Master Minds Recap: June 23, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, June 23, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & A High I.Q.”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Rachael, Melis, Kelly-Marie

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) COOKING: If you add sodium bicarbonate to a cake recipe, what ingredient are you adding?
(a) cream of tartar (b) yeast (c) baking soda
(2) ANATOMY: In between which two parts of your body would you find your philtrum?
(a) ankle & knee (b) nose & upper lip (c) thumb & index finger
(3) PERIODICALS: What Cosmopolitan magazine editor was the subject of a biography entitled, “Bad Girls Go Everywhere”?
(a) Anna Wintour (b) Dorothy Parker (c) Helen Gurley Brown
(4) SCIENCE: Which of these is an example of a mechanical wave?
(a) light (b) x-ray (c) sound
(5) BUSINESS: In 1939, which American car company created the first automatic transmissions for mass-produced autos?
(a) Chrysler (b) Ford (c) General Motors
(6) EXAMS: When taking the SAT, the first section covers what subject?
(a) reading (b) writing (c) arithmetic
(7) CROPS: Producing over 60% of the U.S. supply, whose official state fruit is the cranberry?
(a) Wisconsin (b) Oregon (c) Maine

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Rachael 400 Melis 400 Kelly-Marie 400 / Ken 500 Muffy 500 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) POETRY: Named for an Irish city, what poem aims to be witty, with five lines in array, rhyming AABBA, it often tells jokes without pity?
(2) TECHNOLOGY: What app was originally called ‘2580’ for the code that users dialed in to have songs identified?
(3) GAMES: Similar to the ancient Indian cross and circle game, “Pachisi”, which modern board game has an apologetic name?
(4) BUSINESS: Prior to his 2006 felony convictions, Kenneth Lay was CEO of which publicly traded Texas-based energy corporation?
(5) HISTORY: By the time Isabella Baumfree gave her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, what name was she using?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Rachael 600 Melis 1000 Kelly-Marie 0 / Ken 1100 Muffy 500 Jonathan 1200

Kelly-Marie 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.

Rachael and Melis go first:

(500) Also called flares, what iconic pants of the 1960s evolved from trousers worn by U.S. Navy sailors in 1817?
(600) Opening in 1912 What is the oldest Major League baseball stadium still in operation?
(700) According to Greek mythology, Pandora’s box was shut before what last spirit could escape?
(800) Crisco was the first brand of what vegetable-based cooking fat that is solid at room temperature?
(900) Weighing in at over 8,000 pounds, the southern species of what animal is the largest pinniped?
(1000) In the title of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical, who is “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Rachael 600 Melis 1500

Melis 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 Melis.

(500) Effective in soothing burns and scrapes, what succulent was presented as a funeral gift to pharaohs?
(600) In what borough of London would you find England’s Royal Observatory?
(700) Native to Central and Eastern Asia, what type of camel has two humps on its back?
(800) Besides Trebbiano, what is the only other grape used to make traditional balsamic vinegar?
(900) Found in South America, what is the world’s highest lake navigable to large vessels?
(1000) Part of one of the most successful fragrance lines in history, what was the first perfume released by Elizabeth Taylor?
(1100) Enacted by Henry IV of France in 1598, what law granted Protestants religious liberty and ended the Wars of Religion?

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Ken finished with 4900 to Muffy’s 1200 so Ken will join Melis in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Melis beats Ken, 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) With a multinational tire manufacturing company named for him, who invented vulcanized rubber in 1839?
(2) Associated with fasting and prayer, what is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar?
(3) Although it is sometimes called the Mexican walking fish, an axolotl is actually what type of amphibian?
(4) Reading a pamphlet is a life-changing experience for the protagonist in what Herman Hesse novel?
(5) What President negotiated with the British to gain the territory that would become Oregon, Idaho and Washington?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Melis got 3 right to Ken’s 5. Melis is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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