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“Euro Vision Song Contest”: The ESC-Quiz 2016 – FOCUS Online

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Many fans splurge every year in Grand Prix parties with their knowledge. Are you also a Euro Vision Expert? Twelve questions that tell you it.

Countless facts there for Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC): In decades of Grand Prix history there have been thousands of songs and musicians and anecdotes. Test your knowledge in a quiz with twelve questions.



. 1 The singer Måns Zelmerlöw has with his song “Heroes” last year won the ESC in Austria. The What number victory at the Grand Prix of Sweden was already?

a) the fourth victory
b) the fifth victory
c) the sixth victory
d) the seventh victory

(Correct answer: c – this is Sweden in the all-time list in second place behind Ireland, which previously won seven times the competition.)

. 2 Which country has been ruled out in the short term from this year’s ESC?

a) Russia
b) Ukraine
c) Serbia
d) Romania

(Correct answer : d – the Romanian public television station TVR has debts to the European broadcasting Union (EBU), therefore allowed Romania candidate Ovidiu Anton with his song “moment of Silence” does not compete)

. 3 Which of these Swedish artists have never won an ESC?

a) Herreys
b) Roxette
c) Abba
d) Charlotte Nilsson

(Correct answer: b – Abba won in 1974, the band Herreys won in 1994 and the singer Charlotte Nilsson 1999th)

. 4 Stockholm is the third time the venue of the ESC. Which Swedish cities were still in the process?

a) Gothenburg and Malmö
b) Uppsala and Linköping
c) Malmo and Uppsala
d) Linköping and Göteborg

(Correct answer: a – Malmö was twice host city, Gothenburg once.)

. 5 The German candidate Jamie-Lee Kriewitz occurs in colorful costumes on stage – as it is called

a) comic style
b) manga style
c) Halloween costume?
d) Carnival

(Correct answer: b – Kriewitz interested in the Asian manga culture So are called in Japan Comics, in which often have to assert heroines with wild hairstyles in elaborate fantasy worlds. .)

. 6 Which countries can participate in the Euro Vision Song Contest?

a) Only the European Union (EU) members.
B) Only countries that Uefa) are also organized in the European Football Association (.
c) Only members of the European broadcasting Union (EBU) and the permission to Australia
d) all UN members, the competition takes place in Europe, hence the name Euro vision

(Correct answer.: c – the EBU is an association of state and public broadcasters from Europe, North Africa and Asia because of the large fan base may also join Australia since 2015)

. 7.. How many countries are taking – including the semi-final shows – at ESC 2016 Sweden part

a) 25
b) 36
c) 42
d) 50

(Correct answer: c – ins finale have it but only 26 countries made it.)

. 8 What / r candidate / in has for Germany made it to Lena again in the top ten?

a) Roman Lob in 2012.
b) Cascada in 2013.
c) Elaiza
d in 2014) Ann Sophie in 2015.

(Correct answer: a – after Lena had won the ESC in 2010 and then took up again a year and, after all, ended up in 10th place, managed Roman Lob 2012 at No. 8).

. 9 For which country ESC veteran Ralph Siegel’s time as a music producer in the competition?

a) For Germany, he has «Ghost» Jamie-Lee Kriewitz composed
b) As in previous years San Marino
c) for Montenegro
d) He is no longer here

(Correct answer: d. – Ralph Siegel failed when German ESC preselection this year he had the song “Under the Sun We Are one” composed for the singer Laura Pinski, at the end but sat rival Jamie-Lee Kriewitz by – their song “Ghost” comes from another producer team)

10th. Who is on the year in the German jury awarded half of the points from Germany?

a) Lena, Tim Bendzko, Frida Gold singer Alina Süggeler, Carolin Niemczyk from the pop duo Glasperlenspiel and pop star Florian Silbereisen
b) Sarah Connor, Anna Loos, Namika and Alec Völkel and Sascha Vollmer of The BossHoss
c) Leslie Clio, Mark Forster, Ferris MC, Johannes Strate and producer Swen Meyer
d) Andreas Bourani, Madeline Juno, Sido, Konrad summer Meyer and Jennifer Weist, singer Jennifer Rostock

(Correct answer: b – This time, the jury’s decision is likely to pay more attention find than usual in the traditional switching in. each ESC countries are awarded only the points of the national juries. the voting results of the televoting follow thereafter separately.)

11th Which of these statements about the drag queen Conchita Wurst, the ESC 2014 won and brought to Austria, right?

a) you entered in the Grand Prix on a sausage costume.
B) whose real name Tobias Neuwirth.
c) take mustache.
d) was photographed by star designer Karl Lagerfeld in suspenders

(Correct answer: d – As a bearded Diva Conchita Wurst Tom Neuwirth conquered in skintight dress the heart of the ESC audience.. For Lagerfeld, the drag queen was later in a photo shoot model.)

12. How long can an ESC contribution be at most?

a) 90 seconds
b) Two minutes
c) Three minutes
d) There is no time limit.

(correct answer:.. c – longer than three minutes no song can take on the Euro vision-stage anything else would probably blow up the transmission time)

EVALUATION (for each correct answer, there is a point)

0-3 points: Hm. Interested probably more for football than for the Euro vision song Contest. For the ESC Final evening you should probably consider an alternative program

4-7 points. They are a wannabe expert and still have a bit of buffalo to keep up. ” / em>

8-11 points: respect! You are an expert

12 points. Wow, you could substitute Peter Urban as ESC commentator.

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