Q 01/05

Which Beatles song did the band perform on Our World, the first live global satellite TV link-up, in 1967?

A) All You Need Is Love

B) She Loves You

C) And I Love Her

D) Can't Buy Me Love

Answer · why

A) 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 M...

Q 02/05

Cupid is often portrayed as the son of the goddess Venus and which god?

A) Jupiter

B) Mars

C) Apollo

D) Neptune

Answer · why

B) 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...

Q 03/05

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, what does Cupid's lead-tipped arrow cause?

A) Sleep

B) Jealousy

C) Forgetfulness

D) Aversion

Answer · why

D) 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 lau...

Q 04/05

Which hormone, released during hugging, childbirth and sex, is popularly nicknamed the 'love hormone'?

A) Cortisol

B) Adrenaline

C) Oxytocin

D) Insulin

Answer · why

C) 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 th...

Q 05/05

Anthropologist Helen Fisher split love into three brain systems: lust, attachment and which other?

A) Obsession

B) Devotion

C) Jealousy

D) Attraction

Answer · why

D) 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 ph...