Master Minds Recap: August 24, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, August 24, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Count Chocula”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Monica Thieu, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Josh, Brian, Dariene

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) MASCOTS: Wally the Green Monster and his little sister Tessie the Green Monster are mascots of what MLB team?
(a) Oakland A’s (b) Seattle Mariners (c) Boston Red Sox
(2) BIOGRAPHY: What space pioneer was the first and only person publicly acknowledged as an LGBTQ astronaut?
(a) Neil Armstrong (b) Sally Ride (c) Yuri Gagarin
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: Frank, Lloyd or Wright?
(a) The novel Frankenstein (b) Lloyd’s of London (c) Wright Brothers’ first flight
(4) VIDEO GAMES: In the computer adventure “Myst”, the 4 main “ages” that could have been visited were Selenitic, Stoneship, Mechanical and what?
(a) Channelwood (b) Electradyne (c) Exandria?
(5) HEALTHY EATING: The book “Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide” said to avoid anything with what on the box?
(a) cartoon (b) bodybuilder photo (c) the phrase “new and improved”
(6) SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION: German scientists have discovered a fungicide they named for what action star?
(a) Dwayne Johnson (b) Vin Diesel (c) Keanu Reeves
(7) HISTORIES: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown was a history of what group in the U.S.?
(a) Trascendentalists (b) Puritans (c) indigenous peoples

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Josh 400 Brian 600 Dariene 400 / Beastie 400 Monica 600 Ryan 500

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) FASHION: Introduced in the late 19th century, a homburg is what type of clothing item?
(2) MUSEUMS: The Smithsonian exhibit “Kung Fu Wildstyle” examined how hip-hop was influenced by what 1970s martial arts movie star?
(3) DINING OUT: From the French meaning “cooked flesh”, what trendy branch of cooking is known for its boards?
(4) LITERATURE: Who was the teen protagonist and narrator of J.D. Salinger’s only full-length novel?
(5) SPORTS: Unless there’s a playoff, how many holes are played in the Masters golf tournament?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Josh 800 Brian 1200 Dariene 1200 / Beastie 1400 Monica 1400 Ryan 1300

Josh and Ryan are eliminated.

Brian and Dariene advance to the next round, as do Beastie and Monica.

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.

Brian and Dariene go first:

(500) “Playboy” makes most of its money by licensing its logo of what animal?
(600) The world’s 4th-largest ocean, the Southern Ocean totally encircles what continent?
(700) What “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” star became the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar?
(800) NYC has a dozen statues modeled after Audrey Munson, including one in the center of what roundabout?
(900) Created by Dan Stock & Bob Truax, what popular sweatpants from the ’90s featured striped patterns & flashy colors?
(1000) Described as a “program devoted to all things space”, the podcast “Startalk” is hosted by what astrophysicist?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Brian 1700 Dariene 2100

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

(500) What smart speaker houses Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa?
(600) Nicknamed “the Safari Capital of the World”, what city is home to one of two major U.N. office sites in Africa?
(700) The ’90s rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You” is loosely based on what Shakespeare play?
(800) Designed to hide on-camera lines & blemishes, 1954’s “Erace” was the first retail version of what makeup staple?
(900) A future history story told through the dreams of Dr. Philip Raven, “The Shape of Things to Come” was written by whom?
(1000) In Marvel’s “Black Panther” films, what rare fictional metal was found in Wakanda?
(1100) What 1928 Presidential candidate promised “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”?
(1200) In 1879, Miles Bartholomew patented what kind of typewriter with 10 non-alphanumeric keys?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Beastie finished with 6700 to Monica’s 2900 so Beastie will join Dariene in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Dariene beats Beastie, 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) The President’s desk in the Oval Office was built from the oak timbers of what famous 19th century British ship?
(2) The half-moon-shaped whitish marks at the base of the fingernails are called what?
(3) What artificial intelligence created by OpenAI is trained to interact in a conversational way?
(4) Before succeeding as an author, Dan Brown released a pop music album sharing what title with one of his books?

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

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