Speaker 1: In the spirit of keeping things fresh here at Cartrip Trivia,
Speaker 1: we have a very different Who am I to finish
Speaker 1: the show off today? We've got a batch of questions
Speaker 1: to get through first, and don't forget for your birthday shoutouts.
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Speaker 1: me who, when, how old and where from and we'll
Speaker 1: get him on the air. Here we go. Liam from
Speaker 1: Engadeen turn thirty eight over the weekend. Tomorrow, Ryan from
Speaker 1: Dubbo will be seven. Winnie from Trealgon is turning eight.
Speaker 1: Our young man Lucian racks up another one. He'll be
Speaker 1: nine years of age and is this our first treble?
Speaker 1: Cousins Mandy and Tamson from South Africa both turned thirty
Speaker 1: nine and Tamsan's mum, Aloma Aloma, is sixty eight. On
Speaker 1: the same day today's birthdays. Alana from Cockatoo in Victoria
Speaker 1: she's celebrating. Amy from Durant in Oklahoma is having a party.
Speaker 1: Leonardo from Tanna eight is eight, Amelia from Ginderbyne is
Speaker 1: eight and Jimmy from Melbourne is ninety. Is keen to
Speaker 1: hear his name on the show. Jimmy, I'm Stephen Craye
Speaker 1: celebrating the most successful Olympics ever for Team Australia. Does
Speaker 1: that count? Question one? Which animated kids show has the
Speaker 1: characters Buttercup, Bubbles and Blossom The Powerpuff Girls? Question number two?
Speaker 1: What name is given to someone who works in a library?
Speaker 1: A librarian? Question three? According to the proverb what can't
Speaker 1: you make without breaking eggs? You can't make an omelet
Speaker 1: without breaking some eggs. Question four, over multiple Olympic events,
Speaker 1: what abstance is applied to one's hands to assist athletes
Speaker 1: with grip and to prevent blisters? Chalk? I always thought
Speaker 1: that it'd make it a bit slippery, but clearly not.
Speaker 1: Question five. The direct manipulation of DNA to alter an
Speaker 1: organism's characteristics is known as what engineering genetic engineering? Question six?
Speaker 1: Which country has more toxic species per square kilometer than
Speaker 1: any other country in the world. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we should be proud of it. It's Australia. Question seven.
Speaker 1: From the Marvel Universe, name two of the six Infinity stones, Space, Reality, Power, Minded, Time,
Speaker 1: and Soul. We need two of those to give you
Speaker 1: a point. Question eight. Which US city boasts the oldest
Speaker 1: and longest boardwalk? In the world, first opening in eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy and spanning nearly nine kilometers Atlantic City. Question nine,
Speaker 1: beginning with f what is the common name for a
Speaker 1: domesticated pole cat? A ferret? Question ten? What shape is
Speaker 1: a river? Delta? A triangle? Perhaps a fan shape? Question eleven?
Speaker 1: Which red fruit might I put in a green salad? Tomatoes? Question? Well,
Speaker 1: I suppose you could put an apple in there. It's
Speaker 1: a bit unusual, though, Tomatoes is the answer we're looking for.
Speaker 1: Question twelve. American soldier, bison hunter and showman William Frederick
Speaker 1: Cody was better known as Buffalo Who Buffalo Bill? Question thirteen.
Speaker 1: In grammar, a word used to describe a person, animal, place,
Speaker 1: or thing is a what a noun? Question fourteen, which
Speaker 1: came first? Backgammon or chess? Backgammon did? It was first
Speaker 1: played in around three thousand BC. Chess was around six
Speaker 1: hundred a d Question fifteen. After leaving the Eurythmics, who
Speaker 1: had the nineteen ninety two hit song Walking on Broken
Speaker 1: Glass Annie Lannox. Question sixteen. A slightly unusual but popular
Speaker 1: ice cream flavor is rum? And what rum? And raise?
Speaker 1: And you can have as much as you want, but
Speaker 1: it's not for me? Question seventeen. What nickname is traditionally
Speaker 1: given to London police Bobby's Question eighteen. As of April
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, what is the basic postage rate for
Speaker 1: a letter sent within Australia? A dollar fifty up from
Speaker 1: one dollar twenty? Question nineteen. In the all female remake
Speaker 1: of Ghostbusters from twenty sixteen, what cameo role did Dan
Speaker 1: Akroyd play? He was a cab driver. Rev those engines
Speaker 1: we have? Who am I? It's a special one coming
Speaker 1: up next? Stay with us? Okay? Question twenty Today it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Which Olympic Games am I? I
Speaker 1: commenced on the twenty eighth of July and ran until
Speaker 1: the twelfth of August, the second time I had been
Speaker 1: held in my host city, the first being in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty two. Only two cities formerly bid for the event,
Speaker 1: with my main competitor withdrawing twelve months before the official
Speaker 1: announcement for political reasons. I was the first Summer Games
Speaker 1: to be presided by the IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch
Speaker 1: and was officially opened by my country's head of state,
Speaker 1: Despite boycott's by a number of Eastern Bloc countries. Six thousand,
Speaker 1: eight hundred athletes from a record one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nations took part. The host nation won the most gold
Speaker 1: medals and the overall medal count, but Australia did pretty
Speaker 1: well with four gold medals Dean Lucan in the weightlifting,
Speaker 1: Glennis Nunn and the heptathlon, John Seben in the two
Speaker 1: hundred meter butterfly and the men's team pursuit in cycling.
Speaker 1: My Olympic theme was composed by John Williams and the
Speaker 1: spectacular closing ceremony featured a prop ufo that hovered over
Speaker 1: the stadium, joining Paris and London as the only others
Speaker 1: to host three events. The Games of the thirty fourth
Speaker 1: Olympiad in twenty twenty eight will once again be staged
Speaker 1: in my host city. Which Olympic Games am? I? I am?
Speaker 1: I am? The nineteen eighty four Los Angeles Olympics and
Speaker 1: the ones we've just had in Paris weren't too bad
Speaker 1: either with the record or for Australia. We're pretty happy
Speaker 1: with that. Once again, folks, i'd like to thank you
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