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Wednesday, 22nd October, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: There's something kind of comforting and familiar about it, isn't there?
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  Speaker 1: When you hear the theme song, you know you're up
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  Speaker 1: for another twenty family friendly questions folks. Yes, it's charapture
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  Speaker 1: of Trivia Wednesday edition, which means we have the round
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  Speaker 1: of Sound at the end of the show. But let's
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  Speaker 1: get straight to it. The birthday shoutouts for today well tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa from Engerdee will be thirteen, Milana from French's Forest
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  Speaker 1: will be nine. Evy from French's Forest as well, she's
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  Speaker 1: turning ten. I don't think they're related. That would be unusual.
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  Speaker 1: Selene from New York is turning twenty seven and Tyler
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  Speaker 1: from New Hampshire in the US is turning eleven. Now
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  Speaker 1: we've got Elizabeth from Tufton Burrow, also in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 1: How's this for double us. She's turning thirty five tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: as well. Now today's birthdays, Alex from Newcastle's twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Nikki from Clackamass in Oregon is thirty five, Harley from
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Park is eight and Dominie from Broken Hill is
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  Speaker 1: thirty three. Happy birthday everyone, I'm Stephen Cray And for
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  Speaker 1: those minor aches and strains. I find aspirin takes the
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  Speaker 1: pain away? Question one, beginning with G, what is another
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  Speaker 1: name for spectacles glasses? Question two? If you're an enemy
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  Speaker 1: of Peter Parker's alter ego, what are you likely to
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  Speaker 1: get tangled up in spider Man's web? Question three? What
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  Speaker 1: was the occupation of Hippocrates? He was a physician or
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  Speaker 1: a doctor? And is the name behind the Hippocratic oath?
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  Speaker 1: Question four? What do we call the dense upper layers
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  Speaker 1: of leaves in a forest the canopy? Question five? Who
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  Speaker 1: played himself in the Fresh Prince of bel Air? Will Smith?
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  Speaker 1: Question six? Which aquatic event was introduced for men at
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen oh four Olympics and for women at the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twelve Olympics? Was it diving, water polo or synchronized swimming?
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  Speaker 1: It was diving? Question number seven. How many spots are
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  Speaker 1: there on the domino? In the Domino's pizza logo? There
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  Speaker 1: are three spots or dots, whatever you want to call them.
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  Speaker 1: Question eight. What is often said to be the lowest
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  Speaker 1: form of wit? You reckon? You know this one? Do you? Yeah? Okay? Sarcasm?
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on to question nine. Which country with a
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  Speaker 1: red white blue and yellow flag is south of Thailand
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  Speaker 1: and north of Singapore, Malaysia. Question ten on which race
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  Speaker 1: course is the Melbourne Cup run Flemington Race Course in Melbourne,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and that's coming up in a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks time. Question eleven. Minnie the Moocha was a signature
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  Speaker 1: tune for American jazz singer, songwriter and bandleader Cab Who
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  Speaker 1: Cab Callawai? Of course, that song was featured in the
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  Speaker 1: movie The Blues Brothers. Question twelve. As a free subscriber
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  Speaker 1: to x formerly Twitter, how many characters are posts limited
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  Speaker 1: to two hundred and eighty characters? Question thirteen. Which Australian
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  Speaker 1: island has the largest population of Quakers? Quakers are the
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  Speaker 1: unusual cat sized marsupials found mainly on Rottenest Island of Wa.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I'm going to put something up on
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  Speaker 1: Patreon for our members. They can check out the Ossie Quaker.
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  Speaker 1: Question fourteen. In computing, what does doss ords stand for
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  Speaker 1: disc Operating System? Question fifteen, Premiering in two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: where was the first series of the Real Housewives franchise set?
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  Speaker 1: Was it Beverly Hills, Orange County or Atlanta? Real Housewives
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  Speaker 1: Orange County was the first season of that check. Question sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: an insect sounds like me and I am at the
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  Speaker 1: front of the best selling book of all time? What
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  Speaker 1: letter am I? I am? The letter B? Question seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: What is the official language in the Canadian city of Quebec.
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  Speaker 1: Until you actually visit Quebec, you call it Quebec and
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  Speaker 1: then you find out that that's not how they pronounce it.
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  Speaker 1: The language is French. Question eighteen. This is a complex question.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain it all at the end. A comma placed
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  Speaker 1: before the final conjunction in a list of three or
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  Speaker 1: more items is known as a what comma an Oxford comma.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll do a quick lesson here. In the sentence
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  Speaker 1: I've invited my parents, Peter and Pam. If you put
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  Speaker 1: a comma after Peter, that is, before the and Pam,
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  Speaker 1: it changes the sentence. It says I've invited my parents,
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  Speaker 1: Peter and Pam. So it's not I've invited my parents,
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  Speaker 1: Peter and Pam. I've invited my parents and Peter and Pam.
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  Speaker 1: Does that make sense? It's designed to avoid ambiguity, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I've done that. Question nineteen, which
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  Speaker 1: fabric is created when you spell the word mind backwards
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  Speaker 1: denim d N I M. Question number twenty, which of
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan actually lived in Seattle In
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  Speaker 1: the movie Sleepless in Seattle. Tom Hanks's character lived in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: Meg Ryan's lived in Baltimore. The Round of Sound moments
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  Speaker 1: away here at Couture Trivia stay with us on Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 1: We like to finish the show with the round of Sound.
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  Speaker 1: It is as it sounds. It's a round and it
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  Speaker 1: contains sounds. So I'm going to play those for you
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  Speaker 1: and I'll give you some clues if we need to,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to work out what those sounds are.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first one familiar to a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: who may work in office buildings. But I know that
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  Speaker 1: is the sound of an elevator door opening up. All right?
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  Speaker 1: What about this one? Okay, pretty that's a train of
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  Speaker 1: some sort. But I'm looking for a specific type of train.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a clue in the sound if you
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  Speaker 1: listen very carefully, it's that you know that's a steam train.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Last sound for today. This is for the
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned members of our listening audience. What's this sound?
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  Speaker 1: When I say old fashioned. I don't mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years ago. I mean we grew up with
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  Speaker 1: these things in the seventies, eighties, and even the nineties
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  Speaker 1: to a lesser extent. What's this sound the fore mobile phones,
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  Speaker 1: you needed to call people on the landline, and that
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  Speaker 1: is a rotary or dial phone. And that sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the end of the show. Your company's always appreciated here
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  Speaker 1: at cartrip Trivia. Thanks for joining us. If you would
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  Speaker 1: like to get a birthday shout out onto the program,
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  Speaker 1: onto the car Trip Trivia Facebook page, then get onto
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  Speaker 1: the messenger app and leave me all of the details
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  Speaker 1: of the person whose birthday you would like to share. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before I go, I'm going to wait for the drum roll,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to say fare thee well, catch you
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  Speaker 1: next time.