GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (8-29-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Thursday, August 29, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “A Rare Collection”.

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, Jonathan Corbblah, Susannah Brooks

Today’s contestants:
Alex, Howard and Rebekah
Alex is a returning champion, going for a second win and $20K today

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

1. Who is the only Yankee to have his baseball card sell for over a million dollars?
• Joe DiMaggio
• Mickey Mantle
• Alex Rodriguez

2. Because they were made with silver, U.S. nickels made during which war are prized by collectors?
• World War I
• World War II
• The Civil War

3. Which of these performers was a dedicated toy train and railroad collector?
• Frank Sinatra
• Jimmy Stewart
• Louis Armstrong

4. Which of these hobbies involve things that are tête-bêche?
• Stamp collecting
• Knitting
• Scrapbooking

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Alex 100 Howard 050 Rebekah 000

In Round 2, as the leader, Alex picked GLOBAL NAVIGATION and not Art. 100 points for each correct answer. Jonathan was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. What is the North Star also known as?
• Venus
• Polaris
• Sirius

2. Which of these early navigation tools is the oldest?
• Sextant
• Chronometer
• Astrolabe

3. The $11 billion dollar European global navigation satellite system which launched in 2016 is named after which astronomer?
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Newton

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Alex 500 Howard 050 Rebekah 300

In Round 3, Alex chose MOUNTAINS and not Cold Things. 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. Susannah is this round’s expert.

1: In 1978 Reinhold Messner became the first to climb Mount Everest without which of the following?
• Fixed ropes
• Bottled oxygen
• Sherpa support

2: In the song “America the Beautiful,” the view from which of these was the inspiration for the “Purple Mountain Majesties”?
• Grand Teton
• Pikes Peak
• Mount Washington

3: What 3000-foot high granite face in the Yosemite Valley did Alex Honnold climb without ropes in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo”?
• Glacier Point
• Half Dome
• El Capitan

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Alex 1100 Howard 650 Rebekah 700

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 Ken. He would also return for a third game. 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 were the last names of the legendary bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde?
• Parker and Barrow
• David and Calhoun
• Mitchell and Tierney

2: Which comic book character made his debut in Action Comics #1?
• Superman
• Spider-Man
• Conan the Barbarian

3: If you are gasconading, what is it you are doing?
• Bragging
• Applauding
• Vomiting

4: What professional sports league was the first to hold an official draft?
• NBA
• NHL
• NFL

5: Which Scandinavian country has the largest population?
• Norway
• Sweden
• Denmark

ANSWERS: show

Alas, Alex lost the round to Ken. He picked up another $1,000 for this game, for total winnings of $11,000.

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.)

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