LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caite Upton is already not following directions on "The Amazing Race."

The former Miss Teen South Carolina, who famously flubbed a 2007 pageant question involving maps, and her boyfriend, Brent Horne, were in the front of the pack on the CBS reality series' 16th season premiere on Sunday, but they didn't heed instructions to ride a funicular train and received a 30-minute penalty, dropping them from second to seventh place.

"We wrote on our hands at the beginning of the race 'details,"' Horne said, holding up his ink-stained paw.

"Unfortunately, mine kind of rubbed off, so I guess that's why we forgot," Upton joked.

Horne and Upton weren't the only team to blunder. Daniel and Jordan Pious, brothers from Barrington, Rhode Island, lost a brush during a house painting task, incurring a 15-minute penalty at the finish line. Another pair of brothers, cowboys Jet and Cord McCoy from Tupelo, Oklahoma, exchanged US dollars for Brazilian reals — even though they were on their way to Chile.

"Brazilian money," Jet embarrassingly acknowledged, "that doesn't work here."

Ultimately, married high school sweethearts Adrian and Dana Davis from Arlington, Texas, were the first team eliminated. Husky husband Adrian twice attempted to complete the Roadblock challenge, which required contestants to scale a tight rope the length of a football field, but he tumbled both times, which allowed the 10 other teams to pass them.

"For me to not be able to finish something like that, it was gut wrenching," Adrian said.

Dating former "Big Brother" houseguests Jordan Lloyd from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Jeff Schroeder from Norridge, Illinois, took the lead on the first leg of the race, despite Lloyd originally mistaking Chile for China. Attorney friends Monique Pryor from West Orange, New Jersey, and Shawne Morgan from Bowie, Maryland. snagged second place while the McCoy boys came in third place.