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Rank Eurovision 1981

Dublin, 4 April 1981, with 20 songs. Put them in your order. We won’t say who won until you have finished.

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They start in the order they sang. Drag a song by its dots, tap the arrows, or tap its number to send it straight to a place. It saves as you go. On a keyboard: tab to the list, space picks a song up, the arrows move it, space drops it.

  1. 1 Austria Marty Brem — “Wenn du da bist”
  2. 2 Turkey Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül — “Dönme Dolap”
  3. 3 Germany Lena Valaitis — “Johnny Blue”
  4. 4 Luxembourg Jean-Claude Pascal — “C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique”
  5. 5 Israel Habibi — “Halayla (הלילה)”
  6. 6 Denmark Tommy Seebach and Debbie Cameron — “Krøller eller ej”
  7. 7 Yugoslavia Seid Memić Vajta — “Lejla (Лејла)”
  8. 8 Finland Riki Sorsa — “Reggae O.K.”
  9. 9 France Jean Gabilou — “Humanahum”
  10. 10 Spain Bacchelli — “Y sólo tú”
  11. 11 Netherlands Linda Williams — “Het is een wonder”
  12. 12 Ireland Sheeba — “Horoscopes”
  13. 13 Norway Finn Kalvik — “Aldri i livet”
  14. 14 United Kingdom Bucks Fizz — “Making Your Mind Up”
  15. 15 Portugal Carlos Paião — “Playback”
  16. 16 Belgium Emly Starr — “Samson”
  17. 17 Greece Yiannis Dimitras — “Feggari kalokerino (Φεγγάρι καλοκαιρινό)”
  18. 18 Cyprus Island — “Monika (Μόνικα)”
  19. 19 Switzerland Peter, Sue and Marc — “Io senza te”
  20. 20 Sweden Björn Skifs — “Fångad i en dröm”

Press space to pick it up, the up and down arrows to move it, space to drop it, or escape to put it back. Page up and page down move it five places, home and end to the top and the bottom. The right arrow reaches its number, where a place can be typed, and its up and down buttons.

Finished? The story of Eurovision 1981 has every score and what went on backstage. Spoilers, obviously.

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