Latest / Car Trip Trivia / Wednesday, 10th December, 2025
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- 0:07Speaker 1: It's just fifteen sleeps till Christmas. I don't know about
- 0:10Speaker 1: you guys, but I'm going to need every single one
- 0:12Speaker 1: of those days to get all the preses organized. It
- 0:14Speaker 1: doesn't matter how organized I am or I think I am,
- 0:18Speaker 1: there's always a last minute dash to be organized before
- 0:21Speaker 1: the big day. This is car trip Trivia, by the way,
- 0:24Speaker 1: with the last round of sound for the year coming
- 0:27Speaker 1: up after the quiz. Here are some birthday shoutouts for you.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Ella from Newcastle was twenty one yesterday. Nora from Fort Bragg,
- 0:34Speaker 1: North Carolina had a recent birthday. She was five. Benjamin
- 0:38Speaker 1: from Shreveport, Louisiana also had a recent birthday. Just turned ten.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Now tomorrow. Sophie from Hinton and New South Wales but
- 0:46Speaker 1: living in the UK will be twenty four. Jasmine from
- 0:49Speaker 1: Winderoo is turning seven. Today's birthdays there are two of them.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Grace from Tweetheads is thirty three and is He from
- 0:56Speaker 1: Sydney is fourteen years of age. Birthday to all of
- 1:01Speaker 1: our listeners, I'm Stephen Cray and with more than five
- 1:04Speaker 1: hundred rhymes in the can, you know you've got to
- 1:06Speaker 1: get creative and that includes rearranging movie titles like twenty tens,
- 1:11Speaker 1: Eat Love Prey. Question one? What sound does a cat
- 1:17Speaker 1: make when it's happy, content or relaxed? It pers? Question two?
- 1:29Speaker 1: Rhyming with humble, what word means to fall suddenly or clumsily? Tumble?
- 1:40Speaker 1: You don't really want to take a tumble, do you?
- 1:42Speaker 1: It's never a deliberate act. Question three? Where are you
- 1:45Speaker 1: likely to see the safety warning objects may be closer
- 1:49Speaker 1: than they appear on a motor vehicle's side mirror? Question
- 2:00Speaker 1: before which Ossie comedy legend is affectionately known as hoagues
- 2:10Speaker 1: Paul Hogan from Crocodile Dundee fame? Question five? How old
- 2:15Speaker 1: was the message in a gin bottle when it washed
- 2:18Speaker 1: up on a Perth beach in twenty eighteen? Was it
- 2:22Speaker 1: eighty nine years old? Was it one hundred and thirty
- 2:25Speaker 1: two years old? Or was it two hundred and eleven
- 2:28Speaker 1: years old? If you don't know the story, it's really
- 2:35Speaker 1: a bit of a guess, isn't it. What do you reckon?
- 2:37Speaker 1: It was one hundred and thirty two years old at
- 2:40Speaker 1: the time. It's a bit older than that now. It
- 2:43Speaker 1: was dated the twelfth of June eighteen eighty six, and
- 2:46Speaker 1: it contained details about an experiment on ocean currents. Question six.
- 2:51Speaker 1: What do we call a financial intermediary who connects home
- 2:56Speaker 1: buyers with lenders a mortgage broker? Question seven? On the
- 3:06Speaker 1: old rotary phones, which digit took the longest to dial?
- 3:15Speaker 1: The zero or the nought? Question eight? What was the
- 3:19Speaker 1: currency in Greece before the introduction of the euro? Now
- 3:28Speaker 1: that's the Euro, not the uh. Before the euro's introduction,
- 3:32Speaker 1: it was the drachma? Question number nine, beginning with B.
- 3:36Speaker 1: What name is given to the long pole used to
- 3:40Speaker 1: suspend a microphone over actors? A boom bam boom? Question ten?
- 3:51Speaker 1: Which maternal sounding part of a computer connects components, enables
- 3:56Speaker 1: communication and distributes power the motherboard? Question eleven. What do
- 4:06Speaker 1: we call granulated sugar that is finally ground into a powder?
- 4:16Speaker 1: That's icing sugar? Question twelve? What's the capital of Florida?
- 4:26Speaker 1: Tallahassee question thirteen. Prior to nineteen seventy five, Peter Gabriel
- 4:33Speaker 1: was the lead singer of which British band Genesis. Yes,
- 4:42Speaker 1: he left and they had a bit of a look
- 4:44Speaker 1: around for a new lead singer. Couldn't find anyone, so
- 4:46Speaker 1: Phil Collins, who was playing drums, stepped in permanently. Question fourteen,
- 4:51Speaker 1: which anagram of the name Amy is a month of
- 4:55Speaker 1: the year May. Question fifteen, Who is elected after a
- 5:05Speaker 1: conclave of cardinals meet in Rome? The Pope? Question sixteen.
- 5:16Speaker 1: People who regularly write to each other, particularly by postal mail,
- 5:20Speaker 1: are referred to as what pen, pals or pen friends.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Question seventeen. Which Arnett's biscuit has different versions in different states?
- 5:36Speaker 1: Is it the ginger nut? Is it the tim tam
- 5:40Speaker 1: or is it the iced vovo ginger nuts? In New
- 5:47Speaker 1: South Wales and Act they're a thicker biscuit, perfect for
- 5:51Speaker 1: dunking and tea. In Victoria and Tasmania they're bigger and softer.
- 5:55Speaker 1: And South Australia, WA and Northern Territory enjoy a sweeter biscuit,
- 5:59Speaker 1: while Queen's Lands is the thinnest and darkest in color.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Question eighteen. According to the well known song who was
- 6:08Speaker 1: Jackie Paper's Friend? Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
- 6:17Speaker 1: referring to puff the magic dragon. Question nineteen. To soothe
- 6:22Speaker 1: with gentle words is to pour oil on troubled What
- 6:31Speaker 1: to pour oil on troubled waters? Question twenty As of
- 6:37Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, who had been in more movies, Sir
- 6:42Speaker 1: Michael Cain or Sir Anthony Hopkins. Sir Michael Caine with
- 6:51Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five film credits under his belt.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Anthony Hopkins still a busy boy with one hundred and
- 6:58Speaker 1: forty three. Let's do the round of sound, last one
- 7:02Speaker 1: for the year coming up in just a few moments time.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Here we go for the last time in twenty twenty five.
- 7:11Speaker 1: It's the Round of Sound. We hope you get all
- 7:13Speaker 1: three correct. What is the first sound that I am
- 7:16Speaker 1: about to play with this? Well, come in, what's that sound?
- 7:24Speaker 1: I think we all know exactly what that is. It's
- 7:27Speaker 1: someone knocking on the door. Okay, next one, This one
- 7:30Speaker 1: is far more difficult, but listen carefully. It's something we
- 7:39Speaker 1: all do almost daily, some more than others. I suppose
- 7:43Speaker 1: what sound is that? That's the sound that a pen
- 7:51Speaker 1: writing on a piece of paper makes. More specifically, that's
- 7:55Speaker 1: our boy Rudy signing his own signature. But you weren't
- 7:58Speaker 1: supposed to get that. Okay, last one? What is this sound?
- 8:02Speaker 1: Bonus points? If you can get this? Really, I just
- 8:08Speaker 1: can't help myself. Can you guess it? I think you can.
- 8:11Speaker 1: But we'll play it again anyway, It's a month appropriate
- 8:17Speaker 1: and a season appropriate sound. It is Santa on his
- 8:20Speaker 1: sleigh and really it's the best time of the year,
- 8:23Speaker 1: isn't it? The lead up to Christmas? Just love it.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being a part of the show.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Once again, We're back on Friday. This is car trip Trivia.
- 8:31Speaker 1: We look forward to catching you when we're nest. Catch
- 8:34Speaker 1: you until then, be well, be kind, look after those
- 8:38Speaker 1: around you, and stay gone.