Speaker 1: Always kid friendly, but with questions for everyone. This is
Speaker 1: car trip Trivia. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll
Speaker 1: wrap up today's quiz with an historical who am I
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere? A bit of a silly thing to say, really,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, the whole point of a
Speaker 1: podcast is its portability, so you really can go anywhere
Speaker 1: you like, So maybe I should have said don't switch
Speaker 1: this off. Either way, it's birthday shout out time. Ryan
Speaker 1: the Rhino from Norman Park just turned thirty five. Ninja Newbery,
Speaker 1: he had a recent birthday. Happy birthday mate, Ivy from
Speaker 1: Bendigo was five yesterday Tomorrow, Travis from Gladstone is twelve.
Speaker 1: Now that's a golden birthday for Trav. Today we have
Speaker 1: two mo from Finland living in Peakhurst, New South Wales
Speaker 1: having a birthday. Tilly from Sydney is eight, Jake from
Speaker 1: Newport is twenty five, Luca from Stockport in England is five,
Speaker 1: Hayden from Townsville is ten and Jack from Heidelberg Heights
Speaker 1: is eleven. That's another golden birthday, just like your sister
Speaker 1: last week. Happy birthday to everyone. I'm Stephen Cray and
Speaker 1: holidaying through Polynesia, it's quite common to be gifted a
Speaker 1: flowery lay. Question number one, what are pirates most likely.
Speaker 2: To bury their treasure chest or just their treasure or really,
Speaker 2: if you wanted to get technical, they could bury anything
Speaker 2: they liked.
Speaker 1: Question two? What do we call the container that they
Speaker 1: fill with chicken at KFC? The bucket? Question three? Apart
Speaker 1: from a brief break during the COVID pandemic which Agatha
Speaker 1: Christie Play opened in London's West End in nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: two and has been running ever since the mouse trap?
Speaker 1: Question four? What do the one hundred pleats in a
Speaker 1: chef's hat represent? Is it the number of different spices
Speaker 1: used in cooking, the days of training required to become
Speaker 1: a chef, or the one hundred ways you can cook
Speaker 1: an egg? The one hundred pleats in a chef's hat
Speaker 1: represent the one hundred different ways you can cook an egg?
Speaker 1: Question five. In Australians slang to make a lot of
Speaker 1: money quickly and unexpectedly? Is making a what making a mozza?
Speaker 1: Question six? What do you call a round of play
Speaker 1: in a hand of bridge a trick? Question seven? Beginning
Speaker 1: with K which mythical sea monster is often depicted as
Speaker 1: a giant octopus the kraken. Question eight, which two body
Speaker 1: parts contain one hundred and six of our two hundred
Speaker 1: and six human bones? Our hands and our feet? There's
Speaker 1: twenty seven in each hand and twenty six in each foot.
Speaker 1: Question nine. In accordance with international convention, the letters EQ
Speaker 1: represent vehicle number plates from which South American country? Ecuador,
Speaker 1: even though there is no Q in Ecuador ecuadr Question ten?
Speaker 1: In which genre of music did Taylor Swift first find fame?
Speaker 1: Country music? Question eleven? Where would I find woofers and
Speaker 1: tweeters in the speakers of an audio system? Question twelve,
Speaker 1: Excluding the word and what is the lowest number to
Speaker 1: contain the letter A when spelt? By excluding the word and,
Speaker 1: I mean the link word in between numbers one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty. So what is the lowest number to contain
Speaker 1: the letter A when spelt one thousand? If you can
Speaker 1: believe that? Question thirteen. In what country was ballet dancer
Speaker 1: and choreographer Rudolph Narrayev born? He was born in the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union now known as Russia. Question fourteen, launched in
Speaker 1: February nineteen fifty, what was the world's first credit card?
Speaker 1: Was it? American Express Bank card or diners Club. It
Speaker 1: was Dinah's Club, invented after Frank McNamara forgot his wallet
Speaker 1: and couldn't pay for a business dinner. Question fifteen. Which
Speaker 1: citrus fruit has a variety called the baboon? The baboon
Speaker 1: lemon was named for its large size and its intense flavor.
Speaker 1: Question sixteen. Who teams up with rampaging Roy Slaven in
Speaker 1: the Australian comedy duo HG. Nelson? They are Roy and HG.
Speaker 1: Question seventeen popular in the late two thousands. The original
Speaker 1: Zuzu pets are electric? What they're electric? Hamsters? Question eighteen?
Speaker 1: What is the largest county in England? Yorkshire? Question nineteen
Speaker 1: Which movie contains the slightly cheesy but iconic line I
Speaker 1: feel the need the need for speed top gun and
Speaker 1: I might add it also gets run in the sequel Maverick.
Speaker 1: We'll be back in a jiffy with a who am I?
Speaker 1: Scatter of trivia? Thanks for being with us, Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Who am I? Born in Bromley, Kenton, England in September
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty six. I was the fourth and final child
Speaker 1: of Joseph, a shopkeeper and professional cricketer and Sarah, a
Speaker 1: former domestic servant. A broken leg in my childhood forced
Speaker 1: an extended convalescence and ample time to read, prolifically inspiring
Speaker 1: my urge to write. My family's poor finances pushed me
Speaker 1: into a drapery apprenticeship of my experiences, of which would
Speaker 1: be portrayed in my later works. I secured a position
Speaker 1: as a pupil teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and co
Speaker 1: founded the Science School Journal, where I began writing, leading
Speaker 1: to more than fifty novels and countless short stories for
Speaker 1: which I would become world famous. My writing predicted the
Speaker 1: invention of aircraft, tanks, nuclear weapons, space travel, satellite TV,
Speaker 1: and even the Internet. I was nominated for the Nobel
Speaker 1: Prize in Literature four times and was known as the
Speaker 1: father of science fiction for the novels The Time Machine,
Speaker 1: The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The
Speaker 1: War of the Worlds. I was considered a worthy successor
Speaker 1: to Charles Dickens when I died in August nineteen forty
Speaker 1: six at the age of seventy nine. I am, I
Speaker 1: Am HG. Wells, and I reckon War of the World's
Speaker 1: is probably his most famous, couple of really good movie versions,
Speaker 1: couple of pretty lousy ones as well, and a TV
Speaker 1: series that came out fairly recently. Anyway, that'll do it
Speaker 1: for today. Thanks for John, I guess it's count roup trivia.
Speaker 1: It's been an absolute pleasure delivering another twenty questions for
Speaker 1: your family's entertainment. Hump Stephen Craye, and we will catch
Speaker 1: you another day. Until then, stay go