Results

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1985	Iceland - Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður "Hófí" Karlsdóttir was Miss Iceland, Europe's Queen of Beauty and Miss World in 1985.-Life after Miss World:Hólmfríður is married to Elfar Rúnarsson and they have three children together, Anton Örn Elfarsson , Rúnar Karl Elfarsson and Ásta Gígja Elfarsdóttir...
1st Runner-up	United Kingdom - Mandy Shires
2nd Runner-up	' - Brenda Denton
3rd Runner-up	Venezuela - Ruddy Rodríguez Ruddy Rodríguez Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía is a Venezuelan actress, model and Businesswoman. Born in Anaco, Anzoátegui, daughter of Venezuelan Pedro José Rodríguez and Italian Rita de Lucía...
4th Runner-up	Jamaica - Alison Barnett
5th Runner-up	Israel - Maja Wechtenhaim
6th Runner-up	Switzerland - Eveline Glanzmann
Top 15 Semi-finalists	Brazil - Leila Bittencourt  Republic of Ireland - Anne Marie Gannon  New Zealand - Sheri Burrow  Paraguay - Daisy Ferreira  Poland - Katarzyna Zawidzka  Puerto Rico - Iris Matías  Sweden - Anne-Bolette Christophersson ' - Kayonga Mureka Tete

Special awards

Continental Queens

Continent	Contestant
Africa Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...	' - Kayonga Mureka Tete
Americas Americas The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...	' - Brenda Denton
Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...	Israel - Maja Wechtenhaim
Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	Iceland - Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður "Hófí" Karlsdóttir was Miss Iceland, Europe's Queen of Beauty and Miss World in 1985.-Life after Miss World:Hólmfríður is married to Elfar Rúnarsson and they have three children together, Anton Örn Elfarsson , Rúnar Karl Elfarsson and Ásta Gígja Elfarsdóttir...
Oceania Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...	New Zealand - Sheri Burrow

The 78 contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
'	Connie Mary Colaire	Christiansted	18
Aruba	Jacqueline Deborah van Putten	St. Nicholas	19
Australia	Angeline Nasso	Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...	21
Austria	Gabriele Christine Maxonus	Salzburg Salzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...	18
The Bahamas	Rhonda Lea Cornea	Marsh Harbour
Barbados	Elizabeth "Liz" Dana Wadman	Christ Church
Belgium	Ann Van den Broeck	Antwerp
Bermuda	Jannell Kathy Nadra Ford	Devonshire
Bolivia	Carolina Issa Abudinen	Santa Cruz
Brazil	Leila Rosana Leal Bittencourt	Porto Alegre Porto Alegre Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
Canada	Michelle Irene Tambling	Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
Cayman Islands	Emily Yvette Hurlston	Grand Cayman Grand Cayman Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the nation's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles southwest of Cayman Brac.-Geography:Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of...
Chile	Lydia Ana Labarca Birke	Santiago Santiago, Chile Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
Colombia	Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero Margarita Rosa de Francisco Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as La Mencha is a Colombian telenovela, movie actress, singer and TV presenter.-Personal life:...	Cali Calì Calì, also written in English as Cali, is an Italian surname, widespread mainly in the Ionian side of Sicily.For the surname Calì is assumed the origin of the Greek word kalos , or from its Sanskrit root kali, "time."The surname refers to:...
Costa Rica	Marianela Herrera Marín	San José San José, Costa Rica San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...
Curaçao	Liduschka Pamela Curiel	Willemstad Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles Willemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior to its dissolution in 2010, it has an estimated population of 140,000. The historic centre of...
Cyprus	Juliana Panayiota Kalogirou	Famagusta Famagusta Famagusta is a city on the east coast of Cyprus and is capital of the Famagusta District. It is located east of Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour of the island.-Name:...
Denmark	Jeanette Kroll	Odense Odense The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen...
Dominican Republic	María Trinidad González Hernández	Salvaleón de Higüey Salvaleón de Higüey Higüey , or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern province of La Altagracia, in the Dominican Republic. The river Yuma flows through the urban area of Higüey....
Ecuador	María del Pilar de Veintemilla Russo	Quito Quito San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
El Salvador	Luz del Carmen Mena Duke	San Salvador San Salvador The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...
Finland	Marja Kristiina Kinnunen	Tampere Tampere Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
Early Modern France	Nathalie Jones	New Caledonia New Caledonia New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
The Gambia	Georgett Salleh	Brikama Brikama Brikama is one of the largest cities in The Gambia, lying south of Banjul in the Western Division. It is known for wood carving and for its musicians...
West Germany	Marion Morell	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
Gibraltar	Gail Anne May Francis	Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
Greece	Epi Galanos	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
Guam	Therese M. Quintanilla	Agana Hagåtña, Guam Hagåtña , formerly English Agana and in Spanish Agaña, is the capital of the United States island territory of Guam. It is the island's second smallest village in both area and population. From the 18th through mid 20th century, it was Guam's population center...
Guatemala	Maricela Luna Villacorta	Guatemala City Guatemala City Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...
'	Brigitte Bergman	Utrecht Utrecht (city) Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
'	Aileen Lo Kam-Yu	Hong Kong Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², as of 2008...
Iceland	Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir Hólmfríður "Hófí" Karlsdóttir was Miss Iceland, Europe's Queen of Beauty and Miss World in 1985.-Life after Miss World:Hólmfríður is married to Elfar Rúnarsson and they have three children together, Anton Örn Elfarsson , Rúnar Karl Elfarsson and Ásta Gígja Elfarsdóttir...	Reykjavík Reykjavík Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...
India	Sharon Mary Clarke	Bombay Mumbai Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
Republic of Ireland	Anne Marie Gannon	Dublin
Isle of Man	Fiona Louise Hartley	Douglas Douglas, Isle of Man right|thumb|250px|Douglas Promenade, which runs nearly the entire length of beachfront in Douglasright|thumb|250px|Sea terminal in DouglasDouglas is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man, with a population of 26,218 people . It is located at the mouth of the River Douglas, and a sweeping...
Israel	Maja Wechtenhaim	Haifa Haifa Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
Italy	Cosetta Antoniolli	Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
'	Rose Armande Oulla	Abidjan Abidjan Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...
Jamaica	Alison Jean Barnett	Kingston Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
Japan	Haruko Sugimoto	Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
Kenya	Jacqueline Mary Thom	Thika Thika Thika is an industrial town in Central Province, Kenya, lying on the A2 road 40 km north east of Nairobi, near the confluence of Thika River & Chania River. Thika has a population of 200,000and is growing rapidly, as is the entire greater Nairobi area...
'	Park Eun-kyoung	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
Lebanon	Mary Khoury	Beirut Beirut Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
Liberia	Sarah Laurine Massanuh Horton	Monrovia Monrovia Monrovia is the capital city of the West African nation of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, it lies geographically within Montserrado County, but is administered separately...
Luxembourg	Beatrix Bertine Herma Corneline Tinnemans	Luxembourg City Luxembourg (city) The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg...
Malaysia	Rosalind Kong Siew Yuen	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
Malta	Kristina Apap Bologna	Mdina Mdina Mdina, Città Vecchia, or Città Notabile, is the old capital of Malta. Mdina is a medieval walled town situated on a hill in the centre of the island. Punic remains uncovered beyond the city’s walls suggest the importance of the general region to Malta’s Phoenician settlers. Mdina is commonly...
Mexico	Alicia Yolanda Carrillo González	Guadalajara Guadalajara Guadalajara may refer to:In Mexico:*Guadalajara, Jalisco, the capital of the state of Jalisco and second largest city in Mexico**Guadalajara Metropolitan Area*University of Guadalajara, a public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco...
New Zealand	Sheri Anastasia LeFleming Burrow	Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
Nigeria	Rosemary Okeke	Lagos Lagos Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
Norway	Karen Margrethe Moe	Kristiansund Kristiansund Kristiansund is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region. The administrative center of the municipality is the city of Kristiansund...
Panama	Diana Ester Alfaro Arosemena	Panama City Panama City Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
Paraguay	Daisy Patricia Ferreira Caballero	Asunción Asunción Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.The "Ciudad de Asunción" is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San...
Peru	Carmen del Rosario Muro Tavara	Lambayeque Lambayeque, Peru Lambayeque is a city in the Lambayeque region of northern Peru. It is notable for its exceptional museums featuring artefacts from local archaeological sites. The Bruning Museum, established in the early 1900s, contains hundreds of gold and silver pieces, as well as textiles and ceramics, from the...
Philippines	Elizabeth Dionisio Cuenco	Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
Poland	Katarzyna Dorota Zawidzka	Gorzów Gorzów Wielkopolski Gorzów Wielkopolski is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the biggest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 125,149 inhabitants...
Portugal	Maria de Fátima da Silva Alves Raimundo	Cascais Cascais Cascais is a coastal town in Cascais Municipality in Portugal, 30 kilometres west of Lisbon, with about 35,000 residents. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal...
Puerto Rico	Iris Matías González	Caguas
'	Karen Marcelle Grant	Old Road Town Old Road Town Old Road Town is a town in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is located on the west coast of Saint Kitts island, just to the south of Middle Island.It was settled on January 28, 1624 by Thomas Warner, his wife Rebecca, his son Edward and 14 others. The settlers were at first on good terms with the island's...
'	Donna Maria Young	Kingstown Kingstown Kingstown is the chief port of Saint Vincent, and the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. With a population of 25,418 Kingstown is a centre for the island's agricultural industry and a port of entry for tourists...
Singapore	Joanna Sylvia Mitchell	Paya Lebar Paya Lebar Paya Lebar is an area in the north-eastern part of Singapore. It is served by Paya Lebar Station, on the East West Line of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system. It is an urban planning area. The Singapore Post Centre is located there too....
Spain	María Amparo Martínez Cerdán	Valencia
Sri Lanka	Natalie Gunewardene	Colombo Colombo Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
Swaziland	June Hank	Manzini
Sweden	Anne-Bolette Jill Christophersson	Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Switzerland	Eveline Nicole Glanzmann	Bauen Bauen Bauen is a municipality on Lake Lucerne in the Swiss canton of Uri.-Geography:Bauen has an area, , of . Of this area, 13.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 74.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.9% is settled and the remainder is non-productive...
French Polynesia	Ruth Manea	Faa'a
Thailand	Parnlekha Wanmuang	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
'	Ulrica Christina Phillip	San Fernando San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago The City of San Fernando with a population of 55,419 according to the 2000 census, is the larger of Trinidad and Tobago's two cities and the second largest municipality after Chaguanas. It occupies 18 km² and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad...
'	Barbara Bulah Mae Capron	Providenciales Providenciales Providenciales is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The island has an area of and an approximate population of 15,542, making it the largest island in population and the third largest in area. It is served by the Providenciales International Airport...
Uganda	Helen Acheng	Kitgum Kitgum Kitgum is a municipality in Kitgum District, in Northern Uganda. The town is administered by Kitgum Town Council, an Urban Local Government within Kitgum District Administration...
United Kingdom	Mandy Adele Shires	Bradford Bradford Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
'	Brenda Denton	Hobbs Hobbs, New Mexico Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 28,657 at the 2000 census.Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lea County.-Geography:...
Uruguay	Gabriela de León Muñiz	Montevideo Montevideo Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
Venezuela	Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía Ruddy Rodríguez Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía is a Venezuelan actress, model and Businesswoman. Born in Anaco, Anzoátegui, daughter of Venezuelan Pedro José Rodríguez and Italian Rita de Lucía...	Caracas Caracas Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
Samoa	Angelie Achatz	Apia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Aleksandra Košanović	Belgrade Belgrade Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
'	Kayonga "Benita" Mureka Tete	Kinshasa Kinshasa Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....

Returning countries and Debuts

• Ivory Coast, St. Kitts & Nevis and Republic of Zaire competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Uganda last competed in 1968.
• Luxembourg last competed in 1977
  Miss World 1977
  The 27th Miss World Pageant was held on November 17, 1977 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Mary Ann Catrin Stävin from Sweden...
  
  .
• St. Vincent & the Grenadines last competed in 1978
  Miss World 1978
  Miss World 1978, the 28th Miss World pageant, was held on November 16, 1978 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Silvana Suárez from Argentina...
  
  .
• Liberia last competed in 1983
  Miss World 1983
  Miss World 1983, the 33rd Miss World pageant was held on November 17, 1983 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Sarah-Jane Hutt from the United Kingdom...
  
  .

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• Honduras competed last year, but not this year.
• Senegal and Turkey withdrew at the very last minute.

Other Notes

• Miss World 1985 Parade of Nations is accompanied by the music of In the Realm of the Senses
  In the Realm of the Senses
  is a 1976 Franco-Japanese romantic drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident from 1930s Japan, that of Sada Abe...
  
   (Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
  ), Working My Way Back to You
  Working My Way Back To You
  "Working My Way Back to You" is the debut single from Irish Boyband Boyzone. It was released in May 1994. The song reached #3 on the Irish Singles Chart. It is one of the few songs to feature Mikey Graham on lead vocals. The band recorded two versions the song, one of which was a collaboration with...
  
   (The Four Seasons), Flashdance
  Flashdance
  Another song used in the film, "Maniac", was also nominated for an Academy Award. It was written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky, and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so that it could be used in Flashdance...
  
   (Irene Cara
  Irene Cara
  Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...
  
  ), Invitations (Shakatak
  Shakatak
  Shakatak are an English jazz-funk band, founded in 1980.-Career:Shakatak scored a number of chart entries, including two Top Ten hits in the UK Singles Chart, "Night Birds" and "Down on the Street" plus a further 12 entries in the Guinness book of British Hit Singles...
  
  ), and When Will I See You Again
  When Will I See You Again
  "When Will I See You Again" is a song by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.It was one of the most successful recordings of the "Philly Soul" era...
  
   (The Three Degrees
  The Three Degrees
  The Three Degrees are an American female vocal group. Formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,, the group has always been a trio though there have been a number of personnel changes and a total of fourteen women have represented the group so far. The original members were Fayette Pinkney,...
  
  ).
• Miss Republic of Zaire became the first semi-finalist in Miss World from her country after she placed as the 2nd Runner-up in Miss Universe 1985
  Miss Universe 1985
  Miss Universe 1985, the 34th Miss Universe pageant, was held at James L. Knight Convention Center, Miami, USA on July 15, 1985. Seventy-nine contestants competed in the 1985 Miss Universe Pageant...
  
   four months before. She also won the trophy of Queen of Africa.
• Miss United States of America was the first non-Latin contestant to receive the award of Queen of Americas.
• Bahamas sent its third white delegate to Miss World the first since Frances Clarkson in 1971.
• Miss New Zealand won the Queen of Oceania award for the first time.
• Miss Switzerland, who placed 7th in Miss World, made it into the semi-finals in Miss Universe 1986
  Miss Universe 1986
  Miss Universe 1986, the 35th Miss Universe pageant, was held at ATLAPA Convention Center, Panama City, Panama on July 21, 1986. 22-year-old Bárbara Palacios Teyde of Venezuela was crowned as Miss Universe 1986 by the outgoing titleholder, Deborah Carthy-Deu of Puerto Rico...
  
   in Panama
  Panama
  Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
  
  .
• Miss Malta competed in Miss Universe 1987
  Miss Universe 1987
  Miss Universe 1987, the 36th Miss Universe pageant was held at Hall Four at World Trade Centre, Singapore on May 27, 1987. 22-year-old Cecilia Bolocco of Chile was crowned as Miss Universe 1987. 68 contestants competed in the 1987 Miss Universe Pageant. This was the twenty-first and final Miss...
  
   in Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
  .
• Miss Colombia and Miss Venezuela became well-known actresses in Spanish telenovelas.
• Miss Holland was Miss Intercontinental 1983/1984.
• Miss Gambia, Georgette Salleh did not compete in Miss Universe 1985 because of underage. She was replaced by her 1st Runner-up, Batura Jallow.
• 7 out of 15 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Sweden (1980), and Jamaica (1983). Paraguay, Poland, and Republic of Zaire made it into the semi-finals for the first time. Paraguay marked its debut in 1959, while Poland in 1983. Republic of Zaire, on the other hand, marked its debut in Miss World the same year; however, its name was later replaced by the Congo Democratic Republic in Miss World 2005
  Miss World 2005
  Miss World 2005, the 55th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 10, 2005. Nine former Miss World titleholders and chairwoman of Miss World Organization Julia Morley judged the pageant. Miss World 2004 María Julia Mantilla of Peru...
  
  .

Contestants Preliminary Scores

External sources

• Pageantopolis
• Jimmy's Pageant Page