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Monday, 12th May, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: And a very big happy Mother's Day for all of
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  Speaker 1: our Australian mums who have been listening to the show
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  Speaker 1: that was for yesterday. Hope you had a great day,
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  Speaker 1: got plenty of gifts. Welcome to another episode of Car
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  Speaker 1: Trip Trivia. This is the show where you get to
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  Speaker 1: test your ability to recall mostly useless facts and then
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  Speaker 1: if you go okay, you can bloat to your friends
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  Speaker 1: and family about it. Thanks for joining us. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode four hundred and eighteen. How about some birthday shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: Heath from Aubrey was nine yesterday. Tomorrow Nash from Cambridge
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  Speaker 1: Park will be twenty, Belinda from Mount d'need will be
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  Speaker 1: forty five, Matt from Collinsville will be twenty eight. And
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  Speaker 1: today we have a few. Patrick from Narraban is eight,
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  Speaker 1: Zoe from Ohio he is thirteen, and Jacob from Bellevue Hill.
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  Speaker 1: He's been listening to the show for more than twelve
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  Speaker 1: months now he's nine years of age. Thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: a part of it, mate, I'm Stephen Craye And to
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  Speaker 1: all our French listeners, con chante. Question one in the
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  Speaker 1: Lion King, who is Simba's mother Sarabi? Question two? Do
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  Speaker 1: all dominoes have spots. No, not all of them are
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  Speaker 1: standard domino set contains one blank. Question three. Which US
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  Speaker 1: city is known as the City that Never sleeps? New York?
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  Speaker 1: Question four? Which synthetic radioactive element is named after Albert Einstein.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Albertium, It's Einsteinium. Question five. Which composer died
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  Speaker 1: during a thunderstorm at the age of fifty six in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen twenty seven, Ludwig van Beethoven. Question six, According to
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  Speaker 1: the Jack Spratt nursery rhyme, between he and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: what did they lick clean the bowl, the platter or
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  Speaker 1: the saucepan. Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife
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  Speaker 1: could eat no lean, and so between them both, you
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  Speaker 1: see they licked the platter clean. Question seven. Actress Zoe
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  Speaker 1: Kravitz is the daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz, and which
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  Speaker 1: former Cosby Show star Lisa bon A. Question eight. If
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  Speaker 1: all of South America's countries were listed alphabetically, which would
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  Speaker 1: be the last on the list? Venezuela. Question nine? What
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  Speaker 1: number does every Major League Baseball player, manager, coach, and
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  Speaker 1: umpire wear on the fifteen of April? The number forty
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  Speaker 1: two in honor of Jackie Robinson and the end of
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  Speaker 1: baseball segregation? Question number ten. What do we call the
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  Speaker 1: rear inner surface of the eye the retina? Question eleven?
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  Speaker 1: Which humorous five line poems are named after a city
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  Speaker 1: in Ireland? Limericks? Question twelve? What animal has the species pygmy,
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  Speaker 1: honey and ringtail possums? Question thirteen Launched in May two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three, which social media platform was specifically designed
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  Speaker 1: for professional networking? Business and employment? LinkedIn? Question fourteen? How
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  Speaker 1: many apostles am I likely to see when driving along
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  Speaker 1: Victoria's Great Ocean Road? Twelve apostles? Although the truth be told,
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  Speaker 1: there aren't twelve now and there never were twelve. That's
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  Speaker 1: just what the landmark is called. There's about seven of them.
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  Speaker 1: It's a stack of limestone rock formations. Question fifteen. What
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  Speaker 1: was the name of the werewolf sun in the TV
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  Speaker 1: comedy series The Monsters Eddie Munster? Question sixteen? What is
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  Speaker 1: the most popular Mother's Day gift in Australia? Chocolates, massages
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  Speaker 1: or flowers? Flowers? Question seventeen. Is a sextant, a group
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  Speaker 1: of six musicians, or a navigating instrument. It's a navigating
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  Speaker 1: instrument used to determine the angle between the horizon and
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  Speaker 1: a celestial body like the Sun or the moon. Question eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: For which Olympic sport is Tanya Harding best known figure skating.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a bit more of a history too. Watch
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  Speaker 1: the movie It Tonya if you want to know the details.
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen. The inspiration for naming the iPod came from
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  Speaker 1: which Stanley Kubrick movie two thousand and one, A Space
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  Speaker 1: Odyssey Open the Pod Bay doors holl was a line
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  Speaker 1: from the film that turned out to be quite inspirational.
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  Speaker 1: All right back in a sec Whether who am I
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  Speaker 1: stay with us? Scoutrip trivia, Let's do it? Question twenty,
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Born in New Brunswick, Canada
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  Speaker 1: in July nineteen thirty five. As a child, I had hepatitis,
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  Speaker 1: rheumatic fever and polio. I spent my teenage years in Nova, Scotia,
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  Speaker 1: where I landed my first part time job as a
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  Speaker 1: news reporter at radio station CKBW. I graduated from Bridgewater
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  Speaker 1: High School, had a brief stint as an exchange student
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  Speaker 1: in Finland, and earned a dual degree in engineering and
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  Speaker 1: drama from Victoria University. During the sixties, I had small
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  Speaker 1: television parts and featured with Christopher Lee in the Hammer
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  Speaker 1: horror films Castle of the Living Dead and Doctor Terror's
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  Speaker 1: House of Horrors. My breakthrough came in nineteen sixty seven's
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  Speaker 1: The Dirty Dozen, leading to the role of Hawkeye Pierce
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  Speaker 1: in the original mash movie in nineteen seventy and major
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  Speaker 1: parts in Klute, Don't Look Now and The Invasion of
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  Speaker 1: the Body Snatches. I played a sadistic warden opposite Sylvester
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  Speaker 1: Stallone in Lock Up, a pyromaniac in the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: one thriller Backdraft, and an aging astronaut in Space Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: But am best known to modern audiences as President Snow
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  Speaker 1: in the Hunger Games franchise. I've won Primetime Emmys and
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  Speaker 1: Golden Globes, but am considered one of the finest actors
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  Speaker 1: never to have been nominated for an Academy Award. I
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  Speaker 1: died in June twenty twenty four at the age of
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight, leaving behind five children, including actor Kiefer I Am.
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  Speaker 1: I Am Donald Sutherland. Now Don't Forget. On Wednesday's episode
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  Speaker 1: of Cartrip Trivia, we do the bonus round of sound
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  Speaker 1: twenty questions first and then we'll play a few sounds
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  Speaker 1: and see if you can guess what they are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a small favor to ask. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: already done so, please subscribe or follow the show. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it on your favorite podcast platform. It's really easy,
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  Speaker 1: extract from the show. This is cartrip Trivia. Catch you
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  Speaker 1: next time. Stay Gold.