Master Minds Recap: October 30, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, October 30, 2023 with guest host Muffy Marracco.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Lady Master Mind”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Arianna Haut, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Casey, Greg, Ari

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 corporate mascot of what fast-food chain is a smiling businessman with a head shaped like a ping-pong ball?
(a) Domino’s (b) Jack in the Box (c) Panda Express
(2) GEOGRAPHY: After being trapped for 69 days, all 33 workers were rescued from a collapsed mine in the Atacama Desert in what country?
(a) Argentina (b) Bolivia (c) Chile
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: duty, free, or shop?
(a) “Call of Duty” game launched (b) “Free Willy” premiered (c) Pet Shop Boys formed
(4) MUSIC: At age 14, who became the youngest artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy?
(a) Alanis Morrissette (b) LeAnn Rimes (c) Toni Braxton
(5) HISTORY: Viola Desmond became a civil rights pioneer in Canada for refusng to give up her seat at which of these?
(a) movie theater (b) baseball game (c) restaurant
(6) ASTROLOGY: Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by two aquatic animals tethered to each other?
(a) Aquarius (b) Gemini (c) Pisces
(7) TRANSPORTATION: In the 1800s, Samuel Pierpont Langley built and launched an unmanned airplane that traveled over half a mile powered by what?
(a) steam (b) coal (c) electricity

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Casey 600 Greg 500 Ari 600 / Beastie 600 Arianna 600 Jonathan 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) TV: Commercials for Consumer Cellular feature what star of “Cheers” and “The Good Place”?
(2) SPORTS: What university’s women’s bassketball team is affectionately referred to as the “Lady Vols”?
(3) ANIMALS: Likely extinct for over 3 million years, what is considered the largest shark to have ever lived?
(4) MEDICINE: What ancient Greek physician is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine?
(5) HOLIDAYS: Initially called Decoration Day, Memorial Day originally honored only those lost while fighting in what war?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Casey 1400 Greg 1100 Ari 1400 / Beastie 1400 Arianna 1400 Jonathan 1800

MASTER MIND TIE-BREAKER: What is the more common name for the little finger?
ANSWER show

Beastie got in there first with the right answer.

Greg and Arianna are eliminated.

Casey and Ari advance to the next round, as do Beastie 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.

Casey and Ari go first:

(500) Which U.S. President discussed creating the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated?
(600) What eye-catching structure is featured on the back of a U.S. $1 bill?
(700) Less than 10 million years old, the Tetons are the youngest of the ranges in what mountain chain?
(800) For her collaboration with Sam Smith, who became one of the few openly transgender women to win a Grammy?
(900) Lucy and Edmund sail aboard the “Dawn Treader” in one of C. S. Lewis’s books about what magical world?
(1000) In the game of Yahtzee, what is the only roll category that scores exactly 40 points?
(1100) One of the highest paid athletes in the world, what Portuguese soccer star has the record for most international goals scored?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Casey 2200 Ari 6200

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

(500) At a wedding ceremony, the female child who scatters petals in the path of the bride is called what?
(600) Named for physicist Alessandro Volta, a species of what Amazon river fish emits a discharge that stuns its prey?
(700) Campari is a distinctly sweet, juicy, smallish sized variety of what type of produce?
(800) In 1939, American Airlines started the world’s first airport club lounge in an office once used by which NYC mayor?
(900) Anita Diamant’s novel “The Red Tent” focuses on Dinah, the only daughter of which biblical patriarch with twelve sons?
(1000) Jamhuri Day is named for the Swahili word for “republic” and is a national holiday in what country?
(1100) In Chinese cooking, what “numeric” seasoning combo usually includes star anise and cloves?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Jonathan finished with 5200 to Beastie’s 2000 so Jonathan will join Ari in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Ari beats Jonathan, 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) Meaning “golden joinery”, what is the centuries-old Japanese technique of mending broken pottery”?
(2) The hit musical “Promises, Promises” was based on what Oscar-winning Best Picture?
(3) What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel opens by describing its house and setting as “spiteful” and “feel of a baby’s venom”?
(4) The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway serves ports down to what Florida city, the shipping route’s southernmost point?

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

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