Master Minds Recap: April 9, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, April 9, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia Smarts & ???” (my DVR had the same title as yesterday)
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco and Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Lorraine, David, Marshall

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) CHARACTERS: Typically, which feature is missing from Hello Kitty’s face?
(a) nose (b) whiskers (c) mouth
(2) POLITICS: In 1872, Victoria Woodhull was considered the first woman to run for what office?
(a) Mayor of New York (b) U.S. Senator (c) U.S. President
(3) WRITERS: Which author’s gravestone concludes with the warning “cursed be he that moves my bones”
(a) William Wordsworth (b) William Shakespeare (c) William Butler Yeats
(4) BUSINESS: Begun in 1969, Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn were two founders of which San Francisco-based express document service?
(a) UPS (b) Fedex (c) DHL
(5) PHYSICS: The sudden change in pitch you hear when an approaching siren passes is known as what?
(a) Accordion effect (b) Doppler effect (c) Faraday effect
(6) SAILORS: Which explorer’s final voyage was funded by the Dutch East India Company?
(a) Henry Hudson (b) James Cook (c) Francis Drake
(7) LANGUAGE: Which of these individuals get their title from the Latin word for ‘dressed in white’?
(a) volunteer (b) bride (c) candidate

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Lorraine 300 David 0 Marshall 600 / Ken 700 Muffy 400 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) PHONES: Released in 2008, the T-Mobile G1 was the first device to run on what operating system?
(2) CAMPAIGNS: William Henry Harrison was the first U.S. President elected from what political party?
(3) SPORTS: Also known as Italian lawn bowling, what game involves rolling balls on the ground so that they land near a “pallino”?
(4) MAMMALS: What North American animal is the largest member of the deer family?
(5) POETRY: Who wrote “Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Lorraine 500 David 0 Marshall 1200 / Ken 1500 Muffy 800 Jonathan 600

David 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.

Lorraine and Marshall go first:

(500) If you hear the stickman say your bones are boxcars, what game are you playing?
(600) A five-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Missouri is named for what American author?
(700) Squid ink is comprised mostly of what common biological pigment?
(800) Despite having a South American country named for him, what revolutionary did Karl Marx find personally revolting?
(900) What foreign chocolate brand makes the “Surprise”, a candy egg with a toy in the middle that is banned in the U.S.?
(1000) Named for a shade of blue, what group of toxins often smell like bitter almond?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Lorraine 2100 Marshall 3600

Marshall 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 Marshall.

(500) A profound expression in Judaism, what Hebrew word meaning ‘peace’ is also used to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’?
(600) Spanning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, which mountains form a natural wall between France and Spain?
(700) After Joseph Stalin’s death, who was elected leader of the Communist party in the U.S.S.R. on March 14, 1953?
(800) Birthplace of the Brownie Dessert, the historic Palmer House Hotel is in the Loop district of what city?
(900) Similar to owls, a type of what tree-dwelling mammals can safely turn its head up to 270 degrees in either direction?
(1000) What ship sustained damage in a crash seven months before its sister ship the Titanic hit an iceberg?
(1100) The official guest residence of the U.S. President, what house is located at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue?
(1200) Now based in Toronto, what newswire service was founded in Great Britain in 1851?
Ken: 4100 Muffy: 4100
Tie-breaker: Ajman and Fujairah are two of the seven members of what Middle Eastern federation?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy won the tie-breaker so she will join Marshall in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Marshall 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 now presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud. (In the old format, they sat side-by-side and wrote down their answers.)

(1) Other than zero, what is the only whole number whose square is half of its cube?
(2) According to Levi Strauss, what was the small fifth pocket on a a pair of jeans originally designed to hold?
(3) Once used to guard horses and wagons, what breed of dog is named for a region in Croatia?
(4) Montezuma II never got his revenge on which Spanish conquistador who ultimately defeated him in 1520?
(5) What poem ends with the line, “And that has made all the difference”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Marshall beat Muffy on the last question. He won $10,000 and will return tomorrow to take on 2 new players and a chance to double his prize money.

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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