Master Minds Recap: February 16, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, February 16, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Nursery Rhymes”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Jonathan, LaKedra, Ryan

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) POP CULTURE: “Addams Family” daughter Wednesday got her name from a nursery rhyme that said “Wednesday’s child is full of” what?
(a) grief (b) woe (c) dread
(2) FOOD: In a traditional seven-course French meal which of these follows the main entree?
(a) salad (b) soup (c) fish
(3) HISTORY: Although the birthplace of seven Presidents, what U.S. state didn’t technically join the Union until the 1950s?
(a) Texas (b) Ohio (c) Missouri
(4) BASEBALL: In baseball scorekeeping, a “6-4-3” double play means which player fielded the ball first?
(a) catcher (b) first baseman (c) shortstop
(5) SCIENCE: Typically seen on the ocean, a Fata Morgana is what type of phenomenon?
(a) waterspout (b) mirage (c) distress signal
(6) TRANSPORTATION: In 1910, which publicity hound became the first person to pilot an airplane in Australia?
(a) Douglas Fairbanks (b) Harry Houdini (c) Henry Ford
NATURE: Because of their non-stop nibbling, what animal is listed by the APPA as a top cause of power outages?
(a) squirrels (b) birds (c) cats

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jonathan 400 Liz 200 Jacob 200 / Ken 700 LaKedra 400 Ryan 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) LITERATURE: What name for 18th-century pulp fiction came from their one-cent cost & their casts of fearful characters?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest country by area that borders the Caspian Sea?
(3) WORDS: A batch of eggs laid by a duck shares its name with what type of woman’s purse?
(4) ORGANIZATIONS: Celebrating being over 50 years of age, women in the Red Hat Society traditionally wear a red hat with what color clothing?
(5) HISTORY: What Spanish king’s armada was defeated by the English in the Anglo-Spanish War?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jonathan 1200 Liz 600 Jacob 200 / Ken 1300 LaKedra 200 Ryan 600

Jacob and LaKedra 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.

Jonathan and Liz go first:

(500) What is the term for the jump ball that begins a basketball game?
(600) Australia’s current Paliament House was designed to resemble two of what curved weapons?
(700) Jennifer Garner and Samuel L. Jackson have endorsed what brand of credit card that asks, “What’s in your wallet?”
(800) Operatic roles like Tannhauser and Lohengrin were written for what “heroic” vocal range?
(900) Papa John’s NASDAQ stock symbol spells what food minus the “I”?
(1000) Which South American country is closest to the Galapagos Islands?
(1100) Constance Chatterley becomes unfaithful ta her husband’s insistence in what D.H. Lawrence novel?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jonathan 3300 Liz 1500

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

(500) Established in Florida by Julia Tuttle, what is the only major American city founded by a woman?
(600) In psychology, “Napoleon” and “superiority” are examples of what patterns of unconscious impulses?
(700) At the annual Highland Games in Scotland, competitors toss a long wooden pole known as a what?
(800) At the end of Jane Austen’s classic novel, what character does Elizabeth Bennet finally agree to marry?
(900) What removable device is used to measure the level and cleanliness of motor oil in your car’s engine?
(1000) What French designer of the space-age “bubble dress” was born in Italy with the first name Pietro?
(1100) Occurring in wet or dry conditions, the aural infection otitis externa is commonly known by what aquatic nickname?
(1200) Ordering “canard” at a French restaurant will get you what type of meat?

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Ken finished with 3900 to Ryan’s 3800 so Ken will join Jonathan in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jonathan 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 Greek mythology, Penthesilea was the queen of what tribe of women warriors?
(2) Used to refer to someone who identifies as nonbinary, Merriam-Webster chose what as the 2019 Word of the Year?
(3) Ball and socket joints are located in the hip and what other body part?
(4) In which 1974 film did Jack Nicholson spend much of the movie with a bandage on his nose?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the fourth clue, Jonathan only had one right and Ken had 3. Jonathan leaves with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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