Master Minds Recap: June 8, 2020 (afternoon)

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, June 8, 2020 with host Brooke Burns. This week they are showing 2 episodes per day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.

This afternoon’s episode: “Trivia, Smarts & Sizzle”
Master Minds: Arianna Haut, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Challengers: Angela, Tom, Miguel

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) GRAMMAR: ‘Boom’, ‘pop’ and ‘sizzle’ are examples of what type of descriptive word?
(a) diphthong (b) neologism (c) onomatopoeia
(2) ROYALTY: Who could not marry her prince until her father paid a $2 million dowry toward the cost of the wedding?
(a) Kate Middleton (b) Grace Kelly (c) Diana Spencer
(3) COMPETITIONS: The Miss Universe competition has been won by which country the most times?
(a) United States (b) Brazil (c) Sweden
(4) THE 1800s: Known as the ‘Enchantress of Numbers’, Ada Lovelace is often considered to be the first female what?
(a) business writer (b) accountant (c) computer programmer
(5) MUSIC: Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is known for which percussion instrument’s unlikely solo in the scherzo section?
(a) gong (b) triangle (c) glockenspiel
(6) CHEESE: At one time, the Vieux Boulogne variety of cheese was awarded which world title?
(a) hardest (b) smelliest (c) most expensive
(7) PREHISTORY: Beginning 416 million years ago, which of these periods is otherwise known as the ‘Age of Fishes’?
(a) Silurian (b) Devonian (c) Cambrian

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Angela 400 Tom 300 Miguel 300 / Arianna 400 Muffy 300 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) TRADEMARKS: What commonly used word is jointly owned under trademark by Marvel Comics and DC Comics?
(2) ART: The Louvre sculpture sometimes called ‘Nike of Samothrace’ is more famously known by what two-word name?
(3) CRYPTOGRAPHY: U.S. Marines called ‘code talkers’ sent unbreakable messages during World War II based on what native tribal language?
(4) SPORTS: What martial art’s name is Hebrew for ‘contact combat’?
(5) CONGRESS: The first African-American woman elected to Congress in 1968, Shirley Chisholm was a representative from which state?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Angela 400 Tom 1300 Miguel 500 / Arianna 400 Muffy 100 Jonathan 900

Angela 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.

Tom and Miguel go first:

(500) A music album is certified platinum in the U.S. after selling how many copies?
(600) In 1914, Mary Phelps Jacob patented the first modern type of what female undergarment?
(700) The enzyme pepsin is produced in what organ of the body?
(800) A 36 is the highest composite score a student can earn on what standardized exam?
(900) The Victoria amazonica is the largest genus of what flower featured in about 250 paintings by Claude Monet?
(1000) In “The Night Before Christmas”, which reindeer is mentioned last?
(1100) Showing a view from an upstairs window, the earliest surviving photograph made with a camera was taken in what country?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Tom 3600 Miguel 1000

Tom 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 Tom.

(500) One spanning the Thames, London Bridge now spans what body of water in Arizona?
(600) Betty Friedan cofounded and served as first president of what civil rights group?
(700) In Celtic folklore, what ‘woman of the fairies’ foretells of death by wailing?
(800) Located in the Mall of the Emirates, a 25-story indoor ski slope can be found in what city?
(900) Marie and Pierre Curie famously discovered radium and what other element?
(1000) What unruly 5-1/2 year old comic strip character was created by Hank Ketcham?
(1100) In the northern hemisphere, solar panels receive the most sunlight throughout the day if they face which direction?
(1200) Swing era musician Benny Goodman was best known for playing what instrument?

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Arianna finished with 4200 to Jonathan’s 2300 so Arianna will join Tom in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Tom 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) From the Greek for “women’s servant”, what term was coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael for a birthing assistant?
(2) After the U.S., what is the Western Hemisphere’s second-oldest independent nation?
(3) In the book “The Little Prince”, what type of animal says, “What is essential is invisible to the eye”?
(4) What did the ‘M’ stand for in the name ‘R.M.S. Titanic’?
(5) The largest denomination of paper currency ever issued in the U.S. is what amount?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Tom got one right to Arianna’s two. Tom is going home with $1,000 and there will be 3 new players on the next show.

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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