In this moat crossing, both players from each team cross the water simultaneously by laying their four boards upon two parallel bars, continually adjusting them as necessary to cross the entire pool.
Moat Results
Finish
Team
Time
1st
Green Monkeys
1:07
2nd
Blue Barracudas
1:09
3rd
Silver Snakes
1:10
4th
Purple Parrots
1:14
Steps of Knowledge
The greatest journalist of the 1890s was Henry Stanley, the top reporter for the New York Herald. He was sent to Africa to find Doctor Livingstone, a famous explorer who was feared lost. Legend has it that Stanley worried over how to address Livingstone.
"Hello, Doc?" he asked himself as he boarded ship for Zanzibar. "No, that's too casual."
In Zanzibar, they said Livingstone was in Unyanyembe, and Henry set off in the middle of the rainy season.
"Doctor, how do you do?" he rehearsed as he wrung out his rain-soaked khakis. "Too stiff."
At Unyanyembe, they told him Livingstone was in Ujiji, and Henry plunged back into the jungle.
"Pleased to make your acquaintance, Doctor," he practiced as he wrestled with an attacking lion. "Too formal."
Finally, at Ujiji, he found the explorer.
"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" he blurted out, coining a now-famous phrase.
"Delighted," said Doctor Livingstone, and gave Henry his diary to prove they'd met.
Steps of Knowledge Results
Question
Answers
Team
When Stanley finally found Livingstone, did he say…?
"Doctor Livingstone, I assume?"
"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"
"What's…"
Blue Barracudas (Correct - 2 steps left)
Did Livingstone begin his expedition in 1866 to find…?
The Source of the Amazon
The Source of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile
Purple Parrots (Correct - 2 steps left)
Which of these newspapers sponsored Stanley's search for Livingstone?
The New York Herald
Purple Parrots (Correct - 1 step left)
Stanley's search was actually a publicity stunt for the newspaper. Was that because Livingstone was…?
At home in Scotland
On the staff of the National Enquirer
Not lost
Green Monkeys (Correct - 2 steps left)
Before Stanley found Livingstone, had Livingstone been gone for…?
5 Years
10 Years
20 Years
Blue Barracudas (Correct - 1 step left)
Which of these famous waterfalls did Livingstone discover and name?
Victoria Falls
Niagara Falls
Purple Parrots (Correct - Advanced to Temple Games)
Livingstone was the first European to cross which of these deserts?
The Gobi
The Kalahari
The Mojave
Green Monkeys (Correct - 1 step left)
The Congo later became a colony of what country?
Belgium
Paraguay
Egypt
Blue Barracudas (Wrong Answer)
Silver Snakes (Correct - 2 steps left)
Which of these British organizations sponsored expeditions to Africa?
The National Geographic Society
The Royal Geographic Society
The African…
Green Monkeys (Wrong Answer)
Blue Barracudas (Correct - Advanced to Temple Games)
The first game was the simple hole-plugging game where Tabitha and Adrianne had to guess where Doctor Livingstone was, with the five possible locations being Jerusalem, Constantinople, the Caspian Sea, "Baghdad" and Persia. Considering the luck-based nature of the game and the unnecessary canned laughter, it was a boring watch, but at least both players moved fast to get in as many opportunities to score as possible. At the end of sixty seconds, Adrianne correctly located Doctor Livingstone four times, but Tabitha found him six times, earning a half Pendant of Life for the Blue Barracudas.
Jewel the Spitting Snake (Squirting Statue)[]
The second Temple Game was pretty much like the first— not particularly worth watching. Brett and Shaun had to race to place a jewel on the hood of the spitting snake— yes, just one jewel, and this episode was the only one to feature that rule. Brett moved rapidly and made it look extremely easy, as he put the jewel on the snake with a whopping 54 seconds to spare, making the fastest Temple Game completion in the show's history. As a result, he won another half Pendant of Life for the Blue Barracudas.
Retrace Henry Stanley's Steps (Slingshot Wall)[]
The third game asked the teams to retrace Henry Stanley's steps through four locations: Suez, Zanzibar, Unyanyembe and finally Ujiji. The Blue Barracudas led from the beginning, but while trying to catch a shot from Tabitha to cover Ujiji, Brett fell and ended up knocking off the ball that was stuck to "You-yam-bee" as he tried to get back onto the board. It was ruled that they did not need to cover Unyanyembe again, but while the Blue Barracudas did not complete the game in time, the ruling would not have mattered much, as the Purple Parrots only managed to cover up to Zanzibar within the time limit. The most they could have done was tie the game, which still would have given the Blue Barracudas two full Pendants and the win. The Purple Parrots did not win any pendants.
Temple Games Results
Team
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Pendants Won
Blue Barracudas
Won
Won
Won
2 Pendants
Purple Parrots
Lost
Lost
Lost
0 Pendants
Temple Run
Tabitha decided to go into the temple first. (Being the first and only runner on the left to do so). She started off tentatively while starting her run, but Tabitha knew exactly what to do. Starting off by entering The Crypt, Tabitha was able to unlock the door to The Pit of Despair after pulling on only one book from the skeleton. Jumping into the pit, Tabitha then decides to stick to the lower level and opens up the door to The Throne Room. But after sitting on the rotating throne, she encountered the first temple guard. Completely unfazed by the temple guard, she calmly handed over her pendant of life and continued her way and meeting her first Temple into The Swamp. Now starting to pick up the pace, Tabitha enters the room and tries to climb up the ropes to see if she could enter The King's Storeroom from there, but the door remained locked. So instead, she decided to head into The Dark Forest, but upon trying to reach her hand into the tree on the left, she was caught by a spirit of a temple guard. And was removed from the temple with 2:04 left on the clock.
Brett went into the temple next. Following the same path that Tabitha went through at a medium pace, Brett was able to get to The Dark Forest with 1:28 left on the clock. After searching through the tree on the left, Brett tried to use the key he found to open up the door to The Shrine of the Silver Monkey. But the door remained locked, so he put the key back into the tree before plowing through The Stone Wall and into The Mine Shaft. In their Brett decided not to try to enter The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, but rather went directly for the elevator and up into The Viper's Nest.
Brett completing the Viper's Nest objective.
The elevator was a bit slow, and even got stuck for second during the lift, but slowly but surely, the elevator lifted Brett up into The Viper's Nest and after exiting, he got straight to work. The objective required him to open the snake jars; when two of the jars were opened, the snakes automatically jumped out, but Brett had to pull out the snake from the third jar, which did not automatically jump out at him. Now having access into The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, Brett runs into the room and grabs the diary with 45 seconds remaining. Now upon trying to exit the temple, Brett decided to take a very unusual exit route to get out. He went from The King's Storeroom, up into The Observatory, but then went down into Medusa's Lair before going back into The Pit of Despair. From there, he crawled through The Ledges and finally made it out of the Temple with just five seconds to spare. And earning not only him and Tabitha the trip to Sumggler's Notch, but also being the first contestant to enter every room in the temple.
While Tabitha and Brett may have not been the fastest contestants, they knew exactly what to do in every room and made no mistakes or hesitations within their journey within the temple. And in the end, their hard work payed off and the two definitely deserved their well-earned victory.
The decision to avoid the high road worked well for the team;
This was the only time a runner on the left chooses to go first rather than the one on the right.
Tabitha was the first contestant to complete the objective of the Crypt.
This episode marks the first time that a contestant was caught by a temple spirit without a Pendant of Life.
Tabitha is the first female contestant to be removed by a Temple Guard in the Golden Doors Room.
Brett is the first contestant to compete the objective of the Viper's Nest.
Kirk nearly mispronounced Medusa's Lair in this episode and almost mistook it for the Throne Room when he said Brett was in the Observatory "Down into the Throne... (gibberish) Medusa's Lair".
Brett becomes the first contestant to enter all of the rooms in Olmec's Temple. The second would be Randy in The Metal Beard of the Egyptian Queen. Coincidentally, both would take nearly identical paths to their respective artifact and escape routes.
This is the second and final episode where a team does a shutout against their opponents in the Temple Games and was able to win the Grand Prize. The first was Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress.
Catherine Mangan (The female member of the Green Monkeys) did an interview on a podcast about her time on the show.
