Master Minds Recap: May 4, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, May 4, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Liquid Fire”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Ted, Jon, Wendy

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) SPORTS: In which of horse racing’s Triple Crown events is the winner draped in a garland of roses?
(a) Kentucky Derby (b) Preakness Stakes (c) Belmont Stakes
(2) NUTRITION: Which of these vitamins is fat-soluble, as opposed to water-soluble?
(a) Vitamin C (b) Vitamin B (c) Vitamin A
(3) ART TECHNIQUES: Often seen in classic murals, what method of painting is done on fresh plaster?
(a) impasto (b) fresco (c) mosaic
(4) THE STAGE: Which of these was originally a play?
(a) “Mrs. Dalloway” (b) “Miss Julie” (c) “Madame Bovary”
(5) TAXONOMY: In taxonomic grouping, which category ranks third, between kingdom & class?
(a) phylum (b) genus (c) order
(6) ALSO KNOWN AS: When it was introduced to the U.S. in the 1920s what was known as “liquid fire”?
(a) Irish coffee (b) neon signs (c) Tabasco sauce
(7) 1900s: Which came first
(a) Stella Artois beer (b) Estelle Getty (c) the Getty Center

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Ted 400 Jon 400 Wendy 600 / Ken 500 Muffy 500 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) ATHLETES: Peggy Fleming was known for competing in which winter sport?
(2) LAW: Both a verb and a noun, what legal defense is derived from the Latin word meaning “elsewhere”?
(3) MUSIC: Considered to be one of the first true Rock ‘n’ Roll songs, “Maybellene” was written and recorded by whom?
(4) LITERATURE: In “The Arabian Nights”, Sinbad the Sailor was originally from which Middle Eastern city?
(5) PANTS: Named for an occupation, what style of pants features small pockets on the thigh and a loop designed to hold a hammer?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Ted 1200 Jon 600 Wendy 800 / Ken 700 Muffy 1500 Jonathan 600

Jon 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.

Ted and Wendy go first:

(500) Which Missouri neighbor is known as the Volunteer State?
(600) What is the only planet in our solar system named for a Greek deity?
(700) Insulin is created in which human organ
(800) What is the main ingredient in a traditional bouillabaisse?
(900) The heat from what common weather phenomenon can be five times hotter than the surface of the sun?
(1000) Easter, tiger and stargazer are all types of what flower?
(1100) What Paris institution was founded in 1257 as a theological college for poor students?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Ted 1700 Wendy 2600

Wendy 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 Wendy.

(500) In 1990, Lech Walesa was the first democratically elected president of which country?
(600) Practiced by samurai to clear their minds before battle, what is the Japanese art of flower arranging called?
(700) Ironically, which state cast the deciding vote to end Prohibition?
(800) Located slightly above its paw, the extra digit on a dog’s leg is known by what name?
(900) In 1995 what type of organism was the first to have its genome completely sequenced?
(1000) Still in circulation, what women’s magazine was co-founded by Gloria Steinem?
(1100) Who described his home city as “hog butcher for the world” in his famous poem “Chicago”?
(1200) What word for a rectangular-shaped burial vessel originally referred to a small box used to hold valuables?

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Ken finished with 4600 to Muffy’s 2300 so Ken will join Wendy in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Wendy beats Ken, 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) How many U.S. Presidents have been in office since 2000?
(2) Catfish Row was the setting of what great American opera?
(3) First released in 1899, “The Interpretation of Dreams” was originally published in what language?
(4) Nestled in the South Pacific, what is the only inhabited U.S. territory that is south of the Equator?
(5) Who was the last British monarch from the House of Tudor?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Wendy got 3 right to Ken’s 4. Wendy 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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