Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Monday, 21st July, 2025
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- 0:08Speaker 1: This is cowtrop Trivia to your family friendly trivia podcast
- 0:11Speaker 1: that works just as well on a bus or a
- 0:13Speaker 1: train as it does in the car. Transport trivia. Now
- 0:17Speaker 1: there's an idea. All right, thanks for joining me. The
- 0:19Speaker 1: who am I is coming up, but we've got the
- 0:20Speaker 1: birthday shadows to get through first. Moses from Selex Beach
- 0:23Speaker 1: was ten yesterday, Addie from Warnenburg just turned fifteen, Phoebe
- 0:27Speaker 1: from Halliday Bay just tern ten. Capelin from the Gold
- 0:29Speaker 1: Coast was twenty seven over the weekend. Tomorrow, Tommy from
- 0:33Speaker 1: Aubrey will be five, Kieran from Westport in Ireland but
- 0:35Speaker 1: living in Adelaide will be thirty four. Or Raorra from
- 0:38Speaker 1: Griffin is turning eight. Diana from the Goldie will be fifty.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Congrats today, Emery from Broken Hill is three and dad
- 0:45Speaker 1: Ori is thirty eight. Tomorrow Bez from ten Bees having
- 0:48Speaker 1: a birthday. Milly from Greenhills Beach is eight, Rebecca from
- 0:52Speaker 1: Wanneroo is forty two. From Cronulla is ten, William from
- 0:56Speaker 1: Engleford Green in the UK is twenty two. Samantha from
- 0:59Speaker 1: lath Lane WA's thirty nine, Alex from Kenmore is seven
- 1:03Speaker 1: and Rebecca from Hickory, North Carolina is nine. I'm Stephen
- 1:07Speaker 1: Cray and what is it that the fonds from Happy Day?
- 1:09Speaker 1: Says a? Question number one? Does the Australian frog cake
- 1:18Speaker 1: contain frogs? No, of course it doesn't. It's a sponge cake,
- 1:25Speaker 1: often filled with raspberry or cream and coated with icing.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Question two. Small explosive devices used for creating noise during
- 1:33Speaker 1: celebrations or for sheer entertainment are known as fire What
- 1:42Speaker 1: fire crackers not fireworks? They tend to have a much bigger,
- 1:46Speaker 1: more visually spectacular explosion. Question three? How many gold medals
- 1:51Speaker 1: did the USA win at the nineteen eighty Olympics? They
- 2:00Speaker 1: boycotted the Moscow Olympics due to the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Question four. During a lunar eclipse, what color does the
- 2:09Speaker 1: moon appear to turn? Reddish? Sometimes called a blood moon?
- 2:18Speaker 1: Question five? When you google cat or dog and click
- 2:22Speaker 1: on the poor print cat or dog arms will appear
- 2:25Speaker 1: in every space that you click thereafter? True or false? True?
- 2:35Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, try for yourself. Question six?
- 2:38Speaker 1: What term for a small star is also the name
- 2:41Speaker 1: of a British TV comedy series, Red dwarf. Question seven,
- 2:51Speaker 1: which powerful motor vehicle with large rear wheels is mostly
- 2:55Speaker 1: used on farms for hauling equipment and trailers a tractor?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Question eight? Yesterday, the third Sunday in July was International?
- 3:09Speaker 1: What day? Ice Cream Day? Caveat Day or maple syrup Day?
- 3:20Speaker 1: The third Sunday in July is International ice Cream Day.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Strangely enough, the other two days officially exist, but they
- 3:26Speaker 1: weren't yesterday. Question nine. When referring to the digital marketplace,
- 3:31Speaker 1: what does NFT stand for non Fungible Token? Question ten?
- 3:43Speaker 1: What is it that maketh the man? According to the
- 3:46Speaker 1: fourteenth century quote by the Bishop of Winchester, Manners maketh man?
- 3:56Speaker 1: Question eleven, which fairy tale princess sleeps for one hundred
- 4:00Speaker 1: years after being cursed by an evil fairy sleeping beauty
- 4:09Speaker 1: also known as Princess Aurora also known as Bria Rose.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Question twelve. Is the left blade on the top or
- 4:17Speaker 1: the bottom of left handed scissors? It's on the top
- 4:26Speaker 1: so the left hander can see the cutting line clearly.
- 4:28Speaker 1: The right side blade is on the top for the
- 4:31Speaker 1: right hander. Question thirteen. What was Nelson Mandela's prison sentence
- 4:36Speaker 1: when he was convicted in nineteen sixty four Life, but
- 4:45Speaker 1: he only spent twenty seven years in prison before being
- 4:47Speaker 1: released in nineteen ninety shouldn't say only twenty seven years
- 4:50Speaker 1: a lot of years? Question fourteen. What's the difference between
- 4:53Speaker 1: a crown and a tiara? A crown is a full
- 5:02Speaker 1: head piece worn by a monarch. A tiara is semi circular,
- 5:05Speaker 1: generally worn by royal women or brides. Question fifteen. Who
- 5:10Speaker 1: had a massive hit with the album Songs in the
- 5:12Speaker 1: Key of Life in nineteen seventy six? Stevie Wonder? Question
- 5:22Speaker 1: sixteen which single letter changes in the two different versions
- 5:27Speaker 1: of the word compliment? Compliment, compl i, me, e, and
- 5:36Speaker 1: t is an expression of praise, whilst compliment, compl e, me,
- 5:41Speaker 1: and t is meant to enhance or complete something, so
- 5:44Speaker 1: the I is substituted for an E. Question seventeen, Which
- 5:49Speaker 1: of the following is not a species of bear, the
- 5:53Speaker 1: cave bear, the Peruvian bear, or the spectacled bear. There
- 6:02Speaker 1: is no such species as a Peruvian bear, although spectacle
- 6:07Speaker 1: bears are found in Peru. Question eighteen. In cricket, which
- 6:12Speaker 1: New York Borough lends its name to the graphical representation
- 6:16Speaker 1: of a team's scoring in the match Manhattan the Manhattan
- 6:24Speaker 1: Chart because over a lot of overs, the bar graph
- 6:27Speaker 1: looks like a New York skyline. Question nineteen, which Academy
- 6:31Speaker 1: Award Best Picture winner, holds the record for the most
- 6:34Speaker 1: extras appearing in a single scene with three hundred thousand.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Is it Gandy, Chariots of Fire or West Side Story
- 6:48Speaker 1: Gandhy from nineteen eighty two, The who Am I? As back?
- 6:53Speaker 1: It's next a county of trivia. It's a who am
- 7:01Speaker 1: I born in Sydney in February nineteen ninety nine. My
- 7:05Speaker 1: father is Uruguayan and owned an Italian restaurant in the city,
- 7:08Speaker 1: where my mother, a Spaniard, worked as a waitress. I
- 7:11Speaker 1: have two brothers and three sisters. I began playing tennis
- 7:14Speaker 1: at the Sydney Private Tennis Academy from the age of three,
- 7:17Speaker 1: but at five the family moved to Spain before the
- 7:19Speaker 1: financial crisis brought us back to Australia eight years later.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Despite living most of my life abroad, I was determined
- 7:25Speaker 1: to represent Australia. I hadbooed professionally in July twenty fifteen
- 7:29Speaker 1: and claimed my first tour level win in the twenty
- 7:32Speaker 1: seventeen Sydney International, defeating the world number forty six. My
- 7:36Speaker 1: Grand Slam deboot was at the Australian Open that year,
- 7:39Speaker 1: losing in round two, but I would go on to
- 7:41Speaker 1: win three ATP titles in twenty nineteen, cracking the top twenty.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I made the twenty twenty US Open quarters and pulled
- 7:48Speaker 1: out of the Tokyo Olympics due to COVID. I lost
- 7:51Speaker 1: the Queen's Club Final to Carlos Alcarez in twenty twenty
- 7:54Speaker 1: three and made the quarter finals of the French In
- 7:56Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I pulled out of my Wimbledon quarter
- 7:59Speaker 1: final against Nova Djokovic due to injury, but went on
- 8:02Speaker 1: to make the quarters of the US Open. I reached
- 8:04Speaker 1: a career high ranking of seven before falling in the
- 8:07Speaker 1: round of sixteen at this year's Wimbledon after taking the
- 8:10Speaker 1: first set against Djokovic six'. One i'm engaged To british
- 8:14Speaker 1: tennis Player Katie bolter and they call me The. DEMON
- 8:17Speaker 1: i AM i Am alex Demonor now The round Of
- 8:25Speaker 1: sound is back On. WEDNESDAY i hope you can join
- 8:28Speaker 1: us For Cartrip trivia's episode four hundred and. Fifty in the,
- 8:32Speaker 1: meantime do what The eagles, do and take it easy
- 8:36Speaker 1: and stee Gold, yeah