The Mother of All Trivia Quizzes


The Mother of All Trivia Quizzes

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Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley, and Jerry Mathers star together on the situation comedy Leave It to Beaver. Bettmann/Getty Images Facebook Twitter LinkedIn


Just in time for Mother’s Day, we look at some of the classic moms from film and TV over the years. How well do you remember screen moms from The Addams Family, The Simpsons and American


Pie? Take our quiz to find out, and if you do well, why not buy yourself some flowers?


Members only Question 1 of 10


What was the name of the mom that Barbara Billingsley played on Leave It to Beaver?

June Beaver Margaret Anderson June Cleaver Edie Haskell


Billingsley played the role on the original show, which ran for six seasons from 1957 to 1963. She was often cooking and cleaning on the show while wearing a pearl necklace, which, according


to IMDB, was her idea because the necklace concealed a surgical scar on her neck. She reprised her role as June Cleaver in the 1980s sequel The New Leave It to Beaver — and played Aunt


Martha in a 1997 reboot film, her final big-screen role.

Question 2 of 10


True or false: Carol Brady’s character on The Brady Bunch marries Mike Brady after divorcing her first husband.

CBS/Getty Images True False


False: Florence Henderson was a Broadway veteran when she was cast as Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974. According to Lloyd Schwartz, son of show creator Sherwood


Schwartz, the initial plan was to make Carol a divorcée while Mike Brady (Robert Reed) was a widower. But the network objected, so the disappearance of Carol’s first husband was never


discussed at all.

Question 3 of 10


Mary Tyler Moore earned an Oscar nomination for portraying a grieving mother in what 1980 movie?

“Terms of Endearment”” “Ordinary People” “On Golden Pond” “Kramer vs. Kramer”


Robert Redford, who won a best director Oscar for his feature directorial debut, cast the former sitcom star against type as an overbearing perfectionist and mother of two who clearly


favored one child over the other.

Question 4 of 10


What color is Marge Simpson’s beehive hairdo?


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Getty Images 2 CORRECT!


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Tuomas A. Lehtinen/Getty Images 3 CORRECT!


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According to a Season 2 flashback, the Simpsons matriarch pinned up her long blue hair for her senior prom with a young Homer and never looked back. We learn later that she’s dyed her


naturally gray hair since she was 17.

Question 5 of 10


Which actress has not played Morticia in any film or TV version of The Addams Family?

Anjelica Huston Daryl Hannah Catherine Zeta-Jones Winona Ryder


After Carolyn Jones originated the role in the 1960s sitcom, Anjelica Huston played Morticia in 1991’s The Addams Family and its sequel two years later; Hannah assumed the role in 1998’s


Addams Family Reunion. More recently, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays the matriarch in the Netflix series Wednesday.


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