They started work this morning down in City Square

[venta]

G'morning, LJ. Shall we play a game? It's been a while...

At our Sunday night pub quiz the picture round was on statues - so we did considerably better than we do on the usual sporting personalities and C-list celebrities.

Googling (afterwards, of course!) for "famous statues" I found that the ten pictures were, according to one site's list, the ten most famous monuments in the world. However, there were still two statues that none of us recognised at all.

But it made me think: what are the most famous statues in the world?


Good people of LJ: tell me what you consider to be the most famous statues. Ideally fill in ten, but fewer is fine if you get stuck before the end of the list. I'll compile a statue league table, and you get a point for every one you listed which comes out as top-ten. You lose a point for every one you listed that no one else mentioned.

Small print: Has to be a real statue. Has to be specific - though explanation is fine, if you don't know the name of the statue/sculptor. Has to be famous in its own right, rather than as part of an event - e.g. the statue of Saddam Hussein that is really only famous for being pulled over is not really a goer. Also must be actually famous: don't give me any of this "the thing my friend carved out of a parsnip" nonsense.

Wikipedia, he say: "A statue is a sculpture representing one or more people or animals (including abstract concepts allegorically represented as people or animals), normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger."

I'd especially welcome answers from non-UK people, so we don't end up with such a biased list!

[Poll #2014852]

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've just thought of one I missed off, but if I try to re-answer the poll I have to start from scratch, and I'm pretty sure I'll forget the ones I already put.

[lnr]

Oh, I was sure you could edit answers, but I just clicked on fill out poll again and lo and behold they were all empty. I hit back rather than submit, but have a sneaking suspicion it may have lost my answers! And I appear to have forgotten one of them.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's annoying! I should now be screening anonymous comments, so if you feel the need to add extra answers but the poll mechanism is being arsey, feel free to comment anonymously. But, err, y'know, say who you are :-)