Master Minds Recap: October 26, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, October 26, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Plumbing”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Tim McCaigue
Today’s challengers: Jon, Gonzalo, Molly

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) BOOKS: What Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Legend’s first autobiography is titled “Kiss and Make-Up”?
(a) Roger Daltrey (b) Gene Simmons (c) Mick Jagger
(2) ANIMALS: A species of ant discovered in New York City in 2011 was given what nickname?
(a) city ant (b) metro ant (c) Manhattant
(3) SPORTS: What country has a golf course that runs about 850 miles, the longest in the world?
(a) Australia (b) China (c) Russia
(4) TELEVISION: Which person won Emmys for acting, writing, producing and directing on the same series?
(a) Bill Hader (b) Larry David (c) Dan Levy
(5) LANGUAGE: When translated into English which of these names is redundant?
(a) La Brea Tar Pits (b) New Rochelle, New York (c) Lake Erie
(6) ANATOMY: In the human body, “deglutition” is another word for what?
(a) swallowing (b) spitting (c) clearing your throat
(7) AGRICULTURE: Measured in the number of 60-kilogram bags produced, what country is the leader in worldwide coffee production?
(a) Indonesia (b) Colombia (c) Brazil

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Jon 500 Gonzalo 300 Molly 600 / Beastie 400 Muffy 600 Tim 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) CITIES: Redondo Beach, California classified what flying Goodyear vehicle as its official city bird?
(2) LAW: What four-time Grammy winner was found not guilty of copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On”?
(3) MONEY: The names of 26 states are visible on the back of what denomination of U.S. currency?
(4) PLUMBING: One of the most widely-used products in the world, what does the “V” stand for in “PVC” pipe?
(5) NATURE: Ansel Adams’ 1927 photograph of the most iconic rock formation in Yosemite National Park is “Monolith, the Face of” what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Jon 1100 Gonzalo 900 Molly 1600 / Beastie 1000 Muffy 1400 Tim 1700

Gonzalo and Beastie are eliminated.

Jon and Molly advance to the next round, as do Muffy and Tim.

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.

Jon and Molly go first:

(500) Ken Griffith Jr. And Ken Griffey Sr. hit back-to-back home runs while playing for what Seattle baseball team?
(600) What muscle located on the front of the upper arm is so named because it has two heads?
(700) What tabloid TV talk show host was once the mayor of Cincinnati?
(800) Of all the co-conspirators charged with a connection to the Lincoln assassination, who was the only woman?
(900) Ruling from 1392 to 1910, the Yi dynasty was the last and longest lived imperial dynasty of what peninsula?
(1000) In a #1 country hit from 1974, Dolly Parton begs what title woman not to take her man?
(1100) Appearing in Life magazine in 1952, a party mix recipe called for butter, Worcestershire sauce and what cereal?
(1200) Divided into six different accounts spanning several centuries, cloud Atlas is a novel from what author?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Jon 5600 Molly 3100

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

(500) A traditional mode of transportation during winter in Finnish Lapland is a sleigh pulled by what animal?
(600) Which martial artist famously espoused the philosophy: “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water”?
(700) Due to its elliptical orbit, Pluto occasionally lies closer to the sun than what planet?
(800) The main campus of the University of Michigan is located in what city?
(900) Frosting for German chocolate cake traditionally includes sweetened flakes of what tropical ingredient?
(1000) In the book “The Little Prince”, what specific type of trees can cause a planet to split apart?
(1100) Devised by Arnold Lund, what kind of ski race follows a winding course between poles marked with flags?
(1200) What three-time presidential candidate argued for the prosecution in the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey trial?
(1300) Gibson, Takamine & Ibanez are all brands of what musical instrument?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 6700 to Tim’s 3500 so Muffy will join Jon in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jon 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) What is the only language other than English used in the U.S. Constitution?
(2) In Greek myth, what king who fed his horses human flesh was himself fed to them by Hercules?
(3) 18th century military leader, Queen Nanny of the Maroons, is an official hero of what Caribbean nation?
(4) In what Balzac novel does a resentful spinster dedicate herself to the destruction of the Hulot family?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy and Jon tied with 2 right responses so Jon 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:
Atomic number 85, what radioactive chemical is the rarest naturally occurring element in the earth’s crust?
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Jon thought it was uranium so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers next Monday.

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