GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (7-10-19)

Here’s a recap of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Wednesday, July 10, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. This episode’s title is “First Brainwave.”

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:
Ken Jennings, Jonathan Corbblah, Susannah Brooks

Today’s contestants:
Tranée, Lety, Jason

In Round 1, Tranée chose FOUNDING FATHERS instead of Airplanes and she chose expert Susannah. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Susannah gets it wrong.

1. An avid swimmer, which founding father invented swim fins for the hands?
• Samuel Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson

2. Which founding father had no biological children of his own?
• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• John Adams

3. Which of these men’s signatures appears as one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence?
• John Jay
• Button Gwinnett
• James Monroe

4. Who was Princeton University’s first graduate student, electing to stay on an extra year after he finished his studies?
• Paul Revere
• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Tranée 100 Lety 100 Jason 050

In Round 2, Lety picked MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES and not Airplanes. 100 points for each correct answer. Ken was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. What mythological creature did the Greeks refer to as monokeros?
• The sphinx
• The dragon
• The unicorn

2. Which civilization’s god of the sun and war was a hummingbird?
• Mayan
• Aztec
• Inca

3. The Norse god Odin’s companions, Geri and Freki, were what type of animals?
• Wolves
• Ravens
• Horses

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Tranée 500 Lety 200 Jason 150

In Round 3, Tranée chose NUMBERS and not Furniture. 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. Jonathan is this round’s expert.

1: If you watched a digital counter go from 1 to 1,000 which digit would appear most frequently?
• 1 (one)
• 0 (zero)
• 2 (two)

2: In terms of overall pizza area, how much bigger is a 16 inch pizza than an 8 inch pizza?
• Twice as big
• Four times as big
• Six times as big

3: “Here’s Looking at Euclid” and “The Grapes of Math” are fun books about numbers from which bestselling British author?
• Alan Turing
• Andrew Wiles
• Alex Bellos

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Tranée 900 Lety 600 Jason 550

Tranée 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 Ken. 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: What beverage does the winner of the Indy 500 traditionally drink right after winning?
• Gatorade
• Milk
• Cider

2: What is the English translation of the Hebrew word “Hannukkah”?
• Dedication
• Celebration
• Speculation

3: Which of these animals has a belly button?
• Dolphin
• Platypus
• Kangaroo

4: The only official royal residence in the United States?
• Washington, D.C.
• Honolulu
• New Orleans

5: Which popular card game originated in South America?
• Uno
• Canasta
• Pinochle

ANSWERS: show

Tranée lost that round to Ken so that was the end of her game. She just 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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