Master Minds Recap: June 10, 2020 (afternoon)

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, June 10, 2020 with host Brooke Burns. This week they are showing 2 episodes per day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.

This afternoon’s episode: “Trivia, Smarts & A Raft of Penguins”
Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Challengers: Dan, Anuk, Mallorie

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) LANGUAGE: Which of these words is its own antonym?
(a) ball (b) waffle (c) dust
(2) MONUMENTS: During the making of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, which President’s face was destroyed and then put in a different spot?
(a) Thomas Jefferson (b) Theodore Roosevelt (c) Abraham Lincoln
(3) FITNESS: A six-pack usually refers to which specific muscle group?
(a) transverse abdominis (b) rectus abdominis (c) external obliques
(4) MUSIC: What school has the oldest collegiate glee club in the U.S.?
(a) Yale (b) Harvard (c) University of Michigan
(5) PENGUINS: In the water, a group of penguins is called a ‘raft’, but on land they known as what?
(a) a convent (b) a tuxedo (c) a waddle
(6) STATES: In 1975, Ella Grasso became the first woman elected Governor of which New England state?
(a) Rhode Island (b) Connecticut (c) Vermont
(7) BLACK HISTORY: Which of these accurately describes the Jesup Wagon designed by George Washington Carver?
(a) It ran on peanut oil (b) It was a mobile school (c) It was a toy

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Dan 400 Anuk 100 Mallorie 400 / Ken 300 Muffy 300 Jonathan 100

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) RIVERS: The Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River famously separated what two warring families of West Virginia and Kentucky?
(2) BUDDHISM: Derived from Sanskrit, what term refers to the end of all suffering, the highest goal for Buddhists?
(3) NYC SIGHTS: Tchaikovsky’s only visit to the U.S. was for the grand opening of what performance venue?
(4) MONEY: What building is featured on the reverse side of a U.S. twenty dollar bill?
(5) AFRICA: Going north to south, what is the first African country the prime meridian passes through?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Dan 800 Anuk -100 Mallorie 200 / Ken 700 Muffy 700 Jonathan 500

Anuk 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.

Dan and Mallorie go first:

(500) With more than a 30-foot wingspan, the largest creature to fly was part of what order of reptiles?
(600) In 1997, new dad Philippe Kahn sent what for the first time via cell phone?
(700) Oculus sinister is the proper medical term for what specific human organ?
(800) Chloe Kim and Shaun White are both U.S. Gold Medalists in what Olympic sport?
(900) The name of what type of tall U.S. tree is also among the shortest words using all five vowels?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Dan 3000 Mallorie 200

Dan 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 Dan.

(500) The Antarctic’s southern lights are the aurora australis, while the Arctic’s northern lights are called what?
(600) What Allen Ginsberg poem begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”?
(700) During cold weather months, what precipitation begins as snow, then melts and refreezes before landing?
(800) Born Florence Nightingale Graham, who began opening her Red Door Beauty Salons in 1910?
(900) What West Coast island is home to the Wrigley Mansion and the Wrigley Memorial & Botanical Gardens?
(1000) A 1970 Robert Indiana sculpture depicts what four-letter-word with a tilted ‘O’?
(1100) By what process does a solid convert directly into a gas?

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Ken finished with 4500 to Muffy’s 2500 so Ken will join Dan in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Dan 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) What stage legend wrote the songs “Give My Regards to Broadway” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag”?
(2) What country has the longest uninterrupted coastline on the Red Sea?
(3) Sometimes weighing in excess of a million pounds, what is capable of hovering for hours without an engine?
(4) The son of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott founded what organization and drew its logo?
(5) What term refers to the adjustable opening in a diaphragm that allows light to enter a camera?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Dan got one right to Ken’s two. Dan is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players on the next show.

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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