Mark Dorosin’s Trivia From Hell

Jul 24, 2008 Uncategorized Jump to Comments

Hint: Right wing nut jobs

1. In what city and state is Bob Jones University located?

2. Who is the founder and head of Focus on the Family?

3. Who is the sanctimonious former Secretary of Education and author of The Book of Virtues whose gambling addiction and million-dollar Vegas losses were revealed in 2003?

4. What right-winger wrote a 2003 book defending the career of Joseph McCarthy and famously lamented that Timothy McVeigh didn’t target the New York Times building?

5. Pastor Fred Phelps and his Westbrook Kansas Church are best known for what activity?

6. What U.S. company founded the right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation?

7. True or False: Sean Hannity created Hannidate, an internet dating service for conservative singles.

8. Who is the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard?

9. At what U.S. college did a conservative biweekly newspaper debut in 1980 that became a training ground for many of the radical right, including D’nesh Dsouza and Laura Ingraham?

10. Who is the African-American right winger and founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, dedicated to pushing ballot initiatives like California’s Proposition 209, outlawing affirmative action in state hiring or university admissions?



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