Master Minds Recap: March 4, 2021

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

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Racecar Drivers”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Neill, Jen, Darrell

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) DRINKS: Which of these Starbucks sizes of hot coffee is the smallest?
(a) grande (b) tall (c) venti
(2) CITIES: A street in Sterling, Virginia was given what name in honor of “Star Trek”?
(a) Spock Street (b) James T. Kirk Court (c) Warp Drive
(3) MUSIC: Italian for “tail”, which term indicates a section of notes in a song that specifically brings it to an end?
(a) cavatina (b) finito (c) coda
(4) BUSINESS: Which company is named for a racecar driver?
(a) Volkswagen (b) Ford (c) Chevrolet
(5) RELIGION: After the United States, which country has the world’s largest Christian population?
(a) Australia (b) Brazil (c) Canada
(6) MARKETING: The Coca-Cola Company was the first to use what practice to boost business?
(a) radio ads (b) coupons (c) vending machines
(7) ANATOMY: What punching bag at the back of the soft palate blocks the path to your nose as the food races past?
(a) uvula (b) tonsils (c) epiglottis

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Neill 600 Jen 400 Darrell 500 / Ken 600 Muffy 600 Jonathan 700

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) GEOGRAPHY: Founded in Maryland in the 1750s, Georgetown later became a neighborhood in what U.S. city?
(2) ANIMALS: In Africa, “black panthers” refers to leopards, but in South America, it refers to what other big cat?
(3) SYMBOLS: Traditionally, how should the U.S. flag be displayed to signal distress?
(4) TECHNOLOGY: Introduced by Zenith in 1955, the Flash-matic was the first wireless version of what product?
(5) BUSY HANDS: “Around the Corner” and “Walk the Dog” are tricks for what object, inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 1999?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Neill 1000 Jen 600 Darrell 300 / Ken 600 Muffy 1200 Jonathan 1300

Darrell and Ken 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.

Neill and Jen go first:

(500) Which horror author sets his novels in the seemingly sleepy town of Castle Rock, Maine?
(600) With a “reptile-like” name, what tall, close fitting color is often rolled over on itself on a sweater?
(700) What “colorful” Arizona desert ranges from the Grand Canyon to the petrified forest?
(800) A blowtorch is used to make what dessert that literally translates to “burnt cream”?
(900) The yellow blossom of what sacred flower represents spiritual ascension and enlightenment in Buddhism?
(1000) In the order of U.S. presidents, what number was Andrew Johnson?
(1100) Built to protect castles or other structures, what type of wall is mentioned in the first stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner?
(1200) What cosmonaut remains the only woman to have conducted a solo mission in space?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Neill 4200 Jen 1900

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

(500) Which nationwide restaurant brand that once boasted hundreds of locations is nicknamed “HoJo”?
(600) With parts of its saltier than the ocean, what is the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River?
(700) According to legend, Martin Luther sparked the Reformation by nailing how many theses to a church door?
(800) Related to ostriches and emus, what is the largest flightless bird in the Americas?
(900) In 2010, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky married which former first daughter
(1000) After a series of failures, Ranger VII was the first spacecraft to provide detailed photographs of what celestial body?
(1100) What 14th-century style of Japanese theater features masks carved from Cypress?

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Jonathan finished with 4000 to Muffy’s 3300 so Jonathan will join Neill in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Neill beats Jonathan, 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 ice cream company has a “flavor graveyard” where it pays respect to the “dearly de-pinted”?
(2) What body parts do crickets rub together to make their chirping sound?
(3) One of the only nations to ever enact such a policy, what Central American country abolished its military in 1948?
(4) Mathematician Kathleen McNulty was one of the initial programmers of what first modern computer?
(5) The opera “Fidelio” was originally written and performed in what language?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Neill got 2 right to Jonathan’s 4. Neill is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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