Master Minds Recap: August 16, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Wednesday, August 16, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & King Tut”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Kelly, Becca, Patrick

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) MOVIES: Spawning a box-office franchise, what action film was co-directed by Keanu Reeves’ stunt double in 2014?
(a) Jack Reacher (b) Alex Cross (c) John Wick
(2) PHOTOGRAPHY: Before people said “cheese”, what word was requested by photographers to ensure a subject’s mouth appeared demure?
(a) apples (b) carrots (c) prunes
(3) INVENTIONS: Who used his most famous innovation for the first time 42 years after he first developed it?
(a) Samuel Colt (b) Henry Heimlich (c) Frank Zamboni
(4) GEOGRAPHY: Which of these places is the largest in area?
(a) England (b) Nevada (c) the Great Barrier Reef
(5) WHICH CAME FIRST: Larry, Curly or Mo’?
(a) The Larry Sanders Show (b) Arby’s Curly-Q Fries (c) Mo’ Better Blues?
(6) ART APPRECIATION: Between 1911 and 1913, thousands lined up specifically to see an empty space on the wall of which museum?
(a) Louvre (b) Hermitage Museum (c) Museum of Modern Art
(7) RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: Tribunals from what Catholic institution originally issued Edicts of Grace that gave heretics 30 days’ notice?
(a) Spanish Inquisition (b) Reformation (c) Crusades

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Kelly 300 Becca 600 Patrick 700 / Beastie 500 Muffy 600 Ryan 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) ZOOLOGY: The NY Fish & Wildlife Service estimated what animal could chuck 700 pounds of wood if it could chuck wood?
(2) POP MUSIC: What Bangles hit was inspired by movements ferry passengers made while trying to keep their balance on choppy water?
(3) MILITARY: If you’re 29, you can join for full-time active duty in each U.S. military branch except which one, whose cutoff age is 28?
(4) HISTORY: In 1876, the Transcontinental Express train went from New York City to what California city in a record-setting 83 hours?
(5) GOVERNMENT: Born Marie Jean Korbel in Czechoslovakia, who was America’s first female Secretary of State?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Kelly 900 Becca 1400 Patrick 1300 / Beastie 1500 Muffy 1800 Ryan 1400

Kelly and Ryan are eliminated.

Becca and Patrick advance to the next round, as do Beastie 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.

Becca and Patrick go first:

(500) Since being introduced in 1965, what paper towel brand has been known as “the quicker picker upper”?
(600) When it comes to street abbreviations, “Cyn” is short for what?
(700) According to the final line of Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”, “Good fences make good” what?
(800) What series starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston launched the same day Apple TV+ debuted?
(900) The Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico border what U.S. state?
(1000) What nasal affliction is used when referring to the seats very high up in an arena?
(1100) What monster movie’s closing line was “It was beauty killed the beast”?
(1200) Which Portuguese explorer died in India shortly after King John III named him Viceroy?
(1300) The quote “I really didn’t say everything I said” appears on the cover of a book by what Yankees’ catcher?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Becca 4600 Patrick 6200

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

(500) An enclosed temperature-controlled environment for keeping and hatching eggs is called a what?
(600) What Italian-American singing legend recorded two collaborative albums with Lady Gaga?
(700) In the body, water is absorbed through semipermeable cell walls through what process?
(800) Once the fifth-richest man in the U.S., what Seattle native co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates?
(900) In Dungeons & Dragons, what character alignment trait is the opposite of “lawful”?
(1000) What author first released his bestselling novel “The Martian” as a free serial on his website?
(1100) Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham appeared squeezed into a tiny McLaren 720S for a chase scene in what “Fast & Furious” film?
(1200) Contrasted with Asgard, the realm of the gods, what was the world of human civilization in Norse mythology?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 5000 to Beastie’s 2900 so Muffy will join Patrick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Patrick beats Muffy, he will win $10,000 and 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) The name of what Jewish community organization is Hebrew for “children” or “sons of the covenant”?
(2) “Pelléas and Mélisande” was the only completed opera by which French composer?
(3) A phillumenist is a person who would most likely collect what type of boxes?
(4) What is the easternmost U.S. state whose name & capital start with the same first letter?

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

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: What was the first color photography process introduced by the Lumiere Brothers?

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Patrick thought it was Polaroid so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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