Master Minds Recap: November 21, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, November 21, 2023 with host Brooke Burns

THIS IS THE LAST EPISODE OF THE SEASON

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Twerking”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Scott, Brian, Amanda

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) ADVERTISING: On its brand’s website, what product mascot is described as “a man of few words, but many muscles?
(a) Little Caesar (b) Jolly Green Giant (c) Mr. Clean
(2) TRADITIONS: In Denmark, its customary to cover your friend in cinnamon on their 25th birthday if he or she is still what?
(a) in school (b) single (c) living with their parents
(3) LITERATURE: What cliche is commonly attributed to Mary Roberts Rinehart’s 1930 mystery novel “The Door”?
(a) it was all a dream (b) there was a secret room (c) the butler did it
(4) AWARDS: At the Oscar ceremony where she lost for the 8th time, for the “Hillbilly Elegy”, who surprised the crowd by twerking?
(a) Glenn Close (b) Jessica Lange (c) Kathy Bates
(5) GEOLOGY: Featuring salt-carved chandeliers, chapels and even a rendering of The Last Supper, the Wieliczka salt mine is in what country?
(a) Hungary (b) Czech Republic (c) Poland
(6) BUSINESS: In the early 1900s, Bayer was the first company to put cotton balls into pill bottles to prevent the pills from doing what?
(a) going bad (b) falling out (c) breaking
(7) CHEMISTRY: To create an “erupting volcano” reaction, which ingredient should you pour into baking soda?
(a) dish soap (b) vinegar (c) hydrogen peroxide

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Scott 600 Brian 700 Amanda 400 / Beastie 600 Muffy 700 Jonathan 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) CARTOONS: In the 1937 animated film, which of the Seven Dwarfs does not have a beard?
(2) GEOGRAPHY: Built on a lake bed in 1325, what Latin American city is sinking at a rate of approximately 20 inches per year?
(3) SPORTS: What Argentine tennis player partnered with Steffi Graf to win the doubles competition at Wimbledon?
(4) LANDMARKS: Because some believed its shape had mystical signiicance, what government building did 1960s activists try to levitate?
(5) SHAKESPEARE: Who rallies his troops to battle with a speeech that begins, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Scott 1200 Brian 1100 Amanda 800 / Beastie 1800 Muffy 1700 Jonathan 1200

Amanda and Jonathan are eliminated.

Scott and Brian 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.

Scott and Brian go first:

(500) Created by Merv Griffin, what game show used “What’s the question?” as a working title?
(600) In British cuisine, it is tradition to serve mint sauce with what springtime meat?
(700) What large vein carries returning deoxygenated blood from bodily tissues to the heart?
800) What American teacher is best known as the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller?
(900) Each employee at what company received an average of 1.2 million when Google purchased its navigation app?
(1000) What U.S. landmark stands 305 feet tall, has a 35 foot waistline, and wears a size 879 shoe?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Scott 2200 Brian 2000

Scott 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 Scott.

(500) Leonard Bernstein held concerts in East and West Germany, celebrating the fall of what structure?
(600) A giant cloud of gas and dust in space is known by what Latin term?
(700) Jane Lynch won an Emmy for playing cheerleading coach, Sue Sylvester, on what series?
(800) Guy Laliberté is the founder of the clean water charity, One Drop, and what renowned performing arts group?
(900) What magnetized form of magnetite was used in early navigation due to its natural north-south alignment?
(1000) Celebrating the life of its founder, Vesak is the most important holiday in what religion?
(1100) Practically synonymous with picnics, what fabric was used for Dorothy Gale’s dress in “The Wizard of Oz”?
(1200) Through a radio broadcast during World War II, what Queen of the Netherlands made herself the symbol of Dutch resistance?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 4700 to Beastie’s 3400 so Muffy will join Scott in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Scott 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 Central American nation became the first country in the world to officially accept bitcoin as legal tender?
(2) Adele Bloch-Bauer was the only person to be painted twice by what artist famous for his Golden Phase?
(3) Also known as the shoulder blade, your scapula connects your clavicle to what other bone in your body?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got all 3 right to zero for Scott. Scott is going home with $1,000. We won’t see 3 new challengers until the next season!

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