Master Minds Recap: October 3, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, October 3, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Treasure Hunting”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee, Arianna Haut
Today’s challengers: Jimmy, Chris, Walter

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) BUSINESS: The idea and name of what store chain were allegedly inspired by a sow in a field, surrounded by its feeding babies?
(a) Piggly Wiggly (b) Chik-Fil-A (c) Build-A-Bear Workshop
(2) CRIME: Occurring in the same building that hosted the 1774 Continental Congress, America’s first bank robbery happend in what state?
(a) New York (b) Maryland (c) Pennsylvania
(3) GAMES: Due to a rushed schedule, the Atari video game of what Steven Spielberg film is widely held to be the worst of all time?
(a) Jaws (b) Raiders of the Lost Ark (c) E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial (4) CARTOGRAPHY: What 2nd-century astronomer and geographer created the latitude and longitude system?
(a) Galileo Galilei (b) Claudius Ptolemy (c) Johannes Kepler
(5) SPACE: Because its geology was most like the moon, astronauts in the 1960’s were sent to train in the crater-filled terrain of what country?
(a) Iceland (b) Spain (c) Argentina
(6) MUSIC: Arthur Sullivan, one-half of the comedic opera duo Gilbert and Sullivan, wrote the music for which popular hymn?
(a) Onward Christian Soldiers (b) Amazing Grace (c) Abide with Me
(7) WEDDINGS: Most experts agree what item can be traced back to Rome, where a bride wore it to disguise herself from evil spirits?
(a) garter (b) veil (c) train

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Jimmy 400 Chris 700 Walter 700 / Beastie 700 Muffy 700 Arianna 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) ACTORS: Before Gates McFadden played Dr. Crusher on “Star Trek: TNG”, she worked as a puppet choreographer for what Muppet creator?
(2) TECHNOLOGY: What “colorful” mobile device got its name because its tiny keyboard buttons resembled the seeds of a certain fruit?
(3) SPORTS: What Swiss tennis player became a junior champion by 14 and won his 20th career grand slam title at 36?
(4) HISTORY: Accomplishing the feat in the early 1970s, Anna Mae Hays is celebrated as the first woman with what U.S. military rank?
(5) LITERATURE: The grown-upp main character in the novel “Dr. Sleep”, Danny Torrance first appeared in what earlier horror novel?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Jimmy 1400 Chris 1700 Walter 1500 / Beastie 1900 Muffy 1900 Arianna 1400

Jimmy and Arianna are eliminated.

Chris and Walter 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.

Chris and Walter go first:

(500) Rio de Janeiro hosts the biggest and most famous celebration of what pre-Lenten festival?
(600) Good Housekeeping magazine warns that misusing what metallic-sounding cosmetic can make you appear orange?
(700) In what Caribbean island country was singer, businesswoman and actress Rihanna born?
(800) The four events of women’s artistic gymnastics include floor, exercise, uneven bars, balance beam and what?
(900) What 1965 Bernard Waber children’s book centers on a large aquatic reptile in New York City, who lives in a house on East 88th street?
(1000) What English navigator of the 16th-century had a flagship called the Golden Hind?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Chris 2900 Walter 2500

Chris 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 Chris.

(500) A single stalk of asparagus is known by what weaponlike name?
(600) Shrub, brush and rock are three varieties of what Australian relative of the kangaroo?
(700) Thanks to Mormon settlers, Utah National Park has a Hebrew name?
(800) Blue steel is the signature pose of what fictional male supermodel beast?
(900) The earliest surviving peace treaty was signed between the Hittites and what ancient civilization?
(1000) Seating was segregated at the 1922 dedication ceremony of what national monument?
(1100) Because learning card tricks would have taken too much time, Paul Newman used a hand double in what 1973 con artist film?
(1200) How many incisor teeth do adults typically have?
(1300) Yiddish for musical instruments, what style of Jewish folk music often features clarinets and violins?
(1400) Ares was the offspring of Zeus and what goddess?

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Muffy finished with 6500 to Beastie’s 4200 so Muffy will join Chris in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Chris 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) Founded in Wichita, what pizza chain is so-named partly because the sign had room for only eight letters?
(2) Reminiscent of a Beatles song title, what is the last book of the Bible named for a person?
(3) What tiny U.S. state has the shortest motto, “Hope”?
(4) Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction is commonly named for what baseball player who first underwent the procedure?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Chris got 4 right to Muffy’s 3. Chris wins $10,000 and we will see him again tomorrow, when he takes takes a shot at another $10,000 and a spot on the Master Minds panel.

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