Master Minds Recap: February 10, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, February 10, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Steam Engines”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Nat, Matthew, Nina

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: Traditionally, which color of the U.S. flag represents justice?
(a) red (b) white (c) blue
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST: Babar, mason jar or NPR?
(a) Babar the elephant (b) mason jar (c) National Public Radio
(3) BRAND NAMES: Which company produces the trademarked brand of bodysuits for toddlers called “onesies”?
(a) Gerber (b) Huggies (c) Playskool
(4) POP MUSIC: Before they were the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney first sang together in what band named for a school?
(a) The Wavertree Rockers (b) The Quarrymen (c) The Blackmoor Beat
(5) INVENTIONS: In the 17th century, Thomas Savery built the first steam engine to perform what task?
(a) mill wheat (b) pump water (c) weave cloth
(6) LITERATURE: Langston Hughes wrote that the Harlem Renaissance “reached its peak just before” which of these events?
(a) the end of World War I (b) the 1929 market crash (c) the start of World War II
(7) GEOGRAPHY: The City of Miami, Florida, is most associated with which nickname?
(a) the Emerald City (b) the Queen City (c) the Magic City

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Nat 500 Matthew 500 Nina 500 / Ken 600 Muffy 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) SPORTS: What color card is given to a soccer player to immediately eject them from the game?
(2) ANIMALS: Longer-legged and slimmer than its two-humped counterpart, what type of camel has one hump?
(3) THE 1980s: The first animatronic toy was what storytelling bear introduced in the mid-1980s?
(4) BUSINESS: The man who was fired as a trolley conductor, gardener and horse groomer before making millions selling brushes had what last name?
(5) HISTORIC MOMENTS: Pivotal marches during the Civil Rights Movement took place on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in what Alabama City?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Nat 1100 Matthew 700 Nina 500 / Ken 800 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 900

Nina 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.

Nat and Matthew go first:

(500) The first commercial airline in the U.S. flew between St. Petersburg and Tampa and what state?
(600) In 1946, what chain of stores adopted its current name to reflect its daily operating hours?
(700) The best-selling reggae album of all time is “Legend” by what singer-songwriter and his band, The Wailers?
(800) Mt. Elbert is the highest peak in what U.S. mountain range?
(900) The martial arts belt system was first developed by Jigoro Kano for which discipline?
(1000) What was the name of the first lunar lander to bring astronauts to the moon’s surface?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Nat 2200 Matthew 1400

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

(500) In a game of rock paper scissors, what beats paper?
(600) In surgical terms, the suffix “-ostomy” means “to make an opening” and what other suffix means to remove something?
(700) What type of alcohol is used in mixing a traditional “old-fashioned” cocktail?
(800) What is the slightly ironic name for the 100-year-old progressive university in Greenwich Village?
(900) In the Book of Exodus, who walked with Moses and turned the Egyptian waters to blood?
(1000) In 1979, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his play “Buried Child”?
(1100) South of San Francisco, the Valley of Heart’s Delight acquired what moniker after the influx of computer chip makers?
(1200) Found at the Bargello in Florence, who sculpted two David statues with Goliath’s head at his feet.

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Jonathan finished with 4900 to Muffy’s 2600 so Jonathan will join Nat in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Nat 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) Which Honda car model can be spelled entirely using Roman numeral symbols?
(2) Since 1898, U.S. Navy battleships have been named for what?
(3) Traveling over 2,900 miles in a year, what North American animal migrates further than any land mammal?
(4) Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for which novel?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the fourth question, the score was 3 to 1 in Jonathan’s favor. the game was over and Nat went home with $1,000. There will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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