Master Minds Recap: April 29, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, April 29, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Founding Fathers”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: John, Kate, Grace

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) MEDICINE: Lasik uses a laser to reshape which part of the eye?
(a) retina (b) iris (c) cornea
(2) ATHLETES: Born with the name Wa-Tho-Huk, Jim Thorpe became an Olympic Gold medalist and served as president of which organization?
(a) NBA (b) MLB (c) NFL
(3) HISTORY: The son of which Founding Father sided with the British in the war for American independence?
(a) Benjamin Franklin (b) Thomas Paine (c) John Jay
(4) BILINGUAL: Which is the only U.S. state to have two official languages?
(a) Texas (b) Louisiana (c) Hawaii
(5) COOKING: Which of these oils should you choose if you need the highest smoke point?
(a) flaxseed (b) canola (c) avocado
(6) MEASUREMENTS: If you love someone a bushel and a peck how many gallons do you love them?
(a) 10 gallons (b) 50 gallons (c) 100 gallons
(7) CHARACTERS: What was the namesake for the real life bear who inspired A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh”?
(a) Comedian Ed Wynn (b) Winston Churchill (c) Winnipeg, Canada

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Scores at end of Round 1:
John 300 Kate 200 Grace 200 / Ken 600 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) INVENTIONS: What Greek scientist’s namesake screw is designed to move large volumes of water to higher levels?
(2) NOVELS: In Michael Crichton’s book “Jurassic Park” the infamous theme park was built on what fictional island?
(3) ORGANIZATIONS: Founded in 1844 by George Williams as a Bible study group, what organization protected young men from street life?
(4) PIONEERS: What party left Springfield, Illinois by wagon train in April 1846, only to get stuck in the Sierra Nevadas?
(5) BROADWAY: The song “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” is featured in what 1964 Tony-award winning musical?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
John 500 Kate 800 Grace 200 / Ken 1600 Muffy 800 Jonathan 400

Grace 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.

John and Kate go first:

(500) Often green in color, what pigment is responsible for absorbing energy from sunlight?
(600) In 1859, the first official U.S. airmail delivery took place using what vehicle?
(700) In 1974, what former child star was named U.S. Ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald Ford?
(800) What major league baseball team has won the most World Series championships?
(900) What is the only bird that can fly backwards and side to side without any assistance from the wind?
(1000) Named for the physicist who discovered them in 1958, what donut-shaped radiation fields surround Earth?
(1100) Now a museum, Topkapi Palace once served as a royal residence for rulers of what empire?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
John 1100 Kate 1900

Kate 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 Kate.

(500) While asleep, the most vivid dreams occur during ‘REM’, which stands for what?
(600) Jambalaya is part of the cuisine of what people whose ancestors came from Nova Scotia?
(700) The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 led to the end of which British-chartered trading company?
(800) Spider, Klondike and Pyramid are all variations of what popular card game?
(900) What author of “The Gulag Archipelago” won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature?
(1000) The first photograph of a human being was taken in which European city?
(1100) In 1960, what late night host caused a national uproar when he walked off his own show to protest network censorship?
(1200) What is the only Olympic swimming event done in open water?
(1300) In October 2019, the government of Australia officially banned the climbing of what landmark?

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Ken finished with 5100 to Muffy’s 4200 so Ken will join Kate in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Kate 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) Popular with tourists, what second century Roman monument was named and dedicated in worship to “all gods”?
(2) The Columbian Centinel newspaper coined what phrase for the period following the Napoleonic Wars?
(3) Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple”?
(4) In 1968, Herman Miller Research Corporation introduced the ‘Action Office System’ featuring what types of work spaces?
(5) Who was the first Secretary of Homeland Security?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Kate got 3 right to Ken’s 4 so Kate is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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