Master Minds Recap: April 20, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Thursday, April 20, 2023 with host Brooke Burns. Per Game Show Network’s Facebook page, this is the Season 3 finale.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Singing Sons”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Matthew, Jeanette, Brad

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) GEOGRAPHY: Giving it legal standing to sue polluters, the residents of Toledo, Ohio voted to grant “personhood” to what lake?
(a) Lake Champlain (b) Lake Erie (c) Lake Superior
(2) ANIMALS: Which of these adult birds weighs the least?
(a) greater flamingo (b) emperor penguin (c) pelican
(3) MUSIC: Found in modern Syria, the oldest song still in existence appears on almost 3500-year-old clay tablets written in what?
(a) hieroglyphics(b) runes (c) cuneiform
(4) SCIENCE: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station discovered you can’t do what in space?
(a) sneeze (b) shed tears (c) eat soup
(5) HOBBIES: Which of these is a type of stitch used in embroidery?
(a) Lazy Daisy (b) Silly Lilly (c) Fancy Nancy
(6) TRAVEL: Hiding in plain sight, where is the International Spy Museum located
(a) London (b) Moscow (c) Washington, D.C.
(7) AWARDS: In 2022, Ariana DeBose became the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar for her role in what?
(a) Licorice Pizza (b) Dune (c) West Side Story

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Matthew 600 Jeanette 500 Brad 500 / The Beast 600 Muffy 700 Jonathan 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) NFL: With its colors remaining burgundy and gold the Washington Football Team changed its name to what in 2022?
(2) WORDS: What synonym for “blossom” is contained within the letters of “blossom”?
(3) MONEY: Managed on a blockchain like cryptocurrency, what digital assets are known by the acronym NFT?
(4) LITERATURE: Herman Hesse modeled his titular character, Siddhartha, on what religious figure?
(5) SCHOOL: What famous English prep school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Matthew 1600 Jeanette 1000 Brad 1300 / The Beast 1600 Muffy 1900 Jonathan 1900

Jeanette and The Beast are eliminated.

Matthew and Brad advance to the next round, as do Muffy and Jonathan.

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.

Matthew and Brad go first:

(500) What “Star Trek” captain boldly went into space for real in 2021?
(600) In volleyball, the common sequence to get the ball over the net is “bump, set”, what?
(700) The book “Nothing to Envy” revealed North Korean teachers had to be proficient on what portable bellows-driven instrument?
(800) Before becoming President, Herbert Hoover helped build barricades while stuck in China during what uprising?
(900) Located in New York, what is the only Ivy League school that is also a land-grant university?
(1000) The southeastern arm of Lake Victoria lies adjacent to what national park and wildlife refuge?
(1100) In the 1890s, Milton Florsheim opened his first factory, making what goods?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Matthew 4700 Brad 2900

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

(500) Equipment for what activity is typically kept in a tackle box?
(600) In the term high school prom, prom is short for what word?
(700) Bobby Fisher was the first American to win the World Championship of what game?
(800) The Daughters of American Revolution own and operate what DC performance venue?
(900) What hit musical was developed by Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch based on the real-life stories of dancers?
(1000) What is the deepest river gorge in North America?
(1100) Waterworks chief engineer Frederick Graff is credited with inventing what emergency fixture on sidewalks?
(1200) A vegetarian like her knighted father. Which fashion designer does not use any leather or fur in her work?
(1300) In 1933, FDR began giving informal addresses known as “Fireside Chats” using what mass medium?
(1300) What part of the body is commonly referred to as the “pearly whites”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 6600 to Jonathan’s 6700 so Jonathan will join Matthew in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Matthew beats Jonathan, 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) Which comic creations of Belgian artist Peyo are often described as being “three apples high”?
(2) The Viking space mission was the first to land a spacecraft on what object in our solar system?
(3) Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois helped create what Civil Rights organization in 1909?
(4) The male Adelie species of what bird proposes with a stone and the female sings if she accepts?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan and Matthew tied with 3 right reponses so Matthew gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Jonathan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: In English, the name of what Chinese metropolitan area literally translates to “city on the sea”?

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Matthew thought it was Hong Kong so he is going home with $1,000 and that wraps up Season 3 of Master Minds. Until Season 4, Roy Rogers would sign off with what famous farewell? show

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