Blackhawk crash, AL rookie, beer degree: Down in Alabama

Blackhawk crash, AL rookie, beer degree: Down in Alabama

Note: The results from yesterday’s quiz are down near the bottom, below the podcast player and news briefs.

Army helicopter crash

The five Army soldiers killed during a helicopter refueling incident over the Mediterranean Sea have been identified, and one was a 2004 graduate of Enterprise High School, reports AL.com’s Howard Koplowitz.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer and four other special-ops soldiers were doing aerial refueling training when their Blackhawk went down.

The Nashville Tennessean reported that Dwyer previously served deployments with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, among others.

Stephen Dwyer was 38 years old.

Showing out in The Show

A past Alabama Mr. Baseball appears to be a part of Major League Baseball’s future.

The Baltimore Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson was the unanimous choice for 2023 American League Rookie of the Year, reports AL.com’s Mark Inabinett.

Henderson played high school ball at Morgan Academy in Selma. With the Orioles this past season, he hit .255 with 28 home runs and 82 RBIs while splitting most of his time between shortstop and third base. He’s the first Rookie of the Year in either league to come out of the state of Alabama since Craig Kimbrell won the award with the Atlanta Braves in 2011.

A beer degree?

There’s more than one way to expand your STEM academic footprint.

Here’s a unique way: Auburn University is offering a master’s degree in brewing science and operations, reports AL.com’s Cody D. Short. There’s currently no other program in the country like it.

You know, where college students are working on the production end of the beer industry.

Auburn’s master’s brewing-science program takes two years to complete. There’s also a one-year program to earn a graduate certificate. Classes are online, and most students have full-time jobs and have some experience in craft beer or homebrewing.

No matter how bad things get in this country, there are two things we’ll probably never have a shortage of: lawyers and beer.

Civil Rights leader’s passing

Birmingham Civil Rights leader The Rev. Frank Dukes passed away over the weekend, reports Joseph D. Bryant. Among the highlights of Dukes’ work was his organizing fellow Miles College Students to boycott downtown businesses that had segregationist policies in the early 1960s.

Frank Dukes was 92 years old.

More Alabama news

Born on this date

  • In 1954, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of Birmingham.
  • In 1998, Phildelphia Eagles and Heisman Trophy-winning former Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith.

Quiz results

Thanks to everyone who took this yesterday’s Week in Review Quiz. Here’s how y’all did, collectively:

Who among the following will NOT moderate the Dec. 6 Republican primary presidential debate in Tuscaloosa?

  • Tucker Carlson (CORRECT) 74.6%
  • Megyn Kelly 9.6%
  • Eliana Johnson 9.6%
  • Elizabeth Vargas 6.2%

The first Alabama hotel to win a Five Diamond rating from AAA Travels is located in what city?

  • Auburn (CORRECT) 56.9%
  • Fairhope 24.6%
  • Hoover 10.4%
  • Muscle Shoals 8.1%

Alabama musician “Funky” Donnie Fritts played keyboards for decades for this legendary singer/songwriter.

  • Kris Kristofferson (CORRECT) 54.4%
  • Joni Mitchell 19.7%
  • Clarence Carter 18.1%
  • Chris Gaines 7.7%

What once-prolific chain restaurant in Alabama last week had only one location in the state?

  • O’Charley’s (CORRECT) 82.3%
  • Ruby Tuesday 11.2%
  • Arnold’s Drive-In 4.6%
  • Checkers 1.9%

Which current congressperson now lives in a different district due to court-ordered redistricting?

  • Barry Moore (CORRECT) 45.9%
  • Terri Sewell 20.5%
  • Jerry Carl 17.0%
  • Robert Aderholt 16.6%

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