Contest

Contest may refer to:

  • Competition
  • Contest (novel), by Matthew Reilly
  • "Contest" (Bottom), an episode of the British sitcom Bottom
  • Contest, Mayenne, a village and commune of the Mayenne département in France
  • Contest (ship), an Australian ship sunk in 1807
  • HMS Contest, the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy
  • "The Contest", a 1992 episode from the U.S. situation comedy Seinfeld
  • The Con Test, an Australian game show which airs on Network Ten
  • CONTEST, codename for the British government's counter-terrorism strategy
  • Will contest

Other articles related to "contest":

National Hollerin' Contest
... The National Hollerin' Contest, first held in 1969, is an annual competition held in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina ... The contest, held on the third Saturday in June, was inaugurated in order to revive the almost-lost art of "hollerin'", a sophisticated vocal tradition that served as a means of long-distance ... Contestants from the contest have appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and the Late Show with David Letterman ...
Italian Palios - Palios With Weapons - Tuscany
... Palio della balestra in Lucca, on July 12 ... It is a crossbow contest ...
Olé, Olé
... "Olé, Olé" (Hebrew script עולה, עולה) was the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, performed in Hebrew by Izhar Cohen ... This was Cohen's second participation, in 1978 he and the group Alphabeta had won the Contest with "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" ... It was succeeded as Israeli representative at the 1986 Contest by Moti Giladi Sarai Tzuriel with "Yavo Yom" ...
Niamh Kavanagh - Other Appearances
... Kavanagh was the Irish spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ... in the Romanian National Final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 where she performed her 2010 entry in the Contest and the ABBA hit "Happy New Year, alongside Chiara Siracusa and Paula Seling ...
Oj, Oj, Oj, Så Glad Jeg Skal Bli
... how happy I'll be") was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, performed in Norwegian by Kirsti Sparboe ... The song's failure in the contest, coupled with Norwegian sales of 50,000 copies, gave some vindication to both sides in the ensuing debate, which filled ... Due to the chaotic finish to the 1969 Contest, which featured four songs being declared "joint winners" as there was no provision for a tied result, Norway opted out of the 1970 contest ...

Famous quotes containing the word contest:

    “By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering, and Divinity departing. You are welcome to try your experiments, and, if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce, of nothing but God will expel God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)