Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Ted Lasso, Garfield & Death on a Golf Course (Wed, 23rd Sept, 2026)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Car Trip Trivia. We had
- 0:10Speaker 1: to record early last Friday and we didn't have a
- 0:12Speaker 1: brand new episode for you on Monday. I'm so sorry
- 0:14Speaker 1: about that. So we have a bounty of birthday shoutouts
- 0:18Speaker 1: to get through today. Rapid Fire is coming up. Here
- 0:21Speaker 1: we go. Miller from Keylaw was 13. Brian from Phoenix,
- 0:26Speaker 1: Arizona turned 32. Oliver from Beachmont was 11. Dean from
- 0:31Speaker 1: Myerman was 10. Hadley from Tauranga in New Zealand. He's
- 0:36Speaker 1: getting older. He celebrated 28 years. We've got a triple
- 0:39Speaker 1: family shout-out. Nigel from West Beach in South Australia was 58.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Shane from Fulham Gardens was 17. And Sophia is 15 today.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Weston from Connecticut turned 8. Sam from Emu Heights was 6.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Kartrip and Connie from Mafra in Victoria turned 9. Cassie
- 0:56Speaker 1: from Sunnyvale, California was 31. Archer from Cockatoo was 8.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Beck from Castle Hill was 46 yesterday. Bennett and Oliver...
- 1:05Speaker 1: from State College, Pennsylvania, recently turned 10. Tomorrow, tomorrow, Ashton
- 1:10Speaker 1: from Debing Heights in Queensland is turning eight. I missed one.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Rowan's wife, Grace, and his best mate, Daniel, they share
- 1:17Speaker 1: a birthday. They were 33... And 34 last week. Finally,
- 1:21Speaker 1: today's birthdays. Freddie from Belimbla Park is 7. And Lorelei
- 1:26Speaker 1: from El Paso, Texas is... She's not 125, which is
- 1:31Speaker 1: what it says here. She is 15. I'm Stephen Cray.
- 1:35Speaker 1: And to paraphrase the great man Clint Eastwood, hopefully today's
- 1:38Speaker 1: quiz will make your day. Question one. What colour is
- 1:45Speaker 1: the cartoon cat Garfield? He's a ginger cat. You might
- 1:53Speaker 1: say orange and he has black stripes. Question two. What
- 1:57Speaker 1: is both a percussion instrument and part of the human ear?
- 2:07Speaker 1: A drum. Question three. Which light, flexible material from the
- 2:13Speaker 1: outer bark of a tree is used in the bottling
- 2:17Speaker 1: of beverages? Cork. Question four. What nationality was Mel Gibson's
- 2:28Speaker 1: character in the 1995 movie Braveheart? William Wallace was Scottish.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Question number five. Which five-letter palindrome describes any flat horizontal surface? Level,
- 2:52Speaker 1: L-E-V-E-L when you spell it forwards and L-E-V-E-L when you
- 2:57Speaker 1: spell it backwards. Question number six. Which state competes separately
- 3:03Speaker 1: from the mainland United States in most major professional surfing events? Hawaii. However,
- 3:15Speaker 1: they must unify under the United States flag for the Olympics.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Question seven. A country temporarily being run by the military
- 3:24Speaker 1: operates under what law? Martial law. Question eight. Beginning with H,
- 3:35Speaker 1: from which family of birds is the egret... The Heron family.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Question nine. Which famous crooner died on a golf course
- 3:51Speaker 1: in Spain? Was it Dean Martin, Bing Crosby or Bobby Darin?
- 4:01Speaker 1: It was Bing Crosby. He died at La Moralea Golf
- 4:04Speaker 1: Club in Alcobendas near Madrid. Question ten. By changing the
- 4:09Speaker 1: first two letters, what word... is the opposite of implode. Explode. Explode.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Question 11. What are bechamel and beurrenaise? They are types
- 4:32Speaker 1: of sauces used in cooking. Question 12. There are two
- 4:36Speaker 1: primary forms of electricity, current and what, beginning with S?
- 4:46Speaker 1: Static electricity. Question 13, beginning with F. What do we
- 4:51Speaker 1: call the small tube-like cavity in the skin from which
- 4:55Speaker 1: hair grows? A follicle. Question 14. What is the name
- 5:05Speaker 1: of the fictional English football club that Ted Lasso takes
- 5:10Speaker 1: charge of? AFC Richmond. Question number 15. Okay, that was AFC.
- 5:20Speaker 1: What about this? In reference to law enforcement, AFP stands
- 5:26Speaker 1: for the Australian what? The Australian Federal Police. Question 16.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Which of the world's three biggest oceans comes first alphabetically?
- 5:47Speaker 1: The Atlantic, which size-wise sits in the middle of the
- 5:50Speaker 1: Pacific and the Indian, the Pacific being the biggest. Question 17.
- 5:55Speaker 1: A person who is incredibly tough, physically strong or unyielding
- 5:59Speaker 1: is said to be as hard as... As hard as nails. Now,
- 6:08Speaker 1: you could say as hard as rocks, but generally that
- 6:13Speaker 1: term refers to inanimate physical objects, not people. So that
- 6:16Speaker 1: loaf of bread was as hard as rocks, but Gary
- 6:20Speaker 1: from the local pub, he was as hard as nails.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Question 18. Which casino game involves a spinning wheel with
- 6:28Speaker 1: up to 38 numbers? Roulette numbers 1 to 36 plus
- 6:38Speaker 1: a 0 and a double 0 in American roulette. Question 19.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Which legumes have the varieties pinto, kidney and mung? Beans,
- 6:55Speaker 1: Pinto Kidney and Mung Beans. Question 20. Who was Morgan
- 6:59Speaker 1: Freeman's character driving in the Best Picture Oscar winner from 1990?
- 7:10Speaker 1: Miss Daisy. He was driving Miss Daisy. He didn't go
- 7:14Speaker 1: that fast, though. We're back with Rapid Fire in just
- 7:18Speaker 1: a few seconds. This is a little fun game to
- 7:24Speaker 1: finish the show. We give you a list of things.
- 7:26Speaker 1: It's something or something. All you've got to do is
- 7:29Speaker 1: scream out or say in your head if you're by
- 7:30Speaker 1: yourself the thing that you'd prefer out of the two
- 7:33Speaker 1: options that are given to you. Okay, let's get this
- 7:36Speaker 1: thing rolling. Or JK Rowling. JK Rowling or Stephanie Meyer.
- 7:47Speaker 1: The Coliseum or the Acropolis. H & M or Zara?
- 7:58Speaker 1: Crumbed fish or battered fish? Physio or Cairo? Bilbo or Frodo?
- 8:13Speaker 1: What about White Lightning or Black Magic? Fujitsu or General?
- 8:24Speaker 1: We didn't start the fire or great balls of fire.
- 8:30Speaker 1: And for the AFL fans heading into this weekend's grand final,
- 8:34Speaker 1: the Lions or the Dockers? And if I'm being truthful
- 8:40Speaker 1: with you, I'm still a little bit exhausted after all
- 8:42Speaker 1: those birthday shout-outs at the beginning of the show. A
- 8:45Speaker 1: couple of interesting questions in there as well. I hope
- 8:47Speaker 1: you enjoyed today's episode of Car Trip Trivia. And, hey,
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- 9:06Speaker 1: Catch you next time. Ciao.