Master Minds Recap: February 9, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, February 9, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Rationing Chocolate”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Mercy, Amanda, Allan

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) SCIENCE: Having which of these directly overhead will reduce your weight the most?
(a) an airplane (b) the moon (c) the sun
(2) EVENTS: Occurring two and a half miles below sea level, a wedding was held atop the deck of what ship in 2001?
(a) the Queen Mary (b) RMS Titanic (c) USS Arizona
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: car, pay or D.M.?
(a) Chrysler minivan (b) bitcoin (c) Demi Moore
(4) LITERATURE: Translated into English, what novel’s working title was “All’s Well that Ends Well”?
(a) War and Peace (b) Love in the Time of Cholera (c) Les Miserables
(5) NATURE: Responsible for over a billion deaths, what is the leading killer of birds according to the Fish & Wildlife Service?
(a) window strikes (b) cats (c) pesticides
(6) GOVERNMENT: Which White House press secretary worked for both JFK and LBJ before becoming a correspondent for ABC?
(a) James Brady (b) Ron Ziegler (c) Pierre Salinger
(a)
(7) FOOD: To make chocolate go further after WWII rationing, Pietro Ferrero blended in hazelnuts and eventually created what?
(a) Snickers (b) Nutella (c) Rocky Road ice cream

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Mercy 600 Amanda 400 Allan 500 / Ken 500 LaKedra 400 Ryan 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) HISTORY: In 2019 astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first ever all-female what?
(2) HEALTH: Common in newborn babies, an overabundance of bilirubin causes what temporary condition?
(3) BUILDING MATERIALS: A mix of clay and water, what basic building material is traditionally kiln-fired as opposed to air-dried like adobe?
(4) CELEBRATIONS: On what Jewish holiday is it traditional to dress up in costumes and wear masks?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: What is the westernmost U.S. state whose name is two words long?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Mercy 600 Amanda 400 Allan 900 / Ken 900 LaKedra 1000 Ryan 500

Amanda and Ryan 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.

Mercy and Allan go first:

(500) What British author segmented his classic Christmas story into “staves” as opposed to chapters?
(600) Traditionally, borscht gets its characteristic deep red color from what root vegetable?
(700) The name of what amusement park refers to the number of nations that have governed over the land that is now Texas?
(800) The first electronic device implanted to restore human sense restored which one?
(900) An anemometer is used to measure the speed of what?
(1000) What actress, singer, comedian was portrayed by Barbra Streisand in the musical “Funny Girl”?
(1100) The French ship “Gloire” was the first of what warships with hulls encased in armor?
didn’t count:
(1200) The world’s largest amphibians are species of what lizard-like animals from China?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Mercy 1400 Allan 3600

Allan 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 Amanda.

(500) Children traditionally get creative at Thanksgiving by tracing their hand to draw what?
(600) When a player loses a point for two bad tennis serves in a row, it is called a what?
(700) In “rocket salad”, what type of lettuce green is the primary ingredient?
(800) What is the second smallest state in area?
(900) A physicist experimenting with optics and polarized light patented what colorful visual toy in 1817?
(1000) The original Roman mile was the distance a legion could march in how many paces?
(1100) The Juche calendar for North Korea begins in 1912, the year what former leader was born?
(1200) What is the last word on James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses”?

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LaKedra finished with 3800 to Ken’s 3700 so LaKedra will join Allan in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Allan beats LaKedra, 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) Renamed “croissants”, kippels were made for a homesick Marie-Antoinette to remind her of what country?
(2) Revealed in Exodus in the King James Bible, the term “graven image” is mentioned in which number of the Ten Commandments?
(3) What MLB team featuring Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell became the first to field an all-minority starting lineup?
(4) Who found success with her debut novel, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”?

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

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