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- 0:07Speaker 1: Hello and welcome everyone, and thanks so much for joining us.
- 0:09Speaker 1: It's another school Holiday special edition of Car Trip Trivia
- 0:13Speaker 1: with a twist. You see in the real world, I
- 0:15Speaker 1: have a real job and I have unexpectedly been called
- 0:18Speaker 1: away on an overseas trip, so I am unable to
- 0:21Speaker 1: deliver brand new episode. So for the rest of this week,
- 0:23Speaker 1: we're going to stick with the theme school holiday style,
- 0:26Speaker 1: but we're going to go on a journey back in time.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Today's episode is from July twenty twenty three. It's episode
- 0:33Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one The Dead Celebrities Special. Now,
- 0:37Speaker 1: I'll still do the birthday shout outs that I've got
- 0:40Speaker 1: on record. I haven't caught up with all the ones
- 0:42Speaker 1: that have come in over the last few days because
- 0:44Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting to do them, so I'll do a
- 0:46Speaker 1: catch up for those upon my return. All right, Tomorrow,
- 0:50Speaker 1: Caitlin from Michigan will be ten. New Mama Chloe from
- 0:54Speaker 1: Nimogy in New South Wales is turning twenty three today.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Mia from Bondai is thirteen. Baylor from Oahu is ten.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Ford from Westlake Village in California is eight. Taylor from Knoxville,
- 1:09Speaker 1: Tennessee always reminds me of Christopher Walken in Polp fiction.
- 1:12Speaker 1: When I hear about Knoxville twenty three years old today
- 1:15Speaker 1: and Golden Birthday time Freddie from Adelaide is six Today,
- 1:20Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Craye with a tribute to our favorite celebrities
- 1:25Speaker 1: who have passed away. Question one. Steve Irwin, who sadly
- 1:30Speaker 1: left us in two thousand and six, was also known
- 1:33Speaker 1: as the What Hunter the Crocodile Hunter. Question two. Kobe Bryant,
- 1:43Speaker 1: who died in January twenty twenty played which sport basketball?
- 1:52Speaker 1: Question three? Which year in the nineteen seventies did Elvis
- 1:56Speaker 1: Presley die nineteen seventy seven? Question four? Which Brazilian soccer
- 2:07Speaker 1: player who died in December twenty twenty two was best
- 2:10Speaker 1: known by his one word nickname Pelee. Question five. Of
- 2:19Speaker 1: these legendary singers all lost in twenty twenty three, who
- 2:22Speaker 1: was the most recent to die? Tina Turner, Gordon Lightfoot
- 2:27Speaker 1: or Harry Belafonte Tina Turner on the twenty fourth of May.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Question six, Whose death do Christians commemorate each year over
- 2:40Speaker 1: the Easter period? Jesus Christ, while he was a superstar
- 2:48Speaker 1: in the musical Okay. Question seven. Alan Rickman, who died
- 2:51Speaker 1: just four days after David Bowie in January twenty sixteen,
- 2:55Speaker 1: played which professor in all eight of the Harry Potter
- 2:59Speaker 1: films Professor Severus Snape Question eight. Recently departed Australian comedian
- 3:09Speaker 1: Sir Barry Humphries was best known for playing which outlandish
- 3:13Speaker 1: socialite Dame Edna Everidge. Question nine? What three word epitaph
- 3:23Speaker 1: appears on the grave of mel blank? The voice of
- 3:26Speaker 1: bugs Bunny? That's all folks? Question ten? Pick the odd
- 3:35Speaker 1: one out Agatha Christie, Aldous Huxley, JFK or C. S. Lewis.
- 3:46Speaker 1: It's Agatha Christie. All the others died on the same
- 3:49Speaker 1: day Believe it or not the twenty second of November
- 3:52Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. Question eleven. Freddie Mercury, who died in
- 3:56Speaker 1: November nineteen ninety one, was the lead singer of which
- 4:00Speaker 1: British rock band Queen. Question twelve. Which of the following
- 4:09Speaker 1: celebrities did not die in a plane crash? John Denver,
- 4:14Speaker 1: Patsy Kleine, John Candy or Otis Redding. John Candy died
- 4:24Speaker 1: from a heart attack at the age of forty three.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Question thirteen. What book was Mark Chapman reading when he
- 4:32Speaker 1: was arrested following the murder of John Lennon on the
- 4:35Speaker 1: eighth of December in nineteen eighty The Catcher in the
- 4:42Speaker 1: Rye by J. D. Salinger. Question fourteen, how am I going?
- 4:46Speaker 1: Not sounding too excitable for questions about death? Question fourteen?
- 4:49Speaker 1: For which film did Heath Ledger win a posthumous Academy
- 4:53Speaker 1: Award Just over twelve months after his death? He won
- 5:01Speaker 1: the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing the Joker in the
- 5:04Speaker 1: movie The Dark Night? Question fifteen. How old were Jimmy Hendrix,
- 5:10Speaker 1: Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Amy Winehouse when
- 5:15Speaker 1: they died? They were twenty seven years old, and there
- 5:21Speaker 1: is a huge list of other celebrities who died at
- 5:24Speaker 1: the same age. Question sixteen. As of July twenty twenty three,
- 5:28Speaker 1: who was the only surviving cast member of Gilligan's Island
- 5:37Speaker 1: Ginger played by Tina Louise, She is eighty nine years old.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Question seventeen. Musician Jeff Buckley died in May nineteen ninety
- 5:46Speaker 1: seven in Mississippi. What was his cause of death? Drowning?
- 5:55Speaker 1: Question eighteen which country sharing borders with France? Germany and Italy.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Was Charlie Chaplin in when he died on Christmas Day
- 6:05Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven? He was in Switzerland? Question nineteen.
- 6:13Speaker 1: According to Forbes magazine, which children's author made thirty million
- 6:18Speaker 1: US dollars in twenty twenty two despite being dead since
- 6:21Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one Doctor Seuss. Question twenty What do Grace
- 6:30Speaker 1: Kelly and Fast and The Furious actor Paul Walker have
- 6:33Speaker 1: in common? They were both killed in car accidents? Question
- 6:41Speaker 1: twenty one. Helen who played Queen Elizabeth in the two
- 6:46Speaker 1: thousand and six film The Queen Helen Mirren. Question twenty two.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Is Spider Man creator Stan Lee alive or dead? He's dead? Well,
- 7:05Speaker 1: it wouldn't really work if he was alive, now would it.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Question twenty three. Which Ozzie Band kept on rocking despite
- 7:11Speaker 1: the death of their lead singer Bond Scott in February
- 7:15Speaker 1: nineteen eighty ac DC Question twenty four. What is unusual
- 7:24Speaker 1: about the twenty third of April fifteen sixty four, which
- 7:28Speaker 1: is celebrated as William Shakespeare's birthday. It's also the day
- 7:37Speaker 1: that he died in sixteen sixteen. Question twenty five which
- 7:41Speaker 1: British actor Famous for his roles as Dracula, as Saramon
- 7:45Speaker 1: in The Lord of the Rings films and Count Dooku
- 7:48Speaker 1: in the Star Wars movies. Has the world record for
- 7:51Speaker 1: being killed seventy times on screen. Christopher Lee Question twenty six.
- 8:01Speaker 1: According to reports at the time, Pope Adrian the Fourth
- 8:05Speaker 1: died in September eleven, fifty nine after choking on what
- 8:09Speaker 1: which had found its way into his glass of wine
- 8:16Speaker 1: a fly. Question twenty seven, known as Old Blue Eyes.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Which American Icon of Music and Screens last meal was
- 8:24Speaker 1: a grilled cheese sandwich. Frank Sinatra Question twenty eight. Of
- 8:33Speaker 1: these celebrities gone too soon? Who was the youngest when
- 8:36Speaker 1: they died? James Dean, River, Phoenix or Buddy Holly. Buddy
- 8:46Speaker 1: Holly was just twenty two, River was twenty three and
- 8:49Speaker 1: mister Dean was twenty four. Question twenty nine. Which album
- 8:54Speaker 1: released in nineteen eighty two was the late Michael Jackson's
- 8:57Speaker 1: biggest hit, Thriller. It sold seventy million copies. Question thirty
- 9:07Speaker 1: which two Australian cricketers both died on the fourth of
- 9:10Speaker 1: March twenty twenty two. Two greats gone on the same day,
- 9:19Speaker 1: Shane Warn and Rod marsh Okay, we got through at
- 9:23Speaker 1: thirty questions on dead celebrities. We'll do something a little
- 9:26Speaker 1: chirpier when we do the last of our special editions
- 9:29Speaker 1: this coming Friday and Cartrip Trivia. Normal programming will resume
- 9:33Speaker 1: next week with the who Am i S, the Rapid
- 9:35Speaker 1: Fire Wednesdays, and of course the Friday Funny. Thanks again
- 9:38Speaker 1: for joining me. We're going to catch you later in
- 9:41Speaker 1: the week. Until then, stay gone.