"The Amazing Race Australia 6" [6] Quiz

Answer: Eel

Departing from the beautiful beaches of Caye Caulker, teams were informed that they would be leaving Belize and taking an eight hour bus ride across the border to Mexico, eventually arriving in the city of Campeche on the far end of the Yucatan Peninsula. Upon their arrival, teams would be forced to visit Salon Rincón Colonial, a restaurant in the city, where one team member would need to indulge in a blindfolded taste-test that their partner would need to employ. If the blindfolded team member could identify their foods from the provided menu-- crickets, a desert scorpion, a tarantula, and a hissing cockroach-- they could get their next clue. Any wrong answer meant both team members had to bite a spicy pepper.

Answer: Two

Teams who stomached the odd Mexican fare could proceed on foot through the city of Campeche to Parque San Roman. There, they would find a number of Mexican piñatas waiting for them and using makeshift slingshots, they would need to knock them down. Once knocked down, racers could break them open searching for one marked candy that they could trade for their next clue.

This clue would send them onward to Calle 59, the most famous street in Campeche, where they would need to take a look at the brightly coloured houses on the street. Using colour swatches, they needed to identify, from memory, the colours of twenty-five houses in a row. Doing so would allow them to continue on. The catch was that teams arrived after the hours of operation for the task, so they started it in the order they arrived the following morning.

Answer: Rope

As soon as teams had all their colours set up at Calle 59, they received a clue telling them to drive themselves to Hacienda Sotuta de Peón. Upon arriving, teams had to carry bundles of local agave crop, known as henequen, to the nearby factory and have the materials processed.

They could then comb the resultant fibres using a specific technique and spin those fibres into five meters of rope. That rope, if made properly, could be traded for their next clue.

Answer: Angel

Teams remained at the Hacienda Sotuta de Peón for their Road Block task in Leg 16, selecting one team member who was 'in the deep end' before sending them to the Sotuta Cenote. For this challenge, both team members had to walk across the property and the selected racers (Pako, Heath, Frankie, Georgia, Cynthia, Lauren, and Chelsea) had to shower and then freedive to the bottom of the cenote to grab their clue waiting at the bottom of the crystal-clear waters.

Answer: Chelsea and Jamus

Once teams completed their Road Block task in the cenote, they could walk to the Pit Stop on the grounds of the Hacienda Sotuta de Peón. What teams didn't know until they arrived was that it was regarded as a 'Virtual Pit Stop'. In essence they would keep on racing with no break; Beau would give teams a placement but they would get their next clue and keep on racing. Pako and Mori were first to arrive.

Kelly and Georgia arrived in fourth place, but were required to take a ten-minute penalty for forfeiting the piñata challenge. It dropped them to fifth. At the back of the pack was Chelsea and Jamus but they were surprised to keep on racing upon their arrival at the mat.

Answer: Two

Teams kept on racing through their Virtual Pit Stop at the end of Leg 16 and were told to drive themselves to the White City of Mexico, Mérida, to find their next clue. Teams could step foot on the Double U-Turn at Palacio Municipal de Mérida and locate their next clue box there, but first, the first two teams could use this race mechanic to ensure that the person selected (provided they were behind them) needed to complete both upcoming Detour tasks. Pako and Mori used the U-Turn on Lauren and Steph while Heath and Toni used theirs on Tiffany and Cynthia.

Answer: 'Chorus'

Heading around Mérida, teams needed to select one of two quick Detour options that would immerse them in Mexican culture. In 'Cactus', teams visited Taqueria La Lupita to make cactus tacos, despining and grilling cactus, making pico de gallo, and serving five total while in 'Chorus', teams joined the mariachis at Parque de Santa Lucía, dressing in a traditional outfit and learning the words to "La Cucaracha" to perform with accompaniment. Only Pako and Mori and Lauren and Steph elected the latter task though Tiffany and Cynthia, U-Turned, were forced to do it as well.

Answer: True

Completing their Detours, teams were informed that they would be celebrating the Day of the Dead. Heading to Cementerio General, teams would arrive to be seated at a makeup station where both team members would need to paint each others' faces with an intricate calaveros design. If both of them could be done to a judge's approval, then they would receive their next clue. Because of the hours of operation at the cemetery, teams needed to spend the night nearby and bunch up together in the morning for the task.

Answer: Pink

Covered in calaveros face paint, teams tore open their Road Block clues and proceeded to Calle 64 deciding 'who's strung out'. For this task, the participants needed to walk the street counting pink papel picado hung over the road on long lines to find a total of seventy-nine of the three thousand hung up.

The catch was that they also needed to differentiate but counting only light-pink flags. Tiffany, Jamus, Mori, Georgia, Angel, Toni, and Steph completed this challenge.

Answer: Chelsea and Jamus

Racers finishing the Road Block had one thing left to do, and that was proceed to the seventeenth Pit Stop of the race atop El Minaret, also known as Casa Blanca, in Mérida. What teams didn't know is that Beau would be sending them away yet again, continuing their already-three-day-long trip through Mexico with the eighteenth leg of the race. The catch was that, this time, a team would be eliminated if they arrived on the mat last.

Kelly and Georgia were the first pair to hit the mat this leg, winning their first leg of the race since Leg 1, way back in Morocco. For being first to check in, they won themselves a four-night holiday for two to Cannes and the Great Barrier Reef. Last to hit the mat this time, Chelsea and Jamus got lost on the race to the Pit Stop and they were eliminated from the race in seventh place overall.

Answer: Izamal

With six teams continuing to race directly out of their second Virtual Pit Stop in a row, the course continued through Mexico in Leg 18, departing from El Minaret in Mérida. To kick this one off, teams needed to get back into their vehicles and drive themselves an hour east across the Yucatan Peninsula to the Yellow City of Izamal. Upon arriving their next task would await them at Convento de San Antonio de Padua.

Answer: Glass bottles

Reaching Convento de San Antonio de Padua, teams needed to learn a local Yucatecan dance in which they had to place a glass beer bottle on their heads and perform a series of steps and movements to the approval of their instructors. If they could get this choreography down without dropping the glass bottles, they could receive their next clue.

Answer: By horse and carriage

If the teams could perform the bottle dance they would be sent off on a bit of a hunt through Izamal. Looking at the architecture of Convento de San Antonio de Padua, teams needed to count the exterior arches (a total of thirty-one) and the interior arches (a total of twenty-four) on the building. If they got the right numbers, they would be able to direct a horse-drawn carriage through Izamal to a marked house at the numbered streets they'd worked out and where the owner would hand over their next clue.

Answer: Flower

Collecting this clue in Izamal, teams needed to choose one race who was ready to 'get pinned down' before heading to the small village of Sudzal. Joining local mamacitas, the racers completing this challenge needed to join a sewing circle, receiving a half-finished traditional floral design and needing to learn how to embroider the remainder. If Frankie, Heath, Georgia, Cynthia, Pako, and Lauren could complete the design and and it over as a correctly-made handicraft, they could get their next clue.

Answer: Lauren and Steph

Teams completing the embroidery task needed to drive themselves to Ek' Balam, more than ninety minutes of driving away, to find the Cenote X'Canché and the location of their next Pit Stop, but to get there, teams needed to grab marked bikes to cross one kilometre of the archaeological site, zipline into the water of the cenote and swim to Beau on a floating Pit Stop mat.

After three legs of the race without a formal Pit Stop break, Toni and Heath reclaimed their lead and stepped on the mat in first place to win a $5,000 RedBalloon getaway voucher. The back of the pack was a fight to stay out of last between Kelly and Georgia and Lauren and Steph, the latter of whom didn't arrive early enough to check in before dark. The cops were eliminated in sixth place.