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Offline Genius

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Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« on: July 08, 2019, 11:46:44 PM »
I am referring to more of things that are factual (relating to geography), rather than lies that are uttered to throw their competitors off.

Off the top of my head

TAR8 Weaver Family: Claiming Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana is one of the Great Lakes

TARAus1:

1. One team wondering whether Hong Kong is in Singapore  (Great job! :clap2:)
2. Alana and Mel pre-race interview:

Alana uses her Latvian heritage to explain her pale skin, but Mel interjects, "No you're white because you're Albino and that's a different country." Alana is bemused that her sister thinks albino is a country. "I gave her a map of the world and she said, 'That's not it, Alana, that's not the entire world. Where is the rest of it?" So it seems wise that as a team they've decided to defer anything physical to Mel and "anything that we know is going to be smart or nerdy is definitely going to be Alana," says Mel.

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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2019, 12:35:26 AM »
From TAR 8, Leg 2:

Rebecca (of Weaver Family): Where's Washington D.C.? What state is it in? Washington?
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2019, 01:38:43 AM »
I remember plenty of moments like this happening but I wouldn't be able to recall any specifics since my brain tunes them out as soon as I hear them.

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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2019, 06:28:51 AM »
Switzerland is the first country to have a democracy  - Phil, Season 31
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2019, 06:36:23 AM »
The Lion King was filmed in Botswana - Chuck, TAR22 :lol:


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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2019, 07:06:15 AM »
Switzerland is the first country to have a democracy  - Phil, Season 31

Depends on its definition, though, it was too vague.
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2019, 07:19:23 AM »
Switzerland is the first country to have a democracy  - Phil, Season 31

Depends on its definition, though, it was too vague.

Definition of what? because either way it's wrong.

They even fixed it. During the Next episode promo Phil says the first country to have a democracy. Then in the other commercials and in the episode itself, it's changed to "Switzerland believes it has the first democracy"

Phil's scrip was just wrong for the recording of the "Next Episode" narration.
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2019, 07:59:50 AM »
Greece was the birthplace of democracy. :)

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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2019, 08:13:37 AM »
Yeah, I already know that. I looked up some theories on the other site, but whatever.
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2019, 08:32:09 AM »
I have a couple of Thai friends - Nathan (of Nathan and Jennifer) referred about the Taiwan leg in TAR 12.
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2019, 10:33:57 AM »
According to Dustin during Season 10:
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2019, 06:39:50 PM »
"We're on a charter plane to Australia" - Danielle, TAR11
"To Tanzania, where the Tanzanian Devil lives" - Eric, TAR11
"This girl is from Algeria, and she says that's her flag!" - Drew, TAR1 (the flag was Tunisia)
"We don't know a lot about Taiwan, but...We like Thai food" - Nathan, TAR12
"I think we're going to Guatemala! China?" - Jeff/Jordan, TAR16
"I thought Spanish was, like, the universal language!" Joni or Lisa, TAR9 (while in Brazil)
"The picture was of Queen Elizabeth." - Canaan, TAR15
...and referring to the entire country as "Holland" in TAR4
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Re: Worst fake facts uttered by racers
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2019, 11:07:30 PM »
"We're on a charter plane to Australia" - Danielle, TAR11
"To Tanzania, where the Tanzanian Devil lives" - Eric, TAR11
"This girl is from Algeria, and she says that's her flag!" - Drew, TAR1 (the flag was Tunisia)
"We don't know a lot about Taiwan, but...We like Thai food" - Nathan, TAR12
"I think we're going to Guatemala! China?" - Jeff/Jordan, TAR16
"I thought Spanish was, like, the universal language!" Joni or Lisa, TAR9 (while in Brazil)
"The picture was of Queen Elizabeth." - Canaan, TAR15
...and referring to the entire country as "Holland" in TAR4

The ones in bold are the most amusing.

In TARAus1, when heading to Israel, Matt and Tom thought Israel was next to Pakistan.  :groan: