It’s Trivia Time with BRAMBLE ROMANCE!!!

Who’s ready for some trivia?! To celebrate one year of Bramble and everything *romance*, we’re giving YOU a fun trivia game to play with the loved ones in your life this Valentine’s Day. Enjoy, and let us know if you play!

Round 1: Film & TV

1. Nicholas Galitzine, who stars as Prince Henry in Red, White, and Royal Blue, is also starring in another gay romcom–which one is it (extra points if you can name his character)?
2. In Miss Congeniality, what does Miss Rhode Island consider “the perfect date?”
3. What song does Patrick sing to Kat on the bleachers in 10 Things I Hate About You?
4. Which of William Shakespeare’s plays was the 2006 classic, She’s The Man, based on?
5. Which bad boy vampire heartthrob hit TV screens in 2009?
6. Why does Sandra Bullock’s character want to marry Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal?
7. In the film Bridget Jones’ Diary, what color is the eponymous diary?
8. In what movie does leading lady Amanda describe herself as “loner loser, complicated wreck?”
9. Towards the end of the movie Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel plays (and beats) Nick’s mother in what game?
10. In the Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald’s character Claire Standish has a unique party trick. What is it?

Round 2: Books

1. In Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennnifer L. Armentrout, what is Callista’s magical power?
2. In Carissa Broadbent’s paranormal romance Crowns of Nyaxia series, what is the vampire death tournament called?
3. Adelaide Forrest is the author of many spicy contemporary mafia series. But she ALSO writes dark romantasy novels under a different name. What is that name, and bonus points if you can also name the books?
4. Bramble author Lora Leigh is writing about one of romancelandia’s favorite kind of leading men in her upcoming novel Play Dirty. What is the profession (technically former profession, but who cares) of this hero?
5. What is the name of the girl who will live forever but is cursed to always be forgotten?
6. In The Hating Game, the main character Lucy wears a particular shade of lipstick. What’s it called?
7. How did the Bridgerton family lose their father?
8. Name the author who created the grumpy Scottish blacksmith known as #swordbae. Extra points if you can name the book in which #swordbae first appears?
9. In what iconic romantasy series is the phrase “love as thou wilt” a religious directive? Double points for author & series or book name.
10. Melissa Marr is an upcoming Bramble romance author but she is also the author of a popular YA series about fae. What is that series called?
11. Gilded age romance author Joanna Shupe just “came out” as the author of the popular mafia romance “Kings of Italy” series. What is the name of her mafia-romance author alias?

Round 3: Tropes & Miscellany

1. What fanfiction archive was nominated for a Hugo Award?
2. Bestselling author Kit Rocha is actually two people (gasp!). What are their names?
3. Which trope combines weather patterns with one of the Seven Dwarves?
4. Which Bramble author was first discovered because of their male/male original fic called The Course of Honor? Bonus points if you can name both the author and the name of the book this was turned into.
5. Fated Mates is an (excellent) romance podcast co-hosted by romance critic Jen Prokop and which bestselling romance author?
6. Whomst is Taylor Swift dating and what team does he play for, and what sportsball does he do?
7. What delightful romance blog has the tagline “all of the romance, none of the bullshit?”

Answers

Round 1: Film & TV

1. [Bottoms/Jeff]
2. [April 25th]
3. [“Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” by Frankie Valli]
4. [Twelfth Night]
5. [Damon Salvatore]
6. [She doesn’t want to get deported]
7. [Red]
8. [The Holiday]
9. [Mahjong]
10. [Applying lipstick using her cleavage]

Round 2: Books

1. [Intuition/predict the future]
2. [Kejari]
3. [Harper L. Woods/The Cursed, The Coven]
4. [Navy SEAL]
5. [Addie LaRue]
6. [Flamethrower red]
7. [A bee sting]
8. [Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default]
9. [Jacqueline Carey & the Kushiel’s Legacy series]
10. [The Wicked Lovely series]
11. [Mila Fineli]

Round 3: Tropes & Miscellany

1. [AO3]
2. [Donna Herren and Bree Bridges]
3. [Grumpy/Sunshine]
4. [Everina Maxwell/Winter’s Orbit]
5. [Sarah MacLean]
6. [Travis Kelcee, Kansas City Chiefs, football]
7. [Smart Bittches, Trashy Books]