Master Minds Recap: June 15, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, June 15, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & A Solar Eclipse”
Today’s Master Minds: LaKedra Pam, Muffy Marracco, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Jodi, Gary, Ben

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) ANGELS: According to the film classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, what does an angel get every time a bell rings?
(a) wings (b) halo (c) trumpet
(2) MARKETING: Which bottled water company boasts that its water comes from snow in the French Alps?
(a) Evian (b) Volvic (c) Perrier
(3) LAW: Often used in legal writing, what does the phrase ‘de jure’ mean?
(a) by day (b) by night (c) by jury
(4) SPORTS: Played with a ‘cesta’, which fast-paced form of handball takes place on a ‘fronton’?
(a) kabaddi (b) jai alai (c) buzkashi
(5) SPACE: What is the name of the dark center portion of the moon’s shadow that causes a total solar eclipse?
(a) corona (b) umbra (c) saros
(6) SOUND: Paleontologists believe which of these prehistoric creatures might have been capable of creating a sonic boom?
(a) ankylosaurus (b) apatosaurus (c) pteranodon
(7) CONGRESS: Having been elected to both houses, who is the longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. Congress
(a) Margaret Chase Smith (b) Barbara Ann Mikulski (c) Dianne Feinstein

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jodi 500 Gary 300 Ben 500 / LaKedra 400 Muffy 700 Arianna 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) PHYSICS; Thanks to Isaac Newton’s laws of motion, we know that force is equal to mass times what
(2) DOCUMENTS: The original Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution were both written on what material?
(3) DISASTERS: The rigid airship Hindenburg famously ignited and crashed in what U.S. state?
(4) THEATRE: Although the number of scenes may vary, every Shakespeare play is divided into how many acts?
(5) INNOVATIONS: In 1969, what revolutionary device was installed for the first time at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jodi 700 Gary 100 Ben 1300 / LaKedra 400 Muffy 1700 Arianna 800

Gary and LaKedra 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.

Jodi and Ben go first:

(500) The second-most populous city in Canada, Montreal is located in which province?
(600) What term indicates that the receiver of a tennis serve was not able to make contact with the ball?
(700) Also called the hallux, what body part do surgeons prefer to use to replace a missing thumb?
(800) What department store chain’s Red Star logo was inspired by the founder’s arm tattoo?
(900) First exhibited in 1770, what famous painting may be a portrait of the artist’s nephew, Gainsborough Dupont?
(1000) What children’s book introduced the young character Greg Heffley and his journal entries?
(1100) In “Knute Rockne: All- American” Ronald Reagan’s character asks that this football team “win just one for” whom?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jodi 700 Ben 2900

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

(500) In what real town in Germany did the fabled story of the Pied Piper take place?
(600) Sharing its name with a burrowing mammal, what unit of measurement is based on Avrogadro’s number?
(700) Raijin and Fujin are among the deities known as “kami” in what religion?
(800) In 1934, the name of what popular swing dance was popularized in a song by Cab Calloway?
(900) In the lead-up to the Civil War, what was the first U.S. state to secede from the Union?
(1000) What system of the human body contains the pineal and thyroid glands, among others?
(1100) Almustafa is the title character in what poetry collection written and illustrated by Kahlil Gibran?
(1200) Overthrown in 1979, what notorious Ugandan president gave himself the title of “Conqueror of the British Empire?
(1300) Chocolate and cream are paired to make what irresistible confection used to make truffles and cake fillings?
Didn’t count
(1400) In 80 A.D., what Roman landmark was once flooded to stage a mock naval battle?

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