TV Moms Trivia
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87 free TV Moms trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Joyce Bulifant was originally cast as Carol Brady but was replaced by Florence Henderson before the series was shot. Shelley Long played Carol in the 1995 film The Brady Bunch Movie.
Q 04What was Carol Brady's maiden name?
Tyler
Her maiden name was Tyler: she was Carol Ann Tyler, became Carol Martin by her first marriage, and then Mrs. Brady when she wed Mike in the pilot.
Q 05What 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 06How 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 07Who voices Marge Simpson?
Julie Kavner
Julie Kavner has voiced Marge since the 1987 Tracey Ullman Show shorts and won a Primetime Emmy for the role in 1992. Matt Groening named Marge after his own mother, Margaret.
Q 08Marge Simpson's blue beehive was partly inspired by the hairstyle of which film character?
The Bride of Frankenstein
Matt Groening modeled Marge's tall blue beehive on the Bride of Frankenstein's hair and on the way his own mother wore her hair in the 1960s.
Q 09In which fictional Illinois city does Roseanne Conner live?
Lanford
The Conners live in Lanford, a fictional Illinois town; in the first season Roseanne works the line at Wellman Plastics alongside her sister Jackie.
Q 10How 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 11What was Peggy Bundy's maiden name on Married... with Children?
Wanker
Peggy was born a Wanker: her backwoods family hails from Wanker County, Wisconsin, and wrestler King Kong Bundy played her Uncle Irwin.
Q 12What does Peggy Bundy famously eat on the couch all day without gaining weight?
BonBons
Peg Bundy's trademark is lounging on the couch eating BonBons and watching Oprah instead of cooking or cleaning, a running gag across all eleven seasons.
Q 13On 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 21Which cousin of Edith Bunker got her own spin-off sitcom?
Maude Findlay
Maude Findlay, Edith's cousin, was spun off into Maude in 1972; Bea Arthur played the loud liberal who was one of Archie's favourite sparring partners.
Q 22Florida Evans of Good Times first appeared on another sitcom, in Tuckahoe, New York, working as what?
Maude Findlay's housekeeper
Florida was Maude Findlay's housekeeper on Maude, set in Tuckahoe; her husband was renamed from Henry to James when the family moved to a Chicago housing project for Good Times.
Q 23What nickname does George Jefferson call his wife Louise?
Weezie
Q 14What 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 15Whom does Lorelai Gilmore marry in the Netflix revival A Year in the Life?
Luke Danes
Lorelai marries Luke Danes, owner of Luke's Diner, in the 2016 revival's 'Fall' episode; Christopher is Rory's father and Max the Chilton teacher she was briefly engaged to.
Q 16What is Kitty Forman's job on That '70s Show?
Nurse
Kitty Forman is a nurse; Debra Jo Rupp played the doting, slightly tipsy mother who takes in Steven Hyde after his own mother abandons him.
Q 17Which actress played Lois, the overbearing mother on Malcolm in the Middle?
Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek played Lois for all seven seasons (2000–2006); Lois works at the Lucky Aide drugstore and rules the house with a volume no son can match.
Q 18How 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 19What 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 20What insulting nickname does Archie Bunker call his wife Edith?
Dingbat
Archie calls Edith 'dingbat' and tells her to 'stifle yourself', a phrase Norman Lear borrowed from his own father; 'Meathead' is his name for son-in-law Mike.
George calls Louise 'Weezie'; Isabel Sanford played her from All in the Family through The Jeffersons and won the 1981 Emmy for lead actress in a comedy.
Q 24Where was Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother on The Golden Girls, born?
Sicily
Sophia was born in Sicily ('Picture it: Sicily, 1922') and fled an arranged marriage to Guido Spirelli for New York. Estelle Getty was actually a year younger than Bea Arthur.
Q 25Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond lives where in relation to Ray and Debra?
Directly across the street
Marie and Frank live directly across the street from Ray and Debra in Lynbrook, Long Island, which lets Marie barge in unannounced; Doris Roberts won four Emmys for the role.
Q 26Frankie 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 27On Modern Family, Claire Dunphy is the daughter of which patriarch?
Jay Pritchett
Claire is Jay Pritchett's daughter, born Claire Pritchett; Julie Bowen played her, and Jay's second wife Gloria is younger than Claire.
Q 28Gloria 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.
Q 29How many Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama did Edie Falco win for playing Carmela Soprano?
Three
Three: Edie Falco won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama in 1999, 2001 and 2003 for Carmela, then added a comedy lead Emmy for Nurse Jackie in 2010.
Q 30What is the name of Skyler and Walter White's baby daughter on Breaking Bad?
Holly
Holly White is born in season two; Skyler is already pregnant with her when the show begins. Anna Gunn won two Emmys for the role.