Master Minds Recap: October 9, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, October 9, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Elvis”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Randy, Armando, Kelsey

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) TECHNOLOGY: The name of what search engine is a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros?
a) Google (b) Yahoo! (c) Bing
(2) ANIMATION: Of the American Film Institute’s top 10 animated films, what is the only one produced by Dreamworks?
(a) Chicken Run (b) Kung Fu Panda (c) Shrek
(3) WHICH CAME FIRST: long, John or Silver?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b) Johnson & Johnson Co. (c) Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
(4) PHRASES: THE “Roaring Forties” and “Screaming Sixties” are nicknames for what?
(a) decades (b) lines of latitude (c) decibel meter levels
(5) FOOD: The “Fool’s Gold” is a hollowed-out loaf of bread stuffed with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam and a pound of what?
(a) fried oysters (b) fried potatoes (c) fried bacon
(6) CELEBRITIES: Revered actor Sidney Poitier served as the Bahamian ambassador to what Asian country?
(a) Singapore (b) Japan (c) Indonesia
(7) URBAN LEGENDS: Although there is no evidence, what animal is famously blamed for kicking over a lantern and starting the Great Chicago Fire?
(a) cow (b) goat (c) horse

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Randy 600 Armando 300 Kelsey 600 / Beastie 500 Muffy 600 Ryan 700

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) MUSIC: In 2022, vinyl records outsold what other physical music format for the first time since 1987?
(2) HISTORY: What world leader instituted a code in 1804 that forbade privilege based on birth?
(3) LITERATURE: What literary detective was once going to be called Sherrington Hope?
(4) FASHION: Collaborating with artists like Keith Haring, what Swiss company made watches one of the hottest trends of the ’80s?
(5) SPORTS: One of the oldest franchises in the NFL, what was the first team to rack up 700 regular-season wins?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Randy 1800 Armando 900 Kelsey 1400 / Beastie 1300 Muffy 1400 Ryan 1900

Armando and Beastie are eliminated.

Randy and Kelsey 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.

Randy and Kelsey go first:

(500) The 13th original colony to join the Union, what is the smallest state by area in the United States?
(600) A professional league for what schoolyard game, featuring a chaser and evader inside a “quad”, was formed in 2011?
(700) Starting out as a parking-lot security guard for “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, who later became the late-night host’s on-air sidekick?
(800) What poultry-named sauce is likely to be orange and jelly-like in the Midwest and brown and chunky in New England?
(900) In the late 19th century, what piano manufacturer established the current standard of 88 keys on a piano?
(1000) Lower than a spike heel, a thin, tapering heel on a woman’s shoe shares its name with what young animal?
(1100) Born in the 6th century, what Arab prophet was the founder of Islam?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Randy 3200 Kelsey 4200

Kelsey 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 Kelsey.

(500) Known as the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench is located in what ocean?
(600) How many toes does an owl have on each foot?
(700) What Apple TV+ show features office workers whose memories were surgically divided between their work and personal lives?
(800) In 1935, IBM began marketing the Electromatic, the first commercially successful electric version of what machine?
(900) What French cream soup made with shellfish is also the name of a free turn awarded in croquet?
(1000) In Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent”, what London building is Adolf Verloc assigned to blow up?
(1100) The U.S. recognized the Ivory Coast in 1960 and officially began using what French language version of its name in the mid-80s?

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Ryan finished with 4100 to Muffy’s 3000 so Ryan will join Kelsey in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Kelsey beats Ryan, 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) For many years, Leo Tolstoy had a falling-out with what other Russian author that nearly led to a duel?
(2) In area, what is the largest island in the Bahamas?
(3) Two years before the first Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosted what other type of competition?
(4) What German school of psychology emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Ryan got one right while Kelsey got none. Kelsey is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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