Love Songs
He sang the song Can't Help Falling in Love.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Fun Fact: Elvis loved peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, including his favorite, the fried peanut butter, bacon, and banana sandwich.
This candy bar was named for a galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
Fun Fact: The Milky Way bar is named after a popular malted milk drink, not the galaxy. The Milky Way was the first mass-produced chocolate bar with a filling.
This beloved comedy duo met and fell in love while filming the stage hit Too Many Girls.
Who are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz?
Fun Fact: In 1951, Ball and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy, a series that became one of the most cherished shows in television history.
These things are the most popular gifts to be given on Valentines Day.
What are chocolates, roses and cards?
Fun Fact: The Aztecs and Mayans valued cocoa beans so much that they used them as currency.
Roses are red, violets are ______.
What is blue?
Fun Fact:
A modern standard version of this is:
Roses are red
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.
Whitney Houston sang this famous love song in 1992. It sold over 24 million copies world wide.
What is I Will Always Love You?
Fun Fact: Dolly Parton wrote this song.
This candy got its name from the sound the manufacturing machine makes.
What is the Hershey's Kiss?
Fun Fact:
70 million Hershey's Kisses are produced everyday. The machines run 24 hours a day, seven days a week and enough Kisses are produced annually to form a line more than 300,000 miles long.
This couple was married in Los Angeles in 1952. They moved to Washington DC, when he was elected to office in 1980.
Who are Ronald and Nancy Reagan?
Fun Fact: Ronald Reagan's favorite comic strip was Peanuts.
What does Cupid carry to make people fall in love?
What are a bow and arrows?
Fun Fact: Cupid's arrows were said to have different tips, with gold tips for undying love and lead tips for driving love away.
An American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Fun Fact: He's often called the "father of free verse" for his poetry style that disregarded traditional rhyme and meter.
This famous quartet sang You Always Hurt the One You Love.
Who are The Mills Brothers?
Fun Fact: There were many artists that sang this song over years, but The Mills Brothers were the first in 1944.
The first candies were made in this country.
What is Egypt?
Fun Fact: The first candies were made using fruits, honey and nuts.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier got married surrounded by members of the Kennedy family in September ____, at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
What is 1953?
Fun Fact: Their wedding cake was 4 feet tall.
This is the most popular color of rose to give and receive on Valentines Day.
What is red?
Fun Fact: Most of the roses we gift for Valentine’s Day come from Ecuador, Kenya and Columbia.
A short, comical, five line poem.
What is a limerick?
Fun Fact: The word "limerick" is thought to refer to the Irish city of Limerick, but the poems originated in England.
This song was recorded by Dean Martin in 1953 and it was on the soundtrack for the film The Caddy.
What is That's Amore?
Fun Fact: Amore means love in Italian.
The two oldest types of candy are _____ and _____.
What are licorice and ginger?
Fun Fact: Some unusual candy flavors include pickle taffy, maple bacon taffy, and chili mango taffy.
This actress became a princess when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Who is Grace Kelly?
Fun Fact: Grace Kelly was the first actress to appear on a postage stamp.
What group of people receive the most Valentines Day cards?
Teachers receive the most!
Fun Fact: According to Hallmark, 145 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged every February 14 (and that's not even including all those kids' Valentines exchanged in classrooms!). This makes Valentine's Day the second biggest holiday for exchanging greeting cards after Christmas.
A type of poetry that is made up of three lines. There are 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third.
What is a haiku?
Fun Fact: These poems are typically about nature or a simple observation.
This song was the first love song to top the Billboard Hot 100 and was sung by a group called The Teddy Bears in 1958.
What is To Know Him, Is to Love Him.
Forrest Mars Sr. created ______ after noticing soldiers in the Spanish Civil War eating chocolate covered in a hard candy shell.
What are M&M's?
Do you have a favorite color of M&M?
This presidential couple was married for 77 years, 4 months and 2 days.
Who are Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter?
Fun Fact: Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
True or False: People buy Valentines gifts for their pets.
True!
Fun Fact: In fact, around 27.6 million American households gave Valentine's Day presents to their pet dogs in 2020, and more than 17.1 million picked up gifts for their cats. All in all, American households spent an estimated $751.3 million on gifts for their pets on Valentine’s Day.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a famous poem about love known as Sonnet 43, but we know it by this more common name.
What is How Do I Love Thee?