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Quiz: Test your smarts about 10 famous moms
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Mothers make the world go 'round. To celebrate magnificent matriarchs -- and remember the monstrous ones, too -- test your knowledge of some well-known moms.
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By Vickie Reichardt
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1. b) The pint-sized "living saint" took her vows in India in 1931 and taught high school for 17 years before devoting herself to the poor of Calcutta. In 1950, she launched her own order of nuns -- The Missionaries of Charity -- which now operates in needy areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
2. c) In addition to Caroline and John Jr., Jackie O's well-known offspring with slain U.S. president John F. Kennedy, the former First Lady had a third child, Patrick, who was born in August, 1963, but died two days after birth.
3. c) In ancient Greece, there were spring festivals to honour Rhea -- daughter of Gaia, wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus. When her panicked husband believed he would be overthrown by one of his children, he ate them...but Rhea managed to save Zeus, who later overthrew his father and freed his siblings.
4. a) Kate "Ma" Barker was a single mother raising four boys, who began as teenage delinquents before graduating to lives of crime as part of the Barker-Karpis gang. Though the exact extent of her involvement in their crimes remains unconfirmed, she met her demise alongside son Fred during a raid at a Florida vacation cottage.
5. c) William was less than a year old when Diana broke with the royal tradition of leaving infants at home during engagements abroad. When she and Charles embarked on an official tour of Australia and New Zealand in March 1983, the Princess took William along.
6. b) Judy and Liza are known as much for their musical gifts and dramatic flair as they are for their turbulent romances and troubled lives. Garland died of a drug overdose in 1969, having never won an Oscar, but daughter Liza -- who's been in and out of rehab -- took home a statuette for Cabaret four years later, in 1973.
7. d) Actually called Arrangement in Grey and Black Number 1, painter James Whistler's 1871 oil-on-canvas portrait of his mother, Anna McNeill Whistler, was made into a stamp by the U.S. Postal Service. The painting currently hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
8. b) Joan Crawford was none too pleased when her adopted daughter Christina published a scandalous account of her terrible childhood at the hands of her abusive, famous mother. As punishment, Christina and her brother, Christopher, received nothing from Crawford's estate after her death.
9. a) In 1872, activist, writer and poet Julia Ward Howe -- who also wrote the Civil War song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- officially petitioned that June 2 be declared a day to honour mothers and peace.
10. d) Despite countless hardships -- including the deaths of her husband and four young children from yellow fever -- Mother Harris worked tirelessly on behalf of labourers in the U.S. until her death at age 100. She cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World and was considered the "adoptive mother" of workers everywhere.
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