Douze Points - December 2005


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The videos in the contest and results:

  Country Year Artist Title Points
Winning song: Ireland
1990
Liam Reilly Somewhere In Europe
47
Other songs: Luxembourg
1985
Margo, Frank Oliver, Diane Solomon, Malcolm Roberts, Irene Sheer & Chris Roberts Children Kinder Enfants
33
  Austria
1989
Thomas Forstner Nur Ein Lied
46
  Italy
1978
Ricchi E Poveri Questo Amore
29
  Yugoslavia
1975
Pepel In Kri Dan Ljubezni
41
  Finland
1981
Riki Sorsa Reggae OK
20

 

The voting
 
The Irish jury celebrates with a bottle of champagne
The voting
 
The Irish jury celebrates with a bottle of champagne

 

 

The Quiz:

Each question in the quiz relates to a song that has just been played. Answers are below:

ALL THIS MONTH’S QUESTION TRACKS ARE CHRISTMAS (OR NOVELTY) SONGS PERFORMED BY ARTISTS WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.

WE WANT THE ARTIST IDENTIFIED. EACH TRACK HAS A CLUE TO BE GIVEN AFTER THE TRACK HAS BEEN PLAYED.

 

1. Puff En Pappersdrake (Puff The Magic Dragon)

This Singer has represented two countries in the ESC, both in the 1960s and one was her native country.

 

2. Oh Happy Day

This Singer has represented her native country twice so far once in the 1980s and once in the 1990s.



3. Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer

Statistically this performer was guaranteed at least one Douze Points when she performed at Eurovision sometime within the last 15 years!

4. White Christmas

No clues other than this singer represented her native country within the last 25 years


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Answers:

1. Siw Malmqvist who represented Sweden in 1960 and Germany in 1969.

2. Carola who represented Sweden in 1983 and 1991, when she won. She is also a contender for the Swedish entry in 2006.

3. Katerina Garbi who represented Greece in 1993 and she did get 12 points from Cyprus .

4. Nicole who won for Germany in 1982

 

December's Playlist:

These were the songs played tonight:

1997
United Kingdom Love Shine A Light Katrina & The Waves
2002
Spain Europe's Living A Celebration Rosa
2000
Finland A Little Bit Nina Alstrom
2003
Netherlands One More Night Esther Hart
1962
Germany Zwei Kleiner Italiener Conny Froeboess
1979
France Je Suis L'Enfant Soleil Anne Marie David
1987
Sweden Boogaloo Lotte Engberg
2005
Denmark Talking To You Jakob Sveistrup
1997
Malta Let Me Fly Debbie Scerri
1992
Iceland Nei Eda Ja Haert 2 Haert
1990
Cyprus Milas Poli Anastazio
1990
Austria Keine Mauern Mehr Simone
1975
Netherlands Ding Dinge Dong Teach In
1978
Greece Charlie Chaplin Tania Tsanaklidou
1994
United Kingdom Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free) Frances Ruffelle
2005
Iceland If I Had Your Love Selma
2000
Norway My Heart Goes Boom Charmed
1993
Spain Hombres Eva Santamaria
2004
Albania The Image Of You Anjeza Shahini
2002
Cyprus Gimme One
1999
Sweden Take Me To Your Heaven Charlotte
2003
Spain Dime Beth
2001
Greece Die For You Antique
2004
Ukraine Wild Dances Ruslana
2001
Estonia Everybody Tanel Padar & Dave Benton
2003
Germany Let's Get Happy Lou
2003
Turkey Everyway That I Can Sertab Erener
2004
Belgium 1 Life Xandee
2003
Latvia Hello From Mars F.L.Y.
2005
Greece My Number One Helena Paparizou
1996
Sweden Den Vilda One More Time
1969
France Un Jour Un Enfant Frida Boccara

 

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