Master Minds Recap: August 29, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, August 29, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Venus’s Girdle”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Kathy, Jeff, Ben

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 6 categories and questions that were shown. (The ‘Hospitality’ category was cut.) 100 points for each correct answer.

(1) SPORTS: To make the game more exciting, which of these is a new change MLB implemented in 2023?
(a) bigger bats (b) bigger bases (c) bigger baseballs
(2) HOLIDAYS: Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, WV, houses an “international shrine” to what holiday that was born there?
(a) Earth Day (b) Memorial Day (c) Mother’s Day
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST?: Won, two or three?
(a) Wonder bread, (b) Two-dollar bill (c) 3M company
(4) AWARDS: What pop diva is the only artist to be nominated in each of the 5 decades since the MTV Video Music Awardss began?
(a) Madonna (b) Cher (c) Celine Dion?
(5) SEA: Someone sporting a Venus’s girdle at the beach has become entangled with what kind of animal?
(a) jellyfish (b) crab (c) octopus?
(6) SPEECHES: Ronald Reagan’s famous line “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” was preceded by “Mr. Gorbachev, open this” what
(a) gate (b) country (c) world?

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Kathy 300 Jeff 200 Ben 200 / Beast 500 Muffy 300 Ryan 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) FASHION: Canadians Chris Boyd and Jordan Birch are credited with inventing December parties celebrating what “ugly” garments?
(2) TV: On what show was the Season 10 episode titled “Splinter” the first episode where no one, living or otherwise, perished?
(3) NICKNAMES: Which Vegas hotel was named for gangster moll Virginia Hill, known for her long legs and red hair?
(4) ANATOMY: Caused by your body using more oxygen than usual, muscles produce what type of acid when working out?
(5) U.S. PRESIDENTS: Born with the initials H.U.G., what President welcomed a name change when he moved to New York as a young man?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Kathy 1100 Jeff 800 Ben 600 / Beast 1500 Muffy 1300 Ryan 1400

Ben and Muffy are eliminated.

Kathy and Jeff advance to the next round, as do Beast and Ryan.

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.

Kathy and Jeff go first:

(500) The abbreviation ASAP stands for what?
(600) Based on “The Addams Family”, what Tim Burton-produced Netflix series stars Jenna Ortega in the title role?
(700) Monaco’s only land border is with what other country?
(800) Who purchased the island of Manhattan for 60 guilders and later founded the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River?
(900) The iron cross is one of the skills performed on what apparatus in men’s gymnastics?
(1000) Every winter solstice, residents in Cuzco, Peru reenact Inti Raymi, a festival for the sun god of what civilization?
(1100) The top-selling live gospel album of all time is “Amazing Grace” by what soul singer?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Kathy 4300 Jeff 2400

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

(500) In the 1941 film “Citizen Kane”, what is Rosebud?
(600) The Dead Sea Scrolls contain partial texts of what division of the Bible that includes Exodus and Leviticus?
(700) What American wrote the 2013 poem “His Day is Done” to honor the passing of Nelson Mandela?
(800) Whose album “The Blueprint” was the first work from the 21st century added to the National Recording Registry?
(900) The phases of the moon between quarter and full are known as what?
(1000) An Elizabethan beauty product called Venetian Ceruse was a white paint mixture of vinegar and what toxic metal?
(1100) In 1979, the dotted art style known as “Hedcut” was created for what newspaper?
(1200) After 11 seasons, what beloved sitcom’s final episde ended with Sam saying “Sorry, we’re closed”?

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Beast finished with 4000 to Ryan’s 3700 so Beast will join Kathy in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Kathy beats Beast, she 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) In what classic 1956 John Wayne western did Ethan Edwards obsessively track down his kidnapped niece?
(2) Found on cats and even some dogs, what specific part of the body includes a Henry’s pocket?
(3) Which architect and last director of the Bauhaus designed the steel and leather Barcelona chair?
(4) A 1970s movement pushed to make Michigan’s Upper Peninsula the 51st state with the name of what Great Lake?

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

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Which 19th century poet of “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” had a father who served in the U.S. Congress?
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Kathy thought it was Louisa May Alcott so she is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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