Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

Susan Lucci was nominated for a Daytime Emmy a record 21 times, beginning in 1978, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her performances on All My Children as Erica Kane, not winning it until her 19th try in 1999. Depending on how you count, Erica was married between 10 and 12 times over the show’s long run.

Please explain this further.

Susan Dey starred in both The Partridge Family and L.A. Law.

Susan Dey turned down the role of Sandy in Grease (1978).

Here. IOW, it was a soap opera. :wink:

Dey was the title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers and Tunis under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 onwards.

Thanks for the Erica Kane explanation. That gal’s been bizzay!

“Regency England” refers to the period from 1811-1820 when King George III was mentally unfit to reign, and his duties were performed (not always well) by his son the Prince of Wales, who served as Prince Regent. The prince later took the British throne in his own right as King George IV.

The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect on the island nation of Vanuatu, which holds the Duke of Edinburgh to be the incarnation of one of their local mountain spirits. Adherents among the Yaohnanen tribe further hold the Prince Consort to be the brother of John Frum, the deity of their main cargo cult. They construct imitation runways and radios in hope of attracting the American Army transport planes, full of bounty, to return to their fair islands.

Vanuatu was formerly known as the New Hebrides Condominium, and was jointly ruled by France and the United Kingdom. Even today, there are separate Francophone and Anglophone schools in the island nation.

There are four countries with a presence in North American not counting the West Indies: Canada, the United States, Mexico and France.

Wow - I had no idea there was still a teeny little French outpost off the coast of Canada! Ignorance fought.

The flags of Canada, the United States, Mexico and France each include red stripes.

As does Thailand’s.

The image of the Mexican flag is protected under law. A special permit is needed to broadcast its image. In February 2010, MTV Mexico controversially cancelled a much-publicised broadcast of an episode of South Park called “Pinewood Derby,” featuring the flag, because the permit had not been issued. And in 2008, Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio was fined for posing nude wrapped in the flag in a photo shoot for a Spanish magazine.

When a new horse race in England was being established in 1779, there was some question as what it would be called. According to tradition, the two noblemen involved flipped a coin and the race was named after the winner, the Earl of Derby. The Derby became the premiere English horse race, so when Churchill Downs established a new race, they named it the Kentucky Derby. If the coin flip had gone the other way, they’d br running the Kentucky Burbury, after the Earl of Burbury.

It is believed that Stephen Foster took inspiration from Harriett Beecher Stowe’s 1851 bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and hoped to exploit its popularity by writing a song he called “Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night.” Each verse ended with the line “Den poor Uncle Tom, good night.”

The song later became the offical state song “My Old Kentucky Home.”

“My Old Kentucky Home” was first performed in 1853 by Christy’s Minstrels. The troupe popularized the standard minstrel show opening act that featured the roles of Mr. Interlocutor, Mr. Tambo, and Mr. Bones.

“My Old Kentucky Home” is featured on the 2001 state quarter for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. George Washington is shown on the other side, as he is on all quarters issued since the 1930s.

Legend has it that Stephen Foster wrote "My Old Kentucky Home’ after a visit to Federal Hill, the plantation owned by his cousin, U.S. Seantor John Rowan.

Rowan University is located in New Jersey. Formerly known as Glassboro State College, it is perhaps most famous for serving as the site of a summit meeting between U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1967.

Robin Williams’s first regular role on TV was in a revival of Laugh-In in 1977. Rowan and Martin were not involved in it, and sued producer George Schlatter for using the name.

Alan Williams, who was the booking agent for the Beatles before they moved on to Brian Epstein and George Martin, recovered a tape of a Beatles performance in Hamburg from 1962 and released it in 1977.

Beatle George Harrison’s son Dhani is the only one of the Beatles’ ten children who has no half-siblings.

Former University of Michigan and NFL linebacker Dhani Jones is the host of the Travel Channel series Dhani Tackles the Globe, which features him visiting different countries and learning to play their sports. As an example, he played Rugby Union for England’s Blackheath club.