A holiday can’t go by without me exploiting some trivia questions out of it. So here it is, your Valentine’s Day Trivia Quiz. Answers are below a dozen roses.

ALSO I’ve got 5 bonus V-Day questions for you if you show up to next Tuesday’s (Feb 19, 2013) Trivia Night at Ventnor Sports Cafe (Washington DC). I save the best for the live performances..

1. (US States) What US state’s official state flower is the rose?
2. (Sports) In College football, The Rose Bowl is played every New Year’s Day in what California city?
3. (Movies) Loosely based on the life Janis Joplin, who starred in and performed all the songs on the soundtrack to the 1979 film The Rose? 
4. (Cartoons) Tenderheart is a character on this children’s TV show, and is traditionally featured on their logo. 
5. (Sports) Wayne Gretzky won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player a record 8 times in a row while playing for what team?
6. (Mythology) Venus is to Aphrodite as Cupid is to…
7. (Astronomy) The moon known as Cupid does not orbit his mother Venus, but instead orbits this planet which has the third-largest radius and the fourth-largest planetary mass. *J
8. (Music) “Cupid” is a 1961 hit single recorded and written by what gospel/R&B/soul artist?
   
9. (Famous Tourist Traps) The oldest known valentine was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans from a place known as Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress. What is this place better known as? *J
10. (Music) What rock band released the song “Feel Like Makin Love” in 1975

*J – Credit where credit is due. Jay Ray wrote this question.

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