Master Minds Recap: January 27, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, January 27, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & American Trailblazers”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Dave, Neal, Matthew

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) TRANSPORTATION: The name of a Chevrolet car model, “El Camino” translates from Spanish as what?
(a) the horse (b) the machine (c) the way
(2) ART: Marc Chagall created the stained glass “Peace Window” to be housed in which building?
(a) Art Institute of Chicago (b) St. Patrick’s Cathedral (c) United Nations
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: Mickey, mini or Pluto?
(a) Mickey Mantle (b) miniskirt (c) Pluto discovered
(4) MONEY: The cost for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a one-dollar bill is closest to what amount?
(a) quarter (b) dime (c) penny
(5) HISTORY: In his “Last Stand” at the Battle of Little Big Horn, George Custer held what Army rank?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel (b) Major General (c) Staff Sergeant
(6) PERIODICALS: Who was the first African-American fashion model to grace the cover of American Vogue?
(a) Vanessa Williams (b) Grace Jones (c) Beverly Johnson
(7) EPICS: Two of the three sinners encountered in the pit of Dante’s “Inferno” took part in the murder of what man?
(a) Abel (b) Julius Caesar (c) Ramses III

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Dave 200 Neal 600 Matthew 600 / Ken 700 Muffy 1500 Jonathan 500

Neal 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.

Dave and Matthew go first:

(500) What famed guitarist played with Cream, The Yardbirds and Derek & the Dominos?
(600) In what disease does high blood sugar result from the body’s inability to make or respond to insulin?
(700) What vehicle gauge displays the amount of distance traveled?
(800) Appointed by the Romans, who was the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth?
(900) Accidentally running his ship into it, James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of what country?
(1000) What U.S. astronaut spent 340 consecutive days in space to be studied with his earthbound twin brother?
(1100) Margaret Crane is credited with inventing “The Predictor”, one of the first home kits to test for what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Dave 2800 Matthew 2100

Dave 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 Dave.

(500) Its white marble damaged over the centuries, the Parthenon is perched atop what Athens hilltop citadel?
(600) What variety of domesticated rabbit shares its name with the wool-like fiber for which it’s raised?
(700) In response to historic drought in 2015, what governor ordered California’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions?
(800) Some heeled shoes cause Haglund’s deformity, a lump in the back of the foot also known by what rhyming name?
(900) Commonly associated with hockey and soccer, the term “hat trick” originated in what international sport?
(1000) What New York-born diva renounced her American citizenship for Greek citizenship, the land of her parents, in 1966?
(1100) After the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War, the city’s name was changed to what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ken finished with 3400 to Muffy’s 3600 so Muffy will join Dave in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Dave 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) A simple circle with a cross emerging below it is the symbol for what planet?
(2) Four of the five male monarchs of England’s House of Hanover ruled under what name?
(3) What Missouri town normally holds its annual “Twain on Main” festival on Memorial Day weekend?
(4) Pope Gregory I tried to ward off death from plague by ordering short prayers if someone showed what symptom?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the fourth clue, Neal could not win with 2 right to Muffy’s 4 so the game was over. Neal is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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