WEEKLY BULLETIN: Pub Trivia, Cummins & Khawaja, Microsoft Outage & Fish Sauce Finished

Clancy Overell (0:30)

If you're at home, they can do that as well. Hold the finger on the IG or the podcast or whatever. See if you get the answer and we'll roll through. See how many you get out of eight. And obviously, this is ahead of our Audible Pub Trivia Night coming up, which you can keep an eye on social. Some more details on that. It's pretty exciting. Eight, how many do you reckon you get?

There's a couple of tricky ones in there. Like I want a little bit of-

Errol Parker (0:49)

Well, it depends what the genre is.

Clancy Overell (0:50)

Yeah, we got a little bit of history. We got a little bit of, a lot of geography, actually. And then just some general knowledge. Eight for, eight for. Eight for, righto.

We'll kick it off. Question number one, what is the smallest country in the world by area? That's an easy one.

Errol Parker (1:03)

Singapore.

Clancy Overell (1:05)

Think religion.

Errol Parker (1:06)

Vatican.

Clancy Overell (1:06)

Yeah, bang. You can't give that, unfortunately. Singapore is a long way off. All right, which war was famously triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Errol Parker (1:16)

World War I.

Clancy Overell (1:17)

Yeah, bang.

Errol Parker (1:18)

Franz Ferdinand, good man too.

Clancy Overell (1:19)

Yeah, I was about to say, that's what a lot of people know him from. All right, one from two, not bad. Generally, what is the most expensive spice in the world by weight? Nutmeg. Ah, I didn't know nutmeg was expensive. I know wars have been fought over nutmeg. Really? Yeah. Saffron, the little strands, very, very expensive, very light.

What is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres?

Take a second.

Errol Parker (1:53)

Antarctica?

Clancy Overell (1:55)

Nah, Africa. But are there four hemispheres? I'm starting to glitch now.

Errol Parker (1:58)

Yeah, no, there are. There's a western, eastern.

Clancy Overell (2:01)

Oh yeah, east, west, yada yada. I mean, it really, of course it should have been.

Errol Parker (2:05)

I should have said Africa. It's an enormous continent, so.

Clancy Overell (2:08)

It's all right. Got us both. Okay, some local knowledge, bit of nostalgia. What is the name of the fictional town in the Australian soap opera Neighbours?

Aaronsbrook. Bang, well done.

Errol Parker (2:23)

Very good.

Clancy Overell (2:24)

Bonus point, Home and Away. Summer Bay. Yeah, bang.

Errol Parker (2:27)

Summer Bay.

Clancy Overell (2:28)

He's good. Second question, listen to a snippet from an iconic audio book only available on Audible and guess the title of the best selling sci-fi novel.

Errol Parker (2:38)

How am I in another solar system that doesn't even make sense?

Clancy Overell (2:44)

What star is that anyway? Oh my God, I am so going to die.

Nothing.

Project Hail Mary. Okay. Pretty good. Little bit of history slash geography for this one. Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States? France. Bang. Last one. What is the only Australian capital city named after a woman?

Errol Parker (3:13)

The only? We've got a couple, don't we?

Clancy Overell (3:18)

I don't know. Adelaide.

Adelaide. It is Adelaide.

Errol Parker (3:21)

Adelaide. Oh, fuck. What else are you thinking? I nearly said Victoria. Late Perth? No, I nearly said Victoria.

Clancy Overell (3:25)

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. True.

Sydney. Yeah, no, Sydney's boys, isn't it? Hobart. Brisbane's a boy. Canberra. Darwin. Yeah.

Errol Parker (3:31)

Darwin. Yeah. There you go.

Clancy Overell (3:33)

Well, what did I get? Like five from eight?

Errol Parker (3:35)

Yeah.

Clancy Overell (3:35)

Something like that. And you got the bonus as well. Not too bad, Clancy. Now, if you at home want to test out your trivia knowledge with us this month, win tickets for you and a mate to the Betoota and Audible's Pub Trivia Night on Wednesday the 18th of November at the Paddo Rsl. To enter in 25 words or less, tell us what would your autobiography on Audible be called and why. You can find the link in the show notes and we'll catch you there.

Errol Parker (4:00)

See you there. This is Errol Parker for Desert Rock FM with the weekly news wrap from the Betoota Advocate. Our top story this week, Report. Righto, can we just play some fucking cricket now or what? Australian Test Captain Pat Cummins has spent 68 minutes facing the media this morning, answering questions about ball tampering, fatherhood and forgetting the bin. Cummins kept responding to questions until the reporters had nothing left to ask him. He then promptly went off to training. In fact, the most unexpected and interesting part of that press conference was when Cricket All-Stars Peter Layler dropped his mobile phone on national television, which I thought was quite funny. Cummins has now had his say. Not everyone is going to agree with his answers, but there is a New Zealand team on its way over here for summer and a whole series to prepare for. The Kiwis might resemble a team of geography teachers and Christian camp counsellors, but their cricket is another matter. They have already beaten India at home. They have beaten England at home and they are much more than capable of doing it to us this summer. So unless we start to pull up our socks and get ready for these humble little North and South Islanders to come over here, I think we are in big danger of them rolling us.