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Mother's Day quiz

Quiz questions about mothers and mums for Mother's Day (Mothering Sunday in the UK).

  • 133 questions
  • Next: Sunday 7 March 2027.

1. Which flower became the traditional symbol of the American Mother's Day?

2. Which Academy Award winner for best actress is the only Oscar winner with an Oscar winning mother and father?

3. Which actress won Oscars for her unpleasant mother roles in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue?

4. In Greek mythology, which prince unwittingly killed his father and married his mother?

5. Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement in November. Whose engagement ring did Kate receive?

6. In which film is there a computer called 'Mother' ?

7. Who played the part of Elvis?s mother in the film Blue Hawaii before moving onto Murder She Wrote?

8. Which alcoholic drink is nicknamed ?Mother?s Ruin??

9. In which television series did Shirley Jones play David Cassidy's mother, before becoming his real step-mother?

10. Mum and Dad are better known as Posh and Becks, but can you name the three young Beckhams?

11. Colonel Paul W Tibbets was a decorated US Bomber Pilot in World War 2, but his mothers name is better remembered, what was her name??

12. What familiar seabird do sailors call mother Carey's chicken?

13. Who is the mother of actress Joely Richardson?

14. Which royal bride started the tradition of laying a wedding bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and in which year?

15. In the UK, Mothering Sunday falls on which Sunday of Lent?

16. Many people believed that Lord Carnarvon's death was due to what?

17. Which building has, since 1953, been the home of the Queen Mother?

18. What was the name of the group formed by Frank Zappa that were at the heart of the hippy avant-garde movement?

19. In pantomime, who is Aladdin’s Mother?

20. Born in Albania in 1910, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?

ANSWERS

1. The carnation

2. Liza Minnelli (her parents were Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland)

3. Shelley Winters

4. Oedipus

5. Diana, Princess of Wales (William's mother)

6. Alien

7. Angela Lansbury

8. Gin

9. The Partridge Family

10. Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz

11. Enola Gay

12. The Storm Petrol

13. Vanessa Redgrave

14. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later the Queen Mother), in 1923

15. The fourth Sunday

16. The curse of the mummy.

17. Clarence House

18. Mothers of Invention

19. Widow Twankey

20. Mother Teresa

Where these questions come from
  1. Mothers Quiz 2
  2. Pauls Quiz 250
  3. Movie Actresses Quiz 1
  4. QuizMiz Quiz 36
  5. Quiz of the Year 2010
  6. Pauls Mothers Day Quiz 1
  7. Blue Movies Quiz 1
  8. Mothers Quiz 1
  9. TV and Films Quiz 4
  10. Pub Quiz 59
  11. Pot Luck Quiz 15
  12. Birds Quiz 1
  13. Movie and Moviestars Quiz 14
  14. Remembrance Day Quiz 1
  15. People and Places Quiz 1
  16. Same initials Quiz 9
  17. Famous Franks Quiz 1
  18. Pub Quiz 154

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