Who is Tucker Carlson?
A: Tucker Carlson is an American television host, conservative political
commentator and author.
He has hosted the nightly political talk show “Tucker
Carlson Tonight” on Fox News since when?
A: 2016.
He has been a political analyst for Fox News since
when?
A: 2009.
In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial
editor-in-chief of what right-wing news and opinion website?
A: The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.
He has written what three books?
A: Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites (2003), Ship of Fools (2018), and
The Long Slide (2021).
Carlson's maternal great-great-grandfather Cesar
Lombardi immigrated to New York from where in 1860?
A: Switzerland.
Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a
boarding school in Switzerland, but said he was what?
A: Kicked out.
Where did Carlson receive his secondary education?
A: At St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown,
Rhode Island.
It was where he started dating whom?
A: His future wife, Susan Andrews, the headmaster's daughter.
Where did he then go?
A: To Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1991 with a BA
in history.
After college, Carlson tried to join what?
A: The Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied.
He then decided to pursue a career in what?
A: Journalism.
Carlson began his career in journalism as a what?
A: A fact-checker for Policy Review, a national conservative journal then
published by The Heritage Foundation and later acquired by the Hoover
Institution.
Where did he work next?
A: As an opinion writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
In 1995 he joined what?
A: The Weekly Standard news magazine.
In 1999, Carlson interviewed who for Talk magazine?
A: Then-Governor George W. Bush.
Further into his career in print, Carlson worked as a
columnist for whom?
A: New York magazine and Reader's Digest.
In his early television career Carlson wore what?
A: Bow ties, a habit from boarding school he continued until 2006.
Carlson was a contestant on season 3 of what reality
show?
A: Dancing with the Stars, which aired in 2006.
He was paired with which professional dancer?
A: Elena Grinenko.
In 2000, Carlson co-hosted what short-lived show?
A: The Spin Room on CNN.
In 2001, he was appointed co-host of what?
A: Crossfire.
Carlson was hired to helm what new program for PBS in
November 2003?
A: Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered, which ran synchronously with Carlson's
Crossfire gig on CNN.
The show launched on June 18, 2004, and was, according
to The New Yorker, what?
A: Part of a broader effort to push PBS further to the right ideologically.