Master Minds Recap: November 2, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, November 2, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Bath Toys”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Alex, Amanda, James

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: What singer is the only artist ever to record the theme songs for three James Bond films?
(a) Adele (b) Tom Jones (c) Shirley Bassey
(2) GRAMMAR: The omission of what punctuation mark cost a Maine dairy $5 million in a lawsuit over an overtime dispute?
(a) period (b) oxford comma (c) apostrophe
(3) TRANSPORTATION: Turning maritime into bath time, a cargo ship container fell into the Pacific Ocean, leaving 28,000 what floating at sea?
(a) bath toys (b) bath bombs (c) beach balls
(4) RELIGION: Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati are the three supreme female deities of what religion?
(a) Jainism (b) Buddhism (c) Hinduism
(5) WORLD HISTORY: The first-known use of what now widely-used abbreviation was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill?
(a) brb (b) omg (c) ttfn
(6) TRADITIONS: Perhaps stemming from not wanting to trek days to a nearby mountain, everyone in the Russian village of Tsovkra-1 is a what?
(a) tightrope walker (b) trapeze artist (c) human cannonball
(7) NATURE: The 1783 eruption of a powerful volcano in Iceland was one of the major causes of a revolution in what country?
(a) France (b) America (c) Russia

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Alex 500 Amanda 500 James 500 / Beastie 600 Muffy 700 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) GEOGRAPHY: Now named for a newspaper, what famous New York locale was previously called Long Acre Square?
(2) MOVIES: The Oscar-nominated film “The Banshees of Inisherin” takes place on a fictional island in what real country?
(3) SPORTS: Considered the best in NHL history, what Canadian hockey player was known as “The Great One”?
(4) POEMS: One of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poems pairs a walrus with what tradesman?
(5) ASTRONOMY: Responsible for deploying the Hubble telescope, what was the first operational space shuttle retired by NASA?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Alex 1100 Amanda 1300 James 1100 / Beastie 800 Muffy 1300 Ryan 1300

CONTESTANT & MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: According to legend, anyone who locked their gaze with Medusa was turned into what?
ANSWER show

James and Ryan got in there with the right stuff first so Alex and Muffy are eliminated.

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

Amanda and James go first:

(500) Characterized by its white chalk cliffs, what major English seaport lies closest to the European mainland?
(600) Believing in the healing powers of tomatoes, Dr. John Bennet advocated the medicinal properties of what condiment?
(700) What kids’ TV show featured a turban-wearing genie named Jambi who chanted “Mekka-lekka-hi, Mekka-hiney-ho!”
(800) Which NCAA women’s college basketball team has won more championships than any other?
(900) Which of the 24 official languages of the European Union is also known as Magyar?
(1000) The Chesapeake Bay retriever is the official dog of what state?
(1100) Mukluks are designed to be worn on what part of the body?
(1200) What historic German figure was known as the Iron Chancellor?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Amanda 1300 James 5300

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

(500) The French crown jewels are on display in what Parisian museum?
(600) Although named for a Catholic saint, what February holiday traces its roots to a pagan fertility rite?
(700) 17-year-old Helo Pinto was the inspiration for what song about a young lady walking along the beach in Rio de Janeiro?
(800) What mathematician famously said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”?
(900) Both loyal to and confused by his master, who is the donkey-riding squire of Don Quixote?
(1000) Adrenaline, cortisol and insulin originate from glands in what system of your body?
(1100) Mahershala Ali says “You gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be” in what surprise Best Picture Oscar winner?
(1200) George Washington and which World War I hero were the only men ever promoted to highest rank of “General of the Armies”?
(1300) A type of deposit often made up of soil and rock, a moraine is material left behind by a what?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Ryan finished with 6600 to Beastie’s 4600 so Ryan will join James in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If James 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) For over 200 years, the Loteria de Navidad has been enriching the people of Spain in honor of what holiday?
(2) A quick, clever reply, “riposte” also refers to a counterattack in what Olympic sport?
(3) “All That Jazz”, “Cell Block Tango” and “Razzle Dazzle” are all songs from what musical?
(4) What is the only mammal capable of true flight?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got 4 right to James’s 2. James is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers next Monday.

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