Does it matter if the tasks are in the form of questionnaires? It does matter in the Amazing Race because it's a team effort on who will do the task first. It's not mandatory or obligatory but rather a matter of who is willing to do the task as in team effort.
A task in the form of question asking the contestant or competitor gives the taskmaster that whatever happened in a given situation that he's hands off to whatever the consequences maybe. Giving the competitors the chance to think first before doing certain task as it will be quite very challenging for the mind and physical ability of the individual.
TO THINK FIRST gives the participant, the competitors to re-evaluate and analyze their own physical state of mind and body to do the task first and foremost.
A task that requires thinking and analysis tend to break, motivate, encourage your own desire to do the task not by force but doing the task because you obliged and choose to be a participant regardless of any situation, otherwise you can say NO or tap out.
I think in BIG BROTHER television shows the same task question technique is implemented. I don't know if the same kind of technique is used in the television shows such as ALONE and SURVIVORS.
