Master Minds Recap: February 25, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, February 25, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Fictional Citizens”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, LaKedra Pam
Today’s challengers: Thomas, Anthony, Renee

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: To promote tourism and entertainment, Japan officially made what fictional creature a citizen?
(a) Pikachu (b) King Kong (c) Godzilla
(2) SPORTS: Before a specific ball was invented or the game, basketball player used what similar-sized object?
(a) volleyball (b) soccer ball (c) tennis ball
(3) SYMBOLS: Printed on the sidewall, the first three digits of a car tire’s size refer to what?
(a) tire width (b) load limit (c) depth of tread
(4) SCIENCE: After “i-u-m”, what is the most common ending for the names of elements?
(a) o-n (b) e-s-e (c) e-n
(5) CAREERS: According to a USA Today study, which of these statements is true about the field of professional writing?
(a) most writers are female (b) average salary under $25K (c) highest rate of job growth
(6) EDUCATION: Coretta Scott met Martin Luther King, Jr., while she was a student at what institution?
(a) Vanderbilt University (b) Howard University (c) N.E. Conservatory of Music
(7) RELIGION: Leading up to Easter on the Christian calendar, what 40-day period commemorates Jesus’ fast in the desert?
(a) Advent (b) Epiphany (c) Lent

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Thomas 100 Anthony 300 Renee 200 / Ken 400 Muffy 300 LaKedra 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) EVENTS: Because it’s big for online sales, the Monday after Thanksgiving is nicknamed what?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: Still a part of the United Kingdom, what is the capital of Northern Ireland?
(3) FASHION: Salvatore Ferragamo used what lightweight material in the 1930s to make his iconic “wedge” shoe?
(4) BIOLOGY: Witch hazel and vinegar are examples of what substances used to cause the contraction of skin cells?
(5) RELATIVES: Playwright Eugene O’Neill was the father-in-law of what silent-era film comedian?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Thomas 700 Anthony 300 Renee 100 / Ken 1000 Muffy 300 LaKedra 500

Renee 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.

Thomas and Anthony go first:

(500) Annie Leibovitz photographed celebrities with white mustaches for what two-word campaign for the dairy industry?
(600) Debuting in 2005, what video game series uses a controller shaped like a rock music instrument?
(700) What nickname for Andrew Jackson includes a wood used for smoking bacon?
(800) Who is the best-selling author of the feminist novel “Fear of Flying”?
(900) The first police force of what Commonwealth country was composed entirely of convicts?
(1000) As one of his 12 tasks, Hercules had to slay what serpent-like monster with regenerating heads
(1100) In 1916, King Rama VI modernized the flag of Thailand by removing the image of what large animal?
(1200) Written without spaces and in all caps, which designer’s name follows BCBG and the fashion brand he started?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Thomas 3800 Anthony 1800

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

(500) Tom Brady led what NFL team to six Super Bowl victories?
(600) Japanese women’s beauty was once judged by the length of their what, sometimes reaching more than 5 feet long?
(700) In Freudian analysis, what part of the personality represents the conscience?
(800) An egg tart pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, The pastel de nata is an iconic food of what Western European country?
(900) What word is typically yelled at an opera singer when the audience wanted to hear a performance again?
(1000) England’s Eleanor of Aquitaine famously tended to wounded soldiers during what conflict?
(1100) What word for an evildoer or scoundrel is related to the word villager?

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Ken finished with 3600 to LaKedra’s 1000 so Ken will join Thomas in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Thomas 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) The satellites and command stations that make GPS possible are controlled and operated by what U.S. military branch?
(2) Russia, Canada and the U.S. are bordered by how many oceans?
(3) Who fought Fascists on London streets years before popularizing hairstyles like “the Shape” and Mary Quant’s bob?
(4) “All this happened, more or less” is the opening line of which Kurt Vonnegut book?
(5) What iconic 1878 invention for first responders is being phased out for fear of injury and lawsuits?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Thomas and Ken were tied at 3 right apiece so Thomas got to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Ken on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Dating back more than 1,200 years, what is the oldest world currency still in use today?

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Thomas thought it was the Japanese yen. He is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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