Monday, 17th February, 2025 (not St Patrick’s Day)

Published Feb 16, 2025, 6:00 PM

It's like an Irish joke, really - despite what this episode claims, today is not St Patrick's Day.

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Gooday, listeners, it's your host here. I wanted to prologue this episode with a brain snap alert for some inexplicable reason. I was a month out and had it in my head that the seventeenth of February was Saint Patrick's Day, which of course it isn't. And as much as I'd like to pretend it was an elaborate Irish joke, I can't say. For a bloke who makes a living out of facts, well, that's not cool. So even if you're laughing at me and not with me, hopefully you get some crack at of today's episode of Car Trip Trivia. If you're joining us for the first time, Cartrip Trivia is as it sounds. It's a straightforward, twenty question quiz best played in the car, although you can play it anywhere you like. A very warm welcome today to all of our listeners from Ireland as we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. I know a lot of people who have Irish heritage, including myself, so we hope you enjoy it today's show. There's a few questions in there for you. Some shout outs. Colin from bent Lee his kids reckon he's getting old. He'll be forty eight tomorrow. Jack from Packenham makes it to thirteen and Aria from Moronbar will be five tomorrow. Today's birthdays, Aunt Scarlet from Manning in South Carolina will be fifty six. Eden from Port Kennedy is ten, Francesca from Gimpi is eight. Tom from Perth. He's also eight. Jamie from Albion Park is having a birthday, Lindsay from Oxenford is thirty nine during his Ossie road trip, and Daniel from Michigan in the United States of America is twenty nine. I'm Stephen Cray and a prettier town may not be found than Roundstone in County Gorway. Question number one? What plant is commonly worn on Saint Patrick's Day? The three leaved clover, also known as the shamrock. Question two? Which of the following would you not use when baking a cake? Butter, flour, chili or eggs. I suppose if you're making a hot spicy cake you might use chili, but it's unusual, so chili would be the answer for question two. Question three, who did Daryl Hall team up with to become the best selling musical duo in history with ten number ones and more than eighty million records sold, Daryl Hall and John Oates became Hall and Oats. Question four? Which two letters are used to abbreviate the word our as in Hourglass hr? Question five? What kind of game is Canasta? It's a card game very similar to rumming. I played a lot as a kid with my dear departed Maum. Question six. In which country were both Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dally born? Spain? Question seven? What was the name of Captain Ahab's ship in Moby Dick the Peaquad? Question eight? What is the plural of person? People? Question nine? According to the legend, which reptiles did Saint Patrick banish from Ireland? Snakes? Question ten? What is two Backer's weapon of choice? Is it a sonic blaster, a bow caster, or a slug thrower. It's the one that looks like a crossbow. It's a bowcaster. Question eleven. What color is an anagram of silla cibla, silla lilac l lac. Question twelve. Which esteemed female spy and inspiration for the modern femme fatale was born Margaretha Girtroida Zell in eighteen seventy six. Marta hari. Question thirteen. In March two thousand and six, Matt Suitor from Fordland, Missouri, survived after being picked up and carried three hundred and ninety eight meters by what a tornado. He was in his caravan at the time and only had minor injuries unbelievable. Question fourteen. According to the quote by Woody Allen, eighty percent of what is showing up. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Question fifteen. How many letters are there in the traditional Irish alphabet eighteen, twenty six or thirty one eighteen they are missing? Jkqvwx, Y, and Z. Question sixteen is Oprah Winfrey left or right handed? With a fortune of two point five billion dollars, Oprah Winfrey is the world's richest left handed woman. Question seventeen. Dog breeds developed to assist humans with hunting are known by which name beginning with h hounds? Question eighteen. How many kings named Henry have there been since Henry the Eighth? None? Not one? Question nineteen. Which musical comedy and surprise hit from nineteen ninety one features Jimmy Rabbit assembling a working class soul band in Dublin. The Commitments Great music. Great movie. Up next, We've got a who am I? With an Irish twist? Stay with us, here we go. Question twenty on the Saint Patrick's Day twenty twenty five is a who am I? Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in December nineteen sixty, the middle of three children to Francis and William, who was a plumber and join up. We moved to England in nineteen seventy, where I learned to change my accent and featured in school plays in both primary and secondary school. After graduating with unflattering academic results, I joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and in nineteen eighty performed a soliloquy from Hamlet for Queen Elizabeth. My first movie was a small uncredited role in Chariots of Fire in nineteen eighty one, and my nineteen eighty four appearance in the acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production of Henry the Fifth would inspire me to direct a film version five years later. I co starred with my wife Emma Thompson in the nineteen ninety one romantic thriller Dead Again, and continued my run of Shakespeare adaptations with much Ado about nothing Othello Hamlet, and as you Like It. I have directed myself as Hercule Poirot three times and had supporting roles in Christopher Nolans, Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer. I ventured into the Disney and Marvel universes directing Cinderella and Thor and have been nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning one for the Autobiographical Film. From twenty twenty one, Belfast, I am. I Am Kenneth Brenner. And if you'd like to announce to the world the birthday of a loved one, or perhaps your own birthday for that matter, you can do so by going to the car Trip Trivia Facebook page and through the Messenger app. Give me all the details, whose birthday is, where they're from, how old they are, and when's the birthday. We'll get that shout out on the air for you and we'll catch you again on Wednesday when we return with the cart Trip Trivia around U sound another twenty questions. Can't wait. Thanks for your company, Stay God,

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