GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (8-20-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Tuesday, August 20, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Masterpiece.”

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, Raj Dhuwalia, Susannah Brooks

Today’s contestants:
Adam, Lauren and Cassandra

In Round 1, Adam chose HAIRSTYLES instead of Sculpture and he chose expert Raj. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Raj gets it wrong.

1. Popular in the 1960s, the “Beehive” was also commonly known by what name?
• The jumbo jet
• The B-52
• The 777

2. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for which hairstyle cites The Beastie Boys lyrics describing it as a “way of life”?
• Mohawk
• Afro
• Mullet

3. What do dreadlocks symbolize in the Rastafari movement?
• Samson’s Covenant
• The roots of the baobab tree
• The Lion of Judah

4. Dancer Irene Castle is credited with what hairstyle that became all the rage for flappers in the 1920s?
• Shag
• Bob
• Pixie

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Adam 050 Lauren 250 Cassandra 000

In Round 2, as the leader, Lauren picked SCULPTURE and not The White House. 100 points for each correct answer. Susannah was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. Which of the following is true about the Venus de Milo?
• Only one arm is sheared at the shoulder
• She is wearing an olive branch crown
• She is wearing sandals

2. What sculptor fashioned wire and sheet metal into their signature mobiles?
• Louise Schanker
• Mark Rothko
• Alexander Calder

3. What large sculpture was briefly shown in the original intro to a TV show with the same name?
• Portlandia
• Atlanta
• New Amsterdam

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Adam 050 Lauren 450 Cassandra 200

In Round 3, Lauren chose NEW ON THE MAP and not Mark Twain. 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: Formerly the capital of Yugoslavia, Belgrade is now the capital of what breakaway country?
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Serbia

2: When it won independence in 1993, Eritrea made Ethiopia a landlocked country by claiming the coastline along what body of water?
• The Red Sea
• The Arabian Sea
• The Persian Gulf

3: In 1994, what became the most recent country to gain its independence from the United States?
• Palau
• Micronesia
• The Marshall Islands

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Adam 650 Lauren 1050 Cassandra 600

Lauren 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 Susannah. 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 weather feature does a barometer measure?
• Wind speed
• Rainfall
• Atmospheric pressure

2: Unlike most rectangular flags, which of these countries’ national flags is a square?
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Swaziland

3: Which word describes the dot over a lowercase i or j?
• Dipple
• Tittle
• Stort

4: Which U.S. state has the smallest population?
• Rhode Island
• Wyoming
• Alaska

ANSWERS: show

Lauren lost that round to Susannah on Question 4 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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