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The Ashes (Australia v England) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. It's the last of our school
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  Speaker 1: holiday special editions here at Caltrip Trivia and with the
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  Speaker 1: English cricket team having just left our shores, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Ashes addition. But it's just not cricket. It's all things
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  Speaker 1: England versus Australia. Heaps of categories to get through and
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  Speaker 1: lots of shout outs to get through as well. Tony
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  Speaker 1: from Balmain just turned forty three, Elsa from Brisbane just
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  Speaker 1: turned eighteen. Nina from Wentworth Falls was nine yesterday, Lilliana
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  Speaker 1: from Cranburn was eight yesterday. Rother Glenn Ben just turned
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  Speaker 1: a milestone forty years as well. Now on Sunday, Sam
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  Speaker 1: from Mackay will be twenty eight, Lyla from Bedallen is
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  Speaker 1: turning nine, Adam from cows In Victoria will be thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: Holly the Harry Styles fan from Perth will be twenty
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  Speaker 1: four years old and Sammy from Manchester is having his
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  Speaker 1: once in a lifetime golden birthday that's twenty five. On
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  Speaker 1: Sunday Tomorrow. Ozzie Mackay will be eight, Isaac from Fletcher
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  Speaker 1: is turning twelve and Potsi from Diggers Beach in Coffs
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  Speaker 1: Harbor will be thirty six. Abby days my friend now
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  Speaker 1: Today's birthdays. Lisa from Milton, Ontario is thirty five. Max
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  Speaker 1: from Tamworth is eight. Whale watching Keegan from San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: was twenty nine. Jared from Melbourne is twenty five. Danny
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  Speaker 1: from Memphis, Tennessee is six. Anika from State College, Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: is sixteen. Emma from Aspley is doing the Golden Birthday thing.
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  Speaker 1: She's twenty three, and twins Emily and Lily from Adelaide
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  Speaker 1: are ten. Today I'm Stephen Craye and it's been two
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five years since Captain Cook sailed
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  Speaker 1: into Botany Bay. Question number one. Out of Australia and England,
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  Speaker 1: which country has won more Commonwealth Games gold medals? Australia
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  Speaker 1: not just beating England but everyone else one thousand and
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  Speaker 1: one gold medals. England's in second spot with seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy three. Question two, Which English writer has sold
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  Speaker 1: the most books in Australia? Is that J? R. R. Tolkien,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Dickens or JK. Rowling. JK. Rolling broke multiple Australian
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  Speaker 1: sales records and remains number one by some distance. Question three,
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  Speaker 1: what is reputed to have been burned and placed in
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  Speaker 1: a terracotta urn, becoming the unofficial trophy of Test match
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  Speaker 1: cricket between Australia and England. A wooden cricket bale. Bales
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  Speaker 1: are the two bits that sit on top of the
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  Speaker 1: stumps for our non cricketing friends. Question four. In Australia
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  Speaker 1: is a generic term for all sweets and candy. What
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  Speaker 1: is a lolly? In England? It's short for ice lolly,
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  Speaker 1: which is like a popsicle, or it might be short
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  Speaker 1: for a lollipop, which is a hard candy on a stick.
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  Speaker 1: Question five All English songwriting trio Mike Stock, Matt Aitken
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  Speaker 1: and Peter who wrote multiple hits for OSSI's Kylie Minogue
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  Speaker 1: and Jason Donovan Peter Waterman. The trio were known as Stock,
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  Speaker 1: Aitken and Waterman. Question six. When referring to a path
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  Speaker 1: for walking next to a road, what do they call
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  Speaker 1: a footpath in England a pavement? In America it's called
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  Speaker 1: a sidewalk. Question seven. Airing in twenty twelve for a
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  Speaker 1: one off season, what was the subtitle of the Australia
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  Speaker 1: versus the UK Ultimate Fighter Tournament? Was it the Bashes.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the Clashes or was it the Smashes? A
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  Speaker 1: play on the Ashes. Of course, it was actually the Smashes?
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  Speaker 1: Question number eight, which comedy from nineteen eighty six remains
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  Speaker 1: Australia's highest grossing movie ever in the United Kingdom Crocodile
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  Speaker 1: Dundee one of the greats. If you haven't seen it, well,
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  Speaker 1: what have you been doing? Question nine? What was the
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  Speaker 1: scoreline in the recently completed five Test Ashes series held
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  Speaker 1: in Australia four one to Australia. Question ten is a
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  Speaker 1: follow up question. The five matches played in that series
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  Speaker 1: were in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Which test
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  Speaker 1: did England win? The biggest one of the five, the
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  Speaker 1: Boxing Day Test, which is held in Melbourne each year.
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven. England have competed seven times in Rugby League's
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  Speaker 1: World Cup, losing to Australia in three finals. Which team
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  Speaker 1: represented them in the other nine tournaments, Great Britain winning
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  Speaker 1: the event three times? Question twelve. In the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the Beatles chart dominance, which Australian band had the UK
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  Speaker 1: number one hit in four February nineteen sixty five. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never find another u Was it the Beg's, was it
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  Speaker 1: the Easy Beats or was it the Seekers? They were
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  Speaker 1: all big Aussie bands, but it was the Seekers who
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  Speaker 1: would go on to do it again with the Carnival
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  Speaker 1: is Over later that year. Question thirteen. Who was the
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  Speaker 1: last Australian to win a Wimbledon singles championship? Ash Barty
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  Speaker 1: won the women's singles in twenty twenty one? Okay? Question
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  Speaker 1: fourteen another follow up question? Here we go? How many
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  Speaker 1: years before her twenty twenty one triumph did Ash Barty
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  Speaker 1: win the Wimbledon Girls Singles title? Was it seven years,
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  Speaker 1: ten years or thirteen years before? Ash won the Wombanton's
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  Speaker 1: Girls Singles title? Ten years before her twenty twenty one triumph.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. A small packet of thin fried potato slices
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  Speaker 1: is called a packet of chips in Australia. What do
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  Speaker 1: they call them in England? A packet of crisps? Question sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: Who won more golf majors out of England's Nick Faldo
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  Speaker 1: and Australia's Greg Norman. You'd argue that Greg Norman's a
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  Speaker 1: bigger name in golf, perhaps, but it was Nick Faldo
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  Speaker 1: who won six. He won three US Opens and three
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  Speaker 1: US Masters. The Great White Shark won only two, which
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  Speaker 1: were both British Opens. He did have plenty of near misses, though,
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. British Royal Navy officer arrived on the first
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  Speaker 1: fleet in January seventeen eighty eight and went on to
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  Speaker 1: become the first Governor of the Colony of New South Wales,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Philip. Question eighteen. In Australian rhyming slang, what is
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  Speaker 1: a to and from? To and from is a pom,
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  Speaker 1: which in itself is slang for someone from England. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The term pom is said to have multiple origin stories,
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  Speaker 1: one of which, and probably the most believable, is the
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  Speaker 1: English cricket team's fondness for Pomery Champagne in the early
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  Speaker 1: twentieth century. Question nineteen, Where was British Australian boxer Joe Bugner?
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  Speaker 1: Bourne was a Hungary Bulgaria or Estonia nicknamed Ozzie Joe
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  Speaker 1: Josef Creole. Bugner was born in Hungary. He died in
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  Speaker 1: Brisbane last year, and he went the full distance with
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  Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali twice. Question twenty, with a long list of
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  Speaker 1: hits including you Make Me Feel Like Dancing, and long
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  Speaker 1: talk glasses. English born singer Leo who became an Australian
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  Speaker 1: citizen in January two thousand and nine. Leo Sayer okay
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  Speaker 1: five to come back in just a few moments here
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  Speaker 1: at Cartrip Trivia s Day with us. It's a duel
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  Speaker 1: between England and Australia and it is question number twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: How many times have England and Australia met in the
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  Speaker 1: Rugby World Cup Final? That's not the Rugby League World
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  Speaker 1: Cup Final? The Rugby World Cup Final zero once or
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  Speaker 1: twice twice in nineteen ninety one and two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: and it's one apiece. Question twenty two translating English to
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  Speaker 1: Australian English, what is a courgette? A courgette is a zucchini?
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  Speaker 1: Question twenty three, without being exact, how much bigger is
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  Speaker 1: England's population compared with Australia's double or triple? Australia has
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  Speaker 1: around twenty seven million people. England is estimated at just
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  Speaker 1: under fifty nine million, so double is the closest of
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  Speaker 1: the two available options. Question number twenty four. Who was
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  Speaker 1: the last British woman to win the Australian Open singles title?
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  Speaker 1: That's tennis. Now, this one is a bit tougher than
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  Speaker 1: the Wimbledon question, so I'll give you some options. Was
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  Speaker 1: it Dorothy Round, was it Virginia Wade or was it
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  Speaker 1: Angela Mortimer. Virginia Wade beat Ozzie favorite Evonne Goolagong sixty
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  Speaker 1: four six 'y four in nineteen seventy two. Okay, question
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  Speaker 1: number twenty five. Ozzie. Jeffrey Rush won the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: six Best Actor Academy Award, beating which English actor with
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  Speaker 1: the initials r f raife findes who was nominated for
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  Speaker 1: the English patient Jeffrey Rush one for the movie Shine.
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  Speaker 1: It's Australia Day. On Monday, we will be back with
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  Speaker 1: another episode of Car Trip Trivia, and starting on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be kicking on with our regular programming. That's twenty
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  Speaker 1: questions from all sorts of different categories and a brand
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  Speaker 1: new segment appearing this coming Wednesday. Thanks for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: it's been an absolute hoot. Who won out of England
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  Speaker 1: and Australia. Well, I'll leave that to you. Stay go