Master Minds Recap: August 21, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, August 21, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Pina Coladas”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Monica Thieu, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Nick, Justin, Gloria

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) COMPETITIONS: Each August, Belgium holds an international “race” in which participants float along the Meuse River in what bathroom item?
(a) sink (b) bathtub (c) toilet
(2) PARENTING: Often found in nurseries, what C-shaped baby-supporting pillow was introduced by mom and inventor Susan Brown?
(a) Boppy (b) Floppy (c) Zippy
(3) GEOGRAPHY: Perched atop a formidable outcropping in the Swiss Alps, the Jungfraujoch is Europe’s highest what?
(a) golf course (b) train station (c) prison?
(4) CELEBRITIES: What actor and environmentalist has a species of ant and a species of spider named for him?
(a) Sean Penn (b) Robert Redford (c) Harrison Ford
(5) GAMES: Co-created by cartoonist Matthew Inman, which game is the most-backed project in Kickstarter history?
(a) Unstable Unicorns (b) Exploding Kittens (c) Gyrating Hamsters?
(6) FASHION: In the early 1970s, what 23-year-old became the youngest senior fashion editor in the history of Vogue?
(a) Betsey Johnson (b) Jimmy Choo (c) Vera Wang
(7) CELEBRATIONS: What holiday was originally banned in Scotland in 1640 and was finally declared a public holiday in 1958?
(a) Christmas (b) New Year’s Day (c) Easter

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Nick 400 Justin 200 Gloria 500 / Beastie 300 Monica 300 Jonathan 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) FOOD: You need to have a cheesemaking license for at least a decade to apply for the Master Cheesemaker Program in what state?
(2) SPORTS: Turning pro at 19, Jordan Spieth tied Tiger Woods’ record for the best score ever at what prestigious golf tournament?
(3) LITERATURE: What Oscar-winning actor’s first book was “Uncommon Type”, a collection of 17 short stories involving typewriters?
(4) LANDMARKS: Covering about 400 acres, what is the world’s largest religious structure?
(5) MONEY: In 1996, what became the first denomination of U.S. paper money to get a high-tech anti-counterfeiting makeover?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Nick 1200 Justin 800 Gloria 1100 / Beastie 900 Monica 1300 Jonathan 1000

Justin and Beastie are eliminated.

Nick and Gloria advance to the next round, as do Monica 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.

Nick and Gloria go first:

(500) In an Irish tradition, women can propose to men on “Bachelor’s Day”, which occurs every 4 years on what date?
(600) Established in 2019, what is the newest of the U.S. military’s 6 branches?
(700) Including Attu, the chain of over 60 islands located southwest of mainland Alaska is known as what?
(800) When fully ripened, what is the sweetest variety of melon?
(900) Set during Prohibition, what Dashiell Hammett novel features witty protagonists Nick and Nora Charles?
(1000) Used for cultures in bacteriology, what small shallow dish with a loose cover was named for its inventor?
(1100) On January 1, 1959, what deposed Cuban president fled the country?
(1200) The word “blank” has its roots in European words for what color?
(1300) What type of film advertising got its name from originally being screened after a movie?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Nick 2900 Gloria 5700

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

(500) What flying mammal hangs upside down while giving birth?
(600) What “Hawkeye State” has one of the highest high school graduation rates in the nation?
(700) What early film star wore a blonde wig to provide contrast playing opposite King Kong?
(800) Published in 1957, what novel’s free and reckless character Dean Moriarty was based on Beat adventurer Neal Cassady?
(900) With atomic number 29, what chemical element makes an octopus’ blood blue?
(1000) What Austrian archduke was installed as emperor of Mexico by Napoleon III?
(1100) North America is linked to South America by the Isthmus of what?
(1200) A club where members drank and discussed art, The Symposium included what “Finlandia” composer?
(1300) The Norse god Baldur was killed by a spear made from what plant hung over thresholds during the holidays?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Jonathan finished with 5900 to Monica’s 4500 so Jonathan will join Gloria in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Gloria beats Jonathan, 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) Who was the first black woman to be featured at a Super Bowl Halftime Show?
(2) What Armenian-American author and playwright turned down the Pulitzer Prize for his play “The Time of Your Life”?
(3) When King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette fled the Paris mob in 1791, they were arrested in what small French village?
(4) Which element on the periodic table comes last alphabetically?

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

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