GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (9-4-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Wednesday, September 4, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Everyone Except Raj”.

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:
Jonathan Corbblah, Raj Dhuwalia and Muffy Marracco

Today’s contestants:
Brian, Becky and David

In Round 1, Brian chose PHONES instead of Nature and he chose expert Jonathan. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Jonathan gets it wrong.

1. In the first-ever telephone call, who did Alexander Graham Bell speak to?
• His wife
• His son-in-law
• His assistant

2. What are Android phone operating systems named after?
• Birds
• Planets
• Sweets

3. Which company produced the Dynatac, the first commercial cell phone?
• Nokia
• Motorola
• Samsung

4. Introduced in 2007, which of the following features was included with the original iPhone?
• Google Maps
• The App Store
• Siri

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Brian 200 Becky 050 David 250

In Round 2, as the leader, David picked NATURE and not Revolutions. 100 points for each correct answer. Raj was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. King, royal and emperor are all species of what animal?
• Cobra
• Penguin
• Rat

2. Which of these do plants produce through photosynthesis?
• Glucose
• Nitrates
• Protein

3. Home to the legendary Victoria Falls, which river has some of the most extreme rapids in the world?
• Volga River
• Yangtze River
• Zambezi River

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Brian 400 Becky 250 David 550

In Round 3, David chose PSYCHOLOGY and not Extreme Accomplishments. 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. Muffy is this round’s expert.

1: According to business insider, handwriting that slants to the left tends to indicate what about your personality?
• You are reserved
• You are outgoing
• You are impulsive

2: Known for experiments involving a box named after him, which psychologist is referred to as the father of operant conditioning?
• Carl Jung
• Sigmund Freud
• B.F. Skinner

3: Psychologists consider the tendency to overestimate how much others agree with you an example of what cognitive bias?
• False consensus effect
• Groupthink
• Hindsight realism

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Brian 1200 Becky 1250 David 1350

David 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: In dice games, rolling a 12 is also known as what?
• Boxcars
• Snake eyes
• Puppy paws

2: Sometimes made with fish, which meat dish is named after an Italian Renaissance painter?
• Tintoretto
• Botticelli
• Carpaccio

3: Who popularized the phrase “Iron Curtain” to describe the barrier between the Soviet Union and the West?
• Winston Churchill
• Ronald Reagan
• Franklin Roosevelt

4: A Savannah cat is a mix between a domestic cat and which kind of wildcat?
• Ocelot
• Serval
• Caracal

5: Which of these languages uses the Cyrillic alphabet?
• Hungarian
• Bulgarian
• Croatian

ANSWERS: show

David lost the round to Raj and 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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