Master Minds Recap: January 18, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, January 18, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Female Marines”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Bill, Ben, Claire

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) TECHNOLOGY: Though nearly all models have been discontinued in the post-iPhone era, what was the smallest model of iPod?
(a) Nano (b) Shuffle (c) Mini
(2) MEDICINE: Which infectious disease was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980?
(a) smallpox (b) polio (c) chickenpox
(3) HOLIDAYS: Who was the first President to send out an official White House Christmas card?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower (b) John Kennedy (c) Richard Nixon
(4) THE ARMED FORCES: Which activity are only female Marines authorized to do while in uniform?
(a) put hands in pockets (b) wear a scarf (b) hold an umbrella
(5) LEGUMES: Soybean oil is a primary ingredient of which of these products?
(a) newspaper ink (b) pencil erasers (c) butane fuel
(6) WORDS: A person adept at orthography would be most likely to enter which national competition?
(a) spelling bee (b) debate tournament (c) geography championships
(7) BOATS: On a ship which of these compartments is called the “galley”?
(a) bathroom (b) kitchen (c) engine room

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Bill 400 Ben 200 Claire 400 / Ken 500 Muffy 400 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) GEOLOGY: In 2019, a new continent was discovered under which sea between North Africa & Southern Europe?
(2) FOOD: Traditionally, true “wiener schnitzel” is only made with what type of meat?
(3) KIDS LIT: In “Corduroy” by Don Freeman, the titular character was a teddy bear who went searching for a new what?
(4) INTERNET TERMS: Referring to an online icon, the word “avatar” was derived from what language?
(5) BLACK HISTORY: Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” was a pioneering poem in what African-American art movement?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Bill 1000 Ben -400 Claire 400 / Ken 900 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 300

Ben 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.

Bill and Claire go first:

(500) In the delivery method known as a C-section, what does the C stand for?
(600) Once known for pulling funeral carts, Friesian horses should be what color according to breed standards?
(700) 1990’s Rocky Mountain sparkling water was which beer maker’s failed attempt to break into the mineral water market?
(800) Whose novel “Closing Time” revisits the characters he created in “Catch-22” at the end of their lives and the century?
(900) Practiced in China since the Neolithic period, sericulture is the production of what fabric material?
(1000) What school that counts Julia Child as an alumna began as a 19th century culinary magazine?
(1100) Jailed during the Reign of Terror, what French artist later toured England with her wax sculptures?
(1200) The mouth of the Nile River is located in which country?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Bill 6700 Claire 1500

Bill 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 Bill.

(500) What was the first company to be approved for a patent for celluloid film?
(600) Sounding like the short
hairstyle it helped manage, what hair clip was popularized by the flappers?
(700) Championed by former First Lady Ladybird Johnson, the bluebonnet is the official flower of what state?
(800) The first kiss mentioned in the Bible was between Isaac and which son who was disguised as Esau?
(900) The Swedish drink glögg is what type of warm wine drink mixed with spices?
(1000) A 2010 fight between Flemings and Walloons led to what Benelux country to go over 500 days without an official government?
(1100) What North American animal with a prehensile tail is immune to nearly every type of snake venom?
(1200) named for his aunt’s farm, J.R.R. Tolkein characters Bilbo and Frodo lived in what Hobbit hole?
(1300) Sigmund Freud is attributed to saying “sometimes a cigar is just” what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ken finished with 5200 to Muffy’s 4800 so Muffy will join Bill in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Bill 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 at the same time and they write their answers down.

(1) Abigail Van Buren of “Dear Abby” fame was the twin sister of what other advice columnist?
(2) Located at approximately 19 degrees north latitude, the southernmost point in the U.S. is located in what state?
(3) Bob Fosse made the first TV commercial for a Broadway show while directing what award-winning musical?
(4) In most parts of the country, how old do you have to be to rent a car without a surcharge?
(5) What allegorical Salman Rushdie novel about two boys switched at birth won the Booker Prize in 1981?

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

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