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Monday, 26th May, 2025 · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: As the shadow of another weekend looms behind us, we
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  Speaker 1: are back at it for your Monday installment of Car
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  Speaker 1: Trip Trivia. It's a genuine pleasure to have you on board.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a first time listener, let's sum it
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  Speaker 1: up twenty questions, always family friendly, three times a week.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do some birthday shoutouts Tomorrow. Blake from Darwin hits
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  Speaker 1: the milestone thirty years, Ethan from the Vines in wa
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  Speaker 1: will be nine, Jack from Brisbane turning twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: Will from Mount Martha is twenty four. Today's birthdays, Ben
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  Speaker 1: from Edmonton in Canada is twenty eight, Renee from Penrith
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  Speaker 1: is twenty one, and Tyler from Bear in Delaware in
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  Speaker 1: the United States is seven. Tyler gets today's prize for
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  Speaker 1: the coolest sounding place name. I'm Stephen kra Speaking of bears,
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  Speaker 1: would you rather be chased by a brown bear, a
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  Speaker 1: black bear, or a glacier bear, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: happens to be gray. Question number one of alligators and crocodiles,
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  Speaker 1: which is capable of sticking its tongue out? Alligators can,
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  Speaker 1: crocodiles can't. Strange useless fact. Question two rhyming with rope.
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  Speaker 1: What slang term means cool or awesome? Dope? Question three?
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  Speaker 1: Which pop singer states that my loneliness is killing me
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  Speaker 1: in her nineteen ninety eight hit Britney spears from Baby
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  Speaker 1: One More Time? Question four, beginning with f what do
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  Speaker 1: we call the main body of an aeroplane the fuselage?
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  Speaker 1: Question five? What insect is on the wall in a
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  Speaker 1: particular realistic style of documentary filmmaking? A fly on the
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  Speaker 1: wall documentary? Question six? What is the chemical symbol for copper?
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  Speaker 1: See you? Question seven? Which emperor attempted to invade Britain
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  Speaker 1: in fifty five BC but was hampered, among other things,
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  Speaker 1: by bad weather? Julius Caesar. Question eight to twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: psychological novel from Northern Irish author Anna Burns, is which
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  Speaker 1: of the following butcher, plumber or milkman milkman? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: Which Muppets character shares his name with a container used
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  Speaker 1: in laboratories. His name is Beaker and he's an absolute
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  Speaker 1: riot if you are a fan of the Marpets. Question ten?
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  Speaker 1: Where is the human temporal lobe in our brain? Question eleven?
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  Speaker 1: From which country does the samba originate? The samba is
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  Speaker 1: a dance or a style of dance rhythmic dance from Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve. What type of room is a scullery? Usually
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  Speaker 1: adjacent to a kitchen? Question thirteen. Famous for their humorous operas,
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  Speaker 1: was the teeming of dramatist W. S. Gilbert and Arthur
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  Speaker 1: who Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan. Question fourteen. What
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  Speaker 1: is taffeta a fabric? A smooth woven fabric? Question fifteen?
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  Speaker 1: Which inquisition began in fourteen seventy eight as a means
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  Speaker 1: to establish religious conformity and to suppress heresy? No one
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  Speaker 1: expects a Spanish inquisition? The Spanish Inquisition, And that's taking
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  Speaker 1: a little line from a famous Monty python sketch. Question sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which canyon was carved by the Colorado River in Arizona?
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  Speaker 1: The Grand Canyon. Question seventeen. Do animals that lay eggs
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  Speaker 1: have belly buttons? No? Belly buttons are the remnants of
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  Speaker 1: an umbellical cord which connects a developing fetus to its
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  Speaker 1: mother's placenta. Question eighteen. On which island of New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: is Christchurch the South Island? Question nineteen which Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: prequel told the story of a group of rebels on
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  Speaker 1: a quest to steal the plans for the Empire's ultimate
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  Speaker 1: killing machine, the death Star Rogue one. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what you stick around and I'll come back with her.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? Just a few moments time? Question twenty
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  Speaker 1: is a who am I? Who am I? Born on
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  Speaker 1: the seventh of February eighteen twelve in Portsmouth, in the
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  Speaker 1: County of Hampshire in England. I was the second of
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  Speaker 1: eight children. In my youth, I was a voracious reader,
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  Speaker 1: particularly fond of Robinson Crusoe and the Arabian Nights Collection.
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  Speaker 1: At the age of seven, I attended a performance by
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Grimaldi, the father of the modern clown, and went
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  Speaker 1: on to edit his eighteen thirty eight autobiography. My father's
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  Speaker 1: debts forced me to leave school at twelve, working in
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  Speaker 1: a black boot warehouse for three years before returning to
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  Speaker 1: school and becoming a journalist. In eighteen thirty six, I
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  Speaker 1: had major success with my first novel, The Pickwick Papers,
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  Speaker 1: which was published in parts and is recognized as the
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  Speaker 1: first successful serial publication. I went on to write fifteen novels,
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  Speaker 1: five novellas, and hundreds of short stories, and a best
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  Speaker 1: known for my masterpieces of literature, Oliver Twist David Copperfield,
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas carol which popularized the term Merry Christmas, A
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  Speaker 1: Tale of two Cities and great expectations. I was working
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  Speaker 1: on my final unfinished novel, The Mystery of Elwyn Drude,
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  Speaker 1: when I suffered a stroke and died in June of
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  Speaker 1: eighteen seventy at the age of fifty eight. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: I am celebrated worldwide for my satire and humor, have
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  Speaker 1: been commemorated on the ten pound note, have life sized
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  Speaker 1: statues in Philadelphia, Sydney and Portsmouth, and am generally regarded
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  Speaker 1: as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. I am
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  Speaker 1: Aarles Dickens and what a life. Far too much to
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  Speaker 1: summarize in one little who am I? So I've posted
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  Speaker 1: an hour long documentary on the Bloke on patreon dot
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  Speaker 1: com Forward slash car Trip Trivia. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: being a part of the show again. We'll do it
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, when we will bring you the Round of Sound.
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  Speaker 1: That's three sounds that you need to guess. It's supplementary
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  Speaker 1: to the quiz twenty questions first and then we'll do
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  Speaker 1: that at the end. Thanks for joining us catch you
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  Speaker 1: next time. All the best, God bless, stay go