Master Minds Recap: September 21, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, September 21, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Sasquatch”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Chris, Alex, Emily

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: Big Major Cay is an island in the Bahamas where tourists can go and swim with what inhabitants?
(a) elephants (b) horses (c) pigs
(2) MUSIC: What performer was announced as the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
(a) Missy Elliott (b) Queen Latifah (c) Lil’ Kim
(3) ART: McDonald’s installed a 23,000 lb. bronze sculpture of what food item in Rapid City, South Dakota, where they eat the most per capita?
(a) Filet-o-Fish (b) Fries (c) Quarter Pounder
(4) INVENTIONS: Before CDs, cassettes or 8-tracks, the “Highway Hi-Fi” was a record player offered in models of what car in the ’50s?
(a) Chevrolet (b) Chrysler (c) Cadillac
(5) WORDS: Which of these is an example of a “cryptid”?
(a) Ethereum (b) Sasquatch (c) King Tut
(6) SPORTS: Which of these is a WWE submission hold?
(a) cross face chicken wing (b) sausage face pizza slice (c) pressed face pancake stack
(7) ETIQUETTE: Though considered rude in much of the world, which of these is considered a sign of appreciation for a meal in Japan?
(a) slurping your food (b) breaking your dishes (c) throwing your napkin

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Chris 300 Alex 600 Emily 400 / Beastie 600 Muffy 400 Jonathan 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) TV: What syndicated morning talk show host has been on the same show since 2001, but its title has changed five times?
(2) ANIMALS: Using its fleshy, pendulous nose to attract mates, the long-nosed monkey is commonly known by what name?
(3) THEATER: In the musical “Grease”, Frenchy, Marty and Jan are members of what social club?
(4) JOBS: Once upon a time, before she became queen, what British royal worked as a secretary and a receptionist?
(5) GOVERNMENT: What U.S. cabinet department administers Daylight Savings Time?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Chris 300 Alex 1200 Emily 600 / Beastie 1000 Muffy 1200 Jonathan 1300

Chris and Beastie are eliminated.

Alex and Emily advance to the next round, as do Muffy 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.

Alex and Emily go first:

(500) Considered the “Big 4”, the cities with the most influential fashion weeks are New York, London, Milan and what city?
(600) Collins, Armstrong and Aldrin are three of what bowl-shaped cavities on the moon’s surface?
(700) What classic bedtime book by Margaret Wise Brown is set in the “great green room”?
(800) How many permanent members are on the United Nations Security Council?
(900) What track and field star won his third consecutive Olympic Gold Medal in Men’s Long Jump at Barcelona?
(1000) Written by Mary Chase, what Pulitzer-Prize winning comedy features Elwood Dowd and a six-foot tall invisible rabbit?
(1100) After it was cancelled, what Liev Schreiber series returned as a Showtime movie in 2022 to wrap things up?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Alex 2800 Emily 1800

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

(500) Though he goes by an iconic nickname, what legendary golfer’s real first name is Eldrick?
(600) What model year 1958 car touted as revolutionary by Ford ended up being the auto industry’s most famous flop?
(700) A northern arm of the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia lies between Finland to the east and what country to the west?
(800) What film star of “The Quiet Man” and “Miracle on 34th Street” was the first dual citizen of the U.S. and Ireland?
(900) Also called a coal-car, what car is hooked to the back of a steam locomotive for carrying fuel and water?
(1000) What largest moon of Uranus is named for the Shakespearean character Queen of the Fairies
(1100) In the Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby”, who is writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear?
(1200) Born in 106 BCE, what famed Roman statesman once said, “We must not say every mistake is a foolish one”?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Jonathan finished with 3400 to Muffy’s 3000 so Jonathan will join Alex in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Alex 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) With nine acting nominations, who holds the record as the Oscar’s most-nominated black performer?
(2) Serving since 2022, Vahagn Khachaturyan is the fifth and current president of what country in western Asia?
(3) Made of two atoms of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen, what chemical is used to bleach hair?
(4) Known as one of the most notorious secret societies in history, what Bavarian association called themselves “Perfectibilists”?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Jonathan got 4 right to Alex’s 3. Alex is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers next Monday.

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