Master Minds Recap: May 14, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, May 14, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & The First Amendment”
Today’s Master Minds: Ryan Chaffee, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Danielle, Hans, Cia

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) RIGHTS: In the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which freedom is listed first?
(a) press (b) religion (c) speech
(2) TRANSPORTATION: John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tire to help which of these roll smoother for his son?
(a) Go-Kart (b) wagon (c) tricycle
(3) LANDMARKS: Experts agree that Stonehenge was designed to showcase what phenomenon?
(a) aurora borealis (b) solstice (c) rainbow
(4) GEOGRAPHY: The second-longest barrier reef in the world is found in what sea?
(a) Java (b) Caribbean (c) Mediterranean
(5) FASHION: Worn onstage by Sarah Bernhardt in 1882, what soft-brimmed hat is named for her title role as a Russian princess?
(a) Derby (b) Fedora (c) Homburg
(6) BOTANY: Gladiolus flowers bloom from what type of bulb?
(a) corm (b) tuber (c) rhizome
(7) MUSIC: Ray Charles released a hit that would eventually become the official song of which U.S. state?
(a) the Equality State (b) the Gem State (c) the Peach State

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Danielle 300 Hans 500 Cia 300 / Ryan 300 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) PRODUCTS: Glidden and Sherwin-Williams were both started in Cleveland Ohio, and are primarily known for selling what?
(2) TRANSLATIONS: Also the name of a county in California, ‘Mariposa’ is the Spanish word for what type of insect?
(3) MYTHOLOGY: Due to the Latin origins of its name, the day Friday is associated with what Roman deity?
(4) FILM: What movie’s title character defeats his arch enemy Messala in a Roman chariot race?
(5) CITIES: Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen character, the “Little Mermaid” statue is in what European city?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Danielle 300 Hans 1500 Cia 500 / Ryan 900 Muffy 300 Jonathan 900

Danielle 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.

Hans and Cia go first:

(500) Believed to be a side dish at the first Thanksgiving, what is Maine’s most valuable export?
(600) While it figuratively refers to gentle treatment, ‘kid gloves’ are literally gloves made from what young animal?
(700) What rhyming hippie expression began with Allen Ginsberg’s call to confront Hell’s Angels with bouquets?
(800) Similar to a spinal block, an injection into the lower back to reduce pain during childbirth is commonly known as what?
(900) Derived from the name of a bird, what term originally applied to people with no clue of how to walk in a city?
(1000) Last printed in 1945, which President was on the face of the $1,000 bill?
Didn’t count:
(1100) What jellyfish-like sea creature is actually four different organisms joined together?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Hans 4100 Cia 500

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

(500) What Midwestern state has the longest freshwater coastline in the United States?
(600) The chorus to which iconic song begins, “you may say I’m a dreamer”?
(700) The rise of men wearing pants instead of skirts is closely tied to the increased use of what domestic animal?
(800) Native American interpreter and guide Tisquantum was more commonly known by which two-syllable name?
(900) In 2017, Amazon purchased what health-conscious grocery store chain for $13.7 billion dollars?
(1000) After 40 years in exile, which author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” had his Czech citizenship restored?
(1100) The ridges along the circumference of a U.S. quarter are referred to as what?
Didn’t count:
(1200) Debuting in 1934, what sci-fi comic hero was a Yale graduate and a champion polo player?

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Ryan finished with 3200 to Jonathan’s 2400 so Ryan will join Hans in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Hans beats Jonathan, 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) Whose 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology dealt with canine digestion?
(2) What lines seen on weather maps connect points of identical barometric pressure?
(3) Before changing its name in 1804, what Ivy League university was originally called Rhode Island College?
(4) The Amazon River’s headwaters are high in the Andes Mountains of what country?
(5) Which character in “Jane Eyre” keeps his wife Bertha confined to a locked room of his house?

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

Hans got 3 right to Ryan’s 4. Hans is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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