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St. Valentine's Day
Choose the correct answer for each question.
1
Who wrote 'Can't Buy Me Love'?
Lennon and McCartney
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Burt Bacharach
2
Which mythological figure used a bow and arrow to make people fall in love?
Cupid
Robin Hood
Don Juan
Puck
3
Who was the Greek goddess of love?
Cupid
Venus
Diana
Aphrodite
4
Who was the Roman goddess of love?
Diana
Cupid
Aphrodite
Venus
5
What change occurred in Australia on St. Valentine's Day 1966
Introduction of decimal currency
End of 6 o'clock closing in hotels and bars
Sir Robert Menzies resigned as Prime Minister
Introduction odf metric measures
6
What were the names of the 'star-crossed lovers'?
Pyramus and Thisbe
Hero and Leander
Romeo and Juliet
Cupid and Psyche
7
Who wrote a sonnet that began 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'?
Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Phillis Wheatley
Louisa May Alcott
8
Who went to the Underworld to retrieve his wife and lost her when he looked back to see her?
Orpheus
Jason
Theseus
Ulysses
9
Who wrote 'It Was a Lover and His Lass'?
Lennon and McCartney
Robbie Burns
William Shakespeare
John Donne
10
Who completed a sculpture called 'The Kiss' in 1886?
Henry Moore
John Bell
Harriet Hosmer
Auguste Rodin
11
Which Shakespearean play includes a character called Valentine?
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
Two Gentlemen of Verona
A Midsummer Night's Dream
12
Which spacecraft visited the asteroid Eros?
Venus
NEAR Shoemaker
Lolita
Cupid
13
Which legendary character drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit his or her lover?
Romeo
Cupid
Hero
Leander
14
When Leigh Hunt wrote that Jenny kissed him, who was the Jenny in question?
Mrs Jane Carlyle
Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Florence Nightingale
Mrs Beeton
15
Who were the parents of Eros?
Cupid and Psyche
Ares and Aphrodite
Cupid and Venus
Ares and Psyche
16
In what century did St. Valentine live?
1st century AD
5th century AD
1st century BC
3rd century AD
17
The poet who wrote 'Lines for St. Valentine's Day' also gets the credit for a Christmas poem. Who was it?
Hilaire Belloc
Clement Clarke Moore
Henry Lawson
George Sims
18
Who wrote the poem 'Love's Alchemy'?
John Donne
Robert Browning
Robbie Burns
William Shakespeare
19
What was the real name of 'Nancy' in the poem 'Ae Fond Kiss'?
Elizabeth Barrett
Jane Carlyle
Agnes Mc Lehose
Flora Macdonald
20
Where would you find Orpheus, Eurydice, Don Juan, Cupid and Lolita all in the same place?
In Dante's 'Inferno'
In the 1996 Melbourne Cup
On the asteroid Eros
In 'Finnegan's Wake'
