Q 01/05

Which illness, spread through saliva and common among teenagers, is nicknamed the kissing disease?

A) Tonsillitis

B) Mononucleosis

C) Strep throat

D) Scarlet fever

Answer · why

B) Mononucleosis

Mononucleosis is usually caused by the Epstein–Barr virus, which infects most people in childhood, when it produces few or no symptoms.

Q 02/05

Kissing which block of limestone, set in an Irish castle's battlements, is said to grant the gift of the gab?

A) The Lia Fáil

B) The Castlestrange Stone

C) The Blarney Stone

D) The Turoe Stone

Answer · why

C) The Blarney Stone

The Blarney Stone can only be reached by leaning over backwards from the parapet at the top of Blarney Castle, near Cork, with iron rails to grip.

Q 03/05

Which Grimm heroine wakes when a servant stumbles carrying her coffin, not from the kiss Disney later added?

A) Snow White

B) Sleeping Beauty

C) Rapunzel

D) Cinderella

Answer · why

A) Snow White

Snow White revives when the jolt dislodges a piece of poisoned apple from her throat; Disney's 1937 film swapped the stumble for love's first kiss.

Q 04/05

A 1945 Life magazine photograph of a sailor kissing a stranger on V-J Day was taken in which New York location?

A) Grand Central Terminal

B) Central Park

C) Brooklyn Bridge

D) Times Square

Answer · why

D) Times Square

Times Square was full of crowds celebrating Japan's surrender, and photographer Eisenstaedt said that had the woman worn dark clothes he would have ha...

Q 05/05

Whose Paris tomb gained a glass barrier in 2011 after years of visitors' lipstick kisses damaged the monument?

A) Jim Morrison

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Édith Piaf

D) Frédéric Chopin

Answer · why

B) Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's admirers left so many lipstick prints at Père Lachaise that the grease soaked in, and each cleaning left the surface more porous.