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The Coyote, Tesla & Philosophical Dinosaurs (Fri, 11th Sept, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: You know, we always try to finish the week with
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a laugh here at Cartridge Trivia, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully today is no exception. We've got Rudy pacing the hallways.
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  Speaker 1: He is itching to get into the studio for the
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  Speaker 1: Friday Funny. But, folks, you came for the trivia. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to that in a second. First, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a few birthday shout-outs to get through. Lucy from
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  Speaker 1: Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains was seven yesterday. Tomorrow... Geoffrey
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  Speaker 1: from Lemon Tree Passage will be 32 and Julia from
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  Speaker 1: Wollongong is turning 29. Today, just the one, Kylie from Callaghan, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: is 25. Happy birthday to everyone who wrote in and
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  Speaker 1: happy birthday to all those who couldn't have been bothered.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray and when you're entertaining and cooking and
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  Speaker 1: seeking that dramatic flair, so to speak, take the greatest
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  Speaker 1: of caution but perhaps try the flambe. Question one. What
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  Speaker 1: fruit has a variety known as navel? Navel oranges. Question two.
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  Speaker 1: On a classic Lego brick, how many bumps or studs
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  Speaker 1: are there on the top? Is it four, six or eight?
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  Speaker 1: Eight studs on a Lego brick. Question three. Located in
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  Speaker 1: the west wing of the White House, what official name
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  Speaker 1: is given to the private workspace of the United States President?
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  Speaker 1: The Oval Office. Question four. With the exception of the
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  Speaker 1: reindeer and the water deer, what feature distinguishes the male
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  Speaker 1: from the female deer? The male has antlers. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: the reindeer, both male and female have the antlers, and
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  Speaker 1: with the water deer, neither have antlers. How's that? Question five.
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  Speaker 1: Which country has 6,000 of its 17,508 islands inhabited? Indonesia.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. How many days are there In August and
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  Speaker 1: September combined. 61 days. 31 in August, 30 in September.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. What, beginning with A, is a classic Australian
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  Speaker 1: brand of hats? A cubra. Question eight. What homophone is
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  Speaker 1: both a flat structure for transporting goods... And the roof
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  Speaker 1: of the human mouth. Pallet. P-A-L-L-E-T and P-A-L-A-T-E. Question number nine.
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  Speaker 1: An old-school Australian traffic marker that sits right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a street intersection is known as a silent what?
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  Speaker 1: A silent cop. Or in the UK, they might call
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  Speaker 1: them a sleeping policeman. They're designed to ensure that drivers
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  Speaker 1: make a wide, safe turn instead of cutting across the intersection.
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  Speaker 1: Question 10. What dinosaur often appears in the meme when
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  Speaker 1: someone posts a philosophical quote? The velociraptor, as in philosophy, velociraptor.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that until I read it somewhere recently.
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  Speaker 1: Question 11. When referring to a restaurant or cafe, what
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  Speaker 1: does BYO stand for? Bring your own. Normally referring to
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  Speaker 1: beer or wine. Question 12. Which former British Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: shares his surname with a witch project? Tony Blair. The
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  Speaker 1: film in question, The Blair Witch Project. Question 13. The
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  Speaker 1: opening line of which 1851 book by Herman Melville is
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  Speaker 1: Call Me Ishmael? Moby Dick. Question 14. Let's stick with
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  Speaker 1: opening lines, shall we? Which song begins with, I've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to call, I've been on my own for long enough?
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  Speaker 1: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd. Question 15. If we're playing
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  Speaker 1: Ace High, what is the value of of the third
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  Speaker 1: lowest card in the deck? If we're playing ace high,
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  Speaker 1: what's the value of the third lowest card in the deck?
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  Speaker 1: It's a four, two being the lowest, three being the
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  Speaker 1: second lowest, and four being the third lowest. Question 16.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk's electric car company was named after the Serbian
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  Speaker 1: inventor Tesla. Beginning with N... What was his first name? Nikola.
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Tesla. Question 17. What do you call a person
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  Speaker 1: who lives and works underwater for 24 hours or longer
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  Speaker 1: without returning to the surface? Crazy. No. You call them
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  Speaker 1: an aquanaut. Question 18. Which word precedes horn? Cape Horn,
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  Speaker 1: Cape Canaveral and Cape Byron. Question 19. After years of
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  Speaker 1: being blown up by bombs, run over by trains and
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  Speaker 1: smashed by anvils, what company does the coyote sue in
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  Speaker 1: the movie currently sitting at number three on the worldwide
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  Speaker 1: box office? The Coyote is suing Acme in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: The movie is Coyote versus Acme and it's due for
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  Speaker 1: release in Australia next week. Interestingly, this movie was 100%
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  Speaker 1: complete in 2022 and despite overwhelmingly positive reviews from the
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  Speaker 1: test screenings, it was shelved by Warner Brothers with a
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  Speaker 1: plan to claim a $ 30 million tax write-off. Well, just
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  Speaker 1: like The Coyote, it's hard to keep a good man down.
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  Speaker 1: Very much looking forward to seeing the film. Oh! It's
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  Speaker 1: not a Warner Brothers character, but we've got a Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Who Am I coming up, and then it's the Friday Funny.
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  Speaker 1: This is it. It's question 20. Who am I? Born
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia in July 1993. Both my parents are lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: although my father dabbled in acting. I have an older sister, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather created the Choose Your Own Adventure series of books.
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  Speaker 1: As a youngster, I made a number of professional theatre appearances,
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  Speaker 1: including a 2003 production of Macbeth. I went to the
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  Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts
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  Speaker 1: in Drama at the Juilliard School in New York, and
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  Speaker 1: in 2016 starred in the pilot for a Rob Reiner
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  Speaker 1: series called The Tap. that was never picked up. My
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  Speaker 1: first film role was Affairs of the State in 2018,
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  Speaker 1: but became a bit of a television mainstay in shows
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  Speaker 1: such as House of Cards, Elementary, The Politician, Hollywood and
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  Speaker 1: We Own This City. The comedy drama Look Both Ways
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  Speaker 1: and the slasher film Pearl were next, along with playing
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  Speaker 1: a storm chaser in Twisters and alongside Natalie Portman in
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  Speaker 1: Apple's Lady in the Lake. I played an NFL draft
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  Speaker 1: pick in Mr Irrelevant, the John Tuggle story. And in 2023,
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  Speaker 1: I was hired by director James Gunn and cast as
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  Speaker 1: Superman in the DC Universe reboot of the same name.
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  Speaker 1: I reprised the role in this year's Supergirl and will
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  Speaker 1: don the cape again in the upcoming Man of Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I am... I am David Corenswet. Hey, Rudy. Hey. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like the old Superman movies, like the really
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  Speaker 1: old ones with Christopher Reeve? Oh, 100%. They're classics. Do
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  Speaker 1: you prefer those over the new ones with David Corenswet?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't my favourite Superman, but it was okay. It
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  Speaker 1: was okay. Yeah, okay, okay. Well, let's not go too
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  Speaker 1: far into it. I'm sure plenty of our listeners love
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  Speaker 1: the movie. All right, well, Rudy's here. We've established that
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  Speaker 1: it's Friday Funny Time. Mate, it's time for you to
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  Speaker 1: deliver unto us a hilarious story Joke. Let thy joke
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  Speaker 1: be upon you. Go for it. Did you hear about
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  Speaker 1: the man who fell into an upholstery machine? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I'm laughing. No, I didn't. He's fully recovered.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's an outrageous premise. What is an upholstery machine?
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  Speaker 1: Don't start laughing. It's very, very tragic. Get off. he's
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  Speaker 1: doing just fine by the sounds of it as you
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  Speaker 1: are my friend hey that's terrific again Rudy thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much we really enjoy it. A lot of our listeners
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  Speaker 1: write in and they're very, very happy every Friday when
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  Speaker 1: you join us in the studio for the Friday Funny.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Oh, I just love
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  Speaker 1: all my listeners. Thank you so much for listening to
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  Speaker 1: me on Friday's episodes. Hopefully you do listen to my dad.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you might just skip straight to me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: more famous. They're just hanging out for you. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so school holiday specials are coming up. But because Rudy, Queensland,
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales, Victoria, it's sort of got different holidays,
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  Speaker 1: we've decided we're going to go with the school holiday
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  Speaker 1: specials starting on Monday the 28th of September and they'll
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  Speaker 1: run for two weeks. So we're looking forward to those.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime... Stay gold. Go for it, Barney Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Barney Boy...