Master Minds Recap: April 20, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, April 20, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Cheer”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Simon, Kristen, Walter

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) TOYS: In stories created by Johnny Gruelle, what relation is Raggedy Andy to Raggedy Ann?
(a) brother (b) cousin (c) son
(2) PARADES: Who was honored in two New York City ticker tape parades 36 years apart?
(a) Queen Elizabeth II (b) John Glenn (c) Nelson Mandela
(3) GASES: Making up 65% of your total weight, what is the most abundant element in the human body?
(a) hydrogen (b) carbon (c) oxygen
(4) THE 18th CENTURY: In 1767, the Mason-Dixon line was created primarily to establish the border between what two future U.S. states?
(a) Kentucky & Tennessee (b) Maryland & Pennsylvania (c) Kansas & Oklahoma
(5) GRAMMAR: In grammatical terms, which is an irregular verb?
(a) eat (b) pray (c) love
(6) DRINKS: Which of these cocktails is most likely to glow under a black light?
(a) rum and coke (b) gin and tonic (c) vodka and orange juice
(7) NATIVE AMERICANS: Who wrote an autobiography subtitled “My Life”?
(a) Geronimo (b) Sitting Bull (c) Chief Joseph

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Simon 600 Kristen 400 Walter 600 / Ken 400 Muffy 600 Jonathan 500

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) KIDDIE LIT: In the novel “Mary Poppins”, what is the name of the family for whom Mary Poppins serves as Nanny?
(2) UNIVERSITY: Home to the Golden Gophers, what university formed America’s first cheerleading squad in the 1890s?
(3) REPAIRS: In most households, if you need to replace a flapper next to an overflow tube, what are you fixing?
(4) BIRDS: Nicknamed “disgusting bird” by Dutch settlers,, what island fowl went extinct around 1681?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: What country is bordered on all sides by South Africa?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Simon 600 Kristen 600 Walter 800 / Ken 600 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 1100

TIEBREAKER (to determine who gets eliminated): According to the U.S. Treasury, what is the ‘proper’ three-word term for the penny?

ANSWER: show

Simon rang in first with the correct answer so he will move forward with Walter. Kristen and Ken 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.

Simon and Walter go first:

(500) Established in the 1840s, America’s oldest Chinatown is found in what city?
(600) Carmine is a pigment most closely associated with which color?
(700) What medieval pseudoscience aimed to turn base metals into gold?
(800) The postal abbreviation of what two states, in order, combine to spell the word ‘mail’?
(900) In 1950, who became the first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
(1000) Passed by the British Parliament in 1765, which law taxed American colonists for using printing paper?
(1100) Fern reproduction begins with the release of what reproductive cells?
(1200) What man was the first manufacturer to use an assembly line to build his cars?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Simon 5300 Walter 2900

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

(500) In physics, protons and neutrons are comprised of smaller particles known as what?
(600) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a catalyst for what war?
(700) Massively popular in the mid-1980s, what dance fitness franchise was founded by Judi Sheppard Missett in 1969?
(800) What novel introduced the character of Martin Brody, police chief of Amity?
(900) The source of white blood cells, what organ was once thought to cause rage by producing black bile?
(1000) Also called a ratel, what animal simply doesn’t care about venomous bites and stings due to its thick skin?
(1100) Masahiro Mori coined what term for the point when a robot’s humanness makes people uneasy?
Didn’t count (1200) Sanna Marin, the world’s youngest sitting Prime Minister, represents which country?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4000 to Jonathan’s 2800 so Muffy will join Simon in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Simon 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 is the capital city of Australia?
(2) Founded in 1892 in New York, what clothing company is known for its moose logo?
(3) If you go head over heels on your “kite winder”, from what part of a house did you fall?
(4) Shoes that were specifically designed for right and left feet were first made in the United States in what century?
(5) The Compson brothers are characters who narrate chapters in which William Faulkner novel?

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

Simon finished with two right. Muffy only had one right. Simon is the second person to win $10,000. He will return tomorrow to take on two more challengers, and perhaps a Master Mind.

Master Minds airs daily on Game Show Network. Check your local listings for times. (Here in the Central Time Zone it comes on at 3:00 p.m.)

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