Famous Mothers Trivia
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99 free Famous Mothers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free famous mothers trivia questions with answers. This famous mothers trivia quiz rounds up the best-known moms in history and pop culture. From the screen: Marge Simpson, Lorelai Gilmore, Carol Brady, June Cleaver, Roseanne Conner, Peggy Bundy, Kitty Forman, Livia Soprano, Norma Bates, Sarah Connor and Aurora Greenway. From the page: Molly Weasley, Mrs. Bennet, Marmee March, Sethe and Grendel's mother. From history and headlines: Marie Curie and her Nobel-winning daughter, Queen Victoria, Abigail Adams, Rose Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Serena Williams, Jacinda Ardern, Kris Jenner and the record-setting Duggars, Gosselins and Suleman octuplets. Myth gets a look-in too with Rhea and Demeter. It works as a Mother's Day party round, a family quiz or a solo challenge, with easy openers and some genuinely hard ones later. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who voices Marge Simpson?
Julie Kavner
Julie Kavner was already in the cast of The Tracey Ullman Show when the Simpsons shorts began there in 1987, so she was handed Marge, and she voices Marge's sisters Patty and Selma too.
Q 02Marge Simpson's blue beehive was partly inspired by which film character?
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein was one model for the hair; the other was the beehive Matt Groening's mother, Margaret, wore in the 1960s, and Marge takes her name as well.
Q 03In Gilmore Girls, Lorelai raises Rory in which Connecticut town?
Stars Hollow
Stars Hollow. Lorelai had Rory at 16, fled her parents' Hartford mansion, and started out as a maid at the Independence Inn, living with her baby in its converted potting shed.
Q 04Which actress played Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films?
Julie Walters
Julie Walters trained as a nurse in Birmingham before giving it up for drama school, and went on to play the Weasley matriarch across the Potter series.
Q 05Which Death Eater does Molly Weasley kill in a duel in the final Harry Potter book?
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange had just nearly hit Ginny with a Killing Curse; J.K. Rowling said she always meant Molly to finish her, setting a mother's love against Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort.
Q 06In Pride and Prejudice, which of Mrs. Bennet's five daughters runs off with the charming scoundrel Wickham?
Lydia
Lydia, the youngest, runs off with Wickham, and the family is spared disgrace only because Mr. Darcy quietly tracks the pair down and pays Wickham to marry her.
Q 07In which novel do four sisters call their mother Marmee?
Little Women
Little Women. Louisa May Alcott drew the March family from her own childhood as the second of four sisters, and wrote the book quickly because her family needed the money.
Q 08Which Toni Morrison novel centres on Sethe, a formerly enslaved mother, and won the Pulitzer Prize?
Beloved
Beloved grew from the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped a Kentucky plantation in 1856 and, when slave catchers cornered her family in Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than see her taken back.
Q 09In which epic poem does a monster's mother rise from a lake to avenge her son's death?
Beowulf
Beowulf. After the hero kills Grendel, the monster's mother raids the hall of Heorot, and he must dive to her underwater lair and slay her with an ancient sword he finds there.
Q 10Which scientist and her daughter are the only mother and daughter to have both won Nobel Prizes?
Marie Curie
Marie Curie and her daughter Irène drove mobile X-ray units to the front together in the First World War; Marie died in 1934, a year before Irène shared the chemistry prize.
Q 11Who was the first woman to be both the wife of one US president and the mother of another?
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams never saw the second half of that record: she died in 1818, six years before her son John Quincy Adams won the presidency.
Q 12Which matriarch raised a president and two US senators among her nine children?
Rose Kennedy
Rose Kennedy outlived four of her nine children, among them the assassinated John and Robert, and died in 1995 at the age of 104.
Q 13Mother Teresa was born to Albanian parents outside Albania, in which Balkan city that is now a national capital?
Skopje
Skopje was an Ottoman city when Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born there in 1910; she left at 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland and reached India the following year.
Q 21Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar gave all 19 children names starting with which letter?
J
J. Every one of the 19 has a name beginning with their father Jim Bob's initial, and TLC had to retitle its show twice as the family grew from 17 children.
Q 22Which Oscar-winning actress adopted her first child, Maddox, from Cambodia in 2002?
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie said that once she committed to Maddox she would 'never be self-destructive again'; Cambodia later made her a citizen in honour of her humanitarian work there.
Q 23Which actress played Joyce Byers, the mother convinced her missing son is speaking through the house lights, in Stranger Things?
Winona Ryder
Q 14Which pope declared Mother Teresa a saint?
Francis
Pope Francis declared her a saint only 19 years after her death; her cause had opened within two years, after John Paul II waived the usual five-year wait.
Q 15Princess Diana's sons broke royal tradition by attending which school rather than their father's Gordonstoun?
Eton College
Eton College. Their father had called his own Scottish boarding school 'Colditz in kilts', and Eton stands in Windsor, a short walk from their grandmother's castle.
Q 16Which 2018 memoir by Michelle Obama became America's best-selling book of the year within 15 days of release?
Becoming
Becoming. In it she revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage and that her daughters Malia and Sasha were conceived through IVF.
Q 17What is the name of Beyoncé's first child, born in January 2012?
Blue Ivy
Blue Ivy could be heard crying on her father Jay-Z's song 'Glory' two days after she was born, and at nine she shared a Grammy with her mother for 'Brown Skin Girl'.
Q 18Tennis great Serena won the 2017 Australian Open while pregnant by beating which player in the final?
Venus Williams
Venus Williams. Serena beat her older sister in straight sets, revealed three months later that she had been pregnant throughout, and gave birth to her daughter Olympia that September.
Q 19Before Jacinda Ardern, who was the only elected head of government to give birth in office?
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto kept her pregnancy secret even from her cabinet, gave birth to her daughter Bakhtawar in January 1990, and went back to work as soon as her doctor allowed.
Q 20Who is Kris Jenner's only son?
Rob Kardashian
Rob Kardashian shares his name with his father, Robert, the lawyer who reactivated his lapsed licence to help defend his friend O. J. Simpson.
Winona Ryder made her name in 1980s films such as Beetlejuice and Heathers, and the series, set in that same decade, brought her back to stardom with Golden Globe and SAG nominations.
Q 24Which actress played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch?
Florence Henderson
Florence Henderson got the part after her best friend Shirley Jones turned it down; a year later Jones took the mother's role in The Partridge Family instead.
Q 25June Cleaver was the mother on which classic sitcom?
Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver's June did the housework in pearls and high heels: the pearls hid a hollow in the actress's neck, and the heels kept her taller than her growing TV sons.
Q 26In which fictional Illinois town does Roseanne Conner raise Becky, Darlene and D.J.?
Lanford
Lanford. The show grew out of Roseanne Barr's 'domestic goddess' stand-up act, and its working-class family went all the way to No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings.
Q 27Which actress played Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children and later voiced Leela on Futurama?
Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal spent years as a backing singer before Peggy made her famous, touring behind Bette Midler as one of the Harlettes.
Q 28Who played Kitty Forman, Eric's doting mother, on That '70s Show?
Debra Jo Rupp
Debra Jo Rupp returned to the role 17 years after the show ended, when Kitty and Red took in their granddaughter for the summer in the sequel That '90s Show.
Q 29Which actress played Livia Soprano, the mother who helped arrange a hit on her own son Tony?
Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand died in June 2000 before her character's planned storyline could be filmed, so Livia's last scene with Tony was pieced together from old footage and computer imagery.
Q 30In which Hitchcock film does a motel owner keep his dead mother's preserved body in the family home?
Psycho
Psycho. Norman Bates, a keen taxidermist, has kept his mother's body for years and speaks in her voice; her mummified corpse is finally discovered in the fruit cellar.