Master Minds Recap: January 23, 2023

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

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Bagpipe Bands”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Molly, Bryan, Preston

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) FOOD: For which item’s 50th anniversary did McDonald’s produce a set of candles that smelled like its individual ingredients?
(a) Filet-O-Fish (b) Chicken McNuggets (c) Quarter Pounder
(2) SHIPPING: Grabbing global attention in 2021, the Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, got wedged in what canal?
(a) Suez (b) Panama (c) Erie
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: the Lion, the Witch, or the Wardrobe?
(a) “The Lion King” movie (b) “Wicked” musical (c) “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
(4) CELEBRITIES: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are neighbors with Oprah Winfrey in what California location?
(a) Montecito (b) Montebello (c) Monterey
(5) BOTANY: In the absence of honeybees, scientists in Japan have successfully pollinated flowers using what?
(a) paper airplanes (b) soap bubbles (c) tiny frisbees
(6) FASHION: Coco Chanel is often credited as saying, “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and” do what?
(a) Add a bracelet (b) smile (c) take one thing off
(7) SCIENCE: In 2009, scientist Stephen Hawking threw a party specifically inviting what type of beings, although nobody showed up?
(a) Interstellar aliens (b) time travelers (c) supernatural

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Molly 400 Bryan 600 Preston 500 / The Beast 500 Muffy 700 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) TRAVEL: Family owned for 52 generations, the world’s oldest hotel is the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan located in what country?
(2) SPORTS: The crowd at an LSU football game once cheered so loud that the school’s seismograph registered it as a what?
(3) BEAUTY: Florence Morton revolutionized what lip balm brand by cutting it into sticks and packaging it in black tubes?
(4) GEOGRAPHY: What Great Lake that surrounds Michigan’s thumb was once called “the Freshwater Sea”?
(5) EDUCATION: Author of “The Mind of Primitive Man”, Franz Boas was the first professor in what field of study at Columbia University?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Molly 600 Bryan 600 Preston 1100 / The Beast 500 Muffy 1500 Ryan 1100

CONTESTANT TIE-BREAKER: The Great Sphinx of Giza was carved from a single piece of what kind of rock?
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Scores at end of Round 3:
Molly 1400 Preston 4700

Preston 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 Preston.

(500) On average, what is the deepest ocean on earth?
(600) Jarhead is slang for a service member in which branch of the military?
(700) What star of “Captain America” voiced the title character in “Lightyear”?
(800) Robert E. Lee’s wife was the great granddaughter of which first lady?
(900) What orange butterfly is named for a type of governing official who acts on behalf of a monarch?
(1000) Originally named Jumpman, what iconic video game character debuted in 1981’s “Donkey Kong”?
(1100) In Italy, what word is used for any cheese that is made from 100% sheep’s milk?
(1200) What book ends with the words “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved”?
(1300) In fashion, a “frog” is what type of fastener that helps hold garments closed?

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Muffy finished with 5900 to Ryan’s 3700 so Muffy will join Preston in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Preston beats Muffy, 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) The 3 major mountain ranges in the continental western United States are the Rockies, the Cascades and what?
(2) Allowing the wearer to turn invisible, the Helm of Darkness was made for which Greek god?
(3) Of the four main actors on the Netflix sitcom “Grace and Frankie”, who has been arrested for protesting the most times?
(4) What U.S. Supreme Court justice was the first woman Dean of Harvard Law School?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 4 right to Preston’s 2. Preston is going home with $1,000 and we will see three new challengers tomorrow.

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