Master Minds Recap: January 20, 2023

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

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Plants Galore”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, LaKedra Pam
Today’s challengers: Rafael, Samantha, Steven

Steven is a returning champ with $10,000 in winnings so far.

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) LITERATURE: The real-life whale that inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” shared its name with what hot beverage?
(a) cocoa (b) Earl Grey (c) mocha
(2) MOVIES: When Robert Pattinson auditioned for “The Batman”, he wore what other Batman actor’s costume?
(a) Christian Bale (b) George Clooney (c) Ben Affleck
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: green, eggs or ham?
(a) Green Day (b) rotary egg beater (c) Hamlet
(4) NATURE: Ascribed to evil desert spirits by Marco Polo, what geological feature can make a loud bellowing noise when the wind blows?
(a) sand dunes (b) glacier (c) butte
(5) THE 17th CENTURY: In the 1600s, the governor of what colony recorded a close encounter between 3 Puritan boatmen and a UFO?
(a) Virginia (b) Massachusetts Bay (c) New Jersey
ANIMALS: Frogs blink their eyes to help them do what?
(a) express displeasure (b) swallow food (c) attract a mate
(7) AMERICA: Which state has speed limits as high as 85 mph?
(a) Texas (b) Florida (c) Arizona

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Rafael 200 Samantha 400 Steven 400 / The Beast 100 Muffy 500 LaKedra 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) FOOD: Often costing extra with your Mexican food, what dip’s name comes from words that mean “avocado sauce”?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: Measuring 10.4 feet long, the world’s shortest international bridge links Portugal to what country?
(3) FASHION: What soft, ornamental hairband was patented by Rommy Revson as a gentler alternative to the metal hair tie?
(4) TECH: The U.S. Navy is now using Microsoft X-Box controllers to operate what part on their Virginia-class submarines?
(5) TENNIS: By winning at Wimbledon in 2022, Elena Rybakina became the first woman from what Asian nation to win a Grand Slam title?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Rafael 800 Samantha 1200 Steven 1000 / The Beast 300 Muffy 1700 LaKedra 1400

Rafael and The Beast are eliminated.

Samantha and Steven advance to the next round, as do Muffy and LaKedra.

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) Perhaps due to its 9-month migration, what white bird is said to deliver babies?
(600) Cawker City, Kansas is home to “The World’s Largest Ball” of what kind of string made from sisal?
(700) What brand claims that more Olympic gold medals in swimming have been won in its sportswear than any other?
(800) In June 2022, NATO formally invited what two countries to join its alliance?
(900) Mattel sells a tabletop version of what arcade game that involves mallets and small burrowing animals?
(1000) Although his mother preferred the violin, Miles Davis was given what signature instrument for his 13th birthday?
(1100) Classified as wet or dry, what term refers to the prevailing seasonal winds in Southeast Asia?
(1200) What Daphne Du Maurier novel tells a tale of two wives, the second haunted by the memory of the first?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Samantha 2900 Steven 5300

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

(500) Deborah Read first saw her future husband, 17-year-old Ben Franklin, the day he arrived in what city?
(600) Cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden was the first businesswoman featured on the cover of what magazine?
(700) What word specifically pertains to the completion or celebration of 150 years?
(800) After the resignation of over 50 members of his government in July 2022, what European leader said he would step down?
(900) In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, years begin with “AF”, which stands for “After” whom?
(1000) The Nahuatl language is also known by the name of what people who spoke it?
(1100) In the UK, the board game Clue is known by what name?
(1200) After seeing a vision in 1770, Ann Lee was viewed as the second coming of Christ, by which members of which Protestant sect?

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Muffy finished with 5200 to LaKedra’s 3200 so Muffy will join Steven in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Steven beats Muffy, he will win another $10,000 and he will be dubbed a Master Mind.

Ultimate Trivia Challenge: The questions are presented to the players at the same time and they write their answers down.

(1) Leo X was the first of 4 popes who came from what Florentine banking family?
(2) The slogan of which U.S. territory is “Where America’s day begins”?
(3) What World War II U.S. general competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics but came in 21st in shooting?
(4) The origin of “Impressionism” is traceable to which painter’s 1872 work “Impression, Sunrise”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 3 right to Steven’s 1. Steven is going home with $11,000 and we will see three new challengers on Monday.

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