Master Minds Recap: August 8, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, August 8, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Barbie”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco and Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Paulina, Ralph, Daniel

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) TV: Who set “Star Trek” in the future after being told that 1960s audiences wouldn’t accept minority characters as equals?
(a) Rod Serling (a) Gene Roddenberry (a) George Lucas
(2) ANIMALS: A Saudi Arabian beauty pageant disqualified dozens of what animals after learning that Botox was used on their lips
(a) camels (a) foxes (a) horses
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: road, runner or coyote?
(a) German Autobahn (a) Jesse Owens (a) Wile E. Coyote
(4) FOOD: Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, CT serves what they claim to be America’s First Hamburger on what kind of toast?
(a) rye (a) sourdough (a) white
(5) SPACE: About how many clones of the planet Mars would it take to fill the volume of the Earth?
(a) about 2-1/2 (b) about 4 (c) about 6
(6) MUSIC: At one time, Rod Stewart and Freddie Mercury were going to form a band called Nose, Teeth & Hair with who as Hair?
(a) Elton John (b) Robert Plant (c) Steven Tyler
(7) GEOGRAPHY: Which of these natural landmarks is moving about one foot south every year?
(a) Old Faithful (b) Devil’s Tower (c) Niagara Falls

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Paulina 200 Ralph 300 Daniel 400 / Beastie 400 Muffy 300 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) SPORTS: Now a TNT commentator, what NBA center won 3 consecutive NBA championships alongside Kobe Bryant?
(2) THEATRE: One of Shakespeare’s most despicable villians, what antagonist mercilessly manipulated Othello?
(3) MEDICINE: With cases dropping 99% since a vaccine was introduced, the puffy-cheek condition parotitis is better known as what?
(4) TRANSPORTATION: Passenger cars made in the U.S. no longer offer what type of engine named for its 19th century French-born inventor?
(5) GEMS: Costing on average more than $1 million per karat, what color diamond is the rarest and most expensive?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Paulina 200 Ralph 700 Daniel 1200 / Beastie 800 Muffy 1100 Ryan 1200

Paulina and Beastie are eliminated.

Ralph and Daniel advance to the next round, as do Muffy 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.

Ralph and Daniel go first:

(500) Usually served in a salt-rimmed glass, a margarita is primarily made with what alcohol?
(600) Previously named the Blue Velvets, what rock band had Vietnam-era hits with “Fortunate Son” & “Bad Moon Rising”?
(700) Known for its cyclonic vacuum technology, which bagless vacuum cleaner brand marketed the G-Force & DC01?
(800) It take 3 days to wash the model of what giant sea creature displayed in New York’s American Museum of Natural History?
(900) What news magazine went online-only in 2013 before resuming its print edition a year later?
(1000) Who was the first and only U.S. President to take the oath of office aboard Air Force One?
(1100) What actress born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano played Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Ralph 2800 Daniel 3800

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

(500) What seeds are found on the Big Mac bun?
(600) Despite opposition from race officials, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially run what race?
(700) Traveling through Mongolia & Russia, the Yenisei River system is the largest in the world to drain into what ocean?
(800) Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I, John Pershing had what rhyming nickname?
(900) According to the AKC, what dog with a nationality in its name is currently the most popular dog breed in the U.S.?
(1000) An ice cream headache is caused by the sudden tightening and relaxing of the blood vessels in your what?
(1100) What Alfred Hitchcock thriller was known for its climatic confrontation atop the Statue of Liberty?
(1200) In an Alexandre Dumas novel, Edmond Dantes seeks revenge as what title Italian nobleman?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4100 to Ryan’s 3900 so Muffy will join Daniel in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Daniel beats Muffy, 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) Located on the 7 key on a computer keyboard, what symbol represents the word “and”?
(2) What was the last black-&-white film to win the Best Picture Oscar?
(3) What character with a redundant name was the narrator of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”?
(4) On what common African animal would you find “horns” known as ossicones?

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

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Who was the first U.S. President to travel on official business by plane?
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Daniel thought it was Calvin Coolidge so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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