Newt Gingrich Or Dwight Schrute Quiz

1. He said "Men are basically little piglets . . . Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."

Newt Gingrich

Dwight Schrute

This is from a controversial lecture on the military that Gingrich delivered while teaching at Reinhardt College. He also said that "females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength," when referring to women participating in combat missions.

Explanation

This is from a controversial lecture on the military that Gingrich delivered while teaching at Reinhardt College. He also said that "females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength," when referring to women participating in combat missions.

2. He fantasized about ditching the workplace's drudgery to spend a year in the Amazon, staring at sloths.

Must be Newt

Has to be Schrute

That was Newt Gingrich in 1995, just eight months after he was sworn in as Speaker.

Explanation

That was Newt Gingrich in 1995, just eight months after he was sworn in as Speaker.

3. When thrown a softball question about past "romantic" activities, he mumbled something about "chicken fights."

Newt Gingrich

Dwight Schrute

Nope, not a night out with Callista. This was Dwight in the Season 8 episode "Pool Party."

Explanation

Nope, not a night out with Callista. This was Dwight in the Season 8 episode "Pool Party."

4. When debating the eating habits of T-Rex's, this man explained, "I believe [the T-Rex] was a predator because I saw 'Jurassic Park' and he ate a lawyer and it wasn't a dead lawyer."

Totally Newt

Definitely Schrute

Yup, Dwight Schrute is a known fanatic . . . but probably not as much as the former House speaker. This was Newt Gingrich at an event hosted by Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies debating Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner.

Explanation

Yup, Dwight Schrute is a known fanatic . . . but probably not as much as the former House speaker. This was Newt Gingrich at an event hosted by Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies debating Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner.

5. When he was 11-years-old, he took on City Hall in an attempt to build a zoo from scratch in South Central Pennsylvania.

Lil' Newt

Lil' Schrute

In the mid-'50s, the AP reported that boy Gingrich took on Harrisburg mayor Claude Robins and several city councilmen in his efforts to "establish a zoo in the city's Wildwood Park." Dwight Schrute, too, has a borderline perverse obsession with wild animals.

Explanation

In the mid-'50s, the AP reported that boy Gingrich took on Harrisburg mayor Claude Robins and several city councilmen in his efforts to "establish a zoo in the city's Wildwood Park." Dwight Schrute, too, has a borderline perverse obsession with wild animals.

6. His favorite childhood game was curling up into a ball and playing dead on the sidewalk.

Kid Newt

Kid Schrute

MoJo reporter dug up this gem from a 2001 magazine lede. [Newt's] pal Dennis Yantz would pretend to beat him up and leave him crumpled on the curb. "When a car would pull up to see what was wrong," Yantz recalls, "Newt would jump up and scream 'SURPRISE!' We would do this over and over again." For some reason, Yantz says, Newt always wanted to be the one who played dead.

Explanation

MoJo reporter dug up this gem from a 2001 magazine lede. [Newt's] pal Dennis Yantz would pretend to beat him up and leave him crumpled on the curb. "When a car would pull up to see what was wrong," Yantz recalls, "Newt would jump up and scream 'SURPRISE!' We would do this over and over again." For some reason, Yantz says, Newt always wanted to be the one who played dead.

7. This man pitched a radical plan to capture Osama bin Laden using a portable prison that could be operated beyond the pale of traditional covert ops.

Gingrich idea

Schrute idea

Yes, Newt has had some wacky foreign policy ideas over the years (including a Bay of Pigs for Bosnia and reviving covert assault on the Castro regime). But this scheme was not among them.

Explanation

Yes, Newt has had some wacky foreign policy ideas over the years (including a Bay of Pigs for Bosnia and reviving covert assault on the Castro regime). But this scheme was not among them.

8. Publicly referred to pop star Justin Bieber as "Justice Beaver."

Newt gaffe

Dwight gag

That was Dwight in the Season 7 episode "Todd Packer."

Explanation

That was Dwight in the Season 7 episode "Todd Packer."

9. He said: "Can we steer away from 'gay people'? I'm sorry, it's an orientation, not a race. Plus, a lot of other races are intolerant of gays."

Totally Newt

Must be Schrute

The Dunder Mifflin employee said this during the Season 1 episode "Diversity Day." The dialogue line is not to be confused with basically everything Newt has ever said about the homosexual agenda.

Explanation

The Dunder Mifflin employee said this during the Season 1 episode "Diversity Day." The dialogue line is not to be confused with basically everything Newt has ever said about the homosexual agenda.

10. As recently as 2009, he called the Swedish system of government and healthcare "communist" and repressive.

Newt

Schrute

This was Dwight in the Season 6 episode The Meeting. Newt Gingrich also enjoys accusing things that aren't communist of being really, really communist.

Explanation

This was Dwight in the Season 6 episode The Meeting. Newt Gingrich also enjoys accusing things that aren't communist of being really, really communist.