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Shell Quiz
Shell Quiz, known in its latest iteration as Shell Quiz on the Road, is a televised upper-secondary school quiz competition in Thailand which was broadcast from 1965 to 2009. The questions are given in English, and deal with a broad range of topics of knowledge, with the English language itself as a focus. The programme was sponsored by Shell Thailand. At the time of its last season, it was the longest-running television programme in the country.
Production history.
The programme was
schools across the country. The programme was titled "Shell Quiz on the Road", and was broadcast on the Nation Channel. This new format was continued for three years. The final season, the programme's forty-fourth overall, was broadcast in 2009.
Format.
Prior to the 2007 season, the programme was conducted by a presenter and a native English-speaking quiz master, who presented the questions while the presenter offered explanations in Thai afterwards. From 1995–2006, the Language Institute of Chulalongkorn University co