Master Minds Recap: April 16, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, April 16, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Opening Lines”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Jonathan, Jen, Marci

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) SPORTS: Which Olympic gymnastics apparatus is a discipline for female competitors but not males?
(a) horizontal bar (b) parallel bars (c) uneven bars
(2) SPIDERS: Which of these body parts do spiders possess?
(a) antennae (b) ears (c) heart
(3) CITIES: According to the Cost of Living Index, what is the most expensive city in the U.S. to live in?
(a) Chicago (b) New York (c) Fairbanks
(4) PHOBIAS: If someone suffers from ‘pupaphobia’, they are afraid of what?
(a) puppets (b) pupils (c) puppies
(5) MEASUREMENTS: Which of the following units of distance is the longest?
(a) furlong (b) kilometer (c) league
(6) CELEBRATIONS: Italy’s annual Carnival of Venice is famous for its contest for the most beautiful what?
(a) gondola (b) mask (c) parasol
(7) LITERATURE: Which novel’s very first word is the name of its title character?
(a) Carrie (b) Emma (c) Rebecca

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Jonathan 400 Jen 600 Marci 600 / Ken 600 Muffy 400 Jonathan 600

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) MAGAZINES: For over 110 years, what magazine has tested home consumer products and issued a “seal of approval”?
(2) OPERA: In which Mozart opera does the title object have the ability to turn sorrow into joy?
(3) GOVERNMENT: The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 is better known by what rhyming name?
(4) ACRONYMS: The word “scuba” is an acronym that stands for “self contained underwater breathing’ what?
(5) THE LAW: What consumer advocate achieved fame after her legal work on a 1993 lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jonathan 1200 Jen 1000 Marci 600 / Ken 1000 Muffy 400 Jonathan 1000

Marci and Muffy are eliminated.

Round 3: Each team faces off in a rapid-fire 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.

Jonathan and Jen go first:

(500) What vegetable would you ‘spiralize’ to make the pasta alternative called ‘zoodles’?
(600) On what part of your body would you typically wear a tam-o’-shanter?
(700) With over 1 billion users, what is the most popular platform in the world for streaming music?
(800) The Etruscans originated from an area that is now part of which country?
(900) Who wrote the best-selling novel “Roots: the Saga of an American Family”?
(1000) What Japanese movie monster was originally conceived of as a whale/gorilla hybrid?
(1100) What famous teacher-turned-war captain was arrested for spying on British forces in 1776?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jonathan 3100 Jen 2900

Jonathan wins $1,000 and advances to the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. But first, Masterminds Ken and Jonathan will battle it out for a minute to see which of them plays the last round.

(500) Later an adversary of Snoopy, Manfred Von Richthofen was best known by what nickname?
(600) Moving in a circle to the right, the ‘clockwise’ direction was derived from what ancient device?
(700) Valued at $38 billion, what company began by offering visitors air mattresses to sleep on and a home-cooked breakfast?
(800) The youngest player at the time, which soccer phenom’s team won the 1958 FIFA World Cup championship?
(900) “The victory cry of the bull ape” is how author Edgar Rice Burroughs described which character’s yell?
(1000) Though committed to the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, William Minor was a major contributor to what dictionary?
(1100) In David Mamet’s 1984 play “Glengarry Glen Ross”, Chicago real estate agents vie to sell property in which state?
Time ran out right after Jonathan gave a wrong answer to this question so Ken didn’t get a chance to answer it. Obviously, he didn’t need it.
(1200) What tycoon canceled his trip on the Titanic, only to later die as a passenger on the Lusitania?

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Ken finished with 6600 to Mastermind Jonathan’s 1000 so Ken will join challenger Jonathan in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jonathan 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: The questions are presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud.

(1) In 1980 Candace Lightner founded what parental advocacy group that focuses on fighting a specific crime?
(2) What is the oldest airline in the United States that is still in operation?
(3) Juli Lynne Charlot is credited with creating what item of clothing that capitalized on the popularity of dogs?
(4) What French painter of “The Fifer” duelled with an art critic he felt had insulted him?
(5) What unstable numeric isotope of carbon is used in the process of radiocarbon dating?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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It was 2 for Ken. Jonathan only got one so he is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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