Famous Couples in History

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.
Julius Caesar
Antony
Octavian
Ptolemy
 
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Where did the notorious criminal couple, Bonnie and Clyde, make their last stand and were shot to death?
Ontario, Canada
Texas
Louisiana
Michigan
 
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Three years after their wedding, in 1898, this "scientific" couple discovered polonium and radium and won a physics Nobel prize.
Niels and Margrethe Bohr
Marie and Pierre Curie
Stephen and Jane Hawking
Michael and Sarah Faraday
 
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Which famous actress was rumored to have had an affair with a US president?
Marilyn Monroe
Sophia Loren
Audrey Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
 
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What was the name of Napoleon's famous lover?
Adrienne
Antoinette
Dulcinea
Josephine
 
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Which of these famous couples have been together the longest?
Meryl Streep & Don Gummer
Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson
Keith Richards & Patti Hansen
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne
 
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The famous โ€‹Humphrey Bogart was married to another shining Hollywood star who was 25 years his junior. Her name was...
Lauren Bacall
Bette Davis
Rita Hayworth
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?
Elizabeth and Philip
Catherine and Peter
Victoria and Albert
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
Louis XIV and Maria Theresa
Napoleon and Josephine
 
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This musical couple are famous for their song: "I Got You Babe..
Ike Turner and Tina Turner
Sonny and Cher
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
 
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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?
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
Micky Rooney and Judy Garland
 
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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
Hosea and Gomer
Boaz and Ruth
David and Abigail
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