Episode 1254 - R.i.p. in alabama - Just hit "play" - Lawyer billboards - The caldecott medal - Words before words

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1254, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: R.I.P. In Alabama

• 1: This man who ground up a lot of peanuts is buried on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute.
• George Washington Carver.
• 2: Eddie Kendricks, famed as an original member of this legendary singing group, is in Elmwood Cemetery.
• The Temptations.
• 3: Hooterville's Mr. Haney, he's in a Haleyville, Alabama cemetery.
• Pat Buttram.
• 4: This country singing legend's tombstone reads, "Praise the Lord I Saw the Light".
• Hank Williams, Sr..
• 5: Her marker reads, "Governor, State of Alabama 1967-1968".
• Lurleen B. Wallace.

Round 2. Category: Just Hit Play. With Play in quotation marks

• 1: You don't need to tickle the ivories on this device that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
• a player piano.
• 2: This soft modeling clay for kids was introduced in 1955.
• Play-Doh.
• 3: This 2-word TV innovation premiered in the 1963 Army-Navy game.
• instant replay.
• 4: How often a particular song is broadcast on the radio.
• airplay.
• 5: To pretend to be asleep or dead, like a New World marsupial.
• play possum.

Round 3. Category: Lawyer Billboards

• 1: Prisoner Release Negotiations and Patriotic Poetry A SpecialtyServing The Greater Washington/Baltimore Area.
• Francis Scott Key.
• 2: Ask Sextus RosciusThe Innocent Have Nothing To Fear When I Spin My Oratory.
• Cicero.
• 3: Bostonians, You Love My Dad's Poetry.Try My Pleading On For Size..
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..
• 4: Socialists...Science Teachers...Accused Murderers...No CauseToo Unpopular!.
• Clarence Darrow.
• 5: I Wrote The BookOn English Law(My Famous "Commentaries")and I Can Help You!.
• William Blackstone.

Round 4. Category: The Caldecott Medal

• 1: In the 1980s Chris Van Allsburg won 2 Caldecotts: for "Jumanji" and this story of a northbound train.
• The Polar Express.
• 2: 1955's medal went to Marcia Brown for the illustrations of this tale subtitled "Or, the Little Glass Slipper".
• Cinderella.
• 3: Ed Young's Caldecott winner "Lon Po Po", which means "granny wolf", is a Chinese version of this fairy tale.
• Little Red Riding Hood.
• 4: This 1963 Maurice Sendak book won the Caldecott as well as the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
• Where the Wild Things Are.
• 5: "Chanticleer and the Fox", the 1959 winner, was adapted by Barbara Cooney from this 14th century work.
• The Canterbury Tales.

Round 5. Category: Words Before Words

• 1: Bean, market, widow.
• black.
• 2: Carpet, saucer, colors.
• flying.
• 3: Climbing, salt, star.
• rock.
• 4: Clip, towel, money.
• paper.
• 5: Winter, family, option.
• nuclear.

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