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Abraham Lincoln, Springfield & Film Festivals (Fri, 22nd May, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of Car Trip Trivia. The Friday
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  Speaker 1: Funny is on the way. I wanted to take a
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  Speaker 1: birthday shoutouts this coming Sunday. Simon from Port Stevens will
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  Speaker 1: be forty, Josh from Mississaga in Ontario, Canada is turning
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  Speaker 1: twenty three tomorrow, Zach from the Netherlands is turning twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: Just one birthday today, but it's a big one. Lily,
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  Speaker 1: she's from Bristol and a birthday on Sunday, but she's
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  Speaker 1: having a big party tonight. She's twenty one. Happy birthday
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  Speaker 1: to you, Lily, I'm Stephen Craye, And as suggested in
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  Speaker 1: the quiz the other day, a squirrel's nest is called
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  Speaker 1: a dre Question one, whales used to walk on land?
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  Speaker 1: True or false? Around fifty million years ago? They did? Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: this is true, and they still carry hidden remnants of
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  Speaker 1: hind leg bones inside their bodies. Question two? What do
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  Speaker 1: we call the function on an alarm that silences the
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  Speaker 1: sound for a short period before ringing again, snooze or
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  Speaker 1: the snooze button? Question three? What does the K stand
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  Speaker 1: for in luxury burger chain gb K? I didn't ask
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  Speaker 1: what the B stands for because I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: fairly obvious. K stands for kitchen, gourmet burger kitchen. Question four?
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  Speaker 1: Which author invented the word double speak? Was it George Orwell,
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  Speaker 1: John Steinbeck or C. S. Lewis It was George Orwell
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  Speaker 1: in his book nineteen eighty four? Question five? From which
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  Speaker 1: language is Afrikaans? Derived from Dutch? Question six? In military parlance,
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  Speaker 1: what are the predator and the reaper? They are unmanned
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  Speaker 1: aerial vehicles otherwise known as drone? Question seven? In ice hockey,
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  Speaker 1: when do teams face off to start or restart? Play
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. The nineteen ninety three claymation film The Wrong
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  Speaker 1: Trousers featured which four legged hero Grommet from Wallace and
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  Speaker 1: Grommet fame? Question nine? How many bytes in a gigabyte?
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  Speaker 1: There's one billion of them? Question ten, which Australian quiz
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  Speaker 1: show was co hosted by Delvin Delaney. Delvin was probably
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  Speaker 1: the most famous of the many wonderful co hosts of
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  Speaker 1: Sale of the Century. Question eleven. If I type a
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  Speaker 1: less than arrow symbol followed by the number three, what
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  Speaker 1: emoji do I create that's a less than an arrow
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  Speaker 1: symbol followed by the number three, you'd create a heart?
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  Speaker 1: How lovely? Question twelve? What was US President Abraham Lincoln's nickname?
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  Speaker 1: Was it blink and Lincoln, honest Abe or Abraham the Brave?
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln was known as honest Abe? Question thirteen? What
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  Speaker 1: oversized snack? Was unveiled in Springfield, New Zealand in July
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven to promote the Simpsons movie It's
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  Speaker 1: Still there today, I'm told a giant pink donut. Question fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: which convicted Australian drug smile, was released from Bali's Cariboken
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  Speaker 1: prison in February twenty fourteen, Chappelle Corby. Question fifteen. Which
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  Speaker 1: country has the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy Japan with
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  Speaker 1: imperial lineage dating back to six hundred and sixty BC
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  Speaker 1: with Emperor Jimu. Question sixteen one, Who is protected from
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  Speaker 1: a disease? Is said to be what? Beginning with I immune,
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  Speaker 1: You're immune to the disease? Question seventeen, which a legendary
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  Speaker 1: girl band shared their name with a pizza and sold
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million records the Supremes. Question eighteen. What part
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  Speaker 1: of a man grows on average fifteen centimeters per year
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  Speaker 1: his facial whiskers, And apparently there's a limit to it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't just keep going forever. I believe it's called
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  Speaker 1: your terminal limit, as how long your beard will get,
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  Speaker 1: and it's determined by your genetics. Question nineteen. Which of
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  Speaker 1: these international film festivals has been running the longest? The
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  Speaker 1: Venice Film Festival, the Moscow International Film Festival, or the
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  Speaker 1: can Film Festival. That's Venice, Moscow or Can. The answer
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  Speaker 1: is Venice. It began in nineteen thirty two with a
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  Speaker 1: screening of Doctor Jekyl and Mister Hyde. No Place to
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  Speaker 1: Hide If your name is Rudy. We have a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? With a twist and then the fright funny
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  Speaker 1: coming up today's who am I? It's not a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? It's a what band am I? I formed
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  Speaker 1: in London in nineteen ninety seven and have gone on
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  Speaker 1: to sell one hundred and sixty million records worldwide. I
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  Speaker 1: was the first group to reach one hundred million monthly
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  Speaker 1: listeners on Spotify and have three of the top fifty
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  Speaker 1: best selling albums in the UK. Ever, my lead singer
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  Speaker 1: and lead guitarist met at University College London in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six, and, after adding a bass player, started recording
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  Speaker 1: demos under the name Big Fat Noises. A drummer came
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  Speaker 1: next and we became Starfish, before settling on our current
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  Speaker 1: name and releasing an EP called Safety in May nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight. I picked up a manager, started scheduling concerts,
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  Speaker 1: and after rejections and counter offers, I signed with Parlophone
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  Speaker 1: Records and played at Glastonbury in June nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: A second EP, The Blue Room, was followed by my
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  Speaker 1: debut album, which featured my first top five UK singles
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  Speaker 1: hit Yellow. I have released ten studio albums including a
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  Speaker 1: Rush of Blood to the Head, X and Y and
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  Speaker 1: Ghost Stories, along with a number of concert films and
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  Speaker 1: major worldwide tours that have grossed close to two and
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  Speaker 1: a half billion US dollars. I've won seven Grammys. My
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  Speaker 1: musical styles include electronica, funk, disco, gospel, and progressive rock.
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  Speaker 1: And my lead singer is Chris Martin. I am, I
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  Speaker 1: Am Coldplay and Rudy's joining us in the studio. It's
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  Speaker 1: Friday Funny Time. You're doing all right, pelt, I'm dad.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way you're here for a joke? But first,
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  Speaker 1: what's your favorite Coldplay song?
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  Speaker 2: I really like Viva Loveta or Stifle Stars, but my
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  Speaker 2: favorites is Fix You, Fix You?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sing it for us. I thought you might have
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  Speaker 1: thought I newly had him. That's called me right, Oh
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  Speaker 1: of course, nice work mate. What's your joke on today's
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  Speaker 1: Friday Funny.
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  Speaker 2: The part Present and Future walked into a bar. It
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  Speaker 2: was tense, extremely tense.
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  Speaker 3: It's another beauty from the annals of Rudy's jake telling repertoire.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose mate, Thanks thanks for doing that for us,
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  Speaker 3: all right, So for those listeners in the past, I.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed the show, and for.
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  Speaker 1: Those listeners in the present.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're enjoying the show.
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  Speaker 1: And for those listeners in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. There's another episode on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Stay Gold.