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Miley Cyrus, Green Gables & Google Doodles (Wed, 21st Oct, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Hello again, and thanks so much for joining us. This
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  Speaker 1: is Car Trip Trivia. If you've been wondering how to
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  Speaker 1: get your birthday shout-out requests in, hit me up on
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  Speaker 1: the Car Trip Trivia Facebook page, Messenger app, and leave
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  Speaker 1: all of the details. That is, whose birthday, when it is,
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  Speaker 1: where they're from, and of course, how old they'll be.
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  Speaker 1: That's if you wish to reveal such personal details. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do them. Papa Frosty from Botany had a birthday yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So did Rudy from Benora Point. He was 10. Alan
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  Speaker 1: from Portsmouth in the UK recently turned 38. Tomorrow, Braxton
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  Speaker 1: from Penrith will be 13. Kieran from London is turning 28.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got three birthday shout-outs for today. Joseph from
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  Speaker 1: Houston is 30. Oakley from the Gold Coast is 9.
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  Speaker 1: And Angela from the village of Roscommon in Michigan is 52.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray. And at Cartrip Trivia, we serve up
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  Speaker 1: some pretty weird facts. That's a truth no competitor can gainsay.
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  Speaker 1: Question number one. And don't forget, rapid fire coming up
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  Speaker 1: after the quiz. Here we go. How many syllables in
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  Speaker 1: the word recommendation? Recommendation. That's five. Question two. Who or
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  Speaker 1: what came first? Singer Miley Cyrus or SMS Texting? Miley
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus by a matter of just 10 days. Question three,
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  Speaker 1: what homophone is both a physical body tissue and an
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  Speaker 1: edible bivalve mollusk? Muscle, M-U-S-C-L-E for the bicep and the
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  Speaker 1: quadricep and all those other muscles. And of course, M-U-S-S-E-L
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  Speaker 1: for the edible animal. Question four, which Dutch football club
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  Speaker 1: retired the number 14 shirt in 2007 to honour Johan Crefoy? Ajax. Crefoy.
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  Speaker 1: Did I pronounce that right? I looked it up. Question five,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with P, what do we call a humorous or
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  Speaker 1: satirical imitation of a serious piece of work? A parody.
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  Speaker 1: Question six. Which century was Marco Polo born? The 13th,
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  Speaker 1: the 14th or the 15th century? He was born on
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  Speaker 1: the 15th of September 1254, which makes that the 13th century.
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  Speaker 1: Question seven. What word with a silent K is the
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  Speaker 1: speed unit of one nautical mile per hour? A knot,
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  Speaker 1: a K-N-O-T, knot. Question eight. What item of clothing does
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  Speaker 1: the Aussie slang term Dax refer to? Nice pair of dacks,
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  Speaker 1: you might say to someone. It's referring to your trousers
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  Speaker 1: or your pants. Question nine. Who lives at Green Gables
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  Speaker 1: in the title of the beloved novel from 1908? Anne.
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  Speaker 1: Anne of Green Gables. Question ten. Which Volkswagen model does
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  Speaker 1: Type 1 officially refer to? The VW Type 1 is
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  Speaker 1: the Beetle. Question 11. Which surgery, historically performed in psychiatric
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  Speaker 1: hospitals and asylums, was phased out in the 1950s due
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  Speaker 1: to the permanent brain damage it caused? The lobotomy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there were two choices, if you could call them that.
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  Speaker 1: There was the surgical and the transorbital, which was better
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  Speaker 1: known as the ice pick lobotomy. Particularly nasty stuff. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need to go into the details. Question 12. What
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  Speaker 1: is the nickname of the Australian rugby league team? The Kangaroos,
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  Speaker 1: currently playing in the Rugby League World Cup. Question 13.
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  Speaker 1: Which royal-sounding singer wrote the Bengals' 1986 hit Manic Monday? Prince.
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  Speaker 1: Question 14. What nationality can precede the words measles and shepherd?
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  Speaker 1: German measles, German shepherd. Question 15. Traditionally comprising two violins,
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  Speaker 1: two violas and one cello is a spring what? A
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  Speaker 1: spring quintet. Now, they do occasionally swap out one of
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  Speaker 1: those violas for an additional cello. Question 16. The very
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  Speaker 1: first interactive Google Doodle in May 2010 featured a playable
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  Speaker 1: version of Of which arcade classic was it Space Invaders,
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  Speaker 1: Pac-Man or Frogger? Pac-Man. It was to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Question 17. When Lyndon Johnson was US Vice President, who
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  Speaker 1: was the president? John F. Kennedy. Question 18. Which ocean
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  Speaker 1: is to the west of Africa? The Atlantic. Question 19.
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  Speaker 1: To focus on excessively fine distinctions that make no difference
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  Speaker 1: to the overall outcome is to split what? It's to
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  Speaker 1: split hairs. And now it's time for question 20. What
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  Speaker 1: first-time screenwriting duo won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for
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  Speaker 1: Good Will Hunting in 1998? They also starred in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Rapid Fire's next. Rapid Fire
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  Speaker 1: is really just a would you rather this or would
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  Speaker 1: you rather that game. It has absolutely no relevance to trivia,
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  Speaker 1: but we like to play it on Wednesdays. So, here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Would you rather be fluent in every language
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  Speaker 1: or be able to talk to animals? Binge watching or
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  Speaker 1: weekly episodes? A bad salad or a sad ballad? The
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  Speaker 1: Gold Coast or Noosa? On a male, on a bloke,
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  Speaker 1: would you prefer a ponytail or a topknot? Sausages for
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  Speaker 1: fingers or baby carrots for toes? What about Matt Damon
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  Speaker 1: or Ben Affleck? A sweet or savoury breakfast? A normal
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  Speaker 1: height chair Or a bar stool? And last one. Would
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  Speaker 1: you prefer a garden full of furniture or a house
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  Speaker 1: full of plants? With a little nod to Australian Crawl
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  Speaker 1: in that last one there. Thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: This is Car Trip Trivia. That was Rapid Fire. We'll
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  Speaker 1: return on Friday with another episode. We do this thing
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  Speaker 1: three times a week, by the way. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, we do the Friday Funny. So Rudy, my
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  Speaker 1: young man, will join us in the studio next. See
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  Speaker 1: if you can make us laugh for the weekend. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your company. Hope you got a few questions right.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll catch you next time.