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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 has been running since 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 2011/12, born on or after 1 September 1996, or 1 August 1996 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 2011/12, born on or after 1 September 1998 (1 August 1998 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 regions 16 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 organizers. The eight winners of regional competitions take part in the national finals to contest the Schools' Challenge Trophy. Teams who lose in the first round of this contest enter the repechage contest for the Schools' Challenge Plate (and 5th overall place). Finals are usually contested in a single day at a central venue normally in London, but occasionally in other venues central to the qualifying teams. 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 and semi-finalists in 2010, and won the Plate competition in 2015. The national competition is organised by Paul and Sue Sims, assisted by regional co-ordinators. ==Rules== The game is played to similar rules to University Challenge. Starter questions are asked to all contestants and the first to buzz must answer immediately (or the full question is passed to the other team). The team that correctly answers a buzzer question is then asked three 'bonus' questions which they may confer on and which may be passed to the other team. The main differences between Schools' Challenge and University Challenge are: *No points are deducted for incorrectly interrupting a starter question on the buzzer. *Bonus questions are worth 10 points each and are passed across to the other team if answered incorrectly. *A team answering the starter and all three subsequent bonuses correctly gains an extra bonus of 10 points: thus 50 points are available per round. *There are no picture rounds. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Schools' Challenge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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