Master Minds Recap: May 11, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, May 11, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Board Games”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Faith, Natalie, Julee

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) RULES: ‘Blue Laws’ generally refer to laws that are passed restricting activity when?
(a) On Sundays (b) At night (c) During Federal holidays
(2) ARCHITECTURE: Originally built by the Ancient Egyptians, which of these is true about an obelisk?
(a) cylindrical (b) pyramid-shaped top (c) eight sides
(3) ANIMALS: What organization has been recognizing feline breeds and judging cat shows since 1906?
(a) The American Cat Club (b) The Association of Feline Pedigree (c) The Cat Fanciers’ Association
(4) QUINTETS: Which board game’s current official rules set the maximum number of plays at 5?
(a) Scrabble (b) Twister (c) Risk
(5) CELEBRATIONS: Racking up over $30 billion in sales, what Chinese day is the biggest shopping day in the world?
(a) Singles’ Day (b) National Day (c) New Year’s Day
(6) SYMBOLS: On the Great Seal of the United States, what does the eagle hold in its right talon?
(a) olive branch (b) arrows (c) banner
(7) CUISINE: The quiche originated in which of France’s neighboring countries?
(a) Belgium (b) Germany (c) Italy

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Faith 500 Natalie 400 Julee 300 / LaKedra 600 Muffy 400 Arianna 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) ATHLETICS? If you throw a googly over a sticky wicket or break one’s duck, you are playing which English national sport
(2) MONUMENTS: Standing 98 feet high, the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooks what South American City?
(3) EDUCATION: In 2015, the “Every Student Succeeds Act” replaced what Federal public school law?
(4) LEADERS: Both women who have served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom belonged to which political party?
(5) STYLE: Luxury good leader LVMH was formed when Moet Hennessy merged with what elite fashion house?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Faith 900 Natalie 800 Julee 700 / LaKedra 1300 Muffy 400 Arianna 800

Julee 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 Natalie go first:

(500) Bandleader Fred Waring bankrolled the development of what kitchen appliance first sold as the “Miracle Mixer”?
(600) Used by some sports teams as an anthem, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is a song from what musical?
(700) Dr. Joseph B. Rhine coined the term ‘E.S.P.’, which stands for what?
(800) Since 1890, what service organization is open to women descended from those who aided in the American War of Independence?
(900) What traditional ingredient in gumbo gives the dish its name?
(1000) If you have heterochromia, your eyes are two different what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Faith 2400 Natalie 2300

Faith wins $1,000 and advances to the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. But first, LaKedra and Arianna will battle it out for a minute to see who joins Faith.

(500) Who has been the Supreme Governor of the Church of England since 1953?
(600) Cow’s milk containing 3.25% fat by weight is sold as what type?
(700) What point on an ocean wave is the opposite of the crest?
(800) Popularized by Jacob Grimm, what punctuation mark consists of two dots over a vowel?
(900) What is directly produced as a result of saponification?
(1000) Covering nearly 200,000 square miles, what is the largest island in Canada?
(1100) What quality of detail in a digital image is expressed in pixels per inch?
(1200) Not produced by an animal, what is the state fossil of Arizona?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

LaKedra finished with 3200 to Arianna’s 4500 so Arianna will join Faith in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Faith beats Arianna 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) What Roman deity was known as the goddess of wisdom?
(2) In football, what scoring play occurs when an offensive player with the ball is tackled in their own end zone?
(3) What late evening news show began as a broadcast focused on the events of the Iran Hostage Crisis?
(4) Located in Upstate New York, Cumorah Hill is a historic site for what religion?
(5) The Pleiades star cluster is present in the logo for what automaker, whose name references those stars?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct) show

Faith got one right to Arianna’s two. Faith 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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