GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (7-1-19)

Here’s a recap of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Monday, July 1, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. This episode’s title is “You’re Playing with Ken Jennings”.

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, Muffy Marracco, David Schuchinski

Today’s contestants:
Sean, Tracie and Mike

In Round 1, Sean chose BEER instead of Bears and he chose expert David. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if David gets it wrong.

1. A popular type of beer, what does IPA stand for?
• Irish Pub Ale
• India Pale Ale
• Iowa Pilsner Ale

2. According to USA today, which U.S. state consumes the most beer per capita?
• Wisconsin
• New Hampshire
• South Carolina

3. If you pour beer into a frosted mug instead of a non-frosted one, what will happen?
• It will foam less
• It will foam more
• It will foam the same amount

4. In 1814, an accident at a brewery unleashed a beer tsunami on what European city?
• London
• Paris
• Berlin

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Sean 50 Tracie 0 Mike 150

In Round 2, as the leader, Mike picked HOLIDAYS and not Bears. 100 points for each correct answer. Muffy was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. The legend of Nian, a mythical creature who is scared of the color red, is the basis of what holiday?
• Valentine’s Day
• St. Lucy’s Day
• Chinese New Year

2. Which of these was the last to become an official Federal holiday?
• Labor Day
• Memorial Day
• Veterans Day

3. Which Christmas song was written in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
• “Silver Bells”
• “Do You Hear What I Hear”
• “We Need a Little Christmas”

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Sean 250 Tracie 100 Mike 250

In Round 3, Sean chose COLONIAL TIMES and not Languages. 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. Ken is this round’s expert.

1: Which of these famous colonists was also an amateur dentist?
• Thomas Paine
• Paul Revere
• Samuel Adams

2: Where would you have found colonists using a “bundling board”?
• On the battlefield
• In a classroom
• In a bed

3: Which of these states was originally part of a little-known colony called “New Sweden”?
• New York
• Delaware
• Connecticut

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Sean 1050 Tracie 700 Mike 850

Sean 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 David. 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: The most decorated female U.S. Olympian of all time medaled in which sport?
• Gymnastics
• Track and field
• Swimming

2: Which company made the first floppy disk?
• Sony
• Dell
• IBM

3: Which of these would generally be treated with an antibiotic?
• Strep throat
• Chicken pox
• Flu

4: Which of the following is a paramagnetic substance?
• Gold
• Nickel
• Platinum

5: What country should you go to if you want to ski the Dolomites?
• Nepal
• Italy
• Argentina

ANSWERS: show

Sean lost the round to David on that last one (Aarghhh!) and 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.)

See the pool of trivia experts participating in The Best Ever Trivia Show