Isaac Sturtridge

We’re over halfway through National Final season and we still don’t yet have half the entries. Eurovision fans, it’s time to prepare. For the next 2-3 weeks will have songs coming from left and right as all the national finals finish and those countries who’ve chosen to internally select will…

Well what a great week it was for Eurovision. Australia selected well, we got the yearly Montenegrin, er… moment, there was a good set of results in Melodifestivalen, Sanremo passed and gave us a rather incredible Italian entry, other national finals are progressing well. All’s great. Meanwhile, absolutely nothing happened…

The great event that is the Swedish national final of Melodifestivalen started on Saturday, a large number of Eurovision national finals across the continent are shedding a large amount of their hopefuls as they completed their final lineups on Saturday. The ones that have yet to start have made the…

It’s been quite a week in the world of Eurovision. There have been several artist announcements, we now have 4 songs made public including two from France and Spain, and the semi-final draw has been made. Let’s have some questions about that, trivia from Bilal to Darude, from Eurovision: You…

Let’s get on the road for Eurovision weekly trivia as we look back at the first truly busy weekend of the Eurovision 2019 National Final season. There was a Hungarian A Dal heat, a Destination Eurovision semi-final from France, announcements from Ukraine and Sweden that are very interesting, and everyone’s…

First off, I must issue an apology. It appears that the quiz from last week got sucked up into the digital ether and didn’t make it into the finished article. This left a short article hyping readers up for a quiz and with no quiz actually present. Sadly, those questions…

Happy New Year to all ESCXtra browsers and quiz enthusiasts. This week, in our New Year’s quiz, the testing of what happened in this previous week does have a fair bit to do with the ESC250, its results, its stats, and how well entries finished within it. There’s also our…

Welcome to the second weekly quiz for the Eurovision 2019 National Final season. This week, as we head away from Christmas we enter the true realm of National Finals. Rumours are swirling faster than ever before, artists, juries and songwriters are being announced daily and this is where it gets…

Hello all readers, and welcome to the new format of the ESCXtra trivia quizzes during the National Final season. This is how the majority of the quizzes are going to look between now and May. They’ll be a challenge to check how you, the reader, are keeping up with the regular…

We arrive at the current title holders, it’s Israeli quiz time. Israel were the first country not in Europe to join in the fun of Eurovision, being quite culturally close to Europe, and all. They’ve certainly been an interesting presence, with many Israeli entries reflecting Hebrew and Jewish tradition quite…