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Barry Manilow, Mortarboards & Captains' Logs (Fri, 1st May, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Making your drive into school or work just that little
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  Speaker 1: bit more enjoyable. This is Capture Trivia. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a big one today, including a Hollywood Who
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  Speaker 1: Am I? And of course the Friday Funny with Rudy.
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  Speaker 1: Now to let you know, Rudy and I are doing
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  Speaker 1: a bonding father and son camp for this long weekend,
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  Speaker 1: so there'll be no new episode on Monday. Fortunately for
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  Speaker 1: our listeners, there are five hundred and sixty two other
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  Speaker 1: episodes to choose from. I'm thinking maybe the classic TV
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  Speaker 1: shows or perhaps the Human Body Quiz. Plenty to choose from.
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  Speaker 1: Birthday shout outs this coming Sunday. Angus from Bondai Beach
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  Speaker 1: will be thirty one tomorrow, Scarlett from Warren barrs turning ten,
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  Speaker 1: and my good mate Will from Kabba Dabadoo is turning nine.
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  Speaker 1: Today we've got Maizie from Sawtel seven years of age,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas from Lalor Park is twelve, and Ben from South
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  Speaker 1: Yarra is thirty two. Happy birthday everyone, I'm Stephen Craye
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  Speaker 1: and two crude but very funny blokes are Stone, Matt
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  Speaker 1: and Parker tray. Question one, what does we mean in French?
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  Speaker 1: Wi means yes. Question two? What type of creature is
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  Speaker 1: a whippet? A whippet is a dog? Question three? Discovered
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four and located seven two hundred light
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  Speaker 1: years from Earth. Signess x one is the first confirmed
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  Speaker 1: What is it a supernova, a black hole or a nebula?
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  Speaker 1: SIGNESS x one is a black hole. Question four? Where
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  Speaker 1: on your body would you wear a mortar board on
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  Speaker 1: your head? It's the academic headdress with the flat square
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  Speaker 1: top and the tassel, you know, the one they throw
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  Speaker 1: in the air in the movies when they graduate. Question five.
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  Speaker 1: What is the fourth most populous city in Australia Perth
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  Speaker 1: with around two point four million people. It's behind Sydney,
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne and Brisbane. Question number six. The popular saying taken
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  Speaker 1: from the title of the W. C. Fields movie from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty one is never give a succer a what
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  Speaker 1: Never give a soccer an even break? Question seven, beginning
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  Speaker 1: with s what do we call a car engines oil reservoir?
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  Speaker 1: The sump sunp sump? Question eight. In nineteen seventy three,
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Gough Whitlam controversially approved the purchase of which
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Pollock painting blue poles. Now that's not loop holes,
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  Speaker 1: that's blue b l ue poles po l ees. Question nine,
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  Speaker 1: A revival of enthusiasm is to get your second What
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  Speaker 1: get your second wind? Question ten? What famous explorer kept
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  Speaker 1: a phony captain's log to prevent panic amongst the crew?
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus. He didn't want them to know how far
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  Speaker 1: away from home they were, but he did keep a
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  Speaker 1: real log as well. Question eleven. Which period of fasting
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  Speaker 1: comes before easter lent? Question twelve? What nationality was Rembrandt?
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  Speaker 1: Rembrandt was Dutch? Question thirteen? In humorous slang? What type
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  Speaker 1: of bus might you be driving? If you were vomiting,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be driving the porcelain bus. Question fourteen. As of
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  Speaker 1: early twenty twenty six, which comic strip has sold three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three million copies, making it the third
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  Speaker 1: best selling comic book series ever? Is it Peanuts One
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  Speaker 1: Piece or Asterix? Asterix is the third best selling comic
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  Speaker 1: book series ever. Question fifteen. Which word is the adjectival
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  Speaker 1: form of spontaneity? How do we turn spontaneity into an adjective? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you use the word spontaneous. Question sixteen. What do we
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  Speaker 1: call a wolf's home a den. Question seventeen with just
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  Speaker 1: a dash of irony? Which nineteen seventy six song did
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  Speaker 1: Barry Manilow sing but not write? I write the songs?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen? What powdery substance beginning with P is essential
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  Speaker 1: for plant reproduction? Pollen? Question nineteen? This is the movie?
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  Speaker 1: Question always finished with a movie question which nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight movie featured the tagline just when you thought it
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  Speaker 1: was safe to go back in the water. The sequel
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  Speaker 1: to one of the greatest movies of all time, Jaws two,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a pretty good movie in its own right.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, and a little clue than who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Coming up? Did not appear in Jaws too. Let's finish
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  Speaker 1: the week with the bang, shall we? It's a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Born in Haverford, West in Wales in January
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four to English parents. My mother was a
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  Speaker 1: circus performer, my father an entrepreneur. My grandfather was a
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  Speaker 1: stand in for John Wayne. We left Wales when I
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  Speaker 1: was two and eventually settled in Bournemouth, England. I learned
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  Speaker 1: ballet as a child, appeared in a pac Man Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: serial commercial and played opposite Rowan Atkinson in a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty West End play The Nerd, before landing a major
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  Speaker 1: role in the Spielberg film Empire of the Sun. I
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  Speaker 1: appeared in Kenneth Brenner's Henry the Fifth and with Charlton
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  Speaker 1: Heston in Treasure Island before moving to la in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one. Dozens of movies have followed, including Rain of Fire, Rescue, Dawn,
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  Speaker 1: The Prestige, and The Machinist, which required me to lose
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine kilograms for the role. I played serial killer
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Bateman in American Psycho Gore, the god Butcher in Thor,
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  Speaker 1: Love and Thunder and one a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
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  Speaker 1: for The Fighter in two thousand and ten. I also
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  Speaker 1: have two Golden Globes and four British Academy Film Awards.
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  Speaker 1: I raced the GT forty in Ford Versus Ferrari, but
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  Speaker 1: am best known for playing the caped crusader in Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's Batman trilogy. I Am, I am Christian Bale. I
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  Speaker 1: who are you? I'm that man. You're Rudy. This is
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  Speaker 1: Rudy joining us for the Friday Funny. This is where
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  Speaker 1: he comes in on a Friday and delivers a joke
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  Speaker 1: for us. Is this correct? Yes, sir, it is. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we get straight to it. Let's do let's
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  Speaker 1: do a joke for the day. Alrighty, Then what do
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  Speaker 1: you call monkeys with the shared Amazon account? That does
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  Speaker 1: a good? No idea? Prime mates? He's got You should
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  Speaker 1: see if you could only see the look on Rudy's face.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mixture of success, arrogance, and sheer joy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what it is. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us, Rudy, Thanks dad. But before you go, we
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  Speaker 1: want to talk open mic. Open mic. Well, guys, get
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  Speaker 1: your jokes in, get your expressions in, impressions, impressions, get
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  Speaker 1: your musical instruments in. Really anything that can go into
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  Speaker 1: an open mic, that's right, all on Wednesday's episodes. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So you can play a musical instrument, you can do
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  Speaker 1: an impression and impersonation, you can tell a funny story,
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  Speaker 1: you can just say good ay. Get onto the Facebook page,
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  Speaker 1: Messenger app and leave us an audio file of up
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  Speaker 1: to thirty seconds. And I can't guarantee that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get everyone on, but we'll get as many on
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  Speaker 1: as we can. That's for open Mic Wednesdays. Stay Gold,
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  Speaker 1: We'll stay goodbye, first goodbye, and stay gol