The highest overall Mastermind score is 41 points, set by Kevin Ashman in 1995, his specialist subject being The Life of Martin Luther King . Ashman would go on to become four times IQA world champion.hould the top two contestants have the same score and same number of passes at the end of the contest then a tie-breaker is employed, in which the two contenders are each asked the same five questions (one contender must leave the auditorium while the other answers).