Master Minds Recap: February 8, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, February 8, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Greek Mythology”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Marcus, Greg, Erin

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) TECH: On its earliest logo, Apple Computer featured a poem and an image of what famous scientist?
(a) Galileo Galilei (b) Isaac Newton (c) Albert Einstein
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST?
(a) Cheerios (b) The Indianapolis 500 (c) Barbie
(3) ENTERTAINMENT: The directors of “Disney’s “The Lion King” modeled the film partly on what play by Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth (b) Romeo & Juliet (c) Hamlet
(4) LEGENDS: In Greek mythology, a flower grew from the spilled blood of which figure after a discus mishap?
(a) Hyacinthus (b) Amaranthus (c) Narcissus
(5) FOOD: Inventor Walter Diemer made what confection pink because it was the only shade of food coloring he had?
(a) cotton candy (b) bubble gum (c) marshmallow peeps
(6) THE 20TH CENTURY: In 1970, the Soviets were caught building a secret nuclear naval base in Cuba after a CIA photo analyst noticed what?
(a) grain silos (b) soccer fields (c) an aquarium
(7) ANIMALS: It’s said that the easiest way to distinguish African elephants from Asian elephants is to look at their what?
(a) tails (b) ears (c) trunks

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Marcus 300 Greg 400 Erin 300 / Ken 600 Muffy 600 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) ADVERTISING: What credit card company used the popular slogan “Don’t leave home without it”?
(2) ENTERTAINMENT: To view “Bwana Devil”, the first 3D film ever released, audiences were given glasses with lenses of what two colors?
(3) THE HUMAN BODY: A suntan is the result of what pigment being released to defend against damaging ultraviolet rays?
(4) SCRIPTURE: In the Bible, who was the first King of Israel?
(5) HISTORY: Founded in Jamestown in 1619, what was the oldest English-speaking representative assembly in the New World?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Marcus 500 Greg 0 Erin 500 / Ken 1200 Muffy 600 Jonathan 100

Greg 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.

Marcus and Erin go first:

(500) “Taste the Rainbow” is the long-running campaign that advertises what non-chocolate candy?
(600) In swimming, the medley races include the butterfly, breaststroke, freestyle, and what other stroke?
(700) Used especially by women for centuries, what lightweight umbrella is used as a sunshade?
(800) What E.B. White children’s novel features a two-inch tall, mousy protagonist and a family cat named Snowbell?
(900) What type of printer uses tiny hammers against an ink ribbon to generate images?
(1000) The son of a notable Boston brewer, who was one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty in the 1760s?
(1100) Joycelyn Elders was the first African American and second woman to hold what government position?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Marcus 1000 Erin 2800

Erin 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 Erin.

(500) The Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris stretches from what landmark to Place de la Concorde?
(600) Max Factor invented what product he originally called “Lip Pomade” to give actresses a sheen on film?
(700) Prolonged use of computer screens can cause digital eye strain due to what color light?
(800) Along with Dolores Huerta, who founded the National Farm Workers Association?
(900) Fruits like peaches are classified as drupaceous because they have what kind of seed?
(1000) What three-word phrase for an easy victory originated in reference to jockeys?
(1100) Known for the hit song “Chantilly Lace,” J.P. Richardson was better known by what stage name?
(1200) What dystopian novel begins when “the clocks were striking thirteen”?

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Ken finished with 4800 to Muffy’s 3300 so Ken will join Erin in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Erin beats Ken, she 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) Established in 1840, what state has the only public school system in the U.S. that was established by a sovereign monarch?
(2) What is the only country in the world whose name ends with “G”?
(3) Far away from the swamps where they’re now used, who invented the airboat in his Nova Scotia lab?
(4) Which feminist wrote the 1966 essay collection “Against Interpretation” and the 1999 novel “In America”?
(5) Seemingly belonging to Anne Bancroft, the leg in the poster of what 1976 movie was actually that of Linda Gray?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Erin got one right. Ken got two. Erin is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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