Just for fun!
What sort of mother...
What sort of mother might you find inside an oyster?
What sort of mother might you find inside a pyramid?
Which painter is principally famous for a portrait of his mother? The picture was originally entitled "Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1.".
Who sang the 1976 number 1 single “Mamma Mia”?
…And who sang the original version of the 1965 hit “California Dreamin’”?
Which alcoholic spirit is known as “Mother’s Ruin”?
Which prematurely blind man gave his name to a psychological condition involving mothers?
Which future British prime minister, while at school, accused his mother of abandoning him in dozens of letters, on the back of which she wrote lists of intended dinner-party guests?
Which future rockstar grew up believing his mother to be his sister?
Who was conceived in the Immaculate Conception?
Mothers in History
Who gave birth to the following famous people?
Elizabeth I?
Marie Antoinette?
Mary Shelley?
The goddess Athene?
Helen of Troy ?
Mothers and daughters
Name these famous women and identify their relationships...
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Missing Words
Each of the following words is part of a common two-word phrase. The missing word in that phrase, when joined with the word “Mother”, creates a different common two-word phrase.
An example: _____ Music. The missing word is “Country”, because “Country Music” and “Mother Country” are both common phrases. Find the missing word in the following:- Dutch
- Soviet
- Silver
- Stone
- Pirate
- Surf
Mother Proverbs
What's missing?
Example: “In the eyes of its mother, every beetle is a ________” –African Proverb.The missing word is “gazelle”. Aw...
- “Men love women. Women love children. Children love ” — Alice Thomas Ellis
- “What would men be without women? ” — Mark Twain
- “The joys of the mother are never fully experienced until the children are ” — Anon
- “Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your ” — Phyllis Diller