Mothers Day Quiz
1. In which film would you hear the immortal words ‘Mother’s not quite herself today!’?
Psycho
2. What is the first name of President George W Bush’s mother?
Barbara - Laura is his wife
3. Who was the mother of Liza Minelli?
Judy Garland
4. Julie Walters and Lulu have both played the mother of which literary character on TV?
Adrian Mole
5. What is the name of the mother of Michael Jackson’s children?
Debbie Rowe
6. Who played Forrest Gump’s mother in the film “Forrest Gump”?
Sally Field
7. Who was the last Empress of India?
Queen Mother
8. In which Beatle song does "…Mother Mary come to me"?
Let It Be
9. Which of these comedians was a preferred choice to play Frank Spencer in ‘Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em’, before the role went to Michael Crawford a) Benny Hill b) Dick Emery or c) Ronnie Barker?
c – Ronnie Barker
10. If A Horse’s Father Is A Sire, What Is It’s Mother Called?
A Dam
11. Nacre is more commonly known as what?
Mother of Pearl
12. Who played Jennifer Saunders mother in “Absolutely Fabulous”?
June Whitfield
13. Who had a hit with Sylvia’s Mother in 1972?
Dr Hook
In the Doctor Hook hit Sylvia’s Mother, what is mother’s surname?
Abraham
14. Which famous actress is the mother of actress Joely Richardson?
Vanessa Redgrave
15. According to the proverb, what is "the mother of invention"?
Necessity
16. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?
Anne Boleyn
17. What do Tibetans refer to as ‘The goddess mother’?
Mount Everest
18. Which TV spy series featured a spymaster named Mother?
The Avengers
19. In the Pantomime, who is Aladdin’s mother?
Widow Twanky
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Name a man who is famous for wearing women’s clothes?
Danny La Rue / Barry Humphries / Dame Edna / Lilly Savage alias Paul O’Grady / Eddie Izzard / Boy George
21. Which almond cake is traditionally made for Mothering Sunday?
Simnel Cake
22. True or False - Neil Armstrong’s mother’s maiden name was moon?
False - Buzz Aldrins was!
23. Which Blue String Pudding eating family consisted of Major, Mother, Granny, Small And Tiny?
The Clangers
24. Who is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith who made her screen debut in the Hitchcock’s 1963 suspense thriller The Birds?
Tippi Hedron
25. What is the name of the Diamond, which was the centrepiece of the crown that The Queen Mother wore for her Coronation in 1937? The Koh i Noor
26. According to Beatrix Potter, what were the names of the four rabbits that lived with their mother in a sandbank underneath the root of a very big fir tree?
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, Peter
27. Which Catholic missionary and Nobel laureate died in 1997?
Mother Teresa - born in Albania - Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, born Skopje 1910
28. Which artist painted a famous portrait of his mother?
James Whistler
29. In fiction, who’s mother Monique Delacroix, died when he was 11?
James Bond
30. The name of Spock’s mother in the TV series “Star Trek” was also the name of a late 1980’s pop group, what was it?
T’Pau
31. Which alcoholic spirit is affectionately known as “mother’s ruin”?
Gin
32. Which famous Hollywood actress is the mother of film star Kate Hudson?
Goldie Hawn
33. Elizabeth Fry was known as the Mother of Prison Reform, where can everyone regularly see her picture?
On the back of a £5 note - issued May 2002
34. Whenever Reginald Perrin thought of his mother-in-law, what vision came up on the TV screen?
A Hippopotamus
35. Which actress played the part of Elvis Presley’s mother in the film Blue Hawaii and later went on to play a TV detective?
Angela Landsbury
36. What was the name of Superman’s mother?
Lara
37. Who is Pebble’s mother in the Flintstones?
Wilma
38. In song, where was ‘Mother Kelly’s Doorstep’?
Down Paradise Row
39. Which actress, born in 1927, is the famous mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and famous for the shower scene in ‘Psycho’?
Janet Leigh
40. On December 17th 1972, “lets get this mother out of here” were the last words spoken where?
The Moon
Tiebreaker - Mrs Vassilyev is entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific mother ever, how many babies did she give birth to?
69
