A Valentine's Day Quiz On Famous Couples

10 Questions | By Ourstate | Updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Attempts: 951

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This Valentine's Day quiz is on some famous couples. This is a set of questions for those people who think they are familiar with most celebrity couples. How good are you with such couples? Do you know enough to take up the test and see how it goes? Well, there is only one way to find out. All the very best as you try and enjoy.

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1.

Beginning in 1945, famed poet Carl Sandburg lived with his wife, Lilian, on their Flat Rock farm, Connemara, now a National Historic Site. What prizewinning commodity did Lilian raise there?
- A.
  
  Grapes
- B.
  
  Apples
- C.
  
  Goats
2.

The Andy Griffith Show’s fictional TV town of Mayberry featured several romantic couples. Sheriff Andy Taylor had an ongoing relationship with Helen Crump, who was a member of what profession?
- A.
  
  Teacher
- B.
  
  Nurse
- C.
  
  Lawyer
3.

Evangelist Rev. Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, were married from 1943 until she died in 2007. Billy is a native of Charlotte, but Ruth, whose parents were missionaries, was born in what country?
- A.
  
  China
- B.
  
  England
- C.
  
  Brazil
4.

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Jackson and Anna Morrison were married on July 16, 1857, near Lowesville in Lincoln County. Anna was the daughter of Robert Morrison, the first president of Davidson College. Thomas was later known by what nickname?
- A.
  
  Old Hickory
- B.
  
  Stonewall
- C.
  
  Baldy
5.

Husband and wife Ananias and Eleanor Dare were the parents of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. Before coming to Roanoke Island in 1587, the couple had been married in St. Bride’s Church on Fleet Street in what English city?
- A.
  
  Edinburgh
- B.
  
  London
- C.
  
  Ulster
6.

Blackbeard the pirate was fond of the ladies; so much so that he is said to have been married 14 times. His last wife was 16-year-old Mary Ormand, who was a native of what Beaufort County town, also the oldest town in North Carolina?
- A.
  
  Washington
- B.
  
  New Bern
- C.
  
  Bath
7.

Salisbury native Elizabeth Dole and her husband, Bob, were married in 1975 and have both served in the U.S. Senate. In 1983, Elizabeth was the first woman named to what presidential cabinet post?
- A.
  
  Secretary of the Navy
- B.
  
  Secretary of Labor
- C.
  
  Secretary of Transportation
8.

Jazz Age celebrities F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were fond of western North Carolina. On March 10, 1948, Zelda lost her life in a fire at Highland Hospital in what town?
- A.
  
  Asheville
- B.
  
  Hendersonville
- C.
  
  Black Mountain
9.

North Carolina native Dolley Todd married future U.S. president James Madison in 1794. A popular and vivacious White House hostess, Dolley was born on May 20, 1768, in the Quaker community of New Garden in what county whose seat is Greensboro?
- A.
  
  Wake
- B.
  
  Orange
- C.
  
  Guilford
10.

Where did Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson meet?
- A.
  
  On A Set
- B.
  
  In A Restaurant
- C.
  
  In A Party
- D.
  
  At a Wedding