Master Minds Recap: May 13, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, May 13, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Fairy Tales”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Brian, Katie, Alison

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) TREATS: Based on sales, what is the most popular variety of Girl Scout cookies?
(a) Do-Si-Dos (b) Samoas (c) Thin Mints
(2) ROYALTY: The Qing Dynasty ruler later known as Henry Puyi was the subject of what 1987 film about his life?
(a) Empire of the Sun (b) The Last Emperor (c) The Lost Empire
(3) DATES: In Ancient Rome, the Ides of March was, by definition, marked by which event?
(a) the spring equinox (b) the Perseid meteor shower (c) a full moon
(4) ELECTIONS: Who determines the winner of a U.S. Presidential election if no one gets a majority of the Electoral College votes?
(a) House of Representatives (b) Senate (c) Supreme Court
(5) STORIES: Written hundreds of years earlier, what Italian fairy tale had a significant influence on “Beauty and the Beast”?
(a) The Pig King (b) The Canary Prince (c) The Goat-Faced Girl
(6) CHURCHES: An attraction at Notre Dame Cathedral for over five centuries, what is ‘Emmanuel’?
(a) an organ (b) a bible (c) a bell
(7) FIRSTS: On May 15, 1809, Mary Dixon Kies became the first U.S. woman to be issued what?
(a) bachelor’s degree (b) patent (c) social security number

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Brian 400 Katie 400 Alison 400 / Ken 700 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) ATHLETICS: A triple double landed at the 2019 World Gymnastics championships became the third move named for which Gold medalist?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: The ancient city of Constantinople is now what former Turkish capital?
(3) INSECTS: What is estimated to be the most abundant insect on earth?
(4) LEGENDS: Which mythical Phrygian king was able to turn anything that he touched to gold?
(5) AUTOS: The chemical sodium azide was originally at the heart of the operation of what car component?

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Scores at end of Round 22:
Brian 1000 Katie 600 Alison 0 / Ken 900 Muffy 900 Jonathan 300

Alison 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.

Brian and Katie go first:

(500) What U.S. stamp debuted in 2007 without a printed monetary value?
(600) Cal Tech has a history of pulling pranks at what New Year’s Day football game in Pasadena?
(700) Brick and Gooper are characters in which Tennessee Williams play?
(800) An outspoken climate activist, what Swedish teenager was named Time Magazine’s person of the year for 2019?
(900) Found at the beginning of most web addresses, http stands for what?
(1000) Which Russian-born inventor is known as the ‘Father of Helicopters’?
(1100) Subject to strict requirements, Tajima is the only kind of cattle that can produce what type of beef?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Brian 2300 Katie 2300

CONTESTANT TIE-BREAKER: What Roman goddess of fruit was tricked into marrying the god Vertumnus?

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Katie rang in with an incorrect response so Brian 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 Brian.

(500) What chain of stores uses the number 31 to form the large ‘BR’ at the top of its logo?
(600) In the novel “Charlotte’s Web”, what is the first message Charlotte spins to help save Wilbur?
(700) What term is used to refer to a dormant period that animals take during hot weather, the opposite of hibernation?
(800) In time measurement, how many score are in a millennium?
(900) Xerxes attacked Greece by using a boat bridge to cross what ancient waterway, now called the Dardanelles?
(1000) What term for a non-singing, non-speaking role in an opera is also known as a ‘super’?
(1100) Called the Althing, the oldest Parliament in the world is located in which country?

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Ken finished with 3500 to Muffy’s 2000 so Ken will join Brian in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Brian 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) Called “Choguri” by locals, the world’s second-highest mountain peak is known by what alphanumeric name?
(2) What painter of the 1579 work “The Holy Trinity” was born on Crete and died in Toledo, Spain?
(3) In human cells, what type of DNA is primarily inherited through the mother?
(4) Believed by some to be Adam’s first wife, who fled the Garden of Eden and refused to obey her husband?
(5) A mock version of “Romeo and Juliet”, what stage show holds the title of world’s longest-running musical?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Brian got 2 right to Ken’s 4. Brian is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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