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Napoleon Bonaparte, Starbucks & Doctor Who (Fri, 12th June, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: This is Carter Trivia. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're here for the questions and the Friday funny.
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  Speaker 1: Rudy's going to be in soon. So with a stack
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  Speaker 1: of birthday shout outs today, let's get straight to it.
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  Speaker 1: Chloe from Brisbane recently turned twenty eight and a good
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  Speaker 1: Nate Courtney from Rockhampton is twenty five today. Evian Flynn
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  Speaker 1: from turn Gabby turned ten and twelve this week and
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  Speaker 1: Fraser on his road trip to Exmouth was thirty yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Now a lot of people having a birthday this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Carp Trivia's number one fan, Emily from Vermont in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, will be thirty one. Oliver from Somerville in
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  Speaker 1: Massachusetts is twenty four. Katie from North Sydney is celebrating
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  Speaker 1: one more year. Joey from Palm Beach will be twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Lewis from Chinton is turning thirteen. Natasha from Perth will
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  Speaker 1: be thirty two, Joey from the Gold Coast will be
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, and that's all. Sunday Tomorrow we have Michael
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  Speaker 1: from Canterbury. He'll raise his bat for a half century.
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  Speaker 1: Well played. Sir Harris from Blackiston in South Australia is
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  Speaker 1: turning nine, Rachel from Bethania will be thirty two, Orgie
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  Speaker 1: from Frisco, Texas is turning ten. And today's birthdays Ethan
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  Speaker 1: from Cirencester in the UK is twenty, Troy from Boning,
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales is forty eight, and Audrey from London
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  Speaker 1: but very soon moving to Sydney is eleven years of age.
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  Speaker 1: Safe travels and happy birthday. Wow, I'm Stephen Cray. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: those shout outs and today's show help keep your worries
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  Speaker 1: at bay. Question one in the classic children's game what
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  Speaker 1: food item does one balance on a spoon whilst racing
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  Speaker 1: to the finish line? An egg? It's the old egg
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  Speaker 1: and spoon race. Question two. A sudden heavy fall of
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  Speaker 1: rain over a short period of time is called a
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  Speaker 1: down What a down pour? Question three, which US state
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  Speaker 1: beginning with T was known as Franklin until seventeen ninety
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  Speaker 1: six Tennessee Question four? By what name is non scratch
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  Speaker 1: multi purpose cleaning product SIFF known in Australia SIF CIF
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  Speaker 1: in Australia is known as Jiff JIF. Question five. Out
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  Speaker 1: of the actors Tom Baker and Colin Baker, who played
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  Speaker 1: doctor who first Tom He started his stretch as the
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  Speaker 1: Time Lord from Galli Fray in June nineteen seventy four.
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  Speaker 1: Colin started in March nineteen eighty four. Question six. On
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  Speaker 1: the twenty ninth of August nineteen forty nine, what country
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  Speaker 1: became the second ever to detonate an atomic bomb the USSR?
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  Speaker 1: Question seven? What female name is an anagram of great? Great? Great?
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  Speaker 1: Becomes Greta gr Eta? Question eight? What was the name
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  Speaker 1: of the viral TikTok dance trend set to the song
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  Speaker 1: Lottery by k Camp the Renegade or the Renegade Dance Challenge?
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  Speaker 1: Question nine. Between nineteen eighty seven and two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks globally opened on average two stores a day, two
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  Speaker 1: stores a week, or two stores a month. Starbucks opened
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  Speaker 1: two stores every day between that period of time. Question ten.
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  Speaker 1: Which two British coins gave us the name of the
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  Speaker 1: classic high wheel bicycle, the penny and the farthing? Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the bicycle was called the penny Farthing? Question eleven. The
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  Speaker 1: infamous Indian con man Natt Warnell, who died in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine, was widely known for dodgy schemes, including
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  Speaker 1: the sale of the Red Fort Indian Parliament and which
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  Speaker 1: other national monument the taj Mahal Yep, he tried to
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  Speaker 1: sell them. In fact, he did sell them and made
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  Speaker 1: a stack of cash. Question twelve. An impediment to traffic
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  Speaker 1: is called a what neck? A bottle neck? Question thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with P. What is a statement, situation, or idea
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  Speaker 1: that seems self contradictory, impossible, or contrary to common sense,
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  Speaker 1: but may reveal a hidden truth a clue. Think of
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  Speaker 1: Doc Brown a paradox Mary. Question fourteen. Which toy and
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  Speaker 1: board game company has trademarked the word ouiji as in
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  Speaker 1: Wuiji board has bro. We're always told as kids don't
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  Speaker 1: play around with those things, and now they're selling them.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. What does the abbreviation I why K y
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  Speaker 1: K that's I y K y K stand for? If
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  Speaker 1: you know you know? Question sixteen? How old was Napoleon
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  Speaker 1: Bonaparte when he died in eighteen twenty one? Was he
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  Speaker 1: fifty one, fifty seven or sixty three? He was fifty one?
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. Featuring in the TV series A Simple Life,
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  Speaker 1: what breed was Paris Hilton's pet dog, tinker Bell? Tinker
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  Speaker 1: Bell was a Chihuahua, and she sadly died in the
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  Speaker 1: year twenty fifteen? Question eighteen What device is attached to
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  Speaker 1: a gun to muffle the sound and reduce recoil a silencer?
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen which twenty twenty six Box Office Smash sees
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  Speaker 1: Ryland Grace wake up on a spaceship with amnesia on
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  Speaker 1: a mission to save the Sun and the Earth from extinction.
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  Speaker 1: Project Hail Mary with Ryan Gosling. Now Ryland Grace, Ryan Gosling,
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  Speaker 1: there's something there. Surely Okay, we're coming back. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a who am I? And then it's the Friday Funny
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  Speaker 1: with Rudy Last one for today, Question twenty and it's
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  Speaker 1: a who am I? Who Am I? Born in by On,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey in September nineteen forty eight. My middle name
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  Speaker 1: is Raymond, and in twenty and eleven I was on
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  Speaker 1: Time Magazine's list of one hundred most influential people in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Lost a fortune During the Great Depression, the family,
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  Speaker 1: including my two young sisters, lived in a housing project.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote scary stories about monsters and sold them to
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  Speaker 1: kids in the neighborhood and became a comic book fan
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  Speaker 1: in high school. Citing stan Lee as a literary influence.
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  Speaker 1: I attended the world's first Comic Con in New York
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen sixty four, and won the Alli Award for
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  Speaker 1: Best fan Fiction one year later for my story Powerman
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  Speaker 1: Versus the Blue Barrier. I obtained a Master of Science
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  Speaker 1: in journalism and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
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  Speaker 1: I sold my first short story to Galaxy magazine in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one and published my first novel, Dying of
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  Speaker 1: the Light, in nineteen seventy seven. In this period, I
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  Speaker 1: taught English and journalism at Clark College and ran chess
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  Speaker 1: tournaments on the weekend. During the nineteen eighties, I published
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  Speaker 1: a vampire novel, a collection of short stories, and worked
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  Speaker 1: on the TV show Ma's Headroom. In nineteen ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: I released the first of a planned seven novels in
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  Speaker 1: the epic fantasy series, A Song of Fire and Ice,
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  Speaker 1: which was picked up a decade later and became the
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  Speaker 1: HBO series Game of Thrones. I Am I Am George R.
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  Speaker 1: For Raymond Martin, George R.
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  Speaker 2: Martin, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. It's the Friday
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  Speaker 2: Funny with Rudy Craye who.
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  Speaker 1: Needs a host when you got this little blake. He
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  Speaker 1: just looks after himself. You've had a good week.
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  Speaker 2: I've had an amazing week.
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  Speaker 1: How but you did terrific. Terrific. Let's get straight to it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear about the detective who found the murder
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  Speaker 2: weapon in record time?
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  Speaker 1: No? What about him?
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  Speaker 2: It was a briefcase.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, mate, I have the listeners when they hear
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  Speaker 1: these jokes are laughing as much as I do. But
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  Speaker 1: it truly is genuinely entertaining. And you you've got quite
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  Speaker 1: a talent, mate. Thank you dad. Nice work. So I
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  Speaker 1: will leave you with something profound. Trivia podcasts and detective
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  Speaker 1: work are not dissimilar. Keep your eyes sharper, your wits sharper,
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  Speaker 1: and remember the truth is always hiding in the details.
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  Speaker 2: Case closed.