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Improve your general knowledge trivia and boost your brain power in less than 10 minutes. James Cutler and the Quiz Coconut team bring you 10 of the best general knowledge trivia questions every week. A pub quiz in your pocket - a fun trivia fix! Quiz Coconut has hosted 2000+ quiz nights. Every week we bring you ten of our best trivia questions along with one of our worst jokes. Play on your way to work or with others - test your trivia wits and see how you do. If you can't get to the pub, o ...
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Cracking coconuts is a monthly podcast that explores political and social issues in South Asia. By providing a platform for voices that are often oppressed or censored, we aim to provide you an alternative perspective to the status quo.
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This is CRACKING THE COCONUT, a not-so-average podcast that tackles taboo topics in the Filipino community with hopes to bridge the gap between Filipino-Americans and Filipinos back home in the motherland. CRACKING THE COCONUT is hosted by two millennial Filipino-Americans, Carla Jay and Jasmine, who both have diverse, vibrant backgrounds. Together they have 13 years of working in the entertainment industry where they noticed a scarcity of their people working backstage and in the mix of L.A ...
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Every Thursday on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish explores the animating forces of this extraordinary American political moment. It’s not about the horse race, it’s about the larger cultural ideas driving the conversation: the role of online influencers on the electorate, the intersection of pop culture and politics, and discussions with primary voices and thinkers who are shaping the political conversation.
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Audie talks with journalist Kara Swisher about the rise of Silicon Valley’s big donors and how Trump won some of them over. Plus, how Kamala Harris’ California roots have worked to her advantage with tech donors. Kara is the author of “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Popular Dogs! Dating Apps! Physiotherapy Complaints! And a brand new listener question! Our trivia podcast back catalogue is on your favourite streaming platform - so if you're on a summer road trip or a plane to a wintery place - we can keep you busy with a quiz fix you'll crave forever more. --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Mus…
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CNN’s Elle Reeve did her best-known reporting during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when she followed neo-Nazis over a weekend of violent protests. Seven years later, her new book looks at how that movement — born in online communities of mostly white men — gave rise to extremist thinking that is now threaded through t…
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ABBA vs Kinks! Indiana Jones! Cheese! The second episode in your summer road trip trivia barrage. 10 quiz questions to make the ride more enjoyable! Play along with others in the car and learn something on the road together this summer. The loser has to drive the next leg! The winner gets a box of nuggets at the next service station! The trivia pod…
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How will Donald Trump and Republicans talk about Kamala Harris without walking into a buzzsaw of accusations and potential backlash over attacks on her race and gender? This week Audie talks with two people with some answers: Kevin Madden is a CNN Political Commentator and was a senior advisor to Mitt Romney on his presidential campaigns, and Doug …
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Seal vs Seals! Statue of Liberty! Volleyball! Kick off your summer road trip with our trivia companion. 10 quiz questions to make the ride more enjoyable! Play along with others in the car and learn something on the road together this summer. The loser has to drive the next leg! The winner gets a box of nuggets at the next service station! The triv…
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Every presidential campaign eventually finds ways to take advantage of the cultural moment. Vice President Harris’s current moment in the viral sun happened as soon as she became the frontrunner of the Democratic ticket. How and why did it happen? Audie talks with two observers: researcher Nina Jankowicz, who studied online gendered abuse and disin…
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Which is the fastest event? | Which is the longest event? | Which is the healthiest event? Time goes by faster than Usain Bolt fuelled up on chicken nuggets! The last Olympic Games were hosted in Tokyo, delayed a year due to Covid. After a tough time, the games brought the world back together again, even if it was 6 feet apart... Now we're getting …
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After three weeks of battling an intense debate from within his own party, President Joe Biden made a surprise announcement on Sunday, ending his re-election campaign. Shortly after, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. Audie talks with Phil Mattingly, CNN’s Chief Domestic Correspondent. He takes us inside Biden’s his…
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Former President Donald Trump thrilled the Republican National Convention by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear, evidence of the assassination attempt from two days prior. With fervor running high, Trump announced that his running mate would be bestselling author and Senator JD Vance from Ohio. Meredith McGraw covers the Trump campa…
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George Orwell! Dalmations! Binary Code! Our 101st episode is here - Quiz 101! Trivia for all ages, all minds and all year round. --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music and Editing by Jules at Abstract Source: abstractsource.co.uk Design by Ben at Ich Bin Ben: ichbinben.com Quiz Coconut UK: www.quizcoconut.co.uk Canada: www.quizco…
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America was shaken on Saturday as former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. It’s an event of historical significance that’s already re-shaping the presidential race. Kristen Holmes is here to explain how. She’s the CNN correspondent assigned to the Trump campaign, and Kristen and Audie …
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Reality television has turned into a sprawling industry of pimple-poppers, amazing racers, the broken hearted, docusoaps, and sooo many housewives – people willing to share the good and bad of their lives with an audience that by design is meant to judge them for it. It also gave us a president. Audie talks with Pulitzer Prize winning New Yorker wr…
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Scan QR Code - Play Along At Home and WIN!! For the first time it's you vs a live audience! Scan the QR code in the podcast show image or click this link: https://forms.gle/MaJNehyHewm9Prwd8 We were invited to the Soundwave Summit in Toronto on 6th June to perform live in front of a whole range of podcast fans. You can hear the performance here and…
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Michigan and Wisconsin are Midwestern swing states with the power to make or break the election. They’re crucial bricks in the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” strategy, a wall that’s starting to crack. On this third installment of “All Over the Map,” John King and his team visit Milwaukee, site of next week’s Republican convention and home to a Black libera…
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