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Nicki Minaj, Amazon & TED Talks (Wed, 28th Oct, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: What's your topic? Sport? Movies? History? Body parts? Parlour games? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're all in today's episode of Car Trip Trivia. And
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  Speaker 1: I am so pleased you could join me. When you've
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  Speaker 1: got a bit of spare time up your sleeve, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you might want to go back through the 630 episodes
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  Speaker 1: in our back catalogue. That is an extensive back catalogue.
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  Speaker 1: Rapid Fire is coming up. First birthday shout-outs. Eva from
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  Speaker 1: Etalong Beach just turned 32. Today's birthdays. Elijah from Warner
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  Speaker 1: in Brisbane is 8. Dave from Canterbury is 46. Liz
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  Speaker 1: from Avoca Beach is 32. And we've listened to this
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  Speaker 1: young bloke grow up live on air. Rudy, who started
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  Speaker 1: telling jokes on Car Trip Trivia when he was just
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  Speaker 1: 7 years of age, is 11 today. And his cousin
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  Speaker 1: Joey from Cabarita... is 11 tomorrow. Happy birthday, gentlemen. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a pleasure to have you about. I'm Stephen Cray,
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  Speaker 1: and if I was a Scotsman and I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: what you were offering, I'd say thanks, but nay. Question one.
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  Speaker 1: Which of brothers Owen and Luke Wilson voiced Lightning McQueen
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  Speaker 1: in the Cars movies? Owen Wilson. And from one McQueen
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  Speaker 1: to another. Question two. How many queens are there on
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  Speaker 1: the board at the beginning of a chess game? There
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  Speaker 1: are two, but when I play my other boy, Fred,
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  Speaker 1: that pretty quickly becomes one and I'm not normally the
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  Speaker 1: one doing the damage. Question three. What country is Australia
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  Speaker 1: currently playing in the final... Of a three-test cricket series.
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  Speaker 1: South Africa. Question four. What term describes a surface, line
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  Speaker 1: or shape that curves inwards? The opposite of convex is concave.
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  Speaker 1: Question five. Launched in late 2024, the dedicated ultra-discounted section
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  Speaker 1: within the Amazon app and website is known as Amazon what?
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  Speaker 1: Amazon haul. Question six. Beginning with I, what is the
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  Speaker 1: Latin term for travelling with a concealed identity? Incognito. You'd
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  Speaker 1: be travelling incognito if you were disguised. Question seven. Which
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  Speaker 1: fictional thoroughfare appears in the lyrics of songs by Nicki Minaj,
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  Speaker 1: Eminem and Elton John? The Yellow Brick Road. Question eight.
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  Speaker 1: What country hosted the 2026 Winter Olympic Games? Italy. They
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  Speaker 1: were held in Milan and D'Ampezzo. Question nine. What is
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  Speaker 1: both a marine mammal and an engraved stamp, emblem or crest?
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  Speaker 1: A seal. Question ten. Pursuing a mistaken line of thought
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  Speaker 1: or making an incorrect assumption whilst trying to solve a
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  Speaker 1: problem is said to be barking up the wrong what?
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  Speaker 1: Barking up the wrong tree. Question number 11. Which beverage
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  Speaker 1: formed part of the protest by American colonists in December
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  Speaker 1: 1773 in Boston? Tea. The Boston Tea Party. Question 12,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with B. What is a written account of a
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  Speaker 1: person's life authored by someone else? A biography. Question 13.
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  Speaker 1: With which sport do we associate Arthur Ashe? Arthur Ashe
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  Speaker 1: was a champion tennis player. Question 14. Where in your
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  Speaker 1: body are your carpals? In your wrists. Question 15. What
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  Speaker 1: unlikely animal flies in the figure of speech that describes
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  Speaker 1: an impossible situation or occurrence? Pigs, when pigs fly. Question 16.
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  Speaker 1: Complete this famous 1887 quote from Lord Acton. Power tends
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  Speaker 1: to corrupt and absolute power corrupts what? Power tends to
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  Speaker 1: corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Question 17. TED, T-E-D,
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  Speaker 1: as in TED Talks, stands for technology, entertainment and what? Technology,
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  Speaker 1: entertainment and design. Question 18. Rhyming with wicket, is which
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  Speaker 1: dense or tightly packed tangle of shrubs or bushes... Thicket.
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  Speaker 1: Question 19. If you're playing blackjack and your hand count
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  Speaker 1: is at 10, what single card will deliver 21? An ace.
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  Speaker 1: An ace is valued at 1 or 11. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: it would become 11. Question 20. Which Australian action movie
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  Speaker 1: extravaganza won six Oscars in technical categories, including Best Editing
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  Speaker 1: and Costume Design, at the 2016 Academy Awards? Some would
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  Speaker 1: argue the finest action movie ever made, and I might
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  Speaker 1: just agree with them there, Mad Max Fury Road. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of rapid fire in that movie. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we've got next. Stay with us. This is Rapid Fire,
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  Speaker 1: where you get to choose between two objects, sometimes related,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes completely absurd. It's a would-you-rather-this or would-you-rather-that type scenario. OK,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. When you're chopping potatoes, would you use
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  Speaker 1: a cleaver or a butcher's knife? Arch window or square window?
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  Speaker 1: Hogwarts or Middle Earth? A cosy nook or a nosy cook?
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  Speaker 1: Eric Clapton or Elton John? Frozen veggies or fresh veggies?
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  Speaker 1: What about earbuds or headphones? Over-the-ear type headphones. Alright, a
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  Speaker 1: musk stick or a candlestick? When you're in the car,
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  Speaker 1: do you say blinker or indicator? Last one for today.
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather be chased by 10 rabbit-sized tigers or
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  Speaker 1: one tiger-sized rabbit? Well, either way, they're going to catch you,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they? I'm not sure what a tiger-sized rabbit would
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  Speaker 1: do to you. Maybe give you fleas or hop on
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  Speaker 1: you over and over again or nibble you to death.
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  Speaker 1: That wouldn't be very nice, would it? But 10 rabbit-sized tigers,
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  Speaker 1: when they catch up with you, I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a different story. I'm not sure they want
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  Speaker 1: to play around. That's rapid fire. Back next Wednesday. We're
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  Speaker 1: back on Friday with another episode of Car Trip Trivia. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: your friends and family that you found a podcast you'll
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  Speaker 1: think they'll enjoy. Thanks for joining us. Catch you next time.
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  Speaker 1: Stay gold.