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Famous Love Matches Throughout History Quiz
Throughout the world's history, there has been a fascination with famous couples that are etched into the fabric of human history. Here are ten couples that fit that mold. Just put them back together one more time!
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by ghosttowner.
Estimated time: 3 mins.
This first couple of the Bible got over their famous fig leaves and had children named Cain, Abel and Seth. The serpent tempted them both and which gave us shame and evil.
2. Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: Josephine de Beauharnais
Napoleon and Josephine married in 1796 and Josephine became France's first Empress. Although divorced in 1809, and both remarrying, they remained very close. She died in 1814 and Napoleon in 1821. His last words mentioned Josephine.
3. Clyde Barrow
Answer: Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde first met in January 1930 and fell in love. Their criminal escapades came to an end in a hail of bullets on May 23, 1934. The death car is on display at a casino in Primm, Nevada.
4. Marc Antony
Answer: Cleopatra
A love affair as old as time! Married in 36 B.C., the two ruled together. After losing a major sea battle in 31 B.C. Antony stabbed himself to death and, hearing this, Cleopatra induced a poisonous asp to bite her, joining him once again in death.
5. Johnny Cash
Answer: June Carter
Johnny Cash and June Carter married in 1968 and ruled as the king and queen of country music until June died in May of 2003. Cash died soon after in September.
6. Winston Churchill
Answer: Clementine Hozier
Clementine Hozier married Winston in 1908. He was more than 10 years older than her. They remained together for 56 years until Winston died in 1965 at 90. She died in 1977 at age 92.
7. Percy Shelley
Answer: Mary Godwin
Percy, one of England's prominent Romantic poets, married in December 1816, shortly after Percy's first wife committed suicide. Mary achieved her fame in 1818 after writing the classic "Frankenstein". Percy drowned when his boat sank in 1822. Mary also died young at 53 in 1851.
8. Robert Browning
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett
Browning married Elizabeth in 1846. At the time, Robert was already a prominent poet although Elizabeth was actually better known. She died at 55 in 1861. Robert who was 6 years younger, died in 1889 at age 77.
9. Joe Dimaggio
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Although their marriage in 1954 only lasted 9 months, the love refused to go away. Joe planned to ask her to remarry him in August of 1961 but Monroe was found dead on the 5th under mysterious circumstances. It was Joe who claimed the body and arranged her burial.
He had a half dozen of roses placed on her grave every week for 20 years. His last word, before he died in 1999, were "I'll finally get to see Marilyn"
10. Ronald Reagan
Answer: Nancy Davis
A former actress, Nancy Davis married Ronald Reagan in 1952 and was his rock for the rest of his life. She stood by him through all of the years in politics and later when he suffered from Alzheimer's. He died in 2004 at age 93 and Nancy in 2016 at age 94.
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