Master Minds Recap: September 28, 2023

Here’s a recap of the clues on Master Minds (Season 4) for Thursday, September 28, 2023 with host Brooke Burns.

Today’s episode title: “Trivia, Smarts & Team Bella”
Today’s Master Minds: Mark “The Beast” Labbett, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah
Today’s challengers: Daniel, Jeho, Sarah

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) INTERNET: As a way to denote a joke on early online bulletin boards, Scott Fahlman is credited with inventing what?
(a) meme (b) emoticon (c) lol
(2) FASHION: What star of “The Twilight Saga” is the face of Dior Homme fragrance for men?
(a) Kellan Lutz (b) Taylor Lautner (c) Robert Pattison
(3) PALEONTOLOGY: In 2015, what dinosaur genus was reinstated after scientists deemed it sufficiently different from apatosaurus?
(a) brontosaurus (b) stegosaurus (c) triceratops
(4) LAW: Citing the public cost of cleaning up the sticky mess it makes, the country of Singapore banned which of these in 1992?
(a) gum (b) soda (c) ice cream
(5) TRANSPORTATION: Before you board that plane with your carry-ons, which does the TSA consider a liquid?
(a) chocolate bar (b) peanut butter (c) Kool-Aid powder
(6) MUSIC: A lesser-known stanza to “America the Beautiful” begins, “O beautiful for…” what?
(a) yearning hearts (b) salmon streams (c) pilgrim feet
(7) SPORTS: Which of these refers to the boxing strategy of tricking your opponent into tiring themselves out?
(a) rope-of-no-hope (b) rope-a-dope (c) soap-on-a-rope

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Scores at end of Round 1:
Daniel 400 Jeho 400 Sarah 700 / Beastie 500 Muffy 600 Jonathan 600

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) LITERATURE: What Gothic horror novel was first published anonymously because the author feared losing her children due to its subject matter?
(2) THEATER: Featuring hits like “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” tells the story of what rock & roll group?
(3) HOLIDAYS: When its Board of Agriculture adopted it in 1872, Nebraska was the first state to celebrate what holiday?
(4) HISTORY: Who was the longest-serving head of the FBI and first IIntelligence Director to lie in state?
(5) GEOGRAPHY: The largest salt flat in the world is located in which landlocked South American country?

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Scores at end of Round 2:
Daniel 1000 Jeho 1200 Sarah 1300 / Beastie 1500 Muffy 1600 Jonathan 1800

Daniel and Beastie are eliminated.

Jeho and Sarah 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.

Jeho and Sarah go first:

(500) What science fiction film franchise is popularly celebrated on May 4?
(600) Established in the early 19th century, the national flag of Mexico features an eagle holding what in its beak?
(700) In the U.S., what dance became a national craze in 1923 after appearing in the musical “Runnin’ Wild”?
(800) Who wrote the book titled in part “Method of Writing Words by Means of Dots for Youth by the Blind”?
(900) Flaming Hot and Purple Thunder are flavors of what popular soft drink?
(1000) Known by three initials, what union merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955?

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Scores at end of Round 3:
Jeho 1800 Sarah 3400

Sarah 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 Sarah.

(500) Started in Connecticut by a 17-year-old with $1,000, Pete’s Super Submarines went on to become what sandwich chain?
(600) The Pythagorean Theorem only works with what type of triangle?
(700) In the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz”, Toto was played by Terry, who was what breed of dogs?
(800) In 2005, W. Mark Felt was revealed to be the anonymous Watergate source that went by what codename?
(900) Larger in area than all of New England, what state is home to the craters of the Moon National Monument?
(1000) T.S. Elliott’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the speaker asks, “Do I dare eat” what fruit?
(1100) What noun do astronomers use for any planet orbiting a star that is not our sun?
(1200) In the Broadway musical “Showboat”, what was the name of the paddle wheeler?

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Muffy finished with 4600 to Jonathan’s 3500 so Muffy will join Sarah in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If Sarah beats Muffy, 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) Born Gertrude Pridgett, what “Mother of the Blues” made her first phonograph recording in 1923?
(2) You can visit the cave where St. John the Divine wrote the Book of Revelation on what Greek island?
(3) In what ’40s film would you find the characters Frank Chambers and Cora Smith, who attempt to do away with her husband?
(4) According to the history of the Larkin family, Paul Revere borrowed a horse with what name for his famous midnight ride?

ANSWERS: (unless otherwise indicated, both were correct)
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Muffy got one right to Sarah’s zero. Sarah is going home with $1,000 and we will see 3 new challengers on Monday.

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