Q 01/05

In Roman mythology, who is the god of desire and love, usually shown as a winged boy with a bow?

A) Mars

B) Cupid

C) Apollo

D) Mercury

Answer · why

B) Cupid

His Greek counterpart is Eros; the chubby-cherub look only arrived in the Hellenistic period.

Q 02/05

Cupid is usually described as the son of the goddess Venus and which god?

A) Jupiter

B) Mars

C) Vulcan

D) Neptune

Answer · why

B) Mars

Love and War as parents made a tidy allegory; Seneca preferred Vulcan, Venus's actual husband.

Q 03/05

Cupid's gold-tipped arrow causes desire; what does the lead-tipped one cause?

A) Sleep

B) Jealousy

C) Forgetfulness

D) Aversion

Answer · why

D) Aversion

Ovid tells how Cupid shot Apollo with gold and Daphne with lead, so she fled him and became a laurel tree.

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

It is made in the hypothalamus and released by the pituitary, and it works by positive feedback: release triggers more release.

Q 05/05

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

A) Obsession

B) Devotion

C) Infatuation

D) Attraction

Answer · why

D) Attraction

Her MRI work linked early romantic love to the ventral tegmental area, which pumps out dopamine when you look at your beloved.