The journey and aspirations of the Prempeh team towards the winning of the
trophy of this year's National Science and Maths Quiz was thwarted today
by the defending champions, St Peters.
The contest started with so much
tension in the atmosphere. The whole place was noisy as Peters bus had
brought to the quiz premises some students of the school to come cheer
their boys up.
Prempeh also had so many old boys around including the President of the
Amanadehyee Legon branch.
The quiz mistress made her way to the room while
the contestants all went upstage. The first questions to both schools were
answered correctly and the first round had both schools scoring the same
points.
In the second round, St Peters took the lead as they had 6 points ahead of
Prempeh College. The Biology questions in this round was the decider as the
Prempeh boys had 2 out of the 3 points any time Sebastian answered a
question.
However, Prempeh College bounced back in the third round by answering the
"problem of the day" question correctly and led Peters by 2 points.
The whole auditorium had everybody clapping since it was a ding-dong
affair here. One wondered who was going to win until the St Peters lads
took the lead once again in the fourth round with 7 points. The boys held
on to this lead till the fifth round when both schools equally shared the
marks. Each of the schools answered the riddles to the amazement
of even the quiz mistress, Dr Essilfie Kauffman.
Prempeh therefore were eliminated while St Peters move on to the
semi-final where they meet St Francis Xavier tomorrow. The Prempeh boys
wept a little bit but the Presecans who were around to cheer the boys
encouraged them. After all, they didnt disgrace themselves. James Marfo was in the
middle of the contest this time around for St Peters. He came over from Kumasi after the school
offered him some money.
People are predicting a final between St Peters and PRESEC.
