Here are the results of this past Friday's quiz, which had seven questions from the seven years we've been doing the "Down in Alabama" podcast. In 2017, 12 inmates escaped an Alabama jail in September 2017 after using what substance to cover a door number and trick a young jailer into opening access to the outside? Peanut Butter (CORRECT) 58.3% Duct Tape 27.6% Silly Putty 11.6% A Washcloth 2.5% In 2018, a production of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” became a Broadway sensation. The new take on the script was written by Aaron Sorkin and starred which Oscar winning actor as Atticus Finch: Jeff Daniels (CORRECT) 56.3% Matthew McConaughey 23.1% Colin Firth 14.1% Gary Oldman 6.5% In 2019, Erin Howard, a Huntsville eighth grader became the city’s first co-champion of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. After 20 rounds, eight spellers remained and the bee apparently ran out of words for them to spell and named the eight remaining contenders the co-champions. What was Howard’s final word? Erysipelas (CORRECT) 67.8% Tulisan 9.5% Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 13.1% Widjadidja 9.5% Here’s a name you may remember from the news in 2020. Jeanne Marrazzo served as the director of UAB’s Division of Infectious Diseases and was on the cutting edge of Covid-19 research and at the forefront of the state’s public awareness efforts. In 2023, she took on a new role. What was it? Director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CORRECT) 54.3% Director of the CDC 24.6% Secretary of Health and Human Services 14.6% Surgeon General 6.5% In 2021, once again, Alabama failed to pass a lottery bill. But it did surprisingly pass legislation that would do what: Allow alcohol to be delivered 7.0% Authorize medical marijuana 27.6% Spend a billion dollars on new prison construction 8.0% All of the above (CORRECT) 57.3% In 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of Alabama to do what? Redraw its Congressional districts (CORRECT) 92.0% Respond to public records requests in a timely fashion 6.0% Become a basketball state 1.0% Build electric cars 1.0% In 2023, a brawl erupted on a river front, leading to a viral video and days of conversation and jokes on the internet. Where did the brawl take place? Montgomery (CORRECT) 80.4% Demopolis 10.1% Florence 5.0% Gadsden 4.5% | 