Master Minds Recap: June 3, 2020

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Wednesday, June 3, 2020 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & the Naked Eye”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Charles, James, Julie

It’s Game 3 for Charles. If he wins today, it’s $30,000 and a spot on the Master Minds team.

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) CITIES: Paris, France is divided into 20 divisions called what?
(a) Arrondissements (b) Parishes (c) Wards
(2) LUMBER: In building and construction, a piece of wood known as a 2×4 omits which measurement dimension?
(a) length (b) thickness (c) width
(3) SCIENCE: The gas released from a cut onion reacts with natural water in your eyes to make what tear-inducing acid?
(a) hydrochloric (b) nitric (c) sulfuric
(4) HISTORY: The Emancipation Proclamation declared that slaves were free in which of these states?
(a) Virginia (b) Kentucky (c) Missouri
(5) BUSINESS: What executive has held the title of CEO at both eBay and Hewlett-Packard?
(a) Carly Fiorina (b) Meg Whitman (c) Sheryl Sandberg
(6) PAINTING: A technique involving bold contrasts between light and dark, the term chiaroscuro was coined during what art period?
(a) Impressionism (b) Romanticism (c) Baroque
(7) COSMOS: On a dark night with no moon and far from any source of lights, how many star are visible with the naked eye?
(a) thousands (b) tens of thousands (c) millions

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Charles 600 James 400 Julie 300 / Ken 700 Muffy 400 Jonathan 300

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) MONEY: Among currently circulating U.S. paper money, what is the lowest denomination featuring a non-president on the face?
(2) MUSIC: The 1937 song “Our Love is Here to Stay” was the last collaboration of what songwriting brothers?
(3) PLANTS: “Leaves of three, leave them be” is folk advice on how to avoid toxicodendron radicans, better known as what?
(4) GAMES: A double misnomer, what game actually originated in Germany as “Stern-Halma”, a name referencing its star-shaped board?
(5) LITERATURE: In 1958, what Russian novel was banned in the Soviet Union but secretly published and distributed there by the CIA?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Charles 800 James 600 Julie -100 / Ken 1500 Muffy 400 Jonathan -100

Julie 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.

Charles and James go first:

(500) Named for an Asian port city, what form of kidnapping was made famous by the British Navy?
(600) From the Latin for ‘cave’, what sport involves exploring subterranean tunnels and caverns?
(700) What is the term for preserves made from citrus fruit and its peel?
(800) America’s interstate highway system is named in honor of what 34th President?
(900) Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling all rest in peace at what location famous for coronations?
(1000) Used for parliamentary procedure, “Robert’s Rules of Order” was written by an officer in what U.S. military branch?
(1100) Contributions by what food scientist include the shasta daisy and the russet potato that bears his name?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Charles 4200 James 1100

Charles 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 Charles.

(500) Mostly completed in New Mexico, the creation of the atomic bomb was a project named for what New York City borough?
(600) Which color has the longest wavelength on the visible light spectrum?
(700) Colonized upon their discovery in the 15th century, the Madeira Islands belong to what country?
(800) In the first line of the song “Deck the Halls”, how many “la’s” follow the “fa”?
(900) Now a critic of it, Larry Sanger co-founded and coined the name of what popular website?
(1000) In memoriam to a fellow poet, who wrote “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?
(1100) What company’s logo is inspired by the bats they discovered in the rafters of their first distillery?
(1200) Journalist Judith Miller was jailed in 2005 for not revealing her sources in the scandal surrounding which CIA officer?

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Ken finished with 4400 to Muffy’s 3400 so Ken will join Charles in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. Charles is now up to $21,000. If he beats Ken in this last round, he will win $30,000 and be crowned a Master Mind.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge: The questions are presented to the players individually and they say their answers out loud.

(1) The tallest building designed by a female architect is located in which American city?
(2) A monument stands in Enterprise, Alabama dedicated to what insect that devastated cotton crops in the South?
(3) Discontinued in 1969, which General Motors car was harshly scrutinized in the landmark book “Unsafe at any Speed”?
(4) What big band leader and musician gained fame for the songs “Moonlight Serenade” and “Pennsylvania 6-5000?
(5) The quote “When people show you who they are, believe them” is attributed to what American?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Charles got 2 right to Ken’s 4. Charles is going home with $21,000. 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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