Valentine's Day
This priest of Rome was tempted by the emperor to convert to paganism, but instead the priest tried to make a Christian of the emperor.
(Insert pix of St. Valentine.)
Who was St. Valentine?
True or False:
Valentine's Day is the Number 1 card-giving holiday?
What is false?
(The Number 1 card-giving holiday is Christmas.)
In Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, this young woman was Tom's girlfriend.
(Insert photo of Mark Twain.)
Who was Becky Thatcher?
Characters Jack and Rose were made famous in this movie depicted on the ocean.
(Insert a picture of the Titanic.)
What is the Titanic?
Insert Jeopardy Music 30 seconds.
This February birthstone is well known because it was worn in a ring by Saint Valentine and Royalty--thought to attract love.
What is amethyst?
True or False:
Candy hearts originally were used as medical lozenges?
What is true?
(OK if they say just true?) (Or host will hesitate and wait for what is true...customary on the show. Easy points for next person?)
(History of conversation hearts such as Be Mine, Kiss Me, Be My Valentine began in 1847 when a Boston pharmacist named Oliver Chase invented a machine that would make it easier to produce lozenges made of medicine mixed with sugar paste.)
Love and beauty in Ancient Greece was the realm of this one goddess.
Who is Aphrodite?
This couple became famous in the movie, Dirty Dancing. Give their real names or their stage names.
Who are Baby and Johnny?
Who are Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze?
(Insert pix.)
This handsome youth, Narcissus, was famous or infamous for his unusual trait.
What is self-love? or
What is loving his own reflection?
What is self-centered?
(Host add: Narcissus pined and wrote for the love of his own reflection. Judge may decide accurate answer wording here.)
Billet-Doux (bill-a-doo) is a French word for a caring love communication.
What is a love letter?
(Literally a sweet note in French from 1665-75.)
True or False:
February is chosen as the month for Valentine's Day because St. Valentine was born on February 14, 270 A.D.?
What is false?
(St. Valentine was beheaded on February 14, 270 A.D. He was born 226 A.D.The Roman Emperor Claudius II issued orders to execute Saint Valentine, who was accused of performing Christian weddings for soldiers, who were forbidden to marry.)
This picturesque island city in Italy is known as the "Bride of the Sea."
What is Venice?
Or What is Venice, Italy?
This couple was played by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John in Grease.
Who are Danny and Sandy?
(Insert pix.)
Insert Alex picture.
Thank you for watching. Thank you, Alex.
On the night before his execution, St. Valentine wrote this letter to his jailer's daughter because he had cured her of blindness.
What was the first valentine?
(Judges may consider an alternate correct answer.)
True or False:
Giving valentines is a 600-year-old tradition?
What is true?
(Another question tells the story that St. Valentine, on the night before his execution, wrote the first valentine to his jailer's daughter.
This nut tree is a symbol of abiding love and friendship because it was planted at the grave site of St. Valentine by Julia, the daughter of his jailer.
What is the almond tree?
(Insert almond tree with pretty pink blossoms.)
This name belonged to Juliet's family in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Who are the Capulets?
(Romeo's family name was Montague. Their deaths bury their parents' strife. Some 300 years later, the Hatfields and the McCoys battled in West Virginia and Kentucky.)
This famous line was spoken by the dying character Jenny Cavilleri to Oliver Barrett IV in this movie, Love Story.
What is "Love is never having to say you're sorry."
(Never HAVING to say you're sorry.)
This beloved painting is located in a famous museum.
What is the Louvre?
(Millions of people walk for an hour through this famous museum in Paris to view this marvel every year.
WAIT !
We have her here in our Dawn Busters club...our very own Mona Lisa. The song about her was made famous by Nat King Cole in the USA.)
True or False:
Creme-filled chocolates are the favorite in a box of chocolates?
What is false?
(Caramels are the favorite. Caramel in the dictionary showed three pronunciations:
(/kar'-uh-muhl, kar'-uh-mel, or kahr'-muhl/)
So you see, you were right!
This man created James Bond, lover of many lovely women, friends and foes.
Who is Ian Fleming?
This couple, characters Hans Solo and Princess Leia, were made famous in this movie. Be exact in your response.
What is Star Wars?
(Stars Wars: A New Hope was the first Star Wars movie albeit the first three presented to the world were Star Wars 4,5,6, then came 1,2,3 and later 7,8,9. I had to ask my son-in-law Don, whose personal Christmas tree is all about Star Wars and Star Trek.)
THIS very famous playwright, poet, and actor wrote his 14-line Sonnet XVIII in iambic pentameter, beginning with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" and ending with "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives THIS, and THIS gives life to thee."
Who is William Shakespeare?
(In 1609, William Shakespeare wrote Sonnet XVIII of his 154 sonnets. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, in April 1564, he died there also on April 23, 1616, at age 52.)