Master Minds Recap: April 7, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, April 7, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia Smarts & Butterflies”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco and Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Cory, Hannah, Joe

The show’s format pits 3 contestants against each other and 3 Master Minds against each other. There are 3 rounds and the contestant with the highest score wins $1,000 and faces off in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge against the winning Master Mind. If the contestant beats the Master Mind, the prize money goes up to $10,000.

Round 1: Here are the 7 categories and questions. 100 points for each correct answer.

(1) SONGS: In Gene Autry’s holiday hit “Frosty the Snowman”, what are Frosty’s eyes made of?
(a) Buttons (b) Coal (c) Marbles
(2) INSECTS: Butterflies taste flowers using what parts of their bodies?
(a) Feet (b) Wings (c) Eyes
(3) BEACHES: The first Europeans to describe surfing were writing about the Pacific islanders they saw while crewing for what famous captain?
(a) Cook (b) Cabrillo (c) Shackleton
(4) PHONETICS: Represented by an upside down ‘E’ what term refers to an unstressed vowel sound within a word?
(a) Schwa (b) Tilde (c) Umlaut
(5) UNDERGROUND: Which French president officially opened the Channel Tunnel alongside Queen Elizabeth II?
(a) Jacques Chirac (b) Francois Mitterand (c) Charles DeGaulle
(6) COOKING: In general, a cooking oil that is solid at room temperature is which kind of fat?
(a) saturated (b) unsaturated (c) monounsaturated
(7) TECHNOLOGY: Which of these Apple products was released earliest?
(a) iPod (b) iMac (c) iBook

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Cory 600 Hannah 600 Joe 500 / Ken 600 Muffy 500 Jonathan 700

Round 2: There are 5 subjects and questions. No multiple choice. Only the first player on each team to buzz in gets to answer. Correct answers are worth 200 points for the first 4. The last question is worth 400 points. Wrong answers are penalized by the value of the question. At the end of the round, the person with the lowest score on each team is eliminated.

(1) CONFECTIONS: What brand of Belgian chocolate is recognizable by its logo featuring a long-haired woman on horseback?
(2) RELIGION: The holy city of Mecca is located in which Middle Eastern country?
(3) CELEBRATIONS: What holiday joined the 4th of July, Thanksgiving & Christmas as one of the first Federal holidays established in 1870?
(4) SINGERS: Of the iconic ‘Three Tenors’, which was born in Modena, Italy and appeared at the New York Met more than 370 times?
(5) PHILOSOPHY: Which German philosopher wrote, “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger?”

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Cory 600 Hannah 600 Joe 900 / Ken 1200 Muffy 300 Jonathan 1100

TIEBREAKER (to determine who plays against Joe): Following King Charles I, who ruled Great Britain under the title of Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

ANSWER: show

Cory got that wrong so he and Muffy are eliminated.

Round 3: Each team faces off in a 1-minute trivia battle. The first question is worth 500 points and each additional question goes up an additional 100 points. The winners go on to the last round.

Hannah and Joe go first:

(500) What is the largest muscle in the human body?
(600) On a standard 1-9 scale in a game of chess which piece is assigned the highest material point value?
(700) Haku, hili and humu are all methods of making what symbolic garland?
(800) What is the proper term for a female fox?
(900) Located southwest of Cairo, the Great Sphinx is found in what Egyptian city?
(1000) Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote what 1974 nonfiction book that chronicles the Watergate scandal?
(1100) What does the letter ‘B’ stand for in the computer language acronym “BASIC”?
(1200) Whose teaching method is still in practice today more than 100 years after opening her first “Casa dei Bambini”

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Hannah 1600 Joe 5000

Joe wins $1,000 and advances to the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. But first, Ken and Jonathan will battle it out for a minute to see who joins Joe.

(500) Nicknamed ‘The Godfather of Fitness’, which pioneering exercise guru opened the first modern U.S. health club in 1936?
(600) As it name implies, what Italian appetizer course is served before the meal?
(700) In the Gregorian calendar, what date marked the beginning of the 3rd millennium?
(800) What element is the chief component in pewter alloys?
(900) Harold L. Ickes headed the New Deal’s Public Works Adminstration in which cabinet position?
(1000) Before he died, Moses saw the Promised Land from what mountain?
(1100) Founded in 1915, what social and business club takes its name from a Native American phrase meaning “we trade”?
(1200) Antonio is the title character of what Shakespearean comedy?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ken finished with 5700 to Jonathan’s 2400 so Ken will join Joe in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Joe beats Ken, he will return on the next show. Any player who makes it through 3 shows and wins $30,000, gets to join the Master Minds expert team.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge:

(1) Fittingly known as ‘sad’ what type of depression is connected to the time of the year?
(2) In “The Odyssey”, Odysseus is the king of what Greek island?
(3) Founded by Clarence Saunders, what was the first self-service grocery store?
(4) What fruit is baked in preparing a traditional Christmas wassail?
(5) Featuring President William McKinley, what bill denomination was officialy discontinued from circulation in 1969?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct) show

Joe is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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