Mother's Day quiz (Questions only)

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?