Republicans Adopt New Debate Format

Washington (NBp) - In an attempt to spice up the televised debate format, Republicans on Monday unveiled the "quiz show" format. Capitalizing on the nation's recent game show craze, the Republicans were able to draw considerably more viewers to this debate than the previous ones.

This debate, officially called The Republican Party in Jeopardy, was hosted by Alex Trebek and followed the same rules as the popular syndicated game show Jeopardy. In a new twist on the old debate idea, the winner of the debate receives the winnings in the form of a campaign contribution.

The candidate in control could choose one of the candidates as the category and a dollar value that determines the difficulty of the question about that candidate. Just like the normal Jeopardy show, the candidates are forced to phrase their answer as a question. Just because.

George W. Bush won the debate, adding $10,200 to his enormous campaign fund, which is currently estimated to be a very large sum of money. Bush appeared embarrassed when he picked "W" for 200, and the answer was "W has been asked repeatedly if he has used this substance." Though Bush answered correctly, "What is cocaine?", he looked as though he would have preferred to have gotten the question wrong.

Bush was caught off guard with "This man is the Prime Minister of India." He answered "Who is Vajpayee?", when the correct answer was actually "Who needs to memorize the names of foreign leaders in order to conduct foreign policy?". This slip was especially surprising, given that Bush had given that answer to a similar question just a few weeks ago.

Activist Gary Bauer was faced with the tough question, "This Republican candidate is currently very far back in the polls and is not likely to get the nomination." His answer of "Who am I?" was incorrect, because the correct answer was "Who is me?".

The controversial Final Jeopardy question.

In the end, Bush pulled ahead. Critics say that the cards were stacked in his favor, because of the Final Jeopardy question. Nonetheless, Bush's victory on The Republican Party in Jeopardy has earned him a spot in the hotseat on Who Wants To Be The President, where he can add up to $1 million to his campaign fund.