Master Minds Recap: April 17, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, April 17, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Dick Van Dyke”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Greg, Monisha, Joe

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) BOTANY: Thought to be the oldest rose in the world, The Rose of Hildesheim is found alongside a cathedral in what country?
(a) Germany (b) Switzerland (c) France
(2) SPORTS: What U.S. Federation announced that its men’s national team and women’s national team will be paid equally?
(a) basketball (b) volleyball (c) soccer
(3) ETIQUETTE: In the culture of Thailand, which eating utensil rarely, if ever, goes in your mouth?
(a) spoon (b) fork (c) chopsticks
(4) MAGAZINES: What actor from the Marvel cinematic universe has been named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”?
(a) Robert Downey Jr. (b) Chris Evans (c) Paul Rudd?
(5) OCCUPATIONS: As a convenience. Which of these people is a regular member of the White House staff??
(a) optometrist (b) tailor (c) calligrapher
(6) ART: Nearly 500 years after the fact, the subject of which masterpiece was diagnosed with having exodiation of the eyes?
(a) Venus de Milo (b) Michelangelo’s David (c) da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
(7) ANIMALS: Which of the following types of insect is known to burrow underground for periods of 13 or 17 years?
(a) cicada (b) hornet (c) mosquito

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Greg 400 Monisha 500 Joe 300 / The Beast 400 Muffy 500 Ryan 400

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) AROUND THE HOUSE: What Netflix star has written 9 books in Japanese about organizing and tidying up?
(2) ENTERTAINMENT: Born Alicia Augello-Cook, what celebrity chose her stage name partly because of the piano?
(3) FASHION: What short, pointed beard was named for a 17th century Flemish painter?
(4) ARCHITECTURE: Before being deposed, Shah Jahan planned to build his own mausoleum across the Yamuna River From what structure?
(5) FOOD: What high end dish of raw ground meat was named for its accompanying sauce and not for Central Asian nomads?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Greg 1400 Monisha 1500 Joe 1100 / The Beast 1200 Muffy 1700 Ryan 1600

Joe and The Beast are eliminated.

Greg and Monisha 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.

Greg and Monisha go first:

(500) The Three Gorges Dam spans what Chinese river?
(600) The name of what Kellogg’s Breakfast pastry was inspired by Andy Warhol’s Pop Art movement?
(700) A symbol of spring, what flower is identified with the Easter Seals nonprofit healthcare organization?
(800) What Summer Olympic sport has the most events?
(900) In the early 1800s, the first practical steamboat was invented by what American engineer?
(1000) Originally made of Chinese twill, the name of what kind of trousers is the Spanish word for Chinese?
(1100) Lainey Morse made her farm available for yoga, starting the trend of incorporating what animals in the classes?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Greg 3800 Monisha 4500

Monisha 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 Monisha.

(500) Detective stories by writers like Raymond Chandler are often described as what style of cooked eggs?
(600) What Black and Decker vacuum resulted from their partnership with NASA to build a moon rock collector?
(700) Rising only about 750 feet, Mount Royal is located in which Canadian province?
(800) Due to civil unrest in 2011, who stepped down as president of Egypt after nearly 30 years?
(900) Upon licensing the Nel-Spot 007 marker. What activity was created by the National Survival Game Company?
(1000) The second pope shares his name with what Peanuts character?
(1100) Backed by its oil reserves, the petro is the official cryptocurrency of which country?

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Muffy finished with 3300 to Ryan’s 3400 so Ryan will join Monisha in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Monisha beats Ryan, 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) Boasting 16 arches and 30 statues of religious figures, the historic Charles Bridge is in what European city?
(2) Theodore Roosevelt once called what arts and education movement “the most American thing in America”?
(3) In what organ of the body can you find a Bowman’s capsule?
(4) In anthropology, the belief that objects have souls is called what?

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

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