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Monday, 6th October, 2025
In this episode of Car Trip Trivia, host Stephen Craig delivers a fun-filled trivia experience with a mix of birthday shout-outs and intriguing questions. From the eyesight of eagles to the iconic Ins...
Monday, 6th October, 2025
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If you prefer your trivia family friendly and three times weekly with no need for a pen and paper,
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then car trip trivia is streets ahead of the rest. Welcome to the show you are joining us for episode 481.
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So if it's your first ever episode, you've got some catching up to do.
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Now birthday shout out tomorrow Aussie Isabella living in Stavanger, Norway.
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Will be eight car tripping Oli is turning nine. He'll be somewhere south of cans on that special occasion.
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Erica from Navato, California will be 26. We've got a few for today. Evie from Glenmore Park is nine.
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Imaging from the gap is ten and Jason from Innisfark is 38.
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If you'd like to know how to get your birthday shout out on the podcast, I'll tell you at the end of the show.
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I'm Stephen Craig and for his theory of cognitive development in children, we thank Jean-Briage.
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Question number one. Do eagles have better eyesight than lions?
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Yes, they do. Lions have excellent vision, but they're nowhere near as good as eagles.
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Question two. What beats paper in a game of rock paper scissors?
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The scissors beat the paper because they cut them up, you see.
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Question number three. Which language has the most number of words?
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English with more than one million of them. Question number four.
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Rapper, singer, record producer and actor Andre Benjamin is better known as who?
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Andre 3000. Question number five. Which suburb of Cairo beginning with G is home to Egypt's best known pyramids?
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Geeser, G-I-Z-A, Geeser.
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Question six. With an average of seven and a half trips per person per annum, which of the following are statistically the most well-traveled nation in the world?
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Is it Finland? Hong Kong or Sweden?
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What do you get when you cross high incomes with a passionate love for travel?
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Will you get Finland? Question seven. Which major league baseball team is nicknamed the Padres?
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The San Diego Padres. Question eight. In automobile speak, what does SWB stand for?
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Short wheelbase. Question nine. Which television medical drama starred Hugh Laurie in the title role?
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House also known as House M.D.
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Question ten. Beginning with S. And often used in the Lord of the Rings, what's another word for county?
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Shire. The Hobbits lived in the Shire. Question eleven. Which American drink brand has become synonymous with unquestioning obedience or loyalty?
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Have you drunk the cool aid? Question twelve. Which two-digit number has the most syllables when spoken aloud?
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I'm going to implore you to hit the pause button and have a good think about it. Which two-digit number has the most syllables when spoken aloud?
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Seventy-seven. It has five syllables. No other two-digit number has more.
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Question thirteen. What animal fills the barrel in the toy game first released in 1965 but still popular today?
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What is the Spanish word for friend?
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Amigo. Question fifteen. Which video game title won game of the year at the Game Awards in 2022?
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Was it God of War, Ragnarok? Was it Xeno Blade Chronicles III or was it Elden Ring?
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It was Elden Ring. Question sixteen. What do we call a heterogeneous mixture where larger solid particles are dispersed but not dissolved in liquid?
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It's not a solution. It's a...
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A suspension. Question seventeen. Who in 1975 said, I'd rather be dead than singing satisfaction one on forty-five.
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How about it, 82? Mick? Because you're still going strong. That was Mick Jagger. Question eighteen. Slander and libel are both types of defamation.
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Which one is written and which one is spoken?
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Slander is spoken. Libel is written or published. Question nineteen. Which musical fantasy did Olivier Newton-John starryen in 1980 just two years after the mega success of Greece?
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Xanadu, which unfortunately didn't quite achieve the same levels of success.
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Our first who am I for a couple of weeks? It's up next. Here at Cartford Privia.
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Let's go. Question twenty today. It's a who am I? Born in Portsmouth, England in September 1925 to Variety Entertainers Bill and Peg.
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I was christened Richard but my parents addressed me by my stillborn brother's name. I made my theatre to boo at just two weeks old and was shy as a child learning stage craft by accompanying my family on the Variety Show circuit.
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My gift for improvisation would prove fruitful in years to come. I joined the Royal Air Force in nineteen forty three but poor eyesight restricted me to ground duties.
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After various television and radio productions throughout the nineteen forties I joined three other entertainers for the Goon Show which tabooed on BBC Radio in May nineteen fifty one and ran for nine years.
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My breakthrough film role was with Donald Pleasant's in orders are orders in nineteen fifty five and I would go on to be nominated for three Academy Awards including for Best Actor for nineteen sixty four as Dr Strangelove and for being there from nineteen seventy nine.
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I would go on to feature in more than thirty films including Lolita, Murder by Death and the Party and was well known for playing multiple roles in the same film.
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I died from a heart attack in July nineteen eighty at the age of fifty four and have been described as the greatest comic genius that Britain has produced since Charlie Chaplin.
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Undoubtedly however my most beloved role was the accident prone French detective Inspector Clousseau in six pink pant the movies. I am.
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I am the wonderful wonderful Peter Sellers.
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Thanks for your company folks. I hope you've enjoyed the show. If you're a first time listener to car trip trivia and you would like to know how to get a birthday shout out onto the podcast well it's simple.
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It's so very very simple. Just go to the car trip trivia Facebook page and get onto the messenger app where you can send me all the details.
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For example whose birthday it is when their birthday is how old they are and where they're from.
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We'll be back on Wednesday. Thanks for joining us again. Talk to you soon. Bye now.