Master Minds Recap: February 8, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Wednesday, February 8, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Moustaches”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Daniel, Taylor, Justin

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) BEVERAGES: Molson Brewing once put stocked beer fridges across Europe that could only be opened with a passport from what country?
(a) Germany (b) Canada (c) United States
(2) MUSIC: At the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, who included her 9-year-old daughter in her trademark aerial performance?
(a) Lorde (b) Katy Perry (c) Pink
(3) POLITICS: Abraham Lincoln proposed a plan to readmit a state to the Union if what percentage of its voters swore allegiance?
(a) 10% (b) 20% (c) 50%
(4) HEALTH: Xerosis is a medical term for what?
(a) sore feet (b) dry skin (c) bad breath
(5) WRITERS: What Russian author wrote humorous stories under pen names like “My Brother’s Keeper” and “Man Without a Spleen”?
(a) Leo Tolstoy (b) Anton Chekhov (c) Vladimir Nabokov
(6) AWARDS: Actress Yuh-Jung Youn became the first Korean to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, in what film?
(a) Minari (b) Parasite (c) Oasis
(7) SCIENCE: What object accounts for almost 99.9% of the mass in the solar system?
(a) Jupiter (b) Saturn (c) Sun

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Daniel 300 Taylor 600 Justin 400 / The Beast 400 Muffy 700 Ryan 800

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) FOOD: What New York borough is now most often associated with the tomato-based soup once called Coney Island clam chowder?
(2) LAW: In Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, the Supreme Court ruled that women can’t be forced to take what unpaid leave
(3) PASTIMES: Now using a ball and six-pointed pieces, what game was originally called “Knucklebones” in ancient Egypt?
(4) LANDMARKS: Famous for the spheres that adorn it, the Oriental Pearl Tower stands in what Chinese city?
(5) ENTERTAINMENT: Which character in Disney’s “Little Mermaid” was modeled on drag performer Divine?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Daniel 1100 Taylor 1600 Justin 1200 / The Beast 1200 Muffy 1900 Ryan 1400

Daniel and The Beast are eliminated.

Taylor and Justin advance to the next round, as do Muffy 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.

Taylor and Justin go first:

(500) What movable back part of a pickup truck shares its name with a stadium parking lot party?
(600) Due to its year-round greenery, what Pacific northwest city adopted “Emerald City” as its nickname?
(700) Leading his team to an NBA championship in 2021, Giannis Antetokounmpo has what rhyming nickname?
(800) Featuring plain rectangular cottages, what architectural housing style is named for a Massachusetts coastal region?
(900) With its bearded mascot dressed like Santa, what fast food chain is a popular part of Christmas celebrations in Japan?
(1000) With hits like “Don’t Start Now” and “Levitating”, what Grammy winner’s first name means “love” in Albanian?
(1100) Later adapted into a film, what book from Michael Ende features a flying Luck Dragon named Falkor?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Taylor 2600 Justin 5100

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

(500) What singer with a 5-octave vocal range was James Corden’s first passenger on his late night segment “Carpool Karaoke”?
(600) Registered by Jeff Bezos, the websites “Relentless” “Awake” and “Bookmall” all sent you to what online retailer?
(700) Also a term for a young beaver, what was the nickname of American frontiersman Christopher Carson?
(800) Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 2020, What World War I epic was filmed to look like it was one continuous shot?
(900) Also called loansharking, the illegal act of lending money at unreasonably high interest rates is known by what term?
(1000) Before changing its title to “Eroica”, Beethoven had named his third symphony after what French general?
(1100) Essential minerals in the body are divided into two groups: major minerals and what?
(1200) Nicknamed “the Golden Boy”, what welterweight boxing champion also had a Latin dance album that topped the charts.
(1300) The word for small boat or raft, “dinghy” comes from a word in what language?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4800 to Ryan’s 5500 so Ryan will join Justin in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Justin 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) Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are credited with inventing what operating system?
(2) The two basic forms of vitamin A are carotenoids and what?
(3) Currently, the world’s only operating launch site for manned missions to the International Space Station is located in what former Soviet republic?
(4) In what poem did Alfred, Lord Tennyson write “In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan and Justin tied with only 1 right reponse to their names. Justin gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Ryan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Better known as an inventor, who painted the portrait of James Monroe in the White House’s Blue Room?
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Justin thought it was Benjamin Franklin so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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