to their points. Starting with the trailing team, one partner, being the activity partner, would participate in an activity, to compensate allowing their team member, the question answering partner, to answer. This challenge varied greatly, and would either be an endurance task, in which the activity team member had to power a mechanism to a set level or speed, or a mental task, in which the activity team member would be consuming, or eating something. The question answering partner, had 40 seconds (45 seconds in the first season) to answer inane trivia questions, which the contestants were told to study prior, (varying from riddles, puns, jokes, compound words, or alternative media franchise titles) posed by Elwood, each worth 30 points. Before he/she could answer, however, the activity partner had to reach and maintain a certain threshold, or rule according to challenge, to allow the question answering partner to speak. Every passed, or missed question given by the question answering partner, increased the difficulty. (usually making the activity partner finish, or complete additional repetitions or amounts.) In some episodes, if an activity partner was doing an endurance task, operating a mechanism, a projection screen was displayed behind the contestants, which featured a front POV video recording, of a person driving a Saturn Ion, throughout the streets of Los Angeles. This was merely cosmetic, and incidental. If the round involved a table of lemon juice shots that the activity partner had to drink, an evil dwarf named "Dr. Damnearkilter" (Arturo Gil) appeared to constantly heckle the activity partner by whipping the table and shouting stuff like "DRINK IT!", "DRINK IT DOWN!", "SCHNELL! SCHNELL!!" and "PURE ACID!" into the activity partner's face. At the end of this round, the higher-scoring team won $1,000 and advanced to the bonus round, while their opponents won $500. If the game ended in a tie, a question with a numerical answer was asked; both teams wrote down a guess, and the team that came closest was the winner. Each team's winnings were split evenly between the two partners. $10,000 quiz For the $10,000 quiz bonus round, immediately after the stunt round, the winning team, climbed into a pair of twin beds onstage and donned blindfolds while the lights were dimmed. "Miss Pickwick," the "resident sleep therapist" (Andrea Hutchman), would read the team a series of bizarre facts, historical events, and other strange pieces of trivia. In addition