Master Minds Recap: October 16, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, October 16, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Whassup!”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Brandon, Sarah, Lupe

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.

FOOD: Whose cookbook “From Cook to Crook” includes recipes for “Bow Wow Brownies” and “Baby Got Back Ribs”?
(a) Robert Downey, Jr. (b) Snoop Dogg (c) Martha Stewart
(2) MAGAZINES: From 1957 to 2001, what monthly magazine ran no real advertising?
(a) The New Yorker (b) TIME (c) Mad
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: three, rings or circus?
(a) “Three’s Company” sitcom (b) The Lord of the Rings (c) circus peanuts candy
(4) GEOGRAPHY: What contiguous U.S. state has the northernmost capital, by just a fraction of a degree of latitude over the second-northernmost?
(a) Washington (b) North Dakota (c) Maine
(5) AMERICANA: Located in Hayward, Wisconsin, the world’s largest fish statue depicts what type of hard-to-catch trophy fish?
(a) striped bass (b) rainbow trout (c) muskie
(6) GAMES: John H. Winn developed today’s version of what casino game involving a table with areas called “come” & “pass line”?
(a) baccarat (b) craps (c) roulette
(7) HISTORY: When it was admitted to the Union in 1850, less than 8% of what state’s population was women?
(a) California (b) New Mexico (c) Texas

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Brandon 300 Sarah 500 Lupe 100 / Beastie 100 Muffy 600 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) ADVERTISING: Budweiser sales jumped after a commercial showed friends “just watching the game” and repeating what catchphrase?
(2) HOLIDAYS: Closing government offices in Suffolk County, Bunker Hill Day is celebrated in what state?
(3) BALLET: Matthew Bourne is a British choreographer who re-envisioned what Tchaikovsky “avian” ballet with contemporary dance?
(4) KIDS: A staple of childhood, what company has a name partly derived from the French word for “chalk”?
(5) LITERATURE: A man travels through the subzero Yukon with a “wolf dog” in which author’s short story “To Build a Fire”?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Brandon 900 Sarah 1500 Lupe 500 / Beastie 900 Muffy 1800 Ryan 1500

Lupe and Beastie are eliminated.

Brandon and Sarah 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.

Brandon and Sarah go first:

(500) Home to Lansing, what state’s lower peninsula is said to be shaped like a mitten?
(600) The music video for “Gangnam Style” was watched by so many people, it exceeded the view limit on what video site?
(700) The world’s smallest avian creature is the “bee” species of what bird?
(800) What future TV “Odd Couple” star played Rock Hudson’s sidekick in the three classic comedies he made with Doris Day?
(900) The flesh of what broccoli relative is referred to as “curd” due to its resemblance to cheese?
(1000) Elon, Gideon and Deborah are among the 12 title characters of what Bible book?
(1100) What early ’90s school-based sitcom featured characters A.C. Slater and Kelly Kapowski?
(1200) What is the largest hinge joint in the human body?
(1300) When a Supreme Court Justice opposes the majority, they are said to write what type of opinion?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Brandon 5200 Sarah 4100

Brandon 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 Brandon.

(500) The world’s longest bridge is the 102-mile-long Danyang-Kunshan Great Bridge in what country?
(600) In 73 B.C., what escaped Roman slave led other escapees in a revolt against Rome?
(700) What common vegetable is preserved in brine to make a dill pickle?
(800) When writing the binomial scientific names of plant and animal species, what type style is used?
(900) In what film did actor John Hurt cry out “I am not an animal! I am a human being!”?
(1000) What visionary poet who “followed his inner moonlight” was the founding father of the Beat Generation?
(1100) Famed as the world’s largest tree by volume, the General Sherman Tree is in what U.S. national park?
(1200) Which one-named “fashion designer to the stars” began sharing his designs with JCPenney customers in 1982?
(1300) In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker and friends would convene in the Rose Room of what landmark New York hotel?

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Muffy finished with 5300 to Ryan’s 4900 so Muffy will join Brandon in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Brandon 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) Ron Turcotte is frequently asked to sign memorabilia associated with what sporting legend who died in 1989 at age 19?
(2) “Te Pito O Te Henua” or “the World’s Navel” is the oldest known name for what South Pacific island?
(3) A famous poem from his book “Harmonium”, Wallace Stevens presented “Thirteen Ways of Looking at” what animal?
(4) An electric tabulating system created by Herman Hollerith in the 1880s won a competition held by what U.S. government bureau?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got one right to Brandon’s zero. Brandon is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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