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Monday, 5th May, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Helping keep your road trips saying since twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: this is character of trivia with a little something for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Now with much ado
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  Speaker 1: about nothing else, Let's get straight to the birthday shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: Robin from Louisiana just turned thirty six, Sky from Caringbar
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  Speaker 1: just turned twenty two. Now tomorrow, Eric Babdi from Googong
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  Speaker 1: will be twenty nine. Hang on spellcheck, sorry, Emily from
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  Speaker 1: Googong will be twenty nine. Peter from Denmarks having a party.
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  Speaker 1: Noah from Perth is turning ten. Caspian from Lower Plenty
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  Speaker 1: will be twelve. Today we have Olivia from Mitchelton Turty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, Brett from Kedron is thirty seven, and another
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  Speaker 1: Olivia from Tatura celebrating birthday today and feeling very Shakespearean
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  Speaker 1: Mercutio from Narara Thai turneth thirteen. I'm Stephen Cray and
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  Speaker 1: deriving from the Latin for blood of Jupiter is the
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  Speaker 1: red Italian graper a Javis. Question number one, Tabby and
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  Speaker 1: rag Doll are breeds of which animal? They're cats? Question two?
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  Speaker 1: What color eggs does sam i am prefer? In the
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Seuss book Green eggs and a little ham on
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  Speaker 1: the side. Question three, which sport first played in France
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  Speaker 1: has players hitting wooden, plastic or composite balls through hoops
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  Speaker 1: with a mallet croquet. Question four Alter? What was the
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  Speaker 1: pioneering internet search engine that ceased operating in twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: after being acquired by Yahoo Alta Vista, Alta, Alta, Alta Vista.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. A well known landmark in Kent, England are
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  Speaker 1: the White Cliffs of the White Cliffs of Dover. Question six.
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  Speaker 1: Which late guitar god blasted out the iconic solo on
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's Beat It? And what's more, he did it
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  Speaker 1: in just one take the legendary Eddie van Halen. Question seven.
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  Speaker 1: Which of the following is not soluble in water, sugar oil,
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  Speaker 1: or vinegar oil? Question eight. A blob of lava ejected
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  Speaker 1: from a volcano that solidifies in mid air and lands
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  Speaker 1: as a rock is known as a volcanic What a
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  Speaker 1: volcanic bomb? Question nine? Former US President Ronald Reagan revealed
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  Speaker 1: he was suffering from what disease in nineteen ninety four
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  Speaker 1: Alzheimer's disease. Question ten A common phrase used by highwaymen
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  Speaker 1: between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, was your money or
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  Speaker 1: your your money or your life? Question eleven. If I
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  Speaker 1: am in the world's northernmost capital city, where am I
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Reikjavik in Iceland. Question twelve. Which long running
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  Speaker 1: reality TV show has the tagline outwit, outplay, outlast survivor?
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  Speaker 1: Question number thirteen. Terrapists. The genus of bats found in
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  Speaker 1: Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa are commonly known as
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  Speaker 1: flying What flying foxes? And it's by now accident that
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  Speaker 1: name they look like foxes? Question fourteen. Which part of
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  Speaker 1: the human body is nephrology? The study of the kidneys?
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen, beginning with D What is the name of
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  Speaker 1: the fictional ship that carried Dracula from Transylvania to England? Demeter?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen How often is the FIFA Soccer World Cup
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  Speaker 1: held once every four years? Now? Follow up question for
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  Speaker 1: question seventeen in what year will the next FIFA Soccer
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  Speaker 1: World Cup be held? Next year? Twenty twenty six in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, Canada and Mexico. Question eighteen. Small pox
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  Speaker 1: is caused by a virus? True or false? True? It's
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  Speaker 1: a contagious disease caused by the Variola virus. Question nineteen
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  Speaker 1: which beachfront property does Lex Luthor seek as reward for
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  Speaker 1: betraying the Man of Steel in Superman two Australia. Let's
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  Speaker 1: come back in a moment, shall we We'll do who
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  Speaker 1: am I? And we'll wrap this thing up. Stay with
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  Speaker 1: us and question twenty today is a who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Who Am I? Born in Basel, Switzerland in August nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one, the younger brother of Diana. Due to my
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  Speaker 1: mother's heritage, we both have Swiss and South African citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: I played my first game of tennis at the age
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  Speaker 1: of three, and by eight was in the elite junior
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  Speaker 1: program at the Old Boys Tennis Club in Barsels. Famous
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  Speaker 1: one handed backhand was inspired by my childhood idols Stephan
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  Speaker 1: ed Berg, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras, and I credit
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  Speaker 1: Australian coach Pete Carter for my entire technique and coolness.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety five, I won the under fourteen Swiss
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  Speaker 1: National Championship and won the boys singles and doubles finals
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  Speaker 1: at the nineteen ninety eight Wimbledon Tournament. I made my
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  Speaker 1: Davis Cup deboos in nineteen ninety nine. But lost in
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the French Open and Wimbledon. In
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  Speaker 1: the same year. I played in the Sydney two thousand
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  Speaker 1: Olympics and lost the bronze medal match to Frenchman Arnot
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  Speaker 1: di Pascal. I won my first Grand Slam singles title,
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  Speaker 1: beating Ozzie Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon in two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: and made twenty of the twenty four major singles finals
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  Speaker 1: between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: I led Switzerland to the Davis Cup title in twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen and won Olympic doubles gold in Beijing, finishing my
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  Speaker 1: career in September twenty twenty two with twenty Grand Slam
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  Speaker 1: singles titles, including eight Wimbledon's, six Australian Opens, and one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million dollars US in prize money. He
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  Speaker 1: knew who I was from the first two paragraphs, but
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  Speaker 1: you kept on listening. I am I am Roger Federer.
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  Speaker 1: Now da'd forget folks. We have an extensive back catalog
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  Speaker 1: of trivia quizes. In fact, taking into account the average
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  Speaker 1: episodes around eight minutes long, we have fifty five hours
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  Speaker 1: of trivia for you so you could drive for nearly
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  Speaker 1: two and a half days and never repeat a show,
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  Speaker 1: Keep quizzing and stay gold.