Every year, thousands of romantics send letters addressed to Verona, Italy to this famous Shakespearian character. The city marks the location of the Shakespearean tale, and the letters that reach the city are dutifully answered by a team of volunteers from the _____ Club. Each year, on Valentine's Day, the club awards the "Cara Giulietta" prize to the author of the most touching love letter.
Who is Juliet?
These iconic chalky heart-shaped candies that have been passed out lovingly every Valentine’s Day started out as lozenges.
What are Sweethearts?
These two have been on the air for a while now, well over 30 seasons
Who are Marge and Homer Simpson?
These guys are the queen and king of the music industry and have 3 children, including Blue Ivy
Who are Jay-Z and Beyonce?
This Shakesperian tale doesn't end well for these two lovers
What is Romeo and Juliet?
The Valentine’s Day tradition of giving these was started in the 19th century by Richard Cadbury. They are still titans in food industry today
What is chocolate?
Hershey makes these little chocolate drops you can give to your sweetheart
What are Kisses?
Forbidden love at its finest, she knows what he is and she fully doesn't care in this teen vampire romance
This couple is fairly recent and he gave up his crown to be with her and live in the USA.
Who are Harry and Megan Markle?
A novel by John Green, this book was all the rage in the early 2010's, the story follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player, amputee, and survivor of osteosarcoma. It later became a movie with Ansel Elgort
What is The Fault in Our Stars?
Some accounts claims history’s first valentine was written in perhaps one of the most unromantic places conceivable. Charles, Duke of Orleans allegedly wrote the love letter to his second wife at the age of 21 while captured at the Battle of Agincourt.
What is a prision?
Sometimes you give these along with your Valentines for your class when you were in elementary school
What are lollipops ?
She promised to never let go, but she did in order to save herself from the freezing water after their boat sunk
Who are Jack and Rose?
This Egyptian Queen described her lover as this "Brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate everyone." As Shakespeare depicts it, their relationship was volatile ("Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you") but after they risked all in a war on Rome and lost, they chose to die together in 30 BC.
Who are Cleopatra and Mark Antony?
By English author Jane Austen, published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
Beefore he was renamed Cupid, he was known to the ancient Greeks as _____, the god of love. The son of Greek goddess Aphrodite, would use two sets of arrows—one for love and another for hate—to play with the emotions of his targets. It wasn’t until stories of his mischief were told by Romans that he adopted the childlike appearance that we recognize today.
Who is Eros?
This sweet treat is natures candy is often covered with chocolate
What are chocolate covered strawberries?
He built a house for her with the blue shutters, her parents kept the letters he wrote to her and they reunited in this passionate and tearjerker rain scene
Who are Allie and Noah from The Notebook?
The talented young Mexican painter paid a visit to the studio of famous muralist in search of career advice. Theirs was a volatile relationship, yet this famous muralist knew from early on that his love "was the most important fact in my life and she would continue to be until she died 27 years later." As for her, she said, "You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn't afraid to fall. You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry."
Who are Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera?
This love winds up belly up as the man character is too busy trying to show he is worthy with his wealth during this 1920's novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What is the Great Gatsby?
The idea of using a _____ has a long history.The use of __ came to represent Christianity, or the cross, in the Middle Ages. During the same time, the symbol was used to sign off on documents. After marking with an ___, the writer would often kiss the mark as a sign of their oath.
What is X?
If you can't afford the real version of these, the chocolate version would also do fine for your sweetheart
What are chocolate roses?
The other version of Romeo and Juliet, this couple sings and dances their way through love and loss
These two were pioneers in television, having their TV show become the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons and is regarded one of the best of all time. Their love was even more tumultuous, but even till the end, his last words was that he loved her
Who are Lucy and Desi?
A novel written in Spanish by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985.The story follows two young people who fall in love in the youth but do not marry each other. Instead Fermina marries a doctor with good social standing. Florentino, the boy, is a womanizer and a romantic. He rises in his business career and he waits for Fermina to be free again.
What is Love in a Time of Cholera?