Master Minds Recap: January 19, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, January 19, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Coded Puzzles”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Arianna Haut, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Nadeem, Kelly, Hunter

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) SYMBOLS: Which of these shapes is found on the flag of every Scandinavian country?
(a) cross (b) diamond (c) star
(2) ROBOTS: Inspiring NASA half a millennium later, what true “Renaissance Man” built a functioning robotic knight in 1495?
(a) Michelangelo (b) Da Vinci (c) Raphael?
(3) GAMES: As a magazine editor, Edgar Allan Poe helped popularize what kind of coded word puzzles?
(a) nonograms (b) cryptograms (c) panagrams
(4) TRANSPORTATION: Which car maker was named for the daughter of a popular race car driver?
(a) Mercedes (b) Porsche (c) Lexus
(5) BEVERAGES: Creme d’ananas is a liqueur flavored with what fruit?
(a) pineapple (b) banana (c) orange
(6) ANIMALS: Which President was once given a gift of two lion cubs which he named “Tax Reduction” & “Budget Bureau”?
(a) Calvin Coolidge (b) Teddy Roosevelt (c) Warren G. Harding
(7) INTERNET: In the computer file types “MPEG” & “JPEG” the E stands for what?
(a) electric (b) encrypted (c) experts

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Nadeem 400 Kelly 300 Hunter 400 / Ken 700 Arianna 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) QUOTATIONS: What four words complete the Oscar Wilde phrase that starts, “Nowadays people know the price of everything and”?
(2) PSYCHOLOGY: Named for a Swiss psychiatrist, a Rorschach test asks people to describe what they see in the irregular shapes of what?
(3) PRODUCTS: Although it translates to “rotten pot”, what word refers to a mix of herbs and flowers used for scent?
(4) HISTORY: The military offensive to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the Gulf War was called “Operation” what?
(5) THEATER: The brutish, dim-witted Caliban plots to murder Prospero in what Shakespeare play?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Nadeem 600 Kelly 500 Hunter 800 / Ken 700 Muffy 600 Jonathan 1100

Kelly and Arianna 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.

Nadeem and Hunter go first:

(500) The inventor of what flavor enhancer coined the term “umami” to describe its taste?
(600) John Ford directed which Oscar- winning actor in two dozen movies between 1939 and 1963?
(700) Known for white bottles adorned with a sailing ship, what classic men’s fragrance was launched in 1938?
(800) A statue in New Zealand honors Mrs. Chippy, a cat who went on an expedition to what continent with Ernest Shackleton?
(900) Like a weightlifting helper, what member of a cheerleading squad watches a stunt for any hazards?
(1000) Under the pen name Carolyn Keene, Mildred Wirt Benson wrote 23 books featuring what female detective?
(1100) Gonzaga University is located in what state?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Nadeem 1300 Hunter 4700

Hunter 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 Hunter.

(500) Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is the mascot for what cereal introduced by General Mills in 1958?
(600) Water flows to Hudson Bay and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from the Triple Divide Peak and what Big Sky state?
(700) Website 538 says that the games in what major sports league feature only 18 minutes of action with the ball in play?
(800) What short story by Herman Melville closes with the line, “Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!”?
(900) Discovered by scientists in the 1950s, the spiral shape of a DNA molecule is commonly called a double what?
(1000) In “The Wounded Deer”, what artist painted her own face, with its distinctive unibrow, on the titular animal’s body?
(1100) What two-word name for ethyl alcohol emerged during Prohibition to stress its use for topical purposes?

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Jonathan finished with 4600 to Ken’s 2800 so Jonathan will join Hunter in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Hunter beats Jonathan, 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) Due to his ability to escape justice for so long, what mafia boss was nicknamed “the Teflon Don”?
(2) Typically what student with the highest grades gives a farewell speech at a graduation ceremony?
(3) What museum allows visitors to explore the ancient temple of Dendur which was brought from Egypt to New York?
(4) In the 1990s, the National Wood Flooring Association published a parody counterpoint to what popular Dr. Seuss book?
(5) Based on the drawings of a German nun, what ceramic figurines became popular in the U.S. following World War II?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Hunter and Jonathan were tied at 3 right each so Hunter got to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Jonathan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Who is the only 20th century U.S. President elected directly from his position as Vice President?
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And we have our second $10,000 winner this season. Hunter will return tomorrow and we’ll see if he can be our first $20,000 winner.

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