The NSMQ Story: How it All Begun.
The genesis of NSMQ began on a tennis court at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Mr Kwaku Mensa-Bonsu, then Managing Director of Primetime, was on the court with his playmates, the late Professors Marian Ewurama Addy and Ebenezer Kweku Awotwe, to play the game of his heart. Mr Mensa-Bonsu was perplexed as to why birds could stand on a live electric wire without being electrocuted, but humans couldn’t.
Mr. Mensa-Bonsu got the idea for a science and technology quiz show from Prof. Awotwe’s explanation. That’s where it all started in 1993.
The National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) has had 30 thrilling editions since then.
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When the quiz first began, it featured only 32 schools from across the country, which were divided into the Northern Sector and the Southern Sector, with 16 schools each.
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The winners from each sector were then sent to Accra for the national championship. After around six years, this format was altered. Since then, schools from all around Ghana have gathered in Accra to fight for the coveted championship.
In 2000, the number of participating schools climbed to 40, and in 2013, the number of participating schools increased to 81; however, only 66 attended the tournament.
As a result, the participation format was changed to three schools competing per contest rather than two, as it had been since the programme’s beginning.
To give the programme a truly national character, the quiz has, since 2014, involved 135 schools from all parts of Ghana.
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