GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (7-8-19)

Here’s a recap of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Monday, July 8, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. This episode’s title is “Hoist the Flag”.

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, Arianna Haut, Raj Dhuwalia

Today’s contestants:
Erin, Joel and Sunny

In Round 1, Erin chose SCOTLAND instead of Olympics and she chose expert Arianna. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Arianna gets it wrong.

1. The Scottish New Year’s song titled “Auld Lang Syne” roughly translates to what in English?
• For old times’ sake
• Old is now new
• The old year’s gone

2. What is the official national animal of Scotland?
• Dragon
• Unicorn
• Loch Ness monster

3. What Scottish title did Prince William and Kate Middleton receive when they got married?
• Baron and Baroness of Fife
• Earl and Countess of Strathearn
• Duke and Duchess of Argyll

4. Which absurdist play was first staged in 1966 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
• Waiting for Godot
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• The Birthday Party

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Erin 100 Joel 100 Sunny 200

In Round 2, Sunny was the leader and got to pick the category. He chose OLYMPICS and not Mammals. 100 points for each correct answer. Ryan was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. When was the last time the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year?
• 1922
• 1992
• 2002

2. Who was the first American to win four gold medals in Track and Field in a single Olympics?
• Jesse Owens
• Steve Prefontaine
• Usain Bolt

3. How many years passed between the lst ancient Olympic games in Greece and the first modern Olympics, also in Greece?
• 1000
• 1500
• 1200

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Erin 300 Joel 400 Sunny 400

In Round 3, Joel chose ENGLISH and not Secret Societies. 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. Raj is this round’s expert.

1: What is the name for a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and an exclamation point?
• Interrobang
• Patalepsis
• Fricitive

2: It is correct to use the word “whom” instead of “who” when it is what?
• The subject
• After a preposition
• Performing the action

3: Which of the following employs the literary device known as “zeugma”?
• He fell like a rock
• He fell asleep and overboard
• He fell head over heels

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Erin 1100 Joel 800 Sunny 1200

Sunny 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 Raj. He 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: Who holds the record for the most decades with a Top 20 hit on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart?
• George Strait
• Reba McEntire
• Dolly Parton

2: What is the bone in a T-bone steak?
• A rib
• A hip
• A vertebra

3: The character Peter Pan was first introduced in what J.M. Barrie work?
• Peter and Wendy
• The Legend of Lenora
• The Little White Bird

4: What native people did Columbus first see when he landed in the Bahamas in 1492?
• The Pipil
• The Zapotecs
• The Taino

5: What fruit is a hybrid of a grapefruit, a Seville orange, and a tangerine?
• An ugli fruit
• A blood orange
• A citron

ANSWERS: show

Sunny didn’t just need Raj to be wrong on that last one. He also needed to be right, but it didn’t work out that way so Sunny just won the $1,000.

They beat the experts – List of contestants who won the last round

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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