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Monday, 19th August, 2024 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's get this show on the road, shall we.
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  Speaker 1: It's another week of cartrip Trivia. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. We have twenty family friendly questions on the
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  Speaker 1: way and a pancake style stack of shout outs for
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  Speaker 1: our loyal listeners and friends of the show. Quick one
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  Speaker 1: first up for Joel and Trina from the Gold Casset
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  Speaker 1: getting married today. Good luck folks. A few catch up
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  Speaker 1: shout outs. Noah road tripping across the East Coast, turned
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  Speaker 1: eight during the week. Josephrom Dubbo just turned seven. Vivin
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  Speaker 1: from Harvey Bay was thirteen old. Mac from Pappy's Comfort
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen in Utrecht in the Netherlands just turned thirty. Samuel
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  Speaker 1: from Leeton just turned eight. Nico from North kit was eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Megan from Kansas City was thirty three. This week Isler
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  Speaker 1: from Googong. She'll be turning eleven tomorrow. Today's birthdays. Lily
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  Speaker 1: from Yapoon is eleven, Reese from Newcastle is twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Allison from Winston Salem in North Carolina she's forty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Brendan from Freeman's Reach in New South Wales was twenty
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  Speaker 1: four yesterday and his dad Joseph is sixty today, Take
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  Speaker 1: a breath. I'm Stephen Cray and it's a bit too
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  Speaker 1: late for me. But if you're young and fit and
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for a martial art trikarate. Question one. In
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  Speaker 1: the classic children's bedtime story, what animal outsmarts the gruffalo
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  Speaker 1: the mouse? Question two? How many seconds are there in
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of a minute? Fifteen seconds? Question three? What
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  Speaker 1: type of plant is grown worldwide in paddy fields? Rice?
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  Speaker 1: Question four? Which bridge connects Sydney's Central Business District to
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  Speaker 1: the north shore the Sydney Harbor Bridge? Question five? Which
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  Speaker 1: of the following is not a term used in the
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  Speaker 1: game of cricket? Banger, googly or wrongan banger is not
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  Speaker 1: a cricket term. Googly and wrongans are actually the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: They are a ball delivered by a right arm leg
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  Speaker 1: spinner that turns the other way. Question six? From which
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  Speaker 1: country did the game of mar jong originate? China? Question seven?
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  Speaker 1: What did Dawn and Tony Orlando tie a yellow ribbon around?
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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen seventy three Worldwide hit song? Tie a
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  Speaker 1: yellow ribbon round an old oak tree? Question eight? What
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  Speaker 1: does a paleontologist study dinosaurs? Question nine? Honyari is the
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  Speaker 1: capital city of which Pacific Islands the Solomon Islands? Question ten? Today?
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  Speaker 1: How many contestants are there in each episode of Tipping
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  Speaker 1: point three contestants? Question eleven. According to a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one pole, nine out of ten Americans eat turkey to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate which occasion Thanksgiving? It's coming up? Question twelve? Which
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  Speaker 1: word beginning with P describes loose, dry, freshly fallen snow? Powder?
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  Speaker 1: Powder snow? Question thirteen? Was the NBA or the National
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  Speaker 1: Basketball Association originally called the Basketball Association of America? Question fourteen?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the Romans, the Greeks or the Egyptians who
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  Speaker 1: worshiped Zeus the Greeks? Question fifteen? In physics, what is
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  Speaker 1: force measured? In Newton's question sixteen, when two things are
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  Speaker 1: considered completely different from each other, they are said to
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  Speaker 1: be chalk and what chalk and cheese? Question seventeen. French
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  Speaker 1: philosopher and scientists Renee Descartes is quoted as saying, I think,
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  Speaker 1: therefore I am, I think, therefore I am Question eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: What's the difference between a wink and a blink? A
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  Speaker 1: wink is closing one eye with the other one staying opened.
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  Speaker 1: A blink is closing both eyes at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Question nineteen, which action thriller from nineteen ninety nine starring
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  Speaker 1: Samuel L. Jackson, has an underwater laboratory being attacked by
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  Speaker 1: genetically engineered super sharks deep blue Sea. There's a who
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  Speaker 1: am I? Just around the corner. Stick around and see
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  Speaker 1: who it is for today? Alrighty, then Question twenty in
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  Speaker 1: counterrip trivia, Today is a who am I? Who Am I?
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  Speaker 1: Born in New York in October nineteen forty nine. My
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  Speaker 1: mother was an actress and my father was a TV
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  Speaker 1: executive who created NBC's Today Show in nineteen fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: By the age of eleven, I was five foot ten
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  Speaker 1: in height and developed an interest in performance art at
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  Speaker 1: the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut. At fourteen, I substituted
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  Speaker 1: my first name, Susan, for that of a minor character
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  Speaker 1: in The Great Gatsby, and am still known by that
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  Speaker 1: name today. I studied at Yale University's School of Drama,
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  Speaker 1: performed in the Stephen Sondheim musical The Frogs in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy four, and picked up a few television commercials before
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  Speaker 1: my big break in Woody Allen's Annie Hall in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven. Just two years later, my part in a
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  Speaker 1: science fiction blockbuster would catapult my career, leading to starring
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  Speaker 1: roles in the Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson, Ghostbusters,
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  Speaker 1: Gorillas in the Mist, and Working Girl with Harrison Ford.
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  Speaker 1: I've won two Golden Globes, a Grammy and a British
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  Speaker 1: Academy Film Award, and have been nominated for three Oscars
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  Speaker 1: and a Tony. I have voiced characters in the Pixar
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  Speaker 1: movies Walley and Finding Dory, but revered for my iconic
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  Speaker 1: portrayal of the tough and heroic Ellen Ripley in the
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  Speaker 1: Alien movies. I am I Am Sigourney Weaver. Now, folks,
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia will always be family friendly and free,
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  Speaker 1: See then,