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The Queensland Day Quiz (with Premier David Crisafulli) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for this very special bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Cartrick Trivia. It's the Queensland Day Quiz. Now. I
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  Speaker 1: say special because we have a very very special guest
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  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it Stephen David?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I've managed to get the Premier of Queensland on
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  Speaker 1: the telephone, mister David Chris afully. He'll be delivering today's
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  Speaker 1: legendary Queenslander. Who am I? To finish off the show.
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  Speaker 1: We have got loads of multi choice questions, We've got
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  Speaker 1: plenty of fun facts, so let's get into it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Cray and in the lead up to the sixth
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  Speaker 1: of June, we're celebrating the beaches, the people, the pubs,
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  Speaker 1: the sport and everything about Queensland this Queensland Day. Question one,
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  Speaker 1: Queensland is Australia's smallest state, second largest state or most
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  Speaker 1: populated state. Queensland is Australia's second largest state. Quick fun
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  Speaker 1: factor here, Queensland is so big you could fit most
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  Speaker 1: of Europe inside it. Question two, what is the capital
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  Speaker 1: city of Queensland cans Townsville, Brisbane or the Gold Coast
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  Speaker 1: Founded as a convict settlement in eighteen twenty four. The
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  Speaker 1: answer is Brisbane. Question three, which color is most closely
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  Speaker 1: associated with Queensland sporting teams, green, blue, maroon or yellow.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is maroon, but most Queensland is pronounced that
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  Speaker 1: word as maron. It's just one of those little Queensland things.
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  Speaker 1: Question four. Which Queensland city is best known for theme parks?
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  Speaker 1: The Sunshine Coast, Cans, the Gold Coast or to Woomba.
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  Speaker 1: The Gold Coast is Australia's theme park capital, with five
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  Speaker 1: major theme parks and another two small attractions. There's dream World,
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  Speaker 1: Whitewater World, Warner Brothers Movie World, SeaWorld and Wet and Wild,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Paradise Country and the Australian Outback Spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. Queensland is home to the world's biggest what
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  Speaker 1: biggest hospital, biggest crocodile, biggest fence or biggest reef? The
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  Speaker 1: Great Barrier Reef is the world's biggest reef or coral system.
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  Speaker 1: It stretches over twenty three hundred kilometers and can be
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  Speaker 1: seen from space. Question number six, in what year did
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  Speaker 1: Queensland and become a state? Was it seventeen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Was it eighteen fifty nine or nineteen oh one? Queensland
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  Speaker 1: became a state in eighteen fifty nine, so this Queensland
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  Speaker 1: Day on Saturday, the sixth of June will be their
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seventh birthday. Question seven. Which Queensland
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  Speaker 1: town is famous for dinosaur fossils? Winton also the birthplace
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  Speaker 1: of waltzing Matilda. Question eight. If you're driving through Queensland
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  Speaker 1: and see a giant mango, where are you? You're in
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  Speaker 1: the town of Bowen, where the Blockbuster movie Australia was
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  Speaker 1: filmed with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Question number nine.
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  Speaker 1: Which Queensland town is known as the beef capital of Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Is it to Womba, rock Hampton or Warwick Rockampton where
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  Speaker 1: every three years they host a massive event called Beef
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  Speaker 1: Week and they even have a big bull statue in
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  Speaker 1: the city center. Question ten. How many NRL teams does
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  Speaker 1: Queensland have? Four teams and a bonus point for each
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  Speaker 1: of them if you can name them The Cowboys, the Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Titans. Question eleven. When will Brisbane
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  Speaker 1: host the Olympic and Paralympic Games twenty thirty two. We've
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  Speaker 1: done a couple of Commonwealth Games Brisbane in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: two and the Gold Coast in twenty eighteen. Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: What Famousqueenslander was known as the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin?
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  Speaker 1: And don't were you mess him? Question thirteen. Which famous
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  Speaker 1: Queenslander starred in the role of Barbie Margo Robbie. They
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  Speaker 1: often say she was born in the Queensland country town
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  Speaker 1: of Dolby, but she was actually born on the Gold
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  Speaker 1: Coast and she made her start in neighbours. Question fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Queensland borders how many states? Two states South Australia and
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales and one territory the Northern Territory. But
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't a question, We just want the states. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which body of water borders Queensland is at the Indian Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean or the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean Bordersqueensland.
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen what animals feature on the Queensland Coat of arms?
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  Speaker 1: There are actually four of them. There are two main ones,
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  Speaker 1: the native brolga and the red deer, But then on
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  Speaker 1: the shield you've got the heads of a bull and
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  Speaker 1: a ram. Question seventeen. What is the name of the
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  Speaker 1: major highway that runs along much of Queensland's coast. Is
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  Speaker 1: it Stuart Highway, the Bruce Highway, the Pacific Highway or
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  Speaker 1: the Great Northern Highway Stuart Bruce Pacific or Great Northern
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  Speaker 1: the Bruce Highway. It's Queensland's longest highway at one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy kilometers, running all the way from
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  Speaker 1: Brisbane to cans Question eighteen. Which is the longest river
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  Speaker 1: in Queensland? Is it the Brisbane River, the Fitzroy River,
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  Speaker 1: the Burdekin River or the Flinders River. The Flinders River
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  Speaker 1: is the longest river in Queensland at one thousand and
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  Speaker 1: four kilometers, running from the Gregory Range to the Gulf
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  Speaker 1: of Carpenterria. Question nineteen. Taking office on the tenth of
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  Speaker 1: December eighteen fifty nine, who was Queensland's first Premier? Was
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  Speaker 1: it Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir Thomas mcelraith or Sir Robert Herbert?
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  Speaker 1: Sir Robert Herbert? Okay? Question twenty, as we always do,
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  Speaker 1: is who am I? But we've got someone very special
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  Speaker 1: joining us today on the phone. Who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: delivering this Queensland day? Who am I? And it's a
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  Speaker 1: first for car trip trivia. I'd like to welcome the
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  Speaker 1: Premier of Queensland, mister David Chris of Fully.
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  Speaker 3: Great to be miss you, Steve, and on what's a
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  Speaker 3: really significant day for the state. Who what better way
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  Speaker 3: to celeb than Queensland Day?
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  Speaker 1: And I might ask you before we get into it, Premier,
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  Speaker 1: this will be your second Queensland Day as Premier. How
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  Speaker 1: will it be different from your first?
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  Speaker 3: We're just dialing it up and making them all significant
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  Speaker 3: every year. I remember as a kid we used to
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  Speaker 3: get at school, you get the room stickers they would
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  Speaker 3: have Queensland Day on it. I just remember how that
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  Speaker 3: made me feel. And over recent years we've lost that
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  Speaker 3: and I really wanted to oportunity that I had in
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  Speaker 3: this role to make people have a look at all
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  Speaker 3: the great things that this state has. And I want
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  Speaker 3: it to be a day where go and watch Queensland
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  Speaker 3: teams playing their favorite sport. And we've been you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've worked with the NRAL, the AFL, the Npball to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do that all Queensland clashes. I want
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  Speaker 3: people to go and have a street party, whether or
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  Speaker 3: not they're in the far north of the date or
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  Speaker 3: in western Queensland. I want them to go to their
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  Speaker 3: favorite pub and have a beer. I want them to
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  Speaker 3: reach out to a neighbor and say how graded. And
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  Speaker 3: in the end, there's so much that we can celebrate
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  Speaker 3: in life, but I think there's nothing better than to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate the day that we broke free from the shackles
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  Speaker 3: of New South Wales.
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  Speaker 1: Like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's just special to me. And long way that celebration continue.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we don't want to talk too much about New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales because we've got an origin clash coming up
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks and hopefully we can we
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  Speaker 1: can draw that one. Even hey one, all would be good.
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  Speaker 3: I've I've got plenty mates south of the border giving
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  Speaker 3: me plenty, But I'm not sure we got the right
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  Speaker 3: right into the rub on some of those decisions.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, we live to fight another day.
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  Speaker 1: And without any further ado, I'd like to allow the
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  Speaker 1: Premier of Queensland to go ahead with his who am.
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  Speaker 2: I looking forward to it? Okay? Growing up?
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  Speaker 3: I was born at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty three, and I said my childhood in Brisbane South
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  Speaker 3: I'm a proud Gungari man with my Mum Hailey from
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  Speaker 3: the traditional land in Mitchell that's in Queensland, and Dad's
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  Speaker 3: a New Zealand Maori descent.
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  Speaker 2: My first job I was a bull boy for South's.
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  Speaker 3: Magpies and I was paid just one dollar a game
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  Speaker 3: to chase kicks.
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  Speaker 2: I attended several schools across Brizzy.
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  Speaker 3: I was a bit of a rascal during my teenage years,
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  Speaker 3: so mom and Dad made the decision to send me to Toowoomba,
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  Speaker 3: where I live with my aunt and uncle. Graduated high
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  Speaker 3: school at Saint Mary's. I always wanted to play foot
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  Speaker 3: when I grew up, but I was overlooked by a
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  Speaker 3: lot of NRL scouts because I was quote too small.
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  Speaker 3: My first real job was a butcher's assistant at Cohle's.
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  Speaker 3: I often started work at five point thirty. My NRL
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  Speaker 3: break came with the Bulldogs. I got paid zero dollars
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  Speaker 3: as a contract sign on fee. I finally found my
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  Speaker 3: tribe in North Queensland with the Mighty Cowboys in two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and five, and that began a fourteen year era
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  Speaker 3: where I was the most decorated player in the club's history,
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  Speaker 3: winning a record four m medals, leading the team to
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  Speaker 3: its first ever premiership in twenty fifteen. I was a
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  Speaker 3: three time Golden Boot winner in eleven, thirteen and fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: an award given to the best player in the world.
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  Speaker 3: I was part of eight State of Origin series wins
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  Speaker 3: for Queensland.
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  Speaker 2: That was sweet.
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  Speaker 3: I've played over three hundred NRL first grade games. I
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  Speaker 3: reckon most people getting close by now. My work off
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  Speaker 3: the field is what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Most proud of.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, I was Queensland Australian of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a member of the Order of Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I hold an honorary Doctorate of Letters from James Cook University,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm a University Fellow of the University of Southern Queensland.
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  Speaker 3: I use my platform with the Cowboys to launch an
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  Speaker 3: academy in my name, and I've become a voice for
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  Speaker 3: Indigenous education and health. Despite these accolades, there are no
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  Speaker 3: trophies on display in my home. I'm most proud of
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  Speaker 3: being a girl, dad to my four daughters, Frankie, Charlie,
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  Speaker 3: Lily and Remy, and a husband to my wife Samantha.
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  Speaker 3: These days, I am known as much for my signature
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  Speaker 3: laugh as I am for the head gear I once wore,
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  Speaker 3: and even after the footy boots have been put away,
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  Speaker 3: I am still representing my state as a Queensland Day
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  Speaker 3: ambassador celebrating it means to be a Queenslander.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I? That's right, the legend I am Jonathan Thurston.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jonathan Thurston. I'm sure our listeners picked that one up.
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  Speaker 1: There are plenty of great clues there. Thank you so much, Premier.
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  Speaker 1: What a magnificent Queenslander he.
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  Speaker 3: Is too, He certainly is, and thanks for the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to shine a light on queens End Day. We live
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  Speaker 3: in the best part of the best country in the
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  Speaker 3: world and we got so much going for us. Let's
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  Speaker 3: continue to do great things for a great state. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being a part of cartrip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: at Premier David Chris A. Fuley, and we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to celebrating this Queensland Day on the sixth of June.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a Saturday to boot. How good is that?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much and stay gold