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Top gift given on Valentine's Day

What is candy

100

What is the "origin" of Valentine's Day

A Christian holiday plopped on top of a pagan holiday called Lupercalia--a fertility festival

100

The Greek name of Cupid

Who is Eros

100

The first valentine was sent to whom and where?

The Duke of Orleans wife who was imprisoned in the Tower of London

100

Billboard's top selling love song is entitled and sung by

"Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

200

In the 1980s and 1990s, one romantic gesture was to share music, what was this called...

"A mix tape"

200

China's Valentines Day

What is Qixi Festival 

(celebrates the meeting of a cowherd and  a weaver girl in Chinese mythology)

200

Goddess of Love 

Who is Aphrodite

200

It become common to exchange Valentines by this time period.

The middle of the 18th century

200

A top 10 love song from a movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner

"I Will Always Love You" from the Bodyguard

300

In most commercialized love stories, the girl or guy is won over by...

A grand romantic gesture

300

St Valentine(Roman) is the patron saint of....

Courtly love, terni(city in Italy) epilepsy, and beekeepers

300

Aphrodite's lover, not her husband

Who is Ares

300

The first mass-produced valentines 

What is the 1840s

300

Top ranked romantic movie of all time (spoiler alert, the hero drowns)

What is Titanic

400

The romantic elements of Saint Valentine's Day can be traced by to this author and concept.

Who was Chaucer and what is courtly love

400

Before Valentine was sainted, he was...

Either a priest or a bishop

400

Eros' mortal lover

Who is Psyche

400

This many Valentine's are estimated by Hallmark to be sent every year.

145 million

400

Name three songs with the word valentine in them and their bands

1. "Valentine" 5 Seconds of Summer

2."My Funny Valentine"--Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Elvis Costello.....

3.  "My Bloody Valentine" Good Charlotte

4.  "Valentine's Day" Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie...

5. "Happy Valentine's Day" Outkast

6.  "Cigarettes and Valentines" Green Day

500

What was the original festival of Lupercalia dedicated to?

What is fertility

(priests sacrifice animals and whip women with their bloody hides to ensure fertility...)

500

The French version of the story of St Valentine

He was supposedly a saint imprisoned for conducting weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and during his own imprisonment fell in love with the jailer's daughter to whom he left a letter signed "Your Valentine"

500

Tell one of the nymph Echo's stories

1. Hera taking away her ability to say anything except repeating the last words spoken to her

2. Falling in love with Narcissus, being unable to speak and watching him fall in love with himself

500

The top three Valentine's Day expenditures by city

1. Los Angeles

2. Venice, Italy

3. New York

500

Romantic movie based on Romeo and Juliet

Warm Bodies

Gnomio and Juliet

Romeo Must Die

Shakespeare in Love

West Side Story

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