page_title: The Amazing Race 22
section_title: Leg 12 (United Kingdom → United States)
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 22 / Race summary / Leg 12 (United Kingdom → United States)
caption_attribution_description: Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Alexandria, was the plantation home of George Washington, first President of the United States. The estate is situated on the banks of the Potomac River across from Prince George's County, Maryland. The Washington family had owned land in the area since the time of Washington's great-grandfather in 1674, and in 1739 embarked on an expansion of the estate that continued under George Washington, who came into possession of the estate in 1754, but did not become its sole owner until 1761. The mansion is built of wood in a loose Palladian style, and was constructed by George Washington in stages between 1758 and 1778; it occupies the site of an earlier, smaller house built by George Washington's father Augustine, some time between 1726 and 1735. It remained Washington's country home for the rest of his life. Following his death in 1799, under the ownership of several successive generations of the family, the estate progressively declined. In 1858, the house's historical importance was recognized and it was saved from ruin by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; this philanthropic organization acquired it together with part of the Washington estate. Escaping the damage suffered by many plantation houses during the American Civil War, Mount Vernon was restored. The gardens and grounds contain English boxwoods, taken from cuttings sent by Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (Governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee), which were planted in 1786 by George Washington and now crowd the entry path. The main homestead area is skirted by a carriage road with a large bowling green in the center. To each side of the green is a garden, contained by a red brick wall. These Colonial Revival gardens grew the household's vegetables, fruit and other perishable items for consumption. The upper garden, located to the north, is bordered by the greenhouse. Ha-ha walls are used to separate the working farm from the pleasure grounds that Washington created for his family and guests. The Botanical Garden; the Museum, dedicated to the life and death of George Washington, is on the grounds and contains George Washington's survey equipment, weapons, and clothing, as well as dentures worn by the first President; ice house; overseers quarters; spinning room; salt house and gardener's house are between the garden and the house. The lower garden, or southern garden, is skirted by the storehouse and clerk's quarters, smokehouse, wash house, laundry yard, and coach house. A paddock and stable are on the southern border of the garden. The old tomb is located along the river, and the new tomb, containing George and Martha Washington, is near the fruit garden with the slave burial ground just off this path. A Forest Trail runs along the property, and a George Washington: Pioneer Farmer site, a 4-acre (16,000 m2) working farm that includes a re-creation of Washington's 16-sided treading barn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 22 is the twenty-second installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. It featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
  The season premiered on February 17, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST on CBS in the United States and the CTV Television Network in Canada, with the two-hour season finale broadcast on May 5, 2013.
  Professional hockey players and brothers Jonathan "Bates" and Anthony Battaglia were the winners of The Amazing Race 22.
context_section_description: Airdate: May 5, 2013
   Belfast (Belfast Harbour) to Birkenhead, England  (Twelve Quays)
   Liverpool (Liverpool Lime Street Railway Station) to London (Euston Railway Station)
  London (Euston Tap)
   London (Heathrow Airport) to Washington, D.C. , United States  (Washington Dulles International Airport)
  Washington, D.C. (Lincoln Memorial)
  Washington, D.C. (1100 Pennsylvania Avenue – Old Post Office Pavilion)
  Washington, D.C. (West Potomac Park – Tidal Basin) 
  Washington, D.C. (Nationals Park)
  Washington, D.C. (Hains Point)
  Mount Vernon, Virginia  (Mount Vernon) 
  The final Roadblock of the Race was a Switchback from the Family Edition. One team member had to take the briefcase and find one of fifty "spies" around the Tidal Basin who would respond to their given code phrase with another supplied code phrase (Max: "Where can I get a good half-smoke with chili?" / "I've heard there's a great place on U Street."; Bates: "I did not dress warm enough for this weather." / "Perhaps you would like to borrow my gloves."; Beth: "The cherry blossoms are beautiful here in April." / "I'll have to bring my mother next spring."). The team member then swapped briefcases with the spy, and the spy told them that the combination code to open their new briefcase was their final placement in New Zealand (Leg 3), Indonesia (Leg 4), and Vietnam (Leg 5). After they unlocked the briefcase, they could retrieve their next clue from inside.
  Additional tasks
  At the Euston Tap, teams had to order a pint of beer for each racer before they were given their next clue.
  Once in Washington, D.C., teams had to find the location where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, leaving them to figure out it was the on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Teams would find the man standing on the spot on the steps where the speech was delivered with their next clue.
  At 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, teams were escorted by a "Secret Service agent" and were told they were to have their photograph taken with President Barack Obama. In reality, they were taken to a souvenir photography studio where they posed for a photograph in which their face was superimposed over a photograph of someone else meeting President Obama. The next clue was located on the back of the photograph.
  At the Tidal Basin, teams had to search for a marked car near the paddle boat docks. After knocking on the rear passenger side window three times, the occupant would give them a briefcase along with their next clue.
  After the Roadblock, teams were instructed to travel to "The Home of the Nats", leaving teams to figure out that their next destination was Nationals Park. There, one team member had to ride a zip line across the stadium and toss a baseball, while their partner, dressed as a baseball mascot, attempted to catch it. Once they successfully caught the ball, they could read it to see it had "Hains Point" written on it, which was their next destination.
  At Hains Point, one team member had to enter a giant ball pit filled with globes marked with various countries and find ten globes marked with the countries they visited on the Race, excluding England. They then had to pass the globes to their partner, who had to place the globes onto podiums in chronological order. Once complete, a giant globe would open revealing teams' final clue.
  The final clue told teams to travel to "The Home of the First President" leaving them to figure out that the "First President" was George Washington and the location of the Finish Line was at his home: Mount Vernon.
caption: Mount Vernon, the estate of the United States's first president, George Washington, was the site of the Finish Line for The Amazing Race 22.
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