- 3:59Speaker 1: Family Guy? Question thirteen. With the most number of users
- 4:03Speaker 1: and downloads across all platforms, what is the world's number
- 4:08Speaker 1: one map app? Google Maps? Question fourteen? Which American jazz
- 4:19Speaker 1: and swing singer with a recreational surname was born Eleanora
- 4:24Speaker 1: Fagan Billy Holiday Question fifteen. A person who regularly drops
- 4:34Speaker 1: or fails to keep hold of things may be described
- 4:37Speaker 1: as having what type of fingers butter fingers? Question sixteen.
- 4:47Speaker 1: A somnambulist is known for doing what in their sleep?
- 4:57Speaker 1: A somnambulist is a sleep walker. Question seventeen. What do
- 5:02Speaker 1: giraffes mostly eat leaves? And a lot of them? They
- 5:11Speaker 1: eat nearly thirty kilograms per day? Question eighteen. English and
- 5:16Speaker 1: Australian professor Richard Robson was just awarded the twenty twenty
- 5:20Speaker 1: five Nobel Prize for Which category Chemistry? Question nineteen? What
- 5:31Speaker 1: is the main title of Star Wars Episode two? Star
- 5:40Speaker 1: Wars Episode two, Attack of the Clones? Who Am I?
- 5:47Speaker 1: Right after this welcome back? I'll tell you how to
- 5:52Speaker 1: get a birthday shout out on the show in just
- 5:54Speaker 1: a minute. In the meantime, Who Am I? Born in
- 5:58Speaker 1: Philadelphia in August nineteen seventy eight. My father and uncle
- 6:02Speaker 1: were professional NBA players. I have two older sisters and
- 6:06Speaker 1: spent much of my youth in Italy. At thirteen, we
- 6:09Speaker 1: moved back to the United States, where I attended Lower
- 6:12Speaker 1: Merion High School, where I was named Pennsylvania Player of
- 6:14Speaker 1: the Year in my junior year and as a senior
- 6:17Speaker 1: led the school to their first state championship in fifty
- 6:20Speaker 1: three years. After a trade deal at the nineteen ninety
- 6:23Speaker 1: six NBA Draft, I signed a three year rookie contract
- 6:26Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Lakers, where over the next twenty years,
- 6:29Speaker 1: among other accolades, I would win five NBA championships, become
- 6:33Speaker 1: an eighteen time All Star and the NBA's Most Valuable Player.
- 6:37Speaker 1: And two time scoring champion. In January two thousand and six,
- 6:41Speaker 1: I scored eighty one individual points in a game and
- 6:44Speaker 1: went on to win the Olympic gold medals at the
- 6:45Speaker 1: Beijing and the London Games. I retired from basketball after
- 6:49Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen sixteen season, with the Lakers, retiring both
- 6:53Speaker 1: my number eight and number twenty four jersey numbers. In
- 6:56Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, I won the Best Animated Short Film Academy
- 7:00Speaker 1: Award for Deer Basketball, but was tragically killed along with
- 7:05Speaker 1: eight others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, in
- 7:09Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty. I am I am Kobe Bryant.
- 7:17Speaker 1: And if you're new to the show and you're trying
- 7:19Speaker 1: to work out how to get your birthday shout out
- 7:21Speaker 1: on the podcast, It's pretty simple. Go to the Car
- 7:23Speaker 1: Trip Trivia Facebook page, then get onto the Messenger app
- 7:27Speaker 1: and leave me all of the pertinent details that would
- 7:30Speaker 1: be whose birthday is, when their birthday is, how old
- 7:34Speaker 1: they are, and where they're from. Give me plenty of
- 7:36Speaker 1: time if you can. I don't need it a year
- 7:37Speaker 1: in advance, but a week or two in advance would
- 7:40Speaker 1: make sure that we hit the right day. Thanks for listening,
- 7:44Speaker 1: Stay go,