Master Minds Recap: March 6, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 3) for Monday, March 6, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Mountain Bikes”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, LaKedra Pam, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Mary, Joe, Marc

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) TECH: A common port to connect computers and other electronic devices, “USB” stands for what?
(a) universal serial bus (b) upload system blocks (c) user storage bin
(2) MUSIC: The only two women who have won 6 Grammys in one night were Beyonce and who?
(a) Taylor Swift (b) Adele (c) Barbra Streisand
(3) RELATIVES: Research shows that genes from Neanderthals that boost immunity in humans may also cause what?
(a) food allergies (b) tone deafness (c) ambidexterity
(4) DESIGN: Meaning “madness” in French, what whimsical style of architecture is primarily built for decoration?
(a) Jacal (b) Folly (c) Burde
(5) TELEVISION: What Netflix drama became the first series to offer an entire season of first-run episodes all at once?
(a) Game of Thrones (b) House of Cards (c) Downton Abbey
(6) ANIMALS: Which of these creatures has an average life expectancy of more than 200 years?
(a) Galapagos tortoise (b) golden eagle (c) bowhead whale
(7) BUSINESS: As a result of tweeting “traffic is driving me nuts”, Elon Musk founded what company?
(a) Tesla (b) Spacex (c) The Boring Company

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Mary 400 Joe 500 Marc 400 / The Beast 500 LaKedra 500 Ryan 200

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) SCENCE: In chemistry, an atom becomes an ion which it gains or loses what particles?
(2) PLAYBILL: In which Broadway musical would you find the Schuyler sisters?
(3) MUSEUMS: Spain’s Guggenheim Museum is sheathed in what lightweight metal used in surgical joint replacements?
(4) DRINKS: What 4-letter cocktail was originally watered-down rum for crews on British ships?
(5) THE SOLAR SYSTEM: The first spacecraft to enter Saturn’s orbit is named for which Italian astronomer who discovered the planet’s moons?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Mary 1000 Joe 1300 Marc 1200 / The Beast 1100 LaKedra 1300 Ryan 1200

Mary and The Beast are eliminated.

Joe and Marc advance to the next round, as do LaKedra 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.

Joe and Marc go first:

(500) Moored near the Gateway Arch, the first riverboat McDonald’s was located in what city?
(600) Historically, V-J Day was August 15th if what year?
(700) What filmmaker holds the record for most Academy Awards with 26?
(800) Eureka and Meyer are varieties of what citrus fruit?
(900) Popular in the 80s, what genes came predistressed in a process introduced by the Rifle Jean Company?
(1000) Steven Crane was 23 years old and had no personal experience of war when he wrote what 1895 novel?
(1100) Environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill famously spent 738 days sitting in the branches of what species of tree?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Joe 4500 Marc 2700

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

(500) In the female reproductive system, the womb is also called what?
(600) What Norse god once dressed as a bride to steal his hammer back from the Giants?
(700) The play “Waiting for Godot” was originally written and published in what language?
(800) What 4-letter word used in poker is also the Latin word for before?
(900) What philosopher penned the influential essay “Civil Disobedience”?
(1000) When his first Sports Illustrated cover came out, who was playing for the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School Irish?
(1100) In the 1980s, Swedish company Perstorp began selling laminate flooring under what brand name?
(1200) Featuring an external staircase and color-coded pipes, what Paris museum is famous for its “inside out” design?
(1300) A small state in fear of big government, which of the 13 original states did not attend the Constitutional convention?

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LaKedra finished with 5500 to Ryan’s 4000 so LaKedra will join Joe in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Joe beats LaKedra, 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) German Hans Peter-Schiffer set a world record in 2014 for the world’s tallest specimen of what flower, at over 30 feet?
(2) When facing forward on a boat, the right side is called what?
(3) In 1976, Congress passed a law mandating that the FBI director have a single term of how many years?
(4) What brand of collectible porcelain figurines are all made at one factory in Valencia, Spain?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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LaKedra and Joe tied with one right response so Joe gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat LaKedra on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: The jovial Mr. Fezziwig is a character who appears in what 1843 Charles Dickens tale?

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Joe thought it was “Great Expectations” so he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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