| 1. | Let’s start with the beginning and ending. What is the correct pair of cities that bookend the Race as the starting line and finish line? | ||
| New York City and Miami | |||
| Miami and Houston | |||
| Washington D.C. and San Francisco | |||
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Los Angeles and Washington D.C. | ||
| 2. | Now for the easy one: Who won the Amazing Race? | ||
| Max & Katie | |||
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Bates & Anthony | ||
| Mona & Beth | |||
| I don’t know why I am even taking this quiz because I don’t know this answer | |||
| 3. | Which of these is not an accurate descriptor of a team this season? | ||
| singers | |||
| doctors | |||
| Internet hosts | |||
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police officers | ||
| 4. | Caroline & Jennifer are related to notable cowboy-types. Who are they related to respectively? | ||
| Davy Crockett & Roy Rogers | |||
| Jim Bowie & Sam Houston | |||
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Daniel Boone & John Wayne | ||
| Gene Autry & Wild Bill Cody | |||
| 5. | Kicking off the 22nd season, Phil throws this added incentive at teams: The winners of the first leg will… | ||
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get a second Express Pass to give to another team | ||
| be awarded a free Fast Forward | |||
| get to assign a U-Turn at any point | |||
| have a chance at $2 million | |||
| 6. | Who do John & Jessica give the extra Express Pass to? | ||
| Jamil & Idries | |||
| Joey & Meghan | |||
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David & Connor | ||
| Mona & Beth | |||
| 7. | Which of these teams does NOT take a penalty on the first leg during the sand castle challenge? | ||
| Caroline & Jennifer | |||
| Max & Katie | |||
| Matt & Daniel | |||
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Joey & Meghan | ||
| 8. | From the first leg in Bora Bora to…the next leg in Bora Bora, the teams are faced with a few tropical tasks. Which of these tasks is Jamil & Idries unable to complete, which ultimately spells their elimination? | ||
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finding pearls | ||
| setting up an underwater picnic | |||
| walking on stilts | |||
| building sand castles | |||
| 9. | The sprint to the second leg’s Pit Stop results in daddy David injuring what part of his body? | ||
| hamstring | |||
| knee | |||
| tail bone | |||
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Achilles tendon | ||
| 10. | In Phil’s home country of New Zealand, what is the challenge that David & Connor decide to use their bequeathed Express Pass on, which gives them a first place at Phil (i.e. not a real Pit Stop)? | ||
| driving a car | |||
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fishing | ||
| obstacle course | |||
| mud slide | |||
| 11. | The New Zealand Roadblock consists of an activity called a _______, which requires a person to dress in rain boots and a burlap sack and navigate an obstacle course involving molasses, feathers, collecting eggs and sliding down a hill into water. | ||
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Shemozzle Race | ||
| Duddington Running | |||
| Stickywicket Sprint | |||
| Christchurch Course of Shame | |||
| 12. | In Bali, the teams have to feed what to a monkey to get their next clue? | ||
| melon | |||
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coconut | ||
| pineapple | |||
| duh…a banana | |||
| 13. | By the end of the leg in Bali, John & Jessica have the distinction of being the first team to ever…? | ||
| U-Turn a team and be eliminated in the same leg | |||
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be eliminated and having an unused Express Pass in their pocket | ||
| being hit with a six-hour penalty but still not eliminated | |||
| break up in the middle of the Race…thus sealing their fate | |||
| 14. | The show issued an unprecedented apology at one point in the Race because one site of a clue box could best be described as very insensitive about U.S. military casualties. What country did this occur in? | ||
| Laos | |||
| Korea | |||
| Somalia | |||
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Vietnam | ||
| 15. | Let’s now welcome the U-Turns to this season. In Hanoi, Joey & Meghan use a blind U-Turn against the Mullets (Chuck & Wynona) out of need to survive. Which team levied the U-Turn against Joey & Meghan on this leg? | ||
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Pam & Winnie | ||
| Bates & Anthony | |||
| Mona & Beth | |||
| Caroline & Jennifer | |||
| 16. | The first of two legs in Botswana showcased life on the savanna with tasks involving all of the following, except: | ||
| building a fire | |||
| digging a scorpion hole | |||
| creating a bird trap | |||
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scaling a tree | ||
| 17. | On the second Botswanan leg, the lead feet of two drivers land their teams on the wrong side of the law and stuck with a $100 speeding ticket each. Which of these teams got the ticket? | ||
| Max & Katie and Pam & Winnie | |||
| Pam & Winnie and Caroline & Jennifer | |||
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Caroline & Jennifer and Max & Katie | ||
| Chuck & Wynona and Pam & Winnie | |||
| 18. | Bates & Anthony score the Fast Forward on this leg and the task involved which of these: | ||
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water skiing | ||
| elephant riding | |||
| crocodile wrestling | |||
| rappelling | |||
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By way of explanation.....
Water skiing in a croc-inhabited river no less. |
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| 19. | On the snow-covered Swiss mountains, Chuck & Wynona flub the cheese wheel Switchback task and are hit with a 30-minute penalty. This allows which team to sneak by and avoid elimination and send the Mullets home? | ||
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Joey & Meghan | ||
| Mona & Beth | |||
| Max & Katie | |||
| Caroline & Jennifer | |||
| 20. | On the train ride to Berlin, someone’s backpack goes missing. Whose was it? | ||
| Max | |||
| Mona | |||
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Bates | ||
| Caroline | |||
| 21. | The names of three world leaders pop up during the leg in Berlin. Which of these men is NOT the correct answer to a trivia question (whether in the car or at the Roadblock)? | ||
| Gorbachev | |||
| Reagan | |||
| Kennedy | |||
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Churchill | ||
| 22. | On the Scottish leg, the Detour of Tasty Puddin’ had teams be regaled by an actor reciting the poem “Address to a Haggis” while said thespian was dressed as what poet? | ||
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Robert Burns | ||
| William Yeats | |||
| Samuel Coleridge | |||
| James Joyce | |||
| 23. | During the Ireland Detour of Tray It, what is the unique color of the jelly that tripped up teams during the dessert course of the Titanic meal? | ||
| magenta | |||
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chartreuse | ||
| periwinkle | |||
| cerulean | |||
| 24. | Going into the last leg, which of the final three teams did NOT have to perform a Speed Bump because they were spared on a nonelimination leg? | ||
| Max & Katie | |||
| Mona & Beth | |||
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Bates & Anthony | ||
| trick question…they were all subjected to a Speed Bump | |||
| 25. | Washington D.C. has a plethora of landmarks. Which one did the teams have to visit to get a clue? | ||
| The Washington Memorial | |||
| The White House | |||
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The Lincoln Memorial | ||
| Library of Congress | |||