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The Saint Gabriel's and Suankularb Wittayalai Nonthaburi teams during the 2007 finals |
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| Genre | Game show, educational |
| Country of origin | Thailand |
| Language(s) | English, Thai |
| No. of seasons | 43 |
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| Original channel | Thai TV Channel 4 (1965–1974) MCOT Channel 9 (1974–2000) BBTV Channel 7 and RTA Channel 5 (??) TVT Channel 11 (2001–2006) ETV (2006–current) Nation Channel (2007–current) |
| Original airing | 1965 |
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Shell Quiz, or as it is currently known, Shell Quiz on the Road, is a televised upper-secondary school quiz competition in Thailand. The questions are given in English, and deal with a broad range of topics of knowledge, similarly to Quizbowl, with the English language itself as a focus. The programme is sponsored by Shell Thailand, and has been broadcast since 1965, making it the longest-running television programme in the country.[1] It is currently broadcast on the Nation Channel.
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The programme has since its conception been organized by the Public Relations Department of Shell Thailand, and was first broadcast in 1965 on Thai TV Channel 4 (aka Channel 4 Bangkhunphrom), Thailand's first television channel and the precursor to Channel 9 and Modernine TV. The programme changed broadcasters many times, having also been broadcast on Channel 7, Channel 5 and TVT , the last of which broadcast the programme from 2001–2006.[2] The programme has also been mirrored on the Educational Television Station (ETV) since 2006. The format of the show has gradually changed with time, from having contestants provide written answers to be marked by the judges and scores kept on a blackboard, to a buzzer lockout system with electronic scoreboards which has been in use since the 1981 season.[3] The nature of the quiz questions has expanded to encompass different formats, including video-based comprehension questions and word-hinting games. Questions from the programme have routinely been published in the Nation Junior Magazine.
Beginning in 2007, in cooperation with the Nation Junior Magazine, a new format was introduced, moving production from the studio to participating schools across the country. The programme was titled Shell Quiz on the Road, and was broadcast on the Nation Channel.[4]
Prior to the 2007 season, the programme was conducted by a presenter and a native English-speaking quiz master, who presented the questions while the presenter offered explanations in Thai afterwards. From 1995–2006, the Language Institute of Chulalongkorn University co-produced the programme by providing the presenters and the questions for the programme.[3] Teams of three students from forty-eight schools competed in a single-elimination tournament of one-on-one matches, except for the finals where all three teams met.
In the 2007 season, the number of participating schools was increased to sixty-four, with four teams of two students meeting in each match. The format was changed to accommodate a single presenter who read the questions and provided commentary, assuming a more informal style than the university instructors previously did. This role was fulfilled by Suphajon Klinsuwan, former Nation Channel reporter. A panel of three judges scored the answers.
Each match consists of four parts, namely: Questions and Answers, where general knowledge questions are asked; Watching and Listening, a video-based comprehension test; Pictorial Dictation, where contestants have to write down names of objects ranging from the common to the obscure; and the Word Clue Game, a word guessing game in which contestants give hints to provided words for their team mates to guess.
The 2007 championship was won by Techin Chuladesa and Piratthima Vachiraprakarnsakul from Triam Udom Suksa School, who received a trophy from HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, two one-month scholarships for English courses in Australia by Kaplan Aspect, and a cash prize of 20,000 baht.
The 1988 championship was won by Wichitwong Saengruji, Issara Chutharuengmanee and Bhuwadol Saengwichien from Bangkok Christian College. The runner-ups were Depsirin School and Suankularb Wittayalai. The final scores are 6:2:-2 accordingly. The final round was on Dec 15th, 1988 which was relatively late that year comparing to adjacent years as the competition was postponed twice. At first, it was supposed to take place on Dec 1st, 1988. This was also a rare chance when 3 out of 4 Chaturamitr schools met in the final round. In the semi-finals, Bangkok Christian College took down Satit Prasarnmitr with a dramatic come back score 13:12 after being nearly out at 5:13 while there were only 4 questions left. However, they got the last 8 points from those 4 questions as Satit Prasarnmitr made a deadly mistake which led them to lose 1 point and unexpectedly lose the match. Also in the semi-finals, Depsirin won over Saint Joseph's Convent in a casual way with score 17:8 while Suankularb Wittayalai grasped a landslide victory over Satit Pathumwan with the score 22:-1.
The 1987 championship was won by students from Chulalongkorn Demonstration School. The runner-ups were Bangkok Christian College and Assumption College.
Prior seasons offered award plaques from the Shell Company and cash prizes to the winners and runners-up. Results of all past seasons are as follows:
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