Master Minds Recap: June 11, 2020 (evening)

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, June 11, 2020 with host Brooke Burns. This week they are showing 2 episodes per day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.

This evening’s episode: “Trivia, Smarts & Hemingway Cats”
Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Challengers: Mike, Larissa, Esme

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) TEXTILES: Bandhani and shibori are examples of which type of colorful clothing pattern?
(a) paisley (b) tie-dye (c) tartan
(2) DUOS: Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner are best known for competing in which professional sport?
(a) tennis (b) volleyball (c) ice skating
(3) MAIL: First adopted by the U.S. Postal Service in 1963, the ‘zip’ in zip code stands for what?
(a) Zone Information Program (b) Zoning Improvement Plan (c) Zone Identification Process
(4) LITERATURE: Written by Goethe, in which play did Mephistopheles make a wager with God?
(a) Faust (b) Baal (c) Paradise Lost
(5) INVENTIONS: Which of these was patented 46 years after canned food was invented?
(a) Ziploc bag (b) refrigerator (c) can opener
(6) FORESTATION: Of these trees, which one yields the hardest wood?
(a) oak (b) mesquite (c) ash
(7) DINING: Located in Manhattan’s Central Park, which iconic restaurant housed sheep before it opened in 1934?
(a) Gramercy Tavern (b) Tavern on the Green (c) P.J. Clarke’s

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Mike 500 Larissa 300 Esme 400 / Ken 500 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) ANIMALS: Nicknamed ‘Hemingway cats’ because the author adored them so much, polydactyl felines are born with extra what?
(2) TRANSPORTATION: Meaning ‘wasp’ in Italian, which iconic motor scooter was originally designed in the 1940s by an aircraft engineer?
(3) MINERALS: According to the numerical graphite scale, which number pencil would you use to achieve the darkest writing?
(4) HISTORY: In 1605, the gunpowder plot was discovered during which month?
(5) LITERATURE: Desperate to marry for love instead of convenience, Elizabeth Bennet was the heroine of what Jane Austen novel?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Mike 500 Larissa 1300 Esme 200 / Ken 1100 Muffy 700 Jonathan 900

Esme 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.

Mike and Larissa go first:

(500) Famous for its showbiz slang, Variety dubs what company ‘The Mouse House’?
(600) In terms of liquid measurement, how many fluid ounces are in 3 cups?
(700) What American music genre featuring accordion and washboards was given a Grammy category in 2007?
(800) One of America’s most densely-populated counties, New York County is made up entirely of what borough?
(900) What poet recited “On the Pulse of the Morning” at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton?
(1000) A major coffee producer since the 18th century, the island of Java is part of what nation?
(1100) Generally mounted on the deck and crucial to sailing, what is stored in a ship’s binnacle?
(1200) In the film “2001: A Space Odyssey”, astronauts are sent to study a large monolith in space near what planet?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Mike 1200 Larissa 5100

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

(500) Les Kelley’s list of cars he wanted to buy at certain prices in 1926 evolved into what guide?
(600) What line dance created in 1976 by Richard Silver begins with a series of grapevines to the right and left?
(700) Who beat out Elmo the Elephant and Newt the Gnu to become an enduring cereal mascot?
(800) Measured at 134 degrees, the highest officially recorded temperature occurred in what country?
(900) Which daughter of ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ achieved success with the song “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”?
(1000) The two largest of Britain’s Channel Islands are Jersey and what?
(1100) What creatures would you typically find living in a formicary?
(1200) The town of Macondo is at the center of which Gabriel García Márquez novel?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ken finished with 6500 to Jonathan’s 900 so Ken will join Larissa in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Larissa 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) High-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is considered the ‘good’ type of what bodily substance?
(2) In 2019, Louisville International Airport in Kentucky changed its name to honor what hometown boxing hero?
(3) Called the ‘Las Vegas of Asia’, what former Portuguese colony is home to the only legal casinos in China?
(4) As indicated by its title, what famous piece by Maurice Ravel was inspired by a Spanish dance?
(5) Debuting to the public in 1925 at a Times Square movie theater, what invention helped create the summer blockbuster?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Larissa got 3 right to Ken’s 5. Larissa 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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