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Gene Wilder, Conspiracy Theories & The Great Wall of China (Fri, 24th July, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: This is your Friday at issue of Car Trip Trivia.
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  Speaker 1: And on this day in nineteen sixty nine, the Apollo
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  Speaker 1: eleven astronauts returned to Earth safely after landing on the Moon.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Friday Funny with my youngest Rudy is up
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  Speaker 1: after the quiz. And as for those shout outs, well,
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  Speaker 1: today's just one of those days. There's just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them. Kirk from Lost Off in the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: just turned forty two, and today's birthday Kim. She's from
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  Speaker 1: Maroubra and she's turning twenty four. Happy birthday, Kim. And
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  Speaker 1: to Kirk and to everyone else who forgot to put
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  Speaker 1: their birthday shout outs in. I'm Stephen Cray and who
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  Speaker 1: could forget the track from the Internationalist album by powder Finger,
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  Speaker 1: track seven, Good Day Ray. Question number one sticky rice
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  Speaker 1: was used to build sections of the Great Wall of China.
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  Speaker 1: True or false? True? It was a key ingredient in
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  Speaker 1: the mortar that held the bricks together. Question two, rhyming
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy, what is something elaborate, decorative or expensive? Fancy?
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  Speaker 1: Question three? Which ancient empire lent its name to the
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  Speaker 1: gymnastics apparatus now known as still rings? The Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we're referring to Roman rings. Question number four,
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  Speaker 1: which Elvis Presley song opens with the line, well, since
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  Speaker 1: my baby left me, while I found a new place
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  Speaker 1: to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely
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  Speaker 1: Street at Heartbreak Hotel. Question five. Nick Day is a
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  Speaker 1: public holiday in which Australian state or territory. Picnic Day
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  Speaker 1: is a public holiday in the Northern Territory. Question six.
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  Speaker 1: A silent, courageous hero who is the main character in
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  Speaker 1: the Legend of Zelda series of video games. Link Question seven.
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  Speaker 1: To accept or believe one story despite lacking proof for
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  Speaker 1: having reasons to be skeptical is to give them the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of the what the benefit of the doubt? Question eight?
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  Speaker 1: In which US state is the San Andreas Fault California.
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  Speaker 1: Question nine. The new Brisbane Olympic Stadium will have a
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  Speaker 1: capacity of sixty three thousand people for sporting events, but
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  Speaker 1: it will increase to which number for concerts seventy thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five thousand, or seventy eight thousand, seventy seventy five
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  Speaker 1: or seventy eight. It's seventy thousand, putting it just outside
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  Speaker 1: the top fifty stadiums globally. Question ten, What three letter
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  Speaker 1: term described the mass conspiracy theory that all computers would
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  Speaker 1: crash as nineteen ninety nine ticked over to the year
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  Speaker 1: two thousand y two K, which was also known as
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  Speaker 1: the millennium bug. But that has a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: three letters. We're looking for Y two K. Question eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The terms deciduous and permanent apply it to which part
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  Speaker 1: of the hue and body. Our teeth deciduous which means
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  Speaker 1: shedding or falling off or in this case falling out
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  Speaker 1: refer to our baby teeth. And permanent, Well, I think
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  Speaker 1: we all know what that means. Question twelve, beginning with
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  Speaker 1: an in which town did Jesus Christ spend his youth Nazareth?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen, Staying with the Jesus theme here, which letter
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  Speaker 1: is silent in the word apostle? The t apostle is
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  Speaker 1: spelt apostl e, and you don't hear the T? Question fourteen?
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  Speaker 1: The yak is a kind of which animal with two letters?
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  Speaker 1: A yak is an os? Question fifteen. Passing on passon
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  Speaker 1: is a frequently misunderstood maneuver in which table game chess? Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's quite complicated, so In the interest of time, I
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  Speaker 1: won't explain it here, but I will pop up a
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  Speaker 1: detailed explanation on the car trip trivia Patreon page. Question sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: where are the only murders in the TV show starring
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  Speaker 1: Selena Gomez in the building? Only murders in the building?
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  Speaker 1: Question seventeen. The four famous Australian artists brothers Percy, Lionel,
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  Speaker 1: Norman and Darryl had which surname beginning with l Lindsey.
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  Speaker 1: They all painted, but Norman was probably the most famous
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  Speaker 1: for his book The Magic Pudding. Question eighteen what color
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  Speaker 1: are traditional London taxi cabs black? Now they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be black by law, and they do come in
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  Speaker 1: other colors, but the traditional black dates back to post
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  Speaker 1: World War II era, when standard black was the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: and most common option. Question nineteen. In which movie did
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  Speaker 1: Gene Wilder play a character named Eugene Grizzard? Was it
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  Speaker 1: stir Crazy? Bonnie and Clyde or see no Evil Here
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  Speaker 1: No Evil? All good films, two of them much funnier
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  Speaker 1: than the other. The answer we seek is Bonnie and Clyde.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's not very funny. From nineteen sixty seven,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a Hollywood who Am I? Coming up? And
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  Speaker 1: a joke from Rudy to wrap up this week's Culture
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  Speaker 1: Trivia question twenty. Here we go? Who Am I? Born
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles in April nineteen seventy nine to an
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  Speaker 1: Academy Award winning mother and a musician actor father. I
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  Speaker 1: have an older brother and four half siblings. I graduated
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  Speaker 1: from Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven, but chose acting over a place
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  Speaker 1: at NYU. My film deboot was Desert Blue in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight, and despite a part in the thriller Gossip,
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  Speaker 1: I soon made my name in the romantic comedies Two
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  Speaker 1: Hundred Cigarettes, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days,
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  Speaker 1: and You Me and Dupree. In two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: I appeared in the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key and
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  Speaker 1: received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: eight Fool's Gold, my second film with Matthew McConaughey. Other
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  Speaker 1: films include Mother's Day, Deep Water Horizon, and the sequel
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  Speaker 1: to Knives Out Glass Onion. I co founded the fitness
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  Speaker 1: brand Fabletics, have authored two books and released the album
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  Speaker 1: Glorious in twenty twenty four. I was married to Chris Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: the lead singer of the Black Crows for seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Recently appeared in the Neil Diamond flick song Sung Blue.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm best known as Groopie Penny Lane in the
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  Speaker 1: comedy drama Almost Famous, for which I won a Golden
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  Speaker 1: Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. My mother is
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  Speaker 1: Goldie Horn and I.
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  Speaker 2: Am I'm just going to take a quick guess Kate Hudson.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Rudy, he's in for the Friday Funny, but
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  Speaker 1: he's also been working on his who am I? Thank you? Dat?
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. You're welcome, mate. Now listen for our Northern
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  Speaker 1: Hemisphere listeners. It's the heat of summer, but for us
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  Speaker 1: the worst smack bang in the middle of winter. How
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  Speaker 1: are you coping? Mate?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? It has been quite cold, but about like maybe
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  Speaker 2: six thirty getting ready for school? Yeah, oh god, it's
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  Speaker 2: been a shocker.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get snow in our wish we do now, mate,
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  Speaker 1: what have you got for me? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Dad, I've been thinking of all the inventions in the
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  Speaker 2: last one hundred years, the whiteboard has to be the
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  Speaker 2: most remarkable, maybe not liable. Best one. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: probably could do a better one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty good one. It's pretty good, it's original.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard it, but yeah, look, maybe not the
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  Speaker 1: most hilarious thing you've ever done.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, everyone, thank you for listening, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: you enjoy cutural trivia and I'm going to pass it
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  Speaker 2: over to Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, boy, hope everyone has a great weekends. And I
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  Speaker 1: suppose it leaves us with one thing to say, stay gold.