Master Minds Recap: April 13, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, April 13, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia Smarts & Prohibition”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco and Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Jerry, Emily, Harry

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) NORWEGIAN: A fjord is what type of geographical feature?
(a) waterway (b) glacier (c) crater
(2) STYLE: Which of these women was one of the first celebrities to create her own fashion line?
(a) Jane Addams (b) Amelia Earhart (c) Frida Kahlo
(3) PRODUCTS: NASA engineers saved the endangered Apollo 13 astronauts with plastic bags, cardboard and what cloth-backed tape
(a) scotch (b) duct (c) masking
(4) ARTISTS: A woman lies in a field in 1948’s “Christina’s World”, the best known work by which American painter?
(a) Andrew Wyeth (b) Winslow Homer (c) Edward Hopper
(5) SOBRIETY: Despite his veto, under which President did Prohibition became the law of the land?
(a) William Howard Taft (b) Woodrow Wilson (c) Warren Harding
(6) ENERGY: Just outside Titusville, Pennsylvania is the site of America’s first what?
(a) oil well (b) hydroelectric dam (c) coal mine
(7) ORCHESTRAS: Which of the following wind instruments uses a double reed?
(a) flute (b) oboe (c) saxophone

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jerry 600 Emily 300 Harry 500 / Ken 700 Muffy 500 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) BUGS: On an insect, what is the term for the part of the body between the abdomen and the head?
(2) TECHNOLOGY: What company marketed its first digital camera in 1991, 16 years after it invented the technology?
(3) PLACES: Created by author and radio host Garrison Keillor, Lake Woebegon is a fictional town found in what state?
(4) MEDICINE: If your doctor examines you with an ophthalmoscope, what organ is she looking at?
(5) MUSIC: Which classic holiday song served as a signal for American troops to evacuate Saigon in 1975?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jerry 600 Emily 700 Harry 900 / Ken 1500 Muffy 900 Jonathan 300

Jerry and Jonathan are eliminated.

Round 3: Each team faces off in a 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.

Emily and Harry go first:

(500) When throwing two standard dice, a player has the highest chance of rolling what total?
(600) What itch remedy’s active ingredients are zinc oxide and iron oxide, the latter of which gives it its pink color?
(700) Known for exploring cross-generational themes, what novelist wrote “The Joy Luck Club”?
(800) Since 1960, the United States has had an embargo against what island nation?
(900) What pastry was designated as Louisiana’s official state donut in 1986?
(1000) Formerly known as a “birdie”, what is the proper name of the lightweight projectile used to play badminton?
(1100) Built almost entirely of wood, the Hughes H-4 Hercules airplane is also known by what bird-like name?
($1200) The company “Research in Motion” changed its name to what popular product it introduced in 1999

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Emily 4100 Harry 4300

Harry 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 Harry.

(500) What form of optical telegraph system uses flag signal to convey messages?
(600) A potato pancake fried in oil, latkes are traditionally served to celebrate what religious holiday?
(700) Which original Mouseketeer went on to star with Frankie Avalon in a series of 1960s-era beach-themed movies?
(800) ‘The smoke that thunders’ is the translation of a local name for what natural wonder on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border?
(900) The second-largest airport in Austria, Salzburg airport is named for what classical era composer?
(1000) Meaning ‘federal assembly’, what is the lower chamber of the German legislature?
(1100) A small mammal known for its abnormally big ears, a fennec is what type of animal?
(1200) First described by a French engineer, what force on earth determines the rotation of hurricanes?

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Ken finished with 5400 to Muffy’s 3800 so Ken will join Harry in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Harry beats Ken, 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 now presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud. (In the old format, they sat side-by-side and wrote down their answers.)

(1) Berry Gordy Jr. founded what hugely successful Detroit record label that signed The Four Tops and The Supremes?
(2) With a recently enthroned Emperor Naruhito, what country has the world’s oldest continuous hereditary monarchy?
(3) What famous Rembrandt painting gets its common title from the layers of dust and varnish that darkened the canvas?
(4) How many events in an Olympic decathlon are judged based on height reached?
(5) The “general will” is central to the political thought of what French philosopher?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Harry is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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