The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

                        

May is the month of Eurovision! So how could we pass up the chance to base our mini challenge on this song contest? :o

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

◈ Books with a read date between May 10 - May 31 count.(books just need to be read at any time after this has been posted until the end of the UNO challenge!)
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (March 1)
◈ As a team, solve the puzzles by correctly guessing the word missing in each sentence below. (In brackets are the number of characters the word has)
◈ Then, as a team, start to spell-out these words. There are 13 words in all. Although we think it is unlikely that teams will complete all the words, you are welcome to try!
◈ For each word completed via spell-it-out, your team receives 5 points per letter and 10 points per word. Uncompleted words receive only 5 points per letter.
◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ One letter per book
◈ The usual book length rules apply
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with a EUROVISION tab so that you can track your books and claim your points

Spell-it-out rules
For this mini-challenge, you are using the same rules that apply for UNO. So a letter needs to be the first letter in the book title, author first name or surname, character name or nickname, or setting. Articles (a/an/the) can be ignored in the book titles. For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.


                        


1.The first _________ (10) Song Contest was in 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland

2.It's foremost _________ (9) was to promote television

3.The first colour _________ (9) was in 1968

4.In 1969. there was a four way tie with joint winners being Spain, United Kingdom, _________ (11) and France.

5.Abba won with Waterloo for _________ (6) in 1974 with a score of 24. That same year, Olivia Newton-Jon placed equal fourth (representing United Kingdom) with 14 points.

6._________ (7) returned to the competition in 1978, their first appearance since 1966 which is the second longest absence ever recorded from the competition

7.For the very first time, the ESC travelled out of Europe and to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem in 1979. _________ (6) won that year for the second year in a row, but were unable to fund hosting the 1980 ESC.

8.In 1989 the ESC came "home" and after 33 years was again hosted in Switzerland, this time in _________ (8)

9.Ireland won in 1992,1993 and 1994 which was the _________ (5) time a country had ever won 3 years in a row. They then won again in 1996

10.The first contest of the new millenium was staged in _________ (9) Sweden in 2000

11.The 49th ESC in 2004 was the first in a new format of having semi-finals of two nights so that 36 countries could compete. _________ (8), the only city in the world that spans two continents, was selected as the host city.

12.Monster mask wearing death-metal band _________ (5) famously won for Finland in 2006, Finalnd's first win. They caused a lot of controversy with their grotesque costumes and were branded by some as "Satanists".

13."Fairytale" won for _________ (6) in 2009 with the single being seen as one of the most successful Eurovison winners ever. It topped the charts in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia and the Ukraine and made it into the top 10 in UK, Germany, Australia and Estonia. It was even a minor hit in Australia!

STATS Just for interest!*
Most wins - Ireland (7)
Least wins - Russia (1)
Most times in last place - Norway (10)
Most entries in the final - Germany (53)
Country that has the best record for giving top marks to the winning song - Latvia
Conductor with most appearances - Noel Kelehan (29)
Best record of a performer - Johnny Logan (1st in 1980 and 1987)
Language most winners sing - English (23)
Winning Combo - single performer (11)
Longest wait for a win - Finland (45 years)
Countries to have never won - Portugal, Malta, Morocco, Cyprus, Iceland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, FYR Macedonia

*Stats only include ESCs from prior to 2010

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Looks like I have the first question! Are any of the missing words spelled differently from the European version to the US version? Just wondering because the number of characters may be different. I understand that we will use the European version for the spell it out, but when trying to figure out the word it may throw us off. (e.g. colour (6 letters) vs color (5 letters). If we were looking for a 6 letter word, we may not come up with colour.) It would be really helpful for us to have that info upfront, so we can try to think of the different spellings. Thanks!

So...say an answer is 'fish'. Do we need to read a book beginning with 'f' to get the points or 4 books 'f,I,s,h' to get the points? Just to clarify.

Can books started before May 10th be used for this challenge?

Kristie wrote: "Looks like I have the first question! Are any of the missing words spelled differently from the European version to the US version? Just wondering because the number of characters may be different...."

Fair question, but luckily none of the words that are missing have alternative spellings (we think... haha)

Heather wrote: "So...say an answer is 'fish'. Do we need to read a book beginning with 'f' to get the points or 4 books 'f,I,s,h' to get the points? Just to clarify."

Each letter gets 5 points, so for fish, you would get 5 points for reading f. If you read f-i-s-h then you get 5+5+5+5 PLUS 10 bonus points for reading the whole word.
One letter per book

Oh wow! Nice! Thank you mods for such a great mini challenge to end our Uno game!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Fair question, but luckily none of the words that are missing have alternative spellings (we think... haha)"

Thanks!

Another question - Can we get points for letters in multiple words at once, or do we need to finish one word before starting another?

Are you sure clue number 2 is a 9 letter word - not an 8?

Can we go out of order? For example, can we start with #12, then #9?

Sally906 wrote: "Are you sure clue number 2 is a 9 letter word - not an 8?"

Definitely 9 letters

--I think I know the word you are thinking of. Perhaps try a synonym ;)

Kristie wrote: "Another question - Can we get points for letters in multiple words at once, or do we need to finish one word before starting another?"

multiple words is fine

Laura wrote: "Can we go out of order? For example, can we start with #12, then #9?"

sure can

Hahahaha, Eurovision mini challenge :-)
Karen has struck!! ;-)

That obvious, huh?!
;)

Did you hear the news about Justin Timberlake? So exciting
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id...

Just a bit, we've met you before you know ;)

I remember a longer discussion about certain goals.... in a certain challenge.... ;-)

Gave me a good laugh this morning though! :-)

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "That obvious, huh?!
;)

Did you hear the news about Justin Timberlake? So exciting
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id......"

Wow, had not heard that! Now I definitely have to remember watching the show. I'm not really a fan but the man does have some good songs.

so we can only use one book per letter? or can we use multiple locations, characters, etc from the same book to complete a word?

Divya wrote: "so we can only use one book per letter? or can we use multiple locations, characters, etc from the same book to complete a word?"

Only one book per letter :)

Thanks

this one's going to be a head scratcher LOL

I just finished listening to 12 Years a Slave n