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2025 - The Year So Far · Car Trip Trivia

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Speaker 1: This is Cartrip Trivia serving up another school holiday special edition.
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Speaker 1: Today it's twenty twenty five the year so far. Now
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Speaker 1: there's a fairly broad range of questions in the quiz,
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Speaker 1: so there should be something for everyone in the family.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully enjoy the show. Now we've got some birthday shadows
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Speaker 1: to get through. Kelly from Mornbar was thirty four over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Ali from Keppel Sands was nine yesterday, Brady
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Speaker 1: from Chandler, Minnesota was twenty seven yesterday Tomorrow. Raymond from
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Speaker 1: Sydney will be celebrating sixty years congratulations, and Sophia from
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Speaker 1: Croydon is turning ten just one birthday today. Harry from
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Speaker 1: Belrose in Sydney is fourteen. I'm Stephen Craye and the
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Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five is just ninety three days away.
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Speaker 1: Question number one a shortening of the word charisma, which
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Speaker 1: term has found mainstream acceptance and appears in very US
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Speaker 1: slang guides for twenty twenty five. Riz ri z z riz,
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Speaker 1: short for charisma. All the kids are saying it apparently
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Speaker 1: very cool. Question two. According to Chinese zodiac, what is
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five the year of It's the year of
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Speaker 1: the Snake. Question three, in which Italian city did Jeff
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Speaker 1: Bezos marry Lauren Sanchez in June of twenty twenty five? Venice?
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Speaker 1: They were married in Venice. Question four? Who became the
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Speaker 1: fiftieth Vice President of America on the twentieth of January
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five? Jd vance? Question five? Which movie won
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Speaker 1: Best Picture at the ninety seventh Academy Awards in March
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five? Anora question number six? In which month
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five did Pope Leo the fourteenth papacy
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Speaker 1: commence the month of May was on the eighth of May?
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Speaker 1: Question seven. Twenty twenty five is a mathematically unique year
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Speaker 1: for many reasons, one of which it's a perfect square.
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Speaker 1: So what number squared gives us twenty twenty five? Take
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Speaker 1: some time, push pause, have a bit of a think
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Speaker 1: about it. In a couple more seconds, what number squared
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Speaker 1: gives us twenty twenty five? Okay? The number forty five?
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Speaker 1: Question eight? Who won the French Open Ladies singles title
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Speaker 1: in twenty five? That's tennis, of course, was it Madison,
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Speaker 1: keys Iger, Schwaytek or Coco Gough Coco goth beat Arena
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Speaker 1: Sablenka in the final question nine. Which member of the
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Speaker 1: British royal family gave birth to her second daughter named
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Speaker 1: Athena in January twenty five? Princess Beatrice. Question ten. Oscar
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Speaker 1: Piastre and Lando Norris are one and two on the
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Speaker 1: current F one standings. What team do they both race for?
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Speaker 1: McLaren Question eleven. The twenty twenty five three million dollar
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Speaker 1: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences was awarded in April for
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Speaker 1: which diabetes and obesity drug ozempic Question twelve. As of
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Speaker 1: the first of January this year, Bulgaria and Romania joined
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Speaker 1: twenty seven other countries that allow free and unrestricted travel
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Speaker 1: for citizens and tourists. This is known as what the
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Speaker 1: Shengen Area, the European Union or the free Flow District.
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Speaker 1: It's the Shengen Area. Question thirteen. Topping the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five Australian Financial Reviews Rich list, who is Australia's wealthiest
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Speaker 1: person with a fortune of nearly forty billion dollars? That's
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Speaker 1: Gina Reinhart. And just to put that in perspective, that's
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Speaker 1: how much roughly Elon Musk paid for Twitter. Question fourteen.
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Speaker 1: In January Luke Littler, at seventeen years of age, became
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Speaker 1: the youngest ever world champion in which sport darts, snooker
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Speaker 1: or Bochi darts. Question fifteen. Which of these Hollywood stars
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Speaker 1: did not turn fifty in twenty twenty five, Bradley Cooper,
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Speaker 1: Charlie's Theron or Leonardo DiCaprio. Which one did not turn
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Speaker 1: fifty while it was Leo he actually turned fifty one?
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Speaker 1: Question sixteen. What is twenty twenty five in Roman numerals
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Speaker 1: mm XXV MM is one thousand, two thousand xx is
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Speaker 1: twenty five twenty twenty five? Question seventeen. Which G seven
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Speaker 1: nation held their federal election on the twenty third of
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Speaker 1: February twenty twenty five? Was it Germany, Italy or Canada Germany?
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Speaker 1: Question eighteen. Canada had an election that year as well,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't in February. Question eighteen, which ai app
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Speaker 1: was banned on all Australian federal government devices and systems
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Speaker 1: in February of this year due to national security risks.
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Speaker 1: Was it Sleek Sheep, Deep Seek or fleet Feet It
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Speaker 1: was deep Seek? Question nineteen, which Mexican fast food chain
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Speaker 1: announced in April that it was closing all twenty seven
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Speaker 1: of its Australian restaurants due to poor performance. Taco bell
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Speaker 1: sadly closing all the doors within twelve months. Haven't had
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Speaker 1: much luck taking on the bohemoth that is Guzman and Gometz.
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Speaker 1: Question twenty Who became the first Australian sprinter ever to
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Speaker 1: break the twenty second mark in the two hundred meters
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Speaker 1: at the Queensland State Athletics Championships in March of this year.
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Speaker 1: He is a sensation. His name is Gout Gout. Now
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Speaker 1: it was a window sistered time, so it's not an
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Speaker 1: official record, but geez can that kid? Mader? All right,
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Speaker 1: let's come back in a couple of moments. For five
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Speaker 1: more questions were wrap it up and We're back. Question
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Speaker 1: twenty one. World Expo twenty twenty five is currently being
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Speaker 1: held in which Japanese city Osaka. Question twenty two. Who
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Speaker 1: won this year's Gold Logi for most Popular personality on
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Speaker 1: Australian television? Was it Hamish Blake, Lynn McGranger or Ali
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Speaker 1: Langdon Lynn McGranger from Home and Away? Question twenty three
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Speaker 1: Former AFL player Neil who was awarded Australian of the
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Speaker 1: Year in twenty twenty five for his tireless work in
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Speaker 1: the fight against motor neuron disease. Neil Who Neil Danaher
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Speaker 1: Question twenty four. The US missile strikes on Iranian nuclear
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Speaker 1: sites in June twenty twenty five were code named Operation
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Speaker 1: Midnight What Midnight Hammer? Question twenty five, which fictional glam
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Speaker 1: rock band first appeared in the nineteen eighty four mockumentary
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Speaker 1: and its recently released sequel, Spinal Tap from the movie
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Speaker 1: This Is Spinal Tap and the sequel Spinal Tap two
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Speaker 1: Who The end continues intriguing. Okay, so a little bit
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Speaker 1: unusual this week. I've got to tell you I've got
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Speaker 1: some interstate travel that is unavoidable, and I am not
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Speaker 1: going to be able to deliver a show on Wednesday
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Speaker 1: of this week. So we're going to have a slightly
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Speaker 1: extended break and we're going to come back on Friday
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Speaker 1: for another edition of Countrop Trivia to be a special
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Speaker 1: edition too. I'm not sure what we'll do just yet.
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Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed the show, look forward to your
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Speaker 1: company next time. But Barb, stay go