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Shai K. 8/29/2021

Love, unlike younger people may think, was not a recent invention. Indeed, history is filled with the stories of famous lovers and their powerful love affairs, marriages and romances. How much do you know about the most famous couples?

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Cleopatra married this man after the death of her first lover. She killed herself when she heard he had killed himself.

Antony

Octavian

Julius Caesar

Ptolemy

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Where did the notorious criminal couple, Bonnie and Clyde, make their last stand and were shot to death?

This happened in 1935

Texas

Michigan

Ontario, Canada

Louisiana

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Three years after their wedding, in 1898, this "scientific" couple discovered polonium and radium and won a physics Nobel prize.

Marie and Pierre Curie

Niels and Margrethe Bohr

Michael and Sarah Faraday

Stephen and Jane Hawking

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Which famous actress was rumored to have had an affair with a US president?

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Sophia Loren

Elizabeth Taylor

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What was the name of Napoleon's famous lover?

Josephine

Dulcinea

Adrienne

Antoinette

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Which of these famous couples have been together the longest?

Meryl Streep & Don Gummer have been together since 1978, a few years more than the next couple, the Osbournes.

Meryl Streep & Don Gummer

Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne

Keith Richards & Patti Hansen

Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson

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The famous ​Humphrey Bogart was married to another shining Hollywood star who was 25 years his junior. Her name was...

Lauren Bacall

Rita Hayworth

Bette Davis

Ava Gardner

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They married in 1840. She was the Queen of England and he was her first cousin. Over 17 years, they had 9 children and he died untimely in 1861. Who were they?

Victoria and Albert

Elizabeth and Philip

Catherine and Peter

Anne and Henry

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This lavish couple ruled over France with almost unlimited power. They were ultimately beheaded due to revolution. Who was this couple?

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI

Napoleon and Josephine

Louis XIV and Maria Theresa

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This musical couple are famous for their song: "I Got You Babe..

Sonny and Cher

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

Ike Turner and Tina Turner

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A legendary Hollywood love affair, they had a relationship for over 30 years, yet he would not divorce his wife and marry her. She nursed him through his last illness but did not attend his funeral. Which lovers were these?

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour

Micky Rooney and Judy Garland

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland

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He was a wise biblical king. She was the queen of a foreign land who came to seduce and betray him but fell in love instead. Who are they?

Solomon and Sheba

Boaz and Ruth

David and Abigail

Hosea and Gomer

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Their Love Was Not Forgotten

You know a bunch of facts about the great old loves of this world, and we're super proud of you! These are great stories, and they are worth knowing and remembering. Good on you for saving some room in your memory for these old flames.

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