Master Minds Recap: October 23, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, October 23, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & The OG of Influencers”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Phil, Mickey, Kaylin

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) LITERATURE: One of the best-selling books of 2020, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is a prequel to what Suzanne Collins trilogy?
(a) Millenium (b) The Hunger Game (c) His Dark Materials
(2) EDUCATION: A commentary on the overemphasis of athletics in college, what is the uniquely unathletic mascot of the UC Santa Cruz?
(a) Pygmy sloth (b) Starburst anemone (c) Banana slug
(3) BUSINESS: In the 17th century, Lloyd’s of London started off as which type of establishment?
(a) art house (b) fashion house (c) coffee house
(4) TV: George Wendt, who played Norm Peterson on “Cheers”, is the uncle of what actor?
(a) Charlie Day (b) Jason Sudeikis (c) Ed Helms
(5) PERFUME: Which of these is an actual fragrance you can buy?
(a) Eau de Space (b) Eau de Carol Brady (c) Eau de Newsprint
(6) ENTREPRENEURS: The first black female self-made millionaire in the U.S., Sarah Breedlove, was better known by what name?
(a) Madam C.J. Walker (b) Sojourner Truth (c) Sister Rosetta Tharpe
(7) ARCHITECTURE: Initially home to the Longaberger Company, a 7-story Ohio building is shaped like what item associated with Yogi Bear?
(a) hat (b) cave (c) picnic basket

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Phil 300 Mickey 400 Kaylin 400 / Beastie 400 Muffy 600 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) MAGAZINES: At the age of 81, what lifestyle guru made history as the oldest Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model?
(2) MEDICINE: A virus with five main forms, hepatitis involves the inflammation of what organ?
(3) POP SONGS: In 2018, what song hit the Billboard Hot 100 for the third time, after Top Ten runs in the ’70s and the ’90s?
(4) HISTORY: What founder of logic taught a young Alexander the Great about medicine, philosophy, morals, religion and poetry?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: Fun to say in regards to a faraway place, Timbuktu is actually in what faraway country?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Phil 1300 Mickey 600 Kaylin 800 / Beastie 1600 Muffy 1800 Jonathan 1700

Mickey and Beastie are eliminated.

Phil and Kaylin advance to the next round, as do Muffy and Jonathan.

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.

Phil and Kaylin go first:

(500) According to the rhyme, Jack Horner stuck his thumb into his Christmas pie and pulled out what fruit?
(600) A fun fad of the late 1950s was fitting as many folks as possible into what now extinct public utility structure
(700) What sci-fi icon was the daughter of Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and mother of American Horror Story actress Billy Lourde?
(800) In Greek mythology, what mountain nymph who could only repeat others’ last words, was spurned in love by Narcissus?
(900) Ravi Shankar is best known for his mastery of what stringed instrument from the lute family?
(1000) After escaping from prison and fleeing to Cuba, then Spain, what Tammany Hall boss died in a New York City jail cell?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Phil 2000 Kaylin 2100

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

(500) What “porcine-sounding” hairstyle features a ponytail on each side of the head?
(600) Who became the first person to make music in space with his rendition of “My Homeland Hears” by Shostakovich?
(700) Meaning dwarf in Greek, what prefix is applied to the science of controlling individual atoms and molecules?
(800) What second largest lake of Africa is also the world’s longest freshwater lake?
(900) Trevor Bayne had to be given directions to Victory Lane when he became the youngest winner of what prestigious NASCAR race?
(1000) Inhabiting a region of Mesopotamia, what ancient civilization invented our current time system of minutes and seconds?
(1100) Pit and Old World are two subgroups of what family of poisonous snakes?
(1200) Vin Diesel voiced the title character in what movie based on a book by British poet laureate Ted Hughes?

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Jonathan finished with 4900 to Muffy’s 4600 so Jonathan will join Kaylin in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Kaylin beats Jonathan, 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) In a famous children’s book, James Henry Trotter travels the world in what fruit?
(2) In a Federal criminal trial, how many members of a 12-person jury must vote guilty in order to convict?
(3) At age 11, what future “X-Men” star became the first millennial to win an Oscar for her performnce in “The Piano”?
(4) Measuring America’s strategic readiness on a scale of 1-5, DefCon is short for what two words?

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

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