Shell Quiz
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| Shell Quiz | |
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 The Saint Gabriel's and Suankularb Wittayalai Nonthaburi teams during the 2007 finals | |
| Genre | Educational game show |
| Country of origin | Thailand |
| Original languages | English Thai |
| No. of seasons | 44 |
| Original release | |
| Network | Thai TV Channel 4 (1965–74) MCOT Channel 9 (1974–2000) TVT Channel 11 (2001–06) ETV (2006–?) Nation Channel (2007–09) |
| Release | 1965 – 2009 |
Shell Quiz, known in its latest iteration as Shell Quiz on the Road, is a televised upper-secondary school quiz competition in Thailand which was broadcast from 1965 to 2009. The questions are given in English, and deal with a broad range of topics of knowledge, with the English language itself as a focus. The programme was sponsored by Shell Thailand. At the time of its last season, it was the longest-running television programme in the country.[1]
The programme was organized by the Public Relations Department of Shell Thailand. It was first broadcast in 1965 on Thai TV Channel 4 (a.k.a. Channel 4 Bangkhunphrom), Thailand's first television channel and the precursor to Channel 9 and Modernine TV. The programme changed broadcasters many times, and was also broadcast on Channel 7, Channel 5[unreliable source?] and Channel 11, the last of which broadcast the programme from 2001–2006.[2] The programme was also mirrored on the Educational Television Station (ETV) from 2006 onwards. The format of the show 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 beginning in the 1981 season.[3] The nature of the quiz questions also expanded to encompass different formats, including video-based comprehension questions and word-hinting games. Questions from the programme were routinely 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] This new format was continued for three years. The final season, the programme's forty-fourth overall, was broadcast in 2009.
