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Monday, 24th November, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: It's the second day of the forty eighth week of
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  Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five, and you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: Cartrip Trivia, the family friendly trivia contest that you can
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  Speaker 1: play for fun or you can make it a deadly
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  Speaker 1: serious affair. Now we've got some birthday shout outs. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a message a little while ago from a listener
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  Speaker 1: who told me that he and his girlfriend each pick
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  Speaker 1: a number before the birthday shoutouts, and if that number
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  Speaker 1: is mentioned as someone's age, then they get a bonus point. Clever, Hey, clever,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Tom from Bachus Marsh was sixteen yesterday. Lucy
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  Speaker 1: from Grace Phil was nine yesterday. Paris from Too Womba
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  Speaker 1: just turned twenty six. Phil slash Dad slash Pop from
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  Speaker 1: Piarra Waters was fifty nine. Over the weekend, Travis from
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  Speaker 1: Condor in the Act just turned seven. Tomorrow's birthdays, Jackson
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  Speaker 1: from Adelaide will be thirteen. Scott from Cleveland, Tennessee is
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  Speaker 1: turning fifty seven, Natalie from Camber will be a four.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a few for today as well. Lillian
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  Speaker 1: from Atwell is eleven, a very young Brett from Mount
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  Speaker 1: Daneed is thirty eight. Zoe from New Zealand is nine
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  Speaker 1: and Liz from Twart Hill in Perth is forty two.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Craye and the fictional town and the hilariously
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  Speaker 1: fabulous movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is Beaumont's sumer. Question number
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  Speaker 1: one with which toy might you walk the dog or
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  Speaker 1: rock the cradle? They're both Yo yo tricks? Question two?
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  Speaker 1: Which letter of the alphabet represents a kiss at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of a letter or a message X marks the spot?
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  Speaker 1: Question three, covering three point six million hectares of Australia,
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  Speaker 1: is which of the following environments deserts, give rainforests or
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  Speaker 1: grasslands and savannahs. There are three point six million hectares
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  Speaker 1: of native rainforests in Australia. Question four in geometry, what
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  Speaker 1: is one half of the diameter of a circle? The radius?
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  Speaker 1: Question five of Hereford and Gloucester, which English county is
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  Speaker 1: closest to the Welsh border. Hereford is just twenty six
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  Speaker 1: kilometers east, Gloucester is around twenty seven kilometers to the east.
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  Speaker 1: Question number six, which Australian reality TV series featured mature
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  Speaker 1: women vying for the affection of a sixty one year
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  Speaker 1: old Man the Golden Bachelor. Question seven. How is the
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  Speaker 1: River Danube described in the title of the Johann Strauss
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  Speaker 1: Waltz Blue It's the Blue Danube? Question eight. Someone who
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  Speaker 1: is fully prepared and ready to complete a task? Is
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  Speaker 1: ready willing? And what? Ready willing? And abel? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: What sport did the Sydney Swans play? Bossie rules? Football?
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  Speaker 1: Question nine? Who was the first female British singer to
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  Speaker 1: have a number one song that she wrote herself? Was
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  Speaker 1: it Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush or Joan Armor Trading? That's
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  Speaker 1: a fascinating fat isn't it? It was Kate Bush the first
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  Speaker 1: British singer female British singer to have a number one
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  Speaker 1: song that she actually wrote herself? Okay? Question eleven. It's
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  Speaker 1: a follow up question, and it's a rarely heard double
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  Speaker 1: multi choice follow up. There you go. Can you name
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  Speaker 1: the song? Was it Worthering Heights, Running Up That Hill
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  Speaker 1: or Babushka? It was nineteen seventy eight, Kate Bush was
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  Speaker 1: just nineteen years of age and the song was Worthering Heights.
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve. Which country is the biggest producer of silver
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  Speaker 1: in the world? Mexico? Question thirteen. In the US, what
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  Speaker 1: became legally available for the first time in thirteen years
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  Speaker 1: on the fifth of December nineteen thirty three alcohol? It
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  Speaker 1: was the end of prohibition? Question fourteen. According to the Bible?
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  Speaker 1: How many days did it take the Lord to create
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  Speaker 1: the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
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  Speaker 1: is in them? Six days? On the seventh day he rested.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. Which Premier League football team's mascot is nicknamed
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  Speaker 1: Ghannosaurus arsenal? Question sixteen? What name is given to the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese art of growing dwarf trees? Bonzai? Question seventeen. In mathematics,
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  Speaker 1: what is the opposite of multiplication? The opposite of multiplication
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  Speaker 1: is division? Question eighteen? What have you lost if you
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  Speaker 1: have amnesia your memory? Question nineteen. Which Hollywood superstar was
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  Speaker 1: finally awarded an honorary Oscar last week after four unsuccessful
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  Speaker 1: nominations and forty five years in show business? Tom Cruise,
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  Speaker 1: and he was pretty happy about it. I gotta say,
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  Speaker 1: there's so who am I? Coming up next? It's not
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise? All right, back in a second, and we're
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  Speaker 1: back at question twenty. Who am I? Born? In London,
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  Speaker 1: England in August seventeen ninety seven. My father was a
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  Speaker 1: political philosopher, and my mother, who died eleven days after
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  Speaker 1: my birth, a women's rights advocate. Despite financial problems, I
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  Speaker 1: had a governess and a tutor, and was homeschooled, briefly
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  Speaker 1: attending boarding school in eighteen eleven. Was married in eighteen sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and we spent a summer with English poet Lord Byron
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  Speaker 1: and writer John William Polidori in Switzerland, where it was
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  Speaker 1: proposed we each write a ghost story, thus providing the
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  Speaker 1: impetus for my most famous novel. Tragedy, however, pursued me
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  Speaker 1: through life, losing three of my four children and my
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  Speaker 1: husband to drowning before I died from a brain tumor
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  Speaker 1: at the age of fifty three. My other works include
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  Speaker 1: the novels Perkin, Warbeck and The Last Man, along with
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  Speaker 1: the travelogue Rambles in Germany and Italy. But it was
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  Speaker 1: the very idea that perhaps a corpse could be re
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  Speaker 1: animated that sparked life into the modern Prometheus, also known
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  Speaker 1: as Frankenstein, first published in eighteen eighteen and still in
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  Speaker 1: print to this day. Various versions of the Monster have
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  Speaker 1: appeared in at least four hundred and thirty three feature films,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and twelve short films, and three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven TV episodes, not to mention the radio plays,
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  Speaker 1: the comics, and the stage interpretations. It is considered one
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  Speaker 1: of the first ever works of science fiction and sir
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  Speaker 1: as a timeless cautionary tale on the morality of scientific
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  Speaker 1: progress and its unintended consequences. I am I am Mary Shelley,
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  Speaker 1: and I've always felt a little kinship with Mary. You see,
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  Speaker 1: she and I share a birthday. How's that? Thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for listening to another episode of Car Trip Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: That's number five hundred and two. I think we've banged out,
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  Speaker 1: so there's quite a back catalog if you want to
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  Speaker 1: get your trivia fix. Heaps to look forward to, heaps
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  Speaker 1: to go back to. We'll catch you on Wednesday for
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  Speaker 1: the Round of Sound. Until then, stay well and stay gold.