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The Amazing Race (American TV Series) Seasons
''The Amazing Race'' is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. The ''Race'' is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, and perform physical and mental challenges that often highlight aspects of a location's culture, history, or economy. Over the course of the ''Race'', teams travel 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 the last to arrive at designated Pit Stops, until only three remain. The first team to arrive at the finish line is awarded the grand prize. Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, the original series has aired in the United States since 2001 and has earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, ten of them for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program". Emmy-award-winning New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri (born April 21, 1967) is an American co-creator and co-executive producer of the CBS reality show ''The Amazing Race''. Doganieri's other credits include serving as show producer of ABC's ''Profiles From the Front Line'' as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's "Wild Things." ''The Amazing Race'' is a reality adventure series follows teams of two (teams of four in season 8) racing around the world for a one million dollar prize. The show hit its 100th episode mark in the fall of 2005 during its ninth season. The show has won the top reality series Emmy for seven years in a row. In 2004, received the Producers Guild Award. The series, which premiered in 2001, is produced by Earthview Inc. the production company that Elise Doganieri runs with her husband Bertram van Munster along with Bruckheimer TV and Touchstone TV. Elise Doganieri is also an executive producer of Oprah Winfrey's reality show ''Oprah's Big Give''. and of '' The Quest'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foot
The foot ( : feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails. Etymology The word "foot", in the sense of meaning the "terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal" comes from "Old English fot "foot," from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Danish fod, Swedish fot, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus "foot"), from PIE root *ped- "foot". The "plural form feet is an instance of i-mutation." Structure The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.Podiatry Channel, ''Anatomy of the foot and ankle'' The joints of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Your Money
''Double Your Money'' was a British quiz show hosted by Hughie Green. Originally broadcast on Radio Luxembourg since 1950 and based on the American radio quiz '' Take It Or Leave It'' (1940–1947), it transferred to ITV in September 1955, a few days after the commercial channel began broadcasting. It was produced by Associated-Rediffusion until 1964 and then by Rediffusion London and it finished in 1968 when the company lost its franchise. There were 260 thirty-minute episodes. Throughout its run the show was one of the most consistently popular programmes on British television. The quiz format was similar to ''The 64,000 Dollar Question'', with prize money doubling at each question from £1 to a guarantee of £32 and multi-part answers being required at the harder stages. When contestants correctly answer a three-part question to reach the £1,000 ''Treasure Trail'' (£ as of ), they were placed in sound-proofed 'isolation booths', where the fans were turned off and the temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
