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Are you going on a date on Valentines Day? Are you looking to impress your date but don’t know how to convey your feelings to her? Here are some quotes that will help you -

• Had we but world enough, and

time,

      This coyness, lady, were no

      crime……

      An hundred years should go to

      praise

      Thine eyes, and on thy forehead

      gaze;

      Two hundred to to adore each

      breast,

      But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least at to every part,

And the last age should show

your heart.

-         From Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”

• Do you think after we’ve dried off, after we’ve spent lots more time together you might agree not to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?

-         Charles (Hugh Grant) finally (not) proposing to Carrie (Andie MacDowell) in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”

• Baby I would climb the Andes solely

To count the freckles on your body

Never could imagine there were only

Ten million ways to love somebody…….

-         “Whenever Wherever” by Shakira

• You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful…

-         “You’re beautiful” by James Blunt

• ….I want to do to you what spring does with cherry trees

-         Pablo Neruda’s “20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

• Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave…Your smile spreads like a butterfly.

- Mario Rouppolo who borrows Neruda’s words to woo his beloved Beatrice and is overwhelmed by the power of the metaphor, in “II Postino”.

As promised- here are the answers to questions that we put couple of days back.

Answers –

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Harry Houdini
3. Bhutan
4. Fear of spelling mistakes
5. Antarctica
6. Enid Blyton
7. Bahrain
8. King cobra
9. Charles Chaplin
10. Ganymede

Dear visitors – here we go again with another set of 10 questionnaires. Please stop for few seconds, think for few seconds and give us the answers (that you know) through comments.

1. Which work did Jane Austen describe as her “own darling child”?

2. Which Budapest born magician was also known as “king of cards” and “the handcuff king”?

3. Ngultrum is the official currency of which country?

4. Ortographobia is a fear of what?

5. Vinson Massif is the highest point of which continent?

6. Which British author wrote a book of poems titled “Child Whispers”?

7. Which Middle-eastern country’s Arabic name means “two seas”?

8. Which is the only snake in the world that builds a nest for its eggs?

9. In 1925, which Hollywood actor was the first to appear on the cover of Time magazine?

10. Which is the largest natural satellite in the solar system?

As usual with our endeavor to provide quality information to our visitors, we will publish all the correct answer in the next 72 hours. In the meantime – we will request you to try out some answers.

As promised, here are the answers to questions put in the Quiz No.1 post.

Hope you will enjoy them.

Answers:

1. Marshal Mathers

2. Las Vegas

3. Fear of Dancing

4. Tokyo

5. Water

6. Istanbul

7. Gary Kasparov

8. Gabriel Garcia

9. Yak

10. White

Questions:-

1. What is the real name of Eminem?

2. Which city in the US means “the meadows” in Spanish?

3. “Chorophobia” is fear of what?

4. Which Japanese port city was known as Edo until 1868?

5. March 22^nd is celebrated as World Day for what?

6. Which is the only city in the world to be both in Asia ad Europe?

7. Who wrote “Child of Change: Autobiography of The world chess Champion”?

8. Which Nobel Laureate is affectionately referred as “Gabo”?

9. The dried dung of which animal is the only obtainable fuel on the treeless Tibetan plateaus?

10. One of the vertical bands on the flag of Vatican City is Yellow< what color is the other?

The questions above are common but not easy to answer quickly. So try out and check where your IQ stands.

We will publish answers in 48 hours.