Master Minds Recap: March 9, 2021 (Game 2)

Here’s a recap of the clues on the second Master Minds game with host Brooke Burns that aired on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Sports Car”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Patrick, Henry, Ariana

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) COMMUNICATIONS: Which of these languages is written from right to left?
(a) Spanish (b) Hebrew (c) Russian
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST?
(a) Banana bread (b) Big Bird (c) Bed, Bath & Beyond
(3) PHOTOGRAPHY: From 1970 to 1983, Annie Leibovitz shot 142 covers for what magazine?
(a) Elle (b) GQ (c) Rolling Stone
(4) BODIES OF WATER: More massive than the Great Pyramid of Giza the Grand Coulee Dam is located on what river?
(a) Ohio (b) Missouri (c) Columbia
(5) RECIPES: Bone marrow is a key ingredient in which of these Italian dishes?
(a) risotto con penne (b) osso buco (c) uva spina
(6) PHYSICS: With no excess space, the atoms of every human across humanity would fit perfectly into a space the size of what object?
(a) a pinhead (b) a sugar cube (c) a can of soda
(7) AUTOMOBILES: When it debuted in 1953, what vehicle was billed, “The American sports car of the future”?
(a) Corvette (b) Corvair (c) Corsair

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Patrick 500 Henry 500 Ariana 500 / Ken 700 Muffy 700 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) BOTANY: Used as a filler in bouquets, what flowers have an alliterative “infantile” name?
(2) QUOTES: In The Book of Common Prayer what three words immediately followed “Earth to earth”?
(3) HEALTH: An otoscope is used to examine which organ?
(4) CELEBRITIES: What movie cowboy is the only person honored in all five categories of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
(5) DIET: To boost dietary fat in 19th century Europe, people were introduced to copra, a dried form of what tropical product?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Patrick 900 Henry 500 Ariana 100 / Ken 700 Muffy 1300 Jonathan -100

Ariana 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.

Patrick and Henry go first:

(500) Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing what type of eyeglasses?
(600) Loose sedimentary material deposited by water onto riverbanks is known by what term?
(700) About 35 years after its release, what John Denver song became an official song of Colorado?
(800) What is the highest number of points a player can earn in badminton?
(900) Made from the hemp of the native abaca plant, thick paper folders and envelopes are named for what Asian capital city?
(1000) The Tower Commission was formed as a result of what hyphenated 1985 scandal.
(1100) In a salon, UV light is typically used to set the polish for what type of manicure?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Patrick 3900 Henry 500

Patrick 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 Patrick.

(500) What mollusk’s name comes from the Greek for “eight-footed”?
(600) What phenomenon gets its name from the Japanese words for “harbor wave”?
(700) Located in the lower leg, what second-largest bone in the human body is named for a similar-looking flute?
(800) “A Delicate Balance” and “Seascape” are Pulitzer prize-winning dramas by which playwright?
(900) What tenth letter was the last letter added to the Roman alphabet?
(1000) Designed to rival France’s palace of Versailles, Schonbrunn Palace is the most-visited tourist site in what country??
(1100) Within an extended family, the term “removed” is used to indicate that two relatives are separated by what?
(1200) The second woman to leave the American Red Cross since Clara Barton was which future North Carolina senator?
didn’t count:
(1300) Sometimes mistaken for “Reversi”, what board game shares a name with a Shakespearean tragedy?

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Ken finished with 5200 to Muffy’s 3600 so Ken will join Patrick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Patrick 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) Hollandaise sauce is chiefly made from egg yolks, butter and what fruit juice?
(2) “Kristy’s Great Idea” is the first book in what series from Ann M. Martin about teenage caregivers?
(3) Which country in mainland Africa has the longest coastline?
(4) The blue portion of the current U.S. flag is as tall as how many of the stripes?
(5) Born in Hartford, CT in the 1830s, what banker and robber baron twice bailed out the U.S. Treasury?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Patrick got 2 right to Ken’s 4. Patrick is going home with $11,000 and there will be 3 new players in the Season 2 finale tomorrow.

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