Master Minds Recap: October 24, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, October 24, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Dive Bars”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Michael, Soyia, Justin

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) TV: On what daytime soap opera did a member of the British royal family once have two lines of dialogue?
(a) One Life to Live (b) General Hospital (c) As the World Turns
(2) ACTIVITIES: Shooting Star, Log Roller and Skydiver are positions associated with which of these events?
(a) sleeping (b) yoga (c) skiing
(3) SYMBOLS: Debuting in 2007, what image joined the red cross and red crescent in an international humanitarian emblem?
(a) red arrow (b) red crystal (c) red star
(4) WHICH CAME FIRST: tinker, tailor or soldier/spy?
(a) Tinker Bell (b) Coco Chanel (c) John Le Carré
(5) FASHION: What clothing label offered to pay $10,000 to “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, to not wear its merchandise?
(a) H&M (b) Supreme (c) Abercrombie & Fitch
(6) AUTHORS: In his satiical work “A History of New York”, who created the notion of Santa flying in a sleigh?
(a) Booth Tarkington (b) O.Henry (c) Washington Irving
(7) GAMES: Coin-operated pool tables feature internal ball return mechanisms that send what ball on its own path when pocketed?
(a) cue ball (b) 8 ball (c) 13 ball

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Michael 300 Soyia 200 Justin 300 / Beastie 300 Muffy 300 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) SPORTS: What professional football team has three mascots named Edgar, Allan and Poe?
(2) THE INTERNET: Satirical website The Onion once posted an article titled “CIA realizes it’s been using” what color “highlighters all these years”?
(3) MUSIC: The well-worn guitar played by Willie Nelson for over 50 years is named for which famous movie horse?
(4) MONEY: From 1916-1945, the U.S. dime depicted a young Lady Liberty who many mistook for what Roman god?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: Excluding El Salvador whose capital is San Salvador, what Central American country rhymes with its capital?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Michael 700 Soyia 1200 Justin 300 / Beastie 1300 Muffy 1500 Ryan 1600

Justin and Beastie are eliminated.

Michael and Soyia 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.

Michael and Soyia go first:

(500) On a baseball field, what position is played between second and third base?
(600) How many months have at least 30 days?
(700) Who is the main antagonist of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” film series?
(800) Home to the battles for Chattanooga, what was the last state to leave the Union and the first state to rejoin it?
(900) What beverage branded itself as “the beer that made Milwaukee famous”?
(1000) One of the best-selling novel series of all time, the 14-book fantasy epic “The Wheel of Time” was created by what author?
(1100) What European country has 16 states including Saarland, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia?
(1200) The Rolling Stones named themselves for a song by what legendary blues musician?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Michael 4400 Soyia 1200

Michael 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 Michael.

(500) What two symbols in eastern philosophy are a pair of black and white swirling “teardrops” that form a circle?
(600) What African wild pig has two pairs of tusks that can grow up to 24 inches long?
(700) What Labelle signature song from the disco era features the lyrics “gitchi gitchi, ya-ya da-da”
(800) In the 17th century, the fateful Siege of Vienna involved a combined European force that defeated what dominant empire?
(900) Also referring to a curved flourish of a pen stroke, a “purlicue” is the gap between which two digits on your hand?
(1000) Littered with shipwrecked holes, part of the Namibian seashore is known by what scary sounding nickname?
(1100) Formerly used by one of its neighbors, what is the official currency of Switzerland?
(1200) An Oscar-winning Best Picture starring Gene Kelly, what movie musical was inspired by the music of George Gershwin?

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Ryan finished with 4900 to Muffy’s 2200 so Ryan will join Michael in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Michael 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) A UNESCO World Heritage site, Sagarmatha National Park is dominated by what famous mountain?
(2) Covering 10 presidents in her career, who was the only journalist to have her own seat in the White House Briefing Room?
(3) The plot of Johann Sebastian Bach’s lighthearted mini-opera “Be Still, Stop Chattering” is about the addiction to what?
(4) In 1960, what French fashion icon introduced the first designer ready-to-wear collection for men?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got 3 right to one for Michael. Michael is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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