Master Minds Recap: August 10, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, August 10, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Puppets”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Monica Thieu, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Max, Jasmine, Ross

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) RELIIOUS TEXT: Which of these words appears in the King James Bible?
(a) jaws (b) raiders (c) fabelmans
(2) MUSIC: The album cover for Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” features the painting “Liberty Leading the People” by what French artist?
(a) Edouard Manet (b) Eugene Delacroix (c) Edgar Degas
(3) ANIMALS: If you combine the number of stomach chambers in a cow with the number of hearts in a starfish, what is the sum?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 9
(4) WHICH CAME FIRST: Big, bang or theory?
(a) London’s Big Ben (b) first sonic boom (c) theory of relativity
(5) BUSINESS: Before “Famous Amos” became famous for his cookies, he held what entertainment industry job?
(a) stuntman (b) movie premiere caterer (c) talent agent
(6) SPACE: The International Space Station travels at how many miles per second?
(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) 15
(7) GAMES: What board game is believed to be a representation of medieval European feudalism?
(a) cribbage (b) backgammon (c) chess

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Max 600 Jasmine 500 Ross 100 / Beastie 400 Monica 400 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) MOVIES: In “Moana”, Dwayne Johnson provided the voice for what character that shares its name with a Hawaiian island?
(2) INNOVATION: The invention of the modern office chair can be traced directly to Charles Darwin, who added what to his chair?
(3) ADVERTISING: What color M&M’s character got a makeover in 2022, ditching the white heeled go-go boots for cool, laid-back sneakers?
(4) SCIENTISTS: What conservationist and chimpanzee expert had a Barbie doll made in her likeness?
(5) THEATRE: After 50 years, what Lorraine Hansberry play was the inspiration for the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Clybourne Park”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Max 1600 Jasmine 1500 Ross 300 / Beastie 1000 Monica 1600 Ryan 1600

Ross and Beastie are eliminated.

Max and Jasmine advance to the next round, as do Monica 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.

Max and Jasmine go first:

(500) Used to disinfect swimming pools, what element with the symbol “Cl” is isolated as a pungent gas?
(600) Holland, Michigan has a Spring festival where visitors can view over 5 million blooms of what flower?
(700) Jim Morrison was the lead singer and lyricist for what rock band?
(800) For over 50 years, Queen Margrethe II has been the monarch of what Scandinavian country?
(900) What 2-word phrase for expensive fashion is French for “high dressmaking”?
(1000) In the sixth book of the Harry Potter series what character was “the Half-Blood Prince”?
(1100) A pan-fried side dish, potatoes O’Brien consist mainly of potatoes, bell peppers and what other vegetable?
(1200) Who was the science administrator of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project?
(1300) Which of New York City’s five boroughs is also known as Kings County?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Max 4500 Jasmine 5400

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

(500) The destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor prompted war with which country?
(600) The U.S. Open tennis championships are held at the complex named for what 4-time U.S. Open singles champ?
(700) What title character from a Rolling Stones song was “born in a crossfire hurricane”?
(800) Sharing its name with a tool for studding shoe soles, what style of glassware features patterns of bumps on the surface?
(900) “Iggie’s House” was one of the first novels for young adults written by what author?
(1000) Called the world’s oldest computer, the 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism was found off the coast of what country?
(1100) A 21st century discovery, the molecular tool called CRISPR/Cas9 is used to edit what?
(1200) Latin for “list”, what outline is used when determining the contents of a class curriculum?

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Monica finished with 3900 to Ryan’s 4400 so Ryan will join Jasmine in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jasmine 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) Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger is famous for a paradoxical thought experiment involving what animal?
(2) According to Britannica, in 133 B.C. what became the first city to reach a population of one million people?
(3) Held from 1545 to 1563, what ecumenical conference was a key part of the Catholic counter-reformation?
(4) What composer of the “Rhenish” symphony, an homage to the Rhine, threw himself into the river years later?

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

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