Fictional Power Couples
Will they or won't they? David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston played these two "friends."
Who are Ross Geller and Rachel Greene?
The friend and hunting partner of Katniss in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games who falls out of favor when some of the bombs he designed kill Katniss' sister.
Who is Gale Hawthorne?
The inspiration for Beauty and the Beast, these two only ever meet at night, proving that love really can be blind.
Who are Cupid/Eros and Psyche?
This English poet, famous for "The Miller's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale," has the first recorded instance of linking Valentine's Day to romantic celebration.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
The author of this famous sonnet which begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
Who is William Shakespeare?
Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are this superhero couple in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can now watch them on their Disney+ series! #NotSponsored.
Who are Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and Vision?
This initial love-interest is quickly forgotten by Romeo after just one glimpse of Juliet at the Capulets' gathering in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Rosaline?
His abduction of her sets the stage for the Greek myth explaining the seasons.
Who are Hades and Persephone?
In 1868, this British chocolate company was responsible for creating the popular heart-shaped box of chocolates.
What is Cadbury?
Finish the first line of this poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "How do I love thee?"
What is "Let me count the ways"?
The calamitous Ganon wages a never-ending war against this hero and princess in a legendary Nintendo video game series.
Who are Link and Zelda?
The military officer in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice who briefly catches the eye of Elizabeth before ultimately eloping with her younger sister Lydia.
Who is George Wickham?
Chopped into pieces, this god is lucky that his wife is an expert at puzzles.
Who are Osiris and Isis?
Valentine's Day is in remembrance of the martyrdom of St. Valentine, though not one but this number of Sts. Valentine, who gave their name to the holiday, were executed by Roman Emperor Claudius II.
What are two – St. Valentine of Rome and St. Valentine of Terni?
Who is Robert Burns?
C'est moi! The affair of this Arthurian knight and queen doesn't turn out quite as planned in T. H. White's The Once and Future King and its musical adaptation, Camelot.
Who are Lancelot and Guinevere?
Princess Buttercup proclaims that this character, who hardly seems to fulfill the "love" part of the love triangle, "Can't track a falcon on a cloudy day" in the 1987 film The Princess Bride.
Who is Prince Humperdinck?
His abandonment of her provides a mythological explanation for the animosity between their peoples during the Punic Wars.
Who are Aeneas and Dido?
Valentine's Day coincides with this Roman festival that celebrated the god Faunus and fertility.
What is Lupercalia?
The poet who penned "Wild Nights."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The daughter of the titular "Demon Barber" and her love interest who sings an eponymous song about her in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
Who are Johanna Barker and Anthony Hope?
Not actually a saint, this clergyman and cousin of Jane Eyre proposes to her with the hope that she will accompany him on a missionary trip to India in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.
Who is St. John Rivers?
These two star-crossed lovers prove, as Romeo and Juliet later do as well, that it's best not to assume your lover is dead and kill yourself.
Who are Pyramus and Thisbe?
This woman was the first to sell mass-produced valentines in the United States.
Who is Esther A. Howland?
The title and poet of this work, the second and third stanzas of which are these: "How many loved your moments of glad grace, / And loved your beauty with love false or true, / But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, / And loved the sorrows of your changing face; / And bending down beside the glowing bars, / Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."
What is "When You are Old" by William Butler Yeats?