GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show Recap (9-2-19)

Here’s a summary of the clues on The Best Ever Trivia Show for Monday, September 2, 2019 with host Sherri Shepherd. Today’s episode title is “Muscle Man.”

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:
Ryan Chaffee, Muffy Marracco and Jonathan Corbblah

Today’s contestants:
George, Leslie and Carlo

In Round 1, George chose MUSCLES instead of Prohibition and he chose expert Jonathan. 4 questions, 50 points for each correct answer and double if Jonathan gets it wrong.

1. What is the portion of the muscle that is most fleshy called?
• The balloon
• The business
• The belly

2. If you’re hitching a ride, which of these muscles would be required to move your thumb?
• The abductor pollicis brevis
• The vastus medialis
• The gluteus maximus

3. Which of these exercises would be most helpful if you’re working out your buccinator?
• Sighing
• Squatting
• Chewing

4. Fittingly attached to the smallest bone, what is the smallest muscle in the human body?
• The soleus
• The gracilis
• The stapedius

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1: George 100 Leslie 200 Carlo 200

In Round 2, Leslie picked CANDY and not Prohibition. 100 points for each correct answer. Ryan was this round’s trivia expert to beat for double points.

1. Boasting street lamps in the shape of their famous kisses, the town of Hershey is located in what state?
• Massachusetts
• Wisconsin
• Pennsylvania

2. The Snickers bar was originally named after what animal?
• A cat
• A horse
• A parrot

3. During President Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai gave him a bag of what famous Chinese candy?
• Black Cat
• White Rabbit
• Red Dragon

CORRECT ANSWERS: show

Scores at end of Round 2: George 300 Leslie 500 Carlo 400

In Round 3, Leslie chose WORDS & GRAMMAR and not Extreme Weather. 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: Which of these Latin abbreviations means “and others”?
• i.e.
• e.g.
• et al.

2: What is the definition of the word “petrichor”?
• A specific type of sound
• A specific type of flavor
• A specific type of smell

3: A pangram is a sentence with what hidden feature?
• Reads the same backwards and forwards
• Contains all the letters of the alphabet
• Means something else in another language

Scores at end of Round 3: George 1300 Leslie 1300 Carlo 1200

TIEBREAKER: (Fastest correct answer wins)
In the world of men’s fashion, which of these is a popular tie knot?
• Stuart
• Windsor
• Tudor

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Leslie locked in the correct answer first. 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 Ryan. 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 the most common color that colorblind people have trouble seeing?
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue

2: Whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson?
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Scarlett Johansson
• Nicki Minaj

3: When was the first Modern Olympics held?
• 1896
• 1904
• 1916

4: The Spanish steps are located in which city?
• Madrid
• Seville
• Rome

5: What does an areologist specialize in studying?
• The inner ear
• The planet Mars
• Rocket engines

ANSWERS: show

Leslie was doing a great job of keeping up with Ryan but that last question tripped her up and 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.)

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