and the winner is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xanthippe]

The result of the contest is:

1st: Daisy 111 points
2nd: Gatis 96 points
3rd: evachild 85 points
4th Jelliefish 21 points

The maximum amounts of points to score are 112.

My congratulations to Daisy: she is really a great and dedicated fan of our Vanessa-Mae.

I will send all four participants a nice pictuere of Vanessa-Mae for their efforts in the contest. All fourt can make their choice from the 8 pictures that I mentioned before. I placed these 8 photos in an album at the Vanessa-Mae Yahoo club at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanessamae2/

The number of participants in the contest was also four. I must admit that I expected a few more, but I guess the number of questions was too much and maybe some of the questions were too difficult. Anyway, here are the answers to the contest as reference to test your knowledge:

Answers to the ‘Test you knowledge of Vanessa-Mae’ contest

1. Singapore
2. 27 October 1978
3. Pamela Nicholson (maiden name is Tan Soei Luang). She is Chinese.
4. Vorapong Vanakorn. He is Thai.
5. Hotelier
6. Graham Nicholson. He is British.
7. Corporate lawyer
8. Paganini.
9. Kensington, West London, UK.
10. Lionel Catalan. Wine Business.
11. She thought she was the one who had married and therefore could have
babies.
12. Vasko Vassilev
13. Yankelevich method
14. 8 years old.
15. Professor Lin Yao-Ji
16. The Central Conservatoire of China
17. Royal College of Music in London
18. Felix Andrievsky
19. Piano. Her mother is a pianist, so naturally she learned to play the
piano first.
20. Her second father is an amateur viola player. Encouraged her to take
up the violin so that she could accompany him in recitals at home.
21. A full-size Guadagnini violin.
22. J.B. Guadagnini.
23. 1761
24. Gizmo
25. 1989
26. The London Philharmonia
27. Trittico
28. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
(NSPCC)
29. Violin, Kids' Classics, Tchaikovsky & Beethoven Violin Concertos
30. The London Mozart Players
31. To celebrate the Mozart Bicentennial Year
32. Mel Bush
33. EMI
34. Allows her to have a dual career recording both pop and classical
music
35. The Violin Player, Classical Album I, Storm, China Girl, The
Original Four Seasons and The Devil's Trill Sonata, Subject to Change
36. Zeta
37. Ted Brewer
38. Acrylic
39. Mike Batt, Andy Hill, Youth
40. The Red Hot Tour, Storm On World Tour, Four Seasons Tour, Tour for
Change
41. I'm A Doun For Lack O'Jonnie (originally Max Bruch's Andante
Sostenuto of his Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra OP.46), Bach
Street Prelude (originally J.S. Bach's Partita No.3 in E (Preludio) for
solo violin, Storm (originally Vivaldi's Summer iii Tempo impetuoso
d'Estate), Devil's Trill (originally the Devil's Trill Sonata)
42. China Girl
43. Tan Lip Kee
44. Being born in Singapore and raised in London, Vanessa had always
felt more British than Chinese and knew very little about China. Her
grandfather was the only person on her mother's side of the family that
had come from China and therefore she had hoped that through him she
would learn more about the Chinese culture and their family history in
China. When he passed away, this hope also vanished and Vanessa felt she
had lost a part of her life.
45. Violin Fantasy
46. Arabian Nights.
47. Princess Zobeide.
48. Siemens' SL10 mobile phones, Mercedes Benz C-Class automobiles,
Mitsubishi-Lancer automobiles, Rover automobiles, Mandarin Oriental, Hotel, Swiss Rado watches
49. Her birthday same as Paganini.
50. Rick Jones
51. The London Evening Standard
52. She was outraged, published her birth certificate together with a
30-line curriculum vitae in the newspaper. Then asked Mr. Jones to
provide his professional credentials in return.
53. The Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
54. Bruno Membrey
55. The orchestra's UK work permits were denied by the Department of
Education and Employment on the ground that Vanessa could have used a
British Orchestra.
56. Debbie Cronin
57. 30 minutes
58. China Girl
59. Leicester Square
60 Trafalgar Square
61. MSN
62. Korea
63. Europa Plus
64. Oxford
65 People Magazine
66. Award for Best-Selling Classical Recording Artist
67. It was the first ever concert held on the frozen lake of St. Moritz
68. By delta-gliding down from 2400m
69. The G7 Conference
70. The 1997 Echo-Klassik Award for Classics Without Frontiers
71. The Re-unification of Hong Kong to China Midnight Concert. It took
place in Hong Kong.
72. Happy Valley - The 1997 Re-unification Overture
73. Dubai, U.A.E.
74. In Moscow. The Kremlin Palace.
75. The official closing of the Asem II, that is the Asia-European World
Leaders Summit
76. Buckingham Palace of Her Majesty
77. The Queen.
78. The Township of Soweto
79. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
80. Kenya
81. Val d'Isere
82. The Making Of Siemens TV-ad
83. Jean Paul Gaultier and Mika Hakkinen
84. Jean-Paul Gaultier's fashion show in Paris. Vanessa was his "bride"
modelling the centrepiece of the show, the wedding dress designed by
Gaultier.
85. CCTV-MTV Award for the Best International Instrumental Artist (this
is her own translation in the Korea press conference). However, a more
precise translation from the chinese title would be Award for the Most
Creative International Artist.

[Gatis]

Yeeee Congratulations Daisy!
(I think my score is not bad, but Daisy's is awesome - you definitely beat me Daisy - now till the next time :;): )
Only 4 entrants, people we should be more active! I must admit that I didn't know many answers (it took me time) but I searched and found them, and in process I found out many new things about Vanessa - very useful competition! Thanks to Rijko!!
Well maybe if we will make someday another competition then maybe there will be more entrances - I hope.... ???

[eva03]

congratulations daisy, jeliefish and gatis! and of course rikjo for organizing this.

although i'm happy as a winner i'm sad about the fact that only four participated in the contest. maybe some were discouraged after browsing over the difficult questions. i had second thoughts actually whether to join or not.

[arup75]

Congratulations everyone!!! You have really proved that you are real VM Fans!!! Its a whole pleasure for me to deal with guys like you in this forum! We know eachother from the past years and one more time: ITS GREAT TO BE IN A FORUM WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!!! Enjoy your prices!!

Yours,

Arup

[Street_Rat]

yup, well done to thoes that competed.
i got the first few done and had limited to no time to research the rest
and movin house the week there due didnt help much either
awell, maybe if another compatition is done ill have more time on my hands
again well done to rijko for organising the quiestions and to the compeditors

[arup75]

yeah, sorry I forgot... Rijko, thanx for organising this for us... It takes time, we all now so... Thanx Pal!

[haboek]

Thats what you get when you are on holidays.
You miss out on all the fun

Good job Rijko for making this one.
To all the winners congratulations.