All Main/Mini Challenges

## **Recurring Challenges**

* Reading is Fundamental!
* Zippers Down, Dresses Up (Like Memory game but Dresses in Bags)
* Whatcha Packin'
* Everybody Loves Puppets

* Drag On A Dime
* Impersonate a Celebrity in Snatch Game
* (Only All Stars) All Star Variety Show: Showcase a talent in front of the other queens, the judges, and a live audience
* A Makeover Challenge
* A Sewing/Design Challenge
* A Ball Challenge
* Improv Challenge
* A Musical Challenge
* Lip Syncing/Dancing/Singing Challenge
* An Acting Challenge
* Comedy Challenge

## **Main Challenges**

Drag Queen Survivor 1

1. Design an Outfit based of places in the world
2. Star in a Morning Talk Show
3. Queens do Lip-Syncing numbers to Disney Channel Original Movie Songs
4. Sing and Perform a RuPaul song in a group
5. Create an Ad Campaign for their New Scents and to make a Runway Outfit based off of it
6. Impersonate a Celebrity in Snatch Game
7. Makeover RuPaul's Non-Drag Friends into Drag Queens
8. Act In the New Series, "Mermaid Queens"
9. Partner Drag Dancing Spectacular!
10. Create a Long Wig out of provided hair from RuPaul, and Style the "Franken Hair" with clothes that are cohesive with it
11. The Glamazon Ball: Sexy Fairy Look, Hogwarts Sorting House Realness, and Rich & Fancy Eleganza Extravaganza
12. Pick a Drag Queen to impersonate, and do a Lip Sync in that Character

Drag Queen Survivor Season 2

1. Lip-Synca-Extravaganza!
2. Perform in Kardashian The Musical
3. Act in parody of Gossip Girls
4. Produce a Fitness Video with Bob Harper
5. Impersonate a Celebrity in Snatch Game!
6. Improvise in a Therapy Appointment
7. Perform Stand Up Comedy to a live audience of Drag Queens
8. Create a Cake inspired couture garment & Decorate a Doll cake that expresses their true drag persona
9. Design 3 outfits for the Jewel Ball: Crystals and Icy Iridescence, Mythical Beasts Runway, and Jewel Eleganza!
10. Makeover Older Gay Men to Drag Queens & Perform "Queens Running The World" By RuPaul
11. Write, Record, and Perform a verse in RuPaul song: "Sissy That Walk"

Drag Queen Survivor Season 3

1. Drag On A Dime
2. produce and act in TV infomercials for RuPaul's "Glamazon"and "Champion"
3. impersonate a celebrity or a person in HERstory in Snatch Game!
4. Queens in teams will teach the live audience the choreographed dance they did
5. create a wrestling storyline, with "backstage" clips and an entertaining match in the ring
6. Reading Is Fundamental Roast
7. Act in a parody of: Kinky Boots (Henny Boots)
8. Create a conjoined twin makeover with a previously eliminated queen
9. Perform and Sing in two groups AAA By: Alaska, Willam, and Courtney Act
10. Create 3 stunning looks: Wonderland Eleganza, Mad (Death) Alice becomes her, and Tizzy, Quirky Diva!
11. Write, Record, and Perform a verse in RuPaul song: "Glamazon"

Drag Queen Survivor All Stars Season 1

1. All Star Variety Show. Showcase a talent in front of the other queens, the judges, and a live audience
2. Snatch Game
3. Audition for the new super girl group, "Henny"
4. Makeover LA Dodger Players into Drag Queens
5. Musical versions of John Waters' most iconic films
6. Design your own Drag Store with products and displays

## **Mini/Immunity Challenges**

Drag Queen Survivor 1

1. Photoshoot that consisted of jumping off a small platform into a foam-filled container and taking a picture mid-air
2. Identify objects only by sitting on them
3. Compete in a Dance-Off to: Spongebob's Jellyfish Jam
4. Zippers Down, Dresses Up (Like Memory game but Dresses in Bags)
5. N/A
6. Reading Is Fundamental
7. Repurpose an Orange Prison Jumpsuit to be "couture"
8. Play Bus Stop and whoever has the most Comedic Character wins
9. Black and White Photoshoot
10. Put on most intense makeup in 30 minutes
11. Lip Sync battles to RuPaul songs (In Bracket Style)

Drag Queen Survivor Season 2

1. The Alcohol Drink Challenge
2. The Swimming Challenge
3. The Black Jack Challenge

Drag Queen Survivor Season 3

1. Creating Leotards out of Duck Tape
2. ask members of the Pit Crew to pull cards out of their underwear to earn points
3. apply drag makeup in the dark
4. Zippers Down, Dresses Up!
5. Boudoir pillow fight with the Pit Crew
6. Lip-synching to a RuPaul song upside down
7. Identify objects only by sitting on them
8. Dunk-A-Queen
9. Alien Photoshoot
10. Everybody Loves Puppets

Drag Queen Survivor All Stars Season 1

1. Reading is Fundamental
2. Celebrity Photo Bomb
3. Create a "Fake Housewives of Drag Race" look using tape
4. N/A
5. Glamorous Photoshoot
6. Drag up a plain dress

## **Ideas For Main Challenges**

### **Rusicals!**

* All Star Variety Show: Showcase a talent in front of the other queens, the judges, and a live audience
* Double Dutch: The Musical!
* Trump: The Rusical
* Lipstick City! A Musical Spectacular
* Perform in a lip-syncing dance number inspired by historical women (The Baddest Bitches in Herstory)
* Perform in a collegiate acapella sing-off (Bitch Perfect)
* Pharmarusical!
* Perform in "Mean Queens: The Musical!"
* Perform in: Drag Queen Movie (Teen Beach Movie)
* La Telenovela de la Reina (The Opera of the Queens)
* The queens must wow the judges in a live singing, dance number inspired by Cher (Cher The Unauthorized Musical)
* Perform in Kardashian The Musical
* Produce a pre-flight safety video for the first airline run by drag queens (Glamazonian Airways)
* Shade: The Musical!
* Perform in: Tongue Pop, The Extravaganza
* Katy Perry Live! (Musical)

### **Makeovers!**

* Miss Charisma Uniqueness Nerve and Talent Pageant
* The queens give drag makeovers to social media superstars and do a homemade video performing "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent"
* Makeover RuPaul's Non-Drag Friends into Drag Queens
* Military-to-drag makeover/color guard performance (Makeover gay veterans)
* Dress up as the bride and groom in a wedding photo shoot
* Create a conjoined twin makeover with a previously eliminated queen
* Makeover crew members and perform a lip-sync of "*Click Clack(Make that Money)*" by RuPaul
* Turn their Dad into a Drag Diva
* Makeover LA Dodger Players into Drag Queens
* Makeover Older Gay Men to Drag Queens & Perform "Queens Running The World" By RuPaul
* Turn a straight jock into your glamorous drag sister & perform a cheer supporting safe-sex
* Transform their best friends into their own drag sisters
* Makeover a member of their family in drag and perform a comedic dance number
* Transform grooms into brides for a wedding
* The queens give "Wizard of Oz" themed makeovers to cast members of "Little Women: L.A."

### **Writing Original Material Challenge!**

* Produce a Fitness Video with Bob Harper
* produce and act in TV infomercials for RuPaul's "Glamazon"and "Champion"
* DragCon Panels
* Film a patriotic message addressed to US military personnel overseas
* Create, write, and star in a TV pilot
* Create, write, and record infomercials for Sim City Cosmetics
* Participate in a Presidential debate as the 2012 Wig Party candidate
* The queens create and star in commercials for new Drag-themed dating apps
* Come up with and promote a concept for an autobiography
* Work in pairs to shoot presidential campaign ads to smear their partner and stake their claim to be the first drag President of the U.S.A.
* Teams compete as feuding families in a TV Commercial for Disco Shortening in Country
* Create, market, and film a commercial for a drag-influenced product
* Create a wrestling storyline, with "backstage" clips and an entertaining match in the ring

### **Improv Challenges!**

* Snatch Game Of Love (Snatch Game)
* The B\*tchelor
* Guest hosting "The RuPaul Show" and interviewing celebrity guests
* Star in a Morning Talk Show
* Improvise in a daytime court show, "Jersey Justice."
* Improvise in a Therapy Appointment
* Perform live in a Diva Evangelical Talk Show
* Produce a morning QNN news show
* The queens' improv skills are put to the test for a new talk show, "Bossy Rossy," hosted by Ross Mathews
* The Queens had to act "naughty" on the streets of Hollywood and do pranks

### **Acting Challenges!**

* In two teams, star in two different episodes of a sitcom
* (Shakesqueer) "Hamlet it up" in two twisted Shakespeare classics – Romy and Juliet and MacBitch
* Act in the classic 90's high-school drama, 9021-HO
* Acting in *Nightmare on Queen Street* and *Dragday the 13th*
* "Whatever Happened to Merle Ginsberg" from the point of view of Merle, RuPaul and Michelle Visage in groups of three
* Act in a parody of San Francisco's "Beach Blanket Babylon"
* Star in a faux Latin telenovela alongside Wilmer Valderrama
* Act in the New Series of: Breastworld The Gayest Place on Earth
* Act in a parody of: Kinky Boots (Henny Boots)
* Perform in a parody movie sequel of one of RuPaul's favorite films
* "My Best Squirrelfriend's Dragsmaids Wedding Trip"
* Split into two teams and star in children's TV Shows
* Act in parody of Gossip Girls
* Perform in two Empire-inspired acting scenes (Ruco's Empire)
* Star in a mockumentary, "Sex and The Kitty, Girl 3."
* Act In the New Series, "Mermaid Queens"
* Acting in a romantic comedy parody
* Act in a parody of: The Walking Dead
* Act in a Drag Queen Version of "Black Panther" (Why It gotta Be Black Panther?)
* Act in a Drag Queen Version of "Get Out" (Good God Girl, Get Out!)
* Sci-Fi movie spoofs
* Act in vintage movie parodies
* Musical versions of John Waters' most iconic films

### **Lip Sync/Singing/Dancing Challenge!**

* The queens go full diva in a lip-syncing dance number inspired by the classic TV specials "VH1 Divas Live"
* Write, Record, and Perform a verse in RuPaul song: "Sissy That Walk"
* Sing live in ‘80s style New Wave girl bands
* Divide into two teams each tasked with performing a different act of a ballet about RuPaul's life
* Queens in teams will teach the live audience the choreographed dance they did
* Top 3 Lip Sync a song specifically written for them
* The Main Challenge is to perform and sing in two groups AAA By: Alaska, Willam, and Courtney Act
* Lip Sync Smack down
* Record a "*We Are the World*"-inspired anthem entitled "Can I Get An Amen?"
* Perform in a free-style floor program which includes Fanography, Voguing, and Shablaming. In 2 Teams
* Perform in a cheer battle
* Lip-Synca-Extravaganza!
* Partner Drag Dancing Spectacular!
* Sing and Perform a RuPaul song in a group
* Queens do Lip-Syncing numbers to Disney Channel Original Movie Songs
* The queens audition for RuPaul's new girl group, the Kitty Girls. The eliminated queens return and have a competing girl group
* Create a music video parody by writing lyrics, and doing vocals to a RuPaul song
* Audition for the new super girl group, "Henny."

### **Comedy Challenges!**

* Come up with funny banter and take jabs at the other queens while presenting awards for different categories at the first ever *DESPY Awards*
* Stand up comedy act in pairs
* Roast RuPaul, as well as the judges and fellow queens, in front of a live audience
* The Funeral Roast of Sharon Needles/Lady Bunny
* Performing a live stand-up comedy act in front of a drag queens audience
* Perform a comedy roast of Alice Platt, Owen Bowie, Parker Shay. (Also RuPaul)
* Reading Is Fundamental Roast

### **Design Challenges!**

* Holiday Thrift Store Drag
* Create a magazine cover
* Create an original book and become an author and market your book
* Going dumpster diving to make a dress that brings out \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
* Create a resort-wear tearaway to reveal a nude illusion
* Drag On A Dime
* Create couture outfits out of recycled materials
* Create an outfit based on design challenges from seasons past
* Create and host their own clubs
* Design an Outfit based of places in the world
* Create signature looks from materials belonging to former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” legends
* Create a high fashion look made from organic materials (farm stuff[denim, burlap etc]) to model on the runway
* Design your own Drag Store with products and displays
* The queens design a post-apocalyptic couture outfit from items looted from drag queen zombies
* Designing an outfit inspired by party supplies
* Create a Cake inspired couture garment & Decorate a Doll cake that expresses their true drag persona
* Create an Ad Campaign for their New Scents and to make a Runway Outfit based off of it
* Create and wear a parade float based on a color of the pride flag
* Create outfits only using products provided by Hello Kitty
* Outfits made from window treatments and home furnishings
* Designing an outfit inspired by a TV show
* The queens design wearable soup cans inspired by Andy Warhol, and create \_\_\_\_ looks
* Create a Long Wig out of provided hair from RuPaul, and Style the "Franken Hair" with clothes that are cohesive with it
* The queens must present two characters on the runway: their best selves and their evil twins, plus they have to write and record the dialogue for both characters

## **Ideas For Mini/Immunity Challenges**

* Model 2 looks; one for Spring and one for Fall
* Glamorous Photoshoot
* Photo Shoot with Drag Race Legends
* Playing a true or false guessing game with the Pit Crew
* The queens pose for a photo that will be turned into a pop art portrait
* Drag up a plain dress
* "Chicken or What?" eating contest
* Nail Glove Modeling
* "Ru"sical Chairs
* Christmas Card Photo Shoot
* Give a teddy bear a makeover
* Whatcha Packin'
* Decorate a box in your drag style and use something borrowed from another contestant
* Stand out on the runway among a sea of legendary queens from past seasons
* Why You Maddow Tho?
* Split into teams of four and create a "Badonkadonk" with padding in 30 minutes
* One Word At A Time
* Female or She-male?
* "Hay Girl Hay" Compete in a country-themed dance competition
* Lip-synching to a RuPaul song upside down
* Resting Brunch Face (Drag up pancakes to create devastatingly delicious dishes)
* Alien Photoshoot
* "Beastly Golf Challenge"
* Create a mannequin doll in pairs for "America's Junior Drag Superstar" pageant
* Drag Race Herstory Questions
* Underwater photoshoot
* Transform yourself into a living doll
* Making Leotards from Duct Tapes
* Photobomb celebrity photographs and leave a lasting impression
* Apply drag makeup in the dark
* Soul Train dance-off in granny drag
* Seduce Your Way Into a Seduction Concert
* Scandalous Red Carpet Photo
* Dunk-A-Queen
* Photoshoot with dogs
* In pairs, paint each other's face while handcuffed to one another and post for a mug shot photo shoot
* Decorate regular bras using rhinestones
* Designing nails and hand modeling fruits and vegetables
* Boudoir pillow fight with the Pit Crew
* Create a marketable drag product and deliver a sales pitch for it on fictitious home shopping network "RuVC"
* Celebrity Photo Bomb
* Create a perfume bottle
* Last as long as possible in drag booty camp with a fitness trainer
* Pitch your own Self-Help Book
* Dance Off
* Blacklight Makeup Photoshoot
* Screen testing the RuPaul Chocolate Bar
* The contestants for a "totally toxic" photo spread where they pose on a spinning platform while being sprayed with "hazardous waste"
* A potato sack race serving boob-ography
* Compete in a latin dance-off to RuPaul's song "Cha Cha Bitch"
* Create a hat based off of a movie
* Everybody Loves Puppets
* Drag up the contents of army duffel bags and transform themselves into an army of fierce drag queens
* *Gone with the Wind* inspired photo shoot
* Pose for a cologne ad for *Trade*
* Ask members of the Pit Crew to pull cards out of their underwear to earn points
* Psychic Challenge
* Slap out of it
* Galisthenics; Perform in a parody calisthenics work out tape with Love Connie
* Make their own paper versions of classic celebrity red carpet outfits, working in pairs assigned by Ru
* "The Queen is Right" bidding challenge
* Drag up supreme court robes
* Keep fish face as the Pit Crew blow jets of air into the queens faces
* Do abstract paintings using their bodies in honor of marriage equality
* Create a "Fake Housewives of Drag Race" look using tape
* Create a beach-themed headpiece