Master Minds Recap: April 21, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Buffalo Wings”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Simon, Damon, Jennifer

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: First cooked in 1964 at the Anchor Bar, buffalo wings were invented in what state?
(a) Louisiana (b) New York (c) Massachusetts
(2) GEOLOGY: What type of rock is most likely to contain fossils?
(a) igneous (b) metamorphic (c) sedimentary
(3) CONVENTIONS: Held in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was the first American summit concerning the rights of whom?
(a) children (b) slaves (c) women
(4) MUSIC: Verdi’s “Aida” was commissioned for the opening of an opera house in what city?
(a) New York (b) London (c) Cairo
(5) MONEY: In finance, a piggyback loan would most commonly be used to pay for which of these?
(a) car (b) home (c) college education
(6) ACTRESSES: As a child, who served as a courier for Dutch Resistance fighters during World War II?
(a) Ingrid Bergman (b) Audrey Hepburn (c) Julie Andrews
(7) PLACES: Pontiac is a city in Michigan named for the chief of which people?
(a) the Cherokee (b) the Pueblo (c) the Ottawa

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Simon 500 Damon 300 Jennifer 700 / Ken 600 Muffy 700 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) FOOD: From the Arabic for ‘soaked bread’, what Spanish vegetable soup is best served cold?
(2) TRAILBLAZERS: Who was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
(3) INNOVATIONS: The Van Brode Milling Co. was granted a trademark in 1970 for what hybrid plastic utensil?
(4) GEOGRAPHY: Of America’s Four Corners States, which one extends the furthest north?
(5) JAZZ: What Prohibition era Harlem nightclub was home to Duke Ellington and his orchestra from 1927 until 1930?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Simon 1100 Damon 700 Jennifer 900 / Ken 800 Muffy 700 Jonathan 1400

Damon 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.

Simon and Jennifer go first:

(500) What kind of insect is housed in an apiary?
(600) Rhinoplasty is a procedure performed on what part of the human body?
(700) The sneaker blog Nice Kicks is credited with popularizing what alliterative trend of posting old photos online?
(800) Originally used to try out ejection seats, Sierra Sam was the first of what 3-word experimental subjects?
(900) The Romans dubbed Attila the Hun ‘Flagellum Dei’, which is most commonly translated as what??
(1000) In an eight-lane Olympic swimming pool, what color ropes are used to denote the two center lanes?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Simon 3300 Jennifer 1400

Simon 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 Simon.

(500) If a military clock reads ‘2100’, what time is it on a standard clock?
(600) Con men like George C. Parker successfully “sold” what iconic bridge into Manhattan hundred of times?
(700) What author of “On Death & Dying” is credited with establishing the Five Stages of Grief?
(800) Matching the first three digits of pi, what date was selected as Pi Day?
(900) In biblical history, St. John baptized Jesus in what river?
(1000) A species of salmon shares its name with what winds that form in the Eastern Rocky Mountains?
(1100) A park adjacent to the U.S. Capitol grounds is named for what French sculptor who designed its fountain?
Didn’t count:
(1200) What property in a fluid is described as its resistance to the forces that cause it to flow?

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Ken finished with 4700 to Jonathan’s 2000 so Ken will join Simon in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Simon beats Ken, he will return for the third time. If he wins again, he’ll get $30,000 and we’ll find out what they mean by “potentially” replacing one of the Master Minds.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge: The questions are presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud.

(1) Of the 12 main Olympian gods, whose Roman counterpart has the same name?
(2) An annual dance is named for what comic strip character from “Li’l Abner” who had to chase down her suitors?
(3) When playing baccarat, a king is worth how many points?
(4) Resembling the letter ‘B’, the ‘eszett’ is spoken as what English letter?
(5) In the novella “Heart of Darkness”, who is the protagonist that goes looking for Mr. Kurtz?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ken got at 4 right. Simon got 2 so he is going home with $11,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

Master Minds airs daily on Game Show Network. Check your local listings for times. (Here in the Central Time Zone it comes on at 3:00 p.m.)

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