page_title: The Amazing Race 16
section_title: Leg 12 (China → United States)
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 16 / Race summary / Leg 12 (China → United States)
caption_attribution_description: Coit Tower, California
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 16 is the sixteenth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. This season featured eleven two-person teams, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
  The sixteenth season started on Sunday, February 14, 2010 on CBS in the United States at 8:00 p.m ET with the season finale on May 9, 2010. In Canada, the show premiered on the A-Channel, not CTV, but it returned to CTV after the Winter Olympics concluded. The show was hosted by Phil Keoghan.
  Brothers Daniel "Dan" and Jordan Pious were the winners of this Race.
  The season was released by CBS DVD on November 4, 2014, in a set that included all episodes and the accompanying Elimination Station webseries and available only through online purchase, manufactured by Amazon's CreateSpace.
context_section_description: Airdate: May 9, 2010
   Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport) to San Francisco, California , United States  (San Francisco International Airport)
  San Francisco (Fort Point – Battery Godfrey)
  San Francisco (Coit Tower) 
  San Francisco (Letterman Digital Arts Center – Yoda Statue)
  San Francisco (Fairmont Hotel – Tonga Room)
  San Francisco (Great American Music Hall)
  San Francisco (Candlestick Park) 
  The final Roadblock of the Race required one team member to use an ascender to reach the top archways of Coit Tower to get their next clue before being lowered back to the ground.
  Additional tasks
  After receiving the clue at Battery Godfrey, teams had to solve a riddle, "I was built in 1933. I'm 210 feet tall. My insides are lined with mural from 26 different artists. What am I?", to lead them to their next clue at Coit Tower.
  At the Letterman Digital Arts Center, one team member put on a motion capture suit while their partner directed their avatar through a virtual course, based on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. After getting through the two levels of the course, the directing partner copied down their next clue from a computer screen which directed them to the Tonga Room.
  At Tonga Room, teams were instructed to take a trunk to their next location: the Great American Music Hall.
  At the Great American Music Hall, teams opened the trunk from the Tonga Room, which contained eight psychedelic posters of the eliminated teams and three posters for the non-elimination legs. Teams had to arrange the posters in chronological order to receive their final clue from a roadie. The correct order was:
  The final clue was a portion of the "Jack Be Nimble" nursery rhyme; teams were left to figure out that the missing word "candlestick" referred to the location of the Finish Line: Candlestick Park.
caption: For the final Roadblock on The Amazing Race 16, teams visited the famous Coit Tower in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, which one team member had to climb up from the outside.
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