What is “The Amazing Race”?
A: The Amazing Race is an adventure reality game show franchise.
What is the premise?
A: Teams of two people race around the world in competition with other
teams.
The Race is split into legs, with teams tasked to do
what?
A: To deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with
locals, and perform physical and mental challenges.
The challenges often highlight what?
A: Aspects of a location's culture, history, or economy.
Over the course of the Race, how do teams travel?
A: By airplanes, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, cars, trains,
buses, boats and by foot.
Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most
legs for being what?
A: The last to arrive at designated Pit Stops, until only three remain.
The first team to arrive at the finish line is awarded
what?
A: The grand prize.
Who created the show?
A: Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster.
The original series has aired in the United States
since when?
A: 2001.
The show has earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, ten
of them for what?
A: "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program".
What Emmy-award-winning New Zealand television
personality has been the host of the American version of the show since its
inception?
A: Phil Keoghan.
The show has branched out to include several what?
A: International versions following a similar format.
Each race depicted in The Amazing Race is broken up
into how many legs?
A: 10 to 13 in the original American version.
In each leg, teams leave the Pit Stop of the previous
leg and travel to a different location, where they do what?
A: Perform two or more tasks – often including one Detour and one Roadblock
– before being given instructions to go to the next Pit Stop.
What is every team's goal?
A: To complete each leg as quickly as possible.
The first team to check in at the Pit Stop will often
win a prize; the prizes have included what?
A: All-expenses-paid trips, new cars or other vehicles, money, entertainment
provided during the Pit Stop, and advantages to be used later in the race.
The last team to arrive at the Pit Stop will often be
what?
A: Eliminated from the competition, but occasionally the team is allowed to
continue racing, though they will be given a race-imposed disadvantage in
the next leg.
Typically, each cycle of the Race features how many
teams?
A: Eleven teams, each composed of two people with a pre-existing
relationship.
Examples of pre-existing relationships include what?
A: Dating, engaged, married, and divorced couples; siblings; parents and
their children; lifelong friends; sports team colleagues; and co-workers.
Original Race rules required that teammates have had a
pre-existing relationship of how long?
A: More than three years, and no previous acquaintances with other racers
during that cycle.
Why must individual racers be of a specific nationality
and meet specific age requirements?
A: This is necessary to allow teams to obtain the necessary passport
documentation to travel across the world without incident.
Five seasons featured 12 teams of two rather than the
standard 11, while the "Family Edition" featured how many teams?
A: Ten teams of four racers, some of whom were young children.
Seasons 26 and 29 included teams made up of people who
met for the first time when?
A: Just prior to the start of the race.
Normally unseen, what accompanies every team, recording
them as they race?
A: A two-person audio and video production crew.
Generally, teams may not travel without their
production crew, who are what?
A: Switched among teams after each leg to avoid biases from developing.
At the beginning of each leg, each team receives a cash
allowance with their first clue, from which they must what?
A: Cover all expenses (food, transportation, lodging, attraction admission,
and supplies) except for airfare.
The amount of money varies from leg to leg and has
ranged from hundreds of dollars to what?
A: Nothing.
The teams are allowed to keep any unused money for
future legs, barring what?
A: Certain penalties for finishing last.
If team members spend all of their money or have it
taken away in a non-elimination leg, how may they then attempt to obtain
more money?
A: In any way that does not violate local laws; this includes borrowing
money from other teams, begging from locals (except for some countries,
where begging is illegal), or selling their possessions.