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Friday, 22nd August, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: What's the good of trivia questions if you've got no
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  Speaker 1: one to answer them with or compete with. However you
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  Speaker 1: do it. That's why Car Trip Trivia is designed for
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  Speaker 1: the whole family, with a little something something for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Now on Fridays we do a joke. The Friday Funny
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  Speaker 1: is coming up first. We've got some birthday shoutouts and
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  Speaker 1: there are a few of them. Rayner from Oakland, California
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  Speaker 1: is turning sixteen. Archer from Inness Park just had his
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  Speaker 1: eighth birthday. Nicholas from Pakenham just turned fourteen. This coming someday,
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  Speaker 1: Matilda from Somerville is turning eight. Nick from Perth will
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  Speaker 1: be nineteen. Bevan from Tambourine Village is turning forty six.
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  Speaker 1: Hudson from Palmview in Queensland will turn eight whilst car
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  Speaker 1: tripping across New Zealand. Harrison from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania will
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  Speaker 1: be twenty four tomorrow. Mark from Wellington will be thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte from Wisconsin is turning twelve. Harper from Clarney Heights
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  Speaker 1: is turning twelve. Oliver from Perth is turning twelve. Imagen
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  Speaker 1: from Lennox Head will be fourteen. Today's birthdays. Charlie from
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  Speaker 1: Thornbury is eight, Macy from Beager is also eight. Chance
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  Speaker 1: from Danville, Illinois is nine and Tom's having a birthday.
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  Speaker 1: He's camping in Kangaroo Valley. I'm Stephen Cray and you know,
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  Speaker 1: in Hudspeth County, Texas, there's a little ghost town name
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  Speaker 1: of Finlay. Question number one. Which native Australian animal is
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  Speaker 1: known for its boxing ability? The kangaroo. The boxing kangaroo,
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  Speaker 1: although it doesn't technically box, but when it props up
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  Speaker 1: on its hind legs and pushes its attack away with
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  Speaker 1: its four legs, it certainly looks like it's boxing. Question
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  Speaker 1: two which has sold more copies? World of Warcraft or
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  Speaker 1: Super Mario Brothers. Super Mario brother with fifty eight million
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  Speaker 1: copies sold, is about eighteen million ahead of Warcraft. Question three,
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  Speaker 1: What is the duration of the world's shortest commercial flight?
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  Speaker 1: Is it two minutes? Is it four minutes or is
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  Speaker 1: it nine minutes? It's two minutes, although to be fair
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes a little bit faster. It's between Westray and
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  Speaker 1: Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Question four,
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  Speaker 1: which rapper had a major twenty eighteen hit with the
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  Speaker 1: album Astro World Travis Scott. Question five, which razor blade
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  Speaker 1: company is named after its founder who introduced safety raisers
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  Speaker 1: to the world in nineteen o three, Gillette named after
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  Speaker 1: a bloke called King camp Gillette. Question six. What type
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  Speaker 1: of drink is a machiato a coffee? A makiato is
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  Speaker 1: a shot of espresso with a small amount of foamed milk.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. Why are movie trailers called trailers? Good question,
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  Speaker 1: particularly since they tend to come at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: a movie. It's because in the early days of cinema
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  Speaker 1: they played after the movie. They trailed the film, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. Question eight. Which Women's World Cup will be
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  Speaker 1: held in England in twenty twenty five? The Women's Rugby
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  Speaker 1: Union World Cup? Nine? Which Dutch explorer was the first
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  Speaker 1: European to cite New Zealand in December sixteen forty two
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  Speaker 1: Abel Tasman. Question number ten in music, how many crotchets
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  Speaker 1: are there in a semibrieve? Four crotchets in a semi breaks?
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven, beginning with g What substance is used to
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  Speaker 1: seal the gaps or joints between tiles grout? Question twelve
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  Speaker 1: which country shares its borders with Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, and
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  Speaker 1: Laos Thailand. Question thirteen. What is the standard railway gauge
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  Speaker 1: in the United States? Is at A four foot six inches,
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  Speaker 1: B four foot eight and a half inches or C
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  Speaker 1: five feet The answer is B four foot eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half inches. Question fourteen. According to Arthurian legend, who
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  Speaker 1: is Lancelot's son Galahad? Question fifteen? Which Western themed TV
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  Speaker 1: show ran from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen seventy three?
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  Speaker 1: Doom Doom, Doom, Doom, Bonanza Hope I got the tune right?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. A turiphile is a lover or connoisseur of
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  Speaker 1: which food cavea, cheese or cured meats. A turiphile is
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  Speaker 1: a connoisseur of cheese. It's derived from the Greek word
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  Speaker 1: t rose, meaning cheese. Question seventeen. What is the name
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  Speaker 1: of the meter made in the Beatles song Rita Lovely Rita?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen? What part of the body does exma effect?
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  Speaker 1: It's an inflammatory skin condition. Question nineteen. After realizing he
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  Speaker 1: was dying from palladium poisoning, who did Tony Stark promote
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  Speaker 1: from personal assistant to the CEO of Stark Industries, Pepper Pot,
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  Speaker 1: who also happens to be his girlfriend. No nepotism in
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  Speaker 1: Stark Industries. Of course, There's who Am I around the corner,
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  Speaker 1: followed by Rudolph with the Friday funny. There's one question
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  Speaker 1: to go, It's Question twenty and today it's a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Born in Cambridge, England, in September nineteen forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: the youngest of three to Brynn and Irene. My mother's
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  Speaker 1: family moved to the UK after fleeing the Nazi regime
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty three. My grandfather was the Nobel Prize
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  Speaker 1: winning physicist Max Bourne, and I am the third cousin
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  Speaker 1: of comedian Ben Elton. My father was an mi I
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  Speaker 1: five officer responsible for bringing German war criminal Rudolph Hesse
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  Speaker 1: into custody. The family emigrated to Melbourne when I was five,
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  Speaker 1: and I went to school with singer Daryl Braithwaite. At fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: I formed a group with classmates called Soul Four, before
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  Speaker 1: regular appearances on Ozzie TV in The Happy Show and
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  Speaker 1: The Go Show. In nineteen sixty five, I won a
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  Speaker 1: talent show hosted by Johnny O'Keefe and the following year,
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  Speaker 1: recorded my first single, Till You Say You'll Be Mine.
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  Speaker 1: My first solo album was released in nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: and the title track, written by Bob Dylan, was my
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  Speaker 1: first international hit and would be backed up by ten
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  Speaker 1: number one singles on the Adult Contemporary chart before international
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  Speaker 1: stardom in nineteen seventy eight, when I was cast in
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  Speaker 1: the film version of the Broadway musical Grease. My nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one single Physical was Billboard's highest ranking Hot one
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  Speaker 1: hundred single of the eighties, and I would win four Grammys,
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  Speaker 1: six American Music Awards, and earn a star on the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame before dying in August of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two from breast cancer at the age of seventy three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one that you want. I am. I am
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  Speaker 1: Olivia Newton John and this is kart of trivia. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Rudy and I'm here for the front funny. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Dad for the wonderful Who am I? Oh you enjoyed that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you? Oh? Yeah? Sure? Okay, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much. So, Dad, I've got to do some homework soon,
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  Speaker 1: so I've got to quickly do this. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: do some homework voluntarily. Yeah. When I say homework, I
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  Speaker 1: mean going on a bike ride. All right, very good mate.
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  Speaker 1: Well then you've got to Jack say far far away mate.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a person in a tree with
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  Speaker 1: a briefcase? No, no idea? A branch manager and dad.
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  Speaker 1: I've been having a long think about this, you, me
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  Speaker 1: and our listeners. There will be golden days on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: Very philosophical. Okay, well that's an outro. Yeah,