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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 1, 2020 1:18:21 GMT -5
I'll say Jenny Agutter. Guess I was wrong.
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Post by bbg95 on Feb 1, 2020 10:40:00 GMT -5
I'll guess Diana Rigg, mostly because I liked her character on Game of Thrones.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 13:01:59 GMT -5
I know the answer, but did not know she was her mother.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 13:04:52 GMT -5
Here's another one:
The first-ever a cappella song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart did so in 1988. Name that song.
And an easier one:
The world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome was built nearly 2,000 years ago in Rome, where it still stands today. What is it called?
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Post by guest2 on Feb 1, 2020 13:09:15 GMT -5
I'll guess Diana Rigg, mostly because I liked her character on Game of Thrones. Also married James Bond
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 1, 2020 14:57:35 GMT -5
Here's another one: The first-ever a cappella song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart did so in 1988. Name that song. And an easier one: The world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome was built nearly 2,000 years ago in Rome, where it still stands today. What is it called? Don't worry, I know both those answers.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 1, 2020 15:36:18 GMT -5
Here's another one: The first-ever a cappella song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart did so in 1988. Name that song. And an easier one: The world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome was built nearly 2,000 years ago in Rome, where it still stands today. What is it called? Don't know the first one off the top of my head. The second is probably the Pantheon. My family and I ate gelato outside on a sidewalk bench. I don't know if that same gelato shop is still there. There's an oculus at the top of the dome. During the day, you can see the sun ray through that hole, especially when it's dusty, and the circle of light it makes on the floor. I forget whether the traveling (as the day progresses) circle of light is significant or not to the design. But that circle of light is one of the things I remember best, even more than the beautiful architecture itself. The building entrance was wide open. You just walk in and out. No entrance fee whatsoever. I don't know if it's still that way now. The circle of light:
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 1, 2020 16:32:18 GMT -5
Whoever was singing a capella in the 1980s was highly inappropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 23:32:18 GMT -5
Rachael has her mother's eyes, btw.
FTR, season 3 of The Detectorists is just about perfect.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Feb 2, 2020 1:08:06 GMT -5
Rachael Stirling plays Rebecca in the British TV series The Detectorists. She's making quite a name for herself in the British acting business. Which of the following actresses is her real life mother. (Photos are of their younger days, for comparison purposes.) Incidentally, Rachael Stirling's real life mother played her fictional mother in The Detectorists: Helen Mirren ( Prime Suspect) Diana Rigg (Mrs. Peel in The Avengers) Emma Thompson ( Sense and Sensibility) Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter movies) Jenny Agutter ( Logan's Run) Since she looks like Diana Rigg, I’m going with Diana Rigg.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 5, 2020 15:47:26 GMT -5
The answer: Here's real life mother and daughter - Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 17:15:38 GMT -5
No, the answer is Don't Worry, Be Happy.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 5, 2020 17:38:36 GMT -5
No, the answer is Don't Worry, Be Happy. I knew it was a song about being happy. At first I had it confused with the more recent song "Happy" (Pharrell Williams), but it wasn't that one. I finally did a quick search (yes, cheating) and came up with the name of the Bobby McFerrin song. Similarly, I knew the other answer was the Pantheon but I couldn't dredge up the name. I knew what it looked like, where it was, and that it was a temple to all gods, but Pantheon ("pan-all theon-gods") just didn't come up from my memory. So I searched for "Roman temple to all the gods" and of course I got "Pantheon". Strange that I knew both answers but was blanking on the exact name of both answers. (The reason I remembered Don't Worry Be Happy so strongly was because a co-worker of mine HATED that song. Really really hated it. And she wasn't even my co-worker until the 1990s. I seem to recall that the song had a second moment of popularity in the 90s, because I don't remember it from 1988 when I was in college. According to Wikipedia, the song was featured in a 1995 episode of Friends. That's probably why I remember Gail being so emphatic in the mid-90s about how much she hated it.)
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 5, 2020 17:51:59 GMT -5
I always get Parthenon (Athens) and Pantheon (Rome) mixed up -- and I personally visited both sites! It takes a moment, but I eventually get it.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 5, 2020 17:56:18 GMT -5
A capella does not belong in the 1980s. 1980s was a time for electronic uptempo Euro dance trash. If not Euro, then a lot of electronic synthesizers, hard rhythmic drums, and uptempo songs. Lots of music candy. All sugar, no substance. Also, a lot of great 1980s movies was ruined by terrible 1980s-influenced soundtrack. (But I like a lot of 1980s songs. LOL!) This is typical:
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