Master Minds Recap: March 8, 2021

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

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Tinsel”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Jacob, Sarah, Christian

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) LITERATURE: In Jack London’s “White Fang”, what kind of animal is the title character?
(a) bear (b) fox (c) wolf
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST: the good, the bad or the ugly?
(a) Goodwill Stores (b) Michael Jackson’s “Bad” (c) Ugly Betty
(3) FOOD: To make its name more appealing, the “slimehead” was rebranded as what type of fish?
(a) red snapper (b) yellowfin tuna (c) orange roughy
(4) HISTORY: which country is part of the Anzus Security Pact?
(a) Zambia (b) New Zealand (c) Zimbabwe
(5) TV: King Abdullah II of Jordan once made a guest appearance on an episode of which sci-fi series?
(a) Doctor Who (b) Star Trek: Voyager (c) Battlestar Galactica
(6) EDUCATION: Before he spent his days photographing Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady studied photography under what notable mentor?
(a) Samuel Morse (b) Louis Lumiere (c) James McNeill Whistler
(7) MUSIC: The songs “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” and “Three Blind Mice” are often sung in a particular repeated manner known as what?
(a) madrigal (b) cantata (c) round

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Jacob 500 Sarah 400 Christian 400 / LaKedra 500 Muffy 400 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) TRANSPORTATION: What defunct auto company founded by Ransom Olds produced a truck called the Speed Wagon?
(2) STORIES: What Brothers Grimm character takes his left foot and tears himself in two after hearing his name?
(3) ATHLETICS: What area where pitchers warm up may have gotten its name becaue fans once stood there packed in like cattle?
(4) HOLIDAYS: In the early 17th century, tinsel was first hung on Christmas trees in what European country?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: Not to be confused with a U.S. state, what modern-day country is the birthplace of Joseph Stalin?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Jacob 700 Sarah 400 Christian 1000 / LaKedra 900 Muffy 400 Arianna 900

Sarah 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.

Jacob and Christian go first:

(500) Mayonnaise, relish and mustard can be combined to make what sauce that’s popular in seafood restaurants?
(600) A Cinderella castle is at the center of the Disney theme park in Florida and in what Asian city?
(700) The “red-bellied” species of what carnivorous South American fish has the sharpest teeth?
(800) “The Nutcracker” was the last of three ballets by what Russian composer?
(900) In 1898, Johnson & Johnson patented what oral health product made from the same type of silk used in surgical stitches?
(1000) What women’s suffrage leader said that the bicycle has “done more to emancipate women than anything else”?
(1100) Also with Curacao liqueur, what is the base spirit in a traditional Mai Tai cocktail?
(1200) In “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” Raoul Duke is the narrator and alter ego of what author?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Jacob 1800 Christian 4500

Christian 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 Christian.

(500) In the 1970s, the Navy determined that fire caused the 1898 explosion on what ship in Havana Harbor?
(600) Abraham Browning of Camden is credited with coining what New Jersey nickname?
(700) Winner of two Tony awards, “American Idiot” is a musical based on an album from what band?
(800) Born Anna Mary Robinson, what folk painter lived to age 101?
(900) When “T-minus” is heard during a NASA launch countdown, what does the letter “T” stand for?
(1000) The mucus of the spiny murex sea snail was used by people in ancient Tyre to make what color?
(1100) Set in estate houses like Longbourn, what Jane Austen novel was originally called “First Impressions”?
(1200) Jacob Golomb, founder of the Everlast Sports Brand, introduced the modern version of what type of underwear?
Didn’t count:
(1300) Shale is what basic type of rock?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

LaKedra finished with 5000 to Arianna’s 2600 so LaKedra will join Christian in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Christian 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) Symbolic of misfortune, Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” shows a spilled vessel of what seasoning in front of Judas?
(2) The southernmost mainland point in Canada is Ontario’s Point Pelee in which Great Lake?
(3) Though it varies in hue and size, what plant’s name means “rose tree” in Greek?
(4) “Joyeuse” was the name of Charlemagne’s what?
(5) In the 1960s, what rock star responded to his first fan letter from America, answering, “My real name is David Jones”?

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

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