Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here at Car Trip Trivia, Episode
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty two will bring you twenty family
Speaker 1: friendly questions and answers with topics ranging from eighties pop
Speaker 1: music to European universities. There's always something for everyone, no
Speaker 1: matter how old or young you may be. Some shout
Speaker 1: outs to Nate from Geelong turned three yesterday, Well done,
Speaker 1: mate Lucas from Bunderberg turned eleven yesterday Tomorrow mild mate
Speaker 1: Joe from Bridgman Downs will be seventeen. Happy birthday Joe.
Speaker 1: And today Zeke from Albuquerque in New Mexico, he's eight.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget those bugs bunny cartoons and you ain't
Speaker 1: should have taken another left toy at Albert Kuaki. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Craye, and always use your mirrors when you're
Speaker 1: reversing down the driveway. Question one? What restaurant does SpongeBob
Speaker 1: SquarePants work out the crusty crab? Question two? What does
Speaker 1: the average human have five liters of blood? Question three?
Speaker 1: How many knights are there in a game of chess?
Speaker 1: They're the ones that look like the horses. There are
Speaker 1: four of them, two for each color. Question four, in
Speaker 1: which European city. Would you find the sore Bonne University
Speaker 1: in Paris? Question five? There are three different types of rock.
Speaker 1: Name one of them igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. One of
Speaker 1: those you get the point? Question six was the musical
Speaker 1: Cats based on paintings, poems or pantomime poems? Question seven?
Speaker 1: What portion of twelve carrot gold is actually gold? Fifty percent?
Speaker 1: Question eight? Do Zebras have hooves? Yes? Zebras do have hoofs?
Speaker 1: Question nine? In which year of the nineteen eighties were
Speaker 1: the first recognized cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or
Speaker 1: AIDS nineteen eighty one? Question ten? Which sport do we
Speaker 1: associate with? Australian Jessica Fox canoeing eleven? A remote controlled
Speaker 1: pilotless aircraft or small flying device is otherwise known as
Speaker 1: a what a Drone? Question twelve. Blame It on the Rain?
Speaker 1: And Girl I'm Going to Miss You were hits for
Speaker 1: which late eighties lip syncers? Other memories? They just keep
Speaker 1: flooding back Millie Vanilli. Question thirteen. Philo, puff and short
Speaker 1: crust are all types of what pastry? Question fourteen. In
Speaker 1: the Australian Army, what rank is directly above a captain,
Speaker 1: Is it major, colonel or Brigadier Major? Question fifteen? Which
Speaker 1: city is represented by the airport code A k l Auckland.
Speaker 1: Question sixteen, which variation on tennis is the fastest growing
Speaker 1: sport in the United States? Pickleball? I had a game
Speaker 1: of that not long ago. It is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Question seventeen. What do we call gloves with two sections,
Speaker 1: one for the thumb and the other one for the
Speaker 1: other four fingers mittens? Question eighteen? Which book directly follows
Speaker 1: Genesis in the Bible? Exodus? Question nineteen? Which musical instrument
Speaker 1: did Holly Hunter play in Jane Campion's nineteen ninety three
Speaker 1: Oscar winning drama The Piano? For the movie The Piano?
Speaker 1: There's a who am I? It's coming up in just
Speaker 1: a couple of moments. Stay with us, and here we go.
Speaker 1: Question twenty today is a who am I? Born in
Speaker 1: New Jersey in the United States in October nineteen forty one.
Speaker 1: My father was a college professor and musician. My mother
Speaker 1: a school teacher. I played baseball and stickball as a child,
Speaker 1: and at the age of eleven, whilst performing in a
Speaker 1: sixth grade production of Alice in Wonderland, I met my
Speaker 1: future collaborator, with whom I would become a worldwide sensation.
Speaker 1: We would perform at school dances and turned my first song,
Speaker 1: The Girl for Me into a neighborhood hit. In our
Speaker 1: mid teens, under the name Tom and Jerry, we had
Speaker 1: a number of minor hits, including Hay school Girl and
Speaker 1: our Song. In nineteen sixty four, we signed with Columbia Records,
Speaker 1: who changed our name, and our first long play album,
Speaker 1: Wednesday Morning three Am, was released in October. With little success,
Speaker 1: I moved to London and was into produced to the
Speaker 1: English folk music scene, which would heavily influence our next
Speaker 1: four albums. After a stint teaching songwriting at New York University,
Speaker 1: I released a self titled solo album in nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: which contained the hits Mother and Child, Reunion and Me
Speaker 1: and Julio Down by the school Yard. Thirteen solo albums followed,
Speaker 1: including the Still Crazy After All These Years and the
Speaker 1: hugely successful Graceland in nineteen eighty six. I had a
Speaker 1: brief marriage to star Wars actress Carrie Fisher and have
Speaker 1: four children with my wife, singer Edie Brikel. They are
Speaker 1: all musicians, I've been inducted into the Rock and Roll
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame twice, have won sixteen Grammys, and am
Speaker 1: best known for my final album with Art garfuncle Bridge
Speaker 1: over Troubled Waters from nineteen seventy and the hit single
Speaker 1: you Can Call Me Ol I Am, I Am Paul Simon. Folks,
Speaker 1: thanks so much again for listening to the show. We're
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Speaker 1: here at Cartrip Trivia. Until then, stay gold.