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Hosts
Larry Anderson (1997)
Marianne Curan (1997–1998)
Sub Hosts
Dave Nemeth
Nancy Sullivan
Peter Tomarken
Rip Taylor
Announcers
Gene Wood
Ed MacKay
Broadcast
Trivia Track
Game Show Network (Daily): 3/17/1997 – 10/2/1998

OPENING SPIEL: "Welcome to Trivia Track! And now, here's your host, Larry Anderson/Marianne Curan!"

Trivia Track was an interactive phone-in game show on GSN that had a horse racing-theme.

Gameplay[]

Main Game[]

Five randomly-selected contestants competed in a question-and-answer game, using their telephone keypads to enter numerical answers. Two games were featured on each show, with the winner of each one receiving a prize.

Each game was a 10-furlong race, with each player using his/her telephone keypad to select one of the three numerical answers on the screen (similar to Race For The Numbers). The players had 4.4 seconds to enter their answers, and here's how they scored:

Questions Furlongs
Question #1 1
Question #2 2
Question #3 3
Question #4 4
All Subsequent Questions 5

The first player to reach the finish line won the race. In the event of a tie, a photo finish would be held; this was a tiebreaker game similar to The Price is Right’s One Bid game. A question would once again be read, afterwhich the players had 9.4 seconds to answer. The one who came closest to the actual number won the game.

The two winners (one from each game) advanced to the Triple Crown bonus round at the end of the show.

Triple Crown[]

The object of the "Triple Crown" round was to be the first player to accumulate three crowns by answering questions, and here's how they did it:

The two winners faced a game board with nine squares. The side squares (left, right, top & bottom) each contained 1 crown, two of the corner squares had 2 crowns, the upper right hand corner square had a free crown space, and the lower left hand corner square was a LOSE-A-TURN space.

Players alternated turns playing the board. The board would flash at random and the player in control had to hit "0" on his/her keypad to stop the randomizer (similar to the big board on Press Your Luck); if he/she didn't hit "0" within four seconds, the randomization stopped automatically. When stopping, if a player landed on any of the crown value spaces, a question with two possible answers was asked, and a correct answer won the appropriate number of crowns.

If a player landed on the 1 Free Crown space, he/she simply received that crown without answering a question. But if the LOSE-A-TURN space was hit, the player who hit it simply lost his/her turn. After the first round, the center "TRIPLE CROWN" square was activated, which triggered an automatic win if hit.

The first player to score 3 crowns won the show, but if neither player did so by the time the bell rang, the player with the most crowns was the winner. In the event of a tie, they would go into a sudden death showdown, with the player who gave the last correct answer to that point having the option to either answer the final question or force his/her opponent to do so. If the chosen player answered the question correctly, he/she won the show; if not, the opponent was the winner.

The winner of the show received a grand prize, while the runner-up recieved a $25 gift certificate for each crown he/she accumulated.

Studio[]

Game Show Network Studios, Culver City, CA

YouTube Link[]

Full Episode from 12/31/1997

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