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Mums in fiction - quiz

Mums in fiction come in all shapes and sizes - good ones, bad ones or, in Harry Potter's case, dead ones. Have you noticed them? Find out in our mighty Mother's Day quiz

Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Harry Potter's eyes are the same colour as his mother, Lily's, but what colour is that? Photograph: Ho/Reuters

  1. 1. Harry Potter has the same colour eyes as his mother, Lily. What colour is that?

  2. 2. What colour jumper does Mrs Weasley knit Ron every Christmas?

  3. 3. What flower is Dolphin’s mum named after in Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum?

  4. 4. In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book what animal is a mother to Mowgli?

  5. 5. What is the name of George’s mother, and Julian, Dick and Anne’s aunt, in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton?

  6. 6. In Coraline by Neil Gaiman what is the difference between the eyes of Coraline’s real mother and her other mother?

  7. 7. What is the name of the Pevensie children’s mother in CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia?

  8. 8. What does Greg’s mum do to embarrass him on stage during the talent contest in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules?

  9. 9. What’s Percy Jackson’s mother’s name?

  10. 10. Before she was killed in a bomb attack, what was Alex Rider’s mother Helen’s job?

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