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Who is Rachel Maddow?
A: Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host and liberal political commentator.

Maddow hosts what nightly television show on MSNBC?
A: The Rachel Maddow Show.

She serves as the cable network's what?
A: Special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams.

Where did her syndicated talk radio program of the same name air?
A: It aired on Air America Radio.

Maddow holds a doctorate in politics from where?
A: The University of Oxford, and is the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the United States.

Asked about her political views by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied how?
A: "I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform."

Where was she born?
A: Rachel Anne Maddow was born in Castro Valley, California.

 
Who was her father?
A: Her father was Robert B. Maddow, a former United States Air Force captain who resigned his commission the year before her birth and then worked as a lawyer for the East Bay Municipal Utility District.

Who was her mother?
A: Her mother was Elaine, a school program administrator.

She has one older brother named what?
A: David.

Her paternal grandfather was from a family of what?
A: Eastern European Jews (the original family surname being "Medwedof") who self-identified as Polish and Russian at the time of their arrival in the United States.

Her paternal grandmother was of what descent?
A: Dutch (Protestant).

Her Canadian mother, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, has what ancestry?
A: English and Irish.

Maddow has stated that her family is "very, very Catholic" and she grew up in a community that her mother has described as what?
A: "Very conservative".

 
Maddow was a competitive athlete and participated in what high school sports?
A: Volleyball, basketball, and swimming.

Referencing John Hughes films, she has described herself as being what?
A: "A cross between the jock and the antisocial girl" in high school.

She is a graduate of what high school?
A: Castro Valley High School and attended Stanford University.

While a freshman, she was outed as a lesbian by whom?
A: The college newspaper when an interview with her was published before she could tell her parents.

She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in what year?
A: 1994.

At graduation, she was awarded what?
A: The John Gardner Fellowship.

She was the recipient of what Scholarship?
A: A Rhodes scholarship, and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford.

 
She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of what?
A: The Rhodes.

This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win what?
A: An international Rhodes scholarship.

In 2001, she earned a what?
A: A Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford.

Where was Maddow's first radio hosting job in 1999?
A: WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, then home to "The Dave in the Morning Show".

She entered and won a contest the station held to find what?
A: A new sidekick for the show's host, Dave Brinnel.

She went on to host Big Breakfast on WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts, for how long?
A: For two years.

She left the show in 2004 to join what?
A: The new Air America.

 
There she hosted what?
A: Unfiltered along with Chuck D (of the hip hop group Public Enemy) and Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) until its cancellation in March 2005.

Two weeks after the cancellation of Unfiltered in April 2005 what began airing?
A: Maddow's weekday two-hour radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show.

In 2008, Maddow began a nightly what?
A: MSNBC television program.

In 2009, after renewing her contract with Air America, Maddow returned to what?
A: The 5 a.m. hour-long slot.

In October 2018, Maddow launched what?
A: The podcast Bag Man.

In June 2005, Maddow became a regular panelist on what?
A: The MSNBC show Tucker.

During and after the November 2006 election, she was a guest on CNN’s what?
A: Paula Zahn Now.

 
She was also a correspondent for what?
A: The Advocate Newsmagazine, an LGBT-oriented short-form newsmagazine for Logo deriving from news items published by The Advocate.

In January 2008, Maddow became what?
A: An MSNBC political analyst and was a regular panelist on MSNBC's Race for the White House with David Gregory.

In 2008, Maddow was the substitute host for what?
A: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, her first time hosting a program on MSNBC.

Maddow described herself on air as what?
A: "Nervous".

Keith Olbermann complimented her work, and she was what?
A: Brought back to host Countdown the next month.

The show she hosted was the highest-rated news program among people of what age?
A: Aged 25 to 54.

Maddow also filled in for whom as host of Race for the White House?
A: David Gregory.

 
Olbermann began to push for Maddow to get her own what?
A: Show at MSNBC, and he was eventually able to persuade Phil Griffin to give her Dan Abrams's time slot.

In August 2008, MSNBC announced The Rachel Maddow Show would replace what?
A: Verdict with Dan Abrams in the network's 9 p.m. slot the following month.

Following its debut, the show topped Countdown as the what?
A: The highest-rated show on MSNBC on several occasions.

After being on air for more than a month, Maddow's program doubled the what?
A: The audience that hour.

This show made Maddow the first what?
A: Openly gay or lesbian host of a primetime news program in the United States.

In mid-May 2017, amid multiple controversies surrounding the Trump administration, MSNBC topped the news ratings, surpassing whom?
A: CNN and Fox News.

For the week of May 15, The Rachel Maddow Show was what?
A: The No. 1 non-sports program on cable for the first time.

 
Maddow has stated that her show's mission is to what?
A: "Increase the amount of useful information in the world."

She said that her rule for covering the Trump administration is what?
A: "Don't pay attention to what they say, focus on what they do...because it's easier to cover a fast-moving story when you're not distracted by whatever the White House denials are."

Maddow often begins her broadcast with what?
A: A monologue, some of which have run over twenty uninterrupted minutes.

Maddow wrote Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (2012) about what?
A: The role of the military in postwar American politics.

Upon its release, Drift topped what?
A: The New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcover nonfiction.

In December 2013, The Washington Post announced that Maddow would do what?
A: Write a monthly opinion column for the paper, contributing one article per month over a period of six months.

On March 2, 2018, The New York Times published Maddow's first what?
A: Crossword puzzle, in collaboration with Joe DiPierto.

 
On the eve of its publication what did she say?
A: "This is kind of it, like there will never be a baby, but there's this freaking crossword puzzle, and I am very, very excited about it."

A Time profile called her a what?
A: “whip-smart, button-cute leftie".

It said she radiates an essential decency and suggested that her career rise might signify that what?
A: "Nce is the new nasty".

The New York Times called her a what?
A: A "defense policy wonk".

 
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