Master Minds Recap: January 11, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Wednesday, January 11, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & a Drumline”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Caroline, Matt, Indra

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) CHARITY: What professional wrestler is the record holder for granting the most wishes thru the Make-a-Wish Foundation?
(a) Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (b) Dave Bautista (c) John Cena
(2) WORLD HISTORY: The eventual home of 24 Chinese emperors, the Forbidden City began construction during which dynasty?
(a) Yuan (b) Ming (c) Qing
(3) ORGANIZATIONS: What does the Movember Organization have men do in November to raise awareness of men’s health issues?
(a) lift weights (b) grow a mustache (c) eat kale
(4) TELEVISION: Actress Hunter Schafer is a trans woman, just like her character Jules on what HBO series?
(a) “Euphoria” (b) “Westworld” (c) “The Flight Attendant”
(5) JOURNALISM: Which was the first online news outlet to win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting?
(a) Propublica (b) Buzzfeed (c) Vice
(6) FOOD: At the same 1893 Chicago World’s Fair where Milton Hershey first witnessed chocolate-making, what treat made its debut?
(a) popcorn (b) ice cream cone (c) Juicy Fruit gum
(7) PARENTING: Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski is credited with creating what term for the core essential members of a household?
(a) helicopter parents (b) latchkey kids (c) nuclear family

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Caroline 600 Matt 700 Indra 400 / The Beast 500 LaKedra 400 Ryan 600

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) BUSINESS: Which former L.A. Laker’s investment firm has holdings of about $1 billion, including part ownership in the Dodgers?
(2) THEATER: What Broadway musical was based on Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem’s stories of Jewish villagers in Russia?
(3) SYMBOLS: What wavy line is used in Spanish to spell senor & used in math to mean “approximately”?
(4) GAMES: Nearly bankrupt, what future game maker turned his situation into a hit board game he called “The Checkered Game of Life”?
(5) COMMUNICATION: To send a postcard to Calgary, Canada, what 2-letter postal abbreviation, should be used for the province?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Caroline 800 Matt 1900 Indra 1000 / The Beast 900 LaKedra 1600 Ryan 1400

Caroline and The Beast are eliminated.

Matt and Indra advance to the next round to compete against LaKedra 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.

(500) When first released, what device from Amazon was dubbed “the Ipod of reading”?
(600) What Maroon 5 singer left as a coach on The Voice after 16 seasons?
(700) Sy Sperling wasn’t just the president, he was also a client of what club for men?
(800) What female literary character is known for saying “Out, damned spot”?
(900) The active ingredient in regular Advil is what non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug?
(1000) In a quote popularly attributed to Andy Warhol, in the future, everybody will be world famous for how long?
(1100) Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of what tech company
(1200) Made of copper and aluminum phosphate, what mineral is popular to Native American jewelry in the Southwest?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Matt 7500 Indra 1000

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

(500) What continent was home to the kingdoms of Cush and Axum?
(600) With a head-to-toe body length of just over an inch, the world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee what?
(700) Allowing babies to cry for a certain period of time before comforting them is a method named for what pediatrician?
(800) “A second to the right, and straight on till morning” is given as the address to what fictional place?
(900) Succeeding his father Albert II, Prince Philippe became king of what European nation in 2013?
(1000) The hole in the middle of a pronged spaghetti ladle is used to measure what?
(1100) What legendary jazz composer and bandleader counts “Take the A Train” and “Satin Doll” among his vast body of work?
(1200) Metheglin is a flavored version of what alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water?

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LaKedra finished with 2100 to Ryan’s 3900 so Ryan will join Matt in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Matt beats Ryan, he will return on the next show. Any player who makes it through 3 shows and wins $30,000, 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 novel’s first sentence is “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy”?
(2) Upon receiving her fourth nod in 2021, who became the Oscars’ most-nominated black actress?
(3) What bright green French liquor is made from over 130 herbs according to a recipe known to only two monks?
(4) Which of these American Society of Civil Engineers’ Seven Wonders of the Modern World finished construction in 1994?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Matt and Ryan were tied at 3 right apiece so Matt got 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, here is the ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: Paul Fleming is the co-founder of what restaurant chain that debuted in 1993?

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Matt came up with the correct answer immediately and he is Season 3’s first $10,000 winner. Matt will be back on tomorrow’s show to try to take another step towards becoming a Master Mind!

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