Fictional Mothers Trivia | Dorky Geeky Nerdy Trivia Podcast

Next Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Already. This week, we’re celebrating moms with thirty questions about fictional moms. TV, Movies, and Theater Moms each have their own ten question category.

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Mothers, Sisters, Soldiers, Spies

Wars are remembered for generals and battles. They are sustained by women. Mothers, Sisters, Soldiers, Spies uncovers the hidden history of women whose labor, intelligence, endurance, and sacrifice made wartime survival possible-yet whose names rarely appear in textbooks.

From resistance networks to battlefield service, from domestic logistics to espionage, this book reveals how entire institutions relied on women while denying them recognition or power. This is not a sentimental retelling of bravery. It is a clear-eyed examination of how war systems function-and how women were essential to them.

Because the untold history of war is also the story of who gets remembered, and who gets erased.

From the Revolutionary War through the modern era, women played essential roles sustaining armies, gathering intelligence, organizing logistics, nursing the wounded, supporting war industries, and, at times, engaging directly in combat. Rather than focusing solely on well-known individuals, this book examines how women’s service was shaped-and often constrained-by military policy, political institutions, and social norms. It explores how race, class, and gender influenced who was permitted to serve, under what conditions, and with what recognition. The experiences of women of color are integrated throughout the narrative, illustrating how layered forms of exclusion affected both opportunity and historical memory.

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Episode Intro

Next Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Already. This week, we’re celebrating moms with thirty questions about fictional moms. TV, Movies, and Theater Moms each have their own ten question category.

If you need more trivia, check out DorkyGeekyNerdy.com.

I’m your host and guy making breakfast for his wife, Brian Rollins. This is episode 380 of the Dorky Geeky Nerdy trivia podcast.

Let the games begin.

The Dorky Round

Television Mothers

Played by Florence Henderson, who was mom to Cindy, Jan, and Marcia-Marcia-Marcia?
a. Carol Brady
Played by the late Catherine O’Hara, who was the mother to David and Alexis on Schitt’s Creek?
a. Moira Rose
What blue-haired matriarch deals with Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Homer?
a. Marge Simpson
What ‘creepy and kooky’ mom raised Wednesday and Pugsly?
a. Morticia Addams
What TV mom raised Eric and Laurie while dealing with opinionated husband, Red?
a. Kitty Forman (from That 70s Show)
What mom kept the house from burning down while living with Tim ‘The Tool Man’?
a. Jill Taylor (from Home Improvement)
Known as “Mrs. C” who was the matriarch of the family on Happy Days?
a. Marion Cunningham
What mom typified Hollywood’s image of the housewife on Leave It To Beaver?
a. June Cleaver
Despite being told repeatedly to ‘stifle it’, what TV mom kept the house running for Archie and Gloria?
a. Edith Bunker (from All in the Family)
What Sci-Fi mom was played by June Lockhart in the 1967 original and by Molly Parker in the 2018 reboot?
a. Maureen Robinson (from Lost in Space)

The Geeky Round

Movie Mothers

Despite having seven of her own children, what mom took in Harry Potter as one of her own?
a. Molly Weasley
Helen Parr fought crime under what pseudonym in The Incredibles movies?
a. Elastigirl
What woman went from waitress in The Terminator to warrior in Terminator 2?
a. Sarah Connor
What mom embarks on a cross-country trek to find Kevin in Home Alone?
a. Kate McCallister
Voiced by Angela Landsbury, what bit of crockery takes care of Chip in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast?
a. Mrs. Potts
Played by Jennifer Coolidge, who taught many of us what a MILF was in American Pie?
a. Jeanine Stifler or Stifler’s Mom
Played by Beverly D’Angelo, who was the mom in four Vacation movies opposite Chevy Chase?
a. Helen Griswold
Faye Dunaway earned a Razzie Award for her delivery of “No more wire hangers! Ever!” as what showbiz mom?
a. Joan Crawford (from Mommie Dearest)
Sigourney Weaver played what sci-fi mom that found out she outlived her daughter in Aliens?
a. Ellen Ripley
Sally Field has played many movie moms, name one of the two roles for which she won an Oscar playing a mom.
a. Norma Rae (from the movie of the same name) and Edna Spalding (from Places in the Heart)

The Nerdy Round

Theater Mothers

What mother dealt with poverty and antisemitism in 1905 Russia while raising five daughters?
a. Golde in Fiddler on the Roof
What mom from Hairspray is traditionally performed by a man in drag?
a. Edna Turnblad. She was played by John Travolta in the 2007 movie adaptation.
What whirlwind of a mother raised June and Louise in Gypsy?
a. Mama Rose
Sarah Barellis played what mom in the musical adaptation, Waitress?
a. Jenna Hunterson. She was played by my old schoolmate, Keri Russell in the movie.
What mom sends her daughter Cosette away in Les Misérables?
a. Fantine
Who raises Rapunzel as her own daughter in Into the Woods?
a. The Witch
In the play, Our Town, what character dies during childbirth?
a. Emily
After teaching her charges all about music with Do-Re-Mi, who marries the kids’ father in Sound of Music?
a. Maria Von Trapp
What mother is left behind in Vietnam with her biracial son in Miss Saigon?
a. Kim
What mom sang “Bali Ha’i” in South Pacific?
a. Bloody Mary

Episode Conclusion

And we are done. How did you do? What’s your favorite mom from fiction? Let me know in the comments or on social media.

If you’re a mom/stepmom/foster mom and a listener: Happy Mother’s Day. We appreciate you.

Next week, we’re making a hard turn into something very different. Here’s a clue:

What film franchise kicked off in 1979 with a movie directed by George Miller?

Yeah, sometimes I don’t realize what order things are going in until I write these episode scripts. Oh well. Keeps things interesting, right? See you back here on Wednesday.

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