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The Archibald Prize, Chipmunks & Muscle Cars (Mon, 14th Feb, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: for today. So we've got Fred from Cleve in Germany,
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  Speaker 1: Age acronym that I learned today is, before anyone else,
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  Speaker 1: is BAE. That's B-A-E, BAE. Question one. In real life,
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  Speaker 1: how tall was Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies? Four feet,
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  Speaker 1: seven feet or ten feet tall? 10 feet tall. As
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  Speaker 1: tall as a basketball hoop, in fact. They made the
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  Speaker 1: Teletubbies so big so that the grassy hills where they
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  Speaker 1: filmed it would look really, really small. Question two. Which
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  Speaker 1: fruit inspired Isaac Newton's ideas about gravity? Apples. It was
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  Speaker 1: an apple that fell on his head. Question three. What
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  Speaker 1: system of measurement is based on the decimal structure? The
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  Speaker 1: metric system. Question four. Kuala Lumpur is the capital city
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  Speaker 1: of what country? Malaysia. Question five. Grown widely in Bordeaux,
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  Speaker 1: California and South Australia, which grapes beginning with C produce
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  Speaker 1: a dry red wine? Cabernet. Question six, which Argentinian soccer
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  Speaker 1: player recently retired from the international game after a record
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  Speaker 1: six World Cup appearances? Lionel Messi. Question seven, evolving from
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  Speaker 1: a 1960s muscle car into a modern high-performance four-door sedan
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  Speaker 1: from 2006, was the Dodge what? The Dodge Charger. The
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  Speaker 1: brand new ones have gone back to a two-door and
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  Speaker 1: they are fully electric. Question eight. Which omnivorous predatory canine
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  Speaker 1: appears in the title of the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth?
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  Speaker 1: A jackal. The Day of the Jackal. Question nine. What
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  Speaker 1: type of weather phenomenon is the Fremantle Doctor? Wind. It's
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  Speaker 1: the local name for the cooling afternoon sea breeze that
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  Speaker 1: blows across Perth during the summer months. Question 10. In
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  Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which fictional school did Buffy Summers attend?
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  Speaker 1: Sunnydale High. Question 11. What is both a small green
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  Speaker 1: plant and the surname of Formula One racing great Sterling? Moss.
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Moss. Some would argue he's the greatest of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Question 12. According to the old saying, to pursue an
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  Speaker 1: ambitious goal is to hitch your wagon to a... What?
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  Speaker 1: Hitch your wagon to a star. Question 13. The only
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  Speaker 1: person to be the subject of two separate Archibald Prize-winning
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  Speaker 1: paintings was the famous Australian artist Margaret who... Margaret Olley.
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  Speaker 1: She sat for William Dobell's prize-winning portrait in 1948 and
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  Speaker 1: again just months before her death in 2011 for Ben Quilty.
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  Speaker 1: Question 14. If I landed at Hopkins Airport, in which
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  Speaker 1: US state would I be? You'd be in Ohio. Question 15.
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  Speaker 1: What do chipmunks carry in their pouches? I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: a clue. It's not baby chipmunks. Yeah, it's food. Generally nuts, seeds,
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  Speaker 1: berries and insects. They've also been known to carry dirt
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  Speaker 1: while they're digging their burrows. Question 16. A drug that
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  Speaker 1: relieves pain without losing consciousness is an anal what? An analgesic.
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  Speaker 1: Question 17. What type of correspondent reports from a conflict zone?
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  Speaker 1: A war correspondent. Question 18. How many sides of a die,
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  Speaker 1: that's the singular of dice, a die, how many sides
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  Speaker 1: have odd numbers? Let's have a look at this. There's
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  Speaker 1: the one, there's the three and there's the five. So
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  Speaker 1: that's three. Question 19. Which actress originally purchased the rights
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  Speaker 1: to the book Gone Girl with the intent of playing
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  Speaker 1: Amy Dunn in the film version? Was it Scarlett Johansson?
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  Speaker 1: Was it Reese Witherspoon? Or was it Jennifer Lawrence? It
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  Speaker 1: was Reese Witherspoon. She bought the rights, but when it
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  Speaker 1: came to making the movie, director David Fincher sat her
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  Speaker 1: down and bluntly informed her that she was not right
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  Speaker 1: for the part. She eventually agreed with him and it
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  Speaker 1: went to Rosamund Pike. Who am I? Up next. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for sticking with us. Last question for Monday, question 20.
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Who am I? Born in Dublin,
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  Speaker 1: Ireland in February 1996. My mother is in the Garda
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  Speaker 1: and my father is a teacher who did a bit
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  Speaker 1: of acting. I have a younger sister and a brother.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Maynorth Post Primary School and played under-21
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  Speaker 1: a school production of The Phantom of the Opera and
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  Speaker 1: achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Acting at the Lear
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  Speaker 1: Academy at Trinity College. I played Jay Gatsby in The
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  Speaker 1: Great Gatsby in Dublin and made my London stage debut
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  Speaker 1: in 2018. The miniseries Normal People was my first television role,
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  Speaker 1: earning me a BAFTA TV Award and a Primetime Emmy nomination.
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  Speaker 1: I appeared in the film clip for the re-release of
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  Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones single Scarlet in 2020 and made my
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  Speaker 1: film debut in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter. This was
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  Speaker 1: followed by God's Creatures and After Sun, for which I
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  Speaker 1: was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award. My biggest
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  Speaker 1: movies to date have been Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 and
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  Speaker 1: the period drama Hamnet, but the best is yet to
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  Speaker 1: come with my starring role as Paul McCartney in the
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  Speaker 1: four-part biopic about the Beatles, scheduled for release in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: I am... I am Paul Mescal. Not sure whether they're
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  Speaker 1: releasing them all at once, those four Beatles movies, but
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  Speaker 1: each film is from a different character's perspective or a
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  Speaker 1: different Beatles perspective. So that's going to be pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Got a couple of years to wait, though. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us, folks. Another one down. We've enjoyed bringing it
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  Speaker 1: to you, as always. Look forward to your company. Next
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  Speaker 1: time we catch up, hopefully Wednesday, maybe Friday, maybe sometime
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  Speaker 1: down the track. Until then, stay gold.