In celebration of Valentines Day, our February quiz features star-crossed lovers. Whenever we think of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, the ultimate tragic love story, comes to mind. Not all star-crossed “loves” end so tragically, many lovers go on to find love with other worthy people.
Can you match these star-crossed lovers from the first column of names with where we know their love story from based on the clues we’ve provided?
We’ve scoured books, movies, and even the history books for our lovers. Many of our lovers mimic the classic “Romeo and Juliet” storyline. Good luck!
Answers can be found in the last article of this issue, “Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – March 2024. Keep reading your way through this issue or you can use this link to jump to the answers at https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2024/2/7/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-march-2024-9zjkx
Couples: Where We know Their Love Story From:
Tristan and Isolde (Iseult) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tony and Maria Shakespeare in Love
Ennis and Jack Book 5 of Virgill’s Aeneid
Rick and Ilsa Smallville
Katie and Hubbell Ghost
Joel and Clementine Knight of the Cart
Jack and Rose A Medieval chivalric romance
Landon and Jamie A Persian poem
Sam and Molly 1984
William and Viola Ovid’s Metamorphoses – the inspiration
for Romeo & Juliet
Monica Wright and Anna Karenina
Quincy Mc Call
Therese and Carol The Way We Were
Chiron and Kevin Cyrano de Bergerac
Catherine and Heathcliff Carol
Pyramus and Thisbe The Taj Mahal
Aeneas and Dido Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Guinevere and Lancelot Titanic
Cyrano and Roxane Wuthering Heights
Buffy and Angel Moonlight
Clark and Lana Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Winston and Julia West Side Story
Tess and Angel Casablanca
Anna and Vronsky Love and Basketball
Layla and Majnun Brokeback Mountain
Shah Jahan and A Walk to Remember
Mumtaz Mahal
1. These star-crossed lovers live in Oceania, a dystopian world monitored by the Thought Police. After being arrested and tortured they renounce their relationship and profess their love for Big Brother. ______________________________________ ______________________________
2. This love story about the illicit love between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess has been around since the 12th century. __________________________
3. He’s a vampire and she’s a vampire slayer. What could possibly go wrong? _________________________ _______________________________________________
4. She’s a free-spirited liberal Jew who marries a handsome WASP. Her activism threatens his reputation as a Hollywood screenwriter during the McCarthy era and destroys their marriage. __________________________ _________________________________________
5. After her death during the birth of their 14th child, her grieving husband had a tomb built as a monument to their undying love. _________________________________________ ________________________________________
6. This orphan, taken in by a wealthy family, falls deeply in love with his benefactor’s daughter, but is hated by her brother who will stop at nothing to keep the young lovers apart. ______________________________ ____________________________________
7. A modern twist on Romeo and Juliet set in New York City featuring rival gangs, the Jets, and the Sharks.__________________________ ______________________________
8. They fall in love learning their lines for the high school play. He’s the cool guy and she’s the shy preacher’s daughter secretly battling a terminal illness. _________________________________ _____________________________________
9. The daughter of a wealthy merchant auditions for a play disguised as a boy and wins the heart of a playwright with writer’s block. Their love story is destined to fail after her family promises her hand in marriage to an aristocrat. __________________________________ ______________________________________
10. He has special powers and she’s the love of his life, but Lex will stop at nothing to keep them apart. __________________________________ _______________________________________
11. He’s so smitten with her that he becomes obsessed with writing poems about her beauty. His obsession is taken for madness. Her father forbids their marriage and arranges for her to marry someone else. This really does drive him to madness. In some versions of the poem she dies of a broken heart, and their love remains unconsummated forever. ___________________________ ___________________________________________
12. He falls in love with and has a brief encounter with a male friend who betrays him to hide their relationship. Years later their paths cross again, but they have chosen different paths and can never be together.___________________________ ________________________________
13. They fell in love in Paris, but she leaves without saying goodbye. Years later, she walks into his nightclub. _________________________________ ________________________________
14. She was engaged to a wealthy brute. She was traveling in first class, and he was in the steerage section. They fell in love only to be separated by an iceberg and his untimely death. ___________________________ _____________________________________
15. Just two cowboys in love. ____________________________ _________________________
16. All’s fair in love and sports. ___________________________ _____________________________
17. Theirs was a love that transcended death, and changed the way we look at pottery forever.
_________________________ __________________________________
18. After falling in and out of love, she decides to erase him from her mind permanently. He eventually does the same, but fate brings them together for another chance at love.
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19. In 1952, a glamorous older woman going through a contentious divorce meets a talented young photographer and begins an affair with her. Their love seems doomed by the efforts of her spiteful husband who threatens to sue for full custody of their daughter because of their same-sex relationship. __________________________ _______________________
20. From his ship, he sees flames lighting up the city unaware that it’s his former lover’s funeral pyre. ______________________________ ___________________________________________
21. Convinced the love of his life will reject his affections because of his physical features, he pours out his heart to her using the attractive Christian to deliver his words of love ____________________________ _____________________________________
22. Through a crack in the wall these star-crossed lovers whisper their love for each other despite the feud between their families. After their tragic deaths by their own hands, the gods change the color of mulberries to match the color of their blood in honor of their forbidden love.
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23. Ill-fated Russian lovers who flee to Italy by train only to return to Russia where their relationship is doomed to fail. ____________________________ _________________________________
24. He’s assigned to escort the future queen to her wedding. They fall in love, but the marriage takes place anyway. After denying their love for many years, they give into temptation and their affair nearly destroys a kingdom. _______________________________ _________________________
25. After being seduced by Alec who ruins her life, she finds love only to be rejected when her idealistic lover learns about her past. ___________________________ _____________________________
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