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Wednesday, 20th August, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: There are quite literally millions of podcasts for you to
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  Speaker 1: choose from. So for all of our listeners in no
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  Speaker 1: less than sixty countries, I would like to say thank
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  Speaker 1: you sincerely for supporting Cartrup Trivia. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do some birthday shout outs. Then we'll do what we
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  Speaker 1: do best. That's twenty questions, including the round of sound
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  Speaker 1: for Wednesday, Okay tomorrow. One of our favorite contributors to
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  Speaker 1: the show. She does the occasional Friday funny that's EVI.
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  Speaker 1: She'll be turning thirteen. Hannah from Tuak is turning twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Reuben from Townsville will be eight, Daniel from Orpington in
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  Speaker 1: the UK will be fifty four, Hugh from Somervil will
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  Speaker 1: be ten, Sharon from Carwell will be sixty and her
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  Speaker 1: daughter Holly from Isabella Planes will be thirty one. And
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  Speaker 1: Kobe from Safety Beach in Victoria is twelve. We're doing
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  Speaker 1: an early shout out for his birthday, which is Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Today's birthdays. Ashton from Illawong is forty, Brooklyn from Perth
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  Speaker 1: is ten, Lucas from Cyogle is also ten, Todd from
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  Speaker 1: Balgowla is forty two, and these golden birthdays. They just
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  Speaker 1: keep on coming. We have another Brooklyn, this time from
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  Speaker 1: Geraldton turning twenty today. There it is I'm Stephen Cray
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  Speaker 1: and what am I listening to today? Well? The Offspring's
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  Speaker 1: xnay on the hombre? Question one? In the Simpsons, what
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  Speaker 1: is the police chief's surname? Chief Wigham? Question two? What
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  Speaker 1: are bangers and mash? Sausages and mashed potato? My particular favorite?
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  Speaker 1: Question three, both beginning with s Italy's two largest islands
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  Speaker 1: are Sicily and what Sicily and Sardinia? Question four? Who
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  Speaker 1: received the letter that contained the first documented case of
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  Speaker 1: the abbreviation o MG? Was it Orson Welles, Was it
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  Speaker 1: Winston Churchill or was it the Queen Mother? It was
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  Speaker 1: Winston Churchill. The letter was written by Admiral John Arbuthnet
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  Speaker 1: Fisher in nineteen seventeen. Question five. What do we call
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  Speaker 1: a musical that uses previously released hits as the soundtrack?
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  Speaker 1: A jukebox musical? Question six? Which part of the British
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  Speaker 1: Armed Forces has the official Latin motto peradua ad astra
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  Speaker 1: translating to through adversity to the stars. It is the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Air Force. Question seven, what does its carbon fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Content reveal to scientists about a fossil its age? Question eight?
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  Speaker 1: Which material is often referred to as the fabric of
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  Speaker 1: the world cotton? Question nine? What type of word describes
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  Speaker 1: or modifies a verb or an adjective or even a
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  Speaker 1: whole sentence? An adverb? Now it can also modify another adverb.
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  Speaker 1: But if I mentioned that in the question, I'd have
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  Speaker 1: given the answer I wouldn't I? Question ten? How many
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  Speaker 1: seconds can an attacking player stand in the key in
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  Speaker 1: the game of basketball? Three consecutives seconds? Question eleven. Those
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  Speaker 1: who act on stage are often said to tread the
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  Speaker 1: What tread the boards? Question twelve? Which five letter word
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  Speaker 1: beginning with P is both a stated idea or opinion
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  Speaker 1: and to indicate direction with a finger point? Question thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: What is lava before it reaches the Earth's surface magma?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen? Which predatory irachnids have the Australian varieties marbled
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  Speaker 1: desert and black rock scorpions? Avoid at all costs? Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which is both the largest brass instrument and the lowest
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  Speaker 1: pitched the tuba? Question sixteen. In the role dah book,
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  Speaker 1: who is the champion of the world Danny the champion
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  Speaker 1: of the World. Question seventeen, What comes between blue and
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  Speaker 1: violet in the colors of the rainbow? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
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  Speaker 1: violet indigo? Question eighteen in which decade of the twentieth
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  Speaker 1: century was smallpox officially declared eradicated in the nineteen eighties?
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen. Which country has since nineteen ninety two hosted
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  Speaker 1: the annual Wife Carrying World Championship? Is it Finland, Iceland
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  Speaker 1: or Denmark? Finland is the host of the annual Wife
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  Speaker 1: Carrying World Championship, and the prize is your wife's weight
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  Speaker 1: in beer. Question twenty Academy Award nominated Edward Norton and
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  Speaker 1: which lead actor from True Romance both turned fifty six
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. Ed Norton and Christian Slater. Get everyone nice
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  Speaker 1: and quiet. The round of sounds up next to your
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  Speaker 1: character of trivia. Here's how it works. I play sound.
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  Speaker 1: You guess what that sound is. I played other sound.
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  Speaker 1: You guess what that sound is. We'll do it a
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  Speaker 1: third time as well, and we'll do each sound twice.
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  Speaker 1: How's that sound? Here's the first one? Whom fairly common
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  Speaker 1: around the house, in the office, maybe at school, wherever
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  Speaker 1: it is. You do your business. What's this sound? Woooo?
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  Speaker 1: That is a mobile phone, or as the Americans would say,
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  Speaker 1: a cell phone vibrating on the bench. This one is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: What's this sound? You might think it's some sort of
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  Speaker 1: exotic bird, but it's not. It's more an aquatic creature.
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  Speaker 1: What is this sound? That is the unique clicking and
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  Speaker 1: whistling And I don't know what else you'd call it
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  Speaker 1: that the sounds dolphin makes. Put it that way, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Last one for today. What is this sound? It's not
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  Speaker 1: a gun going off. No one's shooting anyone, but it
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  Speaker 1: is something you might do on a farm, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: need to be quite skillful to perform this task. What's
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  Speaker 1: this that is a whip being cracked by an expert
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  Speaker 1: whip cracker. And as I said at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the show, we're always thankful for your support here at
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia, but anyone who would like to go
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  Speaker 1: above and beyond, particularly our overseas listeners who are not
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  Speaker 1: sharing the wisdom of our Australian sponsors or you can
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  Speaker 1: always go to Patreon dot com forward slash car Trip Trivia,
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  Speaker 1: where there's a whole stack of videos related to the show.
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  Speaker 1: There's some very detaining ones on there. I can assure
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  Speaker 1: you thanks again for your company. We'll catch you next time,
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  Speaker 1: whenever that may be. Until then, stay goal. Cheers