The Mother of All Trivia Quizzes

Estelle Getty was actually one year younger than her onscreen daughter, Bea Arthur. According to USA Today, although Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) never explicitly stated her age throughout the series, she was the youngest Golden Girl. According to the Season 3 episode "Mother's Day," Blanche was 17 in 1949. So in 1985 when the series began, Blanche was around 53 years old. 

Diane Ladd earned an Oscar nomination for the role. And one year later, they both earned Oscar nods for the same film, Rambling Rose, though in that drama, they did not play mother and daughter. The two of them have written a new book about their relationship, Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding).

Coolidge got her big career break in the 1999 box office hit, in which she helps the high school intellectual Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) lose his virginity, much to the dismay of her caddish jock of a son (Seann William Scott). She’s recently earned even more fame — and an Emmy — for her work on HBO’s White Lotus.

Although Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) doesn’t birth dragons in a literal way, she does bring the extinct creatures back into the mythical world of the Seven Kingdoms in HBO’s acclaimed fantasy series. And in George R.R. Martin’s book, her stillborn child with the warrior king Khal Drogo has scales and a tail much like a dragon.

When Spielberg first saw Paul Dano and Michelle Williams on set in full costume and makeup as the parents in the 2022 film he based on his own boyhood, the director told The Hollywood Reporter that he “burst into tears.”