Master Minds Recap: November 9 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, November 9, 2023 with host Brooke Burns:

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Laundry”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Alan, Jonathan, Pam

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) MUSIC: Taylor Swift’s first single was named for what country singer?
(a) Blake Shelton (b) Tim McGraw (c) Kenny Chesney
(2) SPORTS: After their first 19 seasons, Major League Baseball’s Florida Marlins changed its name to incorporate what city?
(a) Miami (b) Orlando (c) Tampa
(3) AWARDS: What Disney film was the first animated feature to earn a nomination for Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
(a) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (b) Beauty and the Beast (c) Frozen
(4) GROCERY SHOPPING: What does the color of the clip on a loaf of bread signify?
(a) day of week baked (b) sell-by date (c) use-no-later-than date
(5) WHICH CAME FIRST: Samuel, Elle or Jackson?
(a) Samuel Adams beer (b) Elle magazine (c) artist Jackson Pollock
(6) THE SOLAR SYSTEM: A 2022 simulation of Earth colliding with a planet-size object delivered what unexpected result when creating the moon?
(a) it was larger than Earth (b) it was twice as far from Earth (c) it formed in just hours
(7) FASHION: Pancake, bell and romantic are type of what worn by ballerinas?
(a) make up (b) tutus (c) pointe shoes

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Alan 400 Jonathan 400 Pam 300 / Beastie 400 Muffy 700 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) ARCHITECTURE: Using cables, engineers have stopped what Tuscan Tower’s 800 year-long southward fall?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: The Rhone River rises in Switzerland, passes through France and empties into what sea?
(3) TV: Kieran Culkin is one of the stars in which HBO satire centered around the Waystar Ronco media conglomerate?
(4) REGIONAL PRIDE: In honor of its bakers and brewers, Oregon selected what common species of fungus as its state microbe?
(5) HISTORY: In the 16th century what country willingly destroyed the entirety of its then world-dominated fleet of ships?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Alan 800 Jonathan 800 Pam 1100 / Beastie 1600 Muffy 1900 Ryan 1200

CONTESTANT TIE-BREAKER: What infamous hairstyle is described as “business in the front, party in the back”?
ANSWER show

Jonathan buzzed in first and answered correctly.

Alan and Ryan are eliminated.

Jonathan and Pam 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.

Jonathan and Pam go first:

(500) A ship called the Rachel rescues Ishmael, “another orphan”, at the end of what novel?
(600) Besides topaz, what precious gem gets its red color from trace amounts of chromium?
(700) After 19 seasons, what comedian aired the final episode of her daytime talk show in 2022?
(800) Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean at a point called “Cape Disappointment”, now found in what U.S. state?
(900) Choo-Choo Charlie was the cartoon mascot for what pink and white candy brand?
(1000) Which traditional province of Ireland includes six counties designated as Northern Ireland and the UK?
(1100) Halle Berry was the first black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for her role in what film?
(1200) What Pittsburgh University has a Scottish terrier mascot and teams nicknamed the “Tartans”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Jonathan 2000 Pam 4000

Pam 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 Pam.

(500) The legendary creature known as Bigfoot also goes by what other name?
(600) The title of what Gary Cooper film refers to the time of his character’s climactic duel with Frank Miller?
(700) On what Jewish holiday is an empty chair left at the table for Elijah?
(800) What European dance is found in the title of Missouri’s state song as well as one of Tennessee’s state songs?
(900) In 1954, the Swedish company Tetra Pak innovated Tetrahedral cartons for what beverage?
(1000) What smallest national park is named for the 143-degree mineral water that naturally flows there?
(1100) What lowest layer of the Sun’s atmosphere emits the light we see?
(1200) Who wrote the story “Why I Live at the P.O.” and her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Optimist’s Daughter”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4400 to Beastie’s 3600 so Muffy will join Pam in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Pam beats Muffy, 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) What U.S. government body has had a total of 116 members since its founding in 1789?
(2) “The Wrong Trousers” is an Oscar-winning stop-motion animated short featuring what two characters?
(3) In “The Iliad”, what Prince’s elopement with Helen of Troy leads to the Trojan War?
(4) On December 7, 1941, the surprise attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor occurred on what day of the week?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 3 right to one for Pam. Pam is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers on Monday.

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