GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (7-4-19)

Here’s a recap of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Thursday, July 4, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. This episode’s title is “Fit as a Fiddle.”

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, Ken Jennings

Today’s contestants:
Cristina, Wayne and Peter

In Round 1, Cristina chose NURSES instead of Islands and she chose expert Ryan. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Ryan gets it wrong.

1. What famous nurse is known as “The Lady with the Lamp”?
• Florence Nightingale
• Margaret Sanger
• Hildegarde Von Bingen

2. What author based his villainous character Nurse Ratched on the head nurse of the psychiatric ward that he worked in?
• Tom Wolfe
• Thomas Pynchon
• Ken Kesey

3. Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a devoted nurse in the film “The English Patient”?
• Juliette Binoche
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Marion Cotillard

4. Who was a Civil War nurse that worked under famed nursing and patient advocate Dorothea Dix?
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Louisa May Alcott
• Harriet Tubman

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Cristina 100 Wayne 150 Peter 200

In Round 2, as the leader, Peter picked ISLANDS and not Woodwind Instruments. 100 points for each correct answer. Ken was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. The island of Madagascar is home to which type of primate?
• Loris
• Lemur
• Tarsier

2. One of the world’s largest dormant volcanoes can be found on which island of Hawaii?
• Oahu
• Kauai
• Maui

3. The island of Singapore is named after what animal its founder claimed to have seen upon first landing there?
• Panther
• Lion
• Tiger

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Cristina 200 Wayne 250 Peter 300

In Round 3, Peter chose ANCIENT ROME and not Extreme Weather. 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: The “Aeneid,” a 12-book epic, was written by what Roman poet?
• Virgil
• Ovid
• Horace

2: If you were using the vomitorium in Ancient Rome, where were you?
• In a stadium
• In the bathroom
• In a mausoleum

3: Which of these Ancient Roman regions is located in modern-day Turkey?
• Cilicia
• Numidia
• Dalmatia

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Cristina 600 Wayne 1050 Peter 700

Wayne 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. 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: What songwriting team wrote “The Pirates of Penzance”?
• Lerner & Loewe
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Rodgers & Hammerstein

2: Thomas Jefferson and what other President passed away within hours of each other on July 4, 1826?
• George Washington
• John Adams
• James Madison

3: According to recent studies, which of these numbers do people tend to view as feminine, as opposed to masculine?
• 44
• 197
• 3

4: The row of houses in San Francisco called Painted Ladies are known by what nickname?
• Five Spinsters
• Seven Sisters
• Eight Sinners

5: The Battle of Waterloo was fought in what country?
• Belgium
• France
• Germany

ANSWERS: show

Wayne lost that round to Muffy on the last question, right after getting back in a tie with her. He won the $1,000 prize and we will finish this week with 3 new players tomorrow.

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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