The answers to the questions below require knowledge across a range of myths and stories relating to romance and sex. Keep an eye out for a simple fact that connects all of the answers, it might help you fill in some of the rest.

Scroll down for hints and further down for the answers and let me know in the comments how you did.

Questions

1. Which deity’s name became an adjective used to describe sexually transmitted diseases?

2. Which saint, theologian and philosopher famously prayed ‘Lord make me chaste, but not yet!’

3. Which 1869 romance novel by R. D. Blackmore features a heroine who lives with a murderous clan of outlaws plaguing seventeenth century Exmoor?

4. Which song, written for a 1959 musical, uses the beauty of a flower to express an Austrian’s love for their country?

5. To which other nineteenth century American writer did an infatuated Herman Melville dedicate Moby Dick?

6. Which Greek hero is rescued by the clever trick of Ariadne before he abandons her on a beach?

7. Which Egyptian goddess married her brother whose body she pieced back together after he was torn apart?

8. When does the Raven tell the narrator that he will see his lost Lenore again in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven?

9. Which Brontë sister wrote Wuthering Heights?

10. Who, other than Harry’s father, was in love with Harry Potter’s mother?

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Hints:

1. She’s got it.

2. His name contains a month of the year.

3. It’s also the name of a brand of shortbread.

4. The flower’s name means ‘noble white.’

5. He is the author of The Scarlet Letter.

6. She had given him a ball of twine to help him find his way.  

7. She shares her name with the part of the Thames that flows past Oxford.

8. It’s one letter off a Taylor Swift album.

9. It was her only novel.

10. It was one of his teachers.

Answers

1. Venus.

2. Augustine (of Hippo).

3. Lorna Doone.

4. Edelweiss.

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

6. Theseus.

7. Isis.

8. Nevermore.

9. Emily.

10. Snape.

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