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Monday, 15th September, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: It's the thirty eighth week of the year and Cartrip
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  Speaker 1: Trivia Desk keeps on cruising along. We've got another three
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  Speaker 1: episodes coming for you this week. Thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the show. Now. To get your birthday shout
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  Speaker 1: outs included on the podcast, go to the car Trip
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  Speaker 1: Trivia Facebook page, then onto the Messenger app and leave
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  Speaker 1: us all of the pertinent details said. Birthday shout outs
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  Speaker 1: will commence right now. Miller from Camber in the Act
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  Speaker 1: was seven last week. Luella from Manly Beach was eleven yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow's birthdays, Aiman from Bourbngary East will be nine, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Darcy from Kilcare Heights is turning eleven and Stephanie from
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  Speaker 1: Perth will be fourteen. Today's birthdays I'll be from Exeter
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  Speaker 1: in the UK is ten. Jesse from Nelson in British
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  Speaker 1: Columbia is forty two. Harlowe from Brighton in Queensland is ten.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth from the US. He's visiting Australia and he's forty.
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  Speaker 1: And it's golden birthday time for Seth from Little Elm, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: He's fifteen. Today. I'm Stephen Cray and if you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: who wrote the theme song from Shaft? It was Isaac Hayes.
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  Speaker 1: Question one, What is the name of Moana's pet, pig, Poor,
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  Speaker 1: Poor the pig? Question two? Is the universe getting bigger
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  Speaker 1: or is the universe getting smaller? It's getting bigger. It's
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  Speaker 1: expainding and expaining, and we know this because astronomers have
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  Speaker 1: observed that galaxies are moving further and further apart from
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  Speaker 1: each other. Question three. Which pop singer is engaged to
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  Speaker 1: American record producer and songwriter Benny Blanco Selena Gomez? Question four?
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  Speaker 1: What type of drink is a monteado? Is it a soup,
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  Speaker 1: a cider, or a sherry? A monteado is a sherry?
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  Speaker 1: Question five? The Indian flag is made up of four colors, orange, white, blue,
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  Speaker 1: and what green? Orange, white, blue, and green? Question six?
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  Speaker 1: Where was King Arthur's most famous court camelot? Question seven.
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  Speaker 1: In the game Candy Crush, the character who provides tips
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  Speaker 1: and tutorials is mister who Mister Toffee? Question number eight.
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  Speaker 1: What term is given to the technique of using a
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  Speaker 1: high speed camera to determine the winner of a close
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  Speaker 1: horse race? That would be a photo finish? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: What is the name of the ceremonial wooden mallet used
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  Speaker 1: by judges and auctioneers A gavel gave e l gavel.
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  Speaker 1: Question ten, also beginning with C. What is the alternative
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  Speaker 1: name for the Celsius scale centigrade? Question eleven? Who is
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  Speaker 1: actress Kate Mahra's sister also an actress Rooney Mara? Question twelve?
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  Speaker 1: What type of cured fish is a kipper? Is it
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  Speaker 1: a herring, a sardine or a halibut? It's a herring,
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  Speaker 1: And I might add for Monty Python fans there's been
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  Speaker 1: a few not so subtle references to Monty Python's sketches
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  Speaker 1: in today's episode. It hasn't been intentional. Question thirteen is
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  Speaker 1: a follow up question. A plot device that introduces a
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  Speaker 1: misleading clue to distract from the true conclusion is known
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  Speaker 1: as a what herring A red herring? Question fourteen. The
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  Speaker 1: longest match in tennis history that went for eleven hours
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  Speaker 1: and five minutes was a first round match at which
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam event in twenty ten Wimbledon. It was between
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  Speaker 1: John Eisner and Nicholas Mahut, and it was played over
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  Speaker 1: three days, and it was won by Eisner seventy games
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  Speaker 1: to sixty eight in the fifth set. Question fifteen, which
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  Speaker 1: rats feature in the title of the Australian television police
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  Speaker 1: drama from the nineteen nineties and early two thousands, Water Rats.
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen, which acclaimed author once said, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich,
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  Speaker 1: you start a religion. L Ron Hubbard, who of course
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  Speaker 1: went on to found scientology. Question seventeen. Which US state
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  Speaker 1: is considered the rainbow capital of the world. Is it Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii or Oregon due to its combination of clean air,
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  Speaker 1: frequent sunshine, short rain showers, and mountainous topography. It is Hawaii.
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen. In the human body, the tympanum or the
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  Speaker 1: tympanic membrane is more commonly known as what the ear drum?
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen, which Ossie film from nineteen seventy five, revolves
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  Speaker 1: around the mysterious disappearance of a group of schoolgirls and
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  Speaker 1: their teacher picnic at Hanging Rock and it's pretty spooky.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to who am I? Seconds away? Don't you
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere? And here we go. It's question twenty today.
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Born in March nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: five in West Germany. My real name is Walter, and
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  Speaker 1: I received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. I have a younger sister
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  Speaker 1: and two younger brothers. The family moved to New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: when my father left the military in nineteen fifty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and I attended Pennsgrove High School, where I had a
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  Speaker 1: stutter that improved when I performed in the school's drama club.
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  Speaker 1: After high school, I was a security guard at the
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  Speaker 1: Salem Nuclear Power Plant and a private investigator, a job
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  Speaker 1: that would foreshadow some future acting roles. After an early
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  Speaker 1: part in a stage production of Cat on a Hot
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  Speaker 1: Tin Room, I moved to New York in the late
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  Speaker 1: seventies and supported myself through bartending jobs. My rise to
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  Speaker 1: fame came in the nineteen eighties television show Moonlighting, leading
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  Speaker 1: to a part in the Blake Edwards comedy Blind Date
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  Speaker 1: opposite Kim Bassingers At Kim Basinger. I've released two studio
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  Speaker 1: albums and starred in more than one hundred films, including
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  Speaker 1: The Last Boy, Scout, Twelve Monkeys, The Sixth Sense, and
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  Speaker 1: Pop Fiction, but am best known for playing Detective John
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  Speaker 1: McLain in the Diehard franchise I retired from acting in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and was diagnosed with the degenerative disease
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  Speaker 1: fronto temporal dementia in twenty twenty three. I am I
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  Speaker 1: am Bruce Willis. And you know he's also in the
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  Speaker 1: top ten highest grossing actors of all time, so he's
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  Speaker 1: done pretty well. It's very sad how it's turned out
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  Speaker 1: for Bruce though. This is cartrip Trivia. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. We look forward to your company when
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  Speaker 1: we next mate, whenever that may be. You know what
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  Speaker 1: they say, stay goal