OK, so Valentines Day was last week, but hey, since when has that stopped us !

So.... Welcome to the Luurrrrve Quiz  

Questions

ROUND 1 – Musical Love

1.

Which song contains the lines, “You're asking me will my love grow, I don't know, I don't know”?

2.

Which song contains the lines, “I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all you’ve dreamed of, and I wish for you joy and happiness, but above all this, I wish you love”?

3.

“Love minus zero / no limit” was chosen as a Desert Island disc by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.  Who wrote and performed it?

4.

Love her Madly, Love me two times and Hello, I love you, were songs written and performed by which seminal band from the late 1960’s?

5.

Holly Johnson and The O’Jays, both had a top ten hit with a song of the same name.  What was it?

6.

Huey Lewis & The News, and Jennifer Rush both had top ten hits with a song of the same name.  What was it?

7.

From which Shakespeare play does the line “If music be the food of love, play on” appear?

8.

How many lines of poetry are there in any of Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets?

ROUND 2 – Medical Love

1.

If you suffer from Bradycardia, what are your symptoms?

2.

What is the medical name given to excessively high heart rate?

3.

What causes a heart murmur?

4.

Only one vein in the body carries oxygenated blood.  Which one?

5.

What is the effect of taking a beta blocker?

6.

How is the drug Sildenafil Citrate better known?

7.

Which variety of “Cupids measles” is caused by Treponema pallidum?

8.

Which disease is often referred to as “kissing disease”?

ROUND 3 – Valentine’s Day Happenings

1.

Which British Physicist, born on Valentine’s Day in 1869, won the 1927 Nobel Prize for his work on making the paths taken by charged particles visible by condensation of vapour?

2.

Which American engineer, born on Valentine’s Day in 1859, created the engineering highlight of the Chicago based World Exposition of 1893?

3.

Which Canadian actress, born on Valentine’s Day in 1927 played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films?

4.

Which Englishman, born on Valentine’s Day in 1944, directed the films Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and Evita?

5.

Which football manager, born on Valentine’s day 1951 in Yorkshire, started playing for Scunthorpe and was footballer of the year in 1976?

6.

Bob Woodward and which other Washington Post reporter, born on Valentine’s Day in 1944, uncovered the Watergate scandal?

7.

Which English king was murdered on Valentine’s Day in 1400 at Pontefract Castle?

8.

Which British explorer was murdered in Hawaii on Valentine’s Day in 1779?

ROUND 4 – Love Pictures

Name the famous lovers….

ROUND 5 – Love Partners

Who was the famous lover of …..

1.

Clara Petacci?

2.

Soon Yi Previn?

3.

The Duchess of Alba

4.

Madame Du Barry

5.

Antonio de Sancha

6.

Sarah Keays

7.

Piers Gaveston

8.

Paul Verlain

ROUND 6 – Celluloid Love 

1.

Jack Nicholson won an Oscar playing the part of Garrett Breedlove in which 1983 movie?

2.

Who won an Oscar for best supporting actress in the 1998 movie Shakespeare in Love despite being on screen for a total of just 8 minutes?

3.

Who played Romeo in the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet”?

4.

Which actress played the part of the alcoholic Alice Green in the 1994 movie When a man loves a woman?

5.

Which famous romantic action actor was described by David Niven thus: “You can always rely on him to let you down”?

6.

Which actress said, “It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office”?

7.

Who played the 2 lovers in the 1970 movie Love Story (both names needed)?

8.

Who played Geoffrey Bobbles Bon Bon in the TV series The Lovers?

ROUND 7 – Literary Love

1.

Who wrote The Song of J Alfred Prufrock?

2.

Which Old Testament Book of the Bible is a collection of love poetry?

3.

Playwright Joe Orton was killed by his lover.  What was his name?

4.

Name one of the couple whose book’s include the titles Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy?

5.

Who wrote the line “Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all”

6.

Who wrote the line “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals”?

7.

Of which famous novel is this a synopsis: A love affair in wartime Italy between an American in the Italian ambulance service and a British nurse?

8.

Of which famous love novel is this the opening line: Happy families are all alike - every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way?

ROUND 8 – Miscellaneous pot pourri lucky dip of love – Part I revisited

1.

In what year was the world’s first human heart transplanted?

2.

Pope Valentine’s papacy lasted on for 40 days before his death in which year (+/- 50 years)?

3.

Give a year in the life of Giacomo Casanova.

4.

Give a year in the life of Catherine the Great.

5.

In the 1929 St Valentine’s Day Massacre, what disguise did Capone’s mob effect to avoid being rumbled by their victims, Bugs Moron’s gang?

6.

Where in England is the most famous “Valentines Brook”?

7.

Whose 1991 work of art is entitled The Lovers (spontaneous, committed, detached, compromising)?

8.

Whose works of art include You forgot to kiss my Soul, Everyone I have ever slept with and My Bed?

SPARES – Spare Lovers

1.

In what year was Lady Chatterley’s Lover originally published?

2.

Who directed the classic movies Faster pussycat...kill, kill & the Vixen series?

3.

What is the term for the form of asexual reproduction in which an unfertilised egg develops into an adult?

4.

Which heart drug is extracted from the common plant, Foxglove?

5.

Who wrote the novel Love in a Cold Climate?

6.

Who wrote the novel The Life & Loves of a She-Devil?

7.

Which movie contains this memorable line: “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning”?

8.

Which movie contains this memorable line: “Oh, Senator ... love the suit”?

Answers

ROUND 1 – Musical Love

1.

Something (The Beatles)

2.

I will always love you (Dolly Parton & then Whitney Houston)

3.

Bob Dylan

4.

The Doors

5.

Love Train

6.

The Power of Love

7.

Twelfth Night

8.

14

ROUND 2 – Medical Love

1.

Slow, or slow and irregular, heart beat

2.

Tachyarrhythmia

3.

Sound made by blood leaking in the heart, usually a damaged valve, but can also be a hole between two chambers

4.

The Pulmonary Vein (from the lungs to the heart)

5.

They slow the heart rate, reduce tremor and decrease the pump volume

6.

Viagra

7.

Syphilis

8.

Infectious mononucleosis - a.k.a. Glandular fever

ROUND 3 – Valentine’s Day Happenings

1.

Charles Wilson (Wilson cloud chamber)

2.

George Ferris (Ferris Wheel)

3.

Lois Maxwell

4.

Alan Parker

5.

Sir Kevin Keegan

6.

Carl Bernstein

7.

Richard II

8.

James Cook

ROUND 4 – Love Pictures

1.

Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

2.

Lancelot & Guinevere

3.

Giacomo Casanova

4.

Mata Hari

5.

Mae West

6.

Rudolph Valentino (isn’t make up a wonderful thing!)

7.

Grigori Efimovich Rasputin

8.

Catherine the Great

ROUND 5 – Love Partners

1.

Benito Mussolini

2.

Woody Allen

3.

Francisco Goya

4.

Louis XV

5.

David Mellor

6.

Cecil Parkinson

7.

Edward II

8.

Arthur Rimbaud

ROUND 6 – Celluloid Love

1.

Terms of Endearment

2.

Judi Dench (as Elizabeth I)

3.

Leonardo de Caprio

4.

Meg Ryan

5.

Errol Flynn

6.

Shirley McLaine

7.

Ryan O'Neal & Ali MacGraw

8.

Richard Beckinsale

ROUND 7 – Literary Love

1.

T S Eliot

2.

Song of Solomon (a.k.a. - Song of Songs)

3.

Kenneth Halliwell

4.

William Masters or Virginia Johnson

5.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6.

Benjamin Franklin

7.

A Farewell to Arms

8.

Anna Karenina

ROUND 8 – Miscellaneous pot pourri lucky dip of love – Part I revisited

1.

1967

2.

827 A.D. (accept 777 - 877)

3.

1725-1798

4.

1729-1796

5.

They dressed as Policeman

6.

Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool (fence number 9)

7.

Damien Hirst

8.

Tracey Emin (accept Ermin)

SPARES – Spare Lovers

1.

1928

2.

Russ Meyer

3.

Parthogenesis

4.

Digitalis

5.

Nancy Mitford

6.

Fay Weldon

7.

Apocalypse Now

8.

Silence of the Lambs