Master Minds Recap: January 26, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Thursday, January 26, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Moving Trains”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Peter, Holly, Sheen

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) PARENTING: Which of the following is a technical term that can refer to diaper rash?
(a) colic (b) dermatitis (c) varicella
(2) STRUCTURES: What tallest building in the world allows visitors to watch the sun set twice in a day?
(a) One World Trade Center (b) Shanghai Tower (c) Burj Khalifa
(3) COUNTRY STARS: Moving 20M units, whose “Come on Over” is the biggest-selling album by any solo woman?
(a) Taylor Swift (b) Reba McEntire (c) Shania Twain
(4) BUSINESS: What company behind the Cross Your Heart bra also made Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit for the Apollo 11 mission?
(a) Playtex (b) Maidenform (c) Fruit of the Loom
(5) HOLIDAYS: During the festival of “Takanakuy”, Peruvian villagers celebrate the settling of grudges through what means?
(a) foot races (b) eating contests (c) fist fights
(6) EDUCATION: Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Barnard and which of these other original “Seven Sisters” colleges still admit women only?
(a) Vassar (b) Mount Holyoke (c) Radcliffe
(7) SCIENCE: The term “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation” refers to the technology used in which device?
(a) film projector (b) laser (c) headlight

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Peter 700 Holly 400 Sheen 500 / The Beast 500 Muffy 700 Jonathan 500

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) PRODUCTS: Spud and Yam are the children of what toy introduced in 1952?
(2) ART: “My face makes a fine floor for droppings” is from a poem by Michelangelo complaining about painting what?
(3) WORLD HISTORY: The Treaty of Cordoba established what country’s independence from Spain?
(4) WEIGHTLIFTING: Named for the iconic bodybuilder, the Arnold Press works out all three heads of what shoulder muscle?
(5) COMMUNICATIONS: What author of “A Passage to India” stopped writig novels and became a broadcaster on BBC radio?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Peter 1500 Holly 800 Sheen 1100 / The Beast 1700 Muffy 1700 Jonathan 1500

Holly and Jonathan are eliminated.

Peter and Sheen advance to the next round, as do The Beast and Muffy.

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) The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution set what date for the beginning of the President’s term in office?
(600) In carpentry, what common unit of measurement for a nail’s size shares its name with a type of coin?
(700) Minoans pioneered what stone structures for channeling fresh water to their settlements?
(800) The most populous country in the world, what nation took Taiwan’s place in the U.N. in 1971?
(900) In 1957, Helena Rubenstein introduced what type of makeup in the modern tube and wand applicator?
(1000) Douglas MacArthur and Buzz Aldrin are graduates of what New York institution?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Peter 3600 Sheen 1100

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

(500) Rediscovered in 2001, Helike was believed to have been destroyed by Poseidon and inspired the myth of what lost city?
(600) Making those Louboutin shoes more appealing, the gene to perceive the color red is on which chromosome?
(700) A shoat is the weaned offspring of what domesticated animal?
(800) What region of Italy lends its name to a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to flat land?
(900) Considered a monster of pie cake, the “cherpumple” is made from cherry pie, pumpkin pie and what other pie?
(1000) Said to have zero mass, What particle makes up all electromagnetic energy?
(1100) Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution bans the quartering of soldiers during peacetime?
(1200) Perhaps the nation’s oldest, what think tank was founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

The Beast finished with 2600 to Muffy’s 4600 so Muffy will join Peter in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Peter 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) What “Peanuts” character spends much of his time playing a toy piano
(2) When Steven Spielbeerg re-enrolled to get his degree, he was given 3 credits in what subject for his work on “Jurassic Park”?
(3) The primary airport serving the country of Monaco is located in which French city?
(4) On 5 of the 12 levels of the Beaufort Scale, what wind is described as light, gentle, moderate, fresh and strong?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got 2 right to Peter’s 1. Peter is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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