Master Minds Recap: January 20, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Weird Science”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Arianna Haut, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Hunter, Saif, Amber
Hunter is a returning champ
who won $10,000 yesterday

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) GEOGRAPHY: The Canadian border city of Windsor, Ontario is actually due south of which U.S. city?
(a) Detroit, MI (b) Buffalo, NY (c) Lancaster, MN
(2) FASHION: What type of jewelry engraving leaves an image in the gem that is recessed below the surface?
(a) pavilion (b) cameo (c) intaglio
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: ten, thousand or dollars?
(a) ten-gallon hat (b) Tales of 1,001 Nights (c) Dollar Tree Stores
(4) INVENTIONS: Japanese scientists have created a smoke alarm for the deaf which sprays a mist of what sushi condiment?
(a) ginger (b) soy sauce (c) wasabi
(5) EARTH SCIENCE: Scientists say it’s hard to study what atmospheric layer where meteors burn up?
(a) mesosphere (b) thermosphere (c) exosphere
(6) ART: Displayed at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, “Maman” is a 30-foot high sculpture depicting what creature protecting its eggs?
(a) spider (b) cobra (c) cockroach
(7) FITNESS: Which of these is an example of an aerobic activity?
(a) brisk walking (b) sprinting (c) weightlifting

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Hunter 400 Saif 300 Amber 400 / Ken 600 Arianna 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) NATURE: Writing that it “causeth rednesse, itching, and blisters” explorer John Smith gave what plant its name?
(2) POP CULTURE: In the 1970s, Bernard and Murray Spain copyrighted what iconic image paired with the phrase “Have a happy day”?
(3) BEVERAGES: In Russia, what type of alcoholic beverage was classified as a soft drink until 2011?
(4) MUSIC: What composer famously made a four-note fugue motif out of the letters of his name?
(5) PROTOCOL: According to two-way radio etiquette, what word is typically used to signify the end of a conversation?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Hunter 1400 Saif 300 Amber 200 / Ken 1000 Arianna 900 Jonathan -100

Amber 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.

Hunter and Saif go first:

(500) What remote, inland area of Australia shares its name with a chain of steakhouses?
(600) In the Bible, Delilah gets Samson to reveal that the source of his strength is his what?
(700) What celebrity fitness expert hosted a home video workout series called “Sweating to the Oldies”?
(800) “Nadsat” is the fictional language spoken by Alex and his “droogs” in what 1962 Anthony Burgess novel?
(900) The Megatons to Megawatts Program had the U.S. buy what element in Russian bombs to use in nuclear reactors?
(1000) What Renaissance painter and sculptor famously said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it”?
(1100) The scientific name for the coneflower lends its name to what herbal remedy believed to cure the common cold
Didn’t count:
(1200) Which member of the Hindu trinity is known as “the Destroyer”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Hunter 1900 Saif 3400

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

(500) What term for being at the center of attention comes from stage theaters’ use of quicklime for illumination?
(600) Since they switched to the Gregorian calendar, Russia commemorates the October Revolution in what month?
(700) When surveyed, the Japanese selected what instant food as their country’s best invention of the 20th century?
(800) In a book by Jean de Brunhoff, what animal is Celeste who marries her cousin?
(900) Which white blood cells in the body can be either B cells or T cells?
(1000) Originally, what unit of measure was equal to one 10-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole?
(1100) What French-named garment did fashion writer Laura Neilson call “kind-of pants, kind-of shorts and kind-of a skirt”?
(1200) P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana was the first African-American to hold what state political office

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ken finished with 5000 to Arianna’s 3700 so Ken will join Saif in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Saif 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 at the same time and they write their answers down.

(1) Now the world’s largest cultivated crop, what grass was first domesticated 10,000 years ago in New Guinea?
(2) Winning an Oscar for his performance, who played the title character in the 1955 film “Marty”?
(3) Anne of Cleves was which numbered wife of Henry VIII?
(4) What German school of design & architecture was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the 4th clue, Ken had 3 right and Saif had none. Saif is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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