Amazing Race 27 Trivia

1. The first Road Block of the race, held in Argentina, involved learning a modified version of what dance?

From Quiz Road Blocks of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Tango

To conclude Leg 2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the ten participating teams had to complete their first Road Block of the race, a task that only one team member could complete. In this case, the person electing to complete the task needed to learn a modified version of the tango that started on the floor, but ended with both dancers in a harness dancing up the walls. Diana, Tanner, Logan, Cindy, Kelsey, James Earl, Krista, Jin, Alex, and Jazmine all went sideways to collect their clue and race off to the Pit Stop.

From Quiz Detours of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Copacabana Beach

Teams flew to Rio de Janeiro for their first leg of the race and after getting a birds-eye view of the city in a helicopter, teams took to the hot sands of Copacabana Beach for a choice between two tasks: 'Sand' and 'Sidewalk'. In 'Sand', teams played foot volleyball against pros (though they were able to use their hands and head if they wished). Once they got 6 points before the pro players could get triple that score, they got their clue. Those choosing 'Sidewalk' stayed on the boardwalk to complete a complicated slide puzzle replicating the design of the nearby pathway. Following this task, teams raced to the first Pit Stop.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [6]

Answer: Hong Kong

After spending one last night in Agra, India, the final four teams started a new day by opening their clues at the Four Points by Sheraton. For this leg of the race they would need to make their way back to the city of Delhi and catch a flight to Hong Kong. Upon landing, they would be able to ride in style in one of the airport's Rolls-Royce limos to their next destination, the Peninsula Hong Kong, where their next clue box would be waiting at the front entrance.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [5]

Answer: Wash laundry

Leaving Krakow, Poland late in the evening, teams opened clues informing them that their next clue would be in India. After flying to New Delhi, teams had to take a taxi to the New Delhi Railway Station and then a 6:00am train to the city of Agra. Once there, teams found their cluebox waiting at Hathi Ghat on the Yamuna River. There, one member of each team needed to partake in this leg's Road Block, a task requiring that they ride a bike to the river proper and, with a load of laundry, tie, clean, and lay out a set of traditional saris. Racers completing this task included Krista, Chris, Denise, Tanner, Joey, and Diana.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [4]

Answer: Rotterdam

The Leg 6 Pit Stop was less a rest point and more a brief interlude as teams were told to keep racing directly from the Arc de Triomphe to Gare du Nord, where they would have to catch a train to the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Arriving there, teams had to locate Vessel 11, a large boat docked in Leuvehaven, where they would be spending the night. Each team would be let loose from their unconventional lodgings in fifteen minute intervals the following morning, starting at 5:00am.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [2]

Answer: Bus

Teams left the Campo Argentino de Polo, their second Pit Stop, late in the evening and needed to head directly to a bus station to start their lengthy trip to the town of San Antonio de Areco in the Pampas of Argentina. Splitting into three buses based on their arrival at the station, teams arrived at their destination only to hop into the back of a pick-up truck and visit a Gaucho ranch by the name of La Porteña. It was there that they received their next clue.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [1]

Answer: California

Teams started this twenty-seventh season of the race on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California in front of a crowd of fans (including a handful of past racers) early in the morning. For their first task, teams needed to take a cab to Mother's Beach on the oceanfront and participate in a bike race. What teams didn't know until their arrival was that they would be riding water bikes across a harbor to Burton Chace Park where Phil would hand them tickets on their flights to Rio de Janeiro. Only one team, the first team (Justin and Diana) would get on the earlier flight. All other teams landed half an hour later.

From Quiz Road Blocks of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Meats

Justin, Josh, Joey, Chris, Rick, Danielle, James Earl, Tiffany, and Ernest were selected for a Road Block in the Pampas of Argentina. Arriving at La Porteña ranch in San Antonio de Areco, they had to learn how to properly set up beef ribs and racks of lamb to be cooked over fire pits-- gaucho-style. This involved properly stringing them up, securing them to rods, and placing them on the fire. If they got them approved by the ranch hands, they could grab a cooked rack and deliver it on foot to the Plaza Principal in town to get their next clue.

From Quiz Detours of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Nine & 9 & 9 Teams & Nine Teams

Although these limits were created to account for the amount of carts available for the teams to collect cardboard with, it's clear that timing was everything. In the 'Cartoneros' task, teams had to accumulate one hundred kilos of cardboard from receptacles in the Buenos Aires streets. Teams could take a cart if not in use, so later teams could claim a cart upon arrival if it became available (as Jazmine and Danielle ended up doing). Only Kelsey and Joey completed the other task, 'Fletero', which required that they transport an art piece across the city instead.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [5]

Answer: Tanner and Josh

Upon arriving at the Yamuna River, Tanner and Josh, who placed last in Leg 8 (at the end of their trip around Krakow) located this race's only Speed Bump task. Unlike in other seasons, where the Speed Bump was a separate task completed by both teammates, this season's 'extra' challenge involved needing to do the Road Block twice. This meant that in addition to Tanner completing the Road Block, Josh had to do the same task when he was finished. When this was done, they could rejoin the race course as the teams headed to the Hanuman temple in Johri Bazaar for a traditional blessing.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [3]

Answer: Denise and James Earl

Immediately after completing their rope swing Road Block tasks, teams were handed a Detour clue. The first of these two tasks was 'Crocs' in which teams drove to the Elephants Walk Shopping and Artist Village in Victoria Falls to visit Crocodile Cage Diving. There, submerged in a cage in a crocodile enclosure they were required to feed three local celebrities raw meat in order to claim their next clue. Kelsey and Joey, Jazmine and Danielle, Tiffany and Krista, Cindy and Rick, and Logan and Chris all completed this task while Denise and James Earl, who received the Express Pass at the start of the leg, skipped this particular challenge to get out ahead of the other teams.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [2]

Answer: Three & 3

Reaching La Porteña, teams were confronted by a Road Block. For this, teams chose Justin, Josh, Joey, Chris, Rick, Danielle, James Earl, Tiffany, and Ernest, all of whom (as per the prompt) were 'smokin' hot'. For this challenge, team members needed to prep a meal Gaucho-style by nabbing two racks of lamb and a rack of beef ribs and then setting them up-- bones out, right side up, and skewered properly-- as per given examples along a fire pit. When their judges gave the approval they would be given a cooked rack to be delivered to Plaza Principal in town, and the festival judges there would trade another clue for the meal.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [1]

Answer: Christ the Redeemer

Upon landing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, teams needed to hop into cabs at the airport and take a ride to the city's Lagoa Helipad to take a number. These numbers would determine the teams' order of departure on a series of helicopter rides around the city. When their helicopters landed at their next destination (Urca Hill), they would be quizzes on the sights they'd seen on the ride (the answer was always 'Christ the Redeemer' or 'El Cristo Redentor'). If they could answer correctly, they'd be handed their Detour clue.

From Quiz Detours of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Croquet

Flying to Zambia but ending up in Zimbabwe in Leg 4, teams awakened to depart for their Detour early in the morning. In 'Co-op', teams had to join the local arts and crafts workforce by selecting a wooden giraffe and properly staining and polishing their piece to the approval of the artisans on-hand. It proved to be a lengthy task, pushing Cindy and Rick, Logan and Chris, Tiffany and Krista, and Jazmine and Danielle to the back of the pack. The quicker teams (Justin and Diana, Tanner and Josh, Kelsey and Joey, and Denise and James Earl), played 'Croquet' and scored five points against local players to claim their next clue. This leg of the race also featured a U-Turn, but it was unsuccessfully used by last place team Tiffany and Krista (against first place team Justin and Diana).

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [5]

Answer: 'Candy'

Heading to the Chhata Bazar on the Yamuna River for their Detour, teams picked between 'Cans' and 'Candy'. Justin and Diana and Kelsey and Joey went for 'Cans' for which they needed to load a cargo bike with one hundred twenty empty oil cans then deliver them to the New Taj Oil Company. In 'Candy', the other four teams transformed white pumpkins into petha, a local confection, making ninety pounds of the candy. Once they brought two bundles of candy to a local store they could trade it for their next clue.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [3]

Answer: Canoe

Justin and Diana and Tanner and Josh opted to head to the edge of the Zambezi River to complete the 'Canoes' Detour. For this task, they needed to use their physical strength to propel them to victory, surviving a river crossing by paddling to the other side from their starting point. Once there, one team member needed to strap into a harness and be hoisted to the top of a tree to collect their next clue from a vulture nest. Once they paddled back they could drive to their next task at the Masuwe Private Game Reserve.

From Quiz Road Blocks of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: It was done in a different country

Mimicking a task completed by all eleven teams in the first leg of the first "Amazing Race" season, teams had to head to Batoka Gorge to perform a rope swing for their Road Block task, receiving their next clue when the jump was completed. Although this task was done in the same gorge, there were some notable differences unlike earlier Switchbacks. Not only was the original task a Detour (meaning all team members completed it originally, though not in tandem), but it was done in Victoria Falls, Zambia. This season, it was done on the Zimbabwe side of the gorge.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [5]

Answer: Kelsey and Joey

After finishing the Detour, teams still had the matter of their U-Turn to handle. For this, teams had to make their way to the Bijli Ghar Chauraha Roundabout and either use this race mechanic or move onward, claiming their last clue for the leg. Kelsey and Joey opted to use this U-Turn against Tanner and Josh, sending the already Speed Bumped team back onto the race course to complete 'Cans' once they'd already completed 'Candy'. Following this, they could return to the roundabout and get their clue.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [4]

Answer: Tiffany and Krista

At the Nolet Distillery, teams received their Detour clue, a choice between 'Ship' and 'Skip'. In 'Ship', teams engaged with a tough task involving the busiest port in Europe. Heading to Millennium Tower, teams learned how to operate a training vessel to locate two ships in a simulated storm in under five minutes. In 'Skip', teams instead learned and completed a complicated double-dutch skipping routine to get their next clue. Only Tiffany and Krista completed the latter task.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [3]

Answer: Lions

Completing the Detour teams needed to take a ride to Masuwe Private Game Reserve, still in Victoria Falls. There, they could take a number and proceed into 'The Lion Encounter', an experience that only two teams (at the most) could take at a time. Led by park guides, teams needed to walk with two lions as they searched the park for their next clue, hidden behind an animal skull. Only one task separated teams from the Pit Stop after this.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [2]

Answer: Jazmine and Danielle

If teams took the buggy whip instead of the polo mallet, it indicated that they would be taking the 'Carriage' Detour task, an option that would be required if six teams took the only six polo mallets before them (and they did). Ultimately Cindy and Rick, Tiffany and Krista, and Ernest and Jin were forced to complete this task in which they walked across town to La Cinacina Estancia. There, they changed into gaucho outfits and cleaned a carriage to be hooked up to horses. They could then return to the Plaza Principal to get their next clue in style.

From Quiz Road Blocks of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: France

Teams commenced Leg 6 with an early morning bungee jump off the Victoria Falls Bridge on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border but what they didn't know was that their first task upon arriving in Cerny, France would involve sending the second teammate (the one who did not participate in the first Road Block) into the sky in an old French biplane. For both tasks, teams needed to record their finishing heat rate using their FitBit Charge devices as they would need to use those numbers in a subsequent leg of the race.

From Quiz Detours of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Denise and James Earl

Visiting sunny Paris, France in Leg 6, teams had very different Detour options to try their hands at. In 'Drops Mic', teams visited the edge of the Seine to work with hip-hop artists, learning a French rap that they needed to perform with pronunciation, rhythm and vibe to get their clue. Justin and Diana, Tiffany and Krista, Kelsey and Joey, and Denise and James Earl completed this. In 'Bust a Crab', teams instead visited a local brasserie to recreate a complicated seafood platter. Cindy and Rick, Tanner and Josh, and Chris and Logan managed this one.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [5]

Answer: Tanner and Josh

After their stop at the U-Turn board, teams were told to make their way to Mehtab Bagh, or the 'Moonlight Garden', resting across the river from the Taj Mahal. There, Justin and Diana made their way to the Pit Stop in first place once again, this time winning their fourth consecutive leg of the race (and their sixth altogether). For this, the couple won a trip for two to Honolulu, Hawaii courtesy of Travelocity. After facing off against both a Speed Bump and a U-Turn, Tanner and Josh's fate was sealed. They were last to arrive and subsequently eliminated in sixth place.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [4]

Answer: Cindy and Rick

After completing their Detour tasks, teams were given the instruction to travel to their next Pit Stop, though this was a more complicated task than initially let on. Heading out from Rotterdam, teams had to travel by train to The Hague and then connect, via tram, to their seventh Pit Stop in front of the Peace Palace. Justin and Diana were able to take the win again, taking their second consecutive victory and their fourth in seven legs. This time, they won a cash prize from FitBit-- a dollar per step taken by the pair combined (for a total of $31,873 USD). The last place team in this leg ended up being Cindy and Rick, whose problems with transportation in the leg pushed them to the back of the pack. They were eliminated in seventh place.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [3]

Answer: Jazmine and Danielle

Finishing off the leg, teams were handed headscarves and told to wrap them around their heads to work at their last task. For this, teams needed to take a basket of fruit and transport it to their fifth Pit Stop at the Masuwe Lodge on their heads without holding onto it. Denise and James Earl were able to slide ahead of Justin and Diana at the last moment to take the win, claiming a trip for two to Bratislava, Slovakia courtesy of Travelocity. The leg was ultimately finished last by Jazmine and Danielle who two legs near the back of the pack, were eliminated from the race.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [2]

Answer: Ernest and Jin

To finish off this third leg of the race, the teams got one last clue to end their Detour at the Plaza Principal. Their last to-do involved making their way to the next Pit Stop waiting in front of Parque Criollo y Museo Gauchesco. There, Tanner and Josh narrowly beat out Justin and Diana despite Tanner's injury, and with that they took a trip for two to Siem Reap, Cambodia courtesy of Travelocity. After being unable to catch up to the other teams due to their late Pit Start time and separate bus trip, Ernest and Jin placed last this leg and were eliminated in ninth place.

From Quiz "The Amazing Race 27" [1]

Answer: Kelly and Shevonne

Teams made their way from Copacabana Beach to Arpoador Lookout for their first Pit Stop and while Tanner and Josh placed first in this leg, Kelly and Shevonne spent approximately three hours and forty-five minutes trying to complete their 'Sidewalk' Detour puzzle. They finished it moments before Phil arrived to eliminate them on the race course. Tanner and Josh, however, won the coveted Express Pass which they were required to use before the end of the fifth leg and then hand off to another team to be used in the proceeding leg (after its initial use).

From Quiz Detours of "The Amazing Race 27"

Answer: Five minutes

In Rotterdam, Netherlands in Leg 7, teams could choose between either 'Ship' or 'Skip'. Most teams chose 'Ship', which allowed them to learn how to operate a ship in a stormy port via a unique training simulator. In five minutes, participating teams had to deliver a pilot to a ship (using proper navigation techniques) and then respond to a ship in distress. Tiffany and Krista were the only team not to attempt this task, instead completing a forty-five second double dutch routine before racing to the Pit Stop.

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