Master Minds Recap: January 28, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, January 28, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Modern Day Dinosaurs”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, LaKedra Pam
Today’s challengers: Jeff, Fanci, Stuart

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) SCIENCE: Using the brain monitoring process called ECoG for short, researchers have been able to do what?
(a) boost IQ (b) teleport (c) read minds
(2) FOOD: In honor of its creation, the world’s largest Caesar salad was made in which city that was its birthplace?
(a) Rome (b) Madrid (c) Tijuana
(3) GEOGRAPHY: Which major U.S. city is nicknamed “The Crescent City” because it was built on a bend in the Mississippi River?
(a) Beantown (b) The Big Easy (c) Bluff City
(4) MUSIC: What are the last two words of the Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome”?
(a) all day (b) this day (c) some day
(5) PREHISTORIC TIMES: Carnivores like the velociraptor and T.Rex belong to what group of “beast-footed” dinosaurs?
(a) gastropod (b) sauropod (d) theropod
(6) MONEY: Recent World Bank estimates place the gross domestic product of the world closest to what figure in U.S. dollars?
(a) 85 trillion (b) 422 trillion (c) 840 trillion
(7) SYMBOLS: A word with multiple homophones, what wedge-shaped mark indicates where something is to be inserted?
(a) axil (b) caret (c) doux

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Jeff 500 Fanci 400 Stuart 400 / Ken 700 Muffy 500 LaKedra 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) COOKING: Used in soups and glazes, miso is a paste traditionally made by fermenting what legume?
(2) MUSIC: In 2016, Warner/Chappell Music agreed to pay $14 million in a lawsuit concerning which traditional American song?
(3) EDUCATION: When Mount Holyoke College introduced the first documented letter grading system in 1897, it included what five letters?
(4) BUSINESS: Elizabeth Arden was among the first to offer what in-store beauty service of redoing a look with cosmetics?
(5) ASTRONOMY: How many Jovian planets are in our solar system?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Jeff 1300 Fanci 400 Stuart 400 / Ken 500 Muffy 900 LaKedra 700

CONTESTANT TIE-BREAKER: What Roman god made mischief with his golden arrows of desire and lead arrows of aversion?

ANSWER: show

Stuart and Ken 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.

Jeff and Fanci go first:

(500)The chameleon is best known for its ability to change what?
color
(600) In 1928, what did the Hobart paper company name its new product after an employee described it as charming?
(700) Saint Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of what nation?
(800) The western-most U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is located in what California city?
(900) What outdoor clothing company began with the Maine hunting shoe in 1912?
(1000) In what 1950 novella does Gregor Samsa wake up in the body of a giant insect Fanci The Fly
(1100) On what holiday do people reenact Washington’s famous 1776 crossing of the Delaware River.

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Jeff 4300 Fanci 1900

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

(500) A type of train that hovers above the tracks is known as a “maglev”, short for what?
(600) Developed by P&G and Continuum, what cleaning product uses electrostatic forces to gather up dust?
(700) Project Mercury was the subject of what Tom Wolfe best-seller?
(800) The most recent Olympic Games held in the United States were hosted by what city?
(900) Christian Dior’s 1954 “H” line popularized what tight hemmed “skirt” also called a “wiggle dress”?
(1000) Winning for “The Hurt Locker”, who was the first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director?
(1100) What type of tree gets its name by producing nuts that resemble a certain part of a deer?
(1200) Known as “Tippecanoe”, which Whig Party candidate won a bid for President in 1840?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 2100 to LaKedra’s 4300 so LaKedra will join Jeff in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jeff beats LaKedra, 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) In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which palindromic inductee comes first alphabetically?
(2) Earned from years of financial fraud, what nickname did Jordan Belfort use in the titles of his memoirs?
(3) Known in France as white burgundy, what is the most widely-planted white wine grape in the world?
(4) Who founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. after leaving the Nation of Islam?
(5) What kind of medical doctor specializes in conditions involving the hair and fingernails?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
show

Jeff got 2 right to LaKedra’s 3. Jeff is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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