The Amazing Race 18
| The Amazing Race 18: Unfinished Business | |
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New title card introduced for season 18
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| Season Run | February 20 – May 8, 2011 |
| Filming dates | November 20 – December 12, 2010 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Winning team | LaKisha "Kisha" Hoffman & Jennifer "Jen" Hoffman |
| All-Stars |
Herbert "Flight Time" Lang & Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton, Mallory Ervin, Jet & Cord McCoy, Margie & Luke Adams |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 5 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| Cities visited | 23 |
| Distance traveled | 40,000 mi (64,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 18 (also known as The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business) is the eighteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 18 featured eleven teams of two – each returning from a previous edition for the first time since Season 11 – in a race around the world for a $1 million prize.
The eighteenth cycle started on Sunday, February 20, 2011. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 pm ET/PT with the two-hour season finale on May 8, 2011. The show is hosted by Phil Keoghan.
Sisters LaKisha "Kisha" and Jennifer "Jen" Hoffman were the winners of this edition of the race.
The Amazing Race 18 was the first season of the United States series to be broadcast on high-definition television. While most other prime-time television shows have transitioned to high definition, including other reality television shows, previous seasons of The Amazing Race have used standard-definition television due to the cost and fragility of high-definition recording equipment. International versions of The Amazing Race, including the fourth Asian and second Latin American seasons, had already transitioned to high-definition. Also, many previous editions of Elimination Station were filmed in high-definition. This season of the Race traveled a little over 40,000 miles (64,000 km) across 23 cities and five continents.
Filming started on November 20, 2010 at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California where the first task had teams sorting through hundreds of paper airplanes. They were asked to find one that said "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services", which is the full name of Qantas Airways. By finding the correct paper airplane they were awarded them one of two flights to their first destination: Sydney, Australia. Teams were spotted at Oceanworld in Manly near Sydney, Australia around November 22, 2010 and a day later around the mining town of Broken Hill, New South Wales in the Australian Outback. Other locales cited as destinations are Yokohama, Japan, where teams swam in freezing waters near Mount Fuji, and the series' first visit to Liechtenstein, where a task had teams measure the length of the principality on mopeds. Teams also visited Lijiang and Kunming, China; Kolkata and Varanasi, India; Vienna, Austria; Zermatt, Switzerland; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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