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1. Let's start off with a softball pitch. In what sport would one say, "Love is zero."?
2. According to a 1983 Pat Benatar hit single released from her album "Live from Earth", what is love?
3. "Love Is..." is a single frame comic strip that has appeared in print, on cards, and on souvenirs, since the late 1960s. Primarily featuring a female figure, but often also a male figure plus others from time to time, "Love Is..." was the product of a New Zealand cartoonist who passed away in 1997. Born Marilyn Judith Grove in Auckland, by what name is this cartoonist to be found today?
4. Winner of the 1955 Academy Award for Best Song, from the movie of the same name, this phrase also became the title of a TV soap opera from 1967 to 1973. The best selling version of the song was recorded in 1955 by the Four Aces. To what description of love does all this refer?
5. According to Diogenes Laërtius' "Lives of Eminent Philosophers", which Greek philosopher, who taught one of the greatest souls in human history, said, "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
6. Here's another instance of the same title being applicable to a song, a movie, and a book. But then it is also the name of an Irish TV series. But wait, we're not done. There are two different songs and FOUR different novels! OK, pick the title of novels by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2014), Sarahbeth Purcell (2005), K.E. Saxon (2011), and TWEET (2009), and songs by Roxy Music (1975) and Roni Griffith (1982).
7. Which iconoclastic poet wrote the following opening stanza: "love is more thicker than forget / more thinner than recall / more seldom than a wave is wet / more frequent than to fail"?
8. The ancient Greeks had several different terms for different aspects of love. Which of the following terms from ancient Greece would be the best substitute for "love" to make the following sentence most accurate? "Love is the regard that God feels toward man and that men selflessly feel toward their fellows, reflecting charity and brotherhood without sexual connotations."
9. While there are not a lot of films whose titles begin with "Love is...", I did find a 2004 Italian offering ("L'amore è eterno finché dura"), which adds an interesting twist to the concept of love. If you speak Italian, this is easy, but if not, which of the following translations is most correct?
10. As long as we've hit the movie theater, in Disney's 2013 film "Frozen", what do Anna and Hans convince themselves that love is?
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