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Monday, 8th December, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Today and welcome back. This is family friendly trivia in
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  Speaker 1: a simple twenty question format. Three times a week. It's
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  Speaker 1: car trip trivia for those folks sending in birthday shout
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  Speaker 1: outs over the next couple of weeks. If we miss
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  Speaker 1: you because we're at the beach or taking a little break,
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  Speaker 1: sorry about that, but we'll do a catch up shout
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  Speaker 1: out when we resume the show in January. Speaking of which,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a few for today. You never know. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty, sometimes it's four. Let's do it. Sophie from
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  Speaker 1: Bathhurst was ten on Friday tomorrow. We have Charlie from
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  Speaker 1: Mount Coolham sixteen years of age today, Brian from Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania it's forty four, and Anne Marie from Fingleheads is
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. Happy birthday to everyone. I'm Stephen Cray and
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  Speaker 1: with Christmas bending a potential problem I try to avoid
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  Speaker 1: after pay. Question one, Buffalo cheese is made from buffalo milk?
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  Speaker 1: True or false? True? Question two? Which television superhero show
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  Speaker 1: has the initials m M P R Mighty Morphine Power Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: Question three? Which company manufactures the gear fitness wristbands and
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  Speaker 1: smart Watchers Samsung? Question four? Who is paired with the
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  Speaker 1: machine in the name of the English indie rock band
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  Speaker 1: Florence and the Machine. Question five. South Australia's Barossa Valley
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  Speaker 1: is most famous for which very of wine chiraz? Question
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  Speaker 1: seeks private eye Sam, who made his first appearance in
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  Speaker 1: the novel The Maltese Falcon Sam Spade, played by Humphrey
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  Speaker 1: Bogart movie of the same name. Question seven. Often installed
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  Speaker 1: on public transport, in theaters and in stadiums, an induction
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  Speaker 1: loop system is designed to be used with What type
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  Speaker 1: of device an induction loop system works with hearing aids?
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  Speaker 1: Question eight? The presence of which substance allows gemologists to
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  Speaker 1: differentiate between lab ground diamonds and real ones? What are
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  Speaker 1: they looking for? Is at oxygen, fluorine or nitrogen? There
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  Speaker 1: are other telltale signs to differentiate a lab ground diamond
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  Speaker 1: from a real diamond, but the answer we're looking for
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  Speaker 1: here is nitrogen. Question nine. Which part of our bodies
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  Speaker 1: do we bend when we genuflect? We bend our knees?
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  Speaker 1: Question ten? According to his sister Mona Simpson, which billionaire
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  Speaker 1: inventors last words were oh wow, oh wow, oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Jobs. He said this as he was looking at
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  Speaker 1: his family, who he was surrounded by at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Question eleven. What type of food are sober and oodon?
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  Speaker 1: They are noodles, delicious noodles. Question twelve. What instrument is
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  Speaker 1: les Paul? Sociated with the electric guitar the Gibson les
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  Speaker 1: Paul first launched in nineteen fifty two. Question thirteen, according
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  Speaker 1: to the proverb you should strike when the what is hot?
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  Speaker 1: Strike when the iron is hot? Question fourteen Australian singer
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  Speaker 1: and actress Jessica who was born and raised in Darwin,
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Mawboy. Question fifteen, the first person adventure game where
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  Speaker 1: players explore the mysterious Snacktooth Island is what Snacks? The
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  Speaker 1: gamers out there will know exactly what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Bug Snacks is the game. Question sixteen in which of
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  Speaker 1: the arts was Sandro Botticelli renowned painting? Question seventeen by volume?
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  Speaker 1: Which country consumes the most mustard? Is it Germany, France
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  Speaker 1: or the United States of America? If it was just
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  Speaker 1: dujon mustard, well, the French would have it, but it's not.
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  Speaker 1: The United States consume the most mustard. But fun fact,
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  Speaker 1: if we were to look at the per capita number.
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  Speaker 1: It's island with a whopping eleven kilograms per person per annum.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? Question eighteen which Southern Hemisphere capital
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  Speaker 1: city shares its name with a waterproof boot Wellington in
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. Question nineteen which nineteen eighty eight dark comedy
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  Speaker 1: thriller with an alcoholic title Stuff Mel Gibson and Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Pfeiffer Tekila Sunrise. Feel free to join me momentarily for
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  Speaker 1: who am I up? Next? Question twenty on this Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the eighth of December is a who am I? Who
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  Speaker 1: Am I? Born in Lambeth, London in October nineteen fifty nine.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and four and two thousand and ten,
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  Speaker 1: I was named in Time magazines lists of the world's
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  Speaker 1: most influential people. My mother was a ballet dancer and
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  Speaker 1: my father a property developer who dabbled in the music industry.
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  Speaker 1: I have a younger brother and four half siblings. I
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  Speaker 1: left school after passing my O levels and had many jobs,
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  Speaker 1: including it is said as a runner on the Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Kubrick movie The Shining, before taking a job in the
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  Speaker 1: mail room of EMI. I formed Fanfare Records and had
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  Speaker 1: my first hit in nineteen eighty six with So Matcho
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  Speaker 1: by Sanita. Following a near bankruptcy, I had the best
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  Speaker 1: selling single and best selling album in the UK in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five with the duo Robson and Jerome. I
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  Speaker 1: became a judge on the first series of Pop Idol
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  Speaker 1: and produced The X Factor through my company, Psycho TV.
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  Speaker 1: From two thousand and five, I created Britain's Got Talent
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  Speaker 1: and inflicted my trademark sarcasm and put downs towards contestants
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  Speaker 1: on American Idol. I have produced hits for Leona Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: Noah Cyrus and Susan Boyle, and signed boy bands Westlife
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  Speaker 1: and One Direction to my record label, Psycho Music. And
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen I received a star on the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Walk of Fame in the Television category. I Am I
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  Speaker 1: Am Simon Cowell. And he doesn't really come across as
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  Speaker 1: a very good bike, does he on the TV show?
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  Speaker 1: Although occasionally a little smile and you think to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps there's a heart beating somewhere inside that hollow chest
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  Speaker 1: of hits. All right, this is car Trip Trivia. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. We're back on Wednesday. If you would
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  Speaker 1: like to get a birthday shout out on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the Car Trip Trivia Facebook page and send
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  Speaker 1: me a message via the Messenger app, and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: you on board. What well, what, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. They go