Mother's Day Quiz

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Answer Key

1. Who played Mrs. Robinson, the seductress mother who slept with the young Dustin Hoffman, in The Graduate?
   Faye Dunaway
   Anne Bancroft
   Elizabeth Taylor
   Lauren Bacall
   
   
2. Which network newsmagazine anchor has three children with cartoonist Gary Trudeau?
   Katie Couric
   Barbara Walters
   Jane Pauley
   Diane Sawyer
   
   
3. Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet wrote Mother Love: Poems, a collection of poems about the bond between mothers and daughters?
   Rita Dove
   Maya Angelou
   Emily Dickinson
   Carolyn Kizer
   
   
4. Which Pulitzer Prize-winning writer founded Welcome House, a shelter that provides care for children of Asian women and U.S. soldiers?
   E. Annie Proulx
   Katherine Anne Porter
   Eudora Welty
   Pearl Buck
   
   
5. In Greek mythology, who is the Goddess of the Earth and the mother of Cyclopes, the Hundred-handed Ones, and the Titans?
   Gaea
   Medea
   Phaedra
   Leda
   
   
6. What actress is Academy Award-winner Gwynneth Paltrow's mother?
   Diane Ladd
   Blythe Danner
   Dianne Wiest
   Geraldine Chaplin
   
   
7. Which Emmy Award-winning actress played the Waltons' matriarch?
   Tyne Daly
   Marion Ross
   Michael Learned
   Susan Strasberg
   
   
8. Who played Mama Hansen in George Stevens's 1948 film I Remember Mama, a sentimental movie about a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco?
   Irene Dunne
   Barbara Stanwyck
   Jean Simmons
   Deborah Kerr
   
   
9. Which of the following women sang vocals for the 1960s folk band The Mamas and the Papas?
   Cass Elliot
   Joni Mitchell
   Laura Nyro
   Stevie Nicks
   
   
10. Who played Florida Evans, the quick-witted, devoted mother on Good Times?
    Isabel Sanford
    Phylicia Rashad
    Whoopi Goldberg
    Esther Rolle

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