Speaker 1: Another round of twenty questions with the trivia podcast that
Speaker 1: travels with You.
Speaker 2: This is Car Trip Trivia.
Speaker 1: We know there are plenty of options out there in
Speaker 1: podcast land, so thanks for choosing us. Now let's do
Speaker 1: some birthday shout outs. Aleandro from New York had a
Speaker 1: recent golden birthday. He was twenty nine. Tomorrow, Ryan from
Speaker 1: Druan is turning thirty eight, Max from Coramel will be ten,
Speaker 1: Eliana from Adelaide is also ten, August from Newcast will
Speaker 1: be eleven, Lincoln from Werribee will be seven, and Nicola
Speaker 1: from Canberra is turning fifty seven.
Speaker 2: That's tomorrow. We have some forts today.
Speaker 1: Alec from Los Angeles is twenty eight, Alex B from
Speaker 1: Melbourne is ten, Laney from Mackay is our fourth ten
Speaker 1: year old in this episode, and Tate from Mullumbimbi is
Speaker 1: twenty six. I'm Stephen Cray and it's one thing to
Speaker 1: have a dear friend. It's another thing entirely to have
Speaker 1: a Computi Question number one traditionally, what are the two
Speaker 1: sides of a coin?
Speaker 2: Heads and tails?
Speaker 1: Question two? What is the name of the pizza restaurant?
Speaker 1: In five Nights at Freddy's Freddie faz Bear's pizza. Question three,
Speaker 1: Which of these incidents occurred thirty three thousand times in
Speaker 1: the United States in nineteen ninety Was it snake bites,
Speaker 1: ufo sightings, or shopping trolley accidents? There were thirty three
Speaker 1: thousand shopping trolley accidents in the US in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: I will, not, however, reveal my sources. Question four, beginning
Speaker 1: with G what is the third letter of the Greek
Speaker 1: alphabet gamma? Question five? Do dingoes bark? Yes, they do bark,
Speaker 1: but they mainly communicate through howling and whining. Domestic dogs
Speaker 1: bark far more regularly than the dingo.
Speaker 2: Question six.
Speaker 1: Which US comedian released the book Sign Language in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three, Jerry Seinfeld, And of course the title was
Speaker 1: spelled Sei n Sign Language. Question number seven, According to
Speaker 1: the saying, the proof of the what is in the tasting.
Speaker 1: The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Question eight.
Speaker 1: The most easterly point of Mainland Australia is Cape What
Speaker 1: Cape Byron? And it is a magnificently beautiful part of
Speaker 1: the world. Question number nine, beginning with L. What machine
Speaker 1: is used for turning and shaping wood?
Speaker 2: A lathe latch lathe.
Speaker 1: Question ten, what one hundred and forty kilometer long structure
Speaker 1: was demolished in nineteen eighty nine the Berlin Wall. Question eleven.
Speaker 1: Which country brought horses to America in the sixteenth century?
Speaker 2: Spain?
Speaker 1: Funnily enough, horses were actually native to America, but went
Speaker 1: extinct around ten thousand years ago and were reintroduced by Spain.
Speaker 1: Question twelve. Who provides the sounds of Maggie Simpson's sucks
Speaker 1: and slurps? Is it Matt Graining, Nancy Cartwright or Harry Shearer?
Speaker 1: It's the Simpsons creator himself, Matt Graining. Question thirteen. A
Speaker 1: creel is a large wicker basket used for holding What
Speaker 1: a creel is a large wicker basket that holds fish?
Speaker 1: Question fourteen. Which Welsh rock band recently canceled their Australian tour, Stereophonics.
Speaker 1: Their singer Kelly Jones displaced his jaw. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how he did that, but I'm guessing that would
Speaker 1: make singing quite difficult. Question fifteen. What do we call
Speaker 1: a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer
Speaker 1: winds the mainspring? An automatic watch or perhaps a self
Speaker 1: winding watch Question sixteen, beginning with C. What name is
Speaker 1: given to underground chambers, tunnels and corridors used for burials
Speaker 1: and rituals.
Speaker 2: Catacombs? Question seventeen.
Speaker 1: Which two pieces sit on either side of the king
Speaker 1: at the beginning of a chess game, the Queen and
Speaker 1: a bishop? Question eighteen? Which French food is effectively a
Speaker 1: very thin pancake?
Speaker 2: The crepe?
Speaker 1: Question nineteen, which Kevin Costner Western controversially beat Martin Scorsese's
Speaker 1: Good Fellas for Best Picture at nineteen ninety one Academy Awards.
Speaker 1: Dances with Wolves. Now, there's been a few questions from
Speaker 1: the nineties. Today, we're going to go even further back
Speaker 1: for the Who am I up?
Speaker 2: Next?
Speaker 1: Rubbing up today's quiz, it's question twenty. Who am I?
Speaker 1: Born in Motihari, India in June nineteen o three as
Speaker 1: Eric Arthur Blair. My father worked for the civil Service
Speaker 1: in charge of production and storage of opium for export
Speaker 1: to China. I had an older sister and a younger
Speaker 1: sister and moved to England with my mother when I
Speaker 1: was one, not seeing my father again until I was nine.
Speaker 1: I earned a boarding scholarship to Saint Cyprian's in East Sussex,
Speaker 1: where I had two poems published and finished second to
Speaker 1: Cyril Connolly in the Harrow History Prize. I attended Eton
Speaker 1: College until nineteen twenty one and was posted to Burma
Speaker 1: with the Indian Imperial Police, which influenced my nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: four novel Burmese Days. I spent time in London and
Speaker 1: Paris and published my second novel, The Clergyman's Daughter, in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five. I fought in the Spanish Civil War,
Speaker 1: where in nineteen thirty seven I was shot in the
Speaker 1: neck by a sniper, before returning to England and being
Speaker 1: rendered unfit for.
Speaker 2: Further military service.
Speaker 1: Other literary works under my assumed name include Keep the
Speaker 1: Aspadistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier before my
Speaker 1: death in nineteen fifty at the age of forty six.
Speaker 2: But it is for two books.
Speaker 1: Animal Farm and nineteen eighty four that I remain influential
Speaker 1: in popular culture to this very day, with the terms
Speaker 1: thought police, doublethink, news speak and big Brother being an
Speaker 1: everyday part of the English language. I am, I am
Speaker 1: George Orwell, and I am thanking you for your company
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