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Monday, 17th February, 2025 (not St Patrick’s Day) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Gooday, listeners, it's your host here. I wanted to prologue
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  Speaker 1: this episode with a brain snap alert for some inexplicable reason.
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  Speaker 1: I was a month out and had it in my
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  Speaker 1: head that the seventeenth of February was Saint Patrick's Day,
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  Speaker 1: which of course it isn't. And as much as I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to pretend it was an elaborate Irish joke, I
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  Speaker 1: can't say. For a bloke who makes a living out
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  Speaker 1: of facts, well, that's not cool. So even if you're
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  Speaker 1: laughing at me and not with me, hopefully you get
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  Speaker 1: some crack at of today's episode of Car Trip Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: If you're joining us for the first time, Cartrip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: is as it sounds. It's a straightforward, twenty question quiz
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  Speaker 1: best played in the car, although you can play it
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  Speaker 1: anywhere you like. A very warm welcome today to all
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners from Ireland as we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who have Irish heritage,
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  Speaker 1: including myself, so we hope you enjoy it today's show.
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  Speaker 1: There's a few questions in there for you. Some shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: Colin from bent Lee his kids reckon he's getting old.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be forty eight tomorrow. Jack from Packenham makes it
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  Speaker 1: to thirteen and Aria from Moronbar will be five tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Today's birthdays, Aunt Scarlet from Manning in South Carolina will
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  Speaker 1: be fifty six. Eden from Port Kennedy is ten, Francesca
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  Speaker 1: from Gimpi is eight. Tom from Perth. He's also eight.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie from Albion Park is having a birthday, Lindsay from
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  Speaker 1: Oxenford is thirty nine during his Ossie road trip, and
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  Speaker 1: Daniel from Michigan in the United States of America is
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. I'm Stephen Cray and a prettier town may
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  Speaker 1: not be found than Roundstone in County Gorway. Question number one?
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  Speaker 1: What plant is commonly worn on Saint Patrick's Day? The
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  Speaker 1: three leaved clover, also known as the shamrock. Question two?
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  Speaker 1: Which of the following would you not use when baking
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  Speaker 1: a cake? Butter, flour, chili or eggs. I suppose if
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  Speaker 1: you're making a hot spicy cake you might use chili,
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  Speaker 1: but it's unusual, so chili would be the answer for
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  Speaker 1: question two. Question three, who did Daryl Hall team up
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  Speaker 1: with to become the best selling musical duo in history
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  Speaker 1: with ten number ones and more than eighty million records sold,
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Hall and John Oates became Hall and Oats. Question four?
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  Speaker 1: Which two letters are used to abbreviate the word our
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  Speaker 1: as in Hourglass hr? Question five? What kind of game
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  Speaker 1: is Canasta? It's a card game very similar to rumming.
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  Speaker 1: I played a lot as a kid with my dear
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  Speaker 1: departed Maum. Question six. In which country were both Pablo
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  Speaker 1: Picasso and Salvador Dally born? Spain? Question seven? What was
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  Speaker 1: the name of Captain Ahab's ship in Moby Dick the Peaquad?
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  Speaker 1: Question eight? What is the plural of person? People? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: According to the legend, which reptiles did Saint Patrick banish
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  Speaker 1: from Ireland? Snakes? Question ten? What is two Backer's weapon
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  Speaker 1: of choice? Is it a sonic blaster, a bow caster,
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  Speaker 1: or a slug thrower. It's the one that looks like
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  Speaker 1: a crossbow. It's a bowcaster. Question eleven. What color is
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  Speaker 1: an anagram of silla cibla, silla lilac l lac. Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Which esteemed female spy and inspiration for the modern femme
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  Speaker 1: fatale was born Margaretha Girtroida Zell in eighteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: Marta hari. Question thirteen. In March two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Suitor from Fordland, Missouri, survived after being picked up
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  Speaker 1: and carried three hundred and ninety eight meters by what
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  Speaker 1: a tornado. He was in his caravan at the time
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  Speaker 1: and only had minor injuries unbelievable. Question fourteen. According to
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  Speaker 1: the quote by Woody Allen, eighty percent of what is
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  Speaker 1: showing up. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: How many letters are there in the traditional Irish alphabet eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six or thirty one eighteen they are missing? Jkqvwx, Y,
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  Speaker 1: and Z. Question sixteen is Oprah Winfrey left or right handed?
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  Speaker 1: With a fortune of two point five billion dollars, Oprah
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  Speaker 1: Winfrey is the world's richest left handed woman. Question seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Dog breeds developed to assist humans with hunting are known
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  Speaker 1: by which name beginning with h hounds? Question eighteen. How
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  Speaker 1: many kings named Henry have there been since Henry the Eighth? None?
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  Speaker 1: Not one? Question nineteen. Which musical comedy and surprise hit
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety one features Jimmy Rabbit assembling a working
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  Speaker 1: class soul band in Dublin. The Commitments Great music. Great movie.
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  Speaker 1: Up next, We've got a who am I? With an
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  Speaker 1: Irish twist? Stay with us, here we go. Question twenty
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  Speaker 1: on the Saint Patrick's Day twenty twenty five is a
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  Speaker 1: who am I? Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in December
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, the middle of three children to Francis and William,
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  Speaker 1: who was a plumber and join up. We moved to
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  Speaker 1: England in nineteen seventy, where I learned to change my
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  Speaker 1: accent and featured in school plays in both primary and
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  Speaker 1: secondary school. After graduating with unflattering academic results, I joined
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  Speaker 1: the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty performed a soliloquy from Hamlet for Queen Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: My first movie was a small uncredited role in Chariots
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  Speaker 1: of Fire in nineteen eighty one, and my nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: four appearance in the acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production of
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  Speaker 1: Henry the Fifth would inspire me to direct a film
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  Speaker 1: version five years later. I co starred with my wife
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  Speaker 1: Emma Thompson in the nineteen ninety one romantic thriller Dead Again,
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  Speaker 1: and continued my run of Shakespeare adaptations with much Ado
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  Speaker 1: about nothing Othello Hamlet, and as you Like It. I
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  Speaker 1: have directed myself as Hercule Poirot three times and had
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  Speaker 1: supporting roles in Christopher Nolans, Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer. I
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  Speaker 1: ventured into the Disney and Marvel universes directing Cinderella and
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  Speaker 1: Thor and have been nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning
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  Speaker 1: one for the Autobiographical Film. From twenty twenty one, Belfast,
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  Speaker 1: I am. I Am Kenneth Brenner. And if you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to announce to the world the birthday of a loved one,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps your own birthday for that matter, you can
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  Speaker 1: do so by going to the car Trip Trivia Facebook
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  Speaker 1: page and through the Messenger app. Give me all the details,
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  Speaker 1: whose birthday is, where they're from, how old they are,
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  Speaker 1: and when's the birthday. We'll get that shout out on
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  Speaker 1: the air for you and we'll catch you again on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday when we return with the cart Trip Trivia around
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  Speaker 1: U sound another twenty questions. Can't wait. Thanks for your company,
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  Speaker 1: Stay God,