Here' show readers answered on yesterday's Week in Review Quiz: Hank Patterson, the actor who played Fred Ziffel -- the owner of Arnold the Pig -- in the TV series Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, was from this Alabama town? Springville (CORRECT) 32% Fairhope 28% New Hope 23% Pixley 17% Trey Reaves of Florence recently won the Great Alabama 650 kayak race. How long did it take him to finish? 6 days, 1 hour, 39 minutes (CORRECT) 48% 3 days 49 minutes 31% 9 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes 12 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes 8% A 17-acre park is being constructed along the Alabama River in Montgomery to memorialize: the history of slavery in America. (CORRECT) 60% Jimmy Buffett's contributions to Alabama music and culture. 20% George Washington Carver's work toward making the peanut a major Alabama cash crop. 11% the impact of the Negro Leagues on baseball. 9% What recent development occurred related to an old news story? A Moody landfill showed signs it still has an underground title burning, months after officials thought it was extinguished. (CORRECT) 89% NASA and state officials agreed that along I-65 near the Alabama-Tennessee state line would be displayed a replica of the space capsule astronaut Tony Nelson rode during the off-camera splashdown in the pilot episode of "I Dream of Jeannie." 17% The Alabama Department of Corrections announced a plan to relieve prison overcrowding by transferring all incarcerated former elected officials to a halfway house. 4% Sources said Robert Bentley will be on the next season of "Golden Bachelor." 1% Passengers of the ill-fated 2013 Carnival Triumph cruise gathered at a Mobile park to celebrate their 10-year reunion when the portable restrooms malfunctioned. 1% Former Alabama state Sen. Roger Bedford of Russellville passed away recently. In 1996 he ran for U.S. Senate but lost in the general election to ... Jeff Sessions (CORRECT) 47% Richard Shelby 41% Howell Heflin 7% Doug Jones 6% |