Master Minds Recap: February 4, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, February 4, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Secret Messages”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Kathy, Tony, Zack

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) ADVERTISING: Randomly chosen in 1892, what number appears on the label of Heinz Products to promote its many “Varieties”?
(a) 33 (b) 57 (c) 82
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST: stop, look or listen?
(a) stop sign implemented (b) motion picture projected (c) telephone patented
(3) CODE: What fashion accessory does Queen Elizabeth use in public to send secret messages to her staff?
(a) hat (b) necklace (c) handbag
(4) PHYSICS: While spending 748 days in space, what happened to cosmonaut Sergei Aveyev that wouldn’t have happened if he had stayed home?
(a) he aged slower (b) he aged faster (c) he ceased to age
(5) ENTERTAINMENT: What was the original name of the 1970’s TV crime drama “Charlie’s Angels”?
(a) Alley Cats (b) Devil’s Angels (c) Lady Cops
(6) FOOD: Before starting his famous cookie empire, Wally Amos worked what job?
(a) William Morris agent (b) Dupont chemical engineer (c) business school professor
(7) AUTOMOBILES: Which iconic pony car made its debut at the 1964 World’s Fair?
(a) Mercury Cougar (b) Plymouth Barracuda (c) Ford Mustang

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Kathy 400 Tony 600 Zack 500 / Ken 500 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) QUOTATIONS: Henry Ford remarked that a customer could have a Model T in any color as long as it’s what?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: Syracuse and Palermo are cities on what island?
(3) HEALTHCARE: The sensation or perception of ringing in your ears goes by what medical term?
(4) MARKETING: What legendary pitchman sliced and diced his way to fame demonstrating products like his father’s “Veg-O-Matic”?
(5) COOKING: Used as a flavor base, mirepoix is typically a vegetable trio of celery, onion, and what third ingredient?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Kathy 0 Tony 800 Zack 1100 / Ken 900 Muffy 1000 Jonathan 500

Kathy 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.

Tony and Zack go first:

(500) What unit of area was determined by how much land could be plowed in one day with oxen pulling a plow?
(600) Greg Lemond became the first American to win what race?
(700) In the CMYK color model commonly used in printing, what color does the letter “C” stand for?
(800) The Walt Whitman poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is an elegy on the death of what President?
(900) Now owned by Intuit, what software was designed in the 1980s to help Americans prepare for April 15th?
(1000) Formed when Pangaea broke up, Laurasia consisted of Eurasia and what present-day continent?
(1100) Native to Indonesia, what is the world’s largest living species of lizard?
(1200) Based on a Harold Gray comic strip, what Broadway musical includes the songs “Maybe” and “Easy Street”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Tony 4200 Zack 2300

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

(500) The Maasai of Kenya are historically examples of what people who regularly relocate over time?
(600) A term especially used in the restaurant industry, what two-digit number refers to someone being refused service?
(700) In 1915, Carl Peterson patented what brand of adjustable wrench that’s become a generic name for the tool?
(800) National Women’s History Month begins on what date?
(900) As they migrate from Canada, a flying group of what honking birds is called a skein?
(1000) Inspired by the “Society for American Baseball Research”, Bill James developed what system for analyzing sports data?
(1100) Pantone 2865C is a shade of what color that Cadbury wraps its candy in?
(1200) What 2002 best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs was hotly contested by the family it depicted?

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Muffy finished with 5000 to Ken’s 3000 so Muffy will join Tony in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Tony 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) What term is used for something that is attached to the end of a book or to the large intestine?
(2) In 1647, Alse Young of Windsor, CT became the first person in North America executed for what crime?
(3) Nominated many times, Jimmy Stewart’s only competitive Oscar win was for his role in what film with Katharine Hepburn?
(4) The first university located west of the Mississippi River was founded in which city?
(5) Brought to the U.S. in 1898, what topical pain medication is named for its French inventor, but spelled differently?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Well, knock us all down with a feather. Tony got 4 right to Muffy’s 3. That makes Tony the third $10,000 winner this season and he will return tomorrow to have another go at it.

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