Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

Michael Myers is the name of the killer in the Halloween movie series.

Michael Myers’ mask in Halloween was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

As a proper noun, The Kirk is an informal name for the Church of Scotland, the country’s national church.

Kirk Cameron is best known for his role on “Growing Pains”, but has expanded his acting talents to include the “Left Behind” series.

Newsman John Cameron Swayze did live commercials for Timex watches in the 1950s & 60s. Timex watches were tested under very stressful conditions, after they passed, Swayze would comment: “Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”

Patrick Swayze exemplified the absolute perfect man to (fictional) The Onion columnist Jean Teasdale, who wrote a mock but moving eulogy when he died.

St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland and a former slave of the Vikings, is said to have explained the concept of the Trinity to the pagan Irish by using a clover - three leaves of a single plant.

[del]The founders of *The Onion *apparently named their paper that because their “food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions.”[/del]

While the four-leaf clover is a symbol of good luck, the three-leafed shamrock is mainly an Irish Christian symbol of the Holy Trinity and has a different significance.

The three persons of the Roman Catholic Holy Trinity are: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost [Spirit].

Aer Lingus aircraft have shamrocks on their tail fins.

Timothy Rasmussen, aka “Shamrock” won the $100,000 first prize on VH1’s *The (White) Rapper Show *in 2007.

Timothy Allen Dick, aka comedian Tim Allen, served two years in federal prison for cocaine dealing.

In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen) encounters a “Binford” tool box. “Binford Tools” was the sponsor of “Tool Time”, the show-within-a-show hosted by Tim Taylor (played by Tim Allen) on Home Improvement.

Tim’s mother in law on HOME IMPROVEMENT was played by Polly Holliday, Alabama born actress best known for playing Flo (full name Florence Jean Castleberry), the big haired multimarried waitress with the “Kiss my grits!” catchphrase, on ALICE and in the short lived spinoff Flo’s Yellow Rose.

Flo is the name of Andy Capp’s wife in the British comic strip created by Reg Smythe.

Reg Presley was the lead singer of the Hampshire-based British Invasion band, the Troggs.

US Senators Robert Kennedy & Everett Dirksen covered the Troggs, big hit Wild Thing

On the sitcom “Nanny and the Professor,” Juliet Mills played Phoebe Figgerlilly, who took care of Professor Harold Everett’s kids.

Juliet Mills, daughter of Oscar winner Sir John Mills and sister of child star Hayley Mills (Pollyanna, The Parent Trap), is what is today known as a “cougar”; her husband of 29 years, actor Maxwell Caulfield, is 18 years her junior.