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50 free Famous Mothers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
She was already in the Tracey Ullman Show cast, so no new voice actor was needed when the shorts began in 1987.
Q 02Marge Simpson's blue beehive was partly inspired by which film character?
The Bride of Frankenstein
The other inspiration was the hairstyle Matt Groening's own mother, Margaret, wore in the 1960s.
Q 03How old was Lorelai Gilmore when she gave birth to Rory?
16
She then moved out of her parents' Hartford mansion and raised Rory in a converted potting shed behind the Independence Inn.
Q 04Which actress played Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films?
Julie Walters
Molly gets one of the series' great moments: killing Bellatrix Lestrange in a duel during the Battle of Hogwarts.
Q 05Which Death Eater does Molly Weasley kill in a duel in the final Harry Potter book?
Bellatrix Lestrange
Her curse hits Bellatrix right over the heart, moments after Bellatrix nearly kills Ginny.
Q 06How many daughters does Mrs. Bennet need to marry off in Pride and Prejudice?
Five
Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia — and the estate is entailed away from all of them.
Q 07What do the four March sisters call their mother in Little Women?
Marmee
She sends them out on Christmas morning to give their breakfast to the impoverished Hummel family.
Q 08Which Toni Morrison novel centres on Sethe, a formerly enslaved mother, and won the Pulitzer Prize?
Beloved
It was loosely based on the real Margaret Garner, who fled Kentucky slavery for Cincinnati in 1856.
Q 09In which Old English poem does a monster's mother rise from a lake to avenge her son?
Beowulf
Grendel's mother is one of the poem's three antagonists, along with Grendel and the dragon.
Q 10Which Nobel-winning scientist and her daughter are the only mother-daughter pair to both win?
Marie Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie shared the 1935 Chemistry prize with her husband for discovering artificial radioactivity.
Q 11How many children did Queen Victoria have with Prince Albert?
Nine
Their marriages across the continent earned her the nickname 'grandmother of Europe'.
Q 12Which first lady was the mother of a president as well as the wife of one?
Abigail Adams
Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, she was both the first second lady and the second first lady.
Q 13How many children did Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy, have?
Nine
Pope Pius XII made her a papal countess in 1951, only the sixth American woman so honoured.
In which city was Mother Teresa born?
Q 21How many children does Kris Jenner have?
Six
Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob from her first marriage; Kendall and Kylie from her second.
Q 22How many children do Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have?
19
All their names begin with J; the show ran on TLC from 2008 to 2015.
Q 23What did Kate Gosselin give birth to in 2004, four years after twins?
Sextuplets
Jon & Kate Plus 8 followed the family of eight kids.
Q 24How many babies did 'Octomom' Nadya Suleman deliver in January 2009?
Skopje
Then part of the Ottoman Empire, now the capital of North Macedonia; she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950.
Q 15In which year was Mother Teresa canonised as a saint?
2016
She had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Q 16In which years were Princess Diana's two sons born?
1982 and 1984
William and Harry were then second and third in line to the throne.
Q 17What are the names of Michelle Obama's two daughters?
Malia and Sasha
Both were conceived through IVF after a miscarriage, as she revealed in her memoir Becoming.
Q 18What is the name of Beyoncé's first child, born in January 2012?
Blue Ivy
Twins Rumi and Sir followed in 2017.
Q 19Which Grand Slam title did Serena Williams win while already pregnant?
2017 Australian Open
Her daughter Olympia was born that September.
Q 20Before Jacinda Ardern, who was the only elected head of government to give birth in office?
Benazir Bhutto
Ardern's daughter Neve was born in June 2018.
Eight
They were the first surviving octuplets; she already had six children, all conceived via IVF.
Q 25Which actress played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch?
Florence Henderson
Shelley Long took over the role for the 1990s films.
Q 26June Cleaver was the mother on which classic sitcom?
Leave It to Beaver
Barbara Billingsley later reprised her as the jive-talking passenger in Airplane!
Q 27In which fictional Illinois town does Roseanne Conner raise Becky, Darlene and D.J.?
Lanford
It is said to be about two hours from Chicago.
Q 28What was Peggy Bundy's maiden name on Married... with Children?
Wanker
Katey Sagal played her; the whole Wanker clan turned up from Wanker County.
Q 29Who played Kitty Forman, Eric's doting mother, on That '70s Show?
Debra Jo Rupp
She turns cold and assertive only when pushed too far.
Q 30Which actress played Livia Soprano, the mother who helped arrange a hit on her own son Tony?
Nancy Marchand
Junior Soprano orders the attempt after Livia lets slip that Tony is undermining him.