Master Minds Recap: October 25, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Wednesday, October 25, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Hard Truths”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Dan, Seth, Lisa

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) FOOD: The world’s largest what was made with meat, onions and beans, and weighed over 12,000 lbs.?
(a) gyro (b) burrito (c) calzone
(2) LAW: In 1896, the first recorded speeding citation was issued to a man traveling how many miles per hour in his car?
(a) 8 mph (b) 12 mph (c) 16 mph
(3) ANIMALS: The bison is featured on the flag of what U.S. state?
(a) Wyoming (b) North Dakota (c) Montana
(4) MARKETING: Throughout the 2000s, what Japanese automaker was known for its commercials saying, “Zoom Zoom”?
(a) Honda (b) Mazda (c) Nissan
(5) MOVIES: What was the main reason the original director of “Jaws” was replaced by Steven Spielberg?
(a) He was scared of water (b) He got seasick (c) He called the shark a whale
(6) BUSINESS: Which of these was once the parent company of Death Row Records?
(a) Hallmark (b) Hasbro (c) Nabisco
(7) EVENTS: What annual tradition of taking a dip in icy waters is a huge fundraising effort to benefit the Special Olympics?
(a) Nippy Nosedive (b) Polar Plunge (c) Snowflake Swim

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Dan 500 Seth 400 Lisa 400 / Beastie 500 Muffy 400 Ryan 400

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) TECH: First presented by CEO Tim Cook, what best-selling wearable device can take an ECG or detect if you’ve fallen down?
(2) CELEBRITIES: When a British journalist landed a rare exclusive interview, what Muppet revealingly said, “Meep meep mo mo moo”?
(3) GEOGRAPHY: Nearly half of the workforce commutes from another country to work in what Grand Duchy?
(4) MEDICINE: Sternutation is the formal word for what involuntary reflex?
(5) LITERATURE: The title of Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” was derived from a line by what poet?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Dan 700 Seth 800 Lisa 600 / Beastie 1500 Muffy 1600 Ryan 1400

Lisa and Ryan are eliminated.

Dan and Seth 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.

Dan and Seth go first:

(500) The region of mostly calm weather in the center of a tropical cyclone is named for what body part?
(600) Since its establishment in 1948, what country has had a national flag that features a blue Star of David?
(700) The real name of what classic sitcom character is Gordon Shumway?
(800) German inventor Carl Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with what Italian inventor of radio?
(900) What brand was lucky enough to snag the domain name peanutbutter.com?
(1000) Rainbow Bridge, one of the largest natural bridges in the world, is located on the edge of Lake Powell in what state?
(1100) What alliteratively named boat gives tourists an upclose view of the American side of Niagara Falls?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Dan 2200 Seth 1400

Dan 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 Dan.

(500) By a 1976 Act of Congress, what president outranks all other army officers past, present and future?
(600) Flowing through a valley of historic castles and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, what is the longest river entirely in France?
(700) Which granddaughter of Elvis Presley stars as the title character in Prime video’s “Daisy Jones and the Six”?
(800) Most often diagnosed in adolescence, what is the medical term for a sideways curvature of the spine?
(900) Widely used in Middle Eastern cooking, tahini is a smooth paste made of what crushed seeds?
(1000) Daniel Handler used what pen name when he wrote a 13-book collection of unhappy morality tales for older children?
(1100) Whose guitar from the “Hot for Teacher” video sold for nearly $4 million at a Sotheby’s auction?
(1200) Prepared mostly by St. Jerome, what was the first complete Latin translation of the Bible?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Muffy finished with 6800 to Beastie’s 3100 so Muffy will join Dan in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Dan 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) In the early 1890s, what brothers printed The Tattler, a newspaper for the black community in Dayton, Ohio
(2) Associated with transient cerebral anemia, syncope is more commonly known by what one-word term?
(3) Because of a Beatles song, what was among the most common stolen street signs in L.A. until the city painted its name on the curb?
(4) The only countries that share their main borders with 10 or more other countries are China, Russia and what other nation?

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

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