Master Minds Recap: February 2, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Thursday, February 2, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Marathons”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Kelly Gerhald*, Ryan Chaffee
*Kelly was a contestant until yesterday when she won the right to be a Master Mind.
Today’s challengers: Shannon, Kay, Scottie

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) ENTERTAINERS: Who titled his memoir “Comedy Comedy Drama” to let readers know he had a comedy career before “Better Call Saul”?
(a) Bob Odenkirk (b) Will Arnett (c) Kyle Chandler
(2) ARCHITECTURE: According to Guinness,the world’s largest amphitheater in terms of area is located in what city?
(a) Rome (b) Houston (c) Seoul
(3) MEDICINE: Used to dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure, ace inhibitors are drugs that were initially derived from what?
(a) tree bark (b) fungi (c) snake venom
(4) HISTORY: Which U.S. cabinet member negotiated a 7.2 million dollar land deal with Russia?
(a) John Marshall (b) William Seward (c) Hamilton Fish
(5) THEATER: Opening on Broadway in 1959, what musical was the last Rodgers and Hammerstein production?
(a) Oklahoma! (b) The King and I (c) The Sound of Music
(6) SCIENCE: A University of Maryland study shows students have better comprehension when reading long texts on what?
(a) digital screen (b) paper (c) blackboard
(7) SPORTS: According to Major League Baseball, where is the low end of the strike zone relative to the batter?
(a) top of the ankle (b) middle of the thigh (c) bottom of the knee

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Shannon 400 Kay 500 Scottie 400 / The Beast 500 Kelly 500 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) SHORT STORIES: The title character of the 1843 tale “The Ugly Duckling” discovers that he’s not a duck but what species of bird?
(2) FOOD: Made by Nestle, what “original sundae cone” consists of a vanilla ice cream cone with chocolate and crumbled nuts?
(3) ARCHAEOLOGY: Finding his remains under a parking lot, archaeologists learned what 15th century British king was not hunchbacked?
(4) THE SENSES: What nerve transmits visual information from the retina to the brain?
(5) SOUTH AMERICA: Considered the world’s largest waterfall system, Iguazu Falls is located at the border of Brazil and what other country?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Shannon 1200 Kay 700 Scottie 1000 / The Beast 1500 Kelly 1300 Ryan 1300

Kay is eliminated on the player side. Kelly and Ryan had to break their tie.

MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: On a graph with an X-axis and a Y-axis, which one is horizontal?

ANSWER show

Kelly buzzed in first so Ryan is eliminated.

Shannon and Scottie advance to the next round, as do The Beast and Kelly.

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.

(500) E.Coli is a type of what microscopic single-celled organism?
(600) Over 500 years old, the Hofbrauhaus is a beer hall in what German city?
(700) Responsible for “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”, what TV production company was named for its founder Ms. Rhimes?
(800) Major naval battles were fought on Lake Champlain and Lake Erie during which U.S. war?
(900) Biloba is the species name of what tree whose leaves produce an extract once thought to improve memory?
(1000) Like an A-line dress with a wider hemline, what “acrobatic-sounding garment” was invented by Yves Saint Laurent?
(1100) Revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims,what biblical figure is considered the patriarch of monotheism?
(1200) What is the first novel to feature the famed detective Philip Marlowe?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Shannon 3800 Scottie 4000

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

(500) A Halloween tradition involves people sticking their heads into tubs of water to go bobbing for what fruit?
(600) Like the Venus de Milo, many statues of the Greek Hellenistic period were carved from what soft translucent rock?
(700) In what board game can a player successfully attack a game piece called a “marshall” with a spy?
(800) What patches of lymphatic throat tissue tend to shrink and disappear by adulthood?
(900) E.M. Forster wrote what novel about the fate of a beloved British country estate?
(1000) Naming it the “Tree-Felling Machine”, Andreas Stihl designed an early gas-fueled version of what power tool?
(1100) What monarch was the last person to rule the British House of Stuart?
(1200) Lending its name to a northern section of Manhattan, which Dutch city is the provincial capital of North Holland?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

The Beast finished with 7800 to Kelly’s 3100 so The Beast will join Scottie in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Scottie 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) Who famously searched for the Fountain of Youth in what we now know as Florida?
(2) What is the last name of the rich, aristocratic family who lives at “Downton Abbey”?
(3) The National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates Washington DC receiving 3,000 cherry trees from the mayor of what city?
(4) In 1961, President Kennedy established what international volunteer organization?

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

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