Master Minds Recap: October 12, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, October 12, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Ah Humbug!”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Bo, Connie, Chad

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 today. The 100 points for each correct answer.

(1) ROYALTY: The day after their coronation, the King and Queen of England made a surprise appearance on what U.S. TV show?
(a) American Idol (b) America’s Got Talent (c) Rupaul’s Drag Race
(2) CELEBRATIONS: Every year, Boryeong holds South Korea biggest international festival in which attendees throw, bathe and wrestle in what?
(a) mud (b) paint (c) kimchi
(3) MEDICINE: From 1922 to 1990, an extremely long bout of what plagued Iowa man Charles Osborne?
(a) insomnia (b) hiccups (c) sneezing
(4) ACTORS: What action star received a master’s degree in chemical engineering and won a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D.?
(a) Jet Li (b) Michelle Rodriguez (c) Dolph Lundgren
(5) SPACE: When Sir William Herschel first discovered Uranus, which of these names did he want to call it?
(a) Fortuna (b) Georgium Sidus (c) Curiosus
(6) BUSINESS: What restaurant chain with ten “castles” in North America can be reached by calling 1-888-WE-JOUST?
(a) The Magic Castle (b) Medieval Times (c) Pirates Dinner Adventure

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Bo 300 Connie 100 Chad 500 / Beastie 300 Muffy 500 Ryan 500

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) COMIC BOOKS: In 2021, DC Comics revealed that what legendary superhero’s son Jon Kent is bisexual?
(2) GAMES: If an “English opening” is followed by a “reversed Sicilian defense”, you’re most likely playing what two-player strategy game?
(3) LITERATURE: Used nine times in a short English novel published in 1843, what word means “something designed to deceive and mislead”?
(4) RELIGION: In the Bible, what apostle survived a shipwreck and a snake bit on his way to be tried in Rome?
(5) HISTORY: Comprised of four points, what U.S. foreign policy was initially presented in an 1823 speech to Congress?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Bo 1100 Connie 700 Chad 1300 / Beastie 1300 Muffy 1300 Ryan 1300

MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: Swallowtail and monarch are what types of insect?
ANSWER show

Muffy and Ryan buzzed in first with the correct response to that softball.

Connie and Beastie are eliminated.

Bo and Chad advance to the next round, as do Muffy 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.

Bo and Chad go first:

(500) Charles Goodnight invented what portable kitchen for Old West cattlemen?
(600) What famous sitcom character is now a meme, inspired by her complaint about her sister Marcia in a 1971 episode?
(700) Common in herbal teas, “Roman” and “German” are two varieties of what flower used to calm nerves and treat inflammation?
(800) Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, what NBA legend set the record for the most points scored in a game with 100?
(900) In weather, the “heat index” is a measurement of how warm it feels outside based on temperature and what other factor?
(1000) Also known as the Bloodless Revolution, the 17th-century Glorious Revolution took place primarily in what country?
(1100) What member of Guns N’Roses was born Saul Hudson?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Bo 2800 Chad 2600

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

(500) What cartoon catlike girl with the slogan “You can never have too many friends” has two theme parks in Japan and one in China?
(600) In the procedure known as a “C-section”, the “C” stands for what?
(700) The dance in Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” music video was inspired by “Mexican Breakfast” from what Broadway choreographer?
(800) After the Declaration of the Republic following the French Revolution, what month last from July 19 to August 17?
(900) What Lombardy town about 15 miles northeast of Milan is famous as the home of the moldy blue cheese that bears its name?
(1000) What is the only South American country with Dutch as an official language?
(1100) After their success on “The Help”, director Tate Taylor and what Oscar-winner worked together again on the horror film “Ma”?
(1200) Occurring before first grade, the name of what education level means “children’s garden”?
(1300) Since 1995, NYC’s annual Met gala has been scheduled for the first Monday of what month?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ryan finished with 5500 to Muffy’s 5200 so Ryan will join Bo in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Bo beats Ryan, 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) What future poet and author became the first black female cable car conductor in San Francisco?
(2) Henri-Louis Pernod was the first commercial producer of what green liquor flavored by wormwood?
(3) Of the original metal tokens included with Monopoly, which was closest in size to the real-life item it depicted?
(4) In 2023, former NBCUniversal executive Linda Vaccarino became the CEO of what social media site?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got 4 right to Bo’s 3. Bo is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers next Monday.

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