40 Fun Facts About Naked and Afraid

What is hidden inside the centre bead of the matching necklaces every Naked and Afraid survivalist wears?

A microphone sits in the bead, wired to a wireless transmitter tucked inside the survivalist's satchel.

Which comedy actor stripped off alongside James Franco for a celebrity special of Naked and Afraid?

Seth Rogen packed tissue paper and Franco chose sunglasses for a special made to promote their film The Interview.

On Naked and Afraid, what does the abbreviation PSR, a score updated during every challenge, stand for?

Primitive Survival Rating is the show's score for skill, experience and mental strength, recalculated as each survivalist copes or cracks.

How many days must the two strangers on a standard Naked and Afraid challenge survive in the wilderness?

21 days is the full challenge, long enough that viewers get a running on-screen count of the days survived, the time and the temperature.

What did the spin-off Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing add that earlier challenges had never offered survivors?

A cash prize of $100,000 went to the single winner, and survivalists could use any means to get it, even sabotage.

Which phrase does Naked and Afraid use when a survivalist chooses to quit the challenge before the final day?

Tapping out is allowed at any moment, and it often leaves the other partner to finish the challenge completely alone.

The XL in the spin-off Naked and Afraid XL doubles as the Roman numeral for which length of challenge?

40 days is the length hidden in the title, since XL is the Roman numeral: a pun for a spin-off nearly twice as long as the original.

Which before-and-after measurement of each survivalist is revealed at the end of a Naked and Afraid episode?

Body weight is shown at the start and again at the finish, so viewers see exactly how much each survivalist lost living off the land.

Which cable network has aired Naked and Afraid since the very first episode?

Discovery Channel launched the series in June 2013 and has since spun it off into longer, harsher versions for returning survivalists.

How are the two strangers who meet in a standard episode of Naked and Afraid normally paired up?

One man, one woman is the classic pairing, and the two meet for the first time only after both have stripped off.

Along with a diary camera for the nights, which navigation aid is packed in every Naked and Afraid satchel?

A map goes in the rough cross-body satchel beside the diary camera, which survivalists use to film themselves once the crew leaves at night.

What name does Naked and Afraid give the spot survivalists must reach on the final day to be picked up?

The extraction point is where a helicopter, plane, boat or truck collects whoever lasted, depending on what suits the terrain.

Besides a satchel, what is each Naked and Afraid survivalist allowed to bring into the wilderness from home?

One helpful item is the limit, and a machete or a fire starter is the usual choice.

Which Chelsea Lately comedian hosted Naked After Dark, the talk show that followed Naked and Afraid in season two?

Josh Wolf interviewed each episode's cast in the studio, in a format borrowed from the network's Shark Week talk show.

What are repeat Naked and Afraid episodes called when humorous facts about the survivalists appear as on-screen text?

Pop-Up Editions began in 2014, adding often humorous notes about the countries and the survivalists to episodes already shown.

Which survival host, famous for filming his own series alone, has loudly criticised how real Naked and Afraid is?

Les Stroud, the star of Survivorman, has dismissed rival survival shows as staged, saying he risks his life alone and for real.

What happened to a producer in the jungle during the making of Naked and Afraid's very first episode?

A snake bit him, and one reviewer found the venomous strike on the field producer more gripping than the episode's two survivalists.

In which Central American country was The Jungle Curse, the very first episode of Naked and Afraid, filmed?

Costa Rica hosted Shane Lewis and Kim Shelton, the first pair ever to attempt the challenge on screen.

Which African country's Serengeti Plain tested E.J. Snyder and Kellie Nightlinger in Naked and Afraid's first season?

Tanzania was the setting, and Snyder returned a season later to finish another pair's abandoned challenge in the Amazon.

Alison Teal was marooned for Naked and Afraid's first season on an island in which coral-atoll nation?

The Maldives may sound like a holiday, but Teal and partner Jonathan Klay fought sunburn, sand fleas and starvation on their island.

Himalayan Hell sent an Iraq War veteran and a nudist into the cold foothills of which country on Naked and Afraid?

India provided the high-altitude setting, where Phaedra Brothers battled food poisoning and then bladder and kidney infections.

Which country's Bark Lake pitted Cassie Turner and Greg Wells against cold rain, bears and moose on Naked and Afraid?

Canada's episode was called Frozen in Fear, part of a season that sent twelve pairs of survivalists across six continents.

Which US state's glacier hosted Laura Zerra and Steven Lee Hall in Naked and Afraid's Frozen and Afraid challenge?

Alaska's challenge ran for two weeks, with aggressive moose and porcupine counted as both threats and possible meals.

Which US state's Atchafalaya Basin hosted the first Naked and Afraid XL season where everyone attempted 60 days?

Louisiana's vast swamp gave twelve all-stars a shot at the title of XL Legend, the first time a whole cast had aimed that far.

Which South American country hosted Naked and Afraid XL's first season, where twelve survivalists formed four teams?

Colombia hosted twelve returning survivalists, and by the midpoint the eight still standing had merged into two larger teams.

All-stars swam through shark-infested water to deserted islands off Palawan in which country for Naked and Afraid XL?

The Philippines season also saw two all-stars start early and attempt 60 days, a first for the franchise.

Because of the extreme cold in Naked and Afraid XL: Frozen, what were the survivalists given to wear?

Animal hides were handed out for a season in Montana's Rocky Mountains, and the usual challenge was cut to just 14 days.

What did Honora Bowen do with her teammates' tools before quitting Naked and Afraid XL's first season?

Threw them in a river, then quit: it was her second early exit, as she had also left her first challenge before the finish.

Which star of MTV's Teen Mom took on Naked and Afraid in the Nicaraguan jungle but quit on only the second day?

Maci Bookout said beforehand that she felt really confident, then left the jungle almost as soon as she had arrived.

Which adventurer, later host of Animal Planet's Extinct or Alive, completed a Naked and Afraid challenge in Panama?

Forrest Galante made his television debut on the show, years before he went looking for species thought to be extinct.

What relation are Amber and Serena Shine, who took on the South African savannah together in Naked and Afraid?

Identical twins were the hook of the episode Twinning, which also dropped two brothers onto the same savannah among rhinos and hyenas.

In a Naked and Afraid first, which two members of the show's own crew took on the challenge themselves?

Two medics, Janis Holcombe Board and Viktor Kuhn, swapped treating survivalists for becoming them.

Mountaineer Mandy Horvath made Naked and Afraid history in Belize as the show's first survivalist of which kind?

A double amputee, Horvath had already climbed Kilimanjaro using her arms and hands, and she lasted the full challenge in the jungle.

Alone in Belize for Naked and Afraid, all-star Gary Golding bonded with which animal that he named Timmy?

A turtle called Timmy was Golding's only company on his first solo jungle challenge, which a deep cut and an infection nearly ended.

Ky Furneaux, a first-season Naked and Afraid survivalist, won a Taurus award for which Hollywood job?

Stunt performer Furneaux stood in for Jaimie Alexander in Thor, and she has also doubled for Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Garner.

Under the title Largados e Pelados, Naked and Afraid inspired a home-grown edition for which country's viewers?

Brazil's edition launched in 2021, and France and Spain have made versions of their own.

A season-seven trip to which Caribbean island put the United Kingdom on Naked and Afraid's list of locations?

Montserrat is a British overseas territory, and its volcano-ravaged landscape greeted a survival instructor and a forces retiree.

A two-hour Shark Week crossover stranded five Naked and Afraid veterans on an island in which country's waters?

The Bahamas special, Naked and Afraid of Sharks, gave its five veterans two weeks surrounded by some of the most shark-filled water on Earth.

Besides a machete, which hardware-store item did a season-three Naked and Afraid pair carry into Nicaragua's jungle?

Duct tape was the odd choice, and it outlasted one partner: Joshua Bell left on day five, leaving Amanda Leigh to finish alone.

Sarah Danser and Ben Johnson began their Naked and Afraid challenge in which setting, a first for the show?

Adrift at sea, the pair first had to reach land through shark-patrolled water before the usual hunt for shelter could begin.