Master Minds Recap: June 18, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Thursday, June 18, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Secret Agents”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Andrea, Kari, Jennifer

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) FINANCE: What animal refers to a financial market in which stock prices fall by 20% or more?
(a) bear (b) bull (c) badger
(2) SPIES: Which fictional secret agent was created by author Tom Clancy?
(a) Alex Cross (b) Jack Ryan (c) Jason Bourne
(3) DANCE: In 2012, Oakland repealed a 1930s era law that banned what kind of dancing?
(a) swing dancing (b) Latin dancing (c) marathon dancing
(4) DOMINOES: Which came first?
(a) Domino Sugar (b) Domino’s Pizza (c) Fat Domino
(5) ANIMALS: A species of which invertebrate can restart its own life cycle, enabling it to effectively live forever?
(a) jellyfish (b) earthworm (c) octopus
(6) OCCUPATIONS: In 1906, the term ‘muckraker’ referred specifically to persons in which field?
(a) politics (b) pig farming (c) journalism
(7) GEOLOGY: Excluding steam eruptions, how many different volcanoes have erupted in the lower 48 states since the U.S. was founded?
(a) four (b) six (c) nine

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Andrea 500 Kari 300 Jennifer 600 / Ken 600 Muffy 600 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) RELIGION: In Genesis, which of Adam and Eve’s child was born first?
(2) HEALTH: Named for the woman who founded it in 1983, what weight loss company has about 600 centers worldwide?
(3) CONGRESS: In 2002, which Muppet became the first non-human to testify at a congressional hearing?
(4) SYMBOLS: On the current American flag, how many stars are on the top row?
(5) WRITERS: With a total of four wins, which American poet was awarded the Pulitzer Prize the most times?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Andrea 1100 Kari 100 Jennifer 600 / Ken 0 Muffy 800 Jonathan 500

Kari and Ken 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.

Andrea and Jennifer go first:

(500) What colorfully-named variety of soft-shell crab is most typically chosen for harvesting in the U.S.?
(600) Near the pineal gland, what small cone-shaped part of the brain controls appetite?
(700) French style icon Jane Birkin is the namesake for which fashion house’s high-end handbags?
(800) For over 150 years, which food company’s logo has depicted a mother bird and her chicks in a nest?
(900) China shares its largest land border with which country?
(1000) In 1946, the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas was opened by what American mobster?
(1100) What notable teenage diarist often began her entries with “Dear Kitty”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Andrea 4400 Jennifer 600

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

(500) Magician David Copperfield took his stage name from the title of a novel by what author?
(600) Used to connect electronic devices, ‘HDMI’ stands for ‘High Definition Multimedia’ what?
(700) Prior to starting the company that bears their names, which company did Henry Wells and William G. Fargo help found?
(800) What does Merriam-Webster define as meat such as duck cooked and preserved in its own fat?
(900) Introduced by the Sumerians, what digit is not represented by Roman numerals?
(1000) Considered the ‘Mother of Modern Dance’, whose technique is based on ‘contraction and release’?
(1100) In 1958, Scottish OB/GYN Ian Donald became the first to use what type of imaging in his field?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4300 to Jonathan’s 1100 so Jonathan will join Andrea in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Andrea beats Muffy, 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) Australians always recognize the first of what month as the beginning of autumn?
(2) What college in Macon, Georgia was the first college to grant degrees to women?
(3) Three and half miles across, the largest living organism ever found is a variety of what?
(4) A statue of a farmer and two hogs stands in front of what canned food’s museum in Austin, MN?
(5) Construction worker Marc Smith is credited with starting what spoken word competitions in 1986?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Andrea got one right to Muffy’s two. Andrea 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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