GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (8-9-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Friday, August 9, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Hard Day at the Office.”

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, Susannah Brooks and Ryan Chaffee

Today’s contestants:
Kumi, AJ and Alexas

In Round 1, Kumi chose FIRE DRILL instead of Elephant Life and she chose expert Susannah. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Susannah gets it wrong.

1. Rescued from a forest fire in 1950, what type of bear was the real Smokey Bear?
• Black bear
• Grizzly bear
• Kodiak bear

2. What is the only U.S. city whose fire department uses custom-built, handcrafted wooden ladders?
• New Orleans
• San Francisco
• Philadelphia

3. Fire naturally spreads upward because of which scientific law?
• Motion
• Gravity
• Thermodynamics

4. The original patent for which of these firefighting devices was ironically destroyed in a fire?
• Fire hydrant
• Fire hose
• Fire extinguisher

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: Kumi 000 AJ 000 Alexa 100

In Round 2, as the leader, Alexa picked DOLLS and not Elephant Life. 100 points for each correct answer. Ken was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. Mattel’s Barbie doll appeared in a special 2014 edition of which magazine wearing a swimsuit?
• GQ
• Sports Illustrated
• Playboy

2. What popular toy was first created by a woodcarver who could not afford to buy his daughter a Christmas present?
• Troll dolls
• Kewpie dolls
• The Elf on the Shelf

3. Russian nesting dolls are also known by what name?
• Majorca
• Marishka
• Matryoshka

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: Kumi 200 AJ 300 Alexa 200

In Round 3, AJ chose PILOTS and not Flowers. 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. Ryan is this round’s expert.

1: What was Chuck Yeager the first person to do in 1947?
• Fly nonstop New York to California
• Leave Earth’s atmosphere
• Break the sound barrier

2: In 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to do what?
• Pilot a space shuttle mission
• Fly a combat mission
• Fly Air Force One

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3: Kumi 1000 AJ 500 Alexa 400

Kumi could not be beat after Question No. 2 so she 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: Which computer manufacturer’s headquarter’s are located in Texas?
• Apple
• Hewlett-Packard
• Dell

2: Which of the following U.S. Army officers outranks the others?
• Captain
• Major
• Colonel

3: If you are experiencing alektorophobia, what are you afraid of?
• Chickens
• Electricity
• Clouds

ANSWERS: show

Kumi lost that round to Ken after 3 questions and just won the $1,000. That wraps up this week. There were no $10K winners.

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