Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Tridents, Halo & Bohemian Rhapsody (Mon, 30th Mar, 2026)
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- 0:06Speaker 1: I hope you had a grand weekend. This is Cartrip Trivia,
- 0:10Speaker 1: Welcome back. We've got Easter school holidays coming for all
- 0:14Speaker 1: states and territories, so we'll kickstart our special themed editions
- 0:17Speaker 1: next week. But please note Easter Monday there will be
- 0:20Speaker 1: no new episode of Cartrip Trivia, but you can get
- 0:23Speaker 1: you fixed by diving into our extensive back catalog.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Today is episode five hundred and fifty and there'll be.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Two more by the time we get to next week,
- 0:31Speaker 1: so you can do the numbers their shout out time.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Caleb from New Orleans just turned eleven. Tom from Frankston
- 0:37Speaker 1: was fifteen on Saturday. Tomorra from Offenbach in Germany had
- 0:42Speaker 1: a birthday yesterday. Tomorrow we have Lawson from Flinders in
- 0:45Speaker 1: New South Wales turning nine and today's birthday just the one.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Erica from Guilford is twelve years of age. Happy birthday everyone,
- 0:54Speaker 1: and thanks for listening to the show. I'm Stephen Craye
- 0:57Speaker 1: and for our American listeners. Over the break, I have
- 1:00Speaker 1: the traffic's OK on the Beltway. Question one, what letter
- 1:07Speaker 1: is silent in the word knuckle? The K at the
- 1:15Speaker 1: very beginning k n uckl e knuckle. Question two the
- 1:21Speaker 1: playing field of what sport is called a diamond.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Baseball? Question three?
- 1:34Speaker 1: What country's troops were deployed to Northern Ireland in nineteen
- 1:38Speaker 1: sixty nine? Britain's Question four? How many segments do insect bodies?
- 1:50Speaker 3: Have?
- 1:55Speaker 1: Three segments, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. Question
- 2:00Speaker 1: number five. The two thousand and eleven Best Picture Oscar
- 2:04Speaker 1: winner the artist was unique in two distinct ways.
- 2:09Speaker 3: What were they? It was filmed in black and white
- 2:17Speaker 3: and it was a silent movie. Question number six, beginning
- 2:21Speaker 3: with b What is a meal consisting of multiple options
- 2:25Speaker 3: where guests serve themselves.
- 2:32Speaker 2: A buffet?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Question seven? What is the first word in the song
- 2:37Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is Is? Is this the real life?
- 2:47Speaker 1: Is this just fantasy? Question eight? Both from the same species.
- 2:52Speaker 1: What are cantalopes and honey jews? They're melons? In Australia
- 3:01Speaker 1: would call a cantalope a rock melon. Question nine. What
- 3:05Speaker 1: is the name of your character in the video game Halo?
- 3:10Speaker 1: Is it Master Chief, Nathan Drake or Agent forty seven?
- 3:20Speaker 1: They're all video game character names, but Master Chief is
- 3:23Speaker 1: the one we're looking for. Question ten The flag of
- 3:26Speaker 1: which Caribbean nation features a trident? Barbados? Question eleven. American
- 3:38Speaker 1: actor Bob Crane was murdered in June nineteen seventy eight,
- 3:43Speaker 1: and the case is unsolved to this day.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Which title character.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Did he play in a wartime TV comedy from the
- 3:50Speaker 1: nineteen sixties and seventies. He played Colonel Robert E. Hogan
- 4:00Speaker 1: from the TV show Hogan's Heroes. Question twelve. The term
- 4:04Speaker 1: fourteen nights is often abbreviated to what.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Fortnite?
- 4:14Speaker 1: Question thirteen? Which country hosted and won the Soccer World
- 4:19Speaker 1: Cup in nineteen ninety eight.
- 4:26Speaker 2: France?
- 4:27Speaker 1: Question fourteen, which app beginning with you provides a taxi service.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Uber? Question fifteen.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Which pioneering Kiwii pop rock band is touring Australia in
- 4:44Speaker 1: May to celebrate fifty years of timeless hits? Split Ends
- 4:53Speaker 1: should be a good show? Question sixteen. As a common
- 4:56Speaker 1: rule of thumb, an animal that hasn't been cited for
- 4:59Speaker 1: fifty years is said to be what extinct? Question seventeen.
- 5:10Speaker 1: What is the world's largest bay? Is it the Bay
- 5:13Speaker 1: of Bengal, the Bay of Biscay, or Hudson Bay. The
- 5:23Speaker 1: Bay of Bengal is the biggest, at almost twice the
- 5:26Speaker 1: size of Hudson Bay. It's just under two point two
- 5:29Speaker 1: million square kilometers. Question eighteen, which anagram of freed means
- 5:36Speaker 1: to put off to a future time defer def e
- 5:44Speaker 1: r Question nineteen, which recent film stars Kate Hudson and
- 5:49Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman as down on their luck performers starting a
- 5:52Speaker 1: Neil Diamond tribute band sung Blue. How about who am I?
- 6:04Speaker 1: We'll do that next stay with us. This is coutt Trivia.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It's time for question twenty, and it's a who am I?
- 6:11Speaker 2: Who Am I?
- 6:13Speaker 1: Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in England in January nineteen forty
- 6:17Speaker 1: to a mathematician cum clergyman and an actress come draftswoman.
- 6:21Speaker 1: I played a girl in a Saint Michael's Preparatory School
- 6:24Speaker 1: production of The Bluebird and the acting Barger had bitten.
- 6:28Speaker 1: At seventeen, I joined the Grimsby Art School and won
- 6:31Speaker 1: scholarships to Saint Martin's School of Art in London and
- 6:34Speaker 1: the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. My first major film
- 6:37Speaker 1: role was as Richard rich in A Man for All
- 6:40Speaker 1: Seasons in nineteen sixty six, but a claim arrived in
- 6:43Speaker 1: the form of a British Academy Television Award for Best
- 6:46Speaker 1: Actor in The Naked Civil Servant in nineteen seventy five.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Before my death in January twenty seventeen, I appeared in
- 6:54Speaker 1: more than one hundred and thirty movies, including nineteen eighty
- 6:58Speaker 1: four King Ralph, Indiana, Jones and The Kingdom of the
- 7:01Speaker 1: Crystal Skull, Tinker Taylor, Soldier Spy, and as Garrick Olivander
- 7:06Speaker 1: in the Harry Potter series. I played the war doctor
- 7:09Speaker 1: in Doctor Who, and let my voice to the animated
- 7:12Speaker 1: films Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings. Audiences
- 7:15Speaker 1: will recognize me as the victim in the ghastly chest
- 7:19Speaker 1: burster scene from Alien in nineteen seventy nine, but won't
- 7:23Speaker 1: recognize me as John Merrick in The Elephant Man from
- 7:26Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. I was nominated for two Oscars, was knighted
- 7:30Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, and was described by director David Lynch
- 7:34Speaker 1: as simply the greatest actor in the world. I am.
- 7:41Speaker 1: I Am John Hurt and our new segment Open Mike
- 7:46Speaker 1: returns on Wednesday. If you've ever been to an open Mike,
- 7:50Speaker 1: you'll know what it's all about. You can play the guitar.
- 7:52Speaker 1: You can sing a song, you can tell a joke,
- 7:54Speaker 1: you can tell a funny story, you can do whatever
- 7:56Speaker 1: you like.
- 7:57Speaker 2: It's really up to you.
- 7:58Speaker 1: It's the chance for our listeners to be a part
- 8:00Speaker 1: of the show in a very intimate way. If you
- 8:02Speaker 1: want to get your entries in for open Mic, get
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- 8:08Speaker 1: trip Trivia and you'll find out all the details. Thanks
- 8:11Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll catch your Wednesday. Until then, all
- 8:15Speaker 1: the very very best