Master Minds Recap: January 25, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, January 25, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Skydiving”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Diana, Nick, Angie

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) MEASUREMENTS: Containing six liters, what size wine bottle was named for the oldest person in the Bible?
(a) Balthazar (b) Nebuchadnezzar (c) Methuselah
(2) WORKING ANIMALS: What type of creature might be designated a “Mark 7 Marine Mammal System”?
(a) navy seal (b) navy dolphin (c) navy penguin
(3) SONG TITLES: In the unofficial Australian national anthem “Waltzing Matilda”, “Matilda” refers to what?
(a) an accordion (b) a bedroll (c) a bicycle
(4) POLITICS: A four-term governor of New York, what politician also served as the 41st U.S. Vice President under Gerald Ford?
(a) Nelson Rockefeller (b) Hubert Humphrey (c) Walter Mondale
(5) ACHIEVEMENTS: Adventurer Holly Budge was part of the first group to skydive over which mountain?
(a) Rainier (b) Everest (c) Kilimanjaro
(6) MAGAZINES: Which comic book superhero was known in Sweden as “Laderlappen”?
(a) Black Panther (b) Wonder Woman (c) Batman
(7) FARMING: Often called the father of modern agriculture, who developed the first mechanical reaper in 1831?
(a) Fritz Haber (b) Robert Fraley (c) Cyrus McCormick

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Diana 200 Nick 600 Angie 300 / Ken 600 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) ART: What famous mountain appears as a small mound in the background of “The Great Wave” by Katsushika Hokusai?
(2) COOKING TERMS: What Italian expression is commonly used to describe food, such as pasta, that is firm when bitten??
(3) MUSIC: The iconic song “A Boy Named Sue” was a Billboard Number-One hit for what country singer?
(4) THEATER: Desdemona is the wife of what Shakespearean title character?
(5) FURNITURE: What standard size of bed mattress measures 60 inches wide by 80 inches long?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Diana 400 Nick 1000 Angie 100 / Ken 600 Muffy 400 Jonathan 900

Angie 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.

Diana and Nick go first:

(500) Known for its “running dog” logo, what company is the largest provider of intercity bus transportation?
(600) Meaning “I have found it”, what single word is the state motto of California?
(700) What faith-based organization began the practice of leaving Bibles in hotels and other public places in 1908?
(800) The Spanish-American War initially began over what nation’s desire for independence?
(900) Invented in 1965, pickleball is a combination of tennis, badminton and what tabletop game?
(1000) What acid secreted naturally by the stomach is also used in the industrial world to process steel?
(1100) What continent was the setting for most of the novels written by author James Clavell?
(1200) In Canada, What word meaning “people” is preferred when referring to Eskimos?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Diana 2000 Nick 3100

Nick 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 Nick.

(500) The cost of a 30-second commercial spot during what championship football game has cost more than five million dollars?
(600) While on an exam table, a woman in labor typically has her legs held up by what adjustable arms?
(700) Which epic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells the story of a seaman who loses his crew after killing an albatross?
(800) An Albanian can be someone from Albania or someone from what U.S. city?
(900) Once sung by sailors, what type of song shares its name with a crude dwelling
(1000) Appointed by George Washington. What first U.S. Secretary of War has a fort named for him?
(1100) Formed when water freezes around a dust particle, “dendrites”, “sectored plates” and “hollow columns” are all types of what?
(1200) Insisting on tape delay so that he could golf more, which crooner hosted the nation’s first pre-recorded radio show?

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Ken finished with 5900 to Jonathan’s 2400 so Ken will join Nick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Nick 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) The nine daughters of Zeus who inspired artists and scientists were known by what collective name?
(2) Since 2010, the Affordable Care Act has allowed children to stay covered under a parent’s health plan until what age?
(3) What is the only word in the NATO alphabet that is both one syllable and the name of a sport?
(4) In what film did the main character famously type, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”?
(5) From the Latin for “tongs” what surgical grasping tool resembles a pair of scissors with a curved clamp at the tip?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Nick got 4 right to Ken’s perfect 5. Nick is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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