"The Amazing Race 39" [4] Trivia Quiz

Answer: Anuar and Andrea

As soon as teams checked into their sixth Pit Stop, Phil handed them phones and had them book their travel to the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, dropping them off in a new continent for Leg 7. Upon arriving, all teams were equalized and made their way by cab to Kuttiduwa Beach in the town of Negombo where, to their surprise, Phil was waiting to usher them into a Live Double U-Turn Vote.

There were some stipulations. All teams needed to vote for two others to be U-Turned, and as a result of this, Michelle and Matt and Daisha and Dalton both received enough votes to do both sides of the Detour. Additionally, as a Speed Bump, Doug and Dylan were also saddled with an automatic U-Turn. As soon as the votes were in, teams could open their Detour clues.

Answer: 'Dry Out'

Racers left the U-Turn Vote and started the day's tasks on the waterfront in the Negombo Fish Market, and while some teams had to do both, the rest could choose between 'Dry Out' and 'Sell Out'.

In 'Dry Out', teams collected fish from barrels of salt brine, rinsed them in the ocean, and laid them out on drying mats on the beach to prepare them for sale. If racers could fill their mats in full, a fishmonger would pass over their next clue. In 'Sell Out', racers instead sold fish at local auctions, picking up and hawking enough fish to make 5,000 LKR.

Three teams had to complete both tasks, but of the rest, 'Dry Out' was selected by every single one of them.

Answer: Colombo

Racers had to take tuk-tuks away from the coast and to the bus station to catch a bus into the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. From there they would find a clue box in Mada Park containing their Road Block envelope. For this one, racers needed to commit to a 'package deal', using a handcart to transport thirty packages from a waiting truck, through the Pettah Market to the Apsaras Saree Centre to trade them for their next clue.

Ali, Ann-Marie, Javi, Anuar, Conner, Doug, Matt, and Dalton headed into this one.

Answer: Polo

Closing out their Road Blocks, racers had to proceed by tuk-tuk to the Edward Henry Pedris Grounds in Colombo. Here, racers would get right back into a tuk-tuk, only they'd be the ones handling it. For this final task of the leg, racers needed to pile in and play polo using their auto-rickshaws as horses.

While one team member sat in the driver's seat, their partner would be wielding the mallet, attempting to score a goal in under a minute while an enemy team ran defence. One goal would equal one final clue.

Answer: Doug and Dylan

Teams who left the tuk-tuk polo task were allowed to make their way to the race's seventh Pit Stop, the monument at Independence Square. Here, Ali and Joanna, who stayed ahead throughout the entire leg, managed to take their second win of the season. For their success, the two won an Expedia prize package sending them on a five-night private tour to New Zealand.

In spite of the U-Turn holding back Michelle and Matt (who placed third) and Daisha and Dalton (who placed seventh), and despite Doug and Dylan slipping ahead of teams before the Road Block, the grandfather and grandson duo were unable to pull out of the detriment imposted by their Speed Bump penalty. They were eliminated in eighth place overall.

Answer: Delivery and recycling of beer bottles

Teams had a short stay in Sri Lanka because when they opened their clues at the start of Leg 8, they were sent to the airport to fly to Vientiane, the capital city of Laos. When they landed, they could proceed by taxi to Patuxai Monument in the heart of the city, opening the clue box there to collect a Detour envelope.

In this one, racers visited Thong Khan Kham Market to complete either 'Something to Taste' or 'Nothing to Waste'. In the former, racers had to cook larb, the national dish of Laos, but in order to do this, they needed to purchase all eleven ingredients in the dish from the market using a Laotian shopping list. In the latter, teams joined the local recycling program by collecting fifteen waiting (filled) crates of Beerlao bottles and transporting them through the market to a delivery truck. Once they dropped these off and loaded seventy-five crates into the vehicle in a specific way, they could keep racing.

Answer: Double U-Turn

When teams completed their respective Detour tasks, they were told to make their way, by any means, to Wat Thong Khankham, and there they were surprised by the appearance of a Double U-Turn board. Here, Erin and Javi and Ann-Marie and Riley, who arrived earliest, used the board to turn around Michelle and Matt and Daisha and Dalton, considered the front-runners for many of the earlier legs in Albania (and who were U-Turned in Sri Lanka), forcing both of them to head back to the market to complete the 'Something to Taste' Detour option.

After this, teams could open their next clue.

Answer: Kickboxing

Hopping into auto-rickshaws or cabs, teams left the Double U-Turn and proceeded to the next clue box outside the Lao National Circus. Here, racers were required to learn Muay Lao, the traditional form of kickboxing in Laos. A professional stunt team would give teams the rundown, but they'd need to put what they learned into practice in the ring under the big top, performing the choreographed martial arts for the master to get their next clue.

Answer: Buddhas

Finishing the kickboxing task allowed teams to proceed to Wat Si Saket where they encountered the Road Block, their final task of the Vientiane leg, and this one needed a racer who would be 'down for the count'. In this task completed by Javi, Riley, Conner, Andrea, Joanna, Daisha, and Michelle, racers needed to enter the shrine, locate the marked area, and count all of the Buddha statues within that section. If they came up with a total of five hundred eighty-two Buddhas, they'd get their last clue for the leg.

Answer: Michelle and Matt

To conclude Leg 8, racers had to head out of the city, taking cabs to the edge of the Mekong River to find Wat Xieng Khouane Luang and Buddha Park, home to hundreds of Buddha statues on its sprawling grounds. Here, they could find Phil and step on the mat.

Because Riley got the Road Block answer first Erin and Javi let the mother-daughter team hit the mat first, winning Ann-Marie and Riley their second leg of the race and giving them a trip for two to Manchester, England courtesy of Expedia.

After most of the teams worked together at the end of the Road Block to avoid dropping to last, Michelle and Matt were kept down, unable to recover from a bad start to the day and another Double U-Turn. They were eliminated in seventh place overall.