Master Minds Recap: April 15, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia Smarts & Fasten Your Seatbelts”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Jonathan, Alicia, David

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) PHILADELPHIA: Not used since the 1800s, what physical part of the Liberty Bell is also known as a ‘tongue’?
(a) clapper (b) hammer (c) gavel
(2) WEATHER: Water droplets in the air that reduce visibility below one kilometer are called what?
(a) fog (b) mist (c) haze
(3) OCCUPATIONS: A cordwainer specializes in making which of the following items?
(a) shoes (b) lamps (c) curtains
(4) CULTURE: Often thought to bring good luck, what are Maneki-neko?
(a) red lanterns (b) sake cups (c) cat statues
(5) AGRICULTURE: Instrumental in modernizing the way farms were planted, which English inventor created the seed drill in 1701?
(a) John Deere (b) Cyrus McCormick (c) Jethro Tull
(6) AIRLINES: Which of these appears on the tails of Aer Lingus jets?
(a) harp (b) cloverleaf (c) rainbow
(7) LITERATURE: In “The Three Musketeers” the Cardinal’s evil spy Milady de Winter was once married to which Musketeer?
(a) Athos (b) Porthos (c) Aramis

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Jonathan 400 Alicia 400 David 300 / Ken 700 Muffy 600 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) SPORTS: In horse racing, what terms refers to the horse who finishes third?
(2) MUSICIANS: An eight-foot replica of whose Fender guitar sits at the corner of 10th Avenue and E Street in Belmar, NJ?
(3) HEALTH: In a medical screening known as an MRI, what does the ‘M’ stand for?
(4) ELECTRONICS: If you are watching an LED television, what does ‘LED’ stand for?
(5) RELIGION: The Abbey on Mont Saint-Michel was built by what monastic Catholic religious order?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jonathan 1000 Alicia 0 David 500 / Ken 900 Muffy 800 Jonathan 0

Alicia and Jonathan 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.

Jonathan and David go first:

(500) What object for contacting spirits won its patent in 1891 by spelling out the name of the attending patent officer?
(600) First awarded by George Washington, what medal was revived upon the 200th anniversary of his birth?
(700) If you walked precisely 15,840 feet on your daily hike, how many miles did you travel?
(800) What winged mythological creature sprang from the blood of Medusa after she was slain?
(900) 95% of the avocados eaten in the U.S. are descended from a tree planted by a postman named Rudolph what?
(1000) Completed in 1996, what Russian space station’s name translates to ‘world’, ‘peace’ or ‘village’ in English?
(1100) In Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, what poet escorts Dante through the nine circles of the inferno?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Jonathan 3100 David 3400

David 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 David.

(500) The Galapagos species of what animal can go without eating or drinking for up to a year?
(600) What diet company evolved out of Jean Nidetch’s weekly support group meetings about eating habits?
(700) Referencing Osiris, “The Book of the Dead” hails from what ancient civilization?
(800) What Arctic climate zone is characterized by treeless plains and permanently frozen soil?
(900) The Teapot Dome scandal involved improper leasing of oil reserves in Wyoming and what other state?
(1000) In pregnancy, a woman’s ‘water breaking’ refers to the rupture of what fluid-filled sac?
(1100) What European museum houses Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid” and Rembrandt’s “Musical Company”?
(1200) Also known as PTFE, what non-stick material can be held onto cooking pans by getting it stuck in small cracks?

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Muffy finished with 4000 to Ken’s 3600 so Muffy will join David in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If David beats Muffy, 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 individually and they say their answers out loud.

(1) The concept that internet service providers should treat all data flowing through their networks equally is called what?
(2) Traditionally, what cold French soup lists pureed leeks, potato, cream and chicken stock as its main ingredients?
(3) The son of which American industrialist conceived the idea for Radio City Music Hall?
(4) Who discovered microbursts and macrobursts in addition to establishing a system of tornado classification?
(5) The name of what December birthstone is based on a French reference to a Eurasian country?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy beat David 4 to 2, so David is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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