Master Minds Recap: February 20, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, February 20, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Staircases”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Jason, Naeem, Jacqueline

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) TECH: In 2022, major mobile carriers like AT&T and Sprint ended what networks, rendering your older phones useless?
(a) 3G (b) 4G (c) 5G
(2) SITCOMS: Focusing on a Cuban-America family, what sitcom with Rita Moreno was a 21st-century reboot of a Norman Lear classic?
(a) Growing Pains (b) Diff’rent Strokes (c) One Day at a Time
(3) NATURE: Planet Earth is home to about how many trees?
(a) 3 million (b) 3 billion (c) 3 trillion
(4) FASHION: What items could ohly be worn by people of a certain social status in Puritan New England?
(a) black cloaks (b) silk hoods (c) corsets
(5) COMICS: What DC comics villain was originally created for the TV program “Batman: the Animated Series”?
(a) Harley Quinn (b) Killer Croc (c) Poison Ivy
(6) ANIMALS: Most “Best in Show” winners at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show belong to what group?
(a) hounds (b) terriers (c) working
(7) EXPLORERS: On his travels, Marco Polo wrote that he passed the supposed final resting place of what Biblical artifact?
(a) Noah’s Ark (b) Holy Grail (c) Ark of the Covenant

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jason 400 Naeem 400 Jacqueline 500 / The Beast 500 Muffy 500 Jonathan 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) GEOLOGY: Before it can be made into foil, what metal must first be refined from bauxit ore?
(2) U.S. STATES: What national park is named for the wetlands that once stretched from the Florida Keys to Lake Okeechobee?
(3) AUTHORS: What British romance novelist’s best known works included “Hollywood Wives”?
(4) CELEBRITIES: Through marriage to an English baron, what star of “Knives Out” holds the title of Baroness Haden-Guest?
(5) ELECTRICITY: What common household appliance routinely uses a Faraday cage to keep electric radiation from leaking out?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jason 1400 Naeem 400 Jacqueline 1700 / The Beast 1700 Muffy 1300 Jonathan 1600

Naeem and Muffy are eliminated.

Jason and Jacqueline advance to the next round, as do The Beast 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.

Jason and Naeem go first:

(500) Good for the immune system and fighting halitosis, what green herb is the traditional garnish on restaurant plates?
(600) What color ink was traditionally used to mark debts and monetary losses in business ledgers?
(700) What streaming service has the same name as a colorful male pheasant with iridescent plumage?
(800) In 1906, former journalist Georges Clemenceau became premier of what country?
(900) Beating out California, what U.S. state has the most earthquakes each year?
(1000) Donald Glover got the name of what musical alter ego from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator during his college years?
(1100) Many Americans get their health care through an HMO, which stands for what?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jason 5400 Jacqueline 1700

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

(500) First appearing in a 1920 children’s book, what doctor has the ability to talk to the animals?
(600) According to Etiquette Scholar, on what should you place your napkin when temporarily leaving the table during a meal?
(700) Of the four main directions on a compass, the trade winds typically blow which way?
(800) What orbiting command module used for the first walk on the moon has a name reminiscent of Washington, DC?
(900) An ancient city destroyed on multiple occasions, the ruins of Carthage can be found in what modern day country?
(1000) Used in the Renaissance to depict the Virgin Mary, ultramarine is a blue pigment that comes from what stone?
(1100) Separating the chest and abdomen, what is the principal muscle of respiration?

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The Beast finished with 3200 to Jonathan’s 4300 so Jonathan will join Jason in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jason beats Jonathan, 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) By September 1949, Operation Vittles had airlifted more than 1 million tons of supplies to what city?
(2) Negotiated from 1814-1815, what assembly reorganized Europe after the overthrow of Napoleon?
(3) While working as a surgeon, who created a character based on his former medical professor Dr. Joseph Bell?
(4) Eulogized in 1968 as “one of the few persons not born to die”, who is known as “the First Lady of Courage”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan and Jason tied with 2 right reponses each so Jason gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Jonathan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: What 18th century poet famously wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America”?

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

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