Romance
Top gift given on Valentine's Day
What is candy
What is the "origin" of Valentine's Day
A Christian holiday plopped on top of a pagan holiday called Lupercalia--a fertility festival
The Greek name of Cupid
Who is Eros
The first valentine was sent to whom and where?
The Duke of Orleans wife who was imprisoned in the Tower of London
Billboard's top selling love song is entitled and sung by
"Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
In the 1980s and 1990s, one romantic gesture was to share music, what was this called...
"A mix tape"
China's Valentines Day
What is Qixi Festival
(celebrates the meeting of a cowherd and a weaver girl in Chinese mythology)
Goddess of Love
Who is Aphrodite
It become common to exchange Valentines by this time period.
The middle of the 18th century
A top 10 love song from a movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner
"I Will Always Love You" from the Bodyguard
In most commercialized love stories, the girl or guy is won over by...
A grand romantic gesture
St Valentine(Roman) is the patron saint of....
Courtly love, terni(city in Italy) epilepsy, and beekeepers
Aphrodite's lover, not her husband
Who is Ares
The first mass-produced valentines
What is the 1840s
Top ranked romantic movie of all time (spoiler alert, the hero drowns)
What is Titanic
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
Before Valentine was sainted, he was...
Either a priest or a bishop
Eros' mortal lover
Who is Psyche
This many Valentine's are estimated by Hallmark to be sent every year.
145 million
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
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...)
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"
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
The top three Valentine's Day expenditures by city
1. Los Angeles
2. Venice, Italy
3. New York
Romantic movie based on Romeo and Juliet
Warm Bodies
Gnomio and Juliet
Romeo Must Die
Shakespeare in Love
West Side Story