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- 0:07Speaker 1: Well, it's always a bit of fun during the school
- 0:09Speaker 1: holidays in Australia. Here at Cartrip Trivia, the family tends
- 0:12Speaker 1: to spend a bit more time in the automobile driving
- 0:14Speaker 1: around the countryside, so we like to spice it up
- 0:17Speaker 1: for your listening pleasure and deliver the school holiday special editions.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Today it's the Pirates Quiz, the first of this batch.
- 0:24Speaker 1: We'll do it for the least the next couple of weeks.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I hope you can join us for those now some
- 0:28Speaker 1: shout outs. It's the United Nations today. Reese from Rosebud
- 0:33Speaker 1: just turned sixty one. Adam from Ramsgate in England they
- 0:36Speaker 1: call it rams Great He just turned twenty four. Evey
- 0:39Speaker 1: will soon be three. Today's birthdays. Poppy from Albion Park
- 0:42Speaker 1: near Woollongong is ten. Tenure from Mount Monganui in the
- 0:46Speaker 1: Bay of Plenty, New Zealand is fifty. Dylan from Westfield
- 0:50Speaker 1: in New Jersey's twenty three. Mitchell from Airdrie in Scotland
- 0:54Speaker 1: is twenty five. Aubrey from Hickory Hills in Illinois is
- 0:58Speaker 1: nine years of age. Back from Cannock in the UK's
- 1:00Speaker 1: forty today. Karen is fifty years old today trend from
- 1:04Speaker 1: the Gold Coast is also fifty today and we have
- 1:06Speaker 1: a special shout out to new listeners Lylah and Oliver
- 1:10Speaker 1: thanks for being part of car Troup Trivia. I'm Stephen
- 1:13Speaker 1: Cray and on this Pirate edition. What more to say
- 1:16Speaker 1: but aa mate a Question number one? What do pirates
- 1:23Speaker 1: often wear over one eye? Thought we'd start off with
- 1:31Speaker 1: an easy one. It's an I patch. Question two? What
- 1:34Speaker 1: colorful animals revered for their intelligence and resale value were
- 1:39Speaker 1: common pirate companions? The mcare which is a type of parrot?
- 1:48Speaker 1: Question three first performed in December eighteen seventy nine. The
- 1:54Speaker 1: Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts
- 1:56Speaker 1: by Gilbert and Sullivan, but it has a more common name,
- 2:00Speaker 1: What is it? The Pirates of penn'sance question for what
- 2:09Speaker 1: traditional sea shanty was turned into a hit song by
- 2:12Speaker 1: Nathan Evans in twenty twenty one. Welleman Question five, what
- 2:23Speaker 1: is the kitchen on a pirate ship? Call? Well, it's
- 2:30Speaker 1: not just on a pirate ship, it's on all ships.
- 2:32Speaker 1: It's called a galley. Question six, which fictional pirate appears
- 2:37Speaker 1: in a series of children's books by John Ryan's Captain
- 2:45Speaker 1: Pugwash Question seven. The Jolly Roger flag is made up
- 2:50Speaker 1: of a skull? And what a skull and crossbones? Eight?
- 3:00Speaker 1: Which Australian actor played the lead role in the swashbuckling
- 3:04Speaker 1: pirate adventures Captain Blood and the Seahawks The Great Man
- 3:13Speaker 1: Errol Flynn. Question nine beginning with g and regularly consumed
- 3:18Speaker 1: by pirates. The mixture of alcohol and drinking water tinged
- 3:22Speaker 1: green with slime was known as what grog? Question ten,
- 3:32Speaker 1: which unique three word exclamation of shock or surprise is
- 3:36Speaker 1: commonly used by literary pirates shiver me timbers. Question eleven.
- 3:47Speaker 1: We all know about walking the plank, but which punishment
- 3:50Speaker 1: involved throwing a salor overboard and dragging them under the
- 3:54Speaker 1: ship keel hall. It didn't always kill them, but it
- 4:02Speaker 1: was pretty nasty. Question twelve. Edward Teach or black Beard
- 4:07Speaker 1: was known to put which of the following in his
- 4:09Speaker 1: beard to frighten opponents during battle? Did he put live rats,
- 4:15Speaker 1: burning fuses, daggers or custard pies? Black Beard used to
- 4:25Speaker 1: put burning fuses in his beard. Not quite sure how
- 4:29Speaker 1: it didn't catch a light? Question thirteen. The dense biscuit
- 4:32Speaker 1: or cracker eaten by pirates at sea was known as
- 4:36Speaker 1: hard what hard tack? Question fourteen. Silver Spanish dollars, the
- 4:46Speaker 1: popular currency of pirates, were also known as pieces of
- 4:51Speaker 1: what pieces of eight because it could legally be cut
- 4:59Speaker 1: into eight pieces, so two pieces would represent a quarter
- 5:02Speaker 1: of a dollar. Question fifteen, Which famous novel by Robert
- 5:06Speaker 1: Louis Stevenson was turned into a movie featuring the Muppets
- 5:10Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, Treasure Island. It was Muppet Treasure Island.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Question sixteen. The bottom of the sea, regarded as the
- 5:22Speaker 1: grave of those who drowned, was known as Who's locker
- 5:31Speaker 1: Davy Jones's locker? Question seventeen. The iconic look of the
- 5:36Speaker 1: mythical pirate only exists today because of the amazing works
- 5:40Speaker 1: of artist, illustrator and author Howard Who Howard pile Question
- 5:51Speaker 1: eighteen On a map, which letter traditionally marks the spot
- 5:55Speaker 1: of a pirate's hidden treasure? X marks the spot? Question
- 6:03Speaker 1: nineteen active from eighteen o one to eighteen ten from
- 6:07Speaker 1: which country was the female pirate Zeang Yi Sau? She
- 6:16Speaker 1: was from China? Question twenty, where is a pirate most
- 6:20Speaker 1: likely to find a weevil in their food? The herbivorous
- 6:28Speaker 1: little beetle is particularly fond of grains and rice. There's
- 6:33Speaker 1: twenty questions down. We've got five to come on this
- 6:36Speaker 1: pirate edition of car Trip Trivia. Welcome back. Question twenty
- 6:41Speaker 1: one The Barbary Pirate an admiral of the Ottoman fleet Redbeard.
- 6:46Speaker 1: His real name was Hiroden who hirodin Barbarossa. Question twenty two.
- 6:56Speaker 1: A private person commissioned by a government and legally to
- 7:00Speaker 1: pillage during maritime warfare is known as a what a privateer?
- 7:11Speaker 1: Question twenty three. The most number of piracy attacks on
- 7:15Speaker 1: boats in twenty twenty two took place? Where was it
- 7:19Speaker 1: off the coast of Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia or in
- 7:24Speaker 1: the Singapore Straits. The Singapore Straits there were thirty eight
- 7:32Speaker 1: attacks in twenty twenty two. Question twenty four True or false?
- 7:37Speaker 1: In the Golden Age of piracy, privateers became pirates through
- 7:41Speaker 1: membership of the Republic of Pirates. Strange but true. Question
- 7:50Speaker 1: twenty five last month for today as of twenty twenty four,
- 7:54Speaker 1: how many movies are there in the Pirates of the
- 7:56Speaker 1: Caribbean series. There are five movies and there's a sixth
- 8:05Speaker 1: currently in development. Well, I hope we made your car
- 8:09Speaker 1: trip just a little bit more pleasant today with the
- 8:11Speaker 1: first of our school holiday editions, the Pirates Edition here
- 8:14Speaker 1: at cartrip Trivia. We'll do it again on Wednesday. What
- 8:17Speaker 1: are we going to do now? I reckon we'll do
- 8:20Speaker 1: the movie Sequels edition that's coming up Wednesday. Hope you
- 8:25Speaker 1: can join us until then, Stay gold.