GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (8-28-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Wednesday, August 28, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Over the Moon.”

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, Muffy Marracco and Ken Jennings

Today’s contestants:
Alex, Tara and Gautham

In Round 1, Alex chose BAKING instead of Outer Space and he chose expert Ken. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Ken gets it wrong.

1. What was the original flavor of the filling in Twinkies when they were introduced in 1930?
• Chocolate
• Banana
• Strawberry

2. Which of these figures was a real-life food columnist and travel guide author?
• Duncan Hines
• Sara Lee
• Betty Crocker

3. Pâte à choux is a dough used for a variety of pastries including which of the following?
• Croissants
• Napoleons
• Eclairs

4. Ciabatta bread gets its name from the Italian word for what item that it resembles?
• Wallet
• Slipper
• Club

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Alex 100 Tara 050 Gautham 050

In Round 2, as the leader, Alex preferred OUTER SPACE to Photography this time. 100 points for each correct answer. Jonathan was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. In 1971 Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first person to do what on the moon?
• Do a handstand
• Hit a golf ball
• Write his name

2. Who is the oldest person to go into space?
• Mark Kelly
• John Glenn
• Buzz Aldrin

3. Which of these is true about the level of fluids your body produces while in outer space?
• It produces less
• It produces more
• It produces the exact same amount

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Alex 200 Tara 350 Gautham 350

In Round 3, Tara chose INSECTS and not All About Teeth. 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 scary sounding Macleay’s Spectre is a harmless bug known by what other name?
• Hissing cockroach
• Spiny leaf insect
• Hercules beetle

2: What is a grasshopper called when it is between the metamorphosis stage of egg and adult?
• Twig
• Newt
• Nymph

3: How can you tell if a ladybug is a lady bug as opposed to a gentleman one?
• It has fewer spots
• It has smaller spots
• It is slightly larger

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Alex 1200 Tara 550 Gautham 550

Alex 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: Which of these motion pictures has been turned into a Broadway musical?
• Moonstruck
• Mean Girls
• Maleficent

2: Who founded the 24-hour news cable network CNN?
• Ted Turner
• Walter Cronkite
• Rupert Murdoch

3: What Southern state is the main setting of Faulkner’s “The Sound and The Fury”?
• Mississippi
• Alabama
• Louisiana

4: Who sings “Love and Marriage,” the theme song of “Married… With Children”?
• Tony Bennett
• Johnny Mathis
• Frank Sinatra

5: The “Carolean Era” relates to the reign of which English monarch?
• King Canute I
• Queen Caroline I
• King Charles I

ANSWERS: show

Alex and Muffy were tied at 4 right each so Alex got to play the Ultimate Trivia Question chosen by the experts before the show. He does not have to beat Muffy on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: What is it called when an animal eats virtually nonstop to prepare the body for hibernation?
• Hibernacula
• Heterothermy
• Hyperphagia

ANSWER: show

Alex was correct. He was also richer by $10,000 and he’ll be back tomorrow to try to double that.

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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