Well, he's made only one reference to his 760 Verbal score on the show, and that was not in the presence of Donna. In Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, when Joey Lucas was impressed that he knew what "polyglot" meant, he boasted of his score to her, Kenny, CJ, and Mandy. That said, Josh's ego is certainly large enough [see his arrogant soliloquy on his academic credentials in Celestial Navigation] to support the idea that he'd mentioned this a time or two to Donna. So we've turned it into a running joke between them in A Winning Strategy. Incidentally, Josh's assertion that he had to work hard in school because his IQ "doesn't break the bank" in 100,000 Airplanes seems odd, considering the past references to both his academic achievements and his fratboy days (e.g. registering an animal for classes, Isaac & Ishmael).

Anything's possible, since her family has never been mentioned on the show, except for Josh's reference to her "whole Protestant family" during In Excelsius Deo. There has also been no suggestion about her family's political affiliation or thoughts about Donna's career; we've made the Moss clan disapproving Republicans. As for the strange names, that came about from Ryo's obsession with a baby names book (35,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky), and Jo's tendency to choose the oddest name out of any list. Hence, we've named her Donnatella Viridis Moss; her sister, who is entirely our creation, is Francesca Caprice Moss Hudson; and Frances' kids have very strange names, which we won't go into here. Check out Castle in the Clouds for more on that particular subject. :) Because of what Josh dubs the "crazy-naming gene," Donna and Josh settle on names for their future children well in advance: Molly Jordan and Josiah Kennedy.

To our recollection, there is nothing on the show that suggests he can't keep a secret, or that he's the weakest link, or that he's more scared of CJ than the other Idiot Boys. [Incidentally, CJ's habit of referring to Josh, Sam, and Toby as "the Idiot Boys" started in Curse of the Cat Goddess and seems to have stuck.] In In Excelsius Deo, Sam had a hard time lying effectively to CJ, but he's actually one of the few characters who's had a fight with CJ on screen (A Proportional Response). Also, he was able to lie to Stephanie Gault in Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail. Our version of Sam tends to focus on what Toby dubs Sam's "credulous simplicity" (Mandatory Minimums). In our defense, Sam himself has said, "I am dumb. Most of the time I'm playing smart" (Six Meetings Before Lunch).

In our fic, absolutely; on the show... probably. Josh, of course, called CJ a "Berkeley shiksa feminista" in A Proportional Response, and CJ herself has made a couple of comments on the show that support the idea of her as a third wave feminist ("Yeah, and it's the bathrobes that's outrageous" in Bartlet's Third State of the Union, in response to Sam's comment that there are only a handful of female White House employees; "I will once again betray the sisterhood" from The Stackhouse Filibuster). In addition, CJ worked for EMILY's list, a fundraising organization for pro-choice, female political candidates (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, though CJ left the "pro-choice part out of her description). Oddly, though the show has addressed myriad leftist/liberal political issues, the vast majority of feminist or women's issues haven't seen the light of day. When they do show up on screen, we hope that CJ will be the strong feminist we know she really is. [We do not consider CJ's strong reaction to the brutal gender apartheid referenced in The Woman of Qumar to be explicitly feminist; it's a human rights issue. Though it is possible that men are more willing to consider that a "cultural difference" than a suppression of the human rights of women.]

Of course. Only he's never been called that on the show. In fact, it started as something Donna mockingly called his attempts at posturing--his "master politician pose"--in A Winning Strategy. It evolved into, well, an entire Winning Strategy story being titled The Master Politican. In The Stackhouse Filibuster, however, President Bartlet tells Leo that he has a "deputy who's frankly a lot smarter than you." More evidence of Josh's political acumen: He was brought on the campaign as Senior Political Director (Celestial Navigation); Donna tells him "You got [Bartlet] elected" in the pilot; Hoynes admitted to thinking "I'd be President right now" if he'd listened to Josh (What Kind of Day Has It Been); and who could forget the sunglasses and the attitude and the HOT at Josh's meeting with a troublesome Democratic Senator, to which Leo joked he should sell tickets-- And if that gazebo speech isn't evidence of Josh's Master Politican standing, we don't know what is (Five Votes Down).