"All My Children" Turns 20 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Adam Chandler

The episode opened up with clips ranging from the show's first year all the way up to 1989 featuring various characters like Phil, Tara, Amy, Ruth, Erica, and more. There was one clip in particular where Brooke was in bed, with Adam, and she mentioned how they should change the scene. Adam replied it would likely take an earthquake to improve his mood.

Answer: Jenny Gardener

Jenny got the shock of her life when, in the early 1980s, Liza Colby showed her an article at the Prom which stated her father, Ray Gardener, had been convicted of raping Ruth Martin. Jenny did not want to believe it so she ran off and eventually came face to face with Ray in prison. It was through talking with him there that she found out he was indeed a horrible person.

Answer: Paul and Anne Martin

Paul Martin married Anne Tyler, Phoebe's daughter, and they were overjoyed when she gave birth to their daughter, Elizabeth. However, Anne developed a disease during the pregnancy and it led to Elizabeth being diagnosed with mental retardation. In this clip, Paul and Anne argued over perhaps putting Elizabeth in an institution and Paul referred to Elizabeth as "the child." This infuriated Anne as she balked at this idea and said an institution could not give Elizabeth a mother's love.

A year later, Elizabeth died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Answer: No

The producers at "All My Children" decided to have, at that moment, its original characters sit together in a living room to discuss the past 20 years in Pine Valley. These characters were Erica Kane, Mona Kane, Joe Martin, Ruth Martin, and Phoebe Wallingford.

They decided to have just these five appear since they were the five who had been on since day one. Since Tom Cudahy arrived seven years after the show's first episode, he was not a part of the discussion. The performers' names are as follows: Susan Lucci (Erica), the late Frances Heflin (Mona), Ray MacDonnell (Joe), Mary Fickett (Ruth), and the late Ruth Warrick (Phoebe).

As of January 6th, 2010 the only star of these five who remains an original castmate is Susan Lucci, as Ray MacDonnell last appeared as Joe on January 5th, 2010 since he decided to retire. Frances Heflin passed away in 1994, Mary Fickett retired in 1995, and Ruth Warrick passed away in 2005.

Answer: Nina Cortlandt

When Nina came to town in 1979, she thought her mother was dead since that is what her father, Palmer, told her. During the trial over Sybil Thorne's murder, where Cliff Warner was charged with the crime, Monique Jonvil testified about what she knew over her murder.

It was during her testimony that she revealed her real name was Daisy Murdoch and she was therefore Nina's biological mother.

Answer: True

One of the biggest stories Erica was ever involved in happened during the last year of the 1970s while she was married to Tom Cudahy. She informed him how much she wanted a baby but, behind Tom's back, Erica took birth control pills. A daring story for that time period, Tom eventually found her pills and divorced her. Tom was Erica's third husband.

Answer: Mona Kane

In the regular clips, Erica told Joe they had so many memories to share but Joe reminded her they had limited time. This is when Phoebe piped in and told Erica how she always had to be the center of attention. However, Mona had something to say about that and said it was actually Phoebe who always wanted the attention.

Answer: Jesse Hubbard

There was one clip which showed Jesse and Angie in the early 1980s when they both attended Pine Valley High School. Angie busted Jesse when she learned that he cheated on a high school paper and informed him his little cheat would not work in the long run. Jesse shot back by saying that would only be the case if he actually got caught.

Answer: Jeff Martin and Mary Kennicott

Within the last ten minutes of the episode, Ruth did some looking through a scrapbook and she beamed with joy when she saw a picture of Jeff and Mary on their wedding day. She told Joe to come take a look at it so he walked over and smiled at seeing the photo. Erica commented on how mouthy Jeff got at times.

Answer: Myrtle Fargate

Ruth got to talking about Tad and how the one person who understood him the most was Grandma Kate, who the grandchildren called "Gran." This is when we saw many clips of Kate, such as when she hugged Tad after he had gotten into trouble once his affairs with Marian and Liza became news.

There was one clip where Kate watered some flowers at the Wallingfords and Myrtle saw her and commented how she could see the flower heads lifting themselves up at Langley.