Family Members- Trivia Quiz

Family members trivia quiz

family vocabulary practice

Choose one of the statements on your worksheet and read it to your partner with at least two alternative endings, e.g. “King George the Third of England was King George the Second’s son/ grandson/ great-grandson”. You get one point for wrong answer that your partner gives.

Ask about any you can’t understand, then switch worksheets and do the same.

Without looking below, brainstorm family vocabulary into this table.

Male relations	Female relations	Both

Look below for ideas, brainstorm more, then compare as a class.

 

Student A

Musician Quincy Jones is The Office actor Rashida’s Jones’ father.

 

In Greek myth, Oedipus killed his father and married his mother.

 

43^rd US President George W Bush is 41^st US President George HW Bush’s son.

 

TV chef Nigella Lawson is British politician Nigel Lawson’s daughter.

 

Queen Elizabeth is Prince William’s grandmother.

 

In the animated film Despicable Me 3, Dru is Gru’s twin brother.

 

Vernon Dursley is Harry Potter’s uncle.

 

The movie and musical Lion King’s bad guy Scar was the hero Simba’s uncle.

 

May Parker is Spiderman’s aunt.

 

Zelda and Hildy are Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s aunts.

 

Lisa Simpson is Patty and Selma’s niece.

 

Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s cousin.

 

Comedian Amy Schumer is New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s cousin.

 

Prince George is Queen Elizabeth’s great grandson.

 

Brad Pitt is Angelina Jolie’s ex-husband.

 

American feminist writer Gloria Steinem is Batman actor Christian Bale’s stepmother.

 

Movie director Steven Spielberg is Grey’s Anatomy actor Arizona Robbins’ stepfather.

 

Sicario actor Emily Blunt is Spotlight actor Stanley Tucci’s sister-in-law.

 

Playwright Eugene O’Neill was silent actor Charlie Chaplin’s father-in-law.

 

According to the Bible, Moses was the pharaoh’s daughter’s adopted son.

 

Country singer Dolly Parton is Hannah Montana star and singer Miley Cyrus’s godmother.

 

Isaac and Ishmael (legendary ancestors of Jews and Arabs) were half brothers.

 

Student B

Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father.

 

British sitcom EastEnders character Zoe Slater thought that Kat Slater was her sister, but she was really her mother.

 

Apple Martin is Iron Man actor and Gloop Owner Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter. 

 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi’s grandson.

 

Game of Thrones actor Oona Chaplin is silent film star Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter.

 

Ted Kennedy, US Senator until 2009, was President JFK’s younger brother.

 

Actor Hunter Johansson is Avengers star Scarlett Johansson’s twin brother.

 

Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is Face/ Off actor Nicolas Cage’s uncle.

 

In James and the Giant Peach, Spiker and Sponge are his aunts.

 

In The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will Smith play’s Phil and Viv’s nephew.

 

Wonder Woman is General Antiope’s niece.

 

In the First World War, enemy kings Kaiser Wilhelm the Second of Germany, King George the Fifth of England and Tsar Nicholas the Second of Russia were cousins.

 

Queen Elizabeth is Princess Charlotte’s great grandmother.

 

From Series 7 of the American sitcom Friends, Rachel is Ross Geller’s ex-wife

 

Singer Barbra Streisand is Thanos in the Avengers actor James Brolin’s stepmother.

 

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is actor Peter Sarsgaard’s brother-in-law.

 

Motown singer Diana Ross is singer songwriter Ashlee Simpson’s mother-in-law.

 

Singer Elton John is Brooklyn Beckham’s godfather.

 

Film score composer Christopher Cody Cyrus is Miley Cyrus’s half-brother.

 

Melania Trump is Donald Trump’s third wife.

 

Scrooge McDuck is Huey, Dewey and Louie’s grand uncle.