Master Minds Recap: September 26, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Tuesday, September 26, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Rock, Paper, Scissors”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Nick, Petra, Kjell

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) LITERATURE: According to the biography “Being Dr. Seuss”, “Yertle the Turtle” was the first kids’ book in which a character did what?
(a) hit someone (b) burped (c) snored
(2) MOVIES: Over a decade ago, Rotten Tomatoes named what performer the best action heroine of all time?
(a) Sigourney Weaver (b) Michelle Yeoh (c) Pam Greer
(3) GEMS: What state is home to the only currently active diamond mine in the United States?
(a) Hawaii (b) New Mexico (c) Arkansas
(4) SCIENCE: At about 35 feet underwater, what two colors can no longer be seen?
(a) red and yellow (b) blue and green (c) blue and indigo
(5) CELEBRITIES: Martha Stewart served time in a minimum-security West Virginia prison that is now known by what nickname?
(a) Camp Cupcake (b) Monetary Confinement (c) Glamour Slammer
(6) ANCIENT GREECE: At the trial of Socrates, the jury consisted of how many male citizens over the age of thirty?
(a) 251 (b) 501 (c) 721
(7) MUSIC: Used in an iconic scene from “Risky Business”, what Detroit artist released the hit song “Old Time Rock and Roll”?
(a) Bob Seger (b) Tom Petty (c) John Mellencamp

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 1:
Nick 400 Petra 400 Kjell 200 / Beastie 300 Muffy 500 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) THE CALENDAR: How many months have 31 days?
(2) ART SCENES: A venue for murals, graffiti and public artwork, “Freak Alley” is located in what Idaho city?
(3) ACTORS: What former “All My Children” actor went on to become a star and director of the “Creed” film series?
(4) FOOD: Opening its first factory in 1946, what brand’s name is Italian for “meat-based pasta sauce”?
(5) RELIGION: Which of the archangels is the patron saint of messengers and postal workers?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 2:
Nick 1200 Petra 800 Kjell 800 / Beastie 1300 Muffy 1500 Jonathan 900

CONTESTANT TIE-BREAKER: In the musical production of “The Phantom of the Opera”, what prop crashes onto the stage to conclude the first act?
ANSWER show

Kjell rang in first with the right response.

Petra and Jonathan are eliminated.

Nick and Kjell 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.

Nick and Kjell go first:

(500) In Norway, it is a Christmas tradition to hide what cleaning implements from potential witches?
(600) A former 12-year employee of IBM, who succeeded Steve Job as CEO of Apple in 2011?
(700) After starring in “The Big Bang Theory”, Kaley Cuoco got her first Emmy nomination for what HBO Max series?
(800) What one word term refers to a fake drug used in controlled experiments, or to humor a patient?
(900) Found in Africa, what insect is notable for transmitting sleeping sickness?
(1000) With books like “Body of Evidence” and “All That Remains”, whose novels feature medical examiner Kay Scarpetta?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Scores at end of Round 3:
Nick 2400 Kjell 2200

Nick 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 Nick.

(500) Continuing the work of his predecessor’s New Deal, what president launched the Fair Deal?
(600) In 2022, Twitter began charging $8 a month for its verification symbol popularly known as the “Blue” what?
(700) Measuring 2.5 miles, What European country has the shortest coastline in the world?
(800) Holding clues to the formation of our solar system, the Trojan asteroids share an orbit around the sun with what planet?
(900) Panhead, Shovelhead and Knucklehead are names of what essential part of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle?
(1000) Believing it to be his best work, though it was one of his least popular, what 19th century author wrote “Martin Chuzzlewit”?
(1100) Sharing its name with a common legal procedure, what is the scientific term for a gas transitioning directly to a solid?
(1200) A shape formed at the intersection of two circles, a vesica piscis can also be described as the middle of what type of diagram?

CORRECT ANSWERS show

Beastie finished with 4500 to Muffy’s 3200 so Beastie will join Nick in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Nick 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) What is the only NFL team to have its logo on just one side of their helmets?
(2) Until it was replaced by GPS, what Johns Hopkins-developed program was the world’s first global satellite navigation system?
(3) Known today as Columbia, who founded New York State’s oldest institution of higher education?
(4) The first immigrant processed at Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a teenage girl from what country?

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

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