Master Minds Recap: February 23, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, February 23, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Sourdough”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Lauren Cusitello, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Sophia, Michael, Jeffrey

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) FAST FOOD: What seasonal McDonald’s sandwich was created because chicken farmers couldn’t keep up with the demand for McNuggets?
(a) McRib (b) Snack Wrap (c) McLobster
(2) ARTISTS: What was the first commission for artist Norman Rockwell?
(a) cover of pulp fiction magazine (b) greeting card (c) storefront window
(3) SPYCRAFT: Which government agency leads the U.S. Government in cryptology?
(a) NSA (b) CIA (c) FBI
(4) TV: With an acting career that stretches back to “Little House on the Prairie”, who won the first Emmy in 2019 for “Ozark”?
(a) Liev Schreiber (b) Sterling K. Brown (c) Jason Bateman
(5) GEOGRAPHY: Due to plate tectonics, in about 15 million years, Los Angeles will become neighbors with which city?
(a) Mexico City (b) Las Vegas (c) San Francisco
(6) CAREERS: What historical figure is credited with writing the first resumé?
(a) Benjamin Franklin (b) Leonardo da Vinci (c) Marco Polo
(7) MUSIC: The most expensive instrument ever sold at auction was a what?
(a) piano (b) guitar (c) violin

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Sophia 400 Michael 400 Jeffrey 600 / The Beast 300 Lauren 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) CELEBRITIES: What actor who portrays Ted in “Bill & Ted Face the Music” is known for nice deeds like giving up his seat on the subway?
(2) SCIENCE: Rosalind Franklin’s work with X-rays helped map the structure of what genetic code-bearing molecule?
(3) LEFTOVERS: Calling it well-aged but a little tough, a professor made a stew out of 36,000-year-old meat from what buffalo cousin?
(4) SCRIPTURE: What unit of plowed land mentioned in the Bible is primarily used today as a distance in horseracing?
(5) TRANSPORTATION: Ellen Ripley’s ship from the movie, “Alien” shares what name with a novel by Joseph Conrad?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Sophia 1000 Michael 1400 Jeffrey 1600 / The Beast 1300 Lauren 1200 Ryan 1500

Sophia and Lauren are eliminated.

Michael and Jeffrey advance to the next round, as do The Beast 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.

Michael and Jeffrey go first:

(500) Frequently feeding on nectar, what bird has the highest metabolism of any animal?
(600) In the Wars of the Roses, the House of York’s badge was a white rose and the House of Lancasters was a rose of what color?
(700) Based on the title of Mitch Albom’s book, how many people does the main character Eddie meet in heaven?
(800) Consisting of 144,000 days, the “Baktun” was a recurring cycle in what ancient civilization’s calendar?
(900) Ethnic groups of Greek and Turkish descent have been feuding over what island nation since 1964?
(1000) According to one of its co-founders, what company got its name from he and his partners being new to the business world?
(1100) What 2-mile open expanse in Washington, DC was originally designed to be the city’s “Grand Avenue”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Michael 2900 Jeffrey 4000

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

(500) Formally known as Nepeta cataria, what herb may mellow out humans as well as make felines feel funny?
(600) After its 1949 release, what “Sweet Little Game for Sweet Little Folks” became Milton Bradley’s best-selling board game?
(700) The French high-speed train service is known by what 3 initials?
(800) Who argued against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education before becoming a Supreme Court Justice himself?
(900) What type of cheese is a traditional ingredient in a Reuben sandwich?
(1000) What 5-letter word can refer to a musical composition or a psychological state of confusion?
(1100) In what type of vote in the Senate do members say yea or nay when their name is read out?
(1200) The basic accounting equation used by most U.S. companies says that shareholders’ equity is equal to assets minus what?
(1300) The Levi Strauss company introduced what brand of khakis in the mid- 80s?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

The Beast finished with 3000 to Ryan’s 4300 so Ryan will join Jeffrey in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Jeffrey beats Ryan, 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) What noble gas gets its name from the Greek for “stranger”?
(2) What fraction represents 45/150 in its most simplfied form?
(3) Garcin wryly observes, “Hell is other people” at the end of the play “No Exit” by what French philosopher?
(4) In mammals, what bone is raised with the contraction of the masseter muscle?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got 4 right to Jeffrey’s 3. Jeffrey is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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