Master Minds Recap: February 11, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, February 11, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Pregnancy Cravings”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Kevin, Demille, Paul

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) FOOD: To satisfy cravings of expecting women, the company Nightfood Inc. launched “Pickles for Two”, a pickle-flavored what?
(a) candy bar (b) chewing gum (c) ice cream
(2) DOWN UNDER: the “Great Barrier Fence” is currently intended to keep what animal out of the fertile part of Australia?
(a) dingo (b) crocodile (c) kangaroo
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: stop, drop or roll?
(a) stop motion animation (b) NFL dropkick (c) roller skates
(4) BUILDINGS: Before 1901, the White House was officially known by what name?
(a) the President’s home (b) the executive mansion (c) Washington House
(5) GEOGRAPHY: If you’re basking on Botafogo Beach, which of these iconic peaks can you see?
(a) Sugarloaf Mountain (b) Gibraltar (c) Mt. Vesuvius
(6) WEDDINGS: Which designer of bridal gowns is a former professional ice skater?
(a) Vera Wang (b) Carolina Herrera (c) Tom Ford
(7) BOTANY: Part of the genus Urtica, which of these describes a plant with stinging hairs
(a) flax (b) nettle (c) spurge

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Kevin 300 Demille 600 Paul 500 / Ken 600 Muffy 600 Jonathan 600

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) ADVERTISING: Over a hundred years old, what coffee brand claims it’s “the best part of waking up”?
(2) BOOKS: In George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”, what family’s motto is, “Winter is coming”?
(3) CLASSICAL MUSIC: What Tchaikovsky piece celebrates the year Russia foiled an invasion by Napoleon?
(4) MONEY: What form of modern currency takes its name from a German word referring to silver coins?
(5) ART: A 1937 painting by Picasso depicts the bombing of which Basque town during the Spanish Civil War?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Kevin 700 Demille 200 Paul 100 / Ken 800 Muffy 800 Jonathan 1400

MASTER MINDS TIE-BREAKER: The presence of what visible body part most easily distinguishes most monkeys from apes?
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Paul 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.

Kevin and Demille go first:

(500) The only coral barrier reef in the continental U.S. is located off the shore of which state?
(600) NBA star Kawhi Leonard is commonly seen with what unisex coif of hair braided along the scalp?
(700) Osteoarthritis is the result of what tissue in the joints wearing down over time?
(800) According to North Carolina folklore, what carnivorous plant came to Earth on a meteor?
(900) For good luck, Iberia Airlines intentionally excludes what row number from all of its planes?
(1000) What ocean current is mentioned in the first verse of “This Land is Your Land”?
(1100) After a 70-year absence, what apex predator was successfully reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Kevin 5200 Demille 200

Kevin 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 Kevin.

(500) A letter from 11-year-old Grace Bedell encouraged what future president to grow facial hair?
(600) Located near the speedometer, what instrument measures a car’s engine rate in revolutions per minute?
(700) Cecil B. DeMille used gelatin mix with over 300,000 gallons of water in an iconic scene for what film?
(800) Sharing its name with a magazine, what William Thackeray novel follows Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley?
(900) Co-founded by Steve Hafner, the name of what travel info app is a palindrome?
(1000) Which Claude Debussy composition is the third movement of “Suite Bergamasque”?
(1100) What family of large beetles was considered a sacred symbol in ancient Egypt?
(1200) What is the last name of the plaintiffs in the 1967 Supreme Court case that ended bans on interracial marriage?

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Muffy finished with 5000 to Jonathan’s 4000 so Muffy will join Kevin in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Kevin beats Muffy, 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) The Times-Picayune was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes in 2006 for its coverage of what hurricane?
(2) What two U.S. state capitals begin and end with the same letter?
(3) During the Revolutionary War, the U.S. was aided by the United Provinces, a forerunner of what modern nation?
(4) Famous for the plays “Brittanicus” and “Phèdre”, what French author quit the theatre in 1677 at the height of his fame?
(5) In Italy, what American comic strip and cartoon character was known as “Iron Arm”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Kevin got 2 right to Muffy’s 3. Kevin is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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