Trivia Trap is an American television game show produced by Mark Goodson Productions.

The team in control chose one set and was asked a question, and each member in turn attempted to eliminate one wrong answer.

[3] The reworked format began with the host asking a trivia question to the home audience, then revealing its answer after both teams had been introduced.

If the original answer was incorrect and if any contestants had disagreed with it, they had a chance to choose the correct one in the same manner described above and win the appropriate amount.

The three members of the winning team were assigned to positions 1, 2, and 3 in descending order of their performance in the Trivia Race.

A correct response awarded $1,000 to that individual contestant and allowed him/her to take part in the final $10,000 question, while a miss eliminated him/her from the round.

Team members who answered correctly won equal shares of the day's $10,000 grand prize.

Trivia Trap premiered on October 8, 1984 in ABC's 11:00 AM timeslot, taking over the time period for a house of reruns (like Benson, celebrity Family Feud specials, etc.).

That time was home to popular game shows The Price Is Right on CBS and Wheel of Fortune on NBC and struggled as a result.

From then until the acquisition of Goodson's company by the predecessors of FremantleMedia, all of the shows produced by Mark Goodson Productions were revivals of previous series and Trivia Trap was also the last Mark Goodson-produced game show to premiere on ABC until Match Game 90 premiered in July 1990.