79 free TV Moms trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free TV mom trivia questions with answers. Television has been telling us what a mother looks like since the 1950s, and this quiz rounds up the ones everybody remembers. It runs from June Cleaver, Marion Cunningham and Carol Brady through Edith Bunker, Florida Evans and Louise Jefferson, Clair Huxtable's lawyer career, Roseanne on the line at Wellman Plastics, Peggy Bundy and her bonbons, Marge's beehive, Lorelai and Rory, Kitty Forman, Lois of Malcolm in the Middle, Marie and Debra Barone, Frankie Heck, Claire and Gloria of Modern Family, and the prestige-drama mothers Livia and Carmela Soprano, Skyler White and Rebecca Pearson. Easy questions ask which show June Cleaver is from and who voices Marge; the hard ones want Carol Brady's maiden name, Peggy Bundy's home county, the plumber Clair Huxtable nearly was and the actress originally cast as Mrs Brady. Written for Mother's Day quizzes, sitcom binge-watchers and anyone who grew up with a TV mom. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the characters and their shows, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01June Cleaver, archetypal 1950s TV mother, appeared on which sitcom?
Leave It to Beaver
Barbara Billingsley played her, and returned as a grandmother in the 1980s sequel The New Leave It to Beaver.
Q 02What are the names of June and Ward Cleaver's two sons?
Wally and Beaver
Wally is twelve and Beaver 'almost eight' when the show begins. Ricky and David were the Nelson boys.
Q 03Which actress was originally cast as Carol Brady before Florence Henderson replaced her?
Joyce Bulifant
The switch also caused Alice to be recast at the last minute. Shelley Long played Carol in the 1990s films.
Q 04What was Carol Brady's maiden name?
Tyler
She was Caroline Ann Tyler, then Martin from her first marriage, before becoming Mrs Brady.
Q 05On Happy Days, Marion Cunningham is the only person allowed to call Fonzie by what name?
Arthur
He calls her 'Mrs. C'. The character was named after actress Marion Ross, who played her for all eleven seasons.
Q 06What is Clair Huxtable's profession on The Cosby Show?
Lawyer
Bill Cosby originally wanted her to be a plumber; the producers and his wife Camille talked him into a lawyer.
Q 07How many children do Clair and Cliff Huxtable have?
Five
Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy. Phylicia Rashad won the part with a subtler audition than the other candidates.
Q 08Who voices Marge Simpson?
Julie Kavner
She won a Primetime Emmy for the role in 1992. Matt Groening based Marge on his own mother, Margaret.
Q 09Marge Simpson's blue beehive was partly inspired by the hairstyle of which film character?
The Bride of Frankenstein
The other inspiration was the way Matt Groening's mother wore her hair in the 1960s.
Q 10In which fictional Illinois city does Roseanne Conner live?
Lanford
It is said to be about two hours from Chicago. She works the line at Wellman Plastics with her sister Jackie.
Q 11How was Roseanne Conner written out of the spinoff The Conners after Roseanne Barr was fired in 2018?
She died of an opioid overdose
Barr had been dropped over a racist tweet after one season of the revival.
Q 12What was Peggy Bundy's maiden name on Married... with Children?
Wanker
Her family lives in Wanker County, Wisconsin, 'home of the big gassy possum'. Wrestler King Kong Bundy played her uncle.
Q 13What does Peggy Bundy famously eat on the couch all day without gaining weight?
BonBons
Her favourite shows are Oprah and Donahue. Wanker women, she says, never work.
Q 21What kind of creature is Lily Munster?
A vampire
Her maiden name is Dracula. In the original pilot Herman was married to a different woman, Phoebe, dropped for looking too much like Morticia.
Q 22What insulting nickname does Archie Bunker call his wife Edith?
Dingbat
He also tells her to 'stifle', which Norman Lear borrowed from his own father. Meathead is son-in-law Mike.
Q 23Which cousin of Edith Bunker got her own spin-off sitcom?
Maude Findlay
Bea Arthur's Maude was one of Archie's nemeses. Florida Evans was Maude's housekeeper before Good Times.
Q 14On Gilmore Girls, Lorelai is introduced as a young single mother of a daughter of what age?
A high-schooler
Lorelai had run away from her wealthy parents to raise Rory alone, and reconnects with them only to pay Rory's Chilton tuition.
Q 15What condition do Emily and Richard Gilmore attach to paying Rory's school fees?
Weekly Friday-night dinner with them
Friday night dinner became the show's engine for seven seasons of arguments with Emily and Richard.
Q 16Which diner owner does Lorelai Gilmore eventually marry, in the Netflix revival A Year in the Life?
Luke Danes
Christopher is Rory's father; Max was the Chilton teacher she was briefly engaged to.
Q 17What is Kitty Forman's job on That '70s Show?
Nurse
Debra Jo Rupp played the doting, slightly tipsy mother who takes in Hyde after his own mother abandons him.
Q 18Which actress played Lois, the overbearing mother on Malcolm in the Middle?
Jane Kaczmarek
Lois works at the Lucky Aide drugstore. In the finale she discovers she is pregnant with a sixth child.
Q 19How many sons does Lois have by the end of Malcolm in the Middle, before the finale's surprise?
Five
Francis, Reese, Malcolm, Dewey and Jamie. The finale reveals a sixth child on the way.
Q 20How does Morticia Addams reliably drive her husband Gomez wild?
By speaking French
Any foreign language will do. Her maiden name is Frump and Carolyn Jones also played her sister Ophelia.
Q 24Florida Evans of Good Times first appeared on another sitcom, in Tuckahoe, New York, working as what?
Maude Findlay's housekeeper
Her husband was renamed from Henry to James when the family moved to a Chicago housing project for Good Times.
Q 25What nickname does George Jefferson call his wife Louise?
Weezie
Isabel Sanford played her from All in the Family through The Jeffersons and won an Emmy for it.
Q 26Where was Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother on The Golden Girls, born?
Sicily
She fled an arranged marriage to Guido Spirelli for New York. Estelle Getty was actually younger than Bea Arthur.
Q 27Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond lives where in relation to Ray and Debra?
Directly across the street
Doris Roberts played her. Marie secretly controls the family finances while Frank thinks he does.
Q 28Frankie Heck of The Middle spends the show's later seasons working where?
A dentist's office
She loses her job at Ehlert Motors in season four and finishes dental-assisting school. Patricia Heaton played her.
Q 29On Modern Family, Claire Dunphy is the daughter of which patriarch?
Jay Pritchett
Julie Bowen played her. Her stepmother Gloria is younger than she is.
Q 30Gloria on Modern Family is the mother of Manny and which younger son?
Joe
Fulgencio Joseph Pritchett, born in season four. Sofía Vergara earned four Emmy nominations for the role.