Road Rules: The Quest

Road Rules: The Quest
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	16
Release
Original network	MTV
Original release	July 9 – October 29, 2001

Road Rules: The Quest is the tenth season of Road Rules. It first aired on MTV in 2001, and featured six strangers chosen to compete in missions, while living in a RV. In this particular season, the contestants drove their RV to missions in Morocco and Spain. The season also was the first to have a rule where the cast would potentially have to vote a cast member off if the cast failed to meet a certain set of rules pertaining to successful missions completed.

This season of Road Rules was the first and only season to be preceded by a casting special in which 20 potential cast members for The Real World and Road Rules spent time together for a week to see how they interacted to be selected for one of the two shows.

Cast

Name	Age^1	Location
Adam Larson	22	Wickford, RI
Blair Herter	20	Scott, LA
Ellen Cho	23	Iowa City, IA
Jisela Delgado	20	Tampa, FL
Sophia Pasquis	23	Elmont, NY
Steve Meinke	23	Leavenworth, KS
Katie Doyle	21	Keller, TX

• ^Note 1 : At time of filming.
• This was the first season in which the Road Rules team had to vote off a contestant and to have a replacement, as punishment for losing two missions. Jisela was voted out and Katie took her place.

Missions

#	Mission	Result	Crest	Notes
1	Climb Down Helicopter Ladder/Cross Dessert	Failed	Determination	Recovered in an unaired bonus mission
2	Snake Charming	Completed	Patience
3-4	Mission Involving Fire	Completed	Faith	Mission Not Aired
3-4	Mission Involving Kara Prison	Completed	Valor	Mission Not Aired
5	Complete an Eco Challenge Course	Failed	Endurance	Jisela voted out; Katie replaces her
6	Fly Through Fire	Completed	Courage	Endurance also gained via Katie's arrival
7	Take Part in Spain's "Human Tower"	Completed	Trust
8	Retrieve Crest from Guarded Tower	Completed	Teamwork
9	Bungee Jump with Stangers Combined Age of 300	Completed	Ingenuity
10	Take Part in Army Training	Completed	Perseverance

Episodes

No. in season	No. in series	Title	Original air date
1	139	"Quest for the Crest"	July 9, 2001
2	140	"Snakes, Snakes Everywhere"	July 16, 2001
3	141	"Sex, Camels, and Deliveries"	July 23, 2001
4	142	"Falling Head over Heals"	July 30, 2001
5	143	"Hanging by a Line"	August 6, 2001
6	144	"One by the Wayside"	August 13, 2001
7	145	"Enter the Katie"	August 20, 2001
8	146	"Just Eat Cake"	September 3, 2001
9	147	"Up a Slick Pole"	September 10, 2001
10	148	"Swimming in the Dating Pool"	September 17, 2001
11	149	"Jumping with the Jones"	September 24, 2001
12	150	"Hanging by a Line"	October 1, 2001
13	151	"Pigeons and Quitters"	October 8, 2001
14	152	"Desert Dueling"	October 15, 2001
15	153	"Unfair Warfare"	October 22, 2001
16	154	"Sad Goodbyes"	October 29, 2001

Memorable moments

• On one of the first mission, Ellen had rocks thrown at her by residents of Marrakech. Adam tried to tell Ellen that it was because she was wearing shorts (considered revealing clothing in an Islamic country), which led Ellen to reveal that she had been raped and hadn't fully come to terms with it.
• Adam and Jisela got into a fight while staying at a hotel after a mission.
• Due to her fear of heights, Jisela froze during a rock-climbing mission in southern Spain, and the other contestants were forced to vote her off. Katie, who was an alternate from the season's casting special, replaced Jisela and joined the group in Spain.
• After Jisela was kicked off, Sophia made phone calls to Jisela using a pseudonym so the rest of the cast wouldn't know that she was still speaking to her.
• Katie excoriates Adam after she joins the cast, and Adam tries to force her to fall in line under his leadership.
• Adam and Ellen are in a rocky relationship throughout the entire season, which causes a few arguments between them.

After filming

Subsequent Challenges

• This was the first season of Road Rules whose entire cast has at one time or another competed in MTV's spin-off reality series The Challenge.

Cast Member	Challenges	Challenges Won	Total Money Earned
Adam Larson	Battle of the Seasons, The Gauntlet, The Gauntlet 2	The Gauntlet	$25,555
Blair Herter	Battle of the Sexes	None	$0
Ellen Cho	Battle of the Sexes	None	$0
Jisela Delgado	Battle of the Seasons, Battle of the Sexes, The Gauntlet 2	None	$0
Sophia Pasquis	Battle of the Sexes 2	None	$0
Steve Meinke	The Gauntlet	None	$0
Katie Doyle	The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Gauntlet 2, Fresh Meat, The Gauntlet III, The Duel II, The Ruins, Cutthroat	The Inferno	$41,071

• Challenge in bold indicates that the contestant was a finalist on The Challenge.

Future appearances

Adam returned to the series as part of the alumni cast of Road Rules 2007: Viewers' Revenge.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived December 9, 2006)
• Road Rules at TV.com