Master Minds Recap: January 4, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, January 4, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Creativity”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: David, George, Ashley

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) BUSINESS: What supply store chain introduced the “easy button” as part of its advertising?
(a) Home Depot (b) PetSmart (c) Staples
(2) PRODUCE: The most commonly eaten part of which vegetable is technically its flower?
(a) spinach (b) broccoli (c) rhubarb
(3) FASHION: The cardigan sweater is named for what?
(a) a British nobleman (b) a breed of sheep (c) a Scottish island
(4) WHICH CAME FIRST: duck, duck, goose?
(a) Peking duck (b) rubber duck (c) “Tales of Mother Goose”
(5) COMMUNICATIONS: With only 50 listing and no numbers, the first telephone director was published where?
(a) Deadwood, SD (b) New York City (c) New Haven, CT
(6) CELEBRATIONS: Meaning “creativity”, which principle of Kwanzaa is discussed on its sixth day?
(a) Kuumba (b) Imani (c) Nia
(7) DESTINATIONS: One of the two oldest still in operation, what is Denmark’s Tivoli Gardens?
(a) amusement park (b) brewery (c) cemetery

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Scores at end of Round 1:
David 400 George 600 Ashley 400 / Ken 500 Muffy 300 Jonathan 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) PSYCHOLOGY: Defined in the modern age by Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud, what does “OCD” stand for?
(2) PASTIMES: Though silent today, what 18th century word-guessing game had players describe each syllable with rhyming riddles?
(3) TEXTILES: The French city of Nimes in the namesake of what durable cotton fabric?
(4) FOOD: Chef Andy Kao is credited with creating what restaurant chain’s signature “orange chicken” entrée?
(5) PRECIOUS THINGS: According to the American Gem Society, what is the only birthstone made by a living creature?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
David 400 George 800 Ashley 1000 / Ken 700 Muffy 900 Jonathan 400

David 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.

George and Ashley go first:

(500) Also called helicopters, samaras are winged seeds that fall from what national tree of Canada?
(600) Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were members of which slapstick comedy trio?
(700) “You have the right to remain silent” is the first line of what “Warning”?
(800) On which Canadian island would you find Victoria, the capital of British Columbia?
(900) The dictator supposedly watching the characters of George Orwell’s “1984” goes by what “familial” name?
(1000) Corned beef traditionally comes from what section of a cow?
(1100) Native to Australia, the kookaburra is what type of animal?
(1200) Which free state joined the nation as a result of the 1820 Missouri Compromise?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
George 5900 Ashley 1500

George 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 George.

(500) Besides creating James Bond, Ian Fleming also wrote what children’s novel about a magical car?
(600) The Adirondack and Catskill mountain ranges are both located in which state?
(700) The term “McCarthyism” was coined as a result of Senate hearings into alleged Federal government ties to what party?
(800) Meaning “sea foam” in German, what white mineral is the prized material for ornately carved tobacco pipes?
(900) In Genesis, what patriarch is commanded to leave Ur in order to establish a new nation?
(1000) Collaborating with director Sergio Leone, what prolific composer defined the sound of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s?
(1100) In “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, which subterranean workers serve and also eat the Eloi?
didn’t count:
(1200) At sea level, how many degrees Fahrenheit is the condensation point of water?

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Ken finished with 5200 to Muffy’s 2000 so Ken will join George in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If George 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) What U.S. state borders the most Mexican states?
(2) After training, officers in the Salvation Army are commissioned with what rank?
(3) What three-letter name is the shortest biblical book title?
(4) Named for a Greek goddess, what NASA program plans to return humans to the moon?
(5) Founded in 18th century Geneva, what carbonated beverage brand was among the first commercial soft drink companies?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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George got 3 right to Ken’s 4. George is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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