Master Minds Recap: November 1, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Wednesday, November 1, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Burgers”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Chad, Frank, Amanda (returning champ)

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) MUSIC: Who was “feeling groovy” after he successful sued for songwriting credit on the “H.R. Pufnstuf” TV show theme?
(a) David Crosby (b) Bob Dylan (c) Paul Simon
(2) WHICH CAME FIRST: James, Earl or Jones?
(a) Jamestown Colony (b) Earl Grey tea (c) Dow Jones founded
(3) SNACK FOODS: When the first two flavors of Oreo cookie appeared in 1912, one was the classic chocolate flavor and what was the other?
(a) strawberry (b) lemon meringue (c) fig
(4) BOOKS: Commander of the 1971 Apollo 15 mission to the moon, Dave Scott left behind what book on an abandoned lunar rover?
(a) From the Earth to the Moon (b) the Bible (c) Goodnight Moon
(5) SPECIAL EFFECTS: The first feature film to blend live-action and computer generated imagery, or “CGI”, was what 1973 sci-fi entry?
(a) Outland (b) The Valley of Gwangi (c) Westworld
(6) ART: Which well-known painting is about 30 feet wide and 15 feet high?
(a) Picasso’s “Guernica” (b) Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” (c) Hopper’s “Nighthawks”
(7) CAT: Which of the seven continents is home to the “Cradle of Humankind”?
(a) Africa (b) Asia (c) Australia

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Chad 500 Frank 100 Amanda 400 / Beastie 400 Muffy 400 Jonathan 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) CHARACTERS: In “Archie” comic books, Forsythe Pendleton Jones III is better known by what nickname?
(2) GEOMETRY: What type of triangle gets its name from the Latin words meaning “equal legs”?
(3) TV: What American reality show is based on the Japanese series “The Tigers of Money”?
(4) U.S. HISTORY: Which state, upon being admitted to the Union was allowed to split itself into a maximum of five new states?
(5) THEATER: Led by an all-female creative team, what musical was Sara Bareille’s debut as a Broadway lyricist?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Chad 1300 Frank 1100 Amanda 1200 / Beastie 1200 Muffy 1400 Jonathan 900

Frank and Jonathan are eliminated.

Chad and Amanda advance to the next round, as do Beastie and Muffy.

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.

Chad and Amanda go first:

(500) What civil rights leader’s birthday was signed into law as a federal holiday in 1983?
(600) What curved tube shaped pasta is used in Kraft’s original macaroni and cheese dinner?
(700) A rounded square with a circle and a dot inside it, Instagram’s logo is a stylized version of what?
(800) What musician sang about her life growing up in Butcher Holler, Kentucky in the song “Coal Miner’s Daughter”?
(900) If you buy one of its cars online, the Volvo Overseas Delivery Program will fly you to what country to test drive it?
(1000) In Roald Dahl’s, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, what is the title character’s last name?
(1100) Born in England, what former “Daily Show” correspondent hosts HBO’s “Last Week Tonight”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Chad 2400 Amanda 4300

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

(500) A jury found What Oscar-winning actress and lifestyle guru not liable for a crash involving a man on a ski slope?
(600) What former country did the U.S. defeat in the event known as the “Miracle on Ice”?
(700) Making its NBC debut in 1947, what news show is the longest running weekly program on network television?
(800) From the Italian word for boatman, a barcarolle is a song traditionally sung by someone with what occupation?
(900) In the T. S. Elliott poem “The Wasteland”, what is called “the cruellest month”?
(1000) Jesus is believed to have spoken what Semitic language similar to Hebrew?
(1100) Also known as the windpipe, what was successfully transplanted in a human by surgeons for the first time in 2021?
(1200) Sargon the Great formed what first-known empire that ruled Mesopotamia in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC?

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Muffy finished with 5500 to Beastie’s 3900 so Muffy will join Amanda in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Amanda beats Muffy, she will win another $10,000 and 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) Featuring two migrant farm workers, “Something That Happened” was the original title of what famous John Steinbeck work?
(2) Salvation Army founders William and Catherine Booth were members of what Protestant denomination?
(3) With alternating current chosen to power the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, what Croatian inventor essentially won the “War of the Currents”?
(4) The name of what Midwestern U.S. state comes from a Dakota Sioux word for “sky-tinted water”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Amanda got 3 right to Muffy’s 2. Amanda’s cash money was bumped up to $20,000 and the next time we see her, she will be on the Master Minds side.

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