Love Trivia
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110 free Love trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free love trivia questions with answers. This is trivia about love itself, built as trivia for couples: a date night round or a couples trivia game. It covers the science (the hormone behind bonding, why opposites do not actually attract, the word psychologists coined for being madly in love), the myths (Cupid's two arrows, how Aphrodite was born, Pyramus and Thisbe, Tristan's potion), and the customs we take for granted: why the ring goes on that finger, why brides wear white, what 'honeymoon' first meant, who is allowed to propose on leap day. There are questions on kisses and their Roman vocabulary, on animals that mate for life (and the swan divorce rate), on the Paris bridge that collapsed under love locks, on Las Vegas chapels and Loveland's valentine post office, and on the romances everyone has seen: Casablanca, Titanic, The Notebook, When Harry Met Sally. About half the questions are easy enough to keep the evening light; the rest give the know-it-all in the couple something to prove. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which Beatles song did the band perform on Our World, the first live global satellite TV link-up, in 1967?
All You Need Is Love
All You Need Is Love answered a request for a message that people in every country could understand; the Beatles played it live from Abbey Road with Mick Jagger among the friends singing along.
Q 02Cupid is often portrayed as the son of the goddess Venus and which god?
Mars
Mars and Venus as Cupid's parents made a tidy allegory of Love and War, but ancient writers never settled it: Cicero counted three Cupids, only one of them a son of Mars.
Q 03In Ovid's Metamorphoses, what does Cupid's lead-tipped arrow cause?
Aversion
Aversion is what the lead brings: Cupid shoots Apollo with the gold arrow and Daphne with the lead one, so she flees him and ends up turned into a laurel tree.
Q 04Which hormone, released during hugging, childbirth and sex, is popularly nicknamed the 'love hormone'?
Oxytocin
Oxytocin is one of the few hormones that runs on positive feedback: each release prompts more, which is why labour contractions keep building until the baby is born.
Q 05Anthropologist Helen Fisher split love into three brain systems: lust, attachment and which other?
Attraction
Attraction is Fisher's name for the giddy early stage; when she scanned the brains of people newly in love, a dopamine-rich reward area lit up at a photo of the beloved.
Q 06Robert Sternberg's 'triangular theory' says love has three components: intimacy, passion and what?
Commitment
Commitment, for Sternberg, has two halves that can come apart: deciding you love someone, and resolving to keep that love going. With no intimacy or passion beside it, he called the result 'empty love'.
Q 07In a famous 1995 Swiss experiment, women rated men's body odour by sniffing which item?
T-shirts
T-shirts worn for two nights gave a rare case of opposites pulling together: the women tended to prefer the scent of men whose immune-system genes differed from their own.
Q 08Which word did Dorothy Tennov coin for the obsessive, madly-in-love state when reciprocation is uncertain?
Limerence
Limerence has no roots at all: Tennov, who interviewed more than 500 people about being in love, said she picked the word simply because it looks nice.
Q 09Which ancient Greek word for love describes friendship or affectionate regard between equals?
Philia
Philia mattered so much to Aristotle that he gave it two whole books of his Nicomachean Ethics; nobody, he wrote, would choose to live without friends, whatever else they had.
Q 10In Greek, which word names the natural affection between parents and children?
Storge
Storge is the 'Affection' C. S. Lewis treats first of his Four Loves: a humble love, he wrote, that grows out of familiarity with the people we happen to be thrown together with.
Q 11The Greek 'xenia' is a form of love or friendship directed at whom?
Guests and strangers
Guests and strangers were under the protection of Zeus Xenios; in the Odyssey the suitors mock and strike Odysseus when he turns up disguised as a beggar, and he kills them all.
Q 12The 'honeymoon' originally referred to what?
The weeks after the wedding
The weeks after the wedding were the honeymoon from the 1540s, and the word may have carried a wry warning: like the moon, a new couple's sweetness would soon wane. The trip came centuries later.
Q 13What Latin name is given to the old belief in a vein running from the ring finger to the heart?
Vena amoris
Q 21Which Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal?
Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan began it after Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth in 1631; deposed and confined by their son Aurangzeb in 1658, he was finally laid to rest beside her.
Q 22Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona and which other Italian city?
Mantua
Mantua is where Romeo is banished for killing Tybalt, and where the false news of Juliet's death reaches him before Friar Laurence's letter can.
Q 23Which Babylonian couple from Ovid, whispering through a cracked wall, inspired Romeo and Juliet?
Pyramus and Thisbe
Pyramus and Thisbe's blood is said to have stained the white mulberry dark for ever; Shakespeare also played their story for laughs in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Vena amoris, the 'vein of love', is a reason often given for wearing a wedding ring on that finger; the Roman writer Aulus Gellius had already reported the idea, as a fine nerve leading to the heart.
Q 14In ancient Rome, where gold rings were kept for public wear, a betrothed woman was sent a plain ring of what?
Iron
Iron was what Romans wore at home: Pliny the Elder wrote that even men honoured with gold rings put them on only in public, and that brides-to-be were still sent an iron ring with no stone.
Q 15Archduke Maximilian of Austria, who gave the first well-documented diamond engagement ring in 1477, belonged to which dynasty?
Habsburg
Habsburg heir Maximilian gave the ring to Mary of Burgundy, and the match paid off handsomely: it brought the Netherlands under his family's control.
Q 16Which company's 'A Diamond Is Forever' ads made diamond engagement rings the American norm?
De Beers
De Beers hired the agency N. W. Ayer in the 1930s, when only about one engagement ring in ten held a diamond; its copywriter Frances Gerety wrote the famous line in 1947.
Q 17At the end of a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony, what does the groom crush under his foot?
A glass
A glass is stamped on to end the ceremony, most often explained as a reminder of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem even at a moment of joy; the guests answer with 'Mazel tov!'
Q 18Which London cathedral hosted Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's 1981 wedding?
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral was chosen over Westminster Abbey, the more traditional church for a royal wedding; a congregation of 3,500 filled it, and an estimated 750 million people watched on television.
Q 19The bridal rhyme 'Something old, something new' ends with which coin?
Sixpence
Sixpence in her shoe is the rhyme's last line; by tradition the bride's father slips the silver coin into her left shoe to bring the couple luck.
Q 20Traditionally, which material is the gift for a first wedding anniversary?
Paper
Paper marks the first year, wood the fifth and tin the tenth, but the grand occasions are the silver and golden weddings: in Germany a couple reaching fifty years was by custom presented with a golden wreath.
Q 24In the medieval legend, what do Tristan and Iseult share on the voyage from Ireland that seals their fate?
A love potion
A love potion brewed by Iseult's mother for her daughter and King Mark of Cornwall is drunk instead by Iseult and Tristan, the nephew sent to fetch her; in one early version it wears off after three years.
Q 25In the classic Arabic love story of Layla, the poet Qays earns the nickname Majnun, meaning what?
Crazy
Crazy, literally 'possessed by jinn', is what his tribe called Qays once his obsession with Layla took hold; Eric Clapton took her name for his 1970 song after reading the tale.
Q 26Mark Antony left his wife, the sister of which rival, for Cleopatra?
Octavian
Octavian's sister Octavia was divorced by Antony before her brother went to war on the couple; after both were dead, she raised his three children by Cleopatra alongside her own.
Q 27The medieval literary idea of a knight performing deeds for an idealised lady is called what?
Courtly love
Courtly love was barely a medieval phrase: the name caught on only after the French scholar Gaston Paris wrote of 'amour courtois' in 1883, while the troubadours themselves sang of fin'amor.
Q 28Which three-book manual on seduction by the Roman poet Ovid may have helped get him exiled to the Black Sea?
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria, 'The Art of Love', is usually taken to be the poem Ovid meant when he blamed his banishment on 'a poem and a mistake'; he never said what the mistake was.
Q 29The Kama Sutra, the ancient Indian guide to love attributed to Vatsyayana, was composed in which language?
Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the language of the Kama Sutra, and its reputation misleads: only a portion deals with sex, while much of the rest is advice on courtship and living well.
Q 30Among the Romans' several words for a kiss, the suavium was the kiss for whom?
Lovers
Lovers shared the suavium, a kiss of passion named from the Latin for 'sweet'; it was the rival word basium that lived on, as Italian bacio, Spanish beso and French baiser.