Valentine's Day Quiz: Origins, Ophelia, Pyramus and Thisbe (expert)
A fifth-century pope, a captive duke, Ophelia, Korea, China and Wales: an expert quiz on the roots of Valentine's Day and lovers' festivals worldwide.
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- Which pope, according to tradition, set the feast of Saint Valentine on 14 February in the year 496?
- Which English poet links Saint Valentine's Day to the mating of birds in The Parliament of Fowls, around 1380?
- Which French poet and duke, held prisoner in England after Agincourt, left one of the oldest surviving Valentine poems?
… and 7 more questions to discover by playing.