Master Minds Recap: March 5, 2021

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Friday, March 5, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & The Tooth Fairy”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Jon Henri, Melissa, Andy

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) FOOD: The grandson of which country’s last king owns Los Angeles’ first pasta food truck?
(a) France (b) Italy (c) England
(2) ATHLETICS: In which of these sports must players avoid entering the neutral zone?
(a) football (b) basketball (c) baseball
(3) BUSINESS: Even though they don’t leave money under pillows, what company trademarked the Tooth Fairy?
(a) Unilever (b) Colgate-Palmolive (c) Disney
(4) MATH: Which of these is the name for a twelve-sided polygon?
(a) pentactagon (b) dodecagon (c) quadratagon
(5) ANIMALS: What creature has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom?
(a) giant squid (b) blue whale (c) hippotamus
(6) GEOGRAPHY: The term “Boricua” refers to peole born in what U.S. territory?
(a) American Samoa (b) Guam (c) Puerto Rico
(7) SCIENCE: The temperature at which air becomes saturated with water vapor is known as which of these?
(a) vapor pressure (b) dew point (c) relative humidity

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jon Henri 500 Melissa 300 Andy 300 / LaKedra 700 Muffy 600 Arianna 500

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) KID LIT: Based on detailed accounts, what blonde fairy-tale female’s actions meet the legal definition of “breaking and entering”?
(2) THE UNIVERSE: The Hubble Space Telescope is powered by what type of energy?
(3) RELIGION: Also known as “Three Kings Day”, what holidy comes 12 days after Chrisstmas and celebrates the arrival of the Magi?
(4) MEDICINE: What respiratory ailment is also called pertussis?
(5) HISTORY: Defending them before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams won the freedom of the Africans who mutinied on what ship?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jon Henri 700 Melissa 500 Andy 300 / LaKedra 1500 Muffy 600 Arianna 900

Andy 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.

Jon Henri and Melissa go first:

(500) What viral children’s song and “dance” by PinkFong has over seven billion views on YouTube?
(600) HCG is a hormone produced by what organ only when a woman is pregnant?
(700) Americans gave the English bowler hat what other name, because it was often worn to horse races?
(800) What “fair” city is mentioned in the second line of Romeo and Juliet?
(900) The educational term “STEM” stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and what fourth discipline?
(1000) What military college is located in Charleston, South Carolina?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jon Henri 2400 Melissa 500

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

(500) What color of the rainbow has the fewest letters in its name?
(600) Often sung a cappella, what genre of harmonized 1950s rock is named for the nonsense lyrics it sometimes uses?
(700) Dishes cooked overnight in Lithuanian bakery ovens inspired the inventor of what slow cooker?
(800) What debut novel by Judith Krantz shares its title with a game of “moral dilemmas”?
(900) In WWI, what country joined France and Great Britain to form the alliance known as the Triple Entente?
(1000) The Civil War painting “Prisoners From the Front” was by what New England artist, also known for his seascapes?
(1100) Aimee Semple McPherson famously pioneered the use of what media device for evangelism?
didn’t count:
(1200) In thermodynamics, the hypothetical point at which a molecular activity ceases is referred to as what?

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Arianna finished with 3600 to LaKedra’s 2700 so Arianna will join Jon Henri in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jon Henri beats Arianna, 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) Riesling wine grapes are believed to have originated along what European river?
(2) In 480 B.C., what Spartan King became famous for leading 300 Spartans in a last stand against the Persians?
(3) Debuting in the early 1950s, what Gian Carlo Menotti work is considered the first opera composed for television?
(4) What 20th-century female poet’s middle name was in honor of a Catholic hospital in New York?
(5) What adjective describing certain or unpredictable changes in mood comes from, and also refers to, the Roman messenger God?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Arianna got one right and Jon Henri didn’t get anything right. That’s why he looked quite skeptical 🤨 when Brooke said “nice try,” John Henri won $1,000 and there will be 3 new players next Monday.

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