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Wedding Anniversaries, Straw Hats & 70s Horror Films (Mon, 11th May, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, and we are back on deck here at
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  Speaker 1: Car Trip Trivia, edging towards twelve thousand questions over five
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  Speaker 1: open mic on Wednesday. It's the same process as with
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  Speaker 1: the birthday shoutdout, only used a little microphone button instead
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  Speaker 1: of typing. Speaking of which birthday shoutouts, Alex from Montreal
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  Speaker 1: had a birthday over the weekend. He was thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: as did Grayson from a Conto Falls in Wisconsin, only
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  Speaker 1: he was thirteen. And Juliet from Canbell was one and
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  Speaker 1: she's still waiting for invitation to Hogwarts. Mel from Brother
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  Speaker 1: Glenn just added another year to her resume, and Lily
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  Speaker 1: from Australia's peanut capital Kingaroy was twelve yesterday. I'm Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Cray and we're dedicating this episode to all of our
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  Speaker 1: listeners who yesterday celebrated Mother's Day. Question one, what animal's
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  Speaker 1: name describes a hug that is physically close and extremely tight.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose all hugs are physically close? Aren't they a
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  Speaker 1: bear hug? Question two? In Thailand, it is considered a
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  Speaker 1: sign of respect to touch someone on the head. True
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  Speaker 1: or false? That one's false. It's actually offensive to do
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  Speaker 1: such a thing, so don't do it. Question three, beginning
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  Speaker 1: with M what is the medical term for short sightedness myopia?
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  Speaker 1: Question four? Driven by the need for stability during World
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  Speaker 1: War Two? Who is the only US president to ever
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  Speaker 1: serve more than two terms? Franklin D. Roosevelt. He actually
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  Speaker 1: served four terms, leading to the twenty second Amendment of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one. He didn't complete his fourth term because
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  Speaker 1: he died. Question five. The nineteen sixty seven song by
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  Speaker 1: Cat Stevens is Matthew and Who Matthew and Son. Question six.
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  Speaker 1: The Latin mathematical term calculus translates to what clever human
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  Speaker 1: small pebble or continuous change small pebble, presumably because they
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  Speaker 1: were using small pebbles to count. I suppose question seven,
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  Speaker 1: according to the saying it's not over until who sings,
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  Speaker 1: It's not over till the fat lady sings? Question eight?
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  Speaker 1: What brand is associated with a vapor rub first marketed
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  Speaker 1: in the eighteen nineties vix vix vapor rub Question nine.
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  Speaker 1: The child star of the nineteen seventy three horror mystery
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  Speaker 1: film The Exorcist was Linda Who Linda Blair? Question number ten.
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  Speaker 1: What is the name of Amsterdam's international airport Skippaul? It's
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  Speaker 1: spelled sc hi pho l pronounced Skipaul. Question eleven. In
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  Speaker 1: the original Jack and the Beanstalk, what did the giants
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  Speaker 1: want to make out of Jack's grinded bones bread? Question twelve?
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  Speaker 1: What athletic acrobatic style of hip hop dance originated with
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  Speaker 1: youth in New York City in the nineteen seventies breakdancing?
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  Speaker 1: Question thirteen, beginning with P what do we call the
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  Speaker 1: straw hat that originated in Ecuador a Panama hat? Question
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  Speaker 1: fourteen Spell naive. That's about five seconds, so you should
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  Speaker 1: have had enough time. I'll just speak slowly for a
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  Speaker 1: second so you can spell it. If you haven't done
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  Speaker 1: it yet, It's naiv e naive. Question fifteen. In Morse code,
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  Speaker 1: which letter is represented by a single dash? The letter E?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen. According to Urban legend, what do the pentagon
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  Speaker 1: describe as a portable handheld communications inscriber? A pencil or
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  Speaker 1: a pen. Question seventy eight. How many years of marriage
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  Speaker 1: are celebrated on a golden wedding anniversary? Fifty years of
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  Speaker 1: marriage congratulations? Question eighteen. Which wine growing region in Francis
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  Speaker 1: is also a deep red color burgundy? Question nineteen? Which
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  Speaker 1: of the following movies does not feature British musician Phil Collins, buster,
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  Speaker 1: train spotting, or frauds? He's been in a few more
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  Speaker 1: movies than you'd think for a singer. The answer we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for is train spotting. Back in a seid we
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? To wrap up the show? Question twenty,
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  Speaker 1: It's a who am I? Born in August nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: one in Cleveland, Ohio, the fifth of six children to
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  Speaker 1: Clarence and Hattie. My father was killed in a workplace
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  Speaker 1: accident in nineteen forty one. After graduating from John Adams
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  Speaker 1: High in nineteen fifty one, I ran an illegal book
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  Speaker 1: making operation from the basement of a record store and
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  Speaker 1: was charged with killing two men in separate incidents thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years apart, the first being deemed justifiable homicide. I served
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  Speaker 1: time for the second, but was pardoned by the governor
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. In nineteen seventy four, I promoted a
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  Speaker 1: heavyweight boxing championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman
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  Speaker 1: in Zaire for a record ten million dollar purse. It
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  Speaker 1: would become known as the Rumble in the Jungle. The
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  Speaker 1: thriller in Manila between Ali and Frasier would take place
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  Speaker 1: the following year. Over the next two decades, I would
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  Speaker 1: promote fights involving a Zuma Nelson, Riccardo Lopez, A Vander Holyfield,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Tyson, among others, and promoted the Jacksons nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four Victory Tour concert series. Despite investigations into my
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  Speaker 1: links with organized crime. I was inducted into the Gaming
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame in two thousand and three and was
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  Speaker 1: promoting fights as recently as twenty twenty four. I played
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  Speaker 1: myself in the nineteen eighty two movie The Last Fight,
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  Speaker 1: and have a section of the Shaker Boulevard in Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: named after me. And I'm most famous for my wild
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  Speaker 1: electrified hairdoo. I am. I am Don Keng and he's
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  Speaker 1: still with us. Questionable ethics at times, perhaps, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: who am I to judge? Just asking the questions. This
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  Speaker 1: is cartrip trivia. Thanks for joining us, folks open mic
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  Speaker 1: your company. Then, I hope you enjoyed the show. Catch
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  Speaker 1: you next time, Choo,