Master Minds Recap: February 5, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Friday, February 5, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Official Neckwear”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Tony, Adrienne, Brandon

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) FOOD: The Cobb salad is named for owner Bob Cobb, who first served it what Hollywood restaurant?
(a) Musso & Frank (b) Brown Derby (c) Chasen’s
(2) LAW: When it first convened, the Supreme Court met in what city?
(a) New York (b) Philadelphia (c) Richmond
(3) SCIENCE: Which of these events happen with the most frequency?
(a) solar storms (b) solar flares (c) solar winds
(4) EDUCATION: Who has a medical school at Dartmouth College named in his honor?
(a) Dr. Spock (b) Dr. Seuss (c) Dr. Dre
(5) AUTOMOBILES: What did Model T inventor Henry Ford create that made his car production operation more cost effective?
(a) robotic arm (b) spray paint (c) charcoal briquettes
(6) SPORTS: Which athlete was so scared of flying, he wore a parachute on his flight to the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome?
(a) Mark Spitz (b) Alexei Kasatonov (c) Muhammad Ali
(7) RELIGION: According to the Bible, who found baby Moses floating in the Nile River?
(a) Pharaoh’s wife (b) Pharaoh’s sister (a) Pharaoh’s daughter

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Tony 400 Adrienne 100 Brandon 100 / Ken 400 Muffy 400 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) FASHION: What neckwear is the office state tie of New Mexico?
(2) COOKING: What prepared food forms the top “crust” of a traditional shepherd’s pie?
(3) TESTS: A 1600 is a perfect score on what college entrance exam administered by the college board?
(4) TOPOGRAPHY: Measured from its base to its peak, what Polynesian mountain is the tallest on Earth?
(5) THE BODY: Dr. Charles Drew developed a method for collecting and preserving what part of blood?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Tony 600 Adrienne 1100 Brandon 100 / Ken 600 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 700

Adrienne 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.

Tony and Adrienne go first:

(500) Once the home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall is located in which city?
(600) What food entrepreneur and star of “Cool Hand Luke” was also an avid race car driver?
(700) What spring-powered toy became a 1920s craze after the Ziegfeld Follies dancers did a routine on them?
(800) In 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill met for a conference in what Crimean resort city?
(900) Equaling one nautical mile per hour, what unit originated by measuring a rope as it trailed behind a ship?
(1000) The Devil’s Rope Museum in Texas says it’s a tribute to what fencing product?
(1100) Considered the king of the gods in ancient Egypt, Ra was depicted as having the head of what bird?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Tony 1900 Adrienne 3400

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

(500) What underwater tunnel connects the British town of Folkestone with the French town of Coquelles?
(600) Intense interrogation is also known by what term for the second-most severe type of burn
(700) Knowing an eclipse was due, which Italian explorer tricked Caribbean natives by pretending to destroy the moon?
(800) Co-founded by the son of a Turkish diplomat, what record label included Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin among its talent?
(900) Motorola’s StarTAC 85 was the first full-folding “clamshell” design of what product?
(1000) What Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road” wrote on the same manual typewriter for 46 years?
(1100) Practiced medically for thousands of years, trepanning is the process of drilling a hole in your what?
(1200) Sounding similar to a gooey breakfast bun, what reddish, toxic mineral is the most common ore of mercury

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Muffy finished with 6300 to Jonathan’s 2200 so Muffy will join Adrienne in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Adrienne beats Muffy, 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 at the same time and they write their answers down.
(1) Civil War field surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is the only female recipient of what highest military award?
(2) The postal abbreviation for Nebraska changed from “NB” to “NE” to avoid confusion with what foreign province?
(3) In what charming O.Henry story do spouses Della and Jim sell personal items to get each other a Christmas present?
(4) What rhyming two-word phrase translates from the Greek as “the many”?
(5) Also the name of a Hawaiian island, what demigod forced the sun to slow down to create longer days?

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

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