Master Minds Recap: May 5, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Tuesday, May 5, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Dairy Cows”
Today’s Master Minds: Arianna Haut, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Levanna, James, Pratik

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) TENNIS: Which of these female athletes has won the most Grand Slam singles titles?
(a) Venus Williams (b) Serena Williams (c) Martina Navratilova
(2) NOBILITY: In the British nobility, which of these has the highest rank?
(a) Viscount (b) Baron (c) Earl
(3) STOCKS: In Wall Street lingo, the acronym FAANG refers to Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google and whom?
(a) AT&T (b) Adobe (c) Amazon
(4) COLLEGE: More U.S. Presidents have earned degrees from which college than any other?
(a) Yale (b) Princeton (c) Harvard
(5) BOOKS: In “The Scarlet Letter”, who is Roger Chillingworth in relation to Hester Prynne?
(a) her husband (b) her minister lover (c) her employer
(6) LIVESTOCK: With almost 1.8 million dairy cows, which state produces the most milk?
(a) California (b) Wisconsin (c) New York
(7) PHILOSOPHERS: Simone de Beauvoir is laid to rest next to what other French philosopher & lifelong partner?
(a) Michel Foucault (b) Albert Camus (c) Jean-Paul Sartre

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Levanna 300 James 300 Pratik 500 / Arianna 500 Muffy 600 Jonathan 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) CHARITY: What worldwide event to raise charitable funds occurs on the fifth day after Thanksgiving?
(2) BUSINESS: In 1855, Henry Bessemer patented his process for making what building material?
(3) ADVERTISING: Since 1948, what jewelry company has used the slogan “A diamond is forever”?
(4) NICKNAMES: Although he kept canaries in Leavenworth, Robert Stroud was known as the ‘Birdman of’ what other prison?
(5) MUSIC: Referring to his love of nature, Ludwig van Beethoven’s sixth symphony has what title?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Levanna 300 James 500 Pratik 300 / Arianna 1300 Muffy 400 Jonathan 600

Contestant Tie-breaker: Question: The Japanese pufferfish sushi that is a thousand times more deadly than cyanide if improperly prepared goes by what name?
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Levanna rang in with an incorrect response so she 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.

James and Pratik go first:

(500) An expert in matters of the home, who is America’s first self-made female billionaire?
(600) Jazz musician Nat Adderley was accomplished at what smaller relative of the trumpet?
(700) What brand of permanent marker was introduced by the Sanford Ink Company in 1964?
(800) In a normal eye, on what layer of tissue does light focus?
(900) What interjection expressing gratitude comes from the Hebrew for ‘praise the Lord’?
(1000) At age 25, Martin Luther King Jr. earned his Ph.D in theology from what New England University?
Didn’t count:
(1100) Steel alloys must contain at least 10.5% of what element to be considered stainless steel?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
James 2500 Pratik 300

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

(500) Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is set during a conflict between Russia and what military leader?
(600) Kale is a variety of what type of vegetable?
(700) Thanks to its methane clouds, what color is the planet Neptune?
(800) In the Greek alphabet, what second-to-last letter looks like a trident?
(900) Steven Spielberg, Gerald Ford and Neil Armstrong all earned the highest rank in what organization?
(1000) In the 1933 film “King Kong”, the title ape climbs what New York skyscraper?
(1100) Typically, alligators are only native to the United States and what other country?
(1200) Puccini’s opera, “La Boheme”, tells the tragic love story between a writer named Rodolfo and whom?

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Arianna finished with 5100 to Jonathan’s 1300 so Arianna will join James in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If James beats Arianna, 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) Who was released in 1990 after spending 18 of 27 years imprisoned on Robben Island?
(2) Which physics law states that the force needed to compress or extend a spring is proportional to the distance stretched?
(3) What is the only country whose name starts with the letter Q?
(4) The opposite of nocturnal, what word refers to animals that are mainly active during the day and sleep at night?
(5) What beverage brand was founded by Ontario pharmacist John McLaughlin?

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

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