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Valentine’s Day Jeopardy

Two Valentine’s boards: a friendship-and-kindness game for a class party, and a trivia night for grown-ups with Cupid, famous couples, flowers and Valentine’s customs from around the world.

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Free, no sign-up. 52 questions, every answer checked against a source.

Valentine’s Day Jeopardy questions and answers

2 boards. Each clue with its answer, easiest at the top of each category. DD marks the Daily Double.

Classroom

Valentine’s Day Jeopardy for kids

Hearts, cards and kindness, chocolate, friendship words and famous pairs, for a grades 2–5 class party.

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All about hearts

  1. 100Mix red paint with white paint to make this Valentine’s colourWhat is pink?
  2. 200The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your bodyWhat is the heart?
  3. 300Press two fingers on the inside of your wrist and you can feel this beat, made by your heartWhat is your pulse (heartbeat)?
  4. 400The number of chambers, or rooms, inside the human heartWhat is four?
  5. 500These blood vessels carry blood away from the heartWhat are arteries?

Cards and kindness

  1. 100The name for a card you give someone on Valentine’s DayWhat is a valentine?
  2. 200Valentine’s Day falls on the 14th day of this monthWhat is February?
  3. 300Saying something nice about someone, like “I love your drawing”, is giving them one of theseWhat is a compliment?
  4. 400DDFold paper in half and cut half a heart along the fold. The fold becomes this line, so both sides matchWhat is a line of symmetry (mirror line, axis of symmetry)?
  5. 500This word means understanding and sharing how someone else feelsWhat is empathy?

Chocolate and sweets

  1. 100This sweet treat, often given in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine’s Day, is made from cacao beansWhat is chocolate?
  2. 200This ivory-coloured chocolate has cocoa butter in it but none of the dark cocoa solidsWhat is white chocolate?
  3. 300Cacao trees grow in hot, rainy places close to this imaginary line around the middle of the EarthWhat is the equator?
  4. 400Cacao beans grow inside these large fruits, which sprout from the tree’s trunk and thick branchesWhat are pods (cacao pods)?
  5. 500The people of this empire, whose capital was Tenochtitlan, used cacao beans as moneyWho are the Aztecs?

Words of love and friendship

  1. 100This four-letter word rhymes with “glove” and means caring very much about someoneWhat is love?
  2. 200The opposite of “unkind”What is kind?
  3. 300The letters BFF stand for thisWhat is best friend(s) forever?
  4. 400A three-letter word for a friend that starts with PWhat is pal?
  5. 500The French word for “friend”What is “ami” (“amie”)?

Famous pairs

  1. 100Winnie-the-Pooh’s small, timid best friend, who is a pigWho is Piglet?
  2. 200In Arnold Lobel’s books, Frog’s best friendWho is Toad?
  3. 300In “Charlotte’s Web”, the pig that Charlotte the spider savesWho is Wilbur?
  4. 400These large water birds, whose babies are called cygnets, usually keep the same partner for lifeWhat are swans?
  5. 500This huge seabird glides for hours without flapping; pairs “dance” together and usually stay together for lifeWhat is an albatross?

Final round: Valentine symbols

This winged boy with a bow and arrows, named after a Roman god, is drawn on lots of valentines

Who is Cupid?

Adults

Valentine’s Day Jeopardy

Cupid and Valentine history, flowers, lovers in literature, romantic films and Valentine’s Day around the world, for adults.

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Myth and history

  1. 100The Roman goddess of love, usually named as Cupid’s motherWho is Venus?
  2. 200Cupid’s Greek counterpart, the god of loveWho is Eros?
  3. 300This English poet’s “Parlement of Foules” is often cited as the first link between St Valentine’s Day and romantic loveWho is Geoffrey Chaucer?
  4. 400In the tale told by Apuleius, Cupid falls in love with this mortal princess, whose name is Greek for “soul”Who is Psyche?
  5. 500In 1969 the Catholic Church moved St Valentine’s feast off this, its list of saints’ days kept worldwideWhat is the General Roman Calendar (the universal calendar of saints)?

Flowers and their meanings

  1. 100In the language of flowers, a red one of these stands for romantic loveWhat is a rose?
  2. 200This small blue flower’s name asks the person who receives it to remember the giverWhat is a forget-me-not?
  3. 300In “Hamlet”, Ophelia says this herb is “for remembrance”What is rosemary?
  4. 400Ophelia says this flower is “for thoughts”; its name comes from the French “pensée”What is a pansy?
  5. 500The Victorian “language of flowers” is also known by this 12-letter nameWhat is floriography?

Lovers in literature

  1. 100Shakespeare called this pair from Verona “star-cross’d lovers”Who are Romeo and Juliet?
  2. 200In “Pride and Prejudice”, Elizabeth Bennet finally accepts this man’s proposalWho is Mr Darcy (Fitzwilliam Darcy)?
  3. 300In “The Great Gatsby”, the woman Jay Gatsby has loved for yearsWho is Daisy (Buchanan)?
  4. 400Catherine Earnshaw’s great love in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”Who is Heathcliff?
  5. 500In Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina falls in love with this cavalry officerWho is (Count Alexei) Vronsky?

Romantic films

  1. 100James Cameron’s 1997 film in which Jack and Rose fall in love aboard a doomed shipWhat is “Titanic”?
  2. 200The 1989 film in which Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan ask whether men and women can be just friendsWhat is “When Harry Met Sally…”?
  3. 300The 1993 film in which Tom Hanks plays a widower whose young son calls a radio talk showWhat is “Sleepless in Seattle”?
  4. 400DDIn “Casablanca” (1942), Ingrid Bergman plays this woman, who walks back into Rick’s lifeWho is Ilsa (Lund)?
  5. 500The 1953 film in which Audrey Hepburn plays a princess who spends a day in Rome with an American reporterWhat is “Roman Holiday”?

Around the world

  1. 100In Japan on 14 February, it is traditionally women who give men this sweet treatWhat is chocolate?
  2. 200Japan’s White Day, when men return Valentine’s gifts, falls on this dateWhat is 14 March?
  3. 300In Wales, the day of Saint Dwynwen, patron saint of lovers, falls in this monthWhat is January?
  4. 400The Japanese name for “obligation” sweets given on 14 February to colleagues rather than a sweetheartWhat is giri choco (giri chocolate)?
  5. 500Brazil’s Lovers’ Day falls on 12 June, the eve of the feast of this saint, known for blessing couplesWho is Saint Anthony (of Padua)?

Final round: Love letters

In Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, this long-nosed poet writes love letters to Roxane on behalf of Christian

Who is Cyrano de Bergerac?

How to use it

Questions

Is the kids board romantic?
No. It’s about hearts, friendship, kindness and chocolate, made for a grade 2 to 5 class party.
Is the adults board suitable for a work party?
Yes. It’s trivia about history, films, flowers and customs, with nothing risqué.
Is it free?
Yes. Play it, print it and change it as often as you like. No sign-up, no card.
How do I play it on a projector or a video call?
Press Play this board. It opens full screen: put it on the projector, or share your screen. Teams call out their answers and you mark them right or wrong.
Can I change the questions?
Yes. Press Change the questions to open the board in the free game maker, edit any clue, and share your version as a link.

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