Master Minds Recap: April 14, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, April 14, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia Smarts & Cosmetic Surgery”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Amy, Lauren, Marah

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) UNDERGROUND: What is the only layer of the earth to be made up of liquid?
(a) inner core (b) outer core (c) mantle
(2) REAL ESTATE: With two million acres and the world’s biggest bison herd, what media mogul is the 2nd largest landowner in the U.S.?
(a) Ted Turner (b) Rupert Murdoch (c) George Lucas
(3) AESTHETICS: According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, what is the most performed cosmetic surgery in the U.S?
(a) breast implants (b) facelift (c) tummy tuck
(4) THE OLYMPICS: In the iconic logo for the Olympic games, what color is the middle ring?
(a) black (b) green (c) red
(5) CANS: Which came first?
(a) canned food (b) candy corn (c) the cancan
(6) DENTISTRY: The process known as intrinsic whitening focuses on bleaching which part of the tooth?
(a) the enamel (b) the dentin (c) the pulp
(7) LEADERS: Who was the only Native American to have served as U.S. Vice President?
(a) Ely Parker (b) William Paul (c) Charles Curtis

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Amy 300 Lauren 300 Marah 400 / Ken 600 Muffy 400 Jonathan 400

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) ANIMALS: If you have a snood, a wattle and can run 25 miles per hour, you are most likely a what?
(2) SAYINGS: A warning your neighbor might post on their fence, what does the Latin phrase ‘cave canem’ mean?
(3) FOOTWEAR: Different from snowshoes, what set of spiked cleats are used to walk across slippery snow and ice?
(4) PRESENTS: For their 11th anniversary, Superman would traditionally give his wife a gift made from what material?
(5) SCIENCE: The origins of what gambling wheel stem from Blaise Pascal’s experiments with perpetual motion?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Amy 500 Lauren 900 Marah 800 / Ken 1000 Muffy 600 Jonathan 1000

Amy and Muffy 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.

Lauren and Marah go first:

(500) Designer Coco Chanel famously flaunted fashion rules by wearing white after what holiday?
(600) What kind of fruit juice is traditionally used to make the cocktail called a Greyhound?
(700) Attracting over 500,000 people each year to South Dakota, what is the name of the biggest motorcycle rally in the world?
(800) In the musical “Les Miserables”, which character sings the ballad titled “I Dreamed a Dream”?
(900) The Fair Isaac Company is responsible for creating what consumer credit score model?
(1000) A hogget is another name for which young animal?
(1100) The U.S., Liberia and Myanmar are the only countries that have not fully adopted what system of measurement?
(1200) When performing coronary bypass surgery,, what part of the heart is “bypassed”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Lauren 4600 Marah 2900

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

(500) Dr. Jane Goodall primarily studied which primate?
(600) Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the only one that remains?
(700) What variety of fruit holds the world record for largest and heaviest ever recorded?
(800) What prolific mystery writer also wrote six romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott?
(900) What scotch tape maker was originally called the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company?
(1000) Able to resist compressive forces of up to 2500 pounds, what is the strongest bone in the human body?
(1100) From the French ‘to bend’, what term refers to a movement in which the knees are bent and the back is held straight?
(1200) Known to his family as ‘Bertie’, Queen Victoria’s eldest son took what name when he assumed the throne?

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Jonathan finished with 4100 to Ken’s 4700 so Ken will join Lauren in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Lauren beats Ken, she 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 individually and they say their answers out loud.

(1) A field of knowledge essential to game show hosting, orthoepy involves the study of what?
(2) Emeralds and aquamarine gems are color variations of what mineral?
(3) In 1929, what refrigerator company introduced a ‘Room Cooler’ the first home air conditioner ?
(4) What U.S. coin amounts to exactly one quarter of one-fifth of one dollar?
(5) January 25th is an annual holiday in Scotland celebrating what poet, who wrote “Auld Lang Syne”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ken got 3 right. Lauren only got one, so she is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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