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

So.... Welcome to the Luurrrrve Quiz....

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 and 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?

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 'Cupid's measles' is caused by Treponema pallidum?

8.

Which disease is often referred to as 'kissing disease'?

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….

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

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?

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?

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"?

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 Valentine's 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?

1.

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

2.

Who directed the classic movies Faster Pussycat...Kill, Kill and 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 and 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”?

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

So.... Welcome to the Luurrrrve Quiz....

1.

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

Something

(The Beatles)

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”?

I Will Always Love You

(Dolly Parton & then Whitney Houston)

3.

Love Minus Zero / No Limit was chosen as a Desert Island disc by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.  Who wrote and performed it?

Bob Dylan

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?

The Doors

5.

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

Love Train

6.

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

The Power of Love

7.

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

Twelfth Night

8.

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

14

1.

If you suffer from Bradycardia, what are your symptoms?

Slow, or slow and irregular, heart beat

2.

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

Tachyarrhythmia

3.

What causes a heart murmur?

Sound made by blood leaking in the heart, usually a damaged valve

(but can also be a hole between two chambers)

4.

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

The pulmonary vein

(from the lungs to the heart)

5.

What is the effect of taking a beta blocker?

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

6.

How is the drug Sildenafil Citrate better known?

Viagra

7.

Which variety of 'Cupid's measles' is caused by Treponema pallidum?

Syphilis

8.

Which disease is often referred to as 'kissing disease'?

Infectious mononucleosis

(a.k.a. Glandular fever)

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?

Charles Wilson

(Wilson cloud chamber)

2.

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

George Ferris

(Ferris Wheel)

3.

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

Lois Maxwell

4.

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

Alan Parker

5.

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

Sir Kevin Keegan

6.

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

Carl Bernstein

7.

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

Richard II

8.

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

James Cook

ROUND 4 - Love pictures

Name the famous lovers….

1.

Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow)

2.

Lancelot and 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

1.

Clara Petacci?

Benito Mussolini

2.

Soon Yi Previn?

Woody Allen

3.

The Duchess of Alba?

Francisco Goya

4.

Madame Du Barry?

Louis XV

5.

Antonio de Sancha?

David Mellor

6.

Sarah Keays?

Cecil Parkinson

7.

Piers Gaveston?

Edward II

8.

Paul Verlain?

Arthur Rimbaud

1.

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

Terms of Endearment

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?

Judi Dench

(as Elizabeth I)

3.

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

Leonardo de Caprio

4.

Which actress played the part of the alcoholic Alice Green in the 1994 movie When a Man Loves a Woman?

Meg Ryan

5.

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

Errol Flynn

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”?

Shirley McLaine

7.

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

Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw

8.

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

Richard Beckinsale

1.

Who wrote The Song of J Alfred Prufrock?

T S Eliot

2.

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

Song of Solomon

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

3.

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

Kenneth Halliwell

4.

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

(one of)

William Masters or Virginia Johnson

5.

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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"?

A Farewell to Arms

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"?

Anna Karenina

1.

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

1967

2.

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

827 A.D.

(accept 777 - 877)

3.

Give a year in the life of Giacomo Casanova.

1725-1798

4.

Give a year in the life of Catherine the Great.

1729-1796

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?

They dressed as Policeman

6.

Where in England is the most famous Valentine's Brook?

Aintree

(Racecourse, Liverpool - fence number 9)

7.

Whose 1991 work of art is entitled The Lovers (Spontaneous, Committed, Detached, Compromising)?

Damien Hirst

8.

Whose works of art include You Forgot to Kiss My Soul, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With and My Bed?

Tracey Emin

(accept Ermin)

1.

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

1928

2.

Who directed the classic movies Faster Pussycat...Kill, Kill and the Vixen series?

Russ Meyer

3.

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

Parthogenesis

4.

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

Digitalis

5.

Who wrote the novel Love in a Cold Climate?

Nancy Mitford

6.

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

Fay Weldon

7.

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

Apocalypse Now

8.

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

Silence of the Lambs