Master Minds Recap: February 28, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Tuesday, February 28, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Rainbow Cookies”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Becky, John, Devin

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) CRIME: While more than 500 people have been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, only ten of them were what?
(a) over age 90 (b) women (c) captured in an hour
(2) SPORTS: In the NFL, which of these is a legal way to tackle another player?
(a) trip their legs (b) headbutt them (c) pull their hair
(3) SYMBOLS: The YouTube logo incorporates what geometric shape that typically represents the “play” button?
(a) triangle (b) arrow (c) right arrow
(4) TRANSPORTATION: The “MV Astoria” was known as the “Stockholm” when it caused which historic shipwreck?
(a) Lusitania (b) Edmund Fitzgerald (c) Andrea Doria
(5) LANDMARKS: In 2022, officials gathered in Times Square to bid farewell to what they called the city’s last freestanding public what?
(a) fountain (b) payphone (c) newspaper dispenser
(6) MUSIC: At the same desk where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond books, Sting wrote what most played song in radio history?
(a) Roxanne (b) Message in a Bottle (c) Every Breath You Take
(7) PHYSICS: The term Mach 1 refers to traveling at what speed?
(a) speed of light (b) speed of sound (c) 1000

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Becky 600 John 600 Devin 700 / The Beast 600 LaKedra 600 Ryan 700

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) GAME SHOWS: For decades — and apparently not subject to inflation — how much has a vowel on “Wheel of Fortune” cost?
(2) PROFESSIONS: In European palaces, some servants were occasionally called on to serve in what roles, also known as “fools”?
(3) COOKING: According to its website, what heat-resistant glass cookware was originally named in reference to a dessert dish?
(4) ENGAGEMENT: According to WeddingWire’s “Newlywed Report”, what is traditionally the most popular holiday to propose on?
(5) THEATER: What is the fictional town in the play “Our Town”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Becky 500 John 800 Devin 1300 / The Beast 1000 LaKedra 1000 Ryan 1300

MASTER MINDS TIE-BREAKER: Which popular German automobile means “the people’s car”?
ANSWER show

The Beast buzzed in first with the correct answer.

Becky and LaKedra are eliminated.

John and Devin 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.

John and Devin go first:

(500) Apple patented a round takeout box designed to keep what food from getting soggy?
(600) A “blynx” is a hybrid of a lynx and what other North American feline?
(700) What alliterative name for friendships based on letter-writing is now possible through phone apps like Airtripp?
(800) At approximately 16 million acres, what is the largest Native American reservation in area in the United States?
(900) Manufactured by SC Johnson, what home pesticide brand is marketed with the slogan, “kills bugs dead”?
(1000) What southern city’s name is based on its being the terminus of the Western & Atlantic railroad line?
(1100) To celebrate the birth of his friend Bertha Faber’s son, what composer wrote his famous lullaby as a gift to her?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
John 2000 Devin 3900

Devin 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 Devin.

(500) Garry American is a popular variety of what wood used to make whiskey barrels?
(600) 40 years after what sport’s invention did the first jump shots start to appear, sometime in the early 1930s?
(700) As seen in the McDonald’s logo. What two colors do psychologists say make people hungry?
(800) In jewelry, what 5-letter word refers to the part of a ring to which gems are attached?
(900) What Lil Nas X song became the longest-running #1 in history, with a record-smashing 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100?
(1000) From 1516 to 1700, Spain was ruled by what European royal house??
(1100) The light cycle is a real world motorcycle recreated from what movie that takes place inside a video game?
(1200) At what company did Jack Welch start as a chemical engineer before becoming its youngest CEO?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

The Beast finished with 2700 to Ryan’s 5600 so Ryan will join Devin in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Devin 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) Originally named Rover, what Disney character was likely renamed after a 1930 astronomical discovery.
(2) The phrase “Freedom Center” refers to a Cincinnati museum honoring what 19th century network
(3) Every year in the Philippines, they reenact the battle in which Chief Lapulapu’s tribesmen killed what explorer?
(4) What type of cabbage literally means “white vegetable” in Chinese?

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

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