Republican Trivial Pursuit ? political addition (Circa 2010)

Hey everybody, are you glad that the era of Bush/Cheney and the conservative movement is finally over?  Well now the makers of Trivial Pursuit have a way you can relive this vibrant era of American scandal for years to come!  It?s challenging, it?s competitive, it?s educational, and best of all it?s fun for the whole family!

Get ready to play REPUBLICAN TRIVIAL PURSUIT!!!

Republican Trivial Pursuit has 6 categories

• Foreign Affairs (red wedge)


• Domestic Policy (orange wedge)


• Important Figures (blue wedge)


• Important Events (green wedge)


• State Politics (pink wedge)


• The Religious Right (yellow wedge)

Here are some fun sample questions from each category!

Foreign Affairs
He was the first Senator to suggest bombing Switzerland in 2006?
Answer: George Allen (R-VA) ? (after a dispute over an overseas savings account held jointly by Allen and an unknown source with the initials J.A.)

What was the number of WMDs eventually found in Iraq?
Answer: 0 (Except for the one planted there by the CIA on November 1st, 2006, in a last-ditch attempt to help with the mid-term elections).

Country where Osama Bin Laden was finally captured in 2008?
Answer: Lichtenstein (It?s always the last place you look!)

Domestic Policy
The only overturned Supreme Court decision whose overturning was overturned because all justices voting in support were threatened by their wives, daughters, and mistresses
Answer: Roe v. Wade (Mrs. Alito and Mrs. Scalia were very upset about the public release of the Scalito-Paris Hilton video)

Republican solution for oil prices reaching $100 per gallon in the summer of 2007?
Answer: Take over Antarctica, drill for oil, and install a pro-American penguin (Pro-American penguin was eaten by leftist Polar Bear)

This was the failed housing policy solution of the Bush Administration in 2007?
Answer: Replace lower-income housing loans by providing the poor with Popsicle-sticks and glue, and letting them build the homes themselves.  (Barbara Bush Sr. thought that the poor would find this very generous.  Her request to offer them cake was denied).

Important Figures
He succeeded Dick Cheney as Vice President in August of 2007, after Cheney apparently suffered 6 heart attacks in one week? 
Answer: Donald Rummsfeld (Dennis Hastert didn?t pass his physical)

Discovery that allowed doctors to clear Dick Cheney to return to office in October of 2007?
Answer: Dick Cheney actually had no heart ? his system was run by an enlarged medulla oblongata

He became a born again, born again Christian after being sent to prison for assaulting Michael Moore with a broken wine glass during a cocaine binge?
Answer: Tom DeLay

Failed Bush nominee for FCC Chair, after Chairman Kevin Martin had to leave the post in 2007?
Answer: Former Senator, Rick Santorum ? (he was turned down due to his plans to fine stations for cleavage ? not a popular policy in Senate).

Important Events
City where the only terrorist attack since 9/11 occurred on December, 1st of 2006?
Answer: Grand Island, Nebraska ? (2 people killed, 3 injured, one Ford Truck destroyed)

The Day all of our troops finally left Iraq?
Answer: November 11th, 2008 (after Mark Warner trounced Rudy Giuliani in the Presidential Race, and the GOP finally caved in to let the last 60,000 leave. This was after the Democrats took back the Senate, when Olympia Snow (ME), Chuck Hagel (NE) and presumed 2008 Republican Nominee, John McCain of Arizona became Democrats in 2007, returning the Senate to the Democratic Party after the 2006 elections ? 51 Democrats, 48 Republicans, and one Independent).

It was the surprise replacement for oil discovered in January 2008?
Answer: Old VHS tapes (nobody needed them anymore at that point ? Ted Stevens was devastated and quit the Senate, returning to Alaska to drill in ANWR himself ? he found nothing).

State Politics
He lost the 2005 Virginia Gubernatorial Election after asserting his opponent?s stance on the death penalty would lead him to refuse to kill Adolf Hitler?
Answer: Jerry Kilgore (Currently working at the Gate City sanitation department)

He was the surprise Independent who won the 2006 California Governor?s Race?
Answer: Corey Feldman (edging out Democrat Julia Roberts).

Surprise contingent of Democrats who picked up 47 new seats in 2006 and 2008
Answer: Iraq War Veterans (President Bush tried to send 46 of them back to Iraq, but under pressure with public disapproval, the Congress had to override him).

The Religious Right
Religious leader who in 2008 claimed we should bomb Canada after they refused to carry his TV channel anywhere in the country?
Answer: Pat Robertson

First state to ban gay poker?
Answer: Oklahoma (although Kansas banned it two days later)

Eventual winner of the ?War on Christmas??
Answer: Wal-Mart

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