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Bill & Ted, Kookaburras & Cartoon Cats (Fri, 28th Aug, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: So if you're new to the show, at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of every episode of Car Trip Trivia, we do birthday shout-outs.
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  Speaker 1: We do these as a tribute to all of our
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  Speaker 1: wonderful listeners from right around the world. But get them
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  Speaker 1: in nice and early. Do it through the Facebook page
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  Speaker 1: Messenger app. That's whose birthday, where they're from, how old
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  Speaker 1: they are, and when their birthday is. Also, might pay
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  Speaker 1: to help me out with any tricky pronunciations, so don't
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  Speaker 1: stuff those up.
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  Speaker 2: OK, welcome to the show. The Friday Funny is coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's fire away.
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  Speaker 1: This coming Sunday, Danny from Adelaide will be 22. Bailey
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  Speaker 1: from Raleigh in North Carolina is turning 25. Tomorrow, Chad
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  Speaker 1: from Travis City in Michigan will be 47. Joel from
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  Speaker 1: Sansuki will be 12. Alfred from Kynerton will be 9.
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  Speaker 1: And today, Orlando from Mildura is 14. And Monique from
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  Speaker 1: Junee is 29. I'm Stephen Cray, and to a Scotsman,
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  Speaker 1: an old worn-out shoe is called a scray. Question number one.
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  Speaker 1: On a standard calculator, what number sits directly above the two?
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  Speaker 1: The number five.
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  Speaker 2: Question two.
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  Speaker 1: If a sentence is full of excitement, shouting or big surprises,
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  Speaker 1: which punctuation mark... would you use at the end of it?
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  Speaker 1: You'd use an exclamation mark. Now, our American friends might
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  Speaker 1: call that an exclamation point. Question number three. Which family
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  Speaker 1: of products currently heavily advertised on television has the slogan patch, bond,
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  Speaker 1: seal and repair? How much do you like your infomercials?
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  Speaker 1: It's Flex Seal. You know the one with CEO Phil
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  Speaker 1: Swift on the ads? He turns a screen door into
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  Speaker 1: a boat with Flex Seal. Don't know if it works,
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  Speaker 1: but it looks good. Question four. What word meaning not genuine,
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  Speaker 1: fake or counterfeit was popularised by the characters Bill and Ted?
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  Speaker 2: Bogus, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. In which part of the human body is
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  Speaker 1: the tibia? The tibia is a bone. It's next to
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  Speaker 1: the fibula and it's in your leg.
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  Speaker 2: Question six.
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  Speaker 1: To do everything possible in accomplishing your aim is to
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  Speaker 1: leave no stone.
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  Speaker 2: No stone unturned. Question number seven.
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  Speaker 1: In the United States, general elections held two years into
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  Speaker 1: a president's four-year term are known as what?
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  Speaker 2: Midterms. Question eight.
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  Speaker 1: Who won five straight Wimbledon men's singles titles from 1976
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  Speaker 1: to 1980?
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  Speaker 2: Bjorn Borg. Question nine.
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  Speaker 1: Which small, landlocked African country, beginning with L, is completely
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by South Africa?
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  Speaker 2: Lesotho.
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  Speaker 1: It's spelt L-E-S-O-T-H-O, pronounced Lesotho.
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  Speaker 2: Question 10.
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  Speaker 1: Which cartoon cat said, I hate those meeses to pieces?
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  Speaker 1: Was it Sylvester, Top Cat or Mr Jinx? It was
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  Speaker 1: Mr Jinx from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Huckleberry Hound Show.
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  Speaker 2: Question 11.
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  Speaker 1: Which metal, the third lightest element on the periodic table,
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  Speaker 1: is an essential ingredient in modern rechargeable batteries?
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  Speaker 2: Lithium. Question 12.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning people often reveal secrets or truths whilst pretending to
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  Speaker 1: be joking is the proverb many a true word spoken
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  Speaker 1: in what? Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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  Speaker 1: Question 13. The term cybernetic organism is commonly abbreviated to
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  Speaker 1: which portmanteau?
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  Speaker 2: Part human, part machine. Cyborg. Question 14.
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  Speaker 1: Which late singer-songwriter grew up dirt poor in the Great
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  Speaker 1: Smoky Mountains and had a cloned sheep named after her? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the world was very sad to wake up on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: morning and hear about Dolly Parton dying. So, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: the music. Question 15. Which dockyard occupation comes from the Spanish...
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  Speaker 1: For stow a cargo. A dockyard occupation stow a cargo.
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  Speaker 1: It's the stevedore. Question 16. Which Tasmanian cricketer signed a
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  Speaker 1: sponsorship deal with Kookaburra at the age of 14? He
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  Speaker 1: went on to captain Australia in many, many tests and
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  Speaker 1: what a batsman, Ricky Ponting. Question 17. Which is the
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  Speaker 1: second largest land mammal on Earth, surpassed only by the elephant?
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  Speaker 1: The white rhinoceros, which is actually grey. Its name comes
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  Speaker 1: from a misinterpretation of the Afrikaan word veit, which means wide,
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  Speaker 1: not white. Question 18. The 13th of May each year
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  Speaker 1: is World what day? World Press Freedom Day? World No
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  Speaker 1: Tobacco Day? Or World Cocktail Day? The 13th of May
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  Speaker 1: is World Cocktail Day. Question 19. What novelty supernatural charm
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  Speaker 1: does Bear Bailey use to win over his long-time crush,
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  Speaker 1: in the 2026 horror sensation Obsession. He uses the one-wish willow,
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  Speaker 1: and as you might suspect, things don't quite go as planned.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we've got a Who Am I Up Next,
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  Speaker 1: and Rudy joins us for a funny on Friday. Last
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  Speaker 1: one for the week. It's question 20.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Born in Hasselt, Belgium in September 1997 to a Formula
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  Speaker 1: One driver and a kart racer.
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  Speaker 2: I have four siblings and half-siblings.
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  Speaker 1: I began racing karts at four years old and after
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  Speaker 1: winning multiple junior events, I went on to win the
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  Speaker 1: Dutch championship in the Rotax Max Mini Max class in 2007.
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  Speaker 1: I signed with go-kart manufacturer CRG, progressed through the ranks
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  Speaker 1: and was the youngest driver at just 13 to compete
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  Speaker 1: in the KF1 class in 2011, finishing eighth. In 2013...
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  Speaker 1: I became the first driver since my father to win
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  Speaker 1: two European karting championships in the same year, topping it
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  Speaker 1: off with the KZ World Championship. I drove in the
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  Speaker 1: 2014 Formula 3 European Championship, winning 10 times and placing
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  Speaker 1: third overall. I became the youngest ever driver to participate
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  Speaker 1: in Formula 1 when I debuted at the 2015 Australian
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prix and became the youngest ever winner a year
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  Speaker 1: later in my first race for Red Bull at the
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  Speaker 1: Spanish Grand Prix. I've gone on to win four Formula
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  Speaker 1: One World Drivers' Championships across 12 seasons and was listed
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  Speaker 1: in the 2024 Time magazine's list of the world's most
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  Speaker 1: influential people.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon you might know who this one is. I
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  Speaker 1: am Max Verstappen.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us now is.
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  Speaker 3: Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. The listeners and I have
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  Speaker 3: been listening.
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  Speaker 2: To you all week.
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  Speaker 3: I dare you to not say a single word for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the show.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll introduce myself. Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: It is Rudy. I have now taken over Cartoon Trivia
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  Speaker 3: for today's episode. So I would love to tell my
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  Speaker 3: joke right now. What do frogs wear on their feet
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  Speaker 3: in summer? Open-toed sandals. No speaking at all, Dad. So
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  Speaker 3: I hope everyone has been enjoying Car Trip Trivia so far.
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  Speaker 3: or whatever we do. I wish Dad could talk right
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  Speaker 3: now so he could tell us. But hope everyone has
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  Speaker 3: been enjoying Car Trip Trivia today and stay gold.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.