Master Minds Recap: March 14, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Tuesday, March 14, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Skeleton Parts”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Billy, Toni, Chris

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) GEOGRAPHY: Because Tennessee paid to construct the highway running through it, what national park has no entrance fee?
(a) Great Smoky Mountains (b) Acadia (c) Shenandoah
(2) CELEBRITIES: In 2022, Brad Pitt said he suffers from a condition called prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize what?
(a) smells (b) faces (c) colors
(3) HISTORY: A volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago in Alaska may have contributed to the decline of what?
(a) Aztec empire (b) Viking settlements (c) Roman republic
(4) TYPING: Who created the fonts Geneva, Chicago and London among others?
(a) Andy Warhol (b) Annie Leibovitz (c) Steve Jobs
(5) AUTHORS: Because he was nearly blind, James Joyce wrote much of “Finnegan’s Wake” using what unusual implements?
(a) crayon and cardboard (b) luminescent paint (c) wax and stylus
(6) TIME: According to scientific estimates, how many hours were in an Earth day after the Moon first formed?
(a) 6 (b) 13 (c) 20
(7) CORPORATIONS: What brand owns the domain name fruit.com?
(a) Chiquita (b) Fruit of the Loom (c) Apple

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Billy 200 Toni 200 Chris 300 / The Beast 400 Muffy 300 Ryan 600

Round 2: There are 5 subjects and questions. No multiple choice. Only the first player on each team to buzz in gets to answer. Correct answers are worth 200 points for the first 4. The last question is worth 400 points. Wrong answers are penalized by the value of the question. At the end of the round, the person with the lowest score on each team is eliminated.

(1) COMPOSERS: Gustav Holst famously wrote a 7-part musical suite about what scientific group?
(2) SWEETS: You can visit what Vermont ice cream company’s “Flavor Graveyard”, featuring discontinued flavors like Holy Cannoli?
(3) TRAVEL: Iga Province is the birthplace of the black-clad Japanese assassins known as what?
(4) COLLEGIATE SPORTS: In 2022, what two California universities were accepted as the newest members of the Big Ten Conference?
(5) MOVIES: The feature film “The Many Saints of Newark” was a prequel to what HBO crime drama?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Billy 800 Toni 200 Chris 900 / The Beast 00 Muffy 1100 Ryan 600

Toni and The Beast are eliminated.

Billy and Chris advance to the next round, as do Muffy and Ryan.

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.

Billy and Toni go first:

(500) The commercial jingle and slogan for what cereal refers to it as “magically delicious”?
(600) Using the standard touch typing method on a QWERTY keyboard, which hand typically is used to type the letter “V”?
(700) Before famously refusing to give up her bus seat, who worked as an investigator for the NAACP in the 1940s?
(800) In the Ray Bradbury book The “Illustrated Man”, what is the title character used to tell stories and see the future?
(900) Research shows that IQ levels rise in areas where people eat salt that has what element added to it?
(1000) Trimmed appliques are placed on a surface and covered in lacquer in what French-named art form, meaning “to cut out”?
(1100) In 1999, what became Canada’s third and northernmost territory?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Billy 2300 Chris 2900

Chris 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 Chris.

(500) In 193 AD, what empire was auctioned off by the Praetorian guards to a wealthy senator?
(600) How many laps around the 2.5 miles track are needed to complete the Indianapolis 500?
(700) Chinese villagers used dinosaur bones in traditional medicine, believing they were from what mythical monsters?
(800) Nicknamed “the ocean’s hot dog”, what food item was introduced by the Gorton Company in the 50s?
(900) In the early 1800s, author Washington Irving gave New York City what one-word nickname?
(1000) As children mature, which of their primary teeth are typically the last to fall out?
(1100) What humorous awards honor those who accidentally remove themselves from the human genome?
(1200) George Knightley is the eventual husband of what Jane Austen character?
(1300) What is the nickname of the Federal National Mortgage Association?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

The Beast finished with 4100 to Ryan’s 5700 so Ryan will join Chris in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Chris beats Ryan, 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) Nicknamed “the Grand Canyon of the Pacific”, Waimea Canyon is located on what Hawaiian island?
(2) In the Old Testament, Ruth remains with and cares for her mother-in-law, known as whom?
(3) In 1930, what company cooperative was established in South Hanson, Massachusetts by 3 fruit growers?
(4) Yale’s secret society Skull & Bones was sued for the return of the skull and bones of what famous Apache chief?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got one right to Chris’s none. Chris is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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