Eurovision: 1989 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Switzerland

The competition took place in the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland. Built in 1920, the Palais is a convention centre with restaurant, theatre and sports complex.

Answer: Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia won with their entry "Rock Me", which (despite its title) was sung in Serbo-Croat. Performed by Riva, it was about a classical pianist who is being asked to play some rock music.

Answer: Live Report

"Why Do I Always Get it Wrong" was composed by John Beeby and written by Brian Hodgson. It's a ballad about a man who loves someone who treats him badly, and who wants to find somewhere to go where he won't be found. Despite coming second in the competition, it only placed at number 73 on the UK Singles Chart.

The other groups were all 1980s pop groups.

Answer: tie-breaker for winner

The rules had been somewhat vague on determining the winning entry if two or more countries tied for top honours - at one point, they were permitted to share first place. With an increasing number of participants, this potentially could have become rather messy, so it was decided that should there be a tie for first place, the entry with the largest number of "12-point" scores would win, and that should there still be a tie, it would be determined by the number of "10-point" scores. At this point each country's jury had only twelve points to distribute.

Answer: two

Only two of the entries were sung in French this year. They were

France - "J'ai vole la vie" ("I Stole Life") and
Luxembourg - "Monsieur" ("Mister")

Answer: age of participants

France's Nathalie Paque was only eleven years old when she performed at the competition! Israel's Gili Natanael was twelve. This caused some consternation with member countries, so a rule was written that in future, anyone performing an entry must be at least sixteen years old in the year in which the contest was being held.

Answer: Cyprus

Cyprus came back after missing the previous year. Their first venture into the Eurovision Song Contest was in 1981, and they wouldn't be absent again until 2001.

Answer: Lolita Morena

Lolita Morena is a Swiss model and actress as well as working on television in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. She was an archaeology student when she won the 1982 Miss Switzerland competition, then finished third at the Miss World contest.

Sonja Zietlow and Annika Kipp are German television presenters, while Claire Chazal is French.

Answer: Guy Tell

Guy Tell demonstrated his incredible abilities with a bow and arrow. Amongst other things, he shot the flower head off a carnation whose stem was being held in the teeth of his assistant (it must have been 'helped' a bit as the carnation didn't waver) and shot a piece of paper in half as it was held by his blonde, mullet-haired helper.

Georges de Rham was a Swiss mathematician, Jacob is a Swiss jazz pianist and William Tell was a 14th century Swiss hero.

Answer: two

Two countries vied for one position - ninth. They were Italy and Greece, and each received 56 points.