Master Minds Recap: November 13, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, November 13, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Ice, Ice Baby”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Chris, Sabrina, Benedict

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) BRANDS: After more than 110 years, Heinz finally removed what image from the labels of its ketchup bottles?
(a) olive (b) pickle (c) celery
(2) CELEBRATIONS: Brought down from the mountain and crowned, what animal is the center of attention for a few days at Ireland’s Puck Fair?
(a) goat (b) cow (c) hog
(3) SPORTS: In 2022, what became the first city to have hosted both the summer and winter Olympic games?
(a) Vancouver (b) Beijing (c) Sydney
(4) SINGERS: Which artist has had Top 10 Hits on the Billboard Hot 1000 as a soloist and as part of a duet, trio, quartet and quintet?
(a) Paul McCartney (b) Michael Jackson (c) Missy Elliot
(5) TECH: Samsung uses which of the following to test the durability of its phones?
(a) class of preschoolers (b) stuntman (c) robot shaped like a butt
(6) SPACE: Flying aboard the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft, what two animals orbited the moon before U.S. astronauts?
(a) parakeet (b) Rhesus monkeys (c) tortoises
(7) ACHIEVEMENTS: Who holds the Guinness World Record for most broken bones in a lifetime?
(a) Jackie Chan (b) Evel Knievel (c) Ronda Rousey

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Chris 400 Sabrina 400 Benedict 500 / Beastie 400 Muffy 500 Ryan 600

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) NUMBERS: What is the next upcoming year that is a palindrome?
(2) MOVIES: What star of “The Blind Side” and “All About Steve” won an Oscar and a Razzie in the same weekend?
(3) ANATOMY: The six extrinsic muscles in what sensory organ move faster than any other muscles in the human body?
(4) LITERATURE: The horror story “The Castle of Otranto” was the first English language novel of what “architectural” genre?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: What highly volcanic island in Indonesia is the most populous island in the world?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Chris 1400 Sabrina 1400 Benedict 900 / Beastie 1600 Muffy 1700 Ryan 1800

Benedict and Beastie are eliminated.

Chris and Sabrina 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.

Chris and Sabrina go first:

(500) What chef company offers canned pastas like Beefaroni and Lasagna?
(600) Having no fixed pattern of steps, the hopak is a lively Ukrainian what?
(700) In what novel are the islands of Blefuscu and Lilliput at war over which end of an egg should be broken?
(800) What Alanis Morissette song was criticized by The New York Times because the lyrics were not examples of the song title?
(900) Found southeast of Minneapolis and named for a stick-based sport, what is the largest city on Wisconsin’s western border?
(1000) The lightest shade of blonde hair lends its name from what expensive precious metal?
(1100) 42 years after “History of the World, Part I, what legendary funnyman followed up with “History of the World, Part II?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Chris 1400 Sabrina 5300

Sabrina 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 Sabrina.

(500) In the NFL, each end zone is how many yards long?
(600) Medieval versions of what batter-cooking device featured hinged metal plates with designs instead of grids?
(700) Beginning with the chemical symbol for the element, what is the first name of James Bond movie villain Goldfinger?
(800) At his own trial, what famous philosopher is reported to have said “an unexamined life is not worth living”?
(900) What is the last name of brothers, Horace and John, whose auto-making company was sold to Chrysler in 1928?
(1000) Found on Istanbul’s southern border, what smallest sea in the world connects the Bosphorus Strait to the Mediterranean?
(1100) Formed in the 1960s, what rock band’s first and only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 was 1987’S “Touch of Grey”?
(1200) What American author specifically instructed that his autobiography be published 100 years after his death?

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Ryan finished with 5700 to Muffy’s 3400 so Ryan will join Sabrina in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Sabrina beats Ryan, she 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) Including its two claws, how many legs does a typical lobster have?
(2) Preceded by the Soviets’ Luna 9, what was the first American spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon?
(3) Originally called “Operation Fritz”, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II had what code name?
(4) Little Oyster Island, Bucking Island and Gibbet Island are past names of what island now named for a Manhattan merchant?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan and Sabrina tied with 2 right responses so Sabrina gets to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. She does not have to beat Ryan on this one. She just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION:
What English philosopher and writer of “Leviathan” also published translations of the “Odyssey” and the “Iliad”
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Sabrina got it right. She wins $10,000 and will return tomorrow to take on 2 new challengers.

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