Master Minds Recap: December 22, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, December 22, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & National Symbols”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Cecil, Tyler, Katie

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) LOGOS: A red stagecoach is the corporate symbol of which financial institution?
(a) Deutsche Bank (b) SunTrust (c) Wells Fargo
(2) LITERATURE: Which book was subtitled “The Modern Prometheus?
(a) Frankenstein (b) Brave New World (c) Ulysses
(3) FOOD: Made with ladyfingers, which Italian dessert has a name that means “pick me up”?
(a) cannoli (b) pirouette (c) tiramisu
(4) RELIGION: In the Catholic church who do you pray to for the recovery of a lost item?
(a) St. Jude (b) St. Teresa (c) St. Anthony
(5) NATIONAL SYMBOLS: The Icelandic coat of arms features a bull, bird, dragon and what fourth guardian spirit?
(a) elf (b) troll (c) giant
(6) BUILDINGS: Which structure is an example of architecture in the “Greek Revival” style?
(a) Jefferson Memorial (b) Lincoln Memorial (c) U.S. Capitol
(7) ANIMALS: A rhino’s horn is made from the same material as your what?
(a) skull (b) teeth (c) fingernail

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Cecil 400 Tyler 400 Katie 600 / Ken 500 Muffy 600 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) GARDENING: When blown by the wind or by human breath, the pappus of what weed carries its seeds up to 100 kilometers away?
(2) WORDS: The “confluence” is the point at which what type of smaller stream of water feeds into a larger river?
(3) WORLD CURRENCIES: What is the basic monetary unit of both India & Pakistan?
(4) DEVICES: The spool pin, thread guide & buttonhole lever are all parts of what?
(5) FASHION: Louise Poirier designed the “Dream Lift” model of women’s undergarment that became synonymous with what company?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Cecil 600 Tyler 1000 Katie 200 / Ken 900 Muffy 800 Jonathan 1000

Katie and Muffy 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.

Cecil and Tyler go first:

(500) A snap, crackle or a pop noise occurs when milk dissolves the air pockets trapped in what cereal
(600) What machine became the first non-human to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year?
(700) Rudyard Kipling’s “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is what species of animal?
(800) Made of rock dating to the Jurassic Age, Delicate Arch appears on license plates for what state?
(900) Acetylsalicylic acid is more commonly known as what over-the-counter medicine?
(1000) Jackie Gleason starred on the show “Cavalcade of Stars” on what early TV network that went off the air in 1956?
(1100) The wife of Jupiter, which Roman goddess is the counterpart of the Greek Hera?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Cecil 600 Tyler 6600

Tyler 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 Tyler.

(500) To rapidly industrialize its agriculture-based economy, what country implemented the “Great Leap Forward” campaign?
(600) A ring-shaped island surrounding a lagoon is referred to by what name?
(700) What derivative of peppermint oil is used for such medicinal products as Icy Hot cream and Gold Bond powder?
(800) What film director’s portrait appears on the Swedish 200-kronor bill
(900) In the red and white Marvel logo, all the letters of “Marvel” are touching, except which one?
(1000) King Penguin guano combines with what subantarctic soil to form nitrous oxide also known by what humorous name?
(1100) Philip Pirrip is the protagonist of what Charles Dickens novel?
(1200) 1939’s “Woodchopper’s Ball” was the theme song for what clarinet-playing bandleader of the “Thundering Herd”?

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Ken finished with 3700 to Jonathan’s 2900 so Ken will join Tyler in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Tyler 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) In the book by Crockett Johnson, what title character was able to create anything he imagined with his “Purple Crayon”?
(2) One of the foremost primatologists in the world, who published her findings in the book “Gorillas in the Mist”?
(3) Besides sailing, what is the only other Olympic category in which men and women compete directly against each other?
(4) In 1992, the European Union officially declared what city as its parliamentary seat??
(5) What was the first subatomic particle to be discovered?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Tyler tied Ken 3 to 3 on the last question so Tyler got to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Ken on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: What Midwestern state is the only one to have a unicameral form of legislature?

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Tyler nailed it. He is the first contestant in Season 2 to win $10,000. Tyler will be back tomorrow for a crack at another $10,000.

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