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Friday, 29th August, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another Friday edition of Car Trip Trivia. If
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  Speaker 1: you're new to the show, this is the episode where
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  Speaker 1: one of my lads joins us after the quiz to
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  Speaker 1: show off his sense of humor and tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little joke. Who will it be today? Well, we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out soon. The birthday shoutouts are up and quite an
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  Speaker 1: international batch, I might say. Orlando from Mildura was thirteen
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  Speaker 1: yesterday this coming Sunday, Miss Charlie from Heidelberg in Germany
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  Speaker 1: will be eleven. Tomorrow. Bailey from Raleigh in North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: will be twenty four, Matthew from Surbiton in the UK
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  Speaker 1: will be thirty, and Ryana from Shers, Nevada is turning
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  Speaker 1: forty eight. Today's birthdays Rennie from Orlando, Florida is twelve
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  Speaker 1: and Harrison from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania is twenty four. Happy
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  Speaker 1: birthday to all of you. I'm Stephen Craye, and in
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  Speaker 1: ye old English, to make a harsh, pierce sound or
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  Speaker 1: grating noise was to scray question number one. I've got
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  Speaker 1: eight chaper chups and four friends to share them with.
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  Speaker 1: How many do they get each? They'll get two each,
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  Speaker 1: assuming I don't get any Question two, Antonio Bandaris voices
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  Speaker 1: which sword wielding character from the Shrek movies Puss in Boots?
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  Speaker 1: Question three? In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the
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  Speaker 1: letter p P is for Papa? Question four? What was
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  Speaker 1: the official language of the Roman Empire? Latin, although they
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  Speaker 1: also spoke a little bit of Greek? Question five? Who
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  Speaker 1: was it that said in the future everyone will be
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  Speaker 1: world famous for fifteen minutes. Was it Joan Biaz, was
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  Speaker 1: it Sophia Loren or was it Andy Warhol? Andy Warhole?
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  Speaker 1: Question six? How many hearts does a squid have? A
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  Speaker 1: squid has three hearts, two brankill hearts for blood to
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  Speaker 1: the gills, and one systemic heart that pumps oxygenated blood
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  Speaker 1: through the rest of the body. Question seven, beginning with
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  Speaker 1: m what do we call the device used to quieten
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  Speaker 1: a trumpet? A mute? And there are a few different
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  Speaker 1: varieties of which we will do in another question in
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  Speaker 1: another episode on another day. Question number eight, which an
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  Speaker 1: agree of listen means not making any sound silent s
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  Speaker 1: I L E N T. That's pretty cool, Yeah, listen
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  Speaker 1: silent the same letters. Question nine, in which fictional lane
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  Speaker 1: is the television show Desperate Housewives set wisteria lane Question ten,
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  Speaker 1: caused by an iodine deficiency and beginning with G, what
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  Speaker 1: do we call the enlargement of the thyroid gland goiter?
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven. The titles of the novels By the Pricking
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  Speaker 1: of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie and Something Wicked This
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  Speaker 1: Way Comes by Ray Bradbury are both taken from which
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  Speaker 1: of Shakespeare's plays Macbeth? Question twelve? What do we call
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  Speaker 1: the central part of a wheel? The hub? Question thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: Before their recent rugby union win over South Africa, when
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  Speaker 1: was the last time the Australian Wallabies beat the spring
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  Speaker 1: box in Ellis Park, Johannesburg. Was it nineteen sixty three?
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  Speaker 1: Was it nineteen seventy three or nineteen ninety three? Nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three a long time between drakes? Question fourteen what
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  Speaker 1: sauce perfect for roast beef? Combines the names of a
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  Speaker 1: hoofed animal and a root vegetable horse Radish Question fifteen. Arnifred, Benny,
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  Speaker 1: Bjorn and Agnatha formed which nineteen seventies band abba, of course,
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  Speaker 1: taking the first letter from each of their names. Question sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: in which US city is the O'Hare International Airport? Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. Which indoor sport features strikes and spares? Ten
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  Speaker 1: pin bowling? Question eighteen A quinqua gennarian? A quinqua gennarian
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  Speaker 1: is someone aged in their what someone in their fifties?
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen. Which movie was released in the same year
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  Speaker 1: that the French used the guillotine for an execution for
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  Speaker 1: the last time? Was it Psycho ben Her or Star Wars?
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  Speaker 1: Which of those movies came out in the year that
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  Speaker 1: the French used the guillotine for their final execution, Psycho
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  Speaker 1: ben Her or Star Wars, Star Wars in nineteen seventy seven.
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  Speaker 1: The last guillotine execution was in Marseilles on the tenth
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  Speaker 1: of September. Feeling like a laugh to start the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Will it is on its way? And who am I
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  Speaker 1: to boot? It's time for question twenty here at car
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  Speaker 1: Trip Trivia, and it's a who am I? Born in Dartford, Kent, England,
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  Speaker 1: in July nineteen forty three to Basil, a pe teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and Eva, an Australian born hairdresser. I have a younger brother, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the church choir as a child and
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  Speaker 1: met my long term collaborator at Wentworth Primary School in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, losing contact when I changed schools. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I formed a garage band covering the songs of Bo Diddley,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Berry and Little Richard, among others. But we met
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  Speaker 1: again on platform two of Dartford Railway station in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty one and formed a quintet called the Blues Boys.
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  Speaker 1: We moved into a flat together and I became the
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  Speaker 1: lead singer of Blues Incorporated whilst studying finance and accounting.
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  Speaker 1: Our band took a new name from a Muddy Waters
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  Speaker 1: song and our first gig was played at the Marquee
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  Speaker 1: Club in London in July nineteen sixty two. Over our
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  Speaker 1: sixty plus year musical journey, we have pumped out ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight albums and one hundred and twenty two singles. I've
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  Speaker 1: released four albums as a solo artist, and have featured
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  Speaker 1: in a number of movies, including the sci fi thriller
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  Speaker 1: Free Jack in nineteen ninety two and as the Australian
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  Speaker 1: bush ranger Ned Kelly in the nineteen seventy movie of
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  Speaker 1: the same name. Working with my dear old friend Keith Richards,
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  Speaker 1: we have penned some of the biggest hits in rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll history, including Painted Black, Gimme Shelt, Start me Up,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't get no satisfaction. I Am, I Am.
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  Speaker 1: Mick Jagger is near the go with the massive lips.
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  Speaker 1: He does have massive lips, Frederick, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 1: us in the studio for the first time in a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Freddie is back for the Friday Funday. So
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  Speaker 1: busy with school yeah yeah and sport yeah yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't really have time to become any graces with
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  Speaker 1: his presence, but we're pretty pleased that he's here. So
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, mate, It's good to be have
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  Speaker 1: you got a gag, of course? I do. Hit us
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  Speaker 1: with your best shot. What do a tick and the
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  Speaker 1: Eiffel towel have in common? I don't know. They're both
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  Speaker 1: Paris sites, a bit like some of Fruity's jokes. I
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  Speaker 1: should have seen that coming, but that's a very good
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  Speaker 1: one made. Congratulations, Thank you much. Ah Well, since you're gracing,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, with your presence for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in a while, I'll leave it to you. How do
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  Speaker 1: you want to finish the show today? Why not with
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  Speaker 1: the classics? Stay gold well, stay gold yahm