Master Minds Recap: August 9, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Wednesday, August 9, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Winnie the Pooh”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Doug, Heather, Robert

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: Creating laughs on and off-camera for 9 years, who was the first female head writer for “Saturday Night Live”?
(a) Gilda Radner (b) Tina Fey (c) Kate McKinnon
(2) TRANSLATIONS: In 2022, what spelling did the United Nations recognize as the official name of the Republic of Turkey?
(a) Türkeyi (b) Türkeya (c) Türkiye
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: Lil, NAS or X?
(a) Lily Munster (b) NASCAR (c) X movie rating
(4) HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Patented in 1918, Irwin Cox invented the pre-soaped steel wool pad called S.O.S., which stands for what?
(a) Scour Out Smudges (b) Scrub or Scour (c) Save Our Saucepans
(5) VOCABULARY: A person suffering from “globophobia” has an unusual fear of what?
(a) snow globes (b) bald heads (c) balloons
(6) HOTELS: What famous luxury resort had a bunker built underneath it in the 1960s for use as a secret emergency shelter for Congress?
(a) Greenbrier (b) Peabody (c) Jefferson
(7) ANIMALS: Which of these is the only terrestrial mammal native to Iceland?
(a) emperor penguin (b) Arctic fox (c) polar bear

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Doug 400 Heather 400 Robert 500 / Beastie 400 Muffy 700 Jonathan 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.

MUSIC: Singer of hits like “Hello”, what Brit would have an alliterative name if she used her last name “Adkins”?
U.S. GEOGRAPHY: After crossing the Atlantic, English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold named what island in Massachusetts for his daughter?
STORES: 7-Eleven stores trace their origin to a 1927 business that primarily sold what item to folks without refrigerators?
SPORTS: Bouchra Karboubi became the first woman to referee a men’s finals match in an Arab country in what professional sport?
ROYALTY: Queen Isabella I of Castile was mother-in-law to the kings of Portugal & what other country?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Doug 1000 Heather 1000 Robert 900 / Beastie 1600 Muffy 1900 Jonathan 1700

Robert and Beastie are eliminated.

Doug and Heather advance to the next round, as do Muffy 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.

Doug and Heather go first:

(500) In 1903, Mary Anderson invented what device that clears rain from an automobile driver’s vision?
(600) The official state flower of Arizona is the blossom of what giant cactus?
(700) Vowing to never tour again, what Swedish band instead has a virtual concert residency with digital avatars of the group?
(800) “sun, moon, stars, rain” were the last words in a poem by whom?
(900) What Big Ten school has 2 cardinal directions in its name?
(1000) Originally called “Instant Life”, which children’s novelty product contains brine shrimp?
(1100) What FX comedy is the first TV show where every writer, director & series regular is indigenous?
(1200) A nonprofit alliance of farmers, millers & artisans, the BBGA is a guild specifically dedicated to the baking of what?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Doug 2300 Heather 3800

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

(500) Different than the settled Algonquians’ wigwam, what kind of tent-like housing did the nomadic Plains tribes use?
(600) According to its website, what crowdfunding company’s mission is “to help bring creative projects to life”?
(700) What singer & judge of multiple TV dance competitions began her career as a cheerleader for the L.A. Lakers?
(800) One of the key architects of its constitution, Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of what nation?
(900) Also used for awkward hazardous situations, what Old English noun refers to a soft-grounded boggy land area?
(1000) Humans are included among members of what phylum?
(1100) What liquid extract from pine trees was traditionally used as a paint solvent?
(1200) Popularized by John Stuart Mill, what doctrine says actions are right when promoting happiness for a majority of people?

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Muffy finished with 3900 to Jonathan’s 5500 so Jonathan will join Heather in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Heather 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) The medical filter called a dialyzer is known as an “artificial” what?
(2) First patented in 1795, what gadget is based on the “gun worm”, a device for extracting jammed bullets from rifles?
(3) The title of what 1794 Thomas Lawrence painting reflected the color of the ensemble his young model was wearing?
(4) What character in an 1831 French novel is named for the first Sunday after Easter?

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

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