Master Minds Recap: May 21, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, May 21, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Solar Power”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Morgan, Daniel, Jen

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) A: SCIENCE: Which of these metals is naturally magnetic?
(a) nickel (b) copper (c) lead
(2) FASHION: Traditionally, which of these dress lengths is the shortest?
(a) tea (b) skater (c) maxi
(3) COOKING: While preparing food, a chinois is best used while doing which of these?
(a) grating (b) straining (c) broiling
(4) BRANDS: After seeing oil workers put ‘rod wax’ on wounds, Robert Chesebrough refined and patented what product in 1865?
(a) Neosporin (b) Oil of Olay (c) Vaseline
(5) SPORTS: In golf, which of these indicates the lowest score under par?
(a) eagle (b) albatross (c) birdie
(6) TRANSPORTATION: Once infamous for its air pollution, what Tennessee city now has the first U.S. airport run entirely on solar power?
(a) Memphis (b) Knoxville (c) Chattanooga
(7) THE BODY: If you suffer from synchronous diaphragmatic flutter, you have a case of the what?
(a) tremors (b) hiccups (c) stomach rumbles

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Morgan 400 Daniel 400 Jen 400 / LaKedra 400 Muffy 500 Arianna 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) POLITICS: What political party can claim the most U.S. presidents?
(2) MUSIC: What song that created a dance craze topped the Billboard Hot 100 two separate times in the 1960s?
(3) CANADA: Located in the Canadian Maritimes, Halifax is the capital of which province?
(4) GAMES: On an American bingo card, under which letter will you find the ‘free space’?
(5) NATURE: Melittologists are scientists who study which hard-working insects that live in colonies?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Morgan 0 Daniel 600 Jen 600 / LaKedra 1000 Muffy 900 Arianna 700

Morgan and Arianna 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.

Daniel and Jen go first:

(500) What fortress in the heart of Moscow holds the largest medieval cannon in the world?
(600) Served hot or cold, what Japanese alcoholic beverage is made from fermented rice?
(700) If you’re a priest looking to drive out a demon, you can pay about $400 and take the Vatican’s course in what practice?
(800) A flapper would wear a cloche on what part of her body?
(900) The traditional lyrics of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” have your true love giving you three of what kind of bird?
(1000) Ticonderoga, New York sits near the southern end of what lake that empties into Canada?
Didn’t count:
(1100) Hoping to reach remote areas before the spring thaw, the U.S. Census always starts with residents of what state?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Daniel 1200 Jen 2600

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

(500) Strengthening international relations with donated animals, ‘Panda Diplomacy’ is practiced by which nation?
(600) Which NCAA sports team is known as the Black Knights?
(700) In banking terms, a CD is short for what alternative to a savings account?
(800) Introduced in 1978, which round game presents a series of colored lights and sounds that users must recall in order?
(900) What medical specialty studies the mechanics of human movement?
(1000) Reversing the spelling of a famous canal gives you the name of what Olympian god?
(1100) The rhythm of what 1966 television theme by Lalo Schifrin matches the Morse Code of the letters ‘M.I.’?
Didn’t count:
(1200) The name of what breed of dog literally translates from French as ‘little low’?

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LaKedra finished with 5700 to Muffy’s 1800 so LaKedra will join Jen in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jen beats LaKedra, 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) Yogurt is made by adding bacteria to milk, which creates what acid after the bacteria has eaten the sugar?
(2) In Magritte’s self-portrait, “The Son of Man”, what fruit is hiding the artist’s face?
(3) The name of what lively Spanish dance with clapping and stomping can be heard in the lyrics of “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
(4) What type of popular flower is associated with the Japanese emperor’s throne?
(5) “A lupine in ovine finery” can be more commonly expressed as what cautionary saying?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jen got 2 right to LaKedra’s 5. Jen is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players tomorrow.

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