Master Minds Recap: January 27, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Friday, January 27, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Princess Parties”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Akasha, Anthony, Max

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) ANIMALS: “Warrigal” is the aboriginal word for what vicious creature of the Australian outbook?
(a) dingo (b) crocodile (c) cassowary
(2) SPORTS: The average life span of a major league baseball is how many pitches?
(a) 7 (b) 14 (c) 21
(3) CELEBRITIES: Providing teen mental health support programs, the “Born This Way” foundation was created by whom?
(a) Reese Witherspoon (b) Lady Gaga (c) Dr. Phil
(4) VIRTUAL HELP: Which digital assistant fot its name from the Halo video game franchise?
(a) Alexa (b) Siri (c) Cortana
(5) FASHION: Wedding gowns in the style of Jasmine, Belle and Tiana are part of a collection inspired by what company’s characters?
((a) Mattel (b) Disney (c) Nintendo
(6) INNOVATORS: Engineer, psychologist and mother of 12, Lilian Gilbreth is recognized for many inventions, including which of these?
(a) Football helmet (b) Footlong hot dog (c) Foot pedal trash can
(7) NICKNAMES: Because local laws promised fast proceedings, what western city became known as “the Divorce Capital of the World”?
(a) Flagstaff (b) Reno (c) Sacramento

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Akasha 500 Anthony 500 Max 600 / Mark 600 Muffy 600 Jonathan 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) ENTERTAINMENT: Parcheesi is based on a board game that originated in what Asian country?
(2) SNACKS: What bow-tie wearing popcorn king spent 40 years crossbreeding 30,000 hybrids until he found the perfect kernel?
(3) SPACE: What Italian astronomer is credited as the first person to observe Saturn with a telescope
(4) FESTIVALS: Famous for its fireworks, Riverfest in Cincinnati is an end-of-summer party along the shores of what river?
(5) AWARDS: Over his lifetime, who was Oscar-nominated in a record-breaking 7 different categories before winning for “Belfast”?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Akasha 700 Anthony 1300 Max 1200 / Mark 1200 Muffy 1800 Jonathan 1400

Akasha and Mark are eliminated.

Anthony and Max advance to the next round, as do Muffy and Jonathan.

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) In most states, teenagers wanting to progress from a permit to a driver’s license must be what minimum age?
(600) The Peloponnesian War was fought in ancient Greece between factions led by Sparta and what city state?
(700) The name of what female country supergroup with Maren Morris is a nod to an 80s male country supergroup with Johnny Cash?
(800) In 1978, a Japanese rheumatologist developed what treatment that uses chambers filled with extremely cold, dry air?
(900) Empowering young women at TZONE Foundation was created by what supermodel and reality TV host?
(1000) What country appointed an official national wizard in 1990 who once lived in Christchurch?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Anthony 2200 Max 2700

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

(500) The name of what Mexican beer is Spanish for “two Xs”?
(600) A suit coat with two front flaps that greatly overlap rather than meeting near the middle is known as a “double” what?
(700) In the first verse of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”, which word has the most Rs?
(800) What boxer beat Max Schmeling in a historic 1938 title fight at Yankee Stadium?
(900) After becoming a new dad, what face-tattooed “Circles” singer launched a line of “cute clothes for little rock stars”?
(1000) Used in traditional Native American agriculture, the “three sisters” include squash, beans and what?
(1100) For over 35 years, Sarah Josepha Hale lobbied the U.S. Government for the creation of what federal holiday?
(1200) Germany’s Glienicke Bridge earned what nickname for its use of high-level prisoner exchanges during the Cold War?

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Muffy finished with 3700 to Jonathan’s 5200 so Jonathan will join Max in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Max beats Jonathan, 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) In 1951, which government bureau became the first to use the Univac I, an early form of computer
(2) What protective white outer layer of the eyeball is an opaque continuation of the cornea?
(3) With deep-set buttoning, high rolled arms and a nailhead trim, what leather sofa is said to be named for a British earl?
(4) Honoring Queen Elizabeth I, what Edmund Spenser work is one of the longest English-written poems?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan got 1 right to Max’s 0. Max is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers on Monday.

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