Survivor: Africa

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Survivor: Africa
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Filming location	Kenya, Africa
Winner	Ethan Zohn (5-2)
Original run	October 11, 2001 – January 10, 2002
Filming dates	July 01, 2001 – August 10, 2001 (approximately)
No. of episodes	13
No. of days	39
No. of survivors	16
Tribes	Boran Samburu Moto Maji
All-Stars	Ethan Zohn, Lex van den Berghe, Tom Buchanan
Season chronology
Previous	Survivor: The Australian Outback
Next	Survivor: Marquesas

Survivor: Africa was the third installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed during 2001 and aired from October 11, 2001 - January 10, 2002 on CBS. It was set in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve on the African continent.

The two initial tribes were Boran and Samburu (named for the real-life Borana and Samburu tribes). In the fifth episode, after 12 days, three members from each team were switched to the other team, in what became known as the first "twist" in the Survivor series. This emphasized that the players must be ready for the most sudden changes; future seasons would have similar twists. Eventually the two tribes merged into the Moto Maji (fire/water) tribe.

There was some controversy surrounding an immunity challenge in the finale episode. In a "Fallen Comrades" challenge, in which the contestants were quizzed on trivia regarding other players in the game who had been voted out, the final question was "Which female contestant has no piercings?" The official answer was Kelly Goldsmith, which eventual runner-up Kim Johnson answered and received the win for. Unbeknownst to the producers, however, contestant Lindsey Richter fit the question as well, which eventual third-place finisher Lex van den Berghe answered and was incorrectly marked wrong for. After this producer mistake had been found out, both van den Berghe and fourth place finisher Tom Buchanan were awarded with the $100,000 runner-up prize instead of the traditional third and fourth place earnings.

Thirteen episodes were aired, plus a mid-season recap, a live reunion/interview with Bryant Gumbel after the finale, and a "where are they now" show. The winner, Ethan Zohn, was revealed on January 10, 2002, where he defeated Kim Johnson by a vote of 5-2.

Sommaire 1 Contestants 2 The Game 3 Voting history 3.1 Elimination notes 4 Survivor records and firsts 5 External links

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	Episode 5 Tribe	Merged Tribe	Finish	Total votes
Diane Ogden 42, Lincoln, NE	Boran			1st Voted Out Day 3	6
Jessie Camacho 27, Orlando, FL	Boran			2nd Voted Out Day 6	5
Carl Bilancione 46, Winter Springs, FL	Samburu			3rd Voted Out Day 9	4
Linda Spencer 44, Cambridge, MA	Samburu			4th Voted Out Day 12	4
Silas Gaither 23, Germantown, TN	Samburu	Boran		5th Voted Out Day 15	8
Lindsey Richter 27, Portland, OR	Samburu	Samburu		6th Voted Out Day 18	7
Clarence Black 24, Detroit, MI	Boran	Boran	Moto Maji	7th Voted Out Day 21	12
Kelly Goldsmith 22, Rancho Santa Fe, CA	Boran	Samburu		8th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	5
Brandon Quinton 25, Dallas, TX	Samburu	Samburu		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 27	6
Frank Garrison 43, Odessa, NY	Samburu	Boran		10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 30	9
Kim Powers 29, Conshohocken, PA	Samburu	Samburu		11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 33	4
Teresa Cooper 42, Jackson, GA	Samburu	Boran		12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 36	4
Tom Buchanan 46, Rich Valley, VA	Boran	Samburu		13th Voted Out 6th Jury Member Day 37	7
Lex van den Berghe 38, Santa Cruz, CA	Boran	Samburu		14th Voted Out 7th Jury Member Day 38	10
Kim Johnson 57, Oyster Bay, NY	Boran	Boran		Runner-Up	1
Ethan Zohn 27, Lexington, MA	Boran	Boran		Sole Survivor	0

The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaways has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.

The Game

Episode title	Air date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
Question of Trust	October 112001	None	Samburu	Diane	6-2	1st Voted Out Day 3
Who's Zooming Whom?	October 182001	Samburu	Samburu	Jessie	5-2	2nd Voted Out Day 6
The Gods Are Angry	October 252001	Boran	Boran	Carl	4-4	3rd Voted Out Day 9
The Young and Untrusted	November 12001	Samburu	Boran	Linda	4-3	4th Voted Out Day 12
The Twist	November 82001	Boran	Samburu	Silas	5-1	5th Voted Out Day 15
I'd Never Do It To You	November 152001	Samburu	Boran	Lindsey	3-3	6th Voted Out Day 18
Will There Be a Feast Tonight?	November 222001	None	Teresa	Clarence	8-2	7th Voted Out Day 21
Smoking Out the Snake	December 62001	Ethan	Ethan	Kelly	5-4	8th Voted Out Day 24
Dinner, Movie and a Betrayal	December 132001	Brandon, Frank	Lex	Brandon	6-2	9th Voted Out Day 27
We Are Family	December 202001	Survivor Auction	Lex	Frank	6-1	10th Voted Out Day 30
The Big Adventure	December 272001	Lex	Tom	Kim P	4-2	11th Voted Out Day 33
Truth Be Told	January 032002	Lex	Lex	Teresa	4-1	12th Voted Out Day 36
The Final Four: No Regrets	January 102002	None	Kim J	Tom	3-1	13th Voted Out Day 37
			Kim J	Lex	1-0	14th Voted Out Day 38
The Reunion	January 102002	Jury Vote		Kim J	5-2	Runner-Up
				Ethan		Sole Survivor

Voting history

	Starting Tribes				Mixed Tribes		Merged Tribe
Episode #:	1	<center>2	<center>3	<center>4	<center>5	<center>6	<center>7	<center>8	<center>9	<center>10	<center>11	<center>12	13		<center>Reunion
Eliminated:	Diane 6/8 votes	Jessie 5/7 votes	Carl 4/8 votes 1	Linda 4/7 votes	Silas 5/6 votes	Lindsey 3/6 votes 2	Clarence 8/10 votes	Kelly 5/9 votes	Brandon 6/8 votes	Frank 6/7 votes	Kim P. 4/6 votes	Teresa 4/5 votes	Tom 3/4 votes	Lex 1 Vote	Kim J. 2/7 votes	Ethan 5/7 votes
Voter	Vote
Ethan	<Center>Diane	<Center>Jessie			<Center>Silas		<Center>Clarence	<Center>Kelly	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Frank	<Center>Kim P.	<Center>Teresa	<Center>Tom		Jury Vote
Kim J.	<Center>Diane	<Center>Jessie			<Center>Silas		<Center>Clarence	<Center>Kelly	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Frank	<Center>Kim P.	<Center>Teresa	<Center>Tom	<Center>Lex
Lex	<Center>Diane	<Center>Jessie				<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Kelly	<Center>Frank	<Center>Frank	<Center>Kim P.	<Center>Teresa	<Center>Tom			<Center>Ethan
Tom	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Clarence				<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Kelly	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Frank	<Center>Kim.P.	<Center>Teresa	<Center>Lex			<Center>Ethan
Teresa			<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Silas	<Center>Silas		<Center>Lex	<Center>Lex	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Frank	<Center>Lex	<Center>Tom				<Center>Ethan
Kim P.			<Center>Carl	<Center>Linda		<Center>Tom	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Lex	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Frank	<Center>Lex				<Center>Kim J.
Frank			<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Silas	<Center>Silas		<Center>Clarence	<Center>Lex	<Center>Brandon	<Center>Kim.J.						<Center>Ethan
Brandon			<Center>Carl	<Center>Linda		<Center>Tom	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Kelly	<Center>Frank						<Center>Kim J.
Kelly	<Center>Diane	<Center>Jessie				<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Clarence	<Center>Lex								<Center>Ethan
Clarence	<Center>Diane	<Center>Jessie			<Center>Silas		<Center>Lex
Lindsey			<Center>Carl	<Center>Linda		<Center>Tom
Silas			<Center>Carl	<Center>Linda	<Center>Frank
Linda			<Center>Lindsey	<Center>Silas
Carl			<Center>Lindsey
Jessie	<Center>Diane	<Center>Clarence
Diane	<Center>Clarence

</div> Note 1: Lindsey and Carl competed in a nature quiz tiebreaker, and Carl lost.
Note 2: Lindsey was eliminated because she had four previous votes against her.

Elimination notes

• Diane - She was voted off for being seriously dehydrated especially during the immunity challenge. The vote was 6-2.
• Jessie - Although she was well-liked, she was voted off for the same reasons as Diane. The vote was 5-2.
• Carl - The Samburu tribe divided 4-4 with the older Carl, Linda, Teresa and Frank deadlocked with younger Lindsey, Brandon, Kim P and Silas at Tribal Council. It was established in Season 2 that previous votes broke the tie, however this was the first tribal council for Samburu. Lindsey and Carl competed in a nature quiz tiebreaker, and Carl lost.
• Linda - She was voted off for being seen as a weak link. The fact that she was part of the old Samburu alliance played as another contribution to her departure, making her an easy target for the young Samburu alliance. The vote was 4-3.
• Silas - The first ever Survivor switch sent Silas, Frank and Teresa to a new team. Feeling Silas had an abrasive personality, Boran deliberately lost the immunity challenge and voted him out 5-1.
• Lindsey - Samburu had three original Boran and three original Samburu. Their votes deadlocked and Lindsey was eliminated because she had four previous votes against her. Lex, Kelly, and Tom voted for Lindsey because Kim J. had sent them a signal at a challenge that Lindsey had votes against her.
• Clarence - His threat status finally got the best of him, and in the first tribal council for Moto Maji, he was voted off in an 8-2 vote.
• Kelly - In the previous Tribal Council, Lex received two votes against him. He thought Kelly had cast one vote and mistakenly targeted her as a threat. Kelly made a pact with Kim P, Frank and Teresa, but Brandon sided with Ethan, Kim J, Tom and Lex to vote out Kelly 5-4.
• Brandon - Brandon alienated his tribemates following his decision to side against Kelly and his former original Samburu tribemates in the previous tribal council. Even the people that he sided with disapproved, and began to think he was untrustworthy (with the exception of Lex). He was voted off in a 6-2 vote.
• Frank - He was an original member of the Samburu tribe, and also he wanted to go. He was voted off in a 6-1 vote.
• Kim - She was an original member of the Samburu tribe. She was voted off in a 4-2 vote.
• Teresa - She was the last remaining member of the original Samburu tribe. She was voted off in a 4-1 vote, but not before trying to get Lex to turn on Tom.
• Tom - He was considered too untrustworthy. He was voted off in a 3-1 vote.
• Lex - His threat status finally caught up with him when he lost the final immunity challenge. He was voted off by the final immunity winner, Kim Johnson. Had she kept him in the game, she probably could have won.
• Kim - The jury did not feel her body of work in the game was enough to warrant a majority vote. Gained the votes of Brandon and Kim Powers.
• Ethan - He managed to play the game without upsetting anyone, and also always did well in challenges. The jury also felt he was more deserving of the win. He won 5-2, with the votes of Frank, Teresa, Tom, Lex and Kelly.

Survivor records and firsts

• This is the first time that the temperature is shown in any challenge, during the final immunity challenge. This has only been repeated once, during Survivor: Guatemala.
• The first tiebreaking challenge was used this season. Carl and Lindsey were tied at 4 votes, and they competed in a Q&A tiebreak. Lindsey won that challenge, resulting in Carl's elimination. A more infamous tiebreaker was the Purple Rock challenge, occurring only in Survivor: Marquesas, and there would never be a tribal council tiebreak until Survivor: Palau.
• During the finale, the audience was tricked into believing that the votes were being read at the site of the Final Tribal Council. Jeff Probst went to get the voting urn and, when he returned, it appeared he had returned directly to the Tribal Council site to read the votes. However, he was actually on a CBS sound stage in Hollywood (with a live audience) that was made up to look like the site. This was revealed after he read the votes and announced Ethan Zohn as the winner. CBS had the telecast switch immediately from the taped Final Tribal Council to the live set, rather than Jeff announcing he would take the votes and hold them until the live portion of the finale. The contestants were told to try to make themselves appear as they had looked during the last Tribal Council and the audience was told to hold any cheering or applause until after the winner was announced. This process would be used in several later seasons.

External links

• Official CBS Survivor Africa Website

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Borneo (2000) · Australia (2001) · Africa (2001) · Marquesas (2002) · Thailand (2002) Amazon (2003) · Pearl Islands (2003) · All-Stars (2004) · Vanuatu (2004) · Palau (2005) Guatemala (2005) · Panama (2006) · Cook Islands (2006) · Fiji (2007) · China (2007) Micronesia (2008) · 17 (2008) · 18 (2009)
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