Mothers Quiz 1
1. Which alcoholic drink is nicknamed ?Mother?s Ruin??
2. Who was the mother of King James I of England and VI of Scotland?
3. Born in Albania in 1910, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
4. Which actress was the mother of actress Mia Farrow?
5. Born in 1488 in Knaresborough, in a cave, how do we better know the prophetess Ursuala Sontheil, who predicted such events as the Great Fire of London and the defeat of the Spanish Armada, as well as her own death in 1561?
6. In Greek mythology Oedipus unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy when he unknowingly married his mother. What was his mother?s name?
7. In Alaska is there a Lake called Lake Mother Goose or Lake Mother Hubbard?
8. Which TV cartoon mother is voiced by Julie Kavner?
9. In which 1987 film does Danny de Vito play a timid middle-aged man still living with his overbearing mother?
10. Which record, in 1972, became the first No.1 UK single to include reference to one?s maternal parent in it?s title?
ANSWERS
1. Gin
2. Mary Queen of Scots
3. Mother Teresa
4. Maureen O?Sullivan
5. Mother Shipton
6. Jocasta
7. Lake Mother Goose
8. Marge Simpson
9. Throw Momma From The Train
10. Mama Weer All Crazee Now by Slade