Master Minds Recap: March 16, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Thursday, March 16, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts and Samba Moves”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, LaKedra Pam, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: James, Iman, Andrew

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) SPEED: Having little hair and a lot of sweat glands, what’s the greatest endurance runner on Earth?
(a) elephants (b) wild boar (c) human
(2) ROLE MODELS: An advocate for gender pay equality, racial justice and LGBTQ rights Megan Rapinoe’s an Olympic medalist in what sport?
(a) basketball (b) soccer (c) golf
(3) MUSIC: Written by the nephew of J.P. Morgan what Christmas song was said to have been written for?
(a) Jingle Bells (b) Deck the Halls (c) Sleigh Ride
(4) MOVIES: What’s the highest-grossing film of Tom Cruise’s career?
(a) Top Gun: Maverick (b) Rain Man (c) War of the Worlds
(5) PHYSICS: Physics: “Why is the sky blue?” is best explained by which of these phenomena?
(a) Emmert’s Law (b) Rayleigh Scattering (c) Hall Effect
(6) FOOD: Introduced in the late 1940s, which candy’s name was inspired by a popular Broadway show?
(a) Sugar Daddy (b) Junior Mints (c) 5th Avenue
(7) CUSTOMS: When written in English, a Russian woman’s surname typically ends with what letter?
(a) A (b) L (c) T

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Scores at end of Round 1:
James 100 Iman 400 Andrew 400 / The Beast 500 LaKedra 500 Jonathan 600

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) LITERATURE: What term for a utopia was named for the fictional Tibetan land of eternal youth in the novel “Lost Horizon”?
(2) BEAUTY: The first collagen filler approved by the FDA for cosmetic injection was sourced from what farm animal?
(3) NAMES: Fittingly, what 20th century figure’s name is an anagram for “ten elite brains”?
(4) WORDS: “Jamais vu”, when something familiar feels like it never happened before, is the opposite of what 2-word feeling?
(5) POLITICS: As the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, Douglas Emhoff got what official title?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
James 700 Iman 800 Andrew 1000 / The Beast 1500 LaKedra 1300 Jonathan 1600

James and LaKedra are eliminated.

Iman and Andrew advance to the next round, as do The Beast and Jonathan.

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.

Iman and Andrew go first:

(500) So other companies can’t use it, Mattel trademarked its distinctive color called Barbie what?
(600) The “Cat Duet” uses the music of Rossini with a libretto consisting entirely of what one word?
(700) What brand of Reebok shoe features an inflatable tongue with a squeezable basketball-shaped mechanism?
(800) Before writing “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, what poet drew comics for Playboy?
(900) Affiliated with Duke University, Research Triangle Park is in what state?
(1000) What lobe of the human brain is responsible for processing memory?
(1100) Set on 18 acres in the middle of Manhattan, the land of what global headquarters is actually international territory?
(1200) Meaning “lord”, what is the popular name of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the national hero of medieval Spain?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Iman 3300 Andrew 3600

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

(500) What is the largest of the Great Lakes?
(600) Since the early 2000s, Charmin advertising has featured an animated family of what animals?
(700) The first woman to lead a major tribe, Wilma Mankiller was the chief of which Native American nation?
(800) What Marvin Gaye anthem includes the line “Mother, mother, there’s too many of you crying”?
(900) In October 2016, the latest model of what Samsung smartphone was recalled for overheating and catching fire?
(1000) Not a fruit, as the name might suggest. What Dutch ruling dynasty is named for a French principality?
(1100) In 2022, who became the first person nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 6 different decades?

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The Beast finished with 3600 to Jonathan’s 4200 so Jonathan will join Andrew in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Andrew beats Jonathan, he will win another $10,000 and possibly return on the next show as a Master Mind.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge: The questions are presented to the players at the same time and they write their answers down.

(1) What did Paul Orfalea call his copy shop chain, reflecting a nickname he got for his curly hair?
(2) Originally consisting of 158 verses, the national anthem of Cyprus is shared with which other country?
(3) A 3-acre area in the Everglades known as “Lost City” was once a settlement of what native people?
(4) Often heard at yoga, what Sanskrit phrase literally means “I bow to you”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan and Andrew tied with 3 right reponses so Andrew gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Jonathan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: In 1857, who was awarded his freedom nearly 3 months after being turned down by the Supreme Court?

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Andrew folded right away, and said he was just going to say Booker T. Washington, even though it was wrong! Andrew really should have thought about it just a little more. He is going home with $11,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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