The Valentine Love Quiz

1 Which song topped the UK charts for 15 weeks in 1994?

2 What is the country of origin of Saint Valentine, the patron saint of lovers?

3 Members of whose gang were slaughtered in the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?

4 Who is the Roman God of Love?

5 Who played the husband of Pauline Collins in the film Shirley Valentine?

6 Who said, “Working with Julie Andrews is like being hit over the head with a Valentine’s card?

7 Which fruit is alternatively named the love apple?

8 Which Shakespeare play contains the line, “If music be the food of love play on”?

9 What was the name of the cruise liner in the TV show The Love Boat?

10 What girl’s name provides the alternative name for the Love in a Mist plant?

11 Which 1963 movie epic was advertised with the tag line “The love affair that shook the world”?

12 Who wrote the play Shirley Valentine?

13 Which Shakespeare play is set in Navarre?

14 Which Scottish football club plays its home matches at Love Street?

15 Who played the role of Percival Snooper in Carry On Loving?

16 Who wrote the novel Love Story later adapted into a 1970 film?

17 What is the name of the Hindu god of erotic love?

18 Who penned the poem, How Do I Love Thee?

19 What do the initials DWM signify in a lonely hearts column?

20 Which actress on TV and film has played the love interest of Tony Booth, Cliff Richard and Jon Pertwee?

21 On Valentines Day 2000, who was granted the freedom of his home town of Barnsley?

22 In which city did Romeo fall in love with Juliet?

23 In which 1999 film did Richard Gere fall in love with Julia Roberts?

24 Who wrote the novel Love in a Cold Climate?

25 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the song Love Changes Everything?

26 Who did Courtney Love marry in 1992?

27 What is the name of the Greek goddess of love and beauty?

28 Which Nobel Peace Prize winner said. “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread”?

29 Who played an ageing pop star called Billy Mack in the film Love Actually?

30 In which 1979 film did George Hamilton play Count Vladimir Dracula?

31 Which song a hit for Jim Capaldi was also the title of a TV series starring Adam Faith?

32 What did the singer Dickie Valentine point at the top of the 1954 charts?

33 What would ones star sign be if born on Valentines Day?

34 Which musical features the song I Love You Samantha?

35 Who played Romeo when Clare Danes played Juliet?

36 Which song contains the lyric, “Say you don’t need no diamond ring and I’ll be satisfied”?

37 In which 70s sitcom did the Booth family live next door to the Reynolds family?

38 The 1998 film biopic Why Do Fools Fall In Love, chronicled the life story of which singer?

39 In which Shakespeare play did Ophelia proclaim, “Tomorrow is St Valentines Day”

40 The 1941 film You’re In the Army Now features the longest ever screen kiss in Hollywood history. Which actress was the recipient of the kiss?

Answers to Valentines Quiz

1 Love is all Around
2 Italy
3 Bugsy Moran
4 Cupid
5 Bernard Hill
6 Christopher Plummer
7 Tomato
8 Twelfth Night
9 The Pacific Princess
10 Nigella

11 Cleopatra
12 Willy Russell
13 Love’s Labours Lost
14 St Mirren
15 Kenneth Williams
16 Erich Segal
17 Kama
18 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
19 Divorced white male
20 Una Stubbs
21 Dickie Bird
22 Verona
23 Runaway Bride
24 Nancy Mitford
25 Aspects of Love
26 Kurt Cobain
27 Aphrodite
28 Mother Teresa
29 Bill Nighy
30 Love at First Bite
31 Love Hurts
32 Finger of Suspicion
33 Aquarius
34 High Society
35 Leonardo DiCaprio
36 Can’t Buy Me Love
37 Love Thy Neighbour
38 Frankie Lymon
39 Hamlet
40 Jane Wyman