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Friday 6th September, 2024 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, we are nearly there. We've just
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  Speaker 1: got to find our way through Friday and then it's
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  Speaker 1: smooth sailing over the weekend. That's where capture of trivia
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  Speaker 1: comes in. Make life a little easier south the pain.
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  Speaker 1: Just take today's quiz. Then we'll bring in Fred for
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  Speaker 1: a Friday funny, for a bit of a laugh, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll do some shout outs right now. Some days, Thomas
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  Speaker 1: from Bukham Hills turns seventeen, Rollin from Mount d'ineed is
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  Speaker 1: forty one, Lily Rocket from Rose Bay will be thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Pitt Rick from Woggle Wogger will be nine years of age.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow we have Bailey from the Adelaide Hills turning seven
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  Speaker 1: and two. For today, Allen from Pottsville is seventy two,
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  Speaker 1: and Brad from Bendigo brings up the half century. Raise
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  Speaker 1: your back, sir, I'm Stephen Cray and use to remove
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  Speaker 1: oil from water. It's still a silicate aka organic clay.
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  Speaker 1: Question one. If there are two days between today and Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: what is today? Today is Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday. Question two,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with M, what might we call a large residence
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  Speaker 1: or house with at least five or six bedrooms and
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  Speaker 1: luxurious features a mansion. Question three? Who is John Vot's
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  Speaker 1: Academy Award winning daughter Angelina Jola? Question four? In which
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  Speaker 1: hotel was the cocktail the Singapore Sling created in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifteen raffles in Singapore? Question five? Which sport requires its
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  Speaker 1: competitors to carry a map and a compass? Orienteering? Question
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  Speaker 1: six in twenty sixteen, which long dead artists sold more
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  Speaker 1: compact discs than anyone else? It was Mozart with one
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  Speaker 1: point two five million. Second place was Drake. Question seven,
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  Speaker 1: Which of the following is not a prime number? Thirteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine or fifty three thirty nine? A prime number
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  Speaker 1: is one that is only divisible by itself, and one
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  Speaker 1: now thirty nine can be divided by three or thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: Question eight? Which television show features the fictional alien species
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  Speaker 1: the Lingons Star Trek? Question eight? What caused the Fukushima
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  Speaker 1: Nuclear Power plant disaster in twenty eleven? A tsunami that
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  Speaker 1: resulted from an earthquake? Question ten. A lobster's teeth are
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  Speaker 1: located in its claws? True or false? False? They are
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  Speaker 1: located in its stomach. Question eleven. Still in the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: The light created by a deep sea creature that otherwise
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  Speaker 1: lives in total darkness is called bio What bioluminescence? Now,
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  Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and look
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  Speaker 1: up deep sea creatures exhibit bioluminescence, and you will marvel
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  Speaker 1: at these magnificent beasts. Question twelve. How many NIME aircraft
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  Speaker 1: does a fighter pilot need to shoot down to be
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  Speaker 1: recognized as an ACE five? Question thirteen? What colorful weather
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  Speaker 1: did pop star prints sing about? Purple rain? Question fourteen?
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  Speaker 1: What is a gavot? Is it a divot made in sand?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a retired pack horse? Or is it an
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth century dance? A gavot is an eighteenth century dance?
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen. What is both a function of the toilet
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  Speaker 1: and a reddening of the face or skin? Flush? It's
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  Speaker 1: also a pretty handy poker hand Question sixteen. Who is
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  Speaker 1: the patron saint of Wales? Saint David? Question seventeen What
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  Speaker 1: is the most flexible muscle in the human body? The tongue?
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  Speaker 1: Question eighteen not required. In modern day cars, the carburetta
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  Speaker 1: controlled the mix of fuel and what entering the engine?
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  Speaker 1: Fuel and air. Now, while we're on Cars. Question nineteen
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  Speaker 1: known as the Interceptor, in which Australian movie does the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three Ford Falcon XBGT hardtop feature Mad Max.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what it sounds like. We've got a joke
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  Speaker 1: and who am I up next? Welcome back for the
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  Speaker 1: final play of the week. Question twenty is a who
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  Speaker 1: am I Born in Greenville, Mississippi, in September nineteen thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: the second of two children to Betty and Paul. My brother,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Junior, was killed in a car accident when I
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  Speaker 1: was nineteen. We moved to University Park in Maryland in
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  Speaker 1: my early teens, and the purchase of our first television
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  Speaker 1: was the biggest event of my adolescence. I attended Northwestern
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  Speaker 1: High School, where I was a member of the puppetry club,
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  Speaker 1: and graduated from the University of Maryland, where I met
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  Speaker 1: my future wife, Jane Neebel. At eighteen, I was hired
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate Marionette's on the Junior Morning Show before Jane
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  Speaker 1: and I landed a nightly five minute puppet show called
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  Speaker 1: Sam and Friends, where I would conceive my most famous creation.
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  Speaker 1: We performed successful television commercials for Wilkins Coffee Company before
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  Speaker 1: hiring Frank Oz as a puppeteer and working together on
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  Speaker 1: Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie. I start in and directed
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  Speaker 1: many movies, including The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: best known for the TV shows Fraggle Rock and The Muppets,
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  Speaker 1: featuring my most enduring characters, Fozzy Bear, Miss Piggy and
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  Speaker 1: the incomparable Kermit the Frog. I died at the age
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  Speaker 1: of fifty three from toxic shock syndrome and was awarded
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  Speaker 1: a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I
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  Speaker 1: am I am Jim Henson, and we're pretty lucky to
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  Speaker 1: have this guy on deck. He's in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: exam block. Thought he'd nipped down come into the studio
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  Speaker 1: for a Friday funny. It's Frederick. Welcome, my friend. Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: list is excuse me for my block dose? It's all
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  Speaker 1: blocked up. Well, we won't stuff around then, mate, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get straight to it. What have you got for us?
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  Speaker 1: Who pushed Harry Potter down the hill? I don't know. JK. Rowling, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go do some study now. Oh we've been
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  Speaker 1: privileged and graced with his presence. That's another week of
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  Speaker 1: capture of trivia down the hatch. If you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: your favorite podcast platform. Until our world's next collide, Stay gold,