Master Minds Recap: February 2, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, February 2, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Mythical Creatures”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Brad, Diana, Robert

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) SCRIPTURE: Which of these mythical creatures was mentioned by name at least nine times in the Bible?
(a) Pegasus (b) Unicorn (c) Hippogriff
(2) HISTORY: What was the first conflict to employ a submarine for military use?
(a) American Revolution (b) American Civil War (c) Spanish-American War?
(3)WHICH CAME FIRST: hop, skip or jump?
(a) Johns Hopkins Univ (b) Skippy peanut butter (c) jumpsuit
(4) LANGUAGE: According to a Bangor University study, approximately how many words are in the average English speaker’s vocabulary?
(a) 50,000 (b) 70,000 (c) 90,000
(5) SCIENTISTS: Which of the following was invented by Thomas Edison?
(a) talking doll (b) kaleidoscope (c) remote-controlled car
(6) COLLECTIONS: When the Louvre had a slow year in 2016, which institution overtook it as the most attended museum?
(a) National Museum of China (b) British Museum (c) Prado Museum
(1) CUISINE: In cooking, which of these food items is most likely to be trussed?
(a) fish (b) chicken (c) eggs

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Brad 500 Diana 200 Robert 300 / Ken 600 Muffy 400 Jonathan 300

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) GEOGRAPHY: The modern-day concept of zombies may trace its roots to the voodoo myths of what island nation?
(2) PEOPLE: What oil magnate and antiquities collector was deemed the richest man in the world when he died in 1976?
(3) CLOTHING: Originally a word that refers to the act of covering up, what type of Muslim headscarf leaves the face exposed?
(4) NICKNAMES: In what British city do “Mancunians” live?
(5) COMPOSITION: A piece of music designed to improved a performer’s technical skill is known by what French word for “study”?
Brad & Jonathan: Etude

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Brad 900 Diana 200 Robert 700 / Ken 800 Muffy 400 Jonathan 1300

Diana 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.

Brad and Robert go first:

(500) What shark with a tool in its name has an unusually-shaped head designed for panoramic vision?
(600) Picking “living coral” in 2019, which company influences design and fashion by choosing a color of the year?
(700) A quadriga was a chariot drawn by how many horses?
(800) What do the letters “LP” stand for on a phonograph record that spends 33-1/3 revolutions per minute?
(900) Members of the Han Chinese ethnic group also refer to themselves as “descendants of” what mythical creature?
(1000) Ashdown Forest in the UK was the inspiration for what fictional land of Winnie-the-Pooh?
(1100) What organ of the body is protected by layers of membranes called “meninges”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Brad 4300 Robert 1800

Brad 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 Brad.

(500) Lacking olfactory nerves, killer whales have no sense of what?
(600) In Australia, Easter is celebrated during what season of the year?
(700) Long time pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese has what “categorical” middle name?
(800) Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, the “ABC islands”, are located in the Caribbean closest to which country?
(900) The majority of oxygen on the International Space Station is made using electrolysis on what liquid?
(1000) As the first African American to serve in Congress, Senator Hiram revels represented what Southern state in 1870?
(1100) What manicure style features a pink or neutral-colored base with white polish at the tip of the nail?
(1200) A series of 17 colossal heads found in southern Mexico were carved from basalt by what pre-Colombian civilization?

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Jonathan finished with 4300 to Ken’s 1800 so Jonathan will join Brad in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Brad 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) In Sandro Botticelli’s painting “Birth of Venus”, the goddess of love was depicted standing on what?
(2) The 2009 Fair Pay Act is named for which income equality activist?
(3) The font name “Helvetica” is based on the Latin word for which alpine country where it was invented?
(4) Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was designed by what celebrated architect?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the fourth clue, Brad was batting zero and Jonathan had two right so the game was over. Brad is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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