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The Friday Question: 8 June 2012

Continuing with my weekly series on questions for which you cannot google the answers.

What one word connects the following:

  • A place famous for world land speed records
  • A fictional lingerie emporium
  • A Poe poem
  • The stage musical The Music Man

As usual I shall wait a few days before giving you any clues.

 

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  1. Kevin Marks says

    Eulalie.
    The fictional lingerie shop gave it away : Roderick Spode is unforgettable. Then the rest were Google able.

  2. JP says

    Hmmm. I took a chance that not many of my readers would be hardened Wodehousians. Hardened enough to remember Eulalie Soeurs. But I should have known you were a likely candidate, Kevin. My bad.

    Incidentally some years ago I bought a cow-creamer. Because I could.

  3. David Singer says

    I didn’t know any of the clues offhand, but I thought the fictional lingerie shop was the best lever, and I was right — once I saw that I was offered a Wodehousian article, I was sure I was on the right track, and the shop name stood out.. The rest were trivially confirmable via Google after that.

  4. JP says

    Ok next time I will leave out the word “fictional” before lingerie…. Too many of my readers are readers!

  5. Christopher Perrien says

    I now know the answer. My guess was Trouble. Best, Christopher

  6. cliveboulton says

    Here I was trying to figure out a relationship between Richard Noble and Fredericks of Hollywood via the Bonneville salt flats (not).



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