Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Schools Challenge is the national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom. It uses the same quiz bowl rules as University Challenge, although it is affiliated with neither the game nor the television show.Schools Challenge was founded by Colin Galloway in 1978, and is divided into Senior and Junior sections. Senior Schools Challenge is for students aged up to 18, with no lower age restriction. In practice the teams tend to draw on Form III to Upper VI (Year 9 to Year 13 in maintained schools in England & Wales). Each team comprises four members, two of whom must be no older than the normal age for a Form IV (Year 10) student (in 2015/16, born on or after 1 September 2000, or 1 August 2000 in Northern Ireland). The other two can be of any age. Junior Schools Challenge is for students up to and including the normal age for a Form II Year 8) student, or preparatory school pupils: in 2015, born on or after 1 September 2002(1 August 2002 in Northern Ireland). Again, there are four members in each team but there are no restrictions on the numbers of any students from a particular age group in this competition.The competition is divided this way because of the incongruence between the independent school system and grammar or comprehensive schools. In some independent school systems students attend a preparatory school until the age of 13, after which time they transfer to another school. Schools Challenge has had to work around this so that no school has an unfair advantage in terms of age.The competition is divided up into 15 regions. Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales each are its own region. Each region has a coordinator, the Regional Organiser, who in turn answers to the national organisers.The 15 regional winners play an inter-regional round, the winners of which participate in the national finals to contest the Schools Challenge shield. Teams who lose in the first round of the national final contest enter the repechage contest for the Schools Challenge Plate. Finals are contested in a single day, normally the last Sunday in April, at a central venue.The most successful team in the competition's history are Westminster School, who won each year from 2005-2009. In addition, they were beaten finalists in 2004 and 2011, semi-finalists in 2010, and won the Plate competition in 2015. The only team to have won the Senior and Junior competitions in the same season (2014) are The Perse School, Cambridge. Other consistently successful teams in both Junior and Senior competitions are The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Hereford Cathedral School, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Nottingham High School; in the Junior competition only, Dulwich Prep London.The national competition is organised by Paul and Sue Sims, assisted by regional co-ordinators."@en }
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- Schools_Challenge abstract "Schools Challenge is the national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom. It uses the same quiz bowl rules as University Challenge, although it is affiliated with neither the game nor the television show.Schools Challenge was founded by Colin Galloway in 1978, and is divided into Senior and Junior sections. Senior Schools Challenge is for students aged up to 18, with no lower age restriction. In practice the teams tend to draw on Form III to Upper VI (Year 9 to Year 13 in maintained schools in England & Wales). Each team comprises four members, two of whom must be no older than the normal age for a Form IV (Year 10) student (in 2015/16, born on or after 1 September 2000, or 1 August 2000 in Northern Ireland). The other two can be of any age. Junior Schools Challenge is for students up to and including the normal age for a Form II Year 8) student, or preparatory school pupils: in 2015, born on or after 1 September 2002(1 August 2002 in Northern Ireland). Again, there are four members in each team but there are no restrictions on the numbers of any students from a particular age group in this competition.The competition is divided this way because of the incongruence between the independent school system and grammar or comprehensive schools. In some independent school systems students attend a preparatory school until the age of 13, after which time they transfer to another school. Schools Challenge has had to work around this so that no school has an unfair advantage in terms of age.The competition is divided up into 15 regions. Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales each are its own region. Each region has a coordinator, the Regional Organiser, who in turn answers to the national organisers.The 15 regional winners play an inter-regional round, the winners of which participate in the national finals to contest the Schools Challenge shield. Teams who lose in the first round of the national final contest enter the repechage contest for the Schools Challenge Plate. Finals are contested in a single day, normally the last Sunday in April, at a central venue.The most successful team in the competition's history are Westminster School, who won each year from 2005-2009. In addition, they were beaten finalists in 2004 and 2011, semi-finalists in 2010, and won the Plate competition in 2015. The only team to have won the Senior and Junior competitions in the same season (2014) are The Perse School, Cambridge. Other consistently successful teams in both Junior and Senior competitions are The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Hereford Cathedral School, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Nottingham High School; in the Junior competition only, Dulwich Prep London.The national competition is organised by Paul and Sue Sims, assisted by regional co-ordinators.".
- Q7432701 abstract "Schools Challenge is the national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom. It uses the same quiz bowl rules as University Challenge, although it is affiliated with neither the game nor the television show.Schools Challenge was founded by Colin Galloway in 1978, and is divided into Senior and Junior sections. Senior Schools Challenge is for students aged up to 18, with no lower age restriction. In practice the teams tend to draw on Form III to Upper VI (Year 9 to Year 13 in maintained schools in England & Wales). Each team comprises four members, two of whom must be no older than the normal age for a Form IV (Year 10) student (in 2015/16, born on or after 1 September 2000, or 1 August 2000 in Northern Ireland). The other two can be of any age. Junior Schools Challenge is for students up to and including the normal age for a Form II Year 8) student, or preparatory school pupils: in 2015, born on or after 1 September 2002(1 August 2002 in Northern Ireland). Again, there are four members in each team but there are no restrictions on the numbers of any students from a particular age group in this competition.The competition is divided this way because of the incongruence between the independent school system and grammar or comprehensive schools. In some independent school systems students attend a preparatory school until the age of 13, after which time they transfer to another school. Schools Challenge has had to work around this so that no school has an unfair advantage in terms of age.The competition is divided up into 15 regions. Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales each are its own region. Each region has a coordinator, the Regional Organiser, who in turn answers to the national organisers.The 15 regional winners play an inter-regional round, the winners of which participate in the national finals to contest the Schools Challenge shield. Teams who lose in the first round of the national final contest enter the repechage contest for the Schools Challenge Plate. Finals are contested in a single day, normally the last Sunday in April, at a central venue.The most successful team in the competition's history are Westminster School, who won each year from 2005-2009. In addition, they were beaten finalists in 2004 and 2011, semi-finalists in 2010, and won the Plate competition in 2015. The only team to have won the Senior and Junior competitions in the same season (2014) are The Perse School, Cambridge. Other consistently successful teams in both Junior and Senior competitions are The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Hereford Cathedral School, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Nottingham High School; in the Junior competition only, Dulwich Prep London.The national competition is organised by Paul and Sue Sims, assisted by regional co-ordinators.".