The CNN Quiz Show

The CNN Quiz Show is a game show special where three teams of two CNN anchors each battle it out for their favorite charities in a wild quiz show that test their knowledge of specific trivia.

Presidents Edition
Jake Tapper & Alisyn Camerota (Home for Our Troops)

Chris Cuomo & Don Lemon (HELP USA)

Erin Burnett & John Berman (Save the Children)

Seventies Edition
Richard Quest & Brooke Baldwin (Stand Up for Kids)

Don Lemon & John Berman (The Tom Joyner Foundation)

Bill Weir & Alisyn Camerota (UNICEF Nepal Earthquake Relief)

Gameplay
The three CNN teams play a series of trivia rounds to see how much they know about the world around them.

Round 1: Buzz
It's a simple "buzz-in to answer a question" round. Anderson asked a series of questions each with four possible answers. The first anchor on any team to buzz-in with a correct answer scores 10 points for his/her team. Upon buzzing in, one half of a team's score board monitor turned red (depending on who was in first). All questions are jump-ins meaning that they don't have to wait for the question to be finished. A wrong answer gave the opposing teams a chance to answer. And no conferring is allowed.

Round 2: Face Off
Two random anchors (one from two different teams) face off in a round of 20 point questions. They stood before a red box with a big golden service bell on it. The first anchor to ring the bell and give the correct answer scored 20 points.

Round 3: Picture This
Each team had 60 seconds (one minute) to go through a series of pictures of famous people, places & things. A picture would come up on the screen, then the clue giver would give clues to what's in the pictures. S/he can say anything they want short of actually saying the answer; s/he also cannot do sounds like or rhymes with, and no initial letters of the answers. Each correct answer was worth 30 points.

Match Make
There were three categories in the round. The team in control chose a category and the category meaning and a list of five people were presented. Then another list of items appeared and the object of the round was to match each person with each item in as little time as possible out of one minute. This round was played on a touch screen where the anchors moved each item to which president they each belong to. Points were awarded according to how fast they finished and/or how may they got right.

Now here's how they score:

All For One
Each team was shown four items and were given a series of facts about the items (one fact for each item). The team in control had 60 seconds (one minute) while taking turns to get as many right as they can. Each correct answer was worth 40 points.

Final Round: The Big Bet
This was the Final Jeopardy! of the game and not to be confused with the final card on Card Sharks' Money Cards. During the final commercial break, all three teams each place their bet as to how much of their current scores they were willing to risk on one final question. One final group of four presidents were shown and starting with the trailing team, they each chose a president to play with. When a president was chosen, a video of the chosen president was shown. After that, the question about the chosen president was asked and the team in control had 20 seconds to think of an answer. A correct answer added the wager but an incorrect answer deducted the wager.

''NOTE #1: Jake Tapper did a little Jeopardy! act when his team made a choice and gave their answer.''

NOTE #2: Upon winning the game, the "CNN" logo on the winning team's podium blinked.

Charity Money
The total prize pool offered that night is $40,000 and here's how the money is divided:


 * 1st Prize - $20,000
 * 2nd Prize - $10,000
 * 3rd Prize - $10,000

Trivia

 * Despite being a special, this was the first game show to be broadcast on CNN of its kind.

Links
Official Site

YouTube Videos
Full Presidents Special

70s Edition
 * Promo #1
 * Promo #2
 * Promo #3