Question of the day

CatmanV2 · Mar 15, 2018

OK

Why would just about everyone on the forum recognise Drederic Auguste Bartholdi's mother?

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MarkMas · Mar 15, 2018

CatmanV2 said:
Why would just about everyone on the forum recognise Drederic Auguste Bartholdi's mother?C

Did she invent digital radio, and name it after her son?

CatmanV2 · Mar 15, 2018

MarkMas said:
Did she invent digital radio, and name it after her son?

Nope

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JonW · Mar 15, 2018

CatmanV2 said:
OK

Why would just about everyone on the forum recognise Drederic Auguste Bartholdi's mother?

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His mother was called Bambi Woods and is the star of Debbie Does Dallas?

CatmanV2 · Mar 15, 2018

JonW said:
His mother was called Bambi Woods and is the star of Debbie Does Dallas?

Ha! Nope

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daverichardson · Mar 15, 2018

Oh no, it will be me again -assuming you have mis spelled the name?

CatmanV2 · Mar 15, 2018

daverichardson said:
Oh no, it will be me again -assuming you have mis spelled the name?

Copy and paste error!

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midlifecrisis · Mar 16, 2018

CatmanV2 said:
OK

Why would just about everyone on the forum recognise Drederic Auguste Bartholdi's mother?

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She's famous in her own right for something, and is on the back of a bank note....

Or she's some woman the forum met in a bar in France on the way to Le Mans!

CatmanV2 · Mar 16, 2018

Not really, nope.

But you are at liberty to make another guess....

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JonW · Mar 16, 2018

CatmanV2 said:
Not really, nope.

But you are at liberty to make another guess....

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Ba Dum Tish...is she the lady on the top of the Old Bailey court where people’s liberty is debated?

zagatoes30 · Mar 16, 2018

JonW said:
Ba Dum Tish...is she the lady on the top of the Old Bailey court where people’s liberty is debated?

I think she is bit bigger than that

CatmanV2 · Mar 16, 2018

JonW said:
Ba Dum Tish...is she the lady on the top of the Old Bailey court where people’s liberty is debated?

Sadly there ain't no justice, and that's not the correct answer.

zagatoes30 said:
I think she is bit bigger than that

As ever, Andy knows that the lady is rather more.....statuesque....

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2b1ask1 · Mar 16, 2018

Has featured in at least three episodes of the modern era of Dr Who... (I'm out as I used google to get to the answer earlier)

BennyD · Mar 16, 2018

Given the clues, I’d go for the Statue of Liberty.

CatmanV2 · Mar 16, 2018

BennyD said:
Given the clues, I’d go for the Statue of Liberty.

Correct, Benny. He based the face of the statue on his mother.

Over to you

<grabs popcorn and settles in for a long wrangle(1)>

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(1) Emphatically not a euphamism

zagatoes30 · Mar 16, 2018

CatmanV2 said:
Correct, Benny. He based the face of the statue on his mother.

Over to you

CatmanV2 said:
<grabs popcorn and settles in for a long wrangle(1)>

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(1) Emphatically not a euphamism

BennyD · Mar 16, 2018

A quick one, which I'm sure you will all know; how did Big Ben become so called? I will accept "seeing me in the shower!"

JonW · Mar 16, 2018

BennyD said:
A quick one, which I'm sure you will all know; how did Big Ben become so called? I will accept "seeing me I the shower!"

Was it named after Benny Hill?

https://youtu.be/epKqu_VHbQU

CatmanV2 · Mar 16, 2018

BennyD said:
A quick one, which I'm sure you will all know; how did Big Ben become so called? I will accept "seeing me in the shower!"

Named after Disraeli?

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CatmanV2 · Mar 18, 2018

Well this is going well.....

Having googled, I'm wrong.

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