Master Minds Recap: February 15, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, February 15, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Die Hard Fans”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Tim, Anika, Alex

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) WORLD’S BIGGEST: The world’s largest radio telescope goes by the acronym FAST which stands for what “Aperture Spherical Telescope”?
(a) Five-Meter (b) Fusion-Powered (c) Finland
(2) MOVIES: Daniel Craig’s southern accent in what film was meant to separate his role from the rest of the characters?
(a) The King’s Man (b) Nightmare Alley (c) Knives Out
(3) TECH: “Godfather of the iPod”, Tony Fadell founded a company for “smart” home thermostats named what?
(a) Cozy (b) Nest (c) Lair
(4) HISTORY: What did Robert Newman and John Pulling, Jr. hold in the steeple of the Old North Church on Apr. 18, 1775?
(a) one lantern (b) two lanterns (c) three lanterns
(5) INSECTS: Which of the following is true of bees?
(a) they have 3 stomachs (b) they can fly up to 30 mph (c) they can’t see the color red
(6) AUTHORS:: Who once gave a lecture titled “How to Steal a Watermelon” that Sigmund Freud attended as an audience member?
(a) Walt Whitman (b) Washington Irving (c) Mark Twain
(7) MARKETING: For a more sensory experience, versions of the video game “FIFA 2001” were sold with what feature?
(a) Scratch ‘N Sniff disc (b) 3D glasses (c) goalkeeper’s gloves

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Tim 500 Anika 600 Alex 500 / The Beast 600 Muffy 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) GEOGRAPHY: Once petitioning to be a “time-free” zone, a Norwegian island gets months-long daylight because it lays just north of what circle?
(2) NUMBERS: Written out as a number, how many zeroes are in one trillion?
(3) BUILDINGS: The two structures at the east & west endpoints of the National Mall are the Lincoln Memorial and what?
(4) GEMS: Han dynasty princess Dou Wan was famously buried in a shroud sewn from plates of what semi-precious stone?
(5) FIRSTS: What famous race was first held on May 17th, 1875?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Tim 900 Anika 600 Alex 1500 / The Beast 1600 Muffy 1800 Ryan 1500

Anika and Ryan are eliminated.

Tim and Alex advance to the next round, as do The Beast and Muffy.

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.

Tim and Alex go first:

(500) House of the Dragon is the much hyped prequel series to what HBO show?
(600) Continental drift theory was a forerunner of what modern prevailing theory of movement in Earth’s crust?
(700) The national dress of Scotland, what type of male garment has a tradition of being worn without underwear?
(800) With a total population of over 90 million, what is the most populous country in the Arab world?
(900) In his art book “Jazz”, Henri Matisse depicts what mythological figure falling from the sky?
(1000) Often made from silk, what sheer fabric used in women’s dresses comes from the French for “rag”?
(1100) When poked through a black paper front, plastic pegs lit up and formed patterns on what Hasbro art toy?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Tim 3000 Alex 3200

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

(500) What name is given to molten rock that is beneath the Earth’s surface?
(600) Coined in the 1870s, wiretapping originally meant illicitly recording messages from what devices?
(700) After 9 seasons in Japan and 19 in MLB, who has the most total hits in professional baseball history?
(800) Irina, Masha and Olga are the title characters of what Anton Chekhov play?
(900) Tempering chocolate calls for what equipment made up of two pans, one of which nests inside the other?
(1000) What autism and animal rights activist invented a squeeze machine to help manage her anxiety?
(1100) The island of Sri Lanka lies in what ocean?
(1200) Which daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI inherited the Habsburg dynasty in 1740?
(1300) Common in Russia and originally made with fur, a ushanka is what item of clothing?

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The Beast finished with 6400 to Muffy’s 5100 so The Beast will join Alex in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Alex beats The Beast, 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) According to the National Center for Health Statistics, most babies in the U.S. are born in which month
(2) What 20th century British composer is known for “Peter Grimes” and “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”?
(3) George Edmund Haynes and Ruth Standish Baldwin founded what national organization to empower African Americans?
(4) Discovered in 1988, a raging 6-sided storm nicknamed “The Hexagon” is in the northern hemisphere of what planet?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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The Beast and Alex tied with 1 right reponse each so Alex gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat The Beast on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: In 1874, the first non-European ruling monarch tomake a state visit to the U.S. came from which kingdom?

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Alex thought it was Saudi Arabia so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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