Master Minds Recap: May 1, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Friday, May 1, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & A Jingle”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Catherine, Diego, Connie

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) HEALTH: Which complaint would you be more likely to hear from someone suffering from lumbago?
(a) Oh, my back! (b) Ow, my foot! (c) Ouch, my knee!
(2) TRANSPORTATION: If you’ve just run over a ‘sleeping policeman’ in the UK, what have you hit?
(a) traffic cone (b) speed bump (c) donut
(3) JOBS: According to The Ladders career website, what is the most popular day to call in sick to work?
(a) day after 4th of July (b) day after Christmas (c) day after the Super Bowl
(4) ADVERTISING: Before hitting it big as a novelist, James Patterson co-wrote the iconic jingle for which retail chain in 1982?
(a) JCPenney (b) Kmart (c) Toys R Us
(5) LAW: As established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, the first Supreme Court had how many justices?
(a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 11
(6) JEWELRY: Also known as a flush setting, in which ring design does the metal of the band surround the stone?
(a) burnish (b) pave (c) invisible
(7) GAMING: In the U.S. release of “Pac-Man”, which ghost was red?
(a) Blinky (b) Clyde (c) Inky

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Catherine 400 Diego 400 Connie 300 / Ken 300 Muffy 500 Jonathan 300

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) CALENDAR: What letter of the alphabet begins the names of three months of the year?
(2) COOKING: In what profession are you engaged if you are wearing a tall white toque?
(3) BRANDS: Originally called “Blue Ribbon Sports”, what footwear company takes its name from the Greek goddess of victory?
(4) ART: Cezanne’s “Curtain, Jug, and Fruit Bowl” is an example of what two-word painting genre that depicts inanimate objects?
(5) WATERWAYS: The Volga is considered the national river of what country?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Catherine 1000 Diego 600 Connie 700 / Ken 700 Muffy 500 Jonathan 1100

Diego 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.

Catherine and Connie go first:

(500) A Purdue University student experiment used a machine to determine an average of 364 licks to reach the center of what?
(600) Celebrating its 40th year in 2020, what annual awards are famous for honoring the worst achievements in cinema?
(700) Spread through saliva, what group of symptoms caused by the Epstein-Barr virus is known as the “kissing disease”?
(800) In 2017, the Impossible Project reintroduced what brand of analog instant cameras?
(900) Providing funds for education and housing, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 is better known as what?
(1000) Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail are the siblings of what literary title character?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Catherine 1900 Connie 3500

Connie 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 Connie.

(500) What is the center color in a rainbow?
(600) From a French verb meaning ‘to glue’, what art style consists of a mix of materials stuck to a surface?
(700) In 2014, Janet Yellen became the first woman to be appointed to what position?
(800) Allowing easy photoshop-style retouching on Smartphone photos, what was the most purchased iPhone app of 2019?
(900) The phrase “Let my people go” appears nine times in which book of the Bible?
(1000) What famed 1858 medical text had illustrator Henry Carter’s vital contribution diminished by his credit-hogging partner?
(1100) The island of New Guinea is comprised of Papua New Guinea and provinces of what other nation?

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Ken finished with 1800 to Jonathan’s 3700 so Jonathan will join Connie in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Connie beats Jonathan, she 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 do the letters ‘LLC’ stand for when they appear after a company’s name?
(2) What tennis scoring term is theorized to come from the French word for ‘the egg’?
(3) The Delmarva Peninsula is occupied by Virginia, Delaware and what other state?
(4) What Gilbert & Sullivan opera was alternately titled “The Lass That Loved a Sailor”?
(5) If you buy a pretzel with a quetzal, you’re using the currency of what Central American country?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Connie got 3 right to Jonathan’s 4. Connie is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players on Monday.

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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