Master Minds Recap: April 17, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Friday, April 17, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Gemstones”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Colin, Phoebe, Larry

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) FITNESS: Pioneered by a physician in the 1960s, what exercise was popularized by Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons?
(a) Aerobics (b) Pilates (c) Zumba
(2) CIVICS: Which of the three branches of U.S. Government was established by Article I of the Constitution?
(a) Executive (b) Judicial (c) Legislative
(3) APPS: More than a trillion rounds of what game have been played since its release on Facebook in 2012?
(a) Clash of Clans (b) Angry Birds 2 (c) Candy Crush
(4) FLOWERS: All species of daffodils are part of a genus of plants named for what figure from Greek mythology?
(a) Amycus (b) Icarus (c) Narcissus
(5) JEWELS: Which gemstones are forms of the mineral corundum?
(a) pearls and emeralds (b) diamonds and cubic zirconia (c) rubies and sapphires
(6) ART: A close friend of Degas, what American impressionist was known for her paintings of mothers and children?
(a) Georgia O’Keeffe (b) Helen Frankenthaler (c) Mary Cassatt
(7) BEVERAGES: What do connoisseurs call the foam residue left on the inside of the glass after a beer has been consumed?
(a) the squall (b) the lacing (c) the plumage

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Colin 500 Phoebe 500 Larry 600 / Ken 600 Muffy 600 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) ANIMALS: Critical to its survival in North America, what animal has been bred by Anheuser-Busch since 1953?
(2) WRITING: William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer are credited with creating what colorful style of sensationalist reporting?
(3) EUROPE: Located entirely within the bounds of Italy, which tiny nation is home to Mount Titano?
(4) THE OLYMPICS: The 1988 ‘Battle of the Brians’ at the Calgary Olympics was fought in what event?
(5) QUOTATIONS: What labor leader said, “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures”?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Colin 500 Phoebe 1100 Larry 800 / Ken 1200 Muffy 1200 Jonathan 600

Colin and Jonathan 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.

Phoebe and Larry go first:

(500) Every year, Japan holds festivals for viewing ‘sakura’, the blossoms of what fruit tree?
(600) With a name meaning ‘river horse’, what is considered one of the deadliest mammals in Africa?
(700) Which medieval king’s victory is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry?
(800) Echolocation involves bouncing what off an object to determine where it is within a space?
(900) In what city would you find the Luxembourg Palace?
(1000) On a 1917 army recruitment poster by James Montgomery Flagg, what call to action was uttered by Uncle Sam?
(1100) What cooking term refers to drawing moisture out of vegetables by sautéing them at a very low temperature?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Phoebe 2400 Larry 4000

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

(500) The sound made by what domestic animal is ‘wong’ in Cantonese, ‘guk’ in Indonesian and ‘voff’ in Icelandic?
(600) Which historical Shakespearean character famously asked friends, Roman and countrymen to lend him their ears?
(700) In what African nation would you find Serengeti National Park?
(800) From the Italian for ‘scratch’, what was found in Pompeii containing comments about politicians, bars and brothels?
(900) In the classic game of “Operation”, what is the name of the patient who makes up the game board?
(1000) Reflecting its origins as a musical instrument manufacturer, what company’s logo is a trio of interlocking tuning forks?
(1100) What color is assigned to the outermost scoring zone on a standard Olympic archery target?

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Muffy finished with 6000 to Ken’s 2000 so Muffy will join Larry in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Larry beats Muffy, 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) What even-toed ungulate is referenced about 50 times in the King James Bible?
(2) On a sewing machine, what cylinder holds the thread used to form the lower part of stitches?
(3) What does a convection oven have that allows it to cook things faster and at a lower heat than conventional ovens?
(4) After Dubai, what is the most populous emirate in the UAE?
(5) Whose ballet “The Rite of Spring” caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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