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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jamie Ward
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 1:53pm ET 2/18/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

Happy Valentine's Day!



We’ve just discovered a chest of letters, and appropriately enough for Valentine's Day they all seem to be written between famous pairs of lovers. We need some help working out who the couples in question are though, as they’ve only written their initials…

You tell us EITHER who wrote the letter or who received it.

Q1. Dear R.,

I should’ve known you were trouble the second you gate-crashed my family’s ball. Still, when you started quoting love sonnets under my balcony, I was hooked.

Ever your star-cross’d headache,

J.



Q2. Dear J.,

You came, you saw, you… got dramatically stabbed by your friends. Typical Roman exit, really.

You’ll be pleased to know your friend Marc Antony has been ever so nice to me since your nasty accident in the Senate.

Until we meet again in the realm of Osiris,

C.



Q3. Dear J.,

I cross the Alps, crown myself Emperor, and you still find time to flirt with half of Paris. You’d think more respect would be shown to a man of my stature (and no, I don’t mean heightwise)!

Anyway, peut-être ce soir,

Forever your little conqueror,

N.



Q4. Dear T.,

It’s always great watching you crawling up walls and doing your own stunts in our movies, but maybe focus a bit more on not tripping over your own feet.

Oh, and just an FYI, I love you but if you spoil the plot of another movie and Marvel stops letting you see the scripts, I’m not sharing mine.

Yours euphorically,

Z.



Q5. Dear A.,

You are an internationally recognized human rights lawyer who has represented Nobel Peace Prize winners, advised the UN Secretary-General, and helped bring perpetrators of atrocities to justice… but I’m the best Batman.

Anyway, thanks for reminding me that there’s more to life than red carpets, galas, and espresso machines.

Good night and good luck my dear,

G.



Q6. Dear P.,

I swear I’ve been trying to come back home for years, I just keep running into storms, a cyclops, and a freaky sea nymph.

Anyway, I’m on my way now. Just keep outsmarting those suitors and with a bit of luck I’ll stroll in sometime this decade. Pet Argos for me.

Your favorite bow stringer,

O.



Q7. Dear C.,

Sixth time’s the charm! I am something of an expert on marriages, and I have a good feeling about this one. The way things are going I think I’ll spare you a, uh, separation.

Yours by divine right,

H.



Q8. Dear J.,

Only you could make freezing in the North Atlantic into a romantic gesture, but it was a little extreme. I mean, there was totally room on the door for both of us, and it kinda sucked getting rescued by myself.

Wishing I still had that drawing you did of me,

R.



Q9. Dear T.,

I scale beauty conglomerates and dominate Forbes lists. You redefine leading-man energy with arthouse cred and blockbuster receipts. I sell lip kits; you sell emotional depth.

Let’s corner every market, my love—luxury, culture, and awards season—and look unfairly photogenic doing it.

From L.A. to NYC,

K.



Q10. Dear M.,

Sometimes I still laugh when I think about how this all began: one teenage compliment about your mac and cheese, and suddenly I’m married to a world-class chef who judges me every time I use the “wrong” spatula.

Let’s never go on a break.

I love you with all nine of my toes and three of my nipples,

C.



TIEBREAKER Today ChatGPT would be able to churn out love letters en masse. However, it turns out that the first works of electronic literature came from the Strachey love letter algorithm when Christopher Strachey wrote an algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer. In what year did he write the program?


Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 2/18/26