50 free Valentine's Day Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Valentine's Day trivia for kids should be sweet, silly and easy to run in a classroom: who Cupid is, what the little candy hearts say, why we sign notes XOXO, and which cartoon dog stole a Valentine kiss. These 50 questions start with the basics every kid can get and work up to the surprising history behind the holiday. The set covers Cupid and the Roman and Greek gods of love, roses and lovebirds, Sweethearts candy and heart-shaped chocolate boxes, the very first valentines, Charlie Brown and Lady and the Tramp, and how kids in Finland, Japan, Korea and Brazil celebrate. Every answer is checked against a cited source and each explanation adds one more fact. Use it for a class party, a family dinner game or a rainy afternoon in February. Play a round now and see how many hearts you can collect.
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Q 01On which date is Valentine's Day celebrated every year?
February 14
It has been marked on that day since at least the 8th century, when it was recorded as the Feast of Saint Valentine.
Q 02Which winged Roman god, often shown with a bow and arrow, is a symbol of Valentine's Day?
Cupid
Anyone hit by one of his arrows was supposed to fall hopelessly in love.
Q 03Cupid is usually described as the son of which goddess of love?
Venus
His father is usually said to be Mars, the god of war, which is quite a combination.
Q 04What is Cupid's name in Greek mythology?
Eros
The Greeks first drew him as a slender winged youth; the chubby baby look came later.
Q 05Which flower is by far the most popular gift on Valentine's Day?
Roses
In the US most of them are flown in on refrigerated planes from Colombia and Ecuador.
Q 06What do the little heart-shaped Sweethearts candies have printed on them?
Short messages
Sayings like Be Mine and Kiss Me have been printed on the candy since 1866.
Q 07Roughly how many Sweethearts candies did the company Necco make every year?
8 billion
That is enough for everyone on Earth to get one, with plenty left over.
Q 08Which chocolate company made the first heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day, in 1868?
Cadbury
They were called Fancy Boxes, and people kept the pretty boxes long after the chocolates were gone.
Q 09The letters XOXO at the end of a note stand for what?
Hugs and kisses
Nobody is quite sure how X came to mean a kiss, though it has been used that way for hundreds of years.
Q 10Who first sold mass-produced Valentine cards in the United States, starting around 1847?
Esther Howland
She made them in Worcester, Massachusetts, out of embossed paper lace, and an award for greeting-card visionaries is named after her.
Q 11About how many valentines are sent in the US each year, per the Greeting Card Association?
190 million
That does not even count the millions of e-cards and text-message valentines.
Q 12The oldest surviving valentine was written in 1415 by a French duke held in which building?
The Tower of London
Charles, Duke of Orléans, had been captured at the Battle of Agincourt and wrote it to his wife back home.
Q 13In Finland, Valentine's Day has a different name. What is it called?
Friend's Day
Ystävänpäivä is more about friends and classmates than about romance, which makes it a lot like a school Valentine party.
Q 21Which TV show invented Galentine's Day, celebrated the day before Valentine's Day?
Parks and Recreation
Leslie Knope threw the first one in a 2010 episode, and real people started celebrating it too.
Q 22In the ancient world, the heart shape represented the seed of which plant?
Silphium
Coins from the city of Cyrene showed the shape more than 2,000 years ago.
Q 23Which Greek goddess of love was closely linked with the rose?
Aphrodite
One old story says roses are red because she pricked herself on a thorn and her blood stained the petals.
Q 14In Japan, a month after Valentine's Day, people give return gifts on a day named after which colour?
White
White Day is March 14, and it was invented by candy makers in the 1980s.
Q 15Which English poet first linked Valentine's Day with romance, in a 1382 poem about birds choosing mates?
Geoffrey Chaucer
His Parliament of Fowls celebrated the engagement of two fifteen-year-olds, King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia.
Q 16Which pair of colourful little parrots is named after the way they cuddle up in pairs?
Lovebirds
They form strong, lasting pair bonds and spend long stretches sitting side by side.
Q 17Which large white birds are famous symbols of love because they usually mate for life?
Swans
Trumpeter swans can pair up as young as 20 months old and live to 24.
Q 18Besides Valentine's Day, Saint Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and which town in Italy?
Terni
According to the town's diocese, Bishop Valentine was born there and was martyred in Rome in the year 269.
Q 19What ancient Roman festival was held at the same time of year as today's Valentine's Day?
Lupercalia
Despite the timing, historians say there is no real evidence it turned into Valentine's Day.
Q 20'Roses are red, violets are blue' first appeared in a book of nursery rhymes in which year?
1784
The idea goes back even further, to Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene in 1590.
Q 24In Western countries, which digit traditionally wears the wedding band?
The ring finger
An old belief held that a vein of love, the vena amoris, ran straight from that finger to the heart.
Q 25Hershey's Kisses, a Valentine favourite, were first made in what year?
1907
They were wrapped by hand until 1921, when a machine took over and added the little paper plume.
Q 26In the special Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, who surprises Charlie Brown with a kiss at the end?
Snoopy
After it first aired in 1975, kids all over the country mailed Charlie Brown valentines care of Charles Schulz.
Q 27The famous scene of two dogs kissing over a strand of spaghetti comes from which Disney film?
Lady and the Tramp
The scene was almost cut; an animator found the discarded story reel and convinced Walt Disney to keep it.
Q 28Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the most famous love story ever written, is set in which Italian city?
Verona
Thousands of people still stick love notes to the wall of a house in the city known as Juliet's house.
Q 29Every year, thousands of letters addressed to Juliet arrive in her Italian home city. Who answers them?
Local volunteers
The Juliet Club has been replying since the 1980s and gets more than 5,000 letters a year.
Q 30The teddy bear, a classic Valentine gift, is named after which US president?
Theodore Roosevelt
It came from a 1902 hunting trip where he refused to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree.