Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Russell Crowe, Road Signs & Equine Anagrams (Mon, 25th May, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Hey, you're traveling folks, this is character of Trivia. Welcome back.
- 0:10Speaker 2: It's another twenty questions to challenge your intellect and to
- 0:13Speaker 2: have a little bit of fun at the same time. Now,
- 0:15Speaker 2: if the kids are keen to hear themselves on Wednesday's episode,
- 0:18Speaker 2: send through those open mic voice messages via the Facebook messenger.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Let's do some birthday shout outs.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Josh from Lake Mummorra just turned forty two, Bryce from
- 0:29Speaker 2: Warredale just turned nine capone, and Justin from Philadelphia in
- 0:34Speaker 2: Pennsylvania turned twenty four over the weekend, and.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Nikki from Chicago was thirty yesterday.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Bethany from Napier in New Zealand will be ten,
- 0:43Speaker 2: and Scott from Wiley, Texas hits the half century.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Well played sir. Today's birthdays.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Henry from Hamilton in Ontario is nine and Kirsten from
- 0:53Speaker 2: Q is forty seven or is that forty for the
- 0:56Speaker 2: seventh time? Happy birthday to the lot of you. I'm
- 1:00Speaker 2: Stephen Craye, big fan of music, big fan of jazz
- 1:04Speaker 2: and of Billie Holiday question number one which Marvel character
- 1:11Speaker 2: was frozen in a block of ice for nearly seventy
- 1:14Speaker 2: years before being discovered and revived Captain America. Question two?
- 1:24Speaker 2: What is the plural form of the word shelf shelves
- 1:35Speaker 2: s h e l ves shelves? Question three? What Middle
- 1:40Speaker 2: Eastern city boasts the man made archipelago palm Jamera.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Dubai.
- 1:50Speaker 2: That's the massive, big palm that they built from nothing,
- 1:54Speaker 2: and all of the fronds spread.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Out and all the houses have waterfront. Question four.
- 2:00Speaker 2: A cob is the male of which species of long
- 2:04Speaker 2: necked birds? A cob is a male swan? Question five?
- 2:14Speaker 2: What is the first name of former US Late show
- 2:18Speaker 2: host Letterman.
- 2:24Speaker 1: David Letterman? Question six?
- 2:26Speaker 2: A highly skilled performance or a creation that requires brilliance
- 2:30Speaker 2: and mastery? Is a tour du What a tour de force?
- 2:40Speaker 2: Question seven? What is displayed on a brown road sign
- 2:44Speaker 2: in the UK to indicate a beach a sand castle
- 2:52Speaker 2: with a little flag in the top? Question eight. Which
- 2:56Speaker 2: lake is the lowest natural point in a Australia? Is
- 3:00Speaker 2: it Lake Air, Lake Froome or Lake Torrens? Lake Air
- 3:10Speaker 2: in South Australia? Which is fifteen meters below sea level?
- 3:14Speaker 2: Question nine? Which flute playing progressive rock band took its
- 3:19Speaker 2: name from an eighteenth century English agriculturist Jethro Tal very unusual,
- 3:29Speaker 2: very energetic, but great music as well. Question ten. What
- 3:33Speaker 2: is the common name for the visible protruding bump of
- 3:37Speaker 2: cartilage at the front of the throat that covers and
- 3:40Speaker 2: protects the larynx, the Adams apple. Its medical name is
- 3:49Speaker 2: the laryngeal prominence. Question eleven. Accounting for nearly thirty two
- 3:54Speaker 2: percent of trade, which country is the world's largest exporter
- 4:00Speaker 2: of milk powder? Is it Germany, the US?
- 4:04Speaker 1: Or New Zealand? New Zealand And?
- 4:11Speaker 2: Question twelve, Staying on theme, what did Russell Crowe throw
- 4:16Speaker 2: at a hotel concierge in New York in two thousand
- 4:19Speaker 2: and five? A telephone? He got in big trouble for
- 4:27Speaker 2: it too? Question thirteen? Which anagram of dust is a
- 4:31Speaker 2: breeding place for horses? Stud stud Question fourteen? Which ology
- 4:43Speaker 2: specializes in using medical imaging scans to diagnose diseases and
- 4:48Speaker 2: guide treatment radiology? Question fifteen. L NG is liquif? What
- 5:06Speaker 2: liquefied natural gas? Question sixteen what is the name of
- 5:12Speaker 2: the first monster in the epic Old English poem beer Wolf.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Grendel.
- 5:22Speaker 2: We say the first monster because there are three monsters, Grendel,
- 5:26Speaker 2: his mother, and the dragon question seventeen In golf, when
- 5:30Speaker 2: you're at the turn, how many holes have you played?
- 5:39Speaker 2: You've played nine and you have nine more to play?
- 5:42Speaker 2: Question eighteen according to the saying, when can't you fatten
- 5:47Speaker 2: a pig? You can't fatten a pig on market day?
- 5:56Speaker 2: Question nineteen. In the nineteen eighty seven dark comedy with
- 6:00Speaker 2: Nill and I, what is the occupation of the two
- 6:03Speaker 2: perpetually inebriated lead characters? Are they furniture removalists, actors or
- 6:10Speaker 2: dog walkers? They are actors, albeit unemployed. Back in a flash,
- 6:22Speaker 2: we have a who am I?
- 6:23Speaker 1: To wrap it up? Nineteen down, one to go? Question
- 6:30Speaker 1: twenty is a who am I?
- 6:33Speaker 2: Born in New York City August nineteen fifty seven to
- 6:37Speaker 2: an actress and an advertising executive. I spent much of
- 6:40Speaker 2: my youth in Antelope Valley, California, where my mother had
- 6:44Speaker 2: an animal sanctuary. I did some child modeling and television
- 6:47Speaker 2: commercial work, and attended the Hollywood Professional School, where my
- 6:50Speaker 2: high achievements allowed me to skip a grade. My first
- 6:54Speaker 2: major movie role was with Gene Hackman in Night Moves
- 6:57Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy five, followed in quick succession by Smile
- 7:00Speaker 2: and The drowning Pool, but my breakthrough came starring with
- 7:04Speaker 2: my mother in the nineteen eighty one adventure comedy Raw,
- 7:08Speaker 2: where my mauling by a lion is visible in the
- 7:11Speaker 2: final cut of the movie. I required fifty stitches and
- 7:14Speaker 2: reconstructive surgery. Brian Depalmer's Body Double was next, followed by
- 7:18Speaker 2: Something Wild and Working Girl in nineteen eighty eight, for
- 7:22Speaker 2: which I won a Golden Globe and was nominated for
- 7:24Speaker 2: an Oscar. I have starred in more than fifty movies
- 7:27Speaker 2: and dozens of TV shows, including Nip Tuck, Hawaii Five Oh,
- 7:31Speaker 2: and The Kardashians, and featured in the two thousand and
- 7:33Speaker 2: three revival of the Broadway show Chicago. My mother is
- 7:38Speaker 2: Tippy Hedron from Hitchcock's The Birds, and I've been married
- 7:41Speaker 2: to actor Don Johnson twice. Our daughter, Dakota Johnson, is
- 7:46Speaker 2: a successful actress in her own right. I am I
- 7:52Speaker 2: am Melanie Griffith, and I am bidding you farewell. Having
- 7:57Speaker 2: completed this Monday episode of Trip Trivia, we'll have another
- 8:01Speaker 2: twenty questions on Wednesday, and we'll do it again on Friday.
- 8:04Speaker 1: If you're new to the show, That's what we do
- 8:06Speaker 1: Monday Wednesday Friday.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Sixty questions a week. Who am I on Monday? Who
- 8:11Speaker 2: am I was on Friday? Joke on Friday. Oh, it's
- 8:13Speaker 2: a packed schedule. Thanks for joining us, Catch you next time.