EducationGhana | November 27| Past and Current NSMQ Quiz Mistresses: The National Science and Maths Quiz, NSMQ is the longest-running independent production on television in Ghana.
The programme is very popular with not only its main target group – Senior High School students – but also with parents and, especially, with former students (old boys and girls), who take great pride in the performance of their schools on this programme.
Prof. Marian Ewurama Addy
The first quiz mistress was the late Prof. Marian Ewurama Addy, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Ghana, Legon.
She was a quiz-mistress from 1993-2000. “When in 1993/94, during the planning of a televised quiz programme on Science, I was asked to be the Quiz Mistress, I could not say No”, she wrote in her memoirs, Rewards: An Autobiography. “I was interested in females becoming scientists and this was an opportunity to invite the young ones to become scientists…I thought that this was a most effective way of being a role model,” she added.
No doubt she steered the quiz in such a fine manner. As a recognition of her contribution to promoting the study of Science and Mathematics amongst girls through the NSMQ, Prof. Marian Addy was named the Marketing Woman of the year by the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 1995.
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Dr. Eureka Emefa Adomako,
Dr. Eureka Emefa Adomako, a botanist at the University of Ghana, Legon, took over as a quiz-mistress from 2001 to 2005, having been recommended by Prof. Addy.
Dr. Adomako was a fantastic quiz mistress who took charge of the programme until she had to leave for postgraduate studies.
Before leaving, just as Prof. Addy recommended her as quiz mistress, Dr Adomako recommended that Dr Kaufmann take over as quiz mistress.
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Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann,
In 2006, Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann, the Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Ghana, Legon, took over as quiz mistress and keeps excelling in her role to date.
Over the past ten years, she has succeeded in bringing her own style to the programme, occasionally injecting some humour into an otherwise formal programme.
As the chairperson of the moderation team, Dr Kaufmann is supported by a team of consultants made up of Prof. W.A. Asomaning, Dr Ebenezer Owusu, Dr Amos Kuditcher and Dr Douglas Adu-Gyamfi, all of the University of Ghana, Legon.
The National Science & Maths Quiz is proudly sponsored by the Ghana Education Service, in partnership with Absa Bank, and supported by Joy News, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, Airteltigo, Dano Milk, Joy Industries, Kiki Juice Drink, Accra College of Medicine, Academic City College, Adansi Travels, Kenya Airways, Zipline, GTP and YFM. This is a Primetime Production.
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