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48 free Valentine's Day Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Valentine's Day trivia for kids should be sweet, silly and easy to run in a classroom: who Cupid is, what the little candy hearts say, why we sign notes XOXO, and which cartoon dog stole a Valentine kiss. These 48 questions start with the basics every kid can get and work up to the surprising history behind the holiday. The set covers Cupid and the Roman and Greek gods of love, roses and lovebirds, Sweethearts candy and heart-shaped chocolate boxes, the very first valentines, Charlie Brown and Lady and the Tramp, and how kids in Finland, Japan, Korea and Brazil celebrate. Every answer is checked against a cited source and each explanation adds one more fact. Use it for a class party, a family dinner game or a rainy afternoon in February. Play a round now and see how many hearts you can collect.
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Q 01On which date is Valentine's Day celebrated every year?
February 14
Valentine's Day falls on February 14 every year; church calendars have listed the Feast of Saint Valentine on that date since at least the 8th century.
Q 02Which winged Roman god, often shown with a bow and arrow, is a symbol of Valentine's Day?
Cupid
Cupid, the winged Roman god of love, shoots arrows that make anyone they hit fall hopelessly in love, which is why he appears on so many Valentine cards.
Q 03The Roman god of love is usually described as the son of which goddess?
Venus
Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, is usually named as the love god's mother, with Mars, the god of war, as his father.
Q 04What is Cupid's name in Greek mythology?
Eros
Eros is the Greek god of love and the counterpart of the Roman love god; the Greeks first drew him as a slender winged youth, and the chubby baby look came later.
Q 05Which flower is by far the most popular gift on Valentine's Day?
Roses
Roses, especially red ones, are the classic Valentine flower; in the US most of them are flown in on refrigerated planes from Colombia and Ecuador.
Q 06What do the little heart-shaped Sweethearts candies have printed on them?
Short messages
Sweethearts carry short messages such as Be Mine and Kiss Me; printed conversation candies date from 1866, and the heart shape arrived in the early 1900s.
Q 07Roughly how many Sweethearts candies did the company Necco make every year?
8 billion
Necco made about 8 billion Sweethearts a year, producing them for roughly eleven months to supply a six-week Valentine selling season, before the company closed in 2018.
Q 08Which chocolate company made the first heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day, in 1868?
Cadbury
Richard Cadbury's firm sold heart-shaped Fancy Boxes of chocolates in the 1860s, and people kept the decorated boxes long after the sweets were eaten.
Q 09The letters XOXO at the end of a note stand for what?
Hugs and kisses
XOXO means hugs and kisses: each X stands for a kiss and each O for a hug, and X has signed off letters as a kiss since the 1700s.
Q 10Who first sold mass-produced Valentine cards in the United States, starting around 1847?
Esther Howland
Esther Howland made them in Worcester, Massachusetts, from embossed paper lace, and the Greeting Card Association's award for greeting-card visionaries bears her name.
Q 11About how many valentines are sent in the US each year, per the Greeting Card Association?
190 million
The Greeting Card Association estimated about 190 million valentines are sent in the US each year, many of them to children and other relatives; adding classroom exchanges pushes the total near a billion.
Q 12The oldest surviving valentine was written in 1415 by a French duke held in which building?
The Tower of London
Charles, Duke of Orléans, captured at Agincourt in 1415, wrote the poem to his wife while held in the Tower of London; it survives in the British Library.
Q 13What is Valentine's Day called in Finland?
Friend's Day
Q 21Which TV show invented Galentine's Day, celebrated the day before Valentine's Day?
Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope threw the first Galentine's Day brunch in a 2010 episode, and the February 13 celebration of female friends caught on in real life.
Q 22Coins of ancient Cyrene show a heart shape depicting the seed of which plant?
Silphium
Silphium, a plant prized in ancient Cyrene and long thought extinct, had a heart-shaped seed pod that appeared on the city's coins more than 2,000 years ago.
Q 23Which Greek goddess was closely linked with the rose?
Aphrodite
Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, had the rose as her sacred flower; one myth says its petals turned red when she pricked herself on a thorn.
Finns call the day Ystävänpäivä, meaning Friend's Day, and celebrate friends and classmates more than romance, much like a school Valentine party.
Q 14In Japan, a month after Valentine's Day, people give return gifts on a day named after which colour?
White
White Day, March 14, was launched in 1978 by Japan's confectionery industry so men could return the chocolates women gave them a month earlier.
Q 15Which English poet first linked Valentine's Day with romance in his 1382 poem Parliament of Fowls?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, written around 1382, set its gathering of birds on Saint Valentine's Day and honoured the match of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia.
Q 16Which pair of colourful little parrots is named after the way they cuddle up in pairs?
Lovebirds
Lovebirds are small African parrots that form strong, lasting pair bonds and spend long stretches sitting pressed side by side, which earned them their name.
Q 17Which large white birds are famous symbols of love because they usually mate for life?
Swans
Trumpeter swans can pair up as young as 20 months old and live to 24.
Q 18Besides Valentine's Day, Saint Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and which town in Italy?
Terni
Saint Valentine of Terni was bishop of that Umbrian town and, by tradition, was martyred in Rome in 269; beekeepers also claim him as their patron.
Q 19What ancient Roman festival was held at the same time of year as today's Valentine's Day?
Lupercalia
Lupercalia, a Roman purification and fertility festival, was held in mid-February; despite the timing, historians find no real evidence it turned into Valentine's Day.
Q 20'Roses are red, violets are blue' first appeared in a book of nursery rhymes in which year?
1784
The rhyme was printed in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of nursery rhymes; the idea goes back to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in 1590.
Q 24In Western countries, which digit traditionally wears the wedding band?
The ring finger
The ring finger, next to the little finger, wears the wedding band because of an old belief that a vein of love, the vena amoris, ran straight from it to the heart.
Q 25Hershey's Kisses, a Valentine favourite, were first made in what year?
1907
Hershey's Kisses were introduced in 1907 and wrapped by hand until 1921, when a machine took over and added the little paper plume.
Q 26In which year did the special Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown first air on TV?
1975
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown first aired on CBS in January 1975; afterwards children across the US mailed valentines to Charlie Brown care of Charles Schulz.
Q 27The famous scene of two dogs kissing over a strand of spaghetti comes from which Disney film?
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp (1955) has the spaghetti scene; Walt Disney thought it would look silly until animator Frank Thomas drew it and won him over.
Q 28Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the most famous love story ever written, is set in which Italian city?
Verona
Thousands of people still stick love notes to the wall of a house in the city known as Juliet's house.
Q 29Who answers the thousands of letters sent to Juliet in her Italian home city each year?
Local volunteers
Local volunteers known as Juliet's secretaries, organised as the Club di Giulietta since 1972, answer thousands of letters a year from around the world.
Q 30The teddy bear, a classic Valentine gift, is named after which US president?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed Teddy, refused to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree on a 1902 Mississippi hunt; a cartoon of the scene inspired the toy's name.