2024 Valentine Quiz Answers

(5 Minute Read. 21Feb2021)

Last week’s 2024 Valentine Quiz consisted of 12 questions about love and marriage to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day has come to be a day in which romantic love is celebrated. It is an especially appropriate time to annually review marriage promises and recommit to faithfulness — one woman for one man for life (Matthew 19:4-6).

Valentine’s Day is in honor of the third-century Christian martyr St. Valentine of Rome who was beheaded by Emperor Claudius II, known as Claudius the Cruel. Claudius prohibited marriage in Rome because he thought that attachment to wives and families hindered Roman men from joining the army. Valentine defied the emperor by marrying couples in secret. He was executed for this defiance on February 14, 269 AD.

If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, click 2024 Valentine Quiz to take the quiz before you look at the answers below.

Here are the 12 original quiz questions followed by answers and explanations. Links to supporting Bible verses are included with each answer for the Bible questions.

Questions & Answers for 2021 Valentine Quiz

1. Who wrote, “How do I love thee, let me count the ways”?
A. King Solomon
B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Lord Byron

Answer: B.
After exchanging 600 letters in 20 months, Robert Browning (1812–1889) married 40-year-old Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861) in secret due to her father’s opposition. She died in Robert’s arms after 15 years of marriage and writing poetry together. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a fervent Christian. She learned Hebrew and read the Old Testament in Hebrew.

2. What is the oldest known Valentine?
A. A love poem from Charles, the French Duke of Orléans, to his wife
B. Henry VIII’s missive to Anne Boleyn
C. John Donne’s poem for Princess Elizabeth celebrating her Valentine’s Day marriage to Frederick V
D. Lancelot’s letter to Queen Guinevere following his banishment by King Arthur

Answer: A. Duke Charles’ love poem to his wife in the early 1400s
From the Tower of London following his capture at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, the duke’s poem begins in French, “I am already sick of love, my very gentle Valentine.”

3. Who worked 14 years for his future father-in-law to earn his bride?
A. Amos
B. Andrew Jackson
C. Marco Polo
D. Jacob

Answer: D. Jacob (Genesis 29:15-30)
Jacob worked for Laban for seven years in order to marry Laban’s daughter Rachel. On the wedding night, Laban tricked Jacob by substituting Rachel’s older sister Leah. Jacob worked another seven years for Rachel for a total of 14 years.

4. What is a cherub?
A. An angel whose arrows cause people to fall in love
B. Angels that proclaim “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.”
C. An angel placed to guard the Garden of Eden after Adam’s sin
D. Angels of gold whose wings overshadowed the mercy seat in the Tabernacle

Answer: C & D. (Genesis 3:22-24; Exodus 25:17-22)
The angels of answer B are seraphim (Isaiah 6:1-3), not cherubim.

5. Who had a barber shave her boyfriend’s head while he slept?
A. Madonna
B. Taylor Swift
C. Jezebel
D. Delilah

Answer: D. Delilah (Judges 16:4-21)

6. Who told husbands to love their wives as they love their own bodies?
A. The Apostle John
B. The Apostle Paul
C. The Apostle Peter
D. No one

Answer: B. The Apostle Paul (Ephesians 5:28-33)

7. Who told wives to submit to (obey) their husbands as to Christ?
A. The Apostle John
B. The Apostle Paul
C. The Apostle Peter
D. No one

Answer: B & C.
(Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Peter 3:1-6)
Both the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter give this instruction.

8. Who saved her husband from death by circumcising their son?
A. Sarah
B. Zipporah
C. Abigail
D. Gomer

Answer: B. Zipporah (Exodus 4:19-26)
Moses’ wife Zipporah circumcised their son on their way from Midian to Egypt to forestall the Lord’s attempt to kill Moses.

9. Whose newlywed wife nagged him with tears for seven days to tell her a secret?
A. Isaac
B. Ahab
C. Samson
D. David

Answer: C. Samson (Judges 14:15-17)

10. Which US president secretly married a woman 30 years his junior while in office?
A. James Monroe
B. John Tyler
C. Chester Arthur
D. Grover Cleveland

Answer: B. John Tyler (1790–1862)
Late in 1842 Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889) went with her parents to Washington for the winter social season. She became the undisputed belle of the capital, charming and attracting the most eminent men of the city. She received marriage proposals from two Congressmen and a Supreme Court Justice as well as President Tyler (1841–1845) who had just been widowed in September. The next winter Julia and her father David Gardiner went on a Presidential naval excursion. David and six others died in an explosion of a large naval gun on the ship. Tyler’s comforting of Julia resulted in a secret engagement, and they married secretly in June 1944. Tyler had seven children with Julia after having had eight with his first wife. In a poem composed for Tyler’s 62nd birthday, Julia promised him, “What e’er changes time may bring, I’ll love thee as thou art!”

11. Which US president met his wife in Sunday School at age six?
A. George Washington
B. James Garfield
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. Harry Truman

Answer: D. Harry Truman
Harry Truman (1884–1972) and Bess Wallace (1885–1982) first met in 1890 in Sunday school at the First Presbyterian Church in Independence, Missouri. He was six years old, and she was five. Harry often said that he fell in love with Bess right away. Years later he recalled that Bess was “all that a girl could be possibly and impossibly.” But she did not reciprocate for some time. He courted her for almost 30 years. Bess turned down his marriage proposal in 1911 but accepted it in 1917. They were married in 1919. Harry wrote 1300 letters to Bess over 50 years; they remain in the Truman Presidential Library. Bess was Harry’s main speechwriter throughout his political career. Harry no doubt never rued the day his parents took him to Sunday School.

12. How many women did astronomer Johann Kepler interview to be his wife after his first wife died?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 8
D. 11

Answer: D. 11
Following the death of his first wife Barbara, Johann Kepler (1571–1630) interviewed 11 different women for a wife over the course of two years. In 1613 he married 24-year-old Susanna Reuttinger, the fifth interviewee. He wrote that she “won me over with love, humble loyalty, economy of household, diligence, and the love she gave the stepchildren.” This led to an extensively studied math problem known as Kepler’s marriage problem: What is the optimal point at which to stop a series of interviews to get the best applicant?

Permission to Use

In the past, some readers have asked permission to use my quizzes with Sunday Schools, Bible study groups, or other applications. I give permission for such use provided the source website is included. For this quiz, please credit the quiz to the Bible-Science Guy Blog at 2024 Valentine Quiz, https://biblescienceguy.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/2024-valentine-quiz/.

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Questions to Ponder

1. What steps can you take to strengthen the bond of love with your spouse?
2. Marriage is not prohibited today as it was under Claudius II, but what false ideas of our culture presently work against God’s good plan for marriage?

Share your thoughts on these questions in the comments below. It could encourage or help another reader.

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Soli Deo Gloria.

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2021 Valentine Quiz
2024 Valentine Quiz

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Wednesday February 21, 2021 A.D.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. FOR THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:22-33)

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