GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (6-28-19)

Here’s a recap of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Friday, June 28, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. This episode’s title is “Totally Awesome”.

The format of this show pits 3 contestants against 3 trivia experts. There are 3 rounds and the player with the highest score wins $1,000 and moves on to the Ultimate Trivia Challenge for a chance to win $10,000. They give one player a choice of categories and a choice of experts to play against. It’s a multiple choice format.

Today’s 3 trivia experts:
Ryan Chaffee, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut

Today’s contestants:
Brad, Melissa, Danielle

In Round 1, Brad chose THE 1980S instead of Bread and he chose expert Ryan. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Ryan gets it wrong.

1. What commercial tagline was famously repeated by Walter Mondale in a 1984 presidential debate?
• Do you have any Grey Poupon?
• Where’s the beef?
• It keeps going and going

2. Sweeping America by storm in the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube was invented by a professor of design in what city?
• Budapest
• Osaka
• Perth

3. In a “Fairy Tale Wedding,” Prince Charles married Diana Spencer, who was introduced to him by what woman he had previously dated?
• Camilla Parker Bowles
• Diana’s sister Sarah
• Sarah Ferguson

4. In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court, replacing what retiring justice?
• Thurgood Marshall
• Potter Stewart
• Byron White

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Brad 100 Melissa 100 Danielle 50

In Round 2, Melissa picked BREAD and not COMPETITIONS. 100 points for each correct answer. Muffy was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. What flatbread is made from a dough called “masa”?
• Matzo
• Tortillas
• Focaccia

2. The earliest known reference to bagels is in a 1610 statute from what country, stating it was okay to give them as a gift to a new mother?
• Poland
• Greece
• Russia

3. What ingredient in sourdough starter makes the bread sour?
• A bacteria
• An enzyme
• A mold

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Brad 200 Melissa 500 Danielle 250

In Round 3, Melissa chose FISH and not Percussion Instruments. The twist in this 3-question round is the expert reveals how confident s/he is about the answer and the players have a chance to go with that for 200 points or to pick their own answer for 400 points, if right. Arianna is this round’s expert.

1: What type of fish was the subject of the Hemingway classic “The Old Man and the Sea”?
• Swordfish
• Cod
• Marlin

2: In 2011, diver Scott Gardner captured the first-known photograph of a fish doing what human-like behavior?
• Clapping
• Using a tool
• Offering a greeting

3: Not actually bass and rarely seen in Chile, Chilean sea bass is a clever marketing name for a fish originally known as what?
• Australian blobfish
• Patagonian toothfish
• Oyster toadfish

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Brad 200 Melissa 1300 Danielle 1450

Danielle wins $1,000 and gets a chance to win $10,000 by taking on a set of 5 more questions and getting more of them right than Muffy. She would also return on the next show. Any player who makes it through 3 shows and wins $30,000, gets to join the Best Ever Trivia Show’s expert team.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge:

1: In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, who is Mycroft?
• Sherlock’s downstairs neighbor
• Sherlock’s brother-in-law
• Sherlock’s brother

2: Canonized in 2009, Father Damien is associated with his work on which Hawaiian island?
• Hawaii
• Molokai
• Maui

3: Which species of cat is native to Asia?
• Jaguar
• Leopard
• Cougar

4: According to the most famous myth surroundings its origins, who founded Rome?
• Zeus and Hera
• Romulus and Remus
• Dido and Tiberius

5: Chlorophyll is closest in purpose and structure to which component of the human body?
• Insulin
• Bilirubin
• Hemoglobin

ANSWERS: show

Drats! Danielle lost that round to Muffy on the very last question. She won the $1,000.

The Best Ever Trivia Show airs daily on Game Show Network. Check your local listings for times. (Here in the Central Time Zone it comes on at 3:00 p.m. and then at 1:00 a.m.)

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