Master Minds Recap: February 23, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, February 23, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & the Maine Border”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Ryan, Paul, Tracie

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) LANDMARKS: What was established on the estate confiscated from Robert E. Lee and his wife?
(a) Arlington National Cemetery (b) Pentagon (c) Lincoln Memorial
(2) GEOGRAPHY: What is the only state to share a border with Maine?
(a) New Hampshire (b) Vermont (c) Massachusetts?
(3) QUEENS: After the French king was put to death, how long did Marie Antoinette survive as a widow?
(a) 9 hours (b) 9 weeks (c) 9 months?
(4) DESIGNERS: What female-named fashion brand was founded by a man in 1954?
(a) Ann Taylor (b) Liz Claiborne (c) Nicole Miller
(5) ETIQUETTE: In which country is leaving a tip often considered rude?
(a) Ireland (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Japan?
(6) SCIENTISTS: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered what form of radiation?
(a) gamma ray (b) ultraviolet ray (c) x-ray
(7) ANIMALS: Which of these best describes an amphibian?
(a) warm-blooded vertebrate (b) warm-blooded invertebrate (c) cold-blooded vertebrate?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Ryan 400 Paul 500 Tracie 300 / Ken 500 Muffy 600 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) BIOLOGY: The largest known existing single cell can be found in the egg of what bird?
(2) LANDMASSES: On what peninsula is the country of Bulgaria located?
(3) POTS AND PANS: What hero of the American Revolution is the namesake for a copper-bottomed line of cookware?
(4) PHYSICS: According to Einstein’s E = mc²  equation the “c” stands for what?
(5) LITERATURE: What New England author and former competitive wrestler won a National Book Award for “The World According to Garp”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Ryan 800 Paul 1300 Tracie 300 / Ken 1100 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 700

Tracie and Jonathan 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.

Ryan and Paul go first:

(500) What day of the week is named for Odin, the chief god of Norse mythology?
(600) What staple of Mexican cuisine is typically wrapped in a corn husk before cooking?
(700) Associated with happiness, what celestial body lends its name to the round doorways found in Chinese gardens?
(800) The title character in which Stephen King novel is a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury?
(900) John Deere won a lawsuit defending its trademark to a specific combination of what two basic colors?
(1000) New Zealand takes its name from Zeeland, a maritime province of what European country?
(1100) Featuring Lou Reed, what band was produced by Andy Warhol?
(1200) What group of three leg muscles includes the biceps femoris?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Ryan 1700 Paul 6000

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

(500) Call letters for most radio and TV stations east of the Mississippi River begin with what letter?
(600) The birthplace of Napoleon, which Mediterranean island is located directly north of Sardinia?
(700) What triangular-shaped head scarf takes its name from the Russian word for “grandmother”?
(800) Introduced in 2003, what cleaning product uses melamine foam to exfoliate stains rather than dissolve them?
(900) In 2015, Terry Branstad broke George Clinton’s record for being the longest-tenured holder of what U.S. elected office?
(1000) Professor Robert Langdon is featured in a series of best-selling novels by what author?
(1100) Selling steamed sliders since 1921, what was the first fast-food hamburger chain?
(1200) William Shatner and Justin Trudeau are both alumni of what Montreal school?
didn’t count:
(1300) Meaning “planted in a container”, what Japanese tree-shaping art form helps Zen monks meditate?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 5800 to Ken’s 3100 so Muffy will join Paul in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Paul 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 basis for a successful six-part film series, what was Dashiell Hammett’s last published novel?
(2) The police agency Interpol is headquartered in what French city?
(3) What is the only NFL team whose name is an anagram for a planet in our solar system?
(4) If one trillion is a one followed by 12 zeroes what number is represented by a one followed by 15 zeroes?
(5) Meaning “grown together”, what Roman invention involved mixing ingredients such as sand, horse hair and blood?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Paul got 3 right to Muffy’s 2, and Paul has proven himself to be one of those players we rarely see on this show: a $10,000 winner! He will be back tomorrow with a chance to become a $20,000 winner (even more rare).

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