Can you name the 4-letter words that includes some potential Republican Presidential candidates?

Hint	Word
• GOP front-runner Romney
Tiny arachnid used often in word ladders
• Former GOP front-runner Huckabee
Facebook option
Parasitic insects
Popular food staple
• GOP front-runner Perry
Ice-skating arena
Red and white together
Beer order
Repressed, confined (with 'up')
Annoyance

Hint	Word
It might be built for bird eggs
• GOP challenger Gingrich
The first 'N' in CNN
Church benches
'Damn dirty ape' appendages
Spanish word for 'country'
Two of a kind
• Former contender Donald Trump's distinguishing physical feature
Type of precipitation that can really hurt
Pull or drag with force
• Frequent GOP wild card Ron

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Word Ladder: GOP Contenders Quiz

by druhutch

Created Sep 21, 2011 in Just For Fun
Featured Oct 7, 2011
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	druhutch:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 06:54 GMT	4 points
	@ari18: Rain and hail are different forms of the same precipitation. And yeah, hail can be defined as "a large frozen raindrop". (http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28Gh%29/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/rnhl.rxml)

	druhutch:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 06:59 GMT	13 points
	Whoa, that's weird. Right after I posted that I noticed that Sporcle published a "Hail" quiz yesterday. http://www.sporcle.com/games/smoggy14/hail-sizes I knew it. This ladder being published has nothing to do with the GOP nomination, it's all just part of Sporcle's "Hail Week".

	guyborab:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 08:27 GMT	4 points
	Maybe a minute or two less would be better?

	Quizmaster91:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 10:14 GMT	6 points
	@druhutch: All Hail Sporcle ;P

	TAR2:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 13:11 GMT	3 points
	Gotta love word ladders. I was able to use the normal words to figure out the GOP names.

	sercher:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 14:02 GMT	25 points
	A quiz on Republican candidates littered with clues like "parasitic", "annoying" and "repressed". Not exactly subliminal, is it? :)

	renbutler:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 14:06 GMT	3 points
	Gotta find a way to get "Cain" in the quiz. He's now a legitimate front-runner.

	historybuff1861:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 16:41 GMT	-3 points
	Confusing that it's US presidential candidates but a pint of beer???

	pumpkinking0192:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 16:53 GMT	-3 points
	Do apes really have paws? They're more like hands, I've always thought.

	caramba:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 17:21 GMT	8 points
	@pumpkinking0192: It's a Planet of the Apes reference.

	SpaceTourism:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT	0 points
	The quiz started off badly, but finished fantastically!!

Hint	Word
It might be built for bird eggs
• GOP challenger Gingrich
The first 'N' in CNN
Church benches
'Damn dirty ape' appendages
Spanish word for 'country'
Two of a kind
• Former contender Donald Trump's distinguishing physical feature
Type of precipitation that can really hurt
Pull or drag with force
• Frequent GOP wild card Ron

	ari18:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 07:08 GMT	-2 points
	I am well aware that hail is frozen water, but that doesn't make it rain. Merriam Webster defines rain as 1) "water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere," 2) "the descent of this water" or 3) "water that has fallen as rain." Likewise, "water" is "the LIQUID that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter . . . ." Although hail is clearly identical in chemical composition to rain, it is not rain because it is not a liquid. No one would say "oh, it's raining" during a hailstorm.

	shakescene:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 07:42 GMT	4 points
	Let me see now: relatively easy if you remove Trump's topper. PAWS > PAÍS > PAIN > CAIN > COIN > COIL > FOIL > FAIL > PAIL > PAUL but if you really want to keep your hair, you could go: PAWS > PAWN (or PAÍS) > PAIN > CAIN > COIN > COIL > FOIL > FAIL > FAIR > HAIR > HAIL > HAUL > PAUL Now the challenge is to add some earlier candidates such as T-PAW (Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota) and THAD (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan). Actually you can easily link that pair, TPAW > THAW > THAD, it's just linking them to the rest. An incomplete string, for example, might be: TPAW > THAW > THAD > CHAD > CHAN (or CHID) > CHIN > COIN > CAIN > ???

	druhutch:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 09:29 GMT	2 points
	ari18: It's really not that serious. All I did was google "hail rain" and that definition ("hail is a large frozen raindrop") was the first thing to come up. But as you clearly know more on the subject the clue was changed shortly after your comment. I think we can all agree on "precipitation", yeah? @shakescene: Dude, why don't you make some word ladders? You clearly have a knack for them. They're always looking for good word ladders here, as you know.(As for this one--it is what it is, and it ain't gonna change, but your suggestions are great.)

	RonB:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 13:36 GMT	0 points
	This quiz seems trivial, inconsequential. Adding Herman would make it more so. @historybuff1861 Do you seriously think we don't drink pints here in the US?

	renbutler:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 14:35 GMT	1 point
	@RonB: Then you can go find a quiz to your liking, and allow us to suggest ways to improve it.

	save_ferris15:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 19:30 GMT	1 point
	It said "parasitic insects", but once Bachman didn't fit I gave up.

	Oddish:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 20:23 GMT	0 points
	Why didn't "pest" have a dot next to it? ;)

	freaky69az:	Nov 23rd, 2011 at 03:56 GMT	-2 points
	I can think of MANY more 4-letter words that relate to potential Republican (AND Democratic, for that matter) Presidential candidates.