Master Minds Recap: April 30, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, April 30, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & A Fun Toy”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Ryan, Faith, Peggy

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) HEALTH: Named for its creator, what exercise was once used as a fitness test for the Army?
(a) Bird dog (b) Plank (c) Burpee
(2) ASTRONOMY: How long does it take light to travel from the sun to the Earth?
(a) about 8.5 seconds (b) about 8.5 minutes (c) about 8.5 hours
(3) BAND: Which of these is a percussion instrument?
(a) tambourine (b) bassoon (c) harp
(4) FLAVORS: The oil of which fruit is typically used to give Earl Grey Tea its unique taste?
(a) bergamot orange (b) berangan banana (c) black mulberry
(5) BUSINESS: Which came first?
(a) Lockheed Martin (b) New York Stock Exchange (c) Cracker Barrel restaurants
(6) PROHIBITION: In which country is the purchase and consumption of alcohol illegal?
(a) Iraq (b) Somalia (c) Egypt
(7) DISCOVERIES: Now used to treat motion sickness, Dramamine was originally formulated to treat what condition?
(a) heart palpitations (b) depression (c) allergies

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Ryan 400 Faith 500 Peggy 500 / Ken 700 Muffy 500 Jonathan 600

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) HOBBIES: What sewing stitch sounds like something you might do to a turkey?
(2) LEADERS: Who is the only 20th century American President whose last name begins with a vowel?
(3) SEA & RAIL: What lookout point on a train’s caboose or on a ship’s mast refers to an avian perch?
(4) NAVIGATORS: Sharing a name with a prestigious jewelry manufacturer, what explorer is credited with discovering Canada in 1534?
(5) INGENUITY: In addition to being a fun toy for girls and boys, metal Slinkys were used during the Vietnam War as a what?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Ryan 0 Faith 700 Peggy 700 / Ken 1100 Muffy 900 Jonathan 1000

Ryan 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.

Faith and Peggy go first:

(500) On the periodic table, what element is atomic number one?
(600) In 1980, what city’s Summer Olympic Games were boycotted by the U.S.?
(700) In a Physics class, the Greek letter lambda is used to symbolize what electromagnetic property?
(800) Born into slavery, who helped to establish Tuskegee University in 1881 and was its first president?
(900) What are the names of the two rival gangs in the Broadway musical “West Side Story”?
(1000) Fashionable for decades, the creation of the “little black dress” is credited to what designer in 1926?
(1100) Prevalent among sailors in the 18th century,, scurvy is a disease caused by a deficiency of what vitamin?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Faith 1600 Peggy 2200

Peggy 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 Peggy.

(500) Divided into upper and lower segments, what 1800 mile-thick layer lies just below the earth’s crust?
(600) Who invented the world’s first ice resurfacing machine?
(700) During a Viennese waltz, a woman puts her right hand in the man’s left hand and her left hand on his what?
(800) What 3-word Latin phrase means “in the act of committing the crime”?
(900) Published in 1951, who wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night?
(1000) Before changing its business, what company initially offered its gum as an incentive to buy their baking powder?
(1100) One of the Five Pillars of Islam, the Hajj is a pilgrimage to what Holy City?
(1200) The first chimpanzee sent into space was given what porcine nickname by NASA?

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Ken finished with 5500 to Jonathan’s 3400 so Ken will join Peggy in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Peggy 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) Traditionally, tempera painting involves mixing pigments with what food product?
(2) Considered a “perfect tragedy” by Aristotle, who wrote the play “Oedipus Rex”?
(3) Along with Edmund Hillary, which Sherpa was the first to summit Mt. Everest?
(4) What auto manufacturer’s name comes from the Japanese words for “three” & “water chestnut”?
(5) Adding the number of U.S. states to the number of U.S. constitutional amendments results in what total?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Peggy got 2 right to Ken’s 5. (The game was actually over after Question 4). Peggy is going home with $1,000 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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