Laura Ingraham Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Who is Laura Ingraham?
A: Laura Anne Ingraham is an American conservative television and radio talk show host.

When was Ingraham born?
A: June 19, 1963.

Where did she grow up?
A: In Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Who are her parents?
A: Anne Caroline and James Frederick Ingraham III.

Her maternal grandparents were what?
A: Polish immigrants.

Of what descent is her father?
A: Her father was of Irish and English ancestry.

She graduated from what high school?
A: Glastonbury High School in 1981.

Ingraham earned a B.A. from where in 1985?
A: Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.

In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a what?
A: A speechwriter in the Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy Advisor.

She also briefly served as editor of what?
A: The Prospect, the magazine issued by Concerned Alumni of Princeton.

After law school, in 1991, she served as a law clerk for whom?
A: Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York.

She subsequently clerked for whom?
A: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

She then worked where as an attorney?
A: At the New York-based law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Ingraham has previously dated what broadcaster?
A: Keith Olbermann.

She also dated what former New Jersey Democratic Senator?
A: Robert Torricelli.

In April 2005, she announced her engagement to whom?
A: Chicago businessman James V. Reyes, and that she had undergone breast cancer surgery.

In May 2005, Ingraham told listeners that her engagement to Reyes was what?
A: Canceled, citing issues regarding her diagnosis with breast cancer.

She has also dated what political commentator?
A: Dinesh D'Souza.

She is a convert from the Baptist neo-tradition to what faith?
A: Roman Catholic faith.

She has also studied what language?
A: Russian.

In 1995, she appeared in a leopard-print skirt on the cover of what?
A: The New York Times Magazine in connection with a story about young conservatives.

In 1996, she and Jay P. Lefkowitz organized the what?
A: The first Dark Ages Weekend in response to Renaissance Weekend.

Ingraham has had three stints as a what?
A: Cable television host.

When did she first become a host on MSNBC?
A: In 1996.

In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted what?
A: The MSNBC program Watch It!

Several years later, on her radio program, Ingraham began campaigning for what?
A: Another cable television show.

She gained her wish in 2008, when Fox News Channel gave her what?
A: A three-week trial run for a new show entitled Just In.

In October 2017 she became the host of what?
A: A new Fox News Channel program, The Ingraham Angle.

When did Ingraham launch The Laura Ingraham Show?
A: In April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on XM Satellite Radio.

It was originally syndicated by whom?
A: Westwood One, but moved to Talk Radio Network in 2004.

Ingraham was also the official guest host of what?
A: The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and a weekly contributor with her segment, The Ingraham Angle.

In 2012, Ingraham was rated as the what?
A: No. 5 radio show in America, by Talkers Magazine.

In November 2012, she announced her departure from what?
A: Talk Radio Network, declining to renew her contract with TRN after nearly a decade of being associated with the network.

Her new program, syndicated by Courtside Entertainment Group, began when?
A: On January 2, 2013.

Along with businessman Peter Anthony, Ingraham founded and owns what?
A: Ingraham Media Group, which produces the new media publication LifeZette.

Ingraham serves as what?
A: Editor in chief.

The website's subsections are what?
A: PoliZette, FaithZette, PopZette, and HealthZette.

In January 2017, Ingraham was approached by Republican Party officials and asked to do what?
A: To consider running for the United States Senate seat held by Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia.

In 2017, Ingraham was described by the New York Times as what?
A: An "ardent nationalist".

She is known for her strong support for whom?
A: Donald Trump.

She holds hawkish positions on what?
A: Immigration, and in 2014 Ingraham said that allowing more immigrant workers to come to the United States would be "obscene to the American experience".

Ingraham has said that her influences whom?
A: Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork and Pat Buchanan.

Ingraham has been described as what by Variety?
A: "No stranger to generating controversy", and as a "name-brand provocateur" by Politico.

Business Insider has referred to Ingraham's on-air style as what?
A: "Wading into debates on racism and gun violence".

In her senior year at Dartmouth College, she was editor-in-chief of what college newspaper?
A: The Dartmouth Review, Ingraham wrote several controversial articles.


She sent a reporter undercover to a campus LGBTQ meeting, and later received criticism when, despite an oath of confidentiality being read to participants, Ingraham did what?
A: She published a transcript of the meeting and included the names of the attendees, describing them as "cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites".

Why did Ingraham claim that confidentiality did not apply?
A: Because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the outing of the gay students as a "freedom of the press issue".

Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having what?
A: "The most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable".

In 1997, Ingraham wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she had changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing what?
A: "The dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother, Curtis, and his partner coped with AIDS.

Ingraham has stated that she supports civil unions between same-sex partners, but believes what?
A: Marriage "is between a man and a woman".

In 2014, she denounced House Majority Leader Eric Cantor after he expressed what?
A: Support for the DREAM Act and a GOP bill to grant a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants.

At the time, Cantor faced a primary challenge from whom?
A: Dave Brat, which he would go on to lose.

That same year, Ingraham harshly criticized Republican congresswoman Renee Elmers for expressing support for what?
A: A comprehensive immigration bill which included a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who were in the country at the time.

In an interview with Elmers, Ingraham accused Elmers of supporting what?
A: Amnesty and using liberal talking points, and said her arguments were "infuriating to my listeners".

In September 2017, amid reports that Trump was considering an agreement with Democrats on amnesty for approximately 800,000 DREAMers, Ingraham criticized Trump, tweeting what?
A: "When does American working class w/out real wage increase in 15yrs & who send their kids to overcrowded public schools get amnesty?"

In July 2018, Ingraham harshly criticized Republican congressman Kevin Yoder after he expressed support for a Democratic bill that would do what?
A: Roll back Attorney General Jeff Sessions' order that immigration judges not be allowed to grant asylum to asylum seekers fleeing domestic abuse or gang violence in their home country.

She called on the congressman to do what?
A: "To stop selling out the Trump agenda."

On the June 18, 2018, broadcast of The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham likened detention facilities where children separated from their illegal immigrant parents by the Trump administration are kept to what?
A: To "summer camps" that "resemble boarding schools."

She further described criticism of the family separation policy as what?
A: "faux liberal outrage."

Ingraham had referred to the border crossings as what?
A: "slow-rolling invasion of the United States."

Ingraham has spoken out against the changing what?
A: Racial demographics of The United States.

Some mainstream media described Ingraham's views as advocating what?
A: The white genocide conspiracy theory.

In October 2018, Ingraham urged her audience to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, saying that Democrats what?
A: "want to replace you, the American voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of chain migrants."