Bigger Than Us Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1956

The first Eurovision Song Contest was held on the 24th May 1956. It was held in Lugano, Switzerland at the Teatro Kursaal. There were seven participating countries and the competition was won by Swiss artist Lys Assia with the song "Refrain".

Answer: Royal Albert Hall, London, England

The 1968 competition was the 13th held. It took place at the Albert Hall in London as Sandie Shaw had won the competition the year before in Vienna, Austria with the song "Puppet on a String". It was held on Saturday 6th April and 17 countries participated. The winner of the competition was Spain with the song "La La La" which was performed by the Spanish singer Massiel.

Answer: 1974

The 1974 Eurovision Song Contest was held at The Dome in the English seaside town of Brighton. Although Luxembourg had won the previous year the BBC agreed to host the event as Luxembourg had hosted it the previous year and won and felt it was too expensive to host it two years on the run.

There were 17 entries and ABBA won the competition for Sweden with the song "Waterloo" and went on to become one of the most commercially successful bands of all time.

Answer: Switzerland

The 33rd Eurovision Song Contest was held in Dublin, Ireland on 30th April 1988. There were 21 entries and Canadian singer Celine Dion won representing Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi". It was the second victory for Switzerland as they had won the first competition held in 1956.

Answer: 13 years old

The 1986 competition was held in Bergen, Norway. It was won by Belgian singer Sandra Kim with her song "J'aime La Vie". There was some controversy over her win as the lyrics of her song claimed her to be 15. After her win it was revealed that her actual age was 13 and there were moves for her to be disqualified although these were unsuccessful. Since then the rules of the competition have been changed and the minimum age for participants is 16.

This means that unless the rules change again Sandra Kim will keep the record for being the youngest winner of the competition.

Answer: What's Another Year

The 25th Eurovision Song Contest was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 19th April 1980. Johnny Logan represented Ireland performing the song "What's Another Year" which was written by Irish songwriter Shay Healy. He won the competition for a second time in 1987 with the song "Hold Me Now". He performed again in 1992 with the song "Why Me?" and finished third.

Answer: Tonight Again

The 60th competition took place in Vienna, Austria on 23rd May 2015. Guy Sebastian represented Australia with the song "Tonight Again" which ended up in fifth place. Originally Australia's participation was going to be a one-off but they have continued performing at the competition.

Answer: Conchita Wurst

The 59th competition was held in Copenhagen, Denmark and Austria was represented by the singer Conchita Wurst aka Thomas Neuwirth, an Austrian singer and drag artist. The selection was seen as controversial and attracted much criticism from conservative groups around the world. The victory elevated Wurst to become an icon for the European LGBT community.

Answer: Performed barefoot and won the competition

Sandie Shaw, representing the UK with the song "Puppet on a String", was the first performer at Eurovision to perform without shoes. She was also the first UK singer to win. Sertab Erener represented Turkey in the 2003 competition held in Riga, Latvia and also performed in bare feet.

She won with her song "Every way That I Can". Emmelie de Forest represented Denmark in the 2013 contest in Malmo, Sweden and won with her song "Only Teardrops". Loreen represented Sweden in 2012 and won with her song ""Euphoria".

Answer: Greece

The 50th edition of the competition took place at the Palace of Sports in Kiev, Ukraine in 2005 after Ukrainian singer Rusiana had won the competition the previous year with the song "Wild Dances" in Istanbul, Turkey. Greece won the competition with the song "My Number One" sung by the Swedish-Greek singer Helena Paparizou. It was the first time Greece had won Eurovision.