Famous Mothers
Misc. Mothers
Mothers Day History
Mothers in Art
Matriarchs
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A Nobel Prize winner, and a Saint!
Who is Mother Teresa?
100
When Naval aviators refer to 'mom', this is what they mean.
What is the aircraft carrier?
100
This is the traditional flower of Mother's Day.
What are white carnations?
100
Officially named Arrangement in Black and Gray No. 1 and reproduced on this Mother's Day stamp, it hangs in the Musee d'Orsay.
What is Whistler's Mother?
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Anita Branco McGregor, oldest daughter of David Branco and Anna Meyer (and mother, grandmother, and great grandmother to us), was one of this many siblings.
What is 10. (11 would be acceptable)
Anita (McGregor), Charlotte (Gora), David 'Sonny', Clarence, Leonard, Martin 'Jackie', Eleanor 'Cissy' (Marciel), Marguerite 'Margie' (Bishaw), Robert 'Skippy', Charles, and Manfried.
200
These two women were both wives and mothers of US Presidents.
Who are Abigail Adams and Barbara Bush?
200
It's called paua in New Zealand.
What is Mother of Pearl?
200
Of 35 billion, 3.5 billion, or 350 million, the amount spent on Mother's Day in the US in 2023.
What is 35 Billion?
200
He wrote To My Mother, a poem in his usual macabre style to mourn the death of his wife Virginia.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you— You who are more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother—my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
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This is where Annie Meyer (grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother for us) was born.
Where is Laupahoehoe, HI? Her daughter, Grandma Anita, was also born here.
300
Born Ellen Naomi Cohen, her stage name came from a nickname her father used for her, The Mad Cassandra.
Who is Mama Cass Elliott?
300
In 1948, the gold that over millenia had washed down streams from the California Mother Lode high in the Sierras, was discovered here and the California Gold rush was on.
What is Sutters Mill?
300
Torta Della Mamma is a traditional Mothers' Day cake in this Capitol of the Campania region in Italy. Not sure if the Florida City follows the same tradition.
What is Naples?
300
Amongst her many titles, she was know as the Mother of Dragons.
Who is Daenerys Targaryen?
300
With Herman Meyer, she is the mother of Anna Meyer Branco and our great, great-great, and great-great-great grandmother.
Who is Maria Gloria Carvalho Meyer?
(St Anthony's Catholic Cemetary, Laupahoehoe)
400
Subtitled 'Have Scientists Found the Mother Of Us All', this book explains how scientists using mitochondrial DNA found a common human ancestor living in Africa 200,000 years ago.
What is The Search For Eve?
400
You would not want to be this woman's dog; no bones, no bread, no meat, and dead.
Who is Old Mother Hubbard?
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the Cupboard,
To give the poor Dog a bone;
When she came there,
The Cupboard was bare,
And so the poor Dog had none.
She went to the Baker’s
To buy him some Bread;
When she came back
The Dog was dead!
400
He established Mother's Day as a National Holiday in 1914.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Thought to be the most represented subject in art, one of the most famous is a painting by Ducci di Buoninsegna hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
What is Madonna and Child?
400
Grandma Branco's Grandmother (so Danita and Davianna's great-great grandmother, ... and so on).
Who is Marianna Isabella Botelho Carvalho?
(St. Anthony's Cemetary, Laupahoehoe)
500
This mother and daughter both were awarded Nobel Prizes, one of them twice.
Who are Marie Curie (1903 in Physics and 1911 in Chemistry) and Irene Joliot-Curie (1935 in Chemistry).
500
The title of the book, Lloyd asks this question of everything he comes across. In the end, he happily gets a 'yes'!
What is, 'Is Your Mama a Llama'?
500
She led the movement to establish Mother's Day in the US.
Who is Anna Jarvis?
She later became disenchanted with it's commercialization and called for it to be rescinded.
500
This STYX song is a lament to his mother by a rebel fearing for his life from the long arm of the law.
What is Renegade.
500
We have always been island people as Anna Meyer's, (Grandma Branco's) mother and grandmother were born in this archepelago.
What are the Azores?
