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Can you guess the sitcom mom's maiden name?
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On family sitcoms, the emphasis is always, naturally, on families. So on all your favorite shows, you frequently saw guest stars turn up as TV parents, spinster sisters, long-lost brothers, and other assorted plots that can help reveal the maiden name of TV's top moms.
We went through the family histories of our favorite TV matriarchs to go back to a time before they were moms, and discovered just who these leading ladies were in their former lives.
Here, you can scroll through our mom-o-dex and see how many maiden names you can guess correctly. Consider it a great way to get reintroduced to classic TV moms. Good luck!
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Lucy Ricardo is one of TV's biggest icons. Do you remember her maiden name?
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Briefly an adopted mom, Alice Kramden was the true head of the house on 'The Honeymooners.' Do you know her maiden name?
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On 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' Mary Tyler Moore played series matron Laura Petrie. Can you remember her maiden name?
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We've always known her as Morticia Addams, but the mom from 'The Addams Family' had which maiden name?
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'The Brady Bunch' matriarch Carol is best known by her second adopted surname, but can you think back to what her maiden name was?
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Shirley Partridge is a famous TV widow on 'The Partridge Family.' Do you know what her maiden name was?
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Louise Jefferson does a great job getting her family settled into their new life in Manhattan on 'The Jeffersons.' Can you remember her maiden name?
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On 'The Munsters,' Lily Munster had this pretty appropriate maiden name.
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Edith Bunker knew how to navigate her family around her cranky husband's moods. Do you know what her maiden name was?
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There's no mistaking: 'Mama's Family' head of house Thelma Harper is one of TV's most particular moms. What was her maiden name, though?
Can you guess the sitcom mom's maiden name?
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8/10
5/10 I came into this thinking it would be easy but did horribly ☹️.
I’m trying to remember if the Brady’s had a name change episode for the kids. I had forgotten they were really Marcia Martin, Jan Martin, and Cindy Martin.
I’m trying to remember if the Brady’s had a name change episode for the kids. I had forgotten they were really Marcia Martin, Jan Martin, and Cindy Martin.
9/10
You got 9 out of 10
Well done! Go on and hang this score on your refrigerator.
Missed #5
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Missed #5
Happy new year everyone i think that I done a good job on this trivia
6/10
8/10
You got 10 out of 10
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A lot of great guesses that were right. I am shocked.
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A lot of great guesses that were right. I am shocked.
8/10! missed numbers 3 and 7.
7 out of 10. Never liked " Mama's Family" a really iratating show.
Much like the Family sketches on Carol Burnett, it is just people screaming at each other.
But at least the sketches had Tim Conway in them once in a while.
You got 8 out of 10
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Missed #6 and #10
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Missed #6 and #10
Love Mama’s family and the flintstones they need to be on schedule on a daily basis two amazing shows that are off the hook in great to watch with family especially during the cold 🥶 winter ❄️ holidays
I agree... with The Flintstones part ONLY.
You got 5 out of 10
You got 7 out of 10
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Missed #6, #8, and #10.
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Missed #6, #8, and #10.
Good job!
9/10
9/10
Another crash and burn for Catman. 6/10.
Laura Petrie was a lot of things, but "matron" is way off the mark.
Laura Petrie was a lot of things, but "matron" is way off the mark.
9 out of 10. Darn! Lily Munster was the one I got wrong.
9 out of 10
Well done! Go on and hang this score on your refrigerator.
Well done! Go on and hang this score on your refrigerator.
I didn't know they had maiden names.