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The 46th National High School Quiz Championship, aired on Nippon TV on September 21, crowned Nada High School of Hyogo Prefecture as the top school out of 5,984 nationwide entrants. The competition moved through stages across the country, including a video-based three-choice base-running challenge at Yokohama Stadium and the event’s signature muddy true-or-false quiz at Odawara Castle. On 5ch, threads about the winning Nada High buzzed with elite-school one-upmanship (“Nada’s the only school that can serve as a safety school for Tsukukoma kids”), debate over whether the show has shifted into a showdown between high-deviation-score prep schools, and nostalgic comments recalling the old days when students camped out overnight to compete — all part of a broader discussion about how the show has changed over the years.
Mon, Sep 21, 9:53 PM
The “quiz Koshien,” the 46th National High School Quiz Championship, aired on Nippon TV on the 21st. Nada High School of Hyogo Prefecture came out on top among 5,984 schools nationwide.
The national final kicked off with the first round’s youthful “video three-choice base-running” stage, where contestants sprinted around the diamond at Yokohama Stadium, before moving through various stages across Japan. At Odawara Castle, the show once again carried out its signature “muddy circle-or-cross quiz.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
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Wouldn't you be happy to see Mick Jagger though?
Actually, most of them are like that.
They just lost in the regional qualifiers, plain and simple.
Only the first two years had both a summer and a winter edition.
I went to the very first one at Korakuen. Can't believe it's already the 46th.
If the New Year's Ultra Quiz still did rock-paper-scissors today, they'd probably get flooded with complaints.
Ultra Quiz originally just used rock-paper-scissors to decide who advanced, you know.
Yeah, that's my point — if they tried that same old-school vibe today, eliminating half the field with rock-paper-scissors at Narita Airport, viewers unfamiliar with the history would probably complain.
So deviation score equals intelligence, huh.
What's your deviation score, like 30?
Back in the day, even the regional qualifiers alone drew over 10,000 high schoolers to the venue — it was a huge event. Riding the last or first train with two friends, only to lose on the first question and head straight home — that was youth.
The level's gotten so high you can't really just enter for the memories anymore, can you?
Show up early at the venue
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Get scolded by the bearded security guy
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He still lets you camp out under the tent, talking with other high schoolers till morning
It used to be an event with that kind of charm to it.
Man, I wish I could've taken part.
Man, jealous. None of my friends were into quizzes so I couldn't go.
That was trendy for a while — quiz shows where celebrities who don't know the answer just react with 'Whoa!' and 'How do you even know that?!'
Pretty much neck and neck.
Kanagawa — Shonan
Hiroshima — Shudo
Nagasaki — Seiun
Kagoshima — Tsurumaru
None of these ever seem to come up.
It's Aichi Prefecture's old First Middle School (the prewar No. 1 school).
Trolling? Didn't finish middle school? Not Japanese?
Which one is it??
Is there any answer besides 'It's one of Japan's top prep schools' or 'It's my alma mater'?
Nada only became a super-elite prep school through accelerated curricula starting in the 1960s, so it makes sense for anyone who graduated college before that era.
Yeah, teams used to include a physical-strength specialist.
The reverse happens too — Tokyo kids who take the Nada exam, pass, and then don't go. Where the exam fee and hotel money for that came from is… (let's not get into it)
The real exam kings triple-pass Nada, Kaisei, and Tsukukoma, then go to Tsukukoma anyway.
Azabu actually appeared before on the high school version of SASUKE, the physical obstacle-course show.
Seiko Gakuin (Yokohama), meanwhile, entered the pretty niche 'News & Trivia Koshien' (National Junior/Senior High School Quiz Tournament) as a joint team with Osaka's Seiko Gakuin — a completely different school that just happens to share the same pronunciation — and they actually won.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
“High School Quiz” is a long-running Nippon TV program built around a format that’s continued for years: regional qualifiers feeding into a national tournament. In the thread, many commenters testified that in the past, even the regional qualifiers alone drew crowds of over 10,000 high schoolers — a grassroots, community-rooted event where participants pulled all-nighters and camped out. Alongside that, there were pointed observations that in recent years the show has taken on more of the character of a showdown between high-deviation-score prep schools, and the shift in the show’s overall character became the central topic of debate. It was also noted that Nada High School only became a super-elite prep school through accelerated curricula starting in the 1960s, meaning it wouldn’t necessarily ring a bell for graduates from before that era — worth keeping in mind that “never heard of Nada” isn’t simply the same as “uneducated.” The same day also saw TV Asahi’s “Qsama” and Fuji TV’s “Neptune League” air, meaning three quiz shows were competing for viewers at once — another point that came up in the discussion.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “‘High School Quiz’ This Year’s Champion Decided — Nada High School of Hyogo Tops All 5,984 Schools Nationwide.”
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