Master Minds Recap: March 10, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, March 10, 2021 with host Brooke Burns. This is the last show of Season 2.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Computer Chips”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Danny, Soumi, Joe

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) EXPLORERS: In 1953, Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans were 300 feet short in their attempt to reach what?
(a) Everest’s summit (b) North Pole (c) source of the Nile
(2) DIET: Which literary character is an avowed vegetarian?
(a) Gollum (b) Frankenstein’s monster (c) Katniss Everdeen
(3) SYMBOLS: Some believe the Knights Templar’s Cross of Lorraine can be found in what company’s logo?
(a) Citibank (b) Nabisco (c) Porsche
(4) TECH: A leader in semiconductor computer chips, Intel’s name is short for what?
(a) Intelligence (b) Innovative Telecom (c) Integrated Electronics
(5) ANATOMY: Where would Superman find his supraspinatus?
(a) ankle (b) hips (c) shoulder?
(6) LATIN: Which ancient Roman poet popularized the phrase “tempus fugit”?
(a) Horace (b) Virgil (c) Catullus
(7) ATHLETES: In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across what body of water?
(a) Lake Michigan (b) Bering Strait (c) English Channel

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Danny 400 Soumi 300 Joe 500 / LaKedra 500 Muffy 400 Arianna 400

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) CHURCHES: In the 1100s, the Basilica of St. Denis was the first major building constructed in what architectural style?
(2) VEGGIES: Used in stir-fries, what crisp, round, aquatic tuber is also central to the dish rumaki?
(3) HISTORY: Fueling colonial Spain’s immense wealth, the mines of Cerro Rico in Bolivia primarily produced what metal?
(4) POLITICS: Robert F. Kennedy served in what position in his brother’s Cabinet?
(5) LITERATURE: What Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi character was a Confederate Army captain?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Danny -200 Soumi 900 Joe 500 / LaKedra 700 Muffy 1000 Arianna 800

Danny and LaKedra 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.

Soumi and Joe go first:

(500) There’s a 37-foot high left field wall dubbed the Green Monster at what baseball stadium?
(600) The Oregon Treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between British Canada and what country?
(700) American brothers William and Ralph created what lager marketed as “Australian for beer”
(800) Connective tissue pulls skin downward while fat is pushed upward in what condition that results in dimpled skin?
(900) Italy’s Rialto Bridge is the oldest bridge in what city?
(1000) Which Swedish-born Hall of Fame golfer was the first woman to appear in a PGA Tour event since 1945?
(1100) Following the publishing of 1954’s “Witchcraft Today”, what religion that espouses nature worship emerged?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Soumi 2000 Joe 4200

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

(500) In Genesis 19:24, the wrath of God falls on the cities of Sodom and what?
(600) When your fingers tingle from paresthesia, it’s commonly referred to as your hand doing what nocturnal activity?
(700) A classic ad for California Raisins featured what Marvin Gaye hit?
(800) in 2001, Robert Hanssen was charged with spying for the former Soviet Union while working for what U.S. agency?
(900) Thriving after escaping from Pablo Escobar’s zoo, hippos are now an invasive species in what country?
(1000) In 1991, who became the first American woman to land a triple axel jump in competitive figure skating?
(1100). According to the title of a cookbook by Samin Nosrat, the elements of good cooking or salt, fat, acid and what?
(1200) The calendar of the Chinese Zodiac is based on the time it takes what planet to orbit the sun?

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Muffy finished with 4500 to Arianna’s 2900 so Muffy will join Joe in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Joe beats Muffy, he will return next season if the show is renewed. 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) In Greek mythology, what paradise of the afterlife was reserved for the heroic and honored dead?
(2) Involving large amounts of fats and protein, what cardiologist’s first book title mentioned a “diet revolution”?
(3) In what Mozart opera does a woman named Donna Anna seek revenge for the death of her father?
(4) Electricity in the body is created through interactions between ions of sodium chloride and what other element?
(5) What U.S. President was the first American to win a Nobel Prize?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Joe got 3 right to Muffy’s 4. Joe is going home with $1,000 and that is the end of Season 2.

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