--- title: Valentine's Day: Is This a Date? Take Our Quiz to Find Out description: We'll give you 10 hypothetical scenarios, and you tell us whether you would consider each one a date canonical: https://time.com/4214684/is-it-a-date-take-our-quiz-to-find-out/ author: Chris Wilson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-11T14:47:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:01:49.237Z og:title: Is This A Date? 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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Motto put together the following survey: You will be presented with 10 random scenarios that might or might not be considered a date, and you get to choose for each one if you think it counts as a date. When you’re done, you’ll see what percentage of other Motto readers made the same determination. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4214684/is-it-a-date-take-our-quiz-to-find-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4214684/is-it-a-date-take-our-quiz-to-find-out/"},"headline":"Is This a Date? 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