Note: This test is a fun way to see how much you know about Valentine Day!

2.Was Saint Valentine a priest in the third century in Rome? no yes

3.Did the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration called Lupercalia in mid-February featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box to be their lovers for the year? no yes

4.Did Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints.? no yes

5.Was Lupercalia, which began on February 15, a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus? no yes

6.Did Pope Gelasius outlawed The Roman 'lottery' system for romantic pairing? no yes

7. Did Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D.? no yes

8.The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415? no yes

9.In the 1840s, did Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines in America. no yes

10.Was Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year sending an estimated one billion valentine cards a year? no yes

11.Is Cupid, a symbol of the Valentine Day, became associated with it because he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty. ? no yes

12.Do People also believed that birds began mating on February 14 choosing that date for Valentine Day every year? no yes

13.Since ancient times, was the heart has symbolized love? no yes

14. During the seventeenth century did people made their own valentines using original verse or poems copied from booklets with appropriate verse.? no yes

15.In the 1840's where the first mechanical valentines were introduced so by pulling a tab, honeycomb pop-outs, or various other three-dimensional features? no yes

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17."Where there vinegar valentine" made by John McLaughlin, a New York printer, who make fun of old maids and other stuff? no yes

18.Were Valentine Cards done in 1870 by the American cartoonist Charles Howard were called "penny dreadfuls" because they sold for a penny and the designs were dreadful? no yes

19.In the Middle Ages, a lot of people couldn't read or write and they had to sign a document, would they make an X in place of their and kiss the X to show themselves trustworthy so a kiss has since come to be represented by an X? no yes

20.Is A love knot is a symbol of everlasting love, because its winding loops have no beginnings or ends? no yes

21. Was Saint Valentine beheaded? no yes

22.Did In 1835, an Irish Preist named John Spratt gave Pope Gregory XVI the remains of Saint Valentine in a black and gold casket? no yes

23.Is Saint Valentine's casket viewed every Valentine's Day at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, Ireland? no yes

24.Did Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself While in prison Valentine fell in love with his jailor's daughter who visited him and before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,'? no yes

25.Did the blind jailer daughter see because of a miracle Saint Valentine did because he loved her? no yes

26.Was Saint Valentine in love with the jailer daughter? no yes

27.Did Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men? no yes

28.Was Saint Valentine jailed because Valentine continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret? no yes

29.In 1835, did an Irish Preist named John Spratt gave Pope Gregory XVI the remains of Saint Valentine in a black and gold casket? no yes

30.Can Saint Valentine's casket can be viewed every Valentine's Day at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, Ireland? no yes

31.During the fifteenth century, did one valentine showed a drawing of a knight and a lady, with Cupid in the act of sending an arrow to pierce the knight's heart? no yes

32.Did During the seventeenth century people made their own valentines using original verse or poems copied from booklets with appropriate verse? no yes

33. Did the first commercial valentine appeared circa 1800 and were rather simplistic.? no yes

34.Did by the 1830's and 1840's Valentines contained fine papers and decorated with satin, ribbon, or lace commanded high prices? no yes

35.Did After 1723, American valentines began to grow with the import from England of valentine "writers."? no yes

36.Was A writer a booklet containing a vast array of verses and messages which could be copied onto gilt-edged letter paper or other decorative sheets? no yes

37.Did one popular writer contained not only "be my valentine" type verses for men to send, but also acceptance or "answers" which women could return? no yes

38.Is it true in Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"? no yes

39.Was the first U.S. made valentines were crafted by a Mount Holyoke College student, Miss Esther Howland whose father, a stationer in Worcester, MA, imported valentines every year from England? no yes

40.Do American school children celebrate St. Valentine's Day with a party at school and they put the cards in a decorated box with a slot in the top called a Valentine's Box.? no yes

41.Is it true in the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be and wear these names on their sleeves for one week? no yes

42.Does giving flowers dates back to the 1700s when Charles II of Sweden introduced the Persian custom of "the language of flowers" to Europe ? no yes

43. "Did John McLaughlin, a New York printer, created these comic valentines that were printed on cheap paper in crude colors called vinegar valentine."? no yes

44.Is the red rose is also the favorite flower of Venus, the goddess of love, which helped give the rose its symbolic meaning? no yes

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46.Lace has always been part of women's handkerchiefs used to met men by dropping it, and since been linked to romance and is linked to Valentine Day? no yes

47.Is Cupid the winged child whose arrows are shot into the hearts of potential lovers. His victims are supposed to fall deeply in love with someone.? no yes

48.Are Doves symbols of love and loyalty because they mate for life? no yes

49.Are Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the biggest holidays for giving flowers? no yes

50.Do mostly men buy the millions of boxes of candy and the millions of bouquets of flowers produced for each Valentine's Day? no yes