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Friday, 15th August, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Hello folks, and welcome back to another episode of Cartroub Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: We have a Friday funny, of course, and today's who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Well, it's not a who am I, it's
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  Speaker 1: something else. If you'd care to find out, stick around
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  Speaker 1: that's happening after the quiz. Now, as always, we have
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  Speaker 1: some birthday shoutouts. My good mate Burkie from Redhill was
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  Speaker 1: fifty on Wednesday. Happy birthday, mate, Hope you had a
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  Speaker 1: good one. Chelsea, loyal listener from Newfarm was twenty three yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, Casper from Norman Park has his once in
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime golden birthday. He's seventeen on the seventeenth. We
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  Speaker 1: also have James from Dubai turning thirteen on Sunday. Happy
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  Speaker 1: birthday buddy. Tomorrow, Max from Diamond Creek will be seven.
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  Speaker 1: Maya from Critch in England will be eighteen. Today's birthdays
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  Speaker 1: Tommy from Sydney is nineteen, Meghan from Missoula, Montana is thirty,
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  Speaker 1: and aj from oh Eagle Rock, California is eleven years
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  Speaker 1: of age. I'm Stephen Cray, and I recommend you protect
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  Speaker 1: the edges of all fabrics, ropes and cords so they
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  Speaker 1: don't fray? Question number one. It is universally recognized that
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  Speaker 1: you should brush your teeth at least how many times
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  Speaker 1: a day? Two times a day is the recommended number.
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  Speaker 1: I know people who brush them a lot more times
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  Speaker 1: than that. Question two. Another term for burglary is break
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  Speaker 1: and what break and enter? Now? Technically the definitions are
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  Speaker 1: slightly different, but they are often used to describe the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Question three. Which a variety of lawn grass
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  Speaker 1: is named after a large horned animal buffalo grass? Question four?
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a group of eight musicians? An octet?
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  Speaker 1: Oct et? Octet? Question five? In the classic hands Christian
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  Speaker 1: Anderson folk tale, which of the emperor's belongings are invisible
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  Speaker 1: to those who are incompetent or unintelligent? His clothes the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor's new clothes? Question number six? In the English language,
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  Speaker 1: what is the only letter that isn't the first letter
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  Speaker 1: of a country's name? X? Question seven? It's a follow
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  Speaker 1: up question, Which are the only two country names that
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  Speaker 1: contain an X? Mexico and Luxembourg? Question eight? What do
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  Speaker 1: you call a person who makes and repairs locks? A locksmith?
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  Speaker 1: Question nine? Which of the following celebrities did not turn
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  Speaker 1: eighty yesterday Wim Wenders, Rod Stewart or Steve Martin. Rod
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  Speaker 1: Stewart is indeed eighty, but he achieved that milestone in
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  Speaker 1: January of this year. German filmmaker Wim Wenders and the
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  Speaker 1: great Steve Martin celebrated their eightieth birthdays yesterday. Question ten
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  Speaker 1: In British and Ossie slang, what is a thunderbox? It's
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  Speaker 1: a primitive or portable toilet, often used when camping. Why
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  Speaker 1: they call it a thunderbox? Well, that's a question for
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  Speaker 1: another day. Question eleven. In which body of water are
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  Speaker 1: the Maldives, the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Indian Ocean?
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  Speaker 1: The Indian Ocean? Question twelve. Known for her love of
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  Speaker 1: painting and drawing. What was the name of the youngest
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  Speaker 1: March sister in Little Women Amy March? Question thirteen. Which
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  Speaker 1: gymnastic apparatus has two rails at different heights, the uneven
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  Speaker 1: bars or the asymmetric bars? Question fourteen. Which type of
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  Speaker 1: mollusc features in the title of the smash hit Korean
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  Speaker 1: television show Squid The show banks Squid Game. Question fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with B, which small, generally round objects have a
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  Speaker 1: hole for threading onto a string? Or wire beads. Question sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Betsy who is credited with sowing the first American flag.
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  Speaker 1: There's no real evidence that she did this way back
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy six, but that's what makes trivia so fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's Betsy Ross. Question seventeen. Which international distress signal is
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  Speaker 1: represented as dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot
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  Speaker 1: dot in Morse code SOS? Question eighteen. Founded in Australia
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred and sixty years ago, the brand CSR
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  Speaker 1: is well known for manufacturing which product sugar the Colonial
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  Speaker 1: Sugar Refining Company? Question nineteen? What type of dog is
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  Speaker 1: Marley in the movie Marley and Me? Marley is a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Labrador Retriever. You've been waiting so patiently. Up next
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  Speaker 1: to twists on the usual, it's what TV show am I?
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  Speaker 1: The weekend is upon us and the final question for
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  Speaker 1: this week is what TV show am I? I first
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  Speaker 1: aired on the British television network Channel four in December
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven and have gone on to release
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  Speaker 1: thirty three episodes over seven seasons. The third season culminated
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  Speaker 1: with a Christmas special, and in twenty eighteen, I spawned
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  Speaker 1: an interactive film that is rated as a seven point
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  Speaker 1: one out of ten on the International Movie Database. My
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  Speaker 1: creator was originally a comedy writer who started out reviewing
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  Speaker 1: video games and TV shows. I was inspired by the
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  Speaker 1: classic anthology shows The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected,
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  Speaker 1: with each of my episodes featuring standalone stories and a
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  Speaker 1: unique cast. In twenty fourteen, after a small bidding war,
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  Speaker 1: I was picked up by Netflix, who commissioned twelve episodes,
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  Speaker 1: the first airing in October twenty sixteen. Despite slightly less
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  Speaker 1: favorable reviews for the more recent episodes, I am widely
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  Speaker 1: regarded as one of the top television shows of the century,
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  Speaker 1: with my technology themed storylines often having real life parallels
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  Speaker 1: and making poignant social commentaries. My title is taken from
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  Speaker 1: the Arcade Fire song of the same name and refers
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  Speaker 1: to the cold, dark reflection of an electronic device that
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  Speaker 1: has been turned off.
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  Speaker 2: I Am, I Am Black Mirror, and now it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the Friday Funny with our resident comedian Rudy.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the studio. Thank you dad. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what todays? What is today? August fifteenth, International Relaxation Day?
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  Speaker 1: It yes, it is, and I'm going to take it
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  Speaker 1: easy and no joke. Okay, there's nothing worse in podcasts
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  Speaker 1: than that dead air mate. Really, I think you should
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  Speaker 1: probably give us a joke.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know I only know twenty five letters of
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  Speaker 1: the alphabet? No? I didn't. I don't know? Why? Okay, why? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: W h no write the letter?
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  Speaker 1: Why? Oh? You're getting cleverer and cleverer every single week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's Rudy, Thanks mate for joining us once again.
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  Speaker 1: That's It's reddict to be another great week of cartup Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: We thank all our listeners for joining us, and we
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  Speaker 1: look forward to their company again next week when cartrip
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  Speaker 1: Privia turns. In the meantime, stay gold