The Eurovision Times – The summer remains a terrible time for Eurovision fans as it’s the season without any news. So the Eurovision times team has come up with a new game: a Trivia Quiz on European history, geography, culture and on Eurovision. Fifth day!
Each day, for a full week, we will publish ten questions of different difficulty. The first question will be the easiest and will be worth 1pt. The tenth question will be the toughest and will be worth 12pts!
Most questions will have answers around the Internet but not on Wikipedia. In a perfect world, there’s no need to cheat and look online but since there’s just no way for us to verify who looked where, there is no rule that says you can’t look online. After all, this quiz is only a summer fun game and if you end up learning something it’s good enough. We will be very suspicious though if you get every answer right every day!
After the week (and an extra week for people to vote in case they were busy one day or a few during the week), the points of each participant will be counted and we’ll announce a winner. What will he or she win? Not much, except the title of the Douze Points Trivia Quiz champion for a year, which is definitely something!
Of course, in the comment section you won’t get to give hints to one another or worse, give an answer. But you’ll still get to use the questions as excuses for more broad discussion.
~ FRIDAY ~
01 Which ambassador is usually attributed to introducing tulips back to Europe?
02 In Ireland what’s the other name for Long Kesh?
03 How often did Finland finish higher than the Uk in an Eurovision final?
04 Which European country has the highest number of McDonald restaurants per capita?
05 In July Delpy’s Skylab, what Eurovision song can be heard?
06 Stalin ruled the Soviet Union but from which soviet Republic was he from?
07 Picture of the day: in which European country was it taken?
08 What are the name of the two chambers of the Austrian Parliament?
10 What’s the name of the famous bar in Phuket, Thailand, that regularly hosts Eurovision parties during the contest?
12 Of which European nationality was the biologist that was awarded the Nobel prize for “describing the structure and function of organelles in cells” and is still today the only Nobel prize from his country?
Picture of the day:
Now it’s your turn to play! You’ll get to give your answers by email on our new address, eurovisiontimesesc@gmail.com or via the feedback messagery below!
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Oh my! it’s getting more and more difficult every day. I only know the answer to #6.
is it really getting more and more difficult? :(
At least to me :)
I was considering maybe doing harder questions for the weekend, but I guess I naturally made it harder every day then?
No, I actually like it the way it is, even if I cannot answer more than 2-3 questions per day :)
Btw, could I ask for a pic from Thessaloniki as pic of the day for Day 6? I’m afraid that’s the only way for me to find the answer to that one :P LOL
Couldn’t recognise not even one building in pics of the Day so far.
I can say that one of the first five ones was QUITE close from Thessaloniki ;)
can’t you guess #3 either? just go through the years sicne 61 quickly in your head and count them :)
I don’t think that that would work either; I can’t even recall which one, Bonnie or Krista, were ranked higher last May! shame on me! :D
i can tell you that Amandine ranked higher than Krista ;)
I’ll try to take a wild guess :)
Oops I forgot to submit the Day number :(
As for #8, I’m only sure about the name of one of the two chambers, so I’ll skip that answer too.
imo it’s quite guessable even if you only know one and sort of know the usual names for these in german-speaking worlds
One of them has a different name in Germany.
Can it be that I finally know the picture question without searching? :D
maybe! all of them are findable anyway, tomorrow’s is very easy actually
Am I the only one here who is not searching for the answers? :P :D
No ;) id say out of the 17 players (so far), half is not searching
Kudos to you! I’m using Google and search after the answers in many other ways because I find that to be a nice evening work. ;)
well as long as you learn a few things every night then!
Oh yeah. Bosnian battles and Greek poets and stuff like that. New knowledge is always easy to carry. :)
ahah well that’s good: yeah i decided that top questions werent necessary “the hardest” but also more like about art and cultural things, while first questions are more broad general knowledge, and sometimes questions 1 through 5 are a bit sneaky tricky ;) but it’s all good fun, even the eurovision questions!
I agree. I also find it amusing and educative :)
Yay, I will get my first 7 points. :)
I have only had a look at the picture of the day so far. Now I will address the other questions.
I don’t understand question 1. :(
introduced if you prefer
Thanks, it is clear now. :)
Do you want the ambassador’s name (which I do not know) or the country’s name.
the name, obviously
:(
Question 3 will take some time because I have to recall all results since 1961. I think that I will do that on the terrace …
The result was really interesting, I must say.
that’s why it was a question of course!
I had it somewhere in my head, but it was nice to be reminded of it again. Finnish statistics in Eurovision is overall interesting, like that 2006 was the first time Finland got a douze since 1977…
not true, norway gave it to them in 1987 which made them the first leader
No, the Norwegian 12 went to Yugoslavia. Just as the first 12 of 1988 – from Iceland – also went to Yugoslavia.
you’re right, my bad, i remember the big cheer from finland and assumed it was 12
i will put “introducing” instead of “sending” in the question, thanks for pointing it out
I don’t know the answers to questions 4, 5 and 10. :(
And I wrote an essay as answer to question 1 because I remember a lot about this guy … but alas not his surname.
you really read the questions too quickly (number 4…)
I am still working. :(
Oops, I seem to have a rather weird concept of Europe … LOL
lol
The latest new country in the flag counter is North Korea. Do people go on holiday there?
not a lot, no
Off topic but i’m so pissed off atm with Isimbaeva and her homophobic comments.And to think that i was actually cheering for her on Tuesday night… . ( Go Emma Green Tregaro!
ive always hated her diva-like star and loved when she failed by that same pride in 2011 and all, im ok with her winning the title this year simply because the competition is quite bad and even without much training she can still walk with the prize, but in france they said that from now on she’ll devote herself to a political career as its typical from russian stars (marat safin) and therefore im not surprised by her anti-gay crap
I think this year the level was quite high and she really put an effort.However,even though she is a great athlete she’s a narrow minded person.I think,she lost a lot of fans today and got some racists on her side.
She said that she’ll try to have a baby and then come back to pole vault.I don’t know about politics.
yeah, i dont buy the return to pole vault at all
She won’t be missed,anyway.
What did she say? I am very busy atm and miss a thing now and then.
But I have never liked her. Yes, she is a great athlete but as soon as pole vault is over, she is little more than one of those nauseating Putin bimbos.
She first criticized Emma Green Tregaro because the latter decided to paint her nails at the colors of the rainbow saying that she is being disrespectful towards the host country and then she said that Russian people are different to other european nations and they have their own laws.I quote: We consider ourselves to be normal people who believe that boys should live with girls and men with women.This comes from history….
Yuck! Russia really scares me to death these days. The other day I read in my daily paper that almost 70 % of Russians do not want a political and social system similar to those in the EU. I think that we all should become independent of Russian gas asap!
Putin, Jelena and Dina on the guillotine! LOL
Could you add Anastasia Prikhodko to the guillotine?lol.I really don’t like her… :)
And here is a full article for anyone interested. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394622/Russian-pole-vaulter-Yelena-Isinbayeva-condemns-Emma-Green-Tregaro-rainbow-nails-gay-rights-stunt.html
For those who prefer French: http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2013/08/15/la-perchiste-star-yelena-isinbayeva-condamne-l-homosexualite_3462215_3242.html
Thanks.An opportunity to brush up my French.lol
The problem is that I really like Anastasia Prikhodko’s very special voice. Perhaps we could ask her to sing a song before her head goes off. That way everyone would be happy … except Anastasia herself perhaps.
Btw, the French had some great ideas in the past: seperation of powers, Amiens Cathedral, Canal du midi, literary realism, the guillotine …
Canal du midi’s architect’s grand grand grand grand son was in college with me in Louis le Grand (in “prépa” for those who know French system)
And it has to be said here too at least once. I have closely followed all athletics WC since Helsinki 1983 and those Moscow WC are the worst ever … by a mile. Zero atmosphere, zero enthusiasm, totally sterile. :(
Oh yes, everyone gets his or her knickers in a twist when a Russian athlete comes on top but the audience couldn’t care less about anything else, even if there is an outstanding achievement by an athlete from any other country.
Behaviour like that says a lot about how developped and civilised a society is. Unfortunately, we Germans know these best because we were even worse in the past. :(
i also think they’re very poor, also by pure organization standards, filming, scheduling etc.
ps: i wasnt born in 83! ive watched everyone of them since 2003 in Paris :D
the problem is not “we have our laws people coming here should respect them”, and it’s not “it’s annoying that an athlete is disrespectful by painting its nails”, those can be argued in many ways, but the problem is “we consider ourselves to be NORMAL people” with all the homophobic implications! wit that there’s no argument, that sentence is wrong, period.
“there’s no argument, that sentence is wrong, period.”
JI would probably say the same thing about your line of argument because I reckon that she actually believes that God created men and women (and everything else) and that God blessed the heterosexual way as the only normal one. :(
Retarded!
Unfortunately, many people think that the way they are is the only way to be normal. Luckily, we have come a long way in most European countries in the last 20 years. Someone should tell Jelena and all those other haters that civilisation is not about being obscenely rich, having bombastic parties and believing in religious knick-knack but about being respectful and judging every person by his or her deeds only.
Just arrived home. I didn’t have energy to google all the questions where I don’t know the answer, so I left some of them open.
i saw, interesting guess for number 4 i must say
Maybe, but it could be anywhere, really.
Answers sent! It’s really getting more difficult every day! :D
Last night here in Albania:
Today I heard Israel 1991 on the radio. I was honestly… quite shocked. I never expected to hear that here. The hotel staff want us to have some wine or raki tonight (they keep switching between which one), so tonight will be fun. Packing right now. Going to miss Albania.
I hope you had a great time in our…neighborhood, Patrick ;) :)
Thank you, Oxi.
I didn’t have the chance to even get near Greece, let alone to enter Greece, but maybe next time. I hope to be in Europe much longer next time.
Have a safe trip back home. :)
Hola Oxi!, was thinking of you the other when I saw a photo of that white tower with the flag :-), just a comment on the on/off topic re Isimbaeva: from journalistic point of view, she dug her own grave, if she hadn’t criticized the rainbow flag fingernails beforehand, journalists wouldn’t have asked her questions about that, thus she got trapped and had to find a way out, if they had asked her about it she could have used the usual diatribe “am here as an athlete so I don’t want to talk about anything political”, but no, so she was forced to follow the Putin line, whether she believes in it or not (my feeling is she does from spontaneous comments), she wasn’t going to diss her whole career based on government support to say “I don’t agree with Russian legislation”, she’s a coward as opposed to the Russian presenter who officially came out as gay on air and was fired the next day!, god, if that happened here in Spain half our presenters would be fired!! :-)
Hola Paul ;) :)
hola guapo,
found something along the above lines, what’s the main situation re Greece? :-) as opposed to Russia..
Not as bad as in Russia maybe, but I’m afraid that there is much more needed to be done.