Master Minds Recap: March 20, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, March 20, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Kittens”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Logan, Isaiah, Mage

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: A 26-foot-tall, 60-ton statue named “Dakota Thunder” is the world’s largest monument to what animal?
(a) buffalo (b) mountain lion (c) appaloosa
(2) CURRENCY: What is the lowest denomination of paper money for the Euro?
(a) 1 (b) 5 (c) 10
(3) MOVIES: Handpicked by Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson brought some soul to what 2021 biopic?
(a) Natural Woman (b) Amazing Grace (c) Respect
(4) PASTIMES: With each Chinese province having its own variation, what game’s name was coined and copyrighted by Joseph Babcock?
(a) Mahjong (b) Go (c) Chinese Checkers
(5) NASA: How many months did it take the “Curiosity” rover to get to Mars?
(a) 2 (b) 5 (c) 8
(6) ELECTIONS: According to Pew Research, which of these democratic countries has the highest voter turnout percentage of their voting-age population?
(a) Belgium (b) Australia (c) South Korea
(7) TV: What ’80s-set series is based on the show creator’s childhood and routinely ends episodes with his teenage home videos?
(a) Mom (b) Parenthood (c) The Goldbergs

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Logan 600 Isaiah 600 Mage 500 / The Beast 600 Muffy 600 Ryan 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) ORGANIZATIONS: Later expanding into aerospace and agriculture, the UAW was founded in 1935 to represent workers in what field?
(2) CIVIL RIGHTS: Nine months before Rosa Parks, teen Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender a bus seat in what city?
(3) COMMERCIALS: In a TV ad for Gain detergent, comic Craig Robinson sang “Gainiac”, a parody of “Maniac” originally from what dance film?
(4) GEOGRAPHY: The village of Supai is located on tribal lands that border a national park named for what landmark?
(5) MOTHERHOOD: Prolactin is a hormone created in the pituitary gland that increases after childbirth to aid in the production of what?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Logan 1200 Isaiah 1600 Mage 1300 / The Beast 1400 Muffy 1800 Ryan 1700

Logan and The Beast are eliminated.

Isaiah and Mage 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.

Isaiah and Mage go first:

(500) What space agency has management trainees point out all the impossibilities in the film “Armageddon”?
(600) Interstate highways with even numbers run in which two directions?
(700) Of Jamaican descent, what British-born fashion icon is considered one of the “Big Six” supermodels?
(800) In “West Side Story”, Bernardo kills what other character before dying himself?
(900) Risotto is a dish that is often made with the arborio variety of what cereal crop?
(1000) The title character in which Sinclair Lewis novel is a sketchy evangelist whose college nickname was Hell-cat?
(1100) Founded in 1789, what is the oldest Catholic university in the United States?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Isaiah 3800 Mage 1800

Isaiah 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 Isaiah.

(500) Locals of what city call their odd-shaped China Central television building “Big Underpants”?
(600) If you are in London, you can see parts of the Parthenon by visiting what museum?
(700) Started in 1904 as a weekly gathering of press agents, what private New York club is known for its celebrity roasts?
(800) Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on what instrument?
(900) Malaysian in origin, what garment is made from loose-fitting cloth wrapped around the body?
(1000) Metal “cages” that redirect electricity around their exteriors are named for what British scientist?
(1100) Campbell’s first five condensed soups were chicken, vegetable, oxtail, consomme and what variety still popular today?
(1200) Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill won Tony awards as the drunk and volatile Martha and George in what 1962 play?
(1300) What ancient Norse deity is commonly known as the trickster god?

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Muffy finished with 6600 to Ryan’s 5500 so Muffy will join Isaiah in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Isaiah 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 is the proper term of the now obsolete practice of watching cheese coagulate to predict the future?
(2) In the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar suffered from what disorder, the belief that he was a cow?
(3) George Washington’s half-brother fought in what British-Spanish conflict that lasted from 1739 to 1748?
(4) Princess Charlene of Monaco represented what country as a swimmer in the 2000 Olympics?

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

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