ANSWERS

1. The fourth Sunday

It is three weeks before Easter Sunday, so it can fall anywhere from early March to early April.

2. Their "mother church" (the main church or cathedral of their area)

In later centuries, it became a day off for young servants to go home and visit their families, which is how it became linked with mothers.

3. Laetare Sunday (also known as Refreshment Sunday)

4. Eleven

They represent the apostles, leaving out Judas. Some bakers add a twelfth for Jesus.

5. Anna Jarvis

6. Woodrow Wilson

7. The carnation

Anna Jarvis chose the white carnation, her mother's favourite. Traditionally, red is worn for a living mother and white for one who has died.

8. The second Sunday in May

9. 10 May

10. Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother

11. The last Sunday in May

If it clashes with Pentecost, it moves to the first Sunday in June.

12. Rhea

13. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1

14. The Spice Girls

15. Five

16. Marmee

17. 101

18. Skopje

19. Knaresborough

20. Brendan O'Carroll

21. 69 (the wife of Feodor Vassilyev)

The record is in Guinness World Records, but it comes from 18th-century reports that cannot be checked. She is said to have had 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.