Speaker 1: The best thing about today's episode of Car Trip Trivia
Speaker 1: is that when you're done with it, there's another four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight episodes that came before it. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're up for it, have a dig around see
Speaker 1: if you can track down the Planes, Trains and Automobiles edition,
Speaker 1: or even the Famous Families special that was a good one.
Speaker 1: Tell you who's got a good one, Rudy and he's
Speaker 1: got company. It's the Friday Funny coming up. Birthday shoutouts first,
Speaker 1: Taniel from Brisbane just turned thirty. Adam from Newport in
Speaker 1: Sydney doing a UK Europe road trip just turn fifty four.
Speaker 1: Muzzy from Doctor's Flat was six yesterday This coming Sunday.
Speaker 1: Amara from Sutherland will make it to twenty one tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We've got Mason from Terregil he's twelve. Frankie from Ensea
Speaker 1: will be thirteen. Alia from Degan is seven. And how
Speaker 1: about a family celebration the sisters. Zara was twelve yesterday,
Speaker 1: Bell was seven this coming Sunday, and mum Cassandra is
Speaker 1: having a birthday tomorrow. I'm Stephen Cray and this quiz
Speaker 1: starts in Uno duo tray. Question one let's assume for
Speaker 1: a moment that the Boogeyman exists. He doesn't exist, okay,
Speaker 1: but if he did exist, his favorite hiding spot would
Speaker 1: be under what under your bed? Question two? What is
Speaker 1: the predominant color of Australia's most common cockatoo? The sulfur
Speaker 1: crested cockatoo predominantly white with a bright yellow crest. Question three?
Speaker 1: What should one sees when translating the Latin phrase carpe
Speaker 1: dim one should seize the day? Question four? Where in
Speaker 1: our bodies do we create new blood cells, our bones,
Speaker 1: our kidney or our liver our bones in the spongy
Speaker 1: tissue known as bone marrow? Question five? Who became the
Speaker 1: Duchess of Cambridge when she was married in April of
Speaker 1: twenty eleven Kate Middleton? Question six? Which alternative word for
Speaker 1: Ireland appears on their postage stamps Ira Ei r E.
Speaker 1: Question seven. The first member of boy band Take That
Speaker 1: to have a solo number one hit was Gary who
Speaker 1: Gary Barlow with Forever Love in July nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: Question eight? In which sport would I require wax and
Speaker 1: a wetty surfing? Question number nine? Which planet circles the
Speaker 1: sun once every eighty four years uranus. Question ten Which
Speaker 1: traffic sign created by Detroit Police Sergeant Harry Jackson was
Speaker 1: first erected in nineteen fifteen the stop sign? Question eleven.
Speaker 1: Does a pediatrician look after children or feet? Children? Often
Speaker 1: confused a pediatrist looks after your feet? Question twelve. Painter
Speaker 1: fre de Carlo and the woman who played her in
Speaker 1: the movie sal Mahayak were both born in what country? Mexico?
Speaker 1: Question thirteen. On which day of the week do most
Speaker 1: non fatal car accidents occur on Friday? We can only
Speaker 1: assume that's because everyone's racing home desperate to I don't know,
Speaker 1: cracker beer or play with the kids. Question fourteen. Which
Speaker 1: country consumes the most chewing gum per capita? Is it
Speaker 1: Papua New Guinea, Hungary or Iran? Iran with eighty two
Speaker 1: percent of the population being regular chewurds? Question fifteen. Which
Speaker 1: method of growing plants abandons soil and instead relies on
Speaker 1: a nutrient rich water solution hydroponics? Question sixteen. With a
Speaker 1: city now named after him? Who was the leader of
Speaker 1: North Vie Vietnam during the Vietnam War? Ho Chi Minh?
Speaker 1: Question seventeen, what number did Ossie cricket Shane warn wear
Speaker 1: on his One Day International shirts twenty three? Question eighteen,
Speaker 1: what were the first airborne life forms on Earth? Fungal spores,
Speaker 1: bacteria or dragonflies? Dragonflies have been around for a while,
Speaker 1: but not as long as bacteria. Question nineteen. In the
Speaker 1: Disney Pixar movie Brave, which specific skill does Mereder possess
Speaker 1: that helps her win a competition and challenge traditional expectations? Archery?
Speaker 1: Merida is a highly skilled Before we get to Rudy
Speaker 1: and his joke for the Friday funny, we know who
Speaker 1: am I? It's up next. We'll get to the Friday
Speaker 1: funny in a minute or so. First up, it's a
Speaker 1: who am I? Born in Modesto, California, in May nineteen
Speaker 1: forty four, the son of Dorothy and George. From an
Speaker 1: early age, I loved science fiction and comic books, and
Speaker 1: was a devoted fan of the Flash Gordon serials. I
Speaker 1: have enduring memories of attending Disneyland in its opening week
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty five. My desire to be a racing
Speaker 1: car driver during my high school years ended when I
Speaker 1: was involved in a near fatal car accident, so I
Speaker 1: began filming races with an eight millimeter camera and attended
Speaker 1: the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts as
Speaker 1: a member of the movie Brats, a group of aspiring filmmakers.
Speaker 1: I would become friends with Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Speaker 1: After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Film
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty seven, I was drafted for military service
Speaker 1: in Vietnam, but was rejected because of diabetes. I turned
Speaker 1: my own award winning short film into the feature length
Speaker 1: THHX one one three eight in nineteen seventy one, and
Speaker 1: went on to have a hit with the coming of
Speaker 1: age comedy American Graffiti just two years later, kickstarting the
Speaker 1: careers of Ron Howard and Harrison Ford. My next film,
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven, would change movies forever, making me
Speaker 1: one of the most successful filmmakers in history, having directed
Speaker 1: or written the story for ten of the one hundred
Speaker 1: highest grossing movies of all time. I've been nominated for
Speaker 1: four Academy Awards and created the company Industrial Light and
Speaker 1: Magic to keep up with the special effects required for
Speaker 1: my Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. Before selling my
Speaker 1: television and film production company to Disney in twenty twelve
Speaker 1: for a whopping four billion dollars. I am I am
Speaker 1: George Lucas and we're pretty lucky. Here for the Friday funny,
Speaker 1: we have a guest in the studio again, my nephew,
Speaker 1: Rudy's carsin Oscar. How are you, buddy, I'm great. Thanks.
Speaker 1: That's the way. Now the Star Wars movies, everyone's got
Speaker 1: a favorite? Which is your favorite one? I like all
Speaker 1: of them, rubbish, Come on, which one you gotta pick one?
Speaker 1: I'd go the last Jeddi Okay, the second last in
Speaker 1: the series. Rudy, what's your favorite Star Wars? Good a mate,
Speaker 1: Good day dad. What's your favorite Star Wars movie? Well,
Speaker 1: I've only seen the first and the second. We are
Speaker 1: watching the third one right now. Jedi yep, so right now.
Speaker 1: I really liked The Empire Strikes Back. Yeah. A lot
Speaker 1: of people say that that's the best of them all. Okay,
Speaker 1: these guys have been working on a joke together, but
Speaker 1: let's have it. Knock knock, Who's there? Howard? Howard? Who?
Speaker 1: How would I know? I'm getting visions of Laurel and
Speaker 1: Hardy and Abbott and Costello, and maybe Richard Pyra and
Speaker 1: Gene Wilder if you know what I made. They're famous
Speaker 1: comedy us get ye again long before you were tired?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, another week a chart triviaed out in
Speaker 1: the Hatch. Thanks for joining us, folks. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: it with these teapots staying going perfect