Master Minds Recap: September 14 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, September 14, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & That Lovin’ Feeling”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, John Rhodes
Today’s challengers: Doug, Brian, Rick

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) TRAVEL: In Kentucky, the owners of a giant replica of Noah’s Ark sued their insurers for not adequately covering damage caused by what?
(a) heavy rain (b) fire & brimstone (c) locusts
(2) ARTISTS: Salvador Dali’s surreal personal life included going from Spain to France in a Rolls-Royce filled with what cruciferous veggie?
(a) onions (b) radishes (c) cauliflower
(3) ASTRONOMY: Messier 31, the large spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light years from Earth, is better known as what?
(a) Andromeda (b) Hydra (c) Orion
(4) AWARDS: Who is the only person to win Oscars for acting and for writing?
(a) Warren Beatty (b) Emma Thompson (c) Orson Welles
(5) ANIMALS: Around for more than 450 million years, which of these creatures was on the planet before trees appeared?
(a) shark (b) crocodile (c) platypus
(6) ARCHITECTURE: Deep inside what iconic New York City landmark did workers discover a hidden Cold War-era fallout shelter?
(a) Statue of Liberty (b) Brooklyn Bridge (c) Carnegie Hall
(7) WEDDINGS: A bride from Cyprus achieved her lifelong dream of having the world’s longest what, which was over 63 football fields long?
(a) wedding bouquet (b) wedding train (c) wedding veil

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Doug 400 Brian 100 Rick 500 / Beastie 500 Muffy 600 John 200

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) AUTOMOBILES: Originally a motocycle sidecar producer, what luxury car discontinued its leaping animal hood ornament for safety reasons?
(2) TV: Set 10 years later, the Showtime series subtitled “New Blood” was a revival of what Michael C. Hall serial killer drama?
(3) FOOD: Because of their high potassium content, the peel of what fruit can be used to polish shoes?
(4) MOVIES: What British actor played the title role in a 2021 film that broke the record for the longest title of an Oscar-nominated film?
(5) INSECTS: What’s the more common 2-word name for the insect known in Latin as “drosophila melanogaster”?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Doug 1000 Brian 500 Rick 900 / Beastie 1500 Muffy 1600 John 600

Brian and John are eliminated.

Doug and Rick 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.

Doug and Rick go first:

(500) There are 1,440 total minutes in what unit of time?
(600) What state’s flag of 8 stars on a blue field was designed by 13-yr-old Benny Benson from Seward?
(700) On the TV series “Quantum Leap”, Scott Bakula’s character shares his name with what Nobel Prize-winning author?
(800) Worn by emperors and celebrated generals, the “toga picta” had gold embroidery on what color fabric?
(900) What thin wall between your nasal passages can be deviated?
(1000) In the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, Iris is the sister of what menacing birdlike creatures with a woman’s face?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Doug 1900 Rick 2400

Rick 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 Rick.

(500) What is the most populous country in the world whose name in English contains the letter Z?
(600) As part of a purification ritual, some sumo wrestlers throw what into the ring before a match?
(700) What legendary New York disco was located in the same space where episodes of “Captain Kangaroo” were once taped?
(8500) The voice-operated browser on the International Space Station is what woman’s name that has the letters “ISS” in a row?
(900) A theatre superstition still around today, what color clarinet must never be allowed in the orchestra of a musical play?
(1000) 19th century American outlaw Robert Leroy Parker was better known by what name?
(1100) A long internal monologue with almost no punctuation, Molly Bloom’s thoughts make up the final pages of what classic novel?
(1200) What actor went from playing an enigmatic billionaire in “Watchmen” to being a caregiver in “The Whale”?

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Beastie finished with 4200 to Muffy’s 2800 so Beastie will join Rick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Rick beats Beastie, 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) A heavy bomber used during WW2, Boeing’s B-17 was also known by what alliterative name?
(2) In the plastic surgery procedure known as “lower blepharoplasty”, excess fat is removed from underneath what organ?
(3) What Catholic missionary known as the “Saint of the Gutters” was canonized by Pope Francis?
(4) Used to make the first known coins in the western world, electrum is an alloy mostly composed of gold and what other metal?

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

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