Speaker 1: Where on the road again and you're listening to Katrick Trivia.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your company. Hope you had a
Speaker 1: great weekend, but it's back to business. We've got a
Speaker 1: few birthday shoutouts for our loyal listeners. Daniel and Christina
Speaker 1: from Alberta, Canada are both turning twenty nine this week,
Speaker 1: and Me from Beacon Hill was seven yesterday. She celebrated
Speaker 1: at the Reptile Park Tomorrow. Keandra from Chicago will be
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Vicki from Hong Kong is turning forty five.
Speaker 1: Today's birthdays. Louisa from Darwin is fifty three and Lincoln
Speaker 1: from Clemont is eleven. He loves the Round of Sound
Speaker 1: and he's a big fan of Rudy's jokes. So am I.
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Cray And if you're planning on climbing Mount Everest,
Speaker 1: you'd best take a bloke like Tensing Norgay. Question one,
Speaker 1: which is the biggest toy company in the world? Is
Speaker 1: it has bro Lego or Mattel Lego? It overtook Mattel
Speaker 1: in sales volume in the first half of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Question two, how do you spell biba as in Justin
Speaker 1: Bieber b I E b E R biber. Question three.
Speaker 1: What part of the body does a stigmatism effect the eyes?
Speaker 1: Question four? Where did the clothing brand Cookee originate? Was
Speaker 1: it France, Australia or Spain? France Viva la France? Question five?
Speaker 1: What is the sun's actual color? It's white, It appears yellow,
Speaker 1: orange or even red because of the scattering of life
Speaker 1: from the Earth's atmosphere. Question six. In nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: who was the first female DC comic book character to
Speaker 1: have her own movie? Supergirl? Question seven? Does sound travel
Speaker 1: quicker through steel or through air? Through steel? It's about
Speaker 1: seventeen times faster to be precise. Question eight? What is
Speaker 1: the capital of Somalia Mogadishu? Question nine. The announcement of
Speaker 1: which pop stars pregnancy at the twenty eleven MTV Music
Speaker 1: Awards set a Guinness World record for the most number
Speaker 1: of tweets per second Beyonce. The peak was eightdred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight tweets per second. Question ten. As his depression
Speaker 1: manifested itself in his artwork, which Spanish painter had a
Speaker 1: blue period Between nineteen oh one and nineteen oh four,
Speaker 1: Pablo Picasso characterized by a monochromatic palette of blues and
Speaker 1: blue greens. Question eleven. What do we call the process
Speaker 1: of converting waste into reusable material recycling? Question number twelve.
Speaker 1: Which social media app was banned in the United States
Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty five? TikTok. You can still use
Speaker 1: it apparently, but it's banned officially. Question thirteen. Which sea
Speaker 1: lies between Poland and Sweden is at the North Sea,
Speaker 1: Norwegian Sea or the Baltic Sea the Baltic Sea. Question fourteen.
Speaker 1: For which sport are the Williams Sisters famous tennis game
Speaker 1: set match? Question fifteen Which emperor is inaccurately known for
Speaker 1: playing his fiddle whilst the city of Rome burned? Nero?
Speaker 1: It's a myth on two counts. One he wasn't even
Speaker 1: in Rome at the time, and two the fiddle hadn't
Speaker 1: been invented yet. Question sixteen. What does the D in
Speaker 1: three D stand for? Dimensional three dimensional? Question seventeen. Spider
Speaker 1: silk was once used to make guitar strings true or false? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a furfy false, but it was once successfully used
Speaker 1: to make violin strings. Question eighteen. What is the maximum
Speaker 1: sentence in the Australian criminal justice system Life, Life imprisonment
Speaker 1: Question nineteen, which acclaimed actor served as a New York
Speaker 1: City firefighter between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty four, got
Speaker 1: a few options for you. Was it Kevin Klein, Was
Speaker 1: it Timothy Hutton? Or was it Steve Buscemi? It was
Speaker 1: Steve Bouchmi. And we've got one last thing coming up?
Speaker 1: What is it? Look at the who am I back?
Speaker 1: In the moment? We're back? It's question twenty today, It's
Speaker 1: a who am I born in West Plains, Missouri, in
Speaker 1: December nineteen twenty five five, to a stenographer and a salesman.
Speaker 1: I had a younger brother named Jerry. My heritage is
Speaker 1: Dutch and my family traces back to the Mayflower. I
Speaker 1: left Danville High School early to enroll in the US
Speaker 1: Army Air Force, where I worked as a radio announcer
Speaker 1: and in the Special Services Entertaining Troops. I worked as
Speaker 1: a radio DJ in the late forties and toured the
Speaker 1: West Coast nightclub circuit with a miming and lip syncing
Speaker 1: act in a duo known as the Merry Mutes. I
Speaker 1: worked on multiple TV shows in the fifties before making
Speaker 1: my Broadway deboo in the Girls against the Boys in
Speaker 1: fifty nine, and played the lead role of Albert Peterson
Speaker 1: in Bye Bye Birdie for an eighteen month run from
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, leading to my film deboo in its adaptation.
Speaker 1: I had my own self titled CBS sitcom that ran
Speaker 1: from sixty one to sixty six and its revival from
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one to seventy four. Other notable roles were
Speaker 1: in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the TV series Diagnosis Murder,
Speaker 1: as well as Night at the Museum in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. I've won six Emmys, a Grammy and to Tony,
Speaker 1: but by some distance, my best known character is Bert,
Speaker 1: the chimney sweep in Disney's Mary Poppins from nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1: In December of this year, I will turn one hundred
Speaker 1: years old. I am I Am Dick Van Dyke. And
Speaker 1: if you're wondering about the birthday shout outs, how do
Speaker 1: I get him on the podcast? Well, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You go to the Carlture of Trivia Facebook page, You
Speaker 1: go to the Messenger app and leave us all the
Speaker 1: details whose birthday, when it is, how old they are,
Speaker 1: and where they're from. And your best bet is to
Speaker 1: get them in nice and early, folks, because sometimes I've
Speaker 1: got to record the show early. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: always better if you have it before the event as
Speaker 1: opposed to after the event, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: This is CARTERP Trivia. Thanks for listening. We'll catch you
Speaker 1: next time. Adios.