Master Minds Recap: January 13, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Friday, January 13, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Chicken Dinners”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Wayne, Mike, Angie

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) TELEVISION: In 1979, what nephew of Scooby-Doo brought puppy power to the animated franchise?
(a) Scratchy-Doo (b) Scruffy-Doo (c) Scrappy-Doo
(2) BUSINESS: The richest woman in the world is the heiress to what personal care company?
(a) Revlon (b) Johnson & Johnson(c) L’Oreal
(3) BORDERS: Due to a treaty quirk, an area of land between what two countries remains unclaimed by any nation?
(a) Sudan & Egypt (b) Mexico & Guatemala (c) Italy & Switzerland
(4) HISTORY: Initially lacking any explicit mention of the U.S. or God, what promise was originally created to drive sales of a kid’s magazine?
(a) Boy Scout Oath (b) Pledge of Allegiance (c) Oath of Citizenship
(5) ORIGINS: What is believed to take its name from “jeu de la poule”, a medieval game where you tried to win a chicken?
(a) juggling (b) pool (c) tennis
(6) PRESIDENTIAL PETS: Abraham Lincoln’s dog had what name which was so popular that it became a generic name for a dog?
(a) Fido (b) Bowser (c) Rover
(7) CRIME: From 1932 to 1967, the Nevada State Prison boasted what unusual feature?
(a) drive-in theater (b) comedy club (c) casino

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Wayne 400 Mike 400 Angie 600 / The Beast 600 Muffy 600 Jonathan 400

Round 2: There are 5 subjects and questions. No multiple choice. Correct answers are worth 200 points for the first 4. The last question is worth 400 points. At the end of the round, the person with the lowest score on each team is eliminated.

(1) SPORTS: With 82 World Cups under her belt, Lindsey Vonn is considered 1 of the winningest athletes in what sport?
(2) PALEONTOLOGY: With a name meaning “three-horned face”, what dinosaur had a parrot-like beak & a huge frill at the back of its head??
(3) LITERATURE: What Toni Morrison novel followed the story of Sethe and a mysterious woman who might have been a ghost?
(4) INVENTIONS: The first product labeled an “Osterizer” was what appliance?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: What is the most populous city in South America??

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Wayne 1200 Mike 1000 Angie 1200 / The Beast 1000 Muffy 1200 Jonathan 800

Mike and Jonathan are eliminated.

Wayne and Angie advance to the next round to compete against The Beast and Muffy.

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.

(500) The computerized axial tomography X-ray test is better known as what kind of scan?
(600) What alternate name for the broad bean is frequently associated with the film “Silence of the Lambs”?
(700) The Lord’s Prayer appears in what address Jesus makes to an audience in Matthew, Chapters 5 through 7?
(800) Every July 24, Venezuela celebrates the birthday of what man they call “The Liberator”?
(900) What magnifying glass used by jewelers is meant to fit in the eye socket, attached to spectacles or be handheld??
(1000) In 2018, what London fashion house removed the iconic horse and knight from its logo?
(1100) Considered the largest brick castle in the world, Malbork Castle is near Gdansk in what country?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Wayne 3300 Angie 3100

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

(500) What is the common term for the yellow part of an egg?
(600) Despite the myth, what Arctic rodents do not jump off cliffs to commit mass suicide?
(700) In mathematics, what capital letter of the Greek alphabet is used to denote the summation of a series of numbers?
(800) The Shiba Inu is a breed of dog native to what country?
(900) What John D. Rockefeller Company was among the first broken up by the Sherman Antitrust Act?
(1000) In the 16th century, lady Jane Gray was Queen of England for how many days?
(1100) Chloe Zhao became the first Asian woman to win the Best Director Oscar with what film?
(1200) What silver-colored dental filling material is usually equal parts liquid mercury and a powder of assorted metals?
(1300) Known as the phone book of the internet, the domain name system is coordinated in part by what nonprofit?

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The Beast finished with 4300 to Muffy’s 5500 so Muffy will join Wayne in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Wayne beats Muffy, he will return on the next show. Any player who makes it through 2 shows and wins $20,000, 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) Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “Sonnets From the Portuguese”?
(2) From what plant do we get tapioca?
(3) What German physicist won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics?
(4) In Greek mythology Athena turned what master weaver into a spider?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 2 right to Wayne’s 0. Wayne is going home with $1,000 and we will see three new challengers on Monday.

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