GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (8-5-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Monday, August 5, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Easy as Pie.”

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 and Raj Dhuwalia

Today’s contestants:
Aisha, Daniel and Tricia

In Round 1, Aisha chose GAMES instead of Hotels and she chose expert Raj. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Raj gets it wrong.

1. What is the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong played with?
• Shells
• Tiles
• Marbles

2. Which of these card games uses speed as part of the strategy?
• War
• Spit
• Cribbage

3. “Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia” was a game created in 1530 that is known as what today?
• Keno
• Bingo
• Solitaire

4. To combat boredom, American Civil War soldiers were given a “game kit” that included an early version of what game?
• Life
• Battleship
• Jenga

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Aisha 050 Daniel 050 Tricia 150

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

1. If you make your own holiday pumpkin pie spice, which of your ingredients is a dried berry?
• Clove
• Nutmeg
• Allspice

2. What people broke bread with the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Thanksgiving in 1621?
• The Wampanoag
• The Seneca
• The Oneida

3. When do Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving?
• The first Thursday in November
• The second Monday in October
• The last Thursday in October

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Aisha 250 Daniel 150 Tricia 450

In Round 3, Tricia chose INVENTIONS and not Big Cats. 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: Famed underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau invented what breathing device that would modernize scuba diving?
• The Water-Breath
• The Aqua-Lung
• The Dunk-Tank

2: In 1923, the Marconi Company introduced the otophone, a somewhat portable 16-pound version of what device?
• A cell phone
• A music player
• A hearing aid

3: The first African-American female doctor to get a medical patent, Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco probe to treat what?
• Kidney stones
• Cataracts
• Psoriasis

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Aisha 850 Daniel 750 Tricia 1250

So Tricia 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. 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 is typically the brightest object in our nighttime sky?
• Venus
• Canopus
• The Moon

2: The coach of which team trademarked the term “Three-Peat”?
• Los Angeles Lakers
• New York Yankees
• New England Patriots

3: What notoriously foul-smelling fruit is banned from being taken on the subway in Singapore?
• Jackfruit
• Durian
• Rambutan

ANSWERS: show

After that third question, Tricia had no hope of beating Ken so that was the end of the road. She 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.)

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