Master Minds Recap: April 28, 2020
Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, April 28, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.
Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & A Bargain”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Betsy, Zach, Trista
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) BUSINESS: Which discount retail chain hit the bullseye in 1962 when it opened in Roseville, Minnesota?
(a) Kmart (b) Woolworth’s (c) Target
(2) MAMMALS: An elephant’s tusks are modified versions of which upper teeth?
(a) molars (b) canines (c) incisors
(3) TIMELINE: Which came first – hook, line or thinker?
(a) Peter Pan’s Capt. Hook (b) the Mason-Dixon line (c) “The Thinker” statue
(4) MUSIC: Recorded in 1956, the Million Dollar Quartet included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and whom?
(a) Buddy Holly (b) Little Richard (c) Jerry Lee Lewis
(5) CUISINE: If you are eating a Greek ‘dolma’, you’re typically eating something that is what?
(a) frozen (b) made with shrimp (c) stuffed
(6) LANDMARKS: Which president laid the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial?
(a) James Polk (b) William McKinley (c) Franklin Roosevelt
(7) STOCKS: In 1850, how did Reuters originally send stock prices from Aachen, Germany to Brussels, Belgium in two hours?
(a) by carrier pigeon (b) by train (c) by telegraph
CORRECT ANSWERS show
Scores at end of Round 1:
Betsy 200 Zach 500 Trista 200 / Ken 500 Muffy 500 Jonathan 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) PUZZLES: What logic-based puzzle game comes from the Japanese words for ‘single’ and number’?
(2) HEALTH: The centers for disease control and prevention is headquartered in what city?
(3) HISTORIC PLACES: Mentioned in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Xanadu was the dynastic capital of what ruler?
(4) COMMUNICATION: The word ‘TED’ in “TED Talks” stands for ‘Technology, Entertainment and’ what?
(5) GEOLOGY: Marble is a metamorphic rock formed from what other type of rock that was exposed to high heat and pressure?
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Scores at end of Round 2:
Betsy 600 Zach 1100 Trista 0 / Ken 900 Muffy 700 Jonathan 300
Trista 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.
Betsy and Zach go first:
(500) 100% pure gold consists of how many karats?
(600) Also called a ramp, one of the six classical simple machines is what type of plane?
(700) What play was performed at Ford’s Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
(800) Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania are the three alternate warring factions in what novel?
(900) The Silver Cloud was a line of luxury cars from what manufacturer?
(1000) Which designer created the DKNY fashion brand in 1988?
(1100) What two countries make up the Caribbean island of Hispaniola?
(1200) A standard 88-key piano has how many black keys?
didn’t count:
(1300) Meaning ‘life science’, what holistic system of medicine originated in India thousands of years ago?
CORRECT ANSWERS show
Scores at end of Round 3:
Betsy 2400 Zach 4900
Zach 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 c2.
(500) Which Vermont-based ice cream brand was started after its founders took a $5 correspondence course?
(600) In bowling, how many strikes would you roll if you scored a perfect 300 game?
(700) Eswatini is the new name of which former country?
(800) In weaving, the threads of the weft yarn go over and under the thread of the what?
(900) Water is an example of which type of chemical bond?
(1000) Saying “sitchen kink” instead of “kitchen sink” is an example of what type of speech error?
(1100) In 18th century France, the “Reign of Terror” came to an end with the fall of what megalomaniacal leader?
(1200) What Winter Olympics event combines sharpshooting with cross-country skiing?
CORRECT ANSWERS show
Ken finished with 4500 to Muffy’s 3900 so Muffy will join Zach in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Zach 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 presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud.
(1) According to Greek mythology, what matronly figure was the goddess of grain and agriculture?
(2) In what South American country is the title structure located in Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”?
(3) Before modern-day oyster farming, culinary wisdom said to only eat shellfish in the months containing what letter?
(4) What type of popular berry is also called the ‘bounceberry’ because it has air sacs inside?
(5) On the fourth Thursday of which month do Americans participate in Take Our Daughter and Sons to Work Day?
ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Zach and Ken were tied at 3 right apiece so Zach got to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Ken on this one. He just has to get it right.
For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Founded in 1865, what University is the youngest member of the Ivy League
Zach’s response of Penn was incorrect so he is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.
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I got the same 3 correct in the final round (via an educated guess for the oyster question). I thought the last two were very obscure.
I thought the $10,000 clue was as easy as the three mutually solved clues in the last round.
I got 4 out of 5 – had no idea on the oyster one. Didn’t know the tie-breaker either.
P.S. Did anyone say “no kidding, Muffy.” when she said “Bullseye is the name of their dog mascot” on the Business question in the first round? (I said something like that only it was a 4 letter word that began with ‘s’ 😬)
I don’t know anything about oysters, but I tried to figure out if there was a common letter across a few months in a row. The last four of the year ending with the same letters stood out in my mind, and then I noticed the first four also contained an ‘r’ and figured that had to be it.
Living in the Twin Cities, I’ve been to many Twins games at Target Field, where you can see the Target mascot wagging its tail on the outside of Target Center all night long.