Latest / Car Trip Trivia / American Football, Star Trek & Exploding Billiards (Fri, 20th Feb, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: It's time to hit the road with car trip trivia. Now,
- 0:10Speaker 1: apart from being in the drive through of your favorite
- 0:13Speaker 1: fast food restaurant, it's about as much fun as you
- 0:16Speaker 1: can have in the car, or while you're at a
- 0:19Speaker 1: dinner party, or while you're at the gym or on
- 0:21Speaker 1: the train. You can listen anywhere anytime. That's the beauty
- 0:23Speaker 1: of the thing. Now the Friday Funny with Rudy is
- 0:26Speaker 1: on its way, but right now, let's do some birthday shoutouts.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Harry from North Weald in Essex just turned twenty six
- 0:33Speaker 1: on Sunday. Paul from Creston, Washington, it's turning thirty one.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Bo from Hobart will be nine, Scarlet from Thornton will
- 0:40Speaker 1: be eight, and Carlos from Shelby and Sydney is having
- 0:43Speaker 1: a birthday tomorrow. Jianna from Middleton, Maryland will be twelve. Middletown,
- 0:49Speaker 1: I should say Maryland it will be twelve. Jack from
- 0:52Speaker 1: Colloi Plateau on Sydney's Northern Beaches here'll be forty nine.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We've got Will from q running in the Port Ferry
- 0:58Speaker 1: half Marathon on Sunday. He's for today's birthdays. A real
- 1:02Speaker 1: international field to this one. We have Hannah from Auckland,
- 1:05Speaker 1: turning twelve, Alex from Kent is twenty seven, Deanna from Martinez,
- 1:10Speaker 1: California is forty five, Avery from Haxton, Colorado is thirteen,
- 1:15Speaker 1: and Oliver from r Russ, Denmark is twenty eight years
- 1:19Speaker 1: of age. I'm Stephen Craye and from Baton Rouge to
- 1:23Speaker 1: centrepe It's question one, which spice and table condiment is
- 1:31Speaker 1: usually associated with salt pepper? Salt and pepper? Question two?
- 1:42Speaker 1: What word beginning with B is defined as a gentle wind,
- 1:52Speaker 1: breeze B double e z E. Question number three? In
- 1:56Speaker 1: American football? How many points are awarded for a kick
- 2:01Speaker 1: conversion after a touchdown? One point? Question four? What type
- 2:11Speaker 1: of animal is a pale clouded yellow? Is it a butterfly,
- 2:17Speaker 1: a fish, or a bird? A pale clouded yellow is
- 2:26Speaker 1: a butterfly found across Europe and the Palearctic. Question five?
- 2:31Speaker 1: What planet does doctor Spock come from? We don't do
- 2:40Speaker 1: any star trek questions, but that's one for the trekkies
- 2:42Speaker 1: Vulcan Question six. According to the famous riddle, how many
- 2:46Speaker 1: wives did the man I met have? As I was
- 2:50Speaker 1: traveling to Saint Ives? As I was going to Saint
- 2:57Speaker 1: Ives I met a man with seven wives? Question is
- 3:02Speaker 1: busy man? Question seven? In the first series of television's
- 3:05Speaker 1: Will and Grace in nineteen ninety eight, what does Will
- 3:08Speaker 1: talk Grace out of doing? Will talks Grace out of
- 3:16Speaker 1: getting married? Question eight? In military parlance, GI stands for
- 3:22Speaker 1: general issue or what issue Government issue? Question nine? Which
- 3:33Speaker 1: country did Nikolai Chowchescue lead? Until nineteen eighty nine? Romania?
- 3:45Speaker 1: Question ten? Which of Adele's albums was the fastest selling
- 3:50Speaker 1: album of twenty fifteen, with three point three eight million
- 3:54Speaker 1: copies sold in its first week of release in the
- 3:56Speaker 1: US alone. The albums are named after her age. This
- 4:05Speaker 1: one was twenty five. Question eleven of the M four,
- 4:10Speaker 1: M five and M six motorways in the United Kingdom,
- 4:14Speaker 1: which is the longest the M six. It runs from
- 4:22Speaker 1: Rugby in the West Midlands to the Scottish border near Gretna.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Question twelve. Person or thing with no protection against an
- 4:31Speaker 1: attack is often described as a sitting What a sitting duck?
- 4:43Speaker 1: Question thirteen. In the late nineteenth century, billiard balls were
- 4:47Speaker 1: known to explode on impact. True or false? It's actually true.
- 4:57Speaker 1: The nitro cellular space balls were highly flammable, and they
- 5:01Speaker 1: could produce a mild explosion when they were struck together.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Question fourteen. In ossie slang, a person from the state
- 5:08Speaker 1: of Queensland is a banana? What a banana bender? Question fifteen.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Since the advent of email, what internet uses derisively call
- 5:26Speaker 1: regular postal mail snail mail because it's slow comparatively? Question sixteen.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Which entertainer coined the phrase I cried all the way
- 5:41Speaker 1: to the bank? Was it Little Richard Ray Charles or
- 5:47Speaker 1: Liberaci Liberaci? After a few poor reviews from critics, he
- 5:56Speaker 1: got the last laugh, didn't he? Question seventeen. What all that?
- 6:00Speaker 1: A word? Describes the device used by a DJ to
- 6:04Speaker 1: manipulate and mix audio tracks. Deck de Eck. A DJ
- 6:14Speaker 1: doesn't go anywhere without his deck. Question eighteen. The scientific
- 6:18Speaker 1: name for which extinct Australian marsupial is pile a sign
- 6:28Speaker 1: the Tasmanian tiger. Question number nineteen. This is the movie
- 6:34Speaker 1: question Who does Scott Pilgrim go up against? In the
- 6:38Speaker 1: title of the twenty ten Coming of Age comedy starring
- 6:41Speaker 1: Michael Sarah and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, The World Scott Pilgrim
- 6:51Speaker 1: versus the world? Who am I? We're going to find
- 6:56Speaker 1: out in moments that it's the Friday Funny with Ready.
- 7:01Speaker 1: If you're listening to this on the waiter school, then
- 7:03Speaker 1: you've got about eight hours left. If you're listening on
- 7:06Speaker 1: the way home from school, then you beauty. It's question twenty.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Who Am I? Born in Seoul, South Korea, on New
- 7:14Speaker 1: Year's Eve nineteen seventy seven as Park Jay Sang. My
- 7:18Speaker 1: mother is a restauranteur, and my father executive chairman and
- 7:21Speaker 1: controlling shareholder of DEI Corporation. I was the class clown
- 7:26Speaker 1: at school and my love for music was ignited when
- 7:28Speaker 1: I watched Queen Live at Wembley Stadium on TV when
- 7:32Speaker 1: I was fifteen. In order to take over from my father,
- 7:34Speaker 1: I was to study Business admin at Boston University, but
- 7:38Speaker 1: instead immersed myself in the music scene and briefly attended
- 7:41Speaker 1: Berkeley College of Music before returning home. As a singer,
- 7:45Speaker 1: I was used by rapper Zoe PD on his album
- 7:48Speaker 1: in Stardom Version two point zero in nineteen ninety nine,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and released my own full length album two years later.
- 7:56Speaker 1: My blunt lyrics and obscure dancing style saw me nickname
- 8:00Speaker 1: The Bizarre Singer. Two more albums followed before I was
- 8:04Speaker 1: conscripted into the South Korean military in two thousand and three,
- 8:07Speaker 1: released from duty, and then redrafted until two thousand and nine.
- 8:12Speaker 1: In July twenty twelve, I released the EP six Rules,
- 8:16Speaker 1: Part one, containing the global viral phenomenon Gangnam Style, which
- 8:22Speaker 1: became the first ever YouTube video to reach one billion views.
- 8:26Speaker 1: My stage name has but three letters. I am, I
- 8:34Speaker 1: am si ha Is that a sigh? Is it? Yes?
- 8:39Speaker 1: It is? Haha. Very funny, it's your joke. Well that's
- 8:44Speaker 1: an slaper. That is an ee slapper. There we go.
- 8:46Speaker 1: This is Rudy and he's in for the Friday funny.
- 8:48Speaker 1: So let's get straight to it, shall we, Mate? What
- 8:50Speaker 1: have you got if you've got a humorous moment for us? Yes?
- 8:53Speaker 1: I do. Did you hear about the chess players bragging
- 8:57Speaker 1: in a hotel lobby? Of course I have it. No, No,
- 9:01Speaker 1: I have it. They were chestnuts boasting in an open foil.
- 9:12Speaker 1: That's very clever. That's very very clever. You thank you,
- 9:16Speaker 1: thank you? Did you make that up? Maybe you don't
- 9:18Speaker 1: reveal your sources, do you? No? Okay, hey, listen, I
- 9:21Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, mate, what do you think of
- 9:22Speaker 1: our new segment on Wednesdays the open Mic. I love it, dad,
- 9:26Speaker 1: It's going to be so interesting and just I love
- 9:29Speaker 1: hearing from the listeners. Well that's very enthusiastic. Mate. What
- 9:32Speaker 1: sort of stuff do you want to hear from them
- 9:34Speaker 1: when they when they send us their audio? One thing? Jokes? Okay,
- 9:38Speaker 1: you want more material? Sure? Whatever. You can't use the
- 9:42Speaker 1: jokes after they've already said them. You know that, don't you. Yes,
- 9:44Speaker 1: I did good stuff. If you want to be a
- 9:46Speaker 1: part of open Mic, you've got to join our Patreon page.
- 9:49Speaker 1: You can find out exactly how to do that, and
- 9:51Speaker 1: it's not difficult. It'll take a few minutes of your
- 9:54Speaker 1: time maximum. You go to our car trip trivia facebook
- 9:58Speaker 1: page for details. With that, we're gonna catch you all
- 10:02Speaker 1: next week. See you next Friday. Stay dog,