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  Speaker 1: Goodday and thanks for joining us on another school holiday
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  Speaker 1: special edition of Car Trip Trivia, although this time it's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a back in time special. As I
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  Speaker 1: said on Monday and Wednesday, I've been called on an
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  Speaker 1: overseas business trip unexpectedly and I can't deliver a brand
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  Speaker 1: new episode, So we're going to go back to July
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, episode two hundred and ninety four of
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia. We're going to do one of the
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  Speaker 1: most popular episodes of all time. This is one where
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  Speaker 1: you've really got to think. But it's very, very different.
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  Speaker 1: It's the word play edition. I'm going to do some
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  Speaker 1: birthday shout outs, but only the ones that I've got
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  Speaker 1: at the time of recording. All the others I'll do
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  Speaker 1: when I return next week, and we'll do a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a catch up episode. Okay Sunday. This coming Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Reese from Honolulu will be seven, Elliott from Manchester is
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  Speaker 1: turning thirty seven tomorrow, George from Glenmore Park will be
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  Speaker 1: seventy six, and Paul from Penrith is turning thirty three
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  Speaker 1: today just one birthday. Yaz from Eastbourne in the United
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom is twenty nine years of age. Thanks for bearing
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  Speaker 1: with me. We'll catch you next week with some fresh episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and happy birthday to everyone. Now I'm Stephen Craye, and
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  Speaker 1: today we won't stray from the wordplay. Okay, here's the
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  Speaker 1: first of twenty five questions containing the same three letters.
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  Speaker 1: What is the past tense of the word eat? Eight
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  Speaker 1: at Question two? What four letter word is a man's name?
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  Speaker 1: A part of a duck and a proposed law bill?
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  Speaker 1: Question three? What type of gram is a sentence that
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  Speaker 1: uses all twenty six letters of the alphabet? For example,
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  Speaker 1: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog? What
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  Speaker 1: type of gram is that sentence? It's a pangram? Question four?
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  Speaker 1: Which US state might you associate with the latest sports
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  Speaker 1: shirt new jersey? Question five? Which of the following words
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  Speaker 1: does not contain a doubles accessible, sustainable, dismissive or impressionable sustainable? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Question six, but tricky? What is both a person with
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  Speaker 1: a strict schedule and a beast formed from a nuns vestment?
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  Speaker 1: A person with a strict schedule and a beast formed
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  Speaker 1: from a nuns vestment a creature of habit? Question seven?
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  Speaker 1: Which letter is silent in the word debt the B
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  Speaker 1: D E B T. Question eight. A somemordinal lap is
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  Speaker 1: the term for a word that becomes a different word
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  Speaker 1: when read backwards. For example, straw s t r a
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  Speaker 1: W becomes wartz w A r t S. Where did
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  Speaker 1: the word some mordinal lap get its name? Some mordinal
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  Speaker 1: lap is palindromes spelt backwards? How's that? Question nine? What
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  Speaker 1: ghostly figure is an anagram of the word respect specter
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  Speaker 1: s P E C T R E. Question ten, beginning
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  Speaker 1: with R, what is the longest word in the English
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  Speaker 1: language without any vowels? Remember that pause button if you
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  Speaker 1: need more time, take as long as you need. It's
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  Speaker 1: rhythms r h y t hms Question eleven. Among hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of other common words, the words submerge, outbreak, eyeball, torture,
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  Speaker 1: and gossip were invented by whom William Shakespeare. Question twelve.
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  Speaker 1: What five letter word becomes shorter when two letters are
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  Speaker 1: added to it? Short? Shot? Add two letters er shorter?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen. What two words that mean the same thing
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  Speaker 1: do you get by changing just one letter in each
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  Speaker 1: of Harrison Ford's names. I'll explain. So if you change
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  Speaker 1: the first letter in Harrison and you changed the last
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  Speaker 1: letter in ford. What two words do you get that
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  Speaker 1: roughly mean the same thing. Swap out the H in
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  Speaker 1: Harrison with a G, you get garrison, and swap out
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  Speaker 1: the D in ford for a T, and you get
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  Speaker 1: forught garrison fort Question fourteen, which lung disease with six
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  Speaker 1: letters starts with a vowel, ends with a vowel, but
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  Speaker 1: has no vowels in between asthma as t h m A.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen, what gets wet when drying? Is that a
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  Speaker 1: trivia question or a riddle? I don't know, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a towel. Question sixteen, Removing which letter from the word
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  Speaker 1: window leaves a grieving wife? If you take away the N,
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  Speaker 1: you're left with a widow. Question seventeen. By rearranging the
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  Speaker 1: letters of RS magna that's Latin for great art, what
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  Speaker 1: word can we create? That means rearranging the letters of
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  Speaker 1: a word or phrase to create another word or phrase.
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  Speaker 1: You rearrange the letters in RS magna and you get anagram.
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen, which homophone is both a grain used for
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  Speaker 1: food and something that happens on a regular basis. Cerial
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  Speaker 1: cr E A L and cerial s R I A
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  Speaker 1: l Question nineteen. The American spelling of the words color, humor,
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  Speaker 1: and vapor all drop which vowel the you question twenty
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  Speaker 1: Caking a bake, or dats and cogs are examples of
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  Speaker 1: which s word seemingly related to cutlery. They're called spoonerisms,
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  Speaker 1: where the initial two sounds of two or more words
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  Speaker 1: are swapped around. Can be accidental or deliberate for comedic effect.
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  Speaker 1: We've got another five questions coming up for you in
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  Speaker 1: this Car Trivia Wordplay edition Here we Go. Question twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: A phrase that describes a person, place, or thing in
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  Speaker 1: a subtle or metaphorical way is an idiom, a euphemism,
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  Speaker 1: or an alliteration a euphemism? Question twenty two. Which word
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  Speaker 1: beginning with Q retains the same pronunciation when you take
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  Speaker 1: take away four of its five letters? Take your time,
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  Speaker 1: have a think about it. Which word beginning with Q
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  Speaker 1: retains the same pronunciation when you take away four of
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  Speaker 1: its five letters? Well, the word is Q Q U
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  Speaker 1: E UI. Take away the ui, u E, and you're
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  Speaker 1: left with a Q. Question twenty three. What two rhyming
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  Speaker 1: words might describe a terrifying pixie A scary fairy? Question
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Which tropical American fruit do you get by
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  Speaker 1: replacing the consonants in the word banana. Leave the a's
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  Speaker 1: where they are, replace the consonants and you can get
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  Speaker 1: a tropical American fruit. What is it papaya p a
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  Speaker 1: p a y a Question twenty five Which James Bond
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  Speaker 1: is an anagram of red golfing gold finger. He's the man,
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  Speaker 1: the man with the Midas touch. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: quiz show that comes back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and during the school holidays we do the school holiday specials.
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  Speaker 1: Today was one of those. Wednesday, We're doing the Australia
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  Speaker 1: versus USA edition. Hope you can join us for that.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming along for the ride. Catch you next
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  Speaker 1: time here at Catrip Trivia. Stay gold