Master Minds Recap: April 12, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Wednesday, April 12, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts and Japanese Breakfast”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Drew, Abhai, Beth

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) THEATER: The phrase “steal my thunder” originated when a stage play stole a failed playwright’s what?
(a) sound effect (b) music score (c) lead actress
(2) TECH: No internet, no video and no music are selling points for a computer designed for what people?
(a) elderly (b) blind (c) Amish
(3) ENTERTAINMENT: Which of these was the first voice actor to receive on-screen credit for his work?
(a) Walt Disney (b) Mel Blanc (c) James Earl Jones
(4) ANIMALS: More than 40,000 years old, what creature did Russian scientists claim to have revived from the Siberian permafrost?
(a) woolly mammoth (b) bullfrog (c) roundworm
(5) ETIQUETTE: The custom of a man escorting a woman on his left arm is from medieval times when he needed his right arm free for what?
(a) swordplay (b) riding (c) correspondence
(6) AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A bestseller for over a year, “Crying in H Mart” is the memoir of Michelle Zauner, lead singer of what alternative band?
(a) Japanese Breakfast (b) Turkish Lunch (c) Italian Dinner
(7) SCIENCE: Characterized by earthquakes and active volcanoes, the area known as the “Ring of Fire” surrounds what ocean?
(a) Atlantic (b) Indian (c) Pacific

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Drew 500 Abhai 300 Beth 500 / The Beast 600 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) VEHICLES: Until 2021, what German manufacturer of the Golf and Jetta made more sausages than cars?
(2) SPORTS: The first female journalist allowed access to a professional sports team’s locker room was there to report on what sport?
(3) POLITICS: Who was the first former astronaut to successfully run for Congress?
(4) LITERATURE: Originally written on a long, single scroll of paper, what Jack Kerouac novel became an instant classic in 1957?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: Seen in the Patagonia clothing logo, Mount Fitz Roy straddles the border between Chile and what country?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Drew 1300 Abhai 1100 Beth 1500 / The Beast 1800 Muffy 1700 Ryan 1700

MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: What is the only even prime number?
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Muffy was first to buzz in with the right answer.

Abhai and Ryan are eliminated.

Drew and Beth advance to the next round, as do The Beast 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.

Drew and Beth go first:

(500) A classic green bean casserole recipe created in Campbell’s test kitchen calls for French fried onions and what soup?
(600) What singing duo performed as “Tom & Jerry “before releasing “The Sound of Silence”?
(700) Signed in 1955, the Warsaw Pact created an Eastern European military alliance that was to be controlled by which nation?
(800) When he revealed that 2022 would be his last season. What MLB player was famously closing in on his 700th home run?
(900) Food scraps and yard waste are set aside to decompose into organic fertilizer in what conservation practice?
(1000) Widely believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, what is the capital of Syria?
(1100) What star of “Pretty Woman” plays Arkansas socialite Martha Mitchell in the Starz Watergate drama “Gaslit”

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Drew 4700 Beth 3000

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

(500) A statue of what fictional boxer stands near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
(600) Derived from cinnabar, vermillion is a shade of what primary color?
(700) Marie Curie famously equipped and drove mobile X-ray units on the front lines during what war?
(800) Similar to Pompeii, the ruined Greek town of Akrotiri can be visited on what island?
(900) “We make movies better” is the tagline for AMC Theatres’ commercial, featuring what star of “Being the Ricardos”?
(1000) What French-named cooking technique was originally a procedure for controlling water baths in laboratories?
(1100) Mr. Potato Head and Play-Doh are made by what division of Hasbro?
(1200) What 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair exposed the plight of workers in Chicago’s meatpacking industry?
(1300) Though it’s got no strings, what pocket-sized reed instrument is also called a “harp”?

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The Beast finished with 2300 to Muffy’s 7200 so Muffy will join Drew in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Drew 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) After the whale shark, which comes in at 40 feet, which is the next biggest shark?
(2) The ancient illuminated manuscript known as “The Book of Kells” is housed at what place of higher learning?
(3) The northernmost point of mainland Australia, Cape York Peninsula is located in what state?
(4) Now a folk hero, what Celtic queen led an uprising against the Romans in the middle of the first century

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 3 right to Drew’s 2. Drew is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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