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Please reply to the OP before looking at other responses.
This is less about your own preferences and more about your perception of “What is the Most Famous such-and-such?” How you choose to establish “most famous” is your own affair.
That said, what do you believe is the Most Famous
Painting : **La Joconde / Leonard de Vinci **
Piece of Sculpture : Venus of Milo
Instance of Classical Architecture : no clue
Instance of Medieval Architecture : Notre Dame de Paris
Instance of Modern Architecture : Sydney Opera
Piece of “Classical” Music (the genre, not the period) : The four seasons / Vivaldi
Piece of Jazz Music : don’t remember the title.. will look after it.. ah !** “So what”**
Piece of “Pop” Music : Yesterday / The Beatles
Piece of Rock Music : **Satisfaction / Rolling Stones **
Piece of Blues Music : Boom boom / John Lee Hooker
Piece of Folk Music (English language) : no clue
Piece of Latin Music : The girl from Ipanema (then I’ve seen it chosen for “piece of jazz music”, and I’m not very good at music, so maybe I would change for “La Bamba” ?? - just seen in someone else’s list)
Novel : hard for questions 13, 14 and 15, because of cultural and linguistic education… In French it would be “A la recherche du temps perdu” / Marcel Proust, and for English I would think maybe “Oliver Twist”
Poem : **“Le Bateau ivre” / Rimbaud ** english : “Leaves of grass”
Movie : Citizen Kane
Stage Play – Drama : Romeo and Juliet
Stage Play – Musical : Cats
TV Drama Series : no clue..
TV Comedy Series : Friends
TV News Program : no clue..
After you’ve answered all 20 and Submitted your answers, go ahead and see how closely your picks are to those of the other Dopers who have replied.
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I counted 11-15 but somehow ended up with only 51 votes. So I missed 7 people.
I don’t know how that happened, but here are the results from 51 randomly selected samples:
Folk Music
This land is your land (12)
Blowin in the wind (11)
Scarborough Fair (6)
Greensleeves (3)
O Danny Boy (2)
If I had a Hammer (2)
Bridge over troubled waters (2)
Puff the Magic Dragon (2)
Kumbayah (2)
She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain
Whiskey in a Jar
Camptown Races
We shall overcome
Happy birthday to you
I’ve been working on the Railroad
Alice’s Restaurant
Yankee Doodle
The Wild Rover
Latin Music
La Bomba (7)
Abstain (6)
La Macarena (5)
Oye Como Va (5)
La Cucaracha (5)
La Vida Loca (5)
Guantanamera (3)
Black Magic Woman (2)
Ave Maria (2)
Adeste Fideles (2)
Girl from Ipanema (2)
Babalu
Something by Selena
Feliz Navidad
Tequila
Besame Mucho
Conga
Lambada
Novel
War and Peace (11)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (6)
Catcher in the Rye (3)
The Great Gatsby (2)
The Three Musketeers (2)
A Tale of Two Cities (2)
Ulyssses (2)
Lord of the Rings (2)
Crime and Punishment (2)
Pride and Prejudice (2)
1984 (2)
Abstain (2)
Les Miserables
The old man and the sea
Don Quixote
David Copperfield
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Catch 22
Tom Sawyer
Gone with the wind
The Grapes of Wrath
Dante’s Inferno
Harry Potter
Great Expectations
Count of Monte Cristo
Poem
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (9)
Rudyard Kipling’s “If” (5)
Homer’s “The Odyssey” (3)
Twas the Night Before Christmas (2)
Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (3)
There once was a Man from Nantucket (2)
Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken (2)
Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII (2)
Abstain (2)
Homer’s The Illiad
Blake’s “The Tiger”
Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Shel Silverstein’s “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout”
Matsuo Bashō’s Frog Haiku
Carl Sandberg’s “The Fog”
Joyce Kilmer’s Trees
Here I sit, All Broken Hearted
Mary Had A Little Lamb
She Walks in Beauty
Footprints in the Sand
Song of Solomon
The 23rd Psalm of the Bible
Leaves of Grass
The Wasteland
Ozymandias
Longfellow’s Hiawatha
Flander’s Field
There was an old woman from…
Leaves of Grass
To a Mouse
Movie
Gone with the Wind (13)
Casablanca (12)
Wizard of Oz (5)
Star Wars (4)
Citizen Kane (3)
The Godfather (3)
Titanic (3)
Psycho (2)
Animal House
Passion of the Christ
Lawrence of Arabia
Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings
Many thanks, Lakai for the summary. Nicely done. I’d say the numbers are not all that important after 50 or so, as the “consensus” (if any) ought to start settling out after that many opinions have been registered.
I can only hope that the Dopers who have posted after the summaries went up can do their own estimating of how their posts fit in with the overall results.