Master Minds Recap: September 11, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Monday, September 11, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Wassamatta U.”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Ryan Chaffee
Today’s challengers: Graig, Mary, Shawn

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 6 categories and questions. (The “Extreme Weather” category was not shown.) 100 points for each correct answer.

(1) SPORTS: Never won by the same person twice, what MLB award was first given to Jackie Robinson in 1947?
(a) Cy Young Award (b) Rookie of the Year (c) Most Valuable Player
(2) BEVERAGES: Introduced in Italy before the United States rollout, Starbucks Oleato drinks are noted for containing what?
(a) olive oil (b) garlic (c) marinara
(3) CARTOONS: What animated character was named for a Berkeley, California car dealership?
(a) Chilly Willy (b) Bullwinkle (c) Casper the Friendly Ghost
(4) SCIENCE: Because it gives off sparks when struck by metal, the name of what mineral comes from the Greek word for “fire”?
(a) molybdenum (b) phosphate (c) pyrite
(5) EARLY ROCK: What rock and roll pioneer was one-half of the duo who opened for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, Texas on February 13, 1955?
(a) Jerry Lee Lewis (b) Buddy Holly (c) Bill Haley
(6) What term is used for overprotective parents who continually hover over their children?
(a) balloon parents (b) helicopter parents (c) hoverboard parents

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Graig 400 Mary 400 Shawn 500 / Beastie 400 Muffy 600 Ryan 500

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: What speedy-sounding video conferencing site is an official partner of Formula 1 racing?
(2) RELIGION: In the New Testament, what type of tiny seed is used as as parable for the “kingdom of heaven”?
(3) AWARDS: While in is 90s, what composer became the oldest nominee to compete for an Oscar?
(4) HERITAGE: Housing an extensive collection of Polynesian artifacts, the Bishop Museum is located in what U.S. city?
(5) LITERATURE: After he saw one lonely teddy bear left on a store shelf on Christmas Eve, author Michael Bond based what character on it?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Graig 1400 Mary 1400 Shawn 900 / Beastie 1200 Muffy 1600 Ryan 1500

Shawn and Beastie are eliminated.

Graig and Mary 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.

Graig and Mary go first:

(500) At what number Pennsylvania Avenue does Zillow list a house with 16 beds, 35 baths and 55,000 sq. feet?
(600) In 1926 C.G. Johnson created the first automatic opener for what type of door?
(700) When he had flowing red hair what Olympic snowboarder was called the “Flying Tomato”?
(800) Featuring a green owl as its mascot, what language-learning app has become the most downloaded education app in the world?
(900) To complete the first transcontinental railroad, which company built eastward from Sacramento?
(1000) What Ryan Murphy anthology TV series has installments called “Coven”, “Freak Show” and “Roanoke”?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Graig 3700 Mary 1400

Graig 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 Graig.

(500) A 1927 Girl Scout guidebook included the first printed recipe for what flame-melted treat?
(600) Often mistaken for a lily, what purple spring-blooming plant is considered the national flower of France?
(700) The band Aerosmith named what hit song for a line in the movie “Young Frankenstein”?
(800) Plasma, the fourth state of matter, can be created by cooking grape halves in what household appliance?
(900) What fibrous structures between most vertebrae provide padding and flexibility to the spine?
(1000) The site of Phoenician and Roman ruins, Baalbek is nestled in the mountains of what Middle Eastern country?
(1100) What actor plays the title role in the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Picard”?
(1200) In Greek mythology who was the goddess of the hearth?
(1300) What prolific Persian poet also wrote “Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra”?

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Ryan finished with 5100 to Muffy’s 4800 so Ryan will join Graig in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Graig 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) At the age of 22, who did Forbes name the youngest “self-made billionaire ever”?
(2) Aristotle’s three ways of persuading an audience were ethos, logos, and what quality of appealing to a listener’s emotions?
(3) What city is home to the northernmost Major League baseball stadium?
(4) In the Seurat painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, what type of animal is shown, besides dogs?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Beastie and Shawn tied with 4 right reponses. How about that? Now Shawn has to play the Ultimate Trivia Question. He does not have to beat Ryan on this one. He just has to get it right.

For $10,000: ULTIMATE TRIVIA QUESTION: What network of fluid-filled cavities, found throughout your body, was touted in 2018 as a newly-discovered organ?

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Shawn thought it was mesentery so, despite that stellar performance against Ryan, he is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers tomorrow.

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