All About Heart Trivia Quiz

Answer: heartless

"Heartless" is of course a person without a heart, without the powers of empathy.

"Downhearted" is to be down in the dumps. "Hearty" refers to something substantial or energetic like a hearty meal or a hearty person, able to deal with life's problems in an upbeat way. "Lionhearted" applies to a person of extraordinary courage. Richard I of England was known as Richard the Lionheart or Coeur de Lion because of his valor and strength.

Answer: heart-stricken

"Heart-stricken" refers to someone being completely, stunningly overcome by feeling. "Feeble Hearted" implies being weak of heart in a physical sense. "Half-hearted" is to be rather unemotional. "Free-hearted" is to give of love and of your heart openly and often.

Answer: heartfelt

"Heartfelt" connotes a feeling that is genuine, sincere and open.
"Disheartened" is to lose enthusiasm for a project. "Faint-hearted" is to have a kind of tepid emotional system. "Iron-hearted" is to be cruel and unfeeling.

Answer: strings

The question was, I hope, obvious. Originally, it was thought that the heart was held in place by tendons or nerves. So, to pull at one's heartstrings implies tugging at the strings which hold your heart in place.

Nerves do play an important part in the functioning of the heart. The vagus and sympathetic nerve systems are vital to normal heart rhythm, among other things.

Answer: heavy

Normally, the adult human heart weighs between 9-12 ounces. In coronary diseases such as cardiomyopathy, the weight may be as much as 2 pounds.

Answer: hearty

Something hearty is robust, complete, exuberant.
"Heartrending" refers to the act of breaking or splitting. To rend something is to tear something violently into pieces.
"Black-hearted" literally pictures the heart as turned dark and evil.
"Faint-hearted" is a person whose pulse is dim and whose energy and commitment are pale and weak.

Answer: hearten

To hearten a person to do something is to encourage them, to give hope and emotional strength. Similarly, to dishearten someone is to discourage and make a job harder.
"Heartify" is to change from being a total "player" to becoming a good and decent person.
"Heartily" is an adverb showing someone is doing something enthusiastically and completely.
"Heartbreak" is a noun which identifies the breaking up of a person's heart--hence a broken heart.

Answer: Lonelyhearts

Nathaniel West was an American writer who lived from 1903 to 1940. His most famous piece of writing is "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933). It deals with a male newspaper columnist writing advice letters during the Depression in the United States. It ends violently with the death of one of the main characters.

Answer: breaking

Remember 1956 and "Heartbreak Hotel."

"Hey now, if your baby leaves you,
And you got a tale to tell.
Just take a walk down lonely street
To heartbreak hotel."

Answer: purple

The Purple Heart is actually awarded in the name of the President for those "who give their blood in defense of the homeland." These were the words of President George Washington in his order of August 7, 1782. The first actual award of a Purple Heart was granted in February 1932.

Answer: unbroken

She sang this with Bill Champlin in 1987 on the album "The Best of Miami Vice."

Answer: wooden

"Wooden Heart" or ("Muss I Denn") appeared in the USA in 1964 on the flip side of "Blue Christmas." There were two parts in German in this song. A refrain from this song is:

"Please don't break my heart in two
That's not hard to do
'cause i don't have a wooden heart."

Later, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers did this song in 1993.

Answer: Tell-Tale

"The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) is stunningly gripping in that a narrator tells of his plans to kill someone, and then he starts doing it.

Amontillado is the name of a kind of Spanish sherry and is in the title of the bizarre story, "The Cask of Amontillado."

Poe wrote the "Masque of the Red Death."

Usher is from Poe's story of the breakup of a family and a house in "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Answer: brave

This major film appeared in 1995. Its central action derives at the outset by the death of William Wallace's wife.

Answer: bleeding

This phrase may be originally from the Middle Ages and "The Order of the Bleeding Heart," a group honoring the Virgin Mary, "whose heart was pierced by many sorrows." Later, in the 1930s, the phrase was used to criticize liberals who were said to be overly and indiscriminately sympathetic to people's hardships. This phrase was applied critically to Eleanor Roosevelt.

It also refers to a flower with white or pink flowers which droop.

Source: William Safire, "Safire's New Political Dictionary," (Random House, New York, 1993).