Latest / Car Trip Trivia / The Bee Gees, Red Blood Cells & Flying Carpets (Mon, 20th July, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: It's your thrice weekly fix of family friendly trivia. This
- 0:11Speaker 1: is car trip trivia, also suitable for bus and airline travel.
- 0:15Speaker 1: And I must say I have many school teachers contacting
- 0:18Speaker 1: me to say that they used the show as a
- 0:20Speaker 1: pre class brain exercise and the kids apparently love it.
- 0:24Speaker 1: How's that hey? Okay? Birthday shout out time Disney Princess
- 0:28Speaker 1: expert Evy from Chipping Norton was four on Saturday. Petrie
- 0:33Speaker 1: from Eastwood recently turned forty eight. Milo from Essex in
- 0:37Speaker 1: the UK just turned eleven tomorrow. We have Charlie from
- 0:39Speaker 1: Warren Gary on the Goldie eight years of age. Brian
- 0:42Speaker 1: from Cincinnati is turning forty five, and today's birthdays twins
- 0:47Speaker 1: Hudson and Hendricks from Madison, Wisconsin. I'm nine. James from
- 0:51Speaker 1: mary nol In, Victoria is forty four. Lucy from Mattlock,
- 0:54Speaker 1: Bath is twenty four. Michelle or nanny to her eight
- 0:58Speaker 1: grand kids from Jandak in WA is fifty six. Jack
- 1:02Speaker 1: from Lithgow is nine. Adrian from the Gold Coast just
- 1:05Speaker 1: completed the Kakoda Challenge and is fifteen years of age.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Lyla from Geneva, Illinois is thirteen. Medel from Toronto is
- 1:13Speaker 1: fifty seven, and my mate Henry from Nanda is twelve
- 1:17Speaker 1: and mum Emma is forty four on Wednesday. Oh, and
- 1:21Speaker 1: not to forget a big day for my little nephew
- 1:24Speaker 1: Harry from Brisbane. He's five tomorrow. Happy birthday mate. I'm
- 1:30Speaker 1: Stephen Cray. And when celebrating a birthday some go for prosecco.
- 1:35Speaker 1: I prefer a brute cuve. Question number one In the
- 1:40Speaker 1: Disney animated film who does Jasmine Ride on the Magic
- 1:45Speaker 1: Carpet with Aladdin? Question two? Where is bread generally baked
- 2:01Speaker 1: at a bakery? Question three? A diamond wedding signifies how
- 2:06Speaker 1: many years of marriage? Forty, fifty or sixty. If you
- 2:16Speaker 1: get to this point, you've done very very well sixty
- 2:18Speaker 1: years of marriage. Question number four, beginning with H is
- 2:22Speaker 1: which leather pouch used for holding a pistol? A holster?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Question five? From which condition does your body lack sufficient
- 2:38Speaker 1: healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin to carry adequate oxygen
- 2:42Speaker 1: to your tissues? Anemia? Question six is a follow up
- 2:50Speaker 1: question in the British spelling of anemia. How many a's
- 2:56Speaker 1: are there? There are three a's an ami a anemia
- 3:08Speaker 1: Question seven, part of which famous tower was built by
- 3:12Speaker 1: William the Conqueror, commencing in ten seventy eight the Tower
- 3:21Speaker 1: of London. He built the White Tower. Question eight. On
- 3:25Speaker 1: which brand of motor vehicle does the high performance AMG
- 3:29Speaker 1: badge appear? Mercedes? Question nine? The Lord Tennyson palm from
- 3:39Speaker 1: eighteen fifty four is the charge of the the charge
- 3:49Speaker 1: of the light Brigade? Question ten? According to the saying,
- 3:53Speaker 1: to move very quickly is to move like a scolded
- 3:57Speaker 1: what a scolded cat? Question eleven. Another term for playing
- 4:08Speaker 1: the piano is tinkling the what tinkling? The ivories? Question twelve?
- 4:19Speaker 1: Which African country beginning with L takes its name for
- 4:23Speaker 1: the Latin word for free liberia from the word liber
- 4:32Speaker 1: l iber. Incidentally, the Latin word for free, as in
- 4:36Speaker 1: free of charge is gratis. Question thirteen. The crab represents
- 4:43Speaker 1: which sign of the zodiac cancer? Question fourteen. Who was
- 4:53Speaker 1: the oldest of the begs? Was it Barry, Robin or Morris?
- 5:03Speaker 1: The oldest of the brothers GiB was Barry. Now there
- 5:06Speaker 1: was a fourth brother, Andy, but he was never in
- 5:08Speaker 1: the begs. Question fifteen. In what country would you find Frankfurt,
- 5:14Speaker 1: Munich and Berlin, Germany? Question sixteen. What is identified by
- 5:24Speaker 1: the smartphone application Shazam Music. That's the one that you
- 5:33Speaker 1: put on when you're not sure about the song or
- 5:36Speaker 1: the artist, and it tells you exactly what you're listening to.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Question seventeen. What color is veridian? Veridian is green, although
- 5:50Speaker 1: some would argue it's a bluish green. So if you
- 5:53Speaker 1: said that, you get a point as well. Question number eighteen.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Which anagram of SAP is a poisonous snake asp ASP?
- 6:08Speaker 1: Question nineteen, founded by Robert de Niro and Jane Rosenthal
- 6:12Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, is which annual film festival
- 6:16Speaker 1: in New York City Tribecayite used to be called the
- 6:24Speaker 1: Tribeca Film Festival. Now, because there's a whole lot of
- 6:27Speaker 1: other stuff involved, it's called the Tribeca Festival. We're coming
- 6:33Speaker 1: straight back with a who am I? Please stay with us?
- 6:39Speaker 1: Question twenty on this Monday, the twentieth of July twenty
- 6:43Speaker 1: twenty six is a who am I? Born in Evanston,
- 6:47Speaker 1: Illinois in December nineteen sixty four, with the middle name
- 6:50Speaker 1: Jerome To add to my three half brothers. My mother
- 6:54Speaker 1: and my stepfather fosted seven children and we moved to
- 6:57Speaker 1: San Diego County, where I was gifted a guitar for
- 7:00Speaker 1: my twelfth birthday. Having earlier dropped out of school, I
- 7:03Speaker 1: earned the equivalent of a high school diploma in the eighties.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Whilst working as a waiter. I recorded some demo tapes
- 7:09Speaker 1: in San Diego in nineteen eighty four and played in
- 7:12Speaker 1: various bands, including Surf and Destroy and Indian Style featuring
- 7:16Speaker 1: future Rage against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk. In nineteen ninety,
- 7:20Speaker 1: I was invited to audition for a band called Mookie Blaylock,
- 7:24Speaker 1: which changed its name when we released our debut album
- 7:27Speaker 1: the following year. The album won four MTV Music Awards
- 7:31Speaker 1: and ranks two hundred and ninth in the Rolling Stones
- 7:34Speaker 1: five hundred Greatest Albums of All Time. With Pearl Jam,
- 7:37Speaker 1: I have released twelve studio albums and countless official live bootlegs,
- 7:41Speaker 1: and as a solo artist, have released three, including the
- 7:44Speaker 1: soundtrack to the two thousand and seven movie Into the Wild.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I am instantly recognizable for my rich, resonant baritone voice
- 7:51Speaker 1: and deliberately muffled style that delivers passion over annunciation. I
- 7:57Speaker 1: am I am Eddie Vedder and what a recognizable voice
- 8:06Speaker 1: that man has. Thanks for joining us. This is car
- 8:08Speaker 1: Trip Trivia. We're back for another episode on Wednesday. I
- 8:12Speaker 1: hope you can join us for that one. We'll do
- 8:14Speaker 1: rapid fire. That's where we throw two objects at you
- 8:16Speaker 1: and you've just got to decide which one you want.
- 8:18Speaker 1: It's not much of a trivia thing, it's just more
- 8:20Speaker 1: of a fun thing. I hope you can join us
- 8:23Speaker 1: for that. Until then, look after yourselves and stay go