Everybody Loves A Lover Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

In the mid 1930s Clark Gable was the top Hollywood male star. He worked with all the great and well known actresses of the day including Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner and Jean Harlow. His most famous role is probably that of Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind" opposite Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.

He first met Carole Lombard when filming the 1932 film "No Man of Her Own". She was married to William Powell at the time. In 1936 they started an affair, and in 1939 Clark Gable divorced his then wife, Ria Langham, and they married.

In 1941 Carole Lombard attended a war bond rally in her home state of Indiana. On the return journey the plane crashed into a mountain only about 20 minutes after take off and everyone on board was killed. Clark Gable was devastated by her death, and even though he married twice more, when he died he chose to be buried beside Carole in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Answer: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

Spencer Tracy was 23 when he married his wife, Louise. Their first child was born deaf, and she devoted all her time to him, and trying to find a cure. Soon Tracy was having affairs with various leading ladies, including Ingrid Bergman and Joan Crawford.

He first met Katharine Hepburn when they were cast together in "Woman of the Year" (1942) and they began a love affair that lasted until his death. A devout Catholic, he would not divorce his wife, and together they founded the John Tracy Clinic for deaf children. Katharine Hepburn married once, in 1928.

The marriage, to Ludow Ogeden Smith, ended in 1934 with a quickie divorce in Mexico. She did not attend Spencer Tracy's funeral out of respect for his wife and children.

Answer: Solomon and Sheba

"Solomon and Sheba" is a 1959 film starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida. Under Solomon Israel was peaceful and rich. Enemies however, chiefly Egypt, wanted to undermine Solomon. The Queen of Sheba formed an alliance with Egypt and said she would seduce Solomon and bring pagan worship to Israel. She arrived on a state visit and did indeed seduce Solomon. However, she then fell in love with him. A coup was then planned by Solomon's brother, Adonijah, who defeated Solomon's army and planned to make himself king. He orders the Queen of Sheba to be stoned to death. Solomon meanwhile has regrouped and defeated the Egyptian army chasing him. He arrived in time to save Sheba from death, and his prayers for her wounds to be healed are answered. He resumes the throne and she returns home, pregnant by Solomon.

The film version is pure Hollywood and bears little relationship to the story as told in the Bible.

Answer: Victoria and Albert

Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. In 1840 she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was her first cousin. She appears to have fallen in love with him at first sight, and he with her. They had nine children, and their marriages tied most of the royal houses of Europe to the British royalty. Albert died in 1861 of typhoid. Victoria went into seclusion, and after that wore black for the rest of her life, and was rarely seen in public.

Indeed, she rarely visited London, preferring to spend her time at Balmoral in Scotland, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, or Windsor.

Answer: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles

Prince Charles and the then Camilla Shand began a romance in 1971. When he joined the Royal Navy it did not survive the separation and she married Andrew Parker-Bowles. Prince Charles married Diana Spencer in 1981, and by 1986 Prince Charles was involved in an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.

He and Diana separated in 1992, and Charles admitted to the affair in a TV interview. In a famous interview that she gave later that year Diana made the now famous quote "there were three of us in this marriage". Camilla and Andrew Parker-Bowles divorced in 1995, and Charles and Diana divorced a year later. Diana died a year later, and by 1999 Charles and Camilla were appearing in public together.

In 2003 they started openly living together and they married in 2005.

Answer: Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal

Shah Jahan was Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658. His wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died in 1631 shortly after giving birth to their 14th child. He was inconsolable at her loss, and shortly after her death ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal. Now listed as one of the Wonders of the Modern World it is visited by thousands of people every year. All marvel at its great beauty, many are touched by this everlasting symbol of great love.

Answer: Catherine the Great and Potemkin

Catherine the Great was married to Peter of Russia at the age of 16. He was weak and ineffective. In 1763, aided by her lover Gregory Orlov, she overthrew him and took the throne. In 1772 Potemkin - good looking, intelligent and charismatic - arrived at court .

They became lovers almost immediately. She came to rely on him as her right hand man, making him a Prince. He, however, wanted more power, and soon she realised she had to let him go. He governed various provinces on her behalf, always keeping in close contact with her. Eventually he ended up in the Crimea, where he built the Black Sea fleet and cities such as Sebastopol and also founded Odessa (in Ukraine).

He and Catherine still slept together whenever he was in St. Petersburg, and he personally selected his replacement in her bed.

He died of malaria in 1791. He was the great love of her life and although she had lovers after him they never came close to having the same standing that Potemkin had enjoyed.

Answer: Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton

Emma Hamilton was the wife of Sir William Hamilton, who was some thirty years her senior. He was the British Envoy to Naples, and that is where she first met Lord Nelson. They did not start their affair at that stage. Five years later Nelson returned to Naples, a hero after the Battle of Nile.

He was unwell and Emma Hamilton nursed him in her own home. It is around that time that their affair started. It seems to have been tolerated by her husband as when they returned to England the three of them lived together quite openly.

The affair soon became public knowledge. Emma Hamilton would not ask her husband for a divorce, she felt it would be unfair to him. She gave birth to Nelson's daughter in 1801. Sir William died in 1803, shortly before Nelson went to fight again in the Napoleonic wars.

He intended to ask his wife for a divorce on his return, but died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Lady Hamilton was left destitute and died in France in 1815.

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gangsters during the Depression era. They graduated from small time petty theft to bank robbery and murder. They were thought to have been responsible for at least thirteen murders. They were also lovers. Police across America wanted them, and eventually they were betrayed and shot at a police roadblock in Louisiana.

After their death Clyde Barrow's sister said "They never worried about anything else except each other". Their story was popularised in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd

Elizabeth Taylor was 24 and had already had two husbands when she married Mike Todd. He was 47. They married in February 1957 and later that year had a daughter. In 1958 Todd died when his private plane, "Lucky Liz" crashed when it suffered engine failure.

There were no survivors. Elizabeth Taylor always described him as one of the two great loves of her life, the other being Richard Burton. In later years she amended that to three loves, the third being jewelery. Mike Todd is the only one of her husbands that she never divorced.