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1. This character, the portrayal of whom won an Oscar, was mother to Alice, Cathy, Cindy, Donna, Gail, Phyllis and Sherri, as well as two pugilistic-minded boys.
Erin Brokovich
Vera Drake
Leigh Anne Tuohy
Alice Ward
 
2. Mother Goethel wasn't such a swell mother to:
Rapunzel (Tangled)
Cinderella (Ciderella)
The Baudelaire children (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Simon Birch (Simon Birch)
 
3. Amy Poehler spoke the words "I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom." in Mean Girls. Which of the Plastics did she call her own?
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan)
Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)
Regina George (Rachel McAdams)
Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried)
 
4. Before her life is beset by romantic complications, Mamma Mia's Donna (Meryl Streep) is satisfied to prepare for her daughter's wedding as she does this for a living:
Runs a movie theater
Owns a nursery
Runs an orphanage
Owns a hotel
 
5. The eventual Maria von Trapp was governess/mother-figure to a whole slew of young Austrian troublemakers. Which of the following was not a child in the family?
Liesl
Kurt
Werther
Gretl
 
6. Evelyn Ryan provided for her children by entering all sorts of contests. From the title of the movie that told her tale, you know that she lived in which city?
Paris, Texas
Defiance, Ohio
Fargo
Elizabethtown
 
7. Angelina Jolie has played cinematic mother to which mythical monster?
Swamp Thing
Grendel
The Kraken
Dracula
 
8. Before one of her cinematic sons wanted to throw her from the train, Anne Ramsey played Mama Fratelli, the mother to which character in The Goonies?
Sloth
Chunk
Mouth
Data
 
9. According to the mother of Carrie (1976), "___________ are the Lord's way of chastising you."
Boys
Worries
Pimples
Small breasts
 
10. Disney movies are famous for having incomplete family units. Of the following title characters, which is the only to have his/her mother alive through the film?
Bambi
Dumbo
Tarzan
The Little Mermaid
 
11. Not realizing the inappropriateness of it all, the future Lorraine McFly (Lea Thompson) has somewhat amorous thoughts towards her son Marty, and addresses him by this name, after the brand of his underwear:
Ralph
Calvin
J.
Hugo
 
12. This title character thought that her home life was less than satisfactory, until she met the creepy Other Mother:
Peggy Sue
Ivy
Coraline
Hanna
 
13. The lesson of Drop Dead Gorgeous, which Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley) learned the hard way, is: don't push your daughter too hard to win a beauty contest, lest she die in a spectacular ________ explosion:
Cake
Hotel
Swan
Swimming pool
 
14. In American Pie, who got it on with Stifler's Moms (Jennifer Coolidge)?
Jim (Jason Biggs)
Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas)
Oz (Chris Klein)
Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas)
 
15. Fans of The Graduate can tell you that the first name of Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson is:
Minerva
Katherine
Angela
Never revealed in the film
 
16. This actress played mother to Speed in Speed Racer, Igby in Igby Goes Down and Lorenzo in Lorenzo's Oil:
Susan Sarandon
Diane Lane
Jessica Lange
Kyra Sedgwick
 
17. The sexual awakening of Pleasantville's mother/housewife Betty Paker (Joan Allen) is mirrored by this event:
Snow falling
A rainbow forming
A tree catching fire
Sky becoming colored
 
18. Pregnant 17 year-old Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) gives birth in a _______________ during 2000's Where the Heart Is:
Wal-Mart
Taco Bell
White Castle
Target
 
19. After finally having confronted Bill at the end of the Kill Bill films, Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) was reunited with her long-lost daughter B.B. as they did what in a hotel room?
Watched cartoon
Finger painted
Played Go Fish
Braided each other's hair
 
20. Esme wasn't exactly blood-mother to Rosalie, Alice, Emmett and Edward - although depending on how you look at it, she kind of was - in this film:
Cheaper by the Dozen
Wildcats
Twilight
Far From Heaven
 
21. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, The Princess Diaries' Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) meets her grandmother Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), who just happens to be queen of this fictional country:
Qumar
Bialya
Legopia
Genovia
 
22. What does Jamie Lee Curtis hold on the poster for the mother/daughter body swapping movie Freaky Friday?
A hair dryer
A guitar
A video game controller
A teddy bear
 




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