WEBVTT - Monday, 5th May, 2025

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<v Speaker 1>Helping keep your road trips saying since twenty twenty two,

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<v Speaker 1>this is character of trivia with a little something for everyone.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for joining us. Now with much ado

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<v Speaker 1>about nothing else, Let's get straight to the birthday shout outs.

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<v Speaker 1>Robin from Louisiana just turned thirty six, Sky from Caringbar

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<v Speaker 1>just turned twenty two. Now tomorrow, Eric Babdi from Googong

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<v Speaker 1>will be twenty nine. Hang on spellcheck, sorry, Emily from

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<v Speaker 1>Googong will be twenty nine. Peter from Denmarks having a party.

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<v Speaker 1>Noah from Perth is turning ten. Caspian from Lower Plenty

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<v Speaker 1>will be twelve. Today we have Olivia from Mitchelton Turty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one, Brett from Kedron is thirty seven, and another

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<v Speaker 1>Olivia from Tatura celebrating birthday today and feeling very Shakespearean

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<v Speaker 1>Mercutio from Narara Thai turneth thirteen. I'm Stephen Cray and

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<v Speaker 1>deriving from the Latin for blood of Jupiter is the

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<v Speaker 1>red Italian graper a Javis. Question number one, Tabby and

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<v Speaker 1>rag Doll are breeds of which animal? They're cats? Question two?

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<v Speaker 1>What color eggs does sam i am prefer? In the

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<v Speaker 1>Doctor Seuss book Green eggs and a little ham on

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<v Speaker 1>the side. Question three, which sport first played in France

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<v Speaker 1>has players hitting wooden, plastic or composite balls through hoops

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<v Speaker 1>with a mallet croquet. Question four Alter? What was the

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<v Speaker 1>pioneering internet search engine that ceased operating in twenty thirteen

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<v Speaker 1>after being acquired by Yahoo Alta Vista, Alta, Alta, Alta Vista.

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<v Speaker 1>Question five. A well known landmark in Kent, England are

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<v Speaker 1>the White Cliffs of the White Cliffs of Dover. Question six.

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<v Speaker 1>Which late guitar god blasted out the iconic solo on

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Jackson's Beat It? And what's more, he did it

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<v Speaker 1>in just one take the legendary Eddie van Halen. Question seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Which of the following is not soluble in water, sugar oil,

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<v Speaker 1>or vinegar oil? Question eight. A blob of lava ejected

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<v Speaker 1>from a volcano that solidifies in mid air and lands

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<v Speaker 1>as a rock is known as a volcanic What a

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<v Speaker 1>volcanic bomb? Question nine? Former US President Ronald Reagan revealed

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<v Speaker 1>he was suffering from what disease in nineteen ninety four

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<v Speaker 1>Alzheimer's disease. Question ten A common phrase used by highwaymen

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<v Speaker 1>between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, was your money or

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<v Speaker 1>your your money or your life? Question eleven. If I

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<v Speaker 1>am in the world's northernmost capital city, where am I

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in Reikjavik in Iceland. Question twelve. Which long running

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<v Speaker 1>reality TV show has the tagline outwit, outplay, outlast survivor?

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<v Speaker 1>Question number thirteen. Terrapists. The genus of bats found in

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<v Speaker 1>Southeast Asia, Australia and East Africa are commonly known as

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<v Speaker 1>flying What flying foxes? And it's by now accident that

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<v Speaker 1>name they look like foxes? Question fourteen. Which part of

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<v Speaker 1>the human body is nephrology? The study of the kidneys?

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<v Speaker 1>Question fifteen, beginning with D What is the name of

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<v Speaker 1>the fictional ship that carried Dracula from Transylvania to England? Demeter?

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<v Speaker 1>Question sixteen How often is the FIFA Soccer World Cup

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<v Speaker 1>held once every four years? Now? Follow up question for

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<v Speaker 1>question seventeen in what year will the next FIFA Soccer

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<v Speaker 1>World Cup be held? Next year? Twenty twenty six in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, Canada and Mexico. Question eighteen. Small pox

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<v Speaker 1>is caused by a virus? True or false? True? It's

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<v Speaker 1>a contagious disease caused by the Variola virus. Question nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>which beachfront property does Lex Luthor seek as reward for

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<v Speaker 1>betraying the Man of Steel in Superman two Australia. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>come back in a moment, shall we We'll do who

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<v Speaker 1>am I? And we'll wrap this thing up. Stay with

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<v Speaker 1>us and question twenty today is a who am I?

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<v Speaker 1>Who Am I? Born in Basel, Switzerland in August nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty one, the younger brother of Diana. Due to my

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<v Speaker 1>mother's heritage, we both have Swiss and South African citizenship.

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<v Speaker 1>I played my first game of tennis at the age

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<v Speaker 1>of three, and by eight was in the elite junior

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<v Speaker 1>program at the Old Boys Tennis Club in Barsels. Famous

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<v Speaker 1>one handed backhand was inspired by my childhood idols Stephan

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<v Speaker 1>ed Berg, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras, and I credit

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<v Speaker 1>Australian coach Pete Carter for my entire technique and coolness.

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<v Speaker 1>In nineteen ninety five, I won the under fourteen Swiss

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<v Speaker 1>National Championship and won the boys singles and doubles finals

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<v Speaker 1>at the nineteen ninety eight Wimbledon Tournament. I made my

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<v Speaker 1>Davis Cup deboos in nineteen ninety nine. But lost in

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<v Speaker 1>the first round of the French Open and Wimbledon. In

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<v Speaker 1>the same year. I played in the Sydney two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>Olympics and lost the bronze medal match to Frenchman Arnot

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<v Speaker 1>di Pascal. I won my first Grand Slam singles title,

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<v Speaker 1>beating Ozzie Mark Philippoussis at Wimbledon in two thousand and three,

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<v Speaker 1>and made twenty of the twenty four major singles finals

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<v Speaker 1>between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine.

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<v Speaker 1>I led Switzerland to the Davis Cup title in twenty

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen and won Olympic doubles gold in Beijing, finishing my

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<v Speaker 1>career in September twenty twenty two with twenty Grand Slam

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<v Speaker 1>singles titles, including eight Wimbledon's, six Australian Opens, and one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and thirty million dollars US in prize money. He

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<v Speaker 1>knew who I was from the first two paragraphs, but

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<v Speaker 1>you kept on listening. I am I am Roger Federer.

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<v Speaker 1>Now da'd forget folks. We have an extensive back catalog

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<v Speaker 1>Keep quizzing and stay gold.