Master Minds Recap: August 7, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4 Premiere) for Monday, August 7, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Ep1Trivia, Smarts & Bladders”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco & Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Dorian, Phillip, David

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) FOOD: What star of “Desperate Housewives” hosts the CNN food travel show “Searching for Mexico”?
(a) Marcia Cross (b) Teri Hatcher (c) Eva Longoria
(2) GRAMMAR: In the sentence “I have been a master mind since the day I was born”, what part of speech is the word “since”?
(a) adverb (b) conjunction (c) preposition
(3) TOYS: The Barbie Liberation Organization made headlines in the ’90s when it gave hundreds of Teen Talk Barbie dolls whose voice?
(a) G.I. Joe (b) Hillary Clinton (c) Yogi Bear
(4) ANIMALS: Among fish, male haddock seek prospective partners with a unique mating call produced by muscles attached to what body part?
(a) gills (b) bladder (c) mouth
(5) WHICH CAME FIRST: Dough, Ray, or Me?
(a) Pillsbury doughboy (b) Ray-Ban sunglasses (c) “Love Me Tender”
(6) ROCK & ROLL: The leader of Jane’s Addiction claims he got the name for the Lollapalooza rock festival when he saw the word where?
(a) “Three Stooges” film (b) game show “Password” (c) Lichtenstein painting
(7) CAPITALS: Home to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the king’s official residence in the area, what is the capital of Scotland?
(a) Aberdeen (b) Edinburgh (c) Glasgow

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Dorian 300 Phillip 300 David 500 / Beastie 300 Muffy 400 Jonathan 300

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) ANATOMY: What protective outermost portion of the skin is thicker on the palms and soles than it is anywhere else?
(2) MARKETING: A “Priceless” series of ads claimed “There are some things money can’t buy, for everything else there’s” what?
(3) FITNESS: A bicycle in which the rider’s body is reclined and the legs are placed forward is known by what term?
(4) BROADWAY: Over the course of its 18-year Broadway run, what Andrew Lloyd Webber musical used 3,247 pounds of yak hair for wigs?
(5) SCIENTISTS: Mary Anning spent her whole life collecting what buried objects that may have helped influence Darwin’s theory?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Dorian 1100 Phillip 1500 David 1700 / Beastie 1500 Muffy 1200 Jonathan 1500

Dorian and Muffy are eliminated.

Phillip and David advance to the next round, as do Beastie 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.

Phillip and David go first:

(500) The Declaration of Independence was signed in what city?
(600) The 2 men’s wrestling styles currently in the Olympics are freestyle and what other variation?
(700) In an iconic video astronaut, Chris Hadfield sang what David Bowie classic aboard the ISS?
(800) Designer Donatella ran the Versus line before taking over what fashion house from her late brother Gianni?
(900) What section of Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. is named for the buildings with foreign flags seen there?
(1000) According to the title of his 1853 book, Solomon Northup was enslaved for how many years?
(1100) What star of the prison drama “Oz” plays Elliot Stabler on “Law & Order: Organized Crime”?
(1200) Still used as a modern grooming treatment, ancient Egyptians used a paste of water, sugar and lemon to remove what?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Phillip 3700 David 4200

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

(500) After much back and forth, Elon Musk paid $44 billion to purchase what company in October 2022?
(600) Now made by Hasbro, what classic geometric drawing toy produces mathematical curves?
(700) From the Latin word for “juice” what type of drought-resistant plants include cacti?
(800) Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are the main characters in what Jane Austen novel?
(900) Standing at 7,310 feet, Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak on what continent?
(1000) What tech company markets the Thinkbook and the Ideapad?
(1100) Gwen Verdon was the first actress to perform “Whatever Lola Wants” in what 1950s Broadway musical?
(1200) Before becoming First Lady, who taught at the Todhunter School for Girls in NYC?

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Beastie finished with 3200 to Jonathan’s 2700 so Beastie will join David in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If David beats Beastie, 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) 125 years after the first model was invented by its founder, what brand introduced the first electronic sewing machine?
(2) At 24, who became the youngest actress to win a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series?
(3) In authentic Greek cuisine, tirokafteri is a dip made with what cheese?
(4) What flightless bird of New Zealand lays the largest egg of any living species relative to its body size?

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

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