GSN: Cash Cab Clues (S6, Ep20)

Here is some extra trivia from a Cash Cab episode that aired on 8/4/25 on the Game Show Network. An asterisk will mark the clues that the passengers missed with their wrong answers, if any, in parentheses.

First Fare: Rich, Michael, Christian
$50 ROUND:
1. In the Revolutionary War, what notorious flip-flopper served as Brigadier General for both the Americans and the Brits?
2. Still stacked in its signature can, what potato crisp brand is sold abroad in flavors such as braised port and soft-shell crab?
3. Named for a famous French scientist, what microbe-killing process is opposed by advocates of raw milk?
4. Called Sommerzeit, what clock-changing concept originated in Germany as a way to conserve coal during WWI?
$100 ROUND:
1. Boasting relationships with the New York Yankees and Madonna, what website bills itself as the world’s largest ticket marketplace?
RED LIGHT CHALLENGE: The Danube River either borders or flows through 10 European countries, including Moldova and Slovakia. Name 5 of the other 8.
2. A staple of real estate lingo, what 2-word term is defined as the visual attractiveness of a house as viewed from the street?
3. Abbreviated EBS, what nationwide method of notification did TV stations test every week from 1963 until 1999?
4. Often featured in track names, what geographical term refers to the English hills where horses have been raced for centuries
$200 ROUND:
1. Memorialized at the Smithsonian, what trademarked blue solution has disinfected combs and clippers for over 60 years
2. Originating in Indonesia, what cousin of tofu has been described as the steak of soy products?
3. Smaller in size than a CD, what audio format did Sony introduce in 1992 to the disinterest of most Americans?

ANSWERS: show

WON: $1250 / declined double or nothing

Second Fare: Rita, Devlin, Julian
$50 ROUND:
1. Appropriately enough, what Ohio city is the final destination of Continental Airlines Flight 1492?
2. Often adorning the backs of cars, the ichthys is a common Christian symbol in the shape of what animal?
3. In politics, what term originates from a 19th-century practice in which candidates spoke on top of a sawed-off tree trunk?
4. Upsetting some language purists, what 2-letter slang word for pizza entered the Scrabble dictionary in 2006?
$100 ROUND:
1. Immortalized on Whitman’s candy boxes, what pieces of embroidery were traditionally created to show off needlework skills?
ANSWERS: show

WON: $0 / 3 strikes

Third Fare: Sarah, JP
$50 ROUND:
1. Each year, the town of Gibsland, Louisiana holds a festival honoring the 1934 ambush of what bank-robbing couple?
2. In the original Star Wars movie, what corpulent, slug-like crime lord was portrayed by a giant puppet with 3 people inside?
3. Though its namesake sported one, what Mormon University in Utah requires a doctor’s note for students to grow a beard?
4. “Cu” on the periodic table, what metal is often worn around the wrist as a folk remedy for arthritis?
$100 ROUND:
1. Exemplified by the Sony Dream Machine, what ubiquitous invention has been identified by wired.com as the best mash-up ever?
2. Introduced in 1913, what iconic yellow pencil was named after a famous fort located in upstate new York?
3. A politician with naked ambition, Massachusetts senator Scott Brown famously posed nude in what women’s magazine in 1982?
4. In 2006, Hasbro teamed up with a perfume maker to launch a scent that smells like what iconic modeling compound?
$200 ROUND:
1. A problematic pest throughout Africa, what bloodsucking insect’s repetitive name comes from the Tswana word for fly?

ANSWERS: show

Video Challenge: When completed in the 16th century, this famous Grand Canal bridge was criticized as both ungraceful and architecturally unsound. Now an icon of Venice, Italy, what is the name of this enduring structure?
WON: $0 / lost double or nothing