Master Minds Recap: January 9, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds for Monday, January 9, 2023 with host Brooke Burns, the premiere of Season 3.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Bubbly Feasts”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Arianna Haut, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Rachel, Mehrun, Heather

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) PUBLISHING: A blank page at the beginning or end of a book is known by which of the following terms?
(a) flyleaf (b) throwback (c) worksheet
(2) JAPAN: The Momofuku Ando Museum in Osaka is dedicated to what staple of Japanese culture?
(a) origami (b) ramen (c) tea ceremonies
(3) ANIMATION: Sadness, fear, anger, disgust & what other emotion live in the mind of a preteen girl in PIXAR’s “Inside Out”?
(a) joy (b) hope (c) love
(4) TRANSPORTATION: In 1901 Connecticut enacted the first speed limit law for automobiles, restricting cars to how fast in the city?
(a) 35 mph (b) 25 mph (c) 12 mph
(5) NATURE: Though its lumber is extremely soft and pliable, which of these trees is technically a “hardwood”?
(a) balsa (b) cedar (c) redwood
(6) CITIES: Site of America’s first congregational church, what town’s name is thought to be a shortened form of a holy city?
(a) Bethel, MD (b) Athens, GA (c) Salem, MA
(7) THE ENVIRONMENT: In an effort to go “low-carbon”, Google uses which of these to mow the lawn outside its headquarters
(a) hand reel mowers (b) goats (c) battery-powered robots

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Rachel 400 Mehrun 600 Heather 300 / The Beast 500 Arianna 500 Jonathan 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) HEALTH: Affecting more than 50% of Americans over age 80, what condition clouds the lens of the eye?
(2) SPORTS: In major league baseball, all runners advance one base if the opposing pitcher commits what infraction?
(3) ANTHROPOLOGY: Due to its small size, early human species homo floresiensis got a nickname from what Tolkien book title?
(4) THE SUN: Charged particles from what stellar phenomenon collide with earth’s atmosphere, creating the aurora borealis?
(5) POLITICS: Since 1994, what has been the ruling party of South Africa?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Rachel 1200 Mehrun 1600 Heather 700 / The Beast 1300 Arianna 1100 Jonathan 1700

Rachel and Mehrun advance to the next round to compete against the Beast 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.

Rachel and Mehrun go first:

(500) In a relay race, the rod that is passed from one teammate to another is called what?
(600) Departing St. Moritz, the “Glacier Express” is a train route through the Alps of what country?
(700) Trader Joe’s wine brand “Charles Shaw” earned what rhyming 3-word nickname inspired by its affordable price.
(800) The vertical-takeoff vertical-landing space vehicle called “New Shepard” is owned by what billionaire?
(900) As of 2020, every 21st century mayor of what American city has gone on to run for president?
(1000) Flowers of the digitalis genus are commonly known by what “vulpine” name?
(1100) What “Hunger Games” star gets viewers hungry as host of CNN’s food and travel documentary series “Searching for Italy”?
(1200) According to Martin Luther King, Jr., true peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of what?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Rachel 4100 Mehrun 4300

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

(500) The Dumbo octopus was so named because it has fins that resemble what body part?
(600) The extensions “.com” and “.net” are examples of “TLDs” or top-level what?
(700) The buzzing of houseflies corresponds to what musical key?
(800) What brand of mints that come in a tin are advertised as “curiously strong”?
(900) What is the proper term for the calcium carbonate deposits hanging from the roofs of caves?
(1000) Zeus’s father, Cronus was the youngest of what group of 12 deities?
(1100) Running north to south, what Russian mountain range serves as the traditional border between Europe and Asia?
(1200) According to legend, St. Patrick used the three leaves of the shamrock to explain what Christian concept?
(1300) A word running vertically down a page with its letters forming in other words horizontally is best described as what?

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The Beast finished with 4800 to Jonathan’s 5600 so Jonathan will join Mehrun in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Mehrun beats Jonathan, 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) Who was U.S. President when British monarch Elizabeth II became queen?
(2) In the human arm, what long bone extends from the shoulder to the elbow?
(3) Which famed murder suspect’s home now hosts guests as a bed-and-breakfast in Fall River, MA?
(4) What was invented by the founders of Ore-Ida as a way to make use of the leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan got 4 right to Mehrun’s 3. Mehrun is going home with $1,000 and we will see three new challengers tomorrow.

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