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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST EXAM, MODULE ONE
According to a newspaper report, the University of Melbourne is to offer a degree course on the Eurovision Song contest. Here are some of the exam questions that Eurovision students could face . . .
1. EUROVISION HEALTH
a) ‘ My heart goes boom bang-abang, boom bang-a-bang when you are near,’ complained Lulu in 1969. ‘Boom bang-a-bang, boom bang-abang loud in my ear, pounding away, pounding away.’
The patient clearly has many of the common symptoms of coronary heart disease, including heart palpitations and breathlessness. in no more than 500 words, explain to Lulu the best way to reduce her risk factors. (Ten marks) B) SEparaTE the Eurovision winners from the infectious diseases: Lordi; dana international; Malaria; Scarlet Fever; dima Bilan; dengue; riva; Hepatitis; conchita Wurst ; gippy Tummy; rubella.
2. NAPOLEON AND THE EUROVISION
SOURCE (a): ‘My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender / Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.’
read source ( a) carefully before answering the following questions:
( i) describe the circumstances that led anni-Frid Lyngstad and agnetha Faltskog to surrender to a British army of around 67,000 and a prussian army of 48,000 after heavy fighting near Brussels?
(ii) Upon sensing defeat, why did napoleon exclaim ‘My, my’? Source (b): ‘The history book on the shelf / Is always repeating itself’
i) Using diagrams where necessary, suggest five reasons why the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.
ii) Using diagrams where necessary, suggest five reasons why the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.
iii) Using diagrams where necessary, suggest five reasons why the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.
3. EUROVISION TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
a) THE following are Eurovision songs, except for one. can you spot the odd one out? diggi-Loo diggi-Ley; La La La; addio addio; Bana Bana; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Boom Boom; BoomBang-a-Bang; ding-a-dong. B) STUdy this list of ‘all Kinds of Everything’. name those items on the list that do noT remind dana of you. Snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees, sailboats and fishermen, things of the sea, a Brussels sprout, morning gout, wishing wells, wedding bells, early morning dew.
4. CLIFF AND THE NATURE OF EUROHAPPINESS
‘ i USEd to think happiness hadn’t been invented’ ( from congratulations by cliff richard, 1968).
Taking care to cite sources, for two marks explain when happiness was invented, and for a further two marks say who invented it and why.
5. EUROGEOGRAPHY
USing the pocket calculator, map and compasses provided, sort the Eurovision countries from the choruses of their songs:
Mona — co!; ringading; ro Mania; Bimabumbum; Mo! roc! co!; dikadikado; alba, nia!
6. EUROLOGIC
in HEr seminal Eurovision Song contest entry ooh aah . . . Just a Little Bit (1996), gina g sang: ‘ooh aah, just a little bit / ooh aah, little bit more / ooh aah, just a little bit / you know what i’m looking for.’
if a has got a little bit and a gives B a little bit more, how many little bits will c end up with, if c has already taken a little bit more from a? and who, by the end, has accumulated the most little bits over all: a, B or c?
7. EUROPSEPHOLOGY
a) if Serbia awards Bosnia and Herzegovina three points and Slovenia awards Macedonia two points, how many points does croatia award Montenegro, if albania has already awarded Serbia nul points? B) if it takes seven nations 92 minutes to vote for 12 nations, and 15 nations 231 minutes to vote for 23 nations, how long does it take 59 nations to vote for 62 nations, if everyone has fallen asleep?