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Friday, 20th June, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Had a bit of a fright just now with a
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  Speaker 1: technical glitch in the studio. I was concerned that we
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to deliver today's episode of Car Trip Trivia,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm pleased to say we're up and running again,
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  Speaker 1: although I can tell you it was touch and go
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  Speaker 1: for a bit. Now. Rudy's in for the Friday Funny shortly,
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  Speaker 1: but we've got twenty questions to get through and there
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  Speaker 1: is something for everyone in the family. First, the birthday shoutouts.
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  Speaker 1: Haynock turned eighteen yesterday. I hope I've got that pronunciation right.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, Alma from Early Beach will be ten, Body
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  Speaker 1: from Mount d'eed will be fourteen, and Eleana from Blackhall's
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  Speaker 1: Park is turning ten. Now tomorrow we have Kenneth Williams,
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  Speaker 1: the third very regal sounding name. He's from San Antonio, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and he's turning twenty two. Dom from Wagga will be seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and today we have Gemma from Maruya in New South
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  Speaker 1: Wales turning ten. Eli from the Gold Coast is seven,
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  Speaker 1: Janine from Bega sixty seven, and twins Hudson and Hendrix
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  Speaker 1: from Madison, Wisconsin eight years of age. Happy birthday to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray and I just heard that Lenny Kravitz
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  Speaker 1: is touring Australia again. New Beauty. Used to be married
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  Speaker 1: to Lisa bon A. Question one. We talked about the
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  Speaker 1: invention of paper clips last episode, so here's another one
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  Speaker 1: for you. Do paper clips float or sink in water?
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  Speaker 1: They sink unless you play around with the surface tension
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  Speaker 1: of the water, in which case they might float. Question two.
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  Speaker 1: What do the letters KO stand for? In boxing? Knockout?
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  Speaker 1: Question three? By area, which of the following is the
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  Speaker 1: largest Columbus Zoo, Beijing Zoo or Australia Zoo Our very own.
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  Speaker 1: Australia Zoo, at more than seven hundred acres, is nearly
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  Speaker 1: five hundred acres bigger than Beijing and more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred acres bigger than Columbus. In fact, some records say
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  Speaker 1: it's the biggest zoo in the world. Question four. The
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  Speaker 1: lego derivative duplo is named after the Latin word dupless,
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  Speaker 1: meaning what double, as in double the size of lego blocks.
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  Speaker 1: Question five? Which color did Elvis Presley sing about the
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  Speaker 1: most blue? He had those suede shoes. He had a
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  Speaker 1: blue Moon, he had a blue, Christmas Blue, Hawaii, Moody Blue,
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  Speaker 1: and at least a dozen more. Question six, which non
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  Speaker 1: fiction podcast genre focuses on real life criminal events true crime?
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  Speaker 1: Gruesome at times, but very very popular. Question seven, beating
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  Speaker 1: Wonder Woman by a matter of months? Which queen was
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  Speaker 1: the first female comic book character to have her own
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  Speaker 1: title in the spring of nineteen forty two, Shena, Queen
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  Speaker 1: of the Jungle. Question eight, When you open up a
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  Speaker 1: Matrioshka doll, what do you normally find inside another Matrioshka doll?
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  Speaker 1: And so on and so on until you run out
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  Speaker 1: of space and there are no more Matrioshka dolls. Question
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  Speaker 1: nine in which city were the first televised Olympics held? Amsterdam,
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  Speaker 1: Berlin or Saint Moritz the Summer game of nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: six in Berlin. Question ten, What was George Nissen inspired
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  Speaker 1: to invent after witnessing tightrope walkers bouncing on safety nets
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  Speaker 1: the trampoline? Question eleven? What is both a variety of
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  Speaker 1: fish and the place where a bird might stand perch?
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve, Now get ready with the pause button and
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  Speaker 1: complete this number. Pattern three seven eleven fifteen nineteen what
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  Speaker 1: we'll do that again, three, seven, eleven, fifteen, nineteen. What's next? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we start with three, but then we add four to
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  Speaker 1: each number. So the next number to complete the number
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  Speaker 1: pattern is twenty three. Question thirteen. Out of M and
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  Speaker 1: M's and Skittles, which came first? M and ms were
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  Speaker 1: first sold in nineteen forty one. Skittles came out in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Question fourteen. Pelham Grenville were the first
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  Speaker 1: two names of which British comic novelists Pelham, Grenville, PG,
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  Speaker 1: PG Wodehouse. Question fifteen. Limnology is the study of which
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  Speaker 1: geographical feature lakes and other bodies of fresh water. Question sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which three day music festival took place in Bethel, New
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  Speaker 1: York in nineteen sixty nine Woodstock? Question seventeen. Which word
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  Speaker 1: was the Oxford word of the year in twenty twenty four?
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  Speaker 1: Was it romanticy? Was it brain rot? Or was it slop?
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  Speaker 1: They're all good words, but it was brain rot? Question eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The easy to prepare snack Welsh rare bit is better
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  Speaker 1: known as what cheese on toast? Question nineteen. This is
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  Speaker 1: a tough one, so listen carefully. Which beloved cartoon character
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  Speaker 1: was inspired by and shares the same name as Donald
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  Speaker 1: Sutherland's character in the nineteen seventy five Hollywood drama The
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  Speaker 1: Day of the Locust. No need for us do if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't get it right, Yes, it's Homer Simpson. The
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  Speaker 1: Friday Funny is up next. But well it's not up next.
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  Speaker 1: The who am I? Is up next? The last question
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  Speaker 1: for today is a who am I? Born in Penrith,
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales in August two thousand and three. My
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  Speaker 1: father is Samoan and my mother has European Cambodian heritage.
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  Speaker 1: They met at Kingswood Railway station. Whilst at Regentville Public School,
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  Speaker 1: I was selected in rep teams for AFL Basketball, Athletics, rugby,
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  Speaker 1: union and league, where I also played for the Glenmore
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  Speaker 1: Park Brumbies and the Coojie Wombats. I was offered a
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  Speaker 1: scholarship to attend King's School in Parramatta and played First
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  Speaker 1: five basketball in year seven and first fifteen rugby from
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  Speaker 1: year nine. Upon graduation, there was a significant bidding war
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  Speaker 1: for my services between the South Sydney rabbit Os, the
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Roosters and the Australian Rugby Union, with the Roosters
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  Speaker 1: winning and the sports governing body granting me an exemption
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  Speaker 1: to play in the NRL. Before to eighteen, I played
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  Speaker 1: rugby league for Samoa, but in twenty twenty three announced
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  Speaker 1: that I would be switching codes to rugby union on
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  Speaker 1: an estimated one point five million dollars per year. I
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  Speaker 1: was man of the match in my Wallabies deboot defeating
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  Speaker 1: England in November twenty twenty four, becoming just the third
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  Speaker 1: player in history to play for my country before my club,
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  Speaker 1: and have just been selected in the national squad to
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  Speaker 1: take on the British and Irish lines in July during
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  Speaker 1: their duo desennial tour that means once every twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: I am I am Joseph Suey Ali. Welcome to Carro Trivia. Everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host Rudy, and today we have a
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  Speaker 1: special guest in the studio. Dad. Oh hello, Rudy, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for having me. It's all right, Dad, Now can you
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  Speaker 1: get straight into the joke. I've got a joke for
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  Speaker 1: you for the Friday funn eight. When does a joke
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  Speaker 1: become a dad joke? I have no idea when it
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  Speaker 1: becomes apparent. Okay my parents, Yeah, I'm forgetting I can't
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  Speaker 1: help to think that's not a very genuine laugh. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that was the joke from dad, So why are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna say Dad, Well, it's not me who's hosting. You're
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  Speaker 1: hasting alright, stay gold,