Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Wednesday, 18th June, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us once again. This is
- 0:09Speaker 1: car trop Trivia and a very special welcome today to
- 0:12Speaker 1: all of our listeners in South Africa. Never ceases to
- 0:16Speaker 1: amaze me how far this little family friendly podcast has
- 0:19Speaker 1: reached and we're most grateful for your support of the show.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Now let's do some of those birthday shout outs we've
- 0:25Speaker 1: become popular for. Harry from Kalinga just turned twelve and
- 0:28Speaker 1: he got to see Big Ben in London on his birthday.
- 0:31Speaker 1: How's that now today? Jack from Grand Junction in Colorado,
- 0:35Speaker 1: He's got family in Geelong. He's thirty one. Leo from
- 0:38Speaker 1: Invercargo in New Zealand. He's eight. Bradley from Parah Hills
- 0:42Speaker 1: in Adelaide he's thirty six. Graham from Madison, Wisconsin is thirteen.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Raj Vie from kalum Var in Brizzy ten years of age.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Ryan from Helensburg in New South Wales is twenty nine.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Oli from Hong Kong is eleven years of age and
- 0:57Speaker 1: longtime listener to the show. Aria Lenin in Inverted Commas
- 1:02Speaker 1: w from Highgate Hill, Double Figures Today, Happy birthday to you.
- 1:05Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray and I mustn't forget Lincoln. He's thirteen
- 1:10Speaker 1: and he's from Bonnet Bay. Question number one, and don't
- 1:14Speaker 1: forget the round of sounds coming up after the quits
- 1:17Speaker 1: which animal does eighty five percent of the world's milk
- 1:21Speaker 1: come from cows? Now? What comes second on that list
- 1:30Speaker 1: is a question for another day. Question number two, whilst
- 1:33Speaker 1: not specifically mentioned in the Bible, how many wise men
- 1:37Speaker 1: visited the infant Jesus in the story of the Nativity?
- 1:45Speaker 1: Three wise men bearing gifts? Of course? Question three? Which
- 1:50Speaker 1: country invented the paper clip? Was it the USA, the UK,
- 1:55Speaker 1: or the USSR It was Samuel Faye from the USA
- 2:05Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty seven. Question four, Fergie was a member
- 2:09Speaker 1: of what banned between two thousand and two and twenty
- 2:13Speaker 1: eighteen the Black Eyed Peas? Question five, according to the saying,
- 2:23Speaker 1: what sort of workman always blames his tools? A bad
- 2:32Speaker 1: workman always blames his tools? Question number six, which racket
- 2:37Speaker 1: sport shares its name with a vegetable? Well, technically it's
- 2:41Speaker 1: a fruit, but we'll get to that in a sec
- 2:48Speaker 1: squash Because it has seeds and develops from a flower,
- 2:52Speaker 1: it's botanically a fruit, but in a culinary sense, due
- 2:56Speaker 1: to its savory flavor, it's considered a vegetable. Seven. What
- 3:01Speaker 1: part of the human body does iridology deal with? The eyes?
- 3:11Speaker 1: Question eight? What is the official language of South Sudan English?
- 3:22Speaker 1: Question nine? What type of natural disaster occurs in the
- 3:26Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven movie Dante's Peak a volcanic eruption? Question ten?
- 3:38Speaker 1: On the dashboard of a car, what instrument measures velocity?
- 3:47Speaker 1: The speedometer? Question eleven. The hanging gardens of Babylon were
- 3:52Speaker 1: traditionally thought to be located by which river the Euphrates River?
- 4:03Speaker 1: Question twelve. Who did the girl love in the title
- 4:07Speaker 1: of the nineteen ninety nine psychological horror novel by Stephen King?
- 4:11Speaker 1: Was it Tom Gordon, Tom Jones or Tom Holland? The
- 4:21Speaker 1: Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? Question thirteen. In athletics, are
- 4:25Speaker 1: races typically run clockwise or anti clockwise? Anti clockwise? Question fourteen,
- 4:37Speaker 1: beginning with H what do we call words that sound
- 4:40Speaker 1: the same but have different meanings? There's a technical difference
- 4:48Speaker 1: that I won't go into today, but I'll accept homonyms
- 4:51Speaker 1: or homophones. Question fifteen. In which Australian state would you
- 4:57Speaker 1: find the Clare Valley wine region South Australia, the Clare
- 5:05Speaker 1: Valley being famous for its delicious reasonings. Question sixteen, in
- 5:10Speaker 1: which Australian comedy series did the characters Joanah Takalua and
- 5:15Speaker 1: Jamai King first appear together? Summer Heights High Question seventeen
- 5:26Speaker 1: In December nineteen eleven, rolled Amunsen reached what Destination, beating
- 5:31Speaker 1: Robert Scott by just one month. The South Pole Question eighteen,
- 5:42Speaker 1: beginning with g what is January's birthstone? Garnet? Question nineteen.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Of the five tries scored in Game one of this
- 5:57Speaker 1: year's Rugby League State of Origin between Queensland and New
- 6:00Speaker 1: South Wales, how many were converted? None of them? None
- 6:10Speaker 1: from five? Quite unusual now Game two, of course, is
- 6:13Speaker 1: on tonight. Question twenty, in which Academy Award winning film
- 6:18Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventies did the evil nurse Ratchet deploy
- 6:23Speaker 1: her authority? One flew over the cuckoo's nest? Can you
- 6:32Speaker 1: guess them? I'll bet you can't. The round a sound
- 6:36Speaker 1: up next probably my favorite segment here at cartrit Trivia,
- 6:43Speaker 1: and I know the listeners love it too because they
- 6:44Speaker 1: get a chance to guess the sound. Yes, folks, it
- 6:47Speaker 1: is the round of sound. Three sounds. Let's play them
- 6:50Speaker 1: a couple of times each so you can work them out.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Don't forget to use the pause button or the rewind
- 6:55Speaker 1: button if you like. Don't use a fast forward button
- 6:57Speaker 1: because you'll miss the sounds. Here we go, What's this?
- 7:02Speaker 1: What is that sound? Is it something being torn or
- 7:05Speaker 1: ripped or pulled apart? Maybe that's what it is. Yes,
- 7:10Speaker 1: it's velcrow. Let's do the second one. It's not dice
- 7:19Speaker 1: being rattled. It's something that you might experience if you
- 7:23Speaker 1: went to a bar. Again, that is a cocktail shaker.
- 7:33Speaker 1: And here is a scary one. To finish us off
- 7:35Speaker 1: for the day. What is that animal? We can tell
- 7:43Speaker 1: it's a growl. What animal is making that growl? It's
- 7:51Speaker 1: a real animal, I can tell you that much. It's
- 7:53Speaker 1: no dinosaur from Jurassic Park. In fact, it's a tiger growling.
- 7:59Speaker 1: We'll be back with another three sounds next Wednesday. But
- 8:03Speaker 1: before then we'll do Friday's episode of Car Trip Trivia.
- 8:06Speaker 1: We'll have a Friday funny, and we'll do who am I?
- 8:09Speaker 1: As question twenty. Thanks for joining us. We look forward
- 8:13Speaker 1: to your company the next time we see you. Until then,
- 8:16Speaker 1: au voir stay go,