Valentine's Day
Italy
Washington D.C.
Valentine's Day pt. 2
CUA
100

The most popular type of Valentine's Day candy

chocolate

100

How many different shapes of pasta are there in Italy?

300

100

The year the federal government moved to Washington, D.C. 



1800
100
Country that spends the most on Valentine's Day a year

South Korea

100

These two places were considered possible sites for the university instead of DC

New York and Philadelphia

200

St. Valentine was put to death by this king, who also .....

Claudius II

200

Contrary to the popularity of this dish in Italian-American restaurants, it is actually not traditionally Italian at all.

spaghetti and meatballs 

200

What are the 2 largest industries in Washington DC?


government and tourism

200
Popular medicine that was discovered on Valentine's Day

Penicillin

200

The Catholic University of America officially opened as an institution of higher education on this date

Nov. 13, 1889.

300

The person who originally sang "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

Queen

300

The English alphabet has 26 letters, but the Italian alphabet is a little different. How many letters are in the Italian alphabet?

21: (No j, k, w, x, or y)

300

How many columns surround the Lincoln Memorial? 

36.  The number of states in the union when Lincoln was President.

300
First every year Valentine's Day was celebrated

496

300

Catholic University is one of only three universities in the United States to have hosted the Pope on its campus and it is the only one to have done so three times — Which three popes have been hosted here?  

Pope John Paul II in 1979, Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, and Pope Francis in 2015.

400

The year that heart-shaped boxes of chocolate were introduced

a. 1861

b.1951

c.1981

d. 1975

1861

400

How much pasta does the average Italian consume per year?


25 kilograms = 55 lbs

400

The Washington Monument was the tallest building in the world at 555 5 ⅛ feet tall until the completion of this structure in France which is 984 feet tall. 


Eiffel Tower

400

First poet to write about Valentine's Day

Chaucer

400

Since its founding, the University has been led by this many presidents

16

500

U.S. state that has a city named Valentine

Texas

500

Each day, approximately 25,000 people visit this popular place located in Vatican City.

Sistine Chapel

500

The White House has a total of 132 rooms.  35 of them are this kind of room. 


bathrooms

500

This popular symbol was not always used as a romantic symbol.


The heart. It was once widely believed to be humans' center of memory, where feelings of love were recorded. However, we have French and Italian artists from the 14th century to thank for the symbol that we know and love today, as they were the first ones to start using this motif in their work.

500
The first building to be built as part of the CUA campus. On May 24, 1888, the cornerstone was laid for this building, which was known as called Divinity Hall at the time. By late 1889, this buidling was completed.


Caldwell Hall

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