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Archibald Leach, Postage Stamps & Dog Translators (Mon, 8th June, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: We are reving our engines for episode five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy night a captup trivia in front of a live
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Craye. Partial to a little Italian particular Lasagne. Question one,
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  Speaker 1: rhyming with passive, what is something that is exceptionally large
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  Speaker 1: or heavy massive? Question two, which desert reptile warns predators
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  Speaker 1: and large animals to stay away with a rattling sound. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's just wait we get the answer out, shall we
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  Speaker 1: are rattlesnake? Question three. Britain is the only country in
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  Speaker 1: the world that isn't required to have what on its
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  Speaker 1: postage stamps the name of the country. It's an historical
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  Speaker 1: exemption because the Brits invented the postage stamp in eighteen forty.
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  Speaker 1: Question number four. Which Hollywood actor was born Archibald Leech?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Rock Hudson carry grant or Charlton Heston carry grant?
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  Speaker 1: Question number five? Which game has players pushing weighted discs
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  Speaker 1: down on a narrow court to have them rest within
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  Speaker 1: a marked scoring area? Anyone? Anyone? Shuffle board? Well done?
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  Speaker 1: Question number six. According to the early twentieth century love
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  Speaker 1: song I Want a spoon by the light of the
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  Speaker 1: what I want a spoon by the light of the
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  Speaker 1: silvery moon? Question seven? How many a's are there in
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  Speaker 1: the word a board? There are two ab ad a board.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. Which Southeast Asian city was formerly known as
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  Speaker 1: Batavia starts with a j jakata ah denis Question number nine.
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  Speaker 1: In the days before throwing in a towel, what would
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  Speaker 1: a boxing trainer throw into the ring to end a fight?
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  Speaker 1: A sponge? It was supposed to be used to wipe
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  Speaker 1: the sweat and blood from the box's face between rounds.
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  Speaker 1: Question number ten. The chocolate bar twix is a portmanteau
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  Speaker 1: combining the words twin and what else twin sticks twix? Question?
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  Speaker 1: Where are we? Question eleven? In the US military, what
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  Speaker 1: does the abbreviation k I A mean? Killed in Action?
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve. One of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two, the dog language to human language translation device,
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  Speaker 1: was called which of these bark box, wolfer meter or
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  Speaker 1: bowl lingual? Bowl Lingual? The creators were actually awarded a
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  Speaker 1: mock Nobel Prize for promoting peace and harmony between the species.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry now I've sent everything Question thirteen. To be
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  Speaker 1: clumsy is to have two left what two left feet?
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen? What vegetable did PM at the time Tony
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  Speaker 1: Abbott bite into whilst visiting a farm in Tasmania in
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  Speaker 1: March twenty fifteen? An onion was a little bit unusual
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  Speaker 1: at the time and told they're very flavorsome. Question fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: What does the prefix neo mean? New? Question sixteen? Our
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  Speaker 1: audience has gone silent? Which member of Monty Python traveled
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  Speaker 1: around the World in eighty Days in his nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: nine documentary series Michael Palin. Question seventeen, native to the
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  Speaker 1: bogs of North and South Carolina, is which carnivorous plant?
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing some venus flytrappy actions here? Yes, the venus flytrap.
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen. Appointment of friends or supporters to office is
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  Speaker 1: sometimes referred to as jobs for the who jobs for
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  Speaker 1: the boys? Question nineteen, last one before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the who am I? The first movie to feature four
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  Speaker 1: channel Dolby surround sound was the nineteen seventy six version
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  Speaker 1: of Which, timeless yet tragic tale of a fading star
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  Speaker 1: who discovers a bright new talent, A star is born.
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  Speaker 1: That particular version starred Barbara Streisand and Chris Christofferson. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a who am I? It's an old one.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a second stay with us. Question twenty is
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  Speaker 1: a who am I? Born in Venice in twelve fifty four.
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  Speaker 1: The exact date is unknown. My father was a traveling
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  Speaker 1: merchant who met me at the age of fifteen after
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  Speaker 1: my mother's death, and took me on his next adventure,
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  Speaker 1: which lasted twenty four years. We traveled through the Silk Road,
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  Speaker 1: and Asia, where we were received by the ruler of
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese Wan dynasty, Kubla Khan. Taken by my modesty
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  Speaker 1: and intellect, he appointed me his foreign emissary and utilized
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  Speaker 1: my diplomatic skills. Through what is now known as Mayan
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  Speaker 1: mar India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. We escorted the
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  Speaker 1: Mongol Princess Kokoshin to Persia and returned home to Venice
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  Speaker 1: via Constantinople, only to join the war against the Republic
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  Speaker 1: of Genoa. I was captured and during my imprisonment chronicled
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  Speaker 1: my travels to a fellow inmate, Roosteracello da Pisa, who
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  Speaker 1: is credited as the co author of my autobiography, which
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  Speaker 1: is also known as the Book of the Marvels of
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  Speaker 1: the World. I was released in August twelve, ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: became a wealthy merchant, married and had three daughters before
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  Speaker 1: dying in January thirteen, twenty four at the age of
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine or seventeen. My writings influenced European cartography and
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  Speaker 1: with the inspiration for a young Christopher Columbus and a
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  Speaker 1: classic blindfolded swimming pool version of tag still played today.
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