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Wednesday, 11th February, 2026 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for pushing play you foundess once again. This is
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  Speaker 1: car Trip Trivia with our very first open mic coming
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  Speaker 1: up after the quiz. Now this is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: have your voice heard on the podcast. It's very exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it in a little while. Time for
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  Speaker 1: some birthday shoutouts. Now we just missed Colin from Mitcham's
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  Speaker 1: birthday he was thirteen. And Mason from Bexley, North He's
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  Speaker 1: getting a late call up to recently turned ten. Now
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow Jared from Rockhampton's turning five. Today's birthdays, Dan from
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  Speaker 1: Colchester in the United Kingdom is thirty four. Simon from Madison,
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin he is twenty nine. Sophie from Renmarkers seventeen. Happy birthday, Sophie,
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  Speaker 1: and Harry from Wayouku in New Zealand is twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Also Amy from North Carolina racks up the half a
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  Speaker 1: century today bravo and Maren from Sallas, Mississippi having a
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  Speaker 1: golden birthday. That's gb time eleven years of age. Today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray and at the end of the show
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what our listeners have to say. Question one,
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  Speaker 1: given a choice, would mice prefer peanuts or cheese peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: Mice don't actually like cheese. It's a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: myth from the cartoons and from the Middle Ages when
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  Speaker 1: cheese was left on shelves for curing. Question two. What
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  Speaker 1: color is Robin Hood's cloak? It's Lincoln green, although green
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  Speaker 1: will do, You'll get the point. Question three. Lawn mowers
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  Speaker 1: that run on petrol and oil are known to have
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  Speaker 1: two or four What engines? Two stroke? Four stroke engines?
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  Speaker 1: Question number four? What name is given to the focal
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  Speaker 1: point of an earthquake the epicenter? Question five? Used mainly
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  Speaker 1: in the UK and Europe. The initials HGV stand for
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  Speaker 1: heavy goods? What heavy goods vehicle? Question six. When something
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  Speaker 1: is very common and of no particular value, it is
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  Speaker 1: often described as a dimer. What a dimer? Dozen? Question seven?
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  Speaker 1: Father to four sons? Otis Tara Merlin and Isaac is English?
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  Speaker 1: Glam art pop rock Royalty? Brian who Brian Ferry, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the songwriter, keyboardist and frontman of the band Roxy Music.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. In what sport did Nadia Komenci become the
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  Speaker 1: first Olympian to score a perfect ten gymnastics? She was
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  Speaker 1: fourteen at the nineteen seventy six Montreal Olympics. Question nine
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  Speaker 1: is a follow up question due to its inability at
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  Speaker 1: the time to deal with the number ten. What number
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  Speaker 1: did the scoreboard display? Was it nine point nine to
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  Speaker 1: nine zero point zero zero or one point zero zero
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  Speaker 1: one point zero zero? And it caused all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: confusion at the time, but they sorted it out all right.
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  Speaker 1: Question ten coincidence? What passes between the Earth and the
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  Speaker 1: Sun during a solar eclipse the moon? Question eleven complete
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  Speaker 1: this line from Macbeth. Is this a blank I see
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  Speaker 1: before me? Is this a dagger? I see before me?
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  Speaker 1: The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve? In which decade did Hurricane Katrina wreak havoc
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans? The two thousands? It was two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and five. Question thirteen native to Australia and often mistaken
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  Speaker 1: for an hour is the tawny what the tawny frog mouth? Now?
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  Speaker 1: We have two that visit us regularly, and I took
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  Speaker 1: a video recently that I'm going to post after the
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  Speaker 1: show on Patreon. Question fourteen. A card which is elevated
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  Speaker 1: above its usual rank in trick taking games like bridge
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  Speaker 1: is known as a what card a trump card? Question fifteen?
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  Speaker 1: Which future star of the TV sitcom Friends danced on
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  Speaker 1: stage with Bruce Springsteen in his Dancing in the Dark
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  Speaker 1: music video Courtney Cox? Question sixteen on which two oceans
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  Speaker 1: does Alaska have a coastline? The Pacific and the Arctic?
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen is a ninja question. Seventeenth century ninjas sent
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  Speaker 1: secret color coded messages using which of the following smoke, bombs, ribbons,
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  Speaker 1: or grains of rice? They used grains of rice arranged
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  Speaker 1: in different combinations to convey various messages to their allies.
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  Speaker 1: Question number eighteen. How old did Queen Elizabeth the second
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  Speaker 1: Turn on the twenty first of April two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: She was eighty years old. Question nineteen. When referring to
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  Speaker 1: video games, what does dl C stand for downloadable content?
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  Speaker 1: It generally refers to additional digital content released by developers
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  Speaker 1: after a game's launch. Question twenty which anagram of the
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  Speaker 1: name Aaron was the name of the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Academy Award Ward's Best Picture winner, Aaron ar n becomes
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  Speaker 1: anura a nr A. There's the first time for everything,
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  Speaker 1: and we are opening the mic here at Cartrip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: up next. Okay, so we've always tried to do something
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different on the Wednesday episode of Car
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  Speaker 1: Trip Trivia. We used to do rapid fire. That was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Then we did first Thing, and we've done the round
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  Speaker 1: of Sound. Now, in response to requests from many many
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  Speaker 1: listeners who really want to have their voice heard on
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  Speaker 1: the show, we are doing open mic and it is
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  Speaker 1: exactly as it sounds. All you've got to do is
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  Speaker 1: go to patreon dot com forward slash car Trip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: joined for just one month, or go to the Facebook page,
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  Speaker 1: the Cartrip Trivia Facebook page, and there's some directions there
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  Speaker 1: on how to get your message through to me so
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  Speaker 1: I can play it on the show. Okay, we've got
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  Speaker 1: two to get through today. Who have we got here?
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  Speaker 2: Hi? It's easy from Brookfield, Brisbane, and I have a
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  Speaker 2: Friday funny for you. What did the ocean say to
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  Speaker 2: the sand? Nothing, it just waved.
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  Speaker 1: Let's call it a Wednesday funny. We'll save the Friday
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  Speaker 1: funnies for Rudy. Thanks, I Isy, that's terrific. We've got
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  Speaker 1: another one here.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, is Chris from London here with my daughter Ella.
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  Speaker 3: That's Ella, she's seven, yeah, absolutely, and yes we want
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of the car Trip Trivia show.
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  Speaker 3: We've been listening for the last two years, so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: love the show, Guys and Ell. It's got a quick joke.
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  Speaker 1: Who's there?
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  Speaker 3: Hall Howard?
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  Speaker 1: Who?
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  Speaker 2: How good one?
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  Speaker 3: She's the joke of the family. You can tell Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love the show, guys and stay gold, Bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Chris and Ella. Of course you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to tell a joke, although who doesn't love a good laugh.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell a story, say hi, play musical instrument,
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  Speaker 1: sing a song, get the family on who knows, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you like, it's your chance. It's open mic cartrip Trivia
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesdays. Just go to patreon dot com, forward slash
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  Speaker 1: cartrip Trivia, or you can get the details at the
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  Speaker 1: cartrip Trivia Facebook page. All right, we're going to catch
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  Speaker 1: you on Friday. How's that sounding. Until then,