Master Minds Recap: April 13, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Thursday, April 13, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Humble Pie”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Sri, Zoe, Gareth

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) HISTORY: When first introduced to it in the year 1004, what eating utensil was regarded by the Venetians as an “insult” to God?
(a) fork (b) spoon (c) knife
(2)EMMYS: In the 2020 Emmys, what series became the first comedy to win all four main acting awards in one year?
(a) Schitt’s Creek (b) The Good Place (c) Russian Doll
(3) NAMES: Mintaka, Alnilam & Alnitak are all names of what?
(a) Canadian territories (b) Stars in Orion’s belt (c) pharaohs of Egypt
(4) SYMBOLS: The network logo icon located in the corner of your TV screen goes by what name?
(a) bug (b) bat (c) bear
(5)MUSIC: In which Beatles song could you hear lyrics from “She Loves You” & “Yesterday”?
(a) Hello, Goodbye (b) I Am the Walrus (c) All You Need is Love
(6) AUTHORS: Dylan Thomas titled his 1940 book “Portrait of the Artist as a Young” what?
(a) leprechaun (b) lady (c) dog
(7) NORSE: In Norse mythology Odin sacrificed what body part to gain knowledge of other worlds?
(a) arm (b) eye (c) leg

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Sri 400 Zoe 600 Gareth 400 / The Beast 700 LaKedra 700 Ryan 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) SCIENCE: When pressure pushes out gas bubbles, glacial ice appears as what color of visible light??
(2) WOMEN’S STUDIES: In 1969, Sheila Michaels popularized what 2-letter term that she defined as “a title for a woman who does not belong to a man”?
(3) FASHION: Who famously performed at the first MTV Video Music Awards wearing a wedding dress?
(4) TRAVEL: A covered market with 4,000 shops, the Grand Bazaar was completed by Mehmed the Conqueror in what Turkish city?
(5) ICONS: Born Elizabeth Anne Bloomer, what First Lady founded a facility to help people with drug and alcohol dependence?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Sri 1400 Zoe 1800 Gareth 1600 / The Beast 1700 LaKedra 1900 Ryan 1900

Sri and The Beast are eliminated.

Zoe and Gareth advance to the next round, as do LaKedra 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.

Zoe and Gareth go first:

(500) Taking up 5 squares. What is the largest ship in the board game “Battleship”?
(600) In anthropology, members of a human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 inches tall are called what?
(700) Still sailing more than 200 years after its 1797 launch, what ship is famously nicknamed “Old Ironsides”?
(800) A famous jam and jelly company’s tagline is “with a name like” what “it has to be good”?
(900) In what country did Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhart discover the ruins of Abu Simbel?
(1000) Deciding they’d be tennis players, what father of Venus and Serena Williams wrote a 78-page plan to lead them to success?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Zoe 2800 Gareth 3800

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

(500) In the 1970s, “ping pong diplomacy” thawed the relationship between the U.S. and what country?
(600) Crest became the first toothpaste brand to use what mineral combined with tin to fight cavities?
(700) Rendered from suet, tallow is the beef equivalent of what pork product?
(800) What novella by Prosper Merimee tells the story of a soldier who falls for a worker in a Seville tobacco factory?
(900) What “contrasting” type of sunglass lens reduces glare by filtering out horizontal light waves?
(1000) Which bandage brand patented the “Ouchless pad” in 1960?
(1100) A famed advocate for girls’ education, Malala Yousafzai was born in what country?
(1200) In Greek mythology, sisters Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos are known as what group?

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LaKedra finished with 4500 to Ryan’s 4200 so LaKedra will join Gareth in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Gareth beats LaKedra, 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 seeing three words scribbled on a NYC bar mirror, Edward Albee named his play what?
(2) What fabric was used to wrap mummies in Ancient Egypt
(3) The first official charter to make commerical tequila was granted by the King of Spain to whom?
(4)

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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By the third question, Ryan had 2 right to Gareth’s 0 so the game was over. Gareth is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers on Monday.

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