Master Minds Recap: September 19, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, September 19, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Meatballs”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Mike, Elizabeth, Liam

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) AUTHORS: In 1919 and 1920 at the very start of his career, which writer worked on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Ernest Hemingway (b) F. Scott Fitzgerald (c) J.R.R. Tolkien
(2) ANIMALS: With over 20 million of these pets in the U.S., researchers taught what animals to make video calls to each other?
(a) border collies (b) parrots (c) Abyssinian cats
(3) MOVIES: After seeing “Eraserhead”, what legendary parody filmmaker hired David Lynch to direct “The Elephant Man”?
(a) Mel Brooks (b) Ivan Reitman (c) John Landis
(4) SPORTS: Which of these WNBA teams plays its home games in the northernmost arena?
(a) Sky (b) Storm (c) Sun
(5) PSYCHOLOGY: What “effect” refers to how people tend to value an object more if they make it themselves?
(a) LEGO (b) SimCity (c) Ikea
(6) NATURE: A viral photo of a multicolored angel in the South Carolina sky is an example of an optical phenomenon commonly called what?
(a) fire rainbow (b) thunder glow (c) Gabriel ring
(7) MUSIC: Famous for her wide-ranging soulful voice, Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz was known as the “Queen of” what?
(a) polka music (b) disco music (c) salsa music

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Mike 600 Elizabeth 500 Liam 500 / Beastie 500 Muffy 600 Jonathan 700

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) ORGANIZATIONS: What endangered species is featured in the iconic logo of the World Wildlife Fund?
(2) INVENTIONS: The diazo print process phased out the use of what “colorful” type of architectural plans?
(3) BUSINESS: What tech company shares its name with the Korean word meaning “three stars”?
(4) GEOGRAPHY: In the Caribbean Sea, the Leeward Islands lie north of what oppositely named island group?
(5) SINGERS: “Hellhound on My Trail” was written by what Delta bluesman who legend said made a deal with the devil at a crossroads?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Mike 1400 Elizabeth 1300 Liam 1100 / Beastie 1300 Muffy 1800 Jonathan 1300

MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: Commonly paired with salt, what seasoning was once referred to as the “King of Spices”?

ANSWER show

Beastie rang in first with the correct answer.

Liam and Jonathan are eliminated.

Mike and Elizabeth 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.

Mike and Elizabeth go first:

(500) Sounding like an orange vegetable, what unit of weight is used to measure the size of a gemstone?
(600) Intended as a term of affection by his soldiers, what French emperor and general was nicknamed “The Little Corporal”?
(700) In 1928, the E.K. Pond Packing Co. started using what literary character for its brand of peanut butter?
(800) Offering tours and souvenirs to horror-movie buffs, a New Jersey Boy Scout camp was the filming location for what 1980 film?
(900) Sandra Douglass Morgan is the first black female team president in the history of what pro sports league?
(1000) What is the only world capital starting with I?
(1100) What former MLS player is married to a former member of the Spice Girls?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Mike 4400 Elizabeth 3000

Mike 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 Mike.

(500) Staten island has what service with terminals and boats for transporting people across a small body of water?
(600) Considered the first celebrity stylist, dressmaker Rose Bertin was named Minister of Fashion by what French queen?
(700) The American Heart Association suggests timing CPR pushes to the beat of what appropriately titled Bee Gees song?
(800) “Hippocampus” is the genus of what marine creature with a long tubular snout?
(900) Beginning with a nod for “Junebug”, what actress has received six Oscar nominations without any wins?
(1000) The letters “PW” denote what type of golf club?
(1100) The only U.S. national park located south of the Equator is found on what territory?
(1200) According to the standard model of particle physics, every subatomic particle is either a fermion or a what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 5000 to Beastie ‘s 3700 so Muffy will join Mike in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Mike 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) Sometimes grown as a salad green what perennial weed has a name derived from the Latin for “lion’s tooth”?
(2) In comics, what was the hometown of Archie, Veronica and Jughead?
(3) Of the 11 countries beginning with the letter “A”, only Afghanistan and which other country do not end with the letter “A”?
(4) What actor born Krishna Pandit Bhanji won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Gandhi?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy and Mike got everything right, the complete opposite of the 9/13/23 Ultimate Trivia Challenge. Mike now 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: Ficus elastica is the scientific name for what type of plant?

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Mike was correct so he wins $10,000 and returns tomorrow to try to duplicate today’s performance.

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