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Sumo Wrestlers, Born Free and Open Mic (Wed, 18th Feb, 2026) · Car Trip Trivia

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  Speaker 1: It's open Mike Wednesday here at Cartrip Trivia. That's when
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  Speaker 1: our listeners get a chance to be a voice on
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  Speaker 1: the show. We're going to do it after the quiz.
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  Speaker 1: It also happens to be our five hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: third episode of Cartrip Trivia. So if you're new to
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  Speaker 1: the show, there is much to catch up on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do some birthday shout outs. Will from University Place in
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  Speaker 1: Washington was thirty seven yesterday, Stacy from Broken Hill was
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  Speaker 1: thirty four yesterday. Tomorrow's birthdays Eleanor from Michigan is turning twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Hamish from Invercargo in New Zealand will be eleven. Kristen
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  Speaker 1: from Mulbarch is turning thirty four. Today we've got one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: Francesca from Middleton, Maryland is eleven, Roman from Perth is five,
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  Speaker 1: Aria from Morenbar is six, and Lucy from Mount Gambia
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  Speaker 1: is twenty three. I'm Stephen Cray and if you're struggling
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  Speaker 1: with your workload, well you might need to hire a pa.
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  Speaker 1: Question one. Every episode of which children's television show was
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by two letters and a number. Sesame
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  Speaker 1: Street Now the first ever episode was actually brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by the letters WS and E and the numbers
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  Speaker 1: two and three, but the classic era from the seventies
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  Speaker 1: to the nineties was always two letters and a number.
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  Speaker 1: Question two. The latest iPhone release, the iPhone seventeen, includes
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  Speaker 1: the models pro and pro. What pro max now? Among
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  Speaker 1: other things? It is er point six of an inch
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  Speaker 1: larger and thirty grams lighter. Question three? How many sides
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  Speaker 1: does a UFC ring have? Eight sites? They call it
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  Speaker 1: the octagon? Question four. The Naki Sumo is a four
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  Speaker 1: hundred year old Japanese festival where sumo wrestlers aim to
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  Speaker 1: do which of the following make babies cry, lose weight,
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  Speaker 1: or lift Japanese made cars. The Naki Sumo or Crying
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  Speaker 1: Sumo firestival attempts to make babies cry, to ward off
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  Speaker 1: evil spirits and to promote good health. Question five, Beginning
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  Speaker 1: with m what is the name of the legendary wizard
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  Speaker 1: of British mythology Merlin? Question six? What type of living
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  Speaker 1: things are affected by the condition known as die back trees?
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  Speaker 1: It causes the progressive death of twigs, branches, and roots,
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  Speaker 1: and is a symptom of severe stress. Question seven. In Italy.
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  Speaker 1: What do they call the city of Naples Napo Le,
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  Speaker 1: Napoli Napoli? Question eight? The uh one, iroquois or the
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  Speaker 1: huey first used by the US military in Vietnam was
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  Speaker 1: Which type of vehicle a helicopter used for medivac? Question nine?
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  Speaker 1: What is a muddler used to mix? A muddler is
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  Speaker 1: used to mix drinks, especially cocktails. Question ten. Which Australian
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  Speaker 1: television comedy character used the couple of days when referring
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  Speaker 1: to the ripening of fruit The Good Old Comedy Company, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it was con the Fruiterer. Question eleven. What is measured
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  Speaker 1: by a pluviometer? A pluviometer or a rain gauge measures rainfall?
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  Speaker 1: Question twelve Complete this nineteen eighty seven movie title, Raising Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: Raising Arizona or Raising Alabama Raising Arizona, starring Nicholas Cage
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  Speaker 1: and Holy Hunter. Question thirteen. How many double letters are
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  Speaker 1: there in the word bassoon? There are two sets of doubles.
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  Speaker 1: There's a double S and there's a double O. Be
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  Speaker 1: a double sun? Question fourteen. The core component of which
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  Speaker 1: type of oven is a magnetron microwave ovens? The magnetron
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  Speaker 1: generates the microwaves. Question fifteen. Switching between two pairs of
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  Speaker 1: glasses became a thing of the past when Benjamin Franklin
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  Speaker 1: invented what in seventeen eighty four by focals. They were
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  Speaker 1: originally called double spectacles, the top half for distance and
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  Speaker 1: the bottom half for reading. Question sixteen. Who shall inherit
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  Speaker 1: the Earth? According to the Book of Matthew, the meek
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  Speaker 1: shall inherit the Earth? Question seventeen. The shortest war in history,
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  Speaker 1: lasting just thirty eight minutes, was between the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: and which country beginning with z Zanzibar was the Anglo
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  Speaker 1: Zanzibar War of eighteen ninety six. Question eighteen. If a
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  Speaker 1: golfer hits four under on a PAS seventy two course,
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  Speaker 1: what score does he or she achieve? That's seventy two
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  Speaker 1: minus four sixty eight? Question nineteen. What was the month
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  Speaker 1: of July called before they changed it in forty four
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  Speaker 1: BC to honor Julius Caesar? Was it quintillis sextillus or
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  Speaker 1: heptillus quintillus, meaning fifth month, as indeed it was in
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  Speaker 1: the original ten month Roman calendar? Question twenty. The name
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  Speaker 1: of which main character appears in the movies Born Free
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty six and Frozen from twenty thirteen. Elsa
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  Speaker 1: a lioness in Born Free and a princess in Frozen.
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  Speaker 1: Back in just a moment, we have a couple of
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  Speaker 1: great submissions for our open mic segment Stay with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for sticking around, folks. This is open Mic Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: where we get you on the podcast. Just head over
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  Speaker 1: to patreon dot com forward slash cartrip Trivia or go
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  Speaker 1: straight to the car Trip Trivia Facebook page where all
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  Speaker 1: the details of what you need to do are there.
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  Speaker 1: You can tinkle the ivories, you can jump on the
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  Speaker 1: trampoline whilst residing Shakespeare, or you can say happy Birthday
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  Speaker 1: to your granddad. Whatever you want to do, it's your choice. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: who's this then?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, car Trip Trivia. This is Anne Marie from the
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  Speaker 2: Bowman family in Santa Robah, California. Our family has been
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  Speaker 2: listening to Cartrip Trivia since we discovered the show while
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  Speaker 2: on our one hundred day road trip all throughout the
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  Speaker 2: US when we visited all thirty major baseball stadiums in
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  Speaker 2: one summer. We listen to every show then and we
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  Speaker 2: still do. I drive my kids everywhere and anytime we
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  Speaker 2: have a car full of our kids friends riding with us.
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  Speaker 2: I pop on an episode and we love to listen
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  Speaker 2: and guests together. Being from the States, we don't usually
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  Speaker 2: answer the down Under questions correctly, but we love the
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  Speaker 2: show so much. My kids retell their favorite Fuddy funnies
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  Speaker 2: all the time. We love car trip, Tivia, keep up
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  Speaker 2: the fantastic work, Stephen Craye and stay Gold.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Anne, Marie and family. Such a lovely message
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  Speaker 1: to a save. Now we've got another one here. This
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  Speaker 1: one's from Ivy and John O and they're in Townsville today.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here with my dad. Well, guys, and we are
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  Speaker 3: here to give you guys a little one. Guys like
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  Speaker 3: this on the way to school. We think it's pretty coute.
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  Speaker 3: We love it so much it's now become a rule.
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  Speaker 3: And Rudy, we all think Friday Funnies rule.
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  Speaker 2: Seeya.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Ivy and John I that is very very kind.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate your message. And Rudy, well, if he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get too cocky, I'm sure you'll appreciate it. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens when you're a ten year old comedian. You
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  Speaker 1: get some fan mail, all right, that's open. Mike Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you've enjoyed it. Thanks for joining us. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna catch again on Friday, Yes, indeed Friday. Okay, here
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  Speaker 1: we go, waiting for the drums. Here they are. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: cheat now bye,