Master Minds Recap: March 9, 2021 (Game 1)

Here’s a recap of the clues on the first Master Minds game for Tuesday, March 9, 2021 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Cherry Brandy”
Today’s Master Minds: Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Marianne, Patrick, Ron

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) DESSERTS: The authentic version of which cake calls for a layer of cherries and a splash of cherry brandy?
(a) Black Forest (b) Red Velvet (c) Devil’s Food
(2) COMMUNICATIONS: What is the mailing address of the Supreme Court?
(a) 1 First Street (b) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (c) 1 Independence Drive?
(3) THE BIBLE: Lucifer is the fallen angel whose name means what in Latin?
(a) bringer of dark (b) bringer of light (c) bringer of chaos
(4) WHICH CAME FIRST?
(a) Microsoft (b) Mr. Coffee (c) Madonna
(5) CLASSIC LIT: Which of these novels was written by Leo Tolstoy?
(a) The Brothers Karamazov (b) War and Peace (c) Doctor Zhivago
(6) ANIMALS: The largest living bear ever recorded was which of these types?
(a) Kodiak (b) polar (c) grizzly
(7) CITIES: Meaning “Where the surf sounds loudly”, Malibu, CA’s name can be traced back to what indigenous people?
(a) Monache (b) Serrano (c) Chumash

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Marianne 400 Patrick 400 Ron 400 / Ken 700 Muffy 700 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) BOTANY: What type of cone-bearing trees are an anagram of the words “fir cones”?
(2) ACADEMICS: What two common and short first names did educator Zerna Sharp select as characters for new reading books in 1927?
(3) FOOD: What popular stir-fry dish of chicken, peanuts and chiles takes its name from the Qing Dynasty title for “palace guardian”?
(4) PRODUCTS: Which LVMH cosmetics brand comes partly from the name of Moses’ wife, Zipporah?
(5) ANATOMY: Also called “premolars”, what set of human teeth is located between the canines and molars?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Marianne 400 Patrick 600 Ron -200 / Ken 1100 Muffy 1100 Jonathan 900

Ron 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.

Marianne and Patrick go first:

(500) When classifying the proper length of a man’s suit, the letter R stands for what?
(600) Whose autobiographies were titled “I Am Not Spock” and “I am Spock”?
(700) Riverboat Captain Joshua John Ward popularized a rope-woven version of what relaxation contraption?
(800) Using a sucker disk on the top of its head, what kind of fish attaches itself to sharks and boats?
(900) Completed when FDR was in office, what structure that created Lake Mead is named for his predecessor?
(1000) The European Union’s official flag consists of which two colors?
(1100) Who broke barriers in tennis when he won the Gentlemen’s Singles title at Wimbledon in 1975?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Marianne 2200 Patrick 2600

Patrick 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 Patrick.

(500) What National River of India is considered sacred by the Hindu people?
(600) Both the Grim Reaper and Father Time are commonly depicted carrying what farming tool?
(700) What type of bed takes its name from the wheels that allow it to be stowed underneath another bed?
(800) Brown sugar gets its colored by the addition of what product?
(900) “In the room, women come and go, talking of Michelangelo” in T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of” whom?
(1000) What organ in the human body uses the most energy?
(1100) The card with no credit limit offered by American Express is named for what officers of the Roman Army?
(1200) Which Regency-era fashion innovator and friend of Prince George is credited with influencing the way men dress today?
(1300) While a male peafowl is called a peacock, what is the proper term for a female?

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Muffy finished with 6200 to Ken’s 4100 so Muffy will join Patrick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Patrick beats Muffy, 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 at the same time and they write their answers down.

(1) In Roman numerals, what is the highest numeric value that is represented by only a single letter?
(2) Modeled on the Olympics, what sports event is held every 4 years for Western Hemisphere countries?
(3) The yellow species of which edible plant is the state flower of Hawaii?
(4) In an 1843 British story, who is the wife of Bob and mother of 6, including Tim?
(5) During WWII brassiere company Maidenform produced over 28,000 protective vests for what type of service animal?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Patrick got 3 right to Muffy’s 2. Patrick wins $10,000 and returns in the next show to try to win another $10,000.

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