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radio and television quiz show for teams from secondary schools in the United Kingdom which ran for 38 years, from 1948 to 1986. The programme began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series, at 7.30pm on the Light Programme. It progressed to become a TV series from 1962 to 1975. A decision to stop the programme was announced on 28 September 1986 and the last broadcast was on Tuesday 2 December. The producer, Graham Frost, was reported to have said it had been cancelled because the competitive nature of the show jarred with modern educational philosophy.

Hosts

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* John Ellison * Robert MacDermot (died on Saturday 21 November 1964 at Central Middlesex Hospital aged 54, after tripping and falling at London Airport, fracturing bones) *

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* John Edmunds * John Dunn * Tim Gudgin (1965–86) *

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(1974–76) * Paddy Feeny (1965–86) * Bill Salmon (Australia 1967–1968) * Geoffrey Wheeler (1962–75)

Format

Each school fielded a team of four pupils ranging in age from under 13 to under 18.

Transmission

Radio

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from 1948 to 1967 * BBC Radio 2 (sometimes simulcast on

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) 1967–70 *

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from 26 September 1970 – 1986. Joan Clark had produced a weekly radio quiz from 1945 called ''Quiz Team'', with two teams of four, with question master Roy Rich. On Sunday 23 May 1948, this transformed into ''Ask Me, Another!'' on the Home Service, with teams of four, with question master Lionel Gamlin. Via ''What Do You Know'' from 2 August 1953, this became ''

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'' in 1967. The programme was largely invented by Joan Clark;she had mostly worked as a reporter on ''In Town Tonight''. When aged 41, she married 47 year old John Peter Wynn, at Caxton Hall Register Office on Tuesday 22 December 1953. Wynn was half-Welsh and half-Danish, could speak seven languages. He would fly each week to

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for competitions. The May 1948 radio series began as a knock-out competition for London schools only, where the winning team that of each transmission would appear in the next week's edition. The radio national competition (but for boys' schools only) began on Sunday 3 October 1948 at 7.30pm on the Light Programme, with London against Birmingham, and with question master Lionel Gamlin, which was won by Owen's School of Islington, who were later beaten by Liverpool Collegiate School in the second round. After a request from a Northern Ireland listener, girls teams were added, as an experiment. The first girls' schools appeared on Monday 3 October 1949, with the independent Church High School for Girls in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the girls' team won that first round, with two girls' schools later topping the England section. Girls' teams would always play boys' teams in the first rounds of the radio competition. The radio editions would be repeated on a Saturday at 12pm from this year, also this was continued in all subsequent years. In the two semi-finals for this first year of girls' teams, three of the four teams were from girls' schools, but only one girls' team reached the final - Grove Park Grammar School for Girls (from north Wales), and the boys' team won the final. The series first appeared on the Home Service when the first international series was repeated on Monday 29 May 1950 at 11am; this international series had originally begun on 18 April 1950 on the Light Programme. From October 1950, the radio national competition was first broadcast on Tuesdays on the Light Programme, then repeated on Saturday at 9.30am on the Home Service, starting from Saturday 7 October 1950. The first coeducational schools appeared on Saturday 12 May 1951 in the international ''Scandinavian Top of the Form'', which was for coeducational schools only. This international series was repeated much later in July 1951, on the Home Service; later international and national series would not be for coeducational schools only. A possible precursor of ''University Challenge'' began on the Light Programme on Tuesday 24 April 1956 at 7.30pm entitled ''Commonwealth Quiz'', where teams of four, from universities in Australia and the UK competed, which was produced by Joan Clark. Creighton Burns presented in Australia, with production by ABC (

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), and was carried by the General Overseas Service ( BBC World Service. Another similar radio quiz of Joan Clark was called ''Namesake Towns'', on the Home Service on Saturday afternoons, from Saturday 15 November 1958, where teams from towns of the same name in Australia and Britain would compete, again made with ABC of Australia.

Television

The programme was first aired on TV in two special experiments. The first was on 25 April 1953, featuring Sheffield High School (girls) v. Marylebone Grammar School (boys). A second TV broadcast was performed in 1954 featuring Lady Margaret High School for Girls (Cardiff) v Solihull School for Boys. The programme fully migrated to TV later. It ran from 1962 to 1975, and was called ''Television Top of the Form''. It began on Monday 12 November 1962, when the Controller of BBC1 was Stuart Hood (Scottish). The questions were set by polymath and author Boswell Taylor on behalf of BBC TV and he was assisted by the BBC's Mary Craig who doubled as the scorer and electronic score board operator. In order to set appropriate questions the selected contestants from each school filled in a questionnaire listing their interests, books recently read and favourite music. The teams from co-ed schools usually included two girls and two boys. Compared to many television quiz shows in recent years, ''Top of the Form'' had a resolutely grandiose outlook; nothing would ever be ''dumbed down''. Consequently, on Monday 18 June 1973 it had its first bilingual competition, with Paris v London. The competition on Monday 25 March 1974 was all in the Welsh language. In 1967 UK schools took on Australian schools in ''Top of the Form: Transworld Edition''. The following year this was renamed ''Transworld Top Team'', under which title it ran until 1973. Each series involved teams from the UK taking on teams from another country. Countries participating over the course of the run included Canada, The Netherlands, the US and Hong Kong. In 1975 the TV version moved to 4.10–4.35pm on Sundays, then from 3.55 to 4.20, with the last final on 9 August 1975. One of the producers of the TV version was Bill Wright, who would later devise ''

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Theme

The tune ''Marching Strings'' (composition credited to "Marshall Ross", a pseudonym of Ray Martin) was the theme for many years, though for the last few series,

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's ''Golliwog's Cakewalk'', from his '' Children's Corner'' suite, had introduced the radio series. ''Marching Strings'' had been featured in the popular 1956 British film '' It's Great to be Young!'' where a music teacher's job was saved by the efforts of his students.

Producers

Producers have included: * Paul Mayhew-Archer (1970s), later to produce BBC radio comedy *

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Contestants

The series tended to feature

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s; in later years, as these schools became less numerous, comprehensive schools sometimes featured, but less often, and there was an increasing dominance by

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. However, as comprehensive schools were becoming more commonplace under the Harold Wilson government, the autumn 1967 TV series of ''Top of the Form'' featured only comprehensive schools.

Top of the Form finalists

* 19 December 1948 High School for Boys, Cardiff v Royal High School, Edinburgh (winners: Karl Miller - editor of

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from 1967 to 1973, John Robson, Derek Pringle, and Anthony Inglis) * 9 January 1950 Elgin Academy for Boys, Moray (winners: Captain – Donald McDonald aged 18 – studied English from 1952–55 at

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and President from 1955 to 1956 of the Scottish Union of Students –

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and General Secretary for three years, John Nash aged 13, Alisdair MacLean aged 13, and Clifford Hance aged 15) v Grove Park Grammar School for Girls, Wrexham, Denbighshire (Pauline Samuels captain, Glenda Griffiths, Cynthia Jones, and Glenys Bevan) * 9 January 1951 Manchester High School for Girls (Isabel Sargent captain, Pauline Asbury aged 12, Joyce Trafford) v Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen (boys, winners: captain Bruce McConnach aged 18, the son of Chief Constable James McConnach of

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, played in the school orchestra; William Innes aged 16, sang in school choir, from Ballater, joined the RAF, flying Canberras at

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; George Tait; and Jonathan Foster aged 12, his father taught English at the school, who studied classics at Aberdeen, then at Balliol College, Oxford); it was recorded on 14 December 1950; both team captains went to Britannic House (not BP) in London on Monday 22 January 1951, which was filmed for '' Children's Newsreel''; Manchester lost 28-29 * 14 January 1952 St. Dominic's High School for Girls, Belfast (Rosaleen osieMcCann aged 17, Maureen Carvill aged 16, Dymphna Allen aged 13, and Nora McGarrity aged 12) v Morgan Academy, Dundee (winners: Belfast were beaten 25–17; Derek Ruxton aged 13, Ewan Wilson aged 16, and Atholl Hill captain aged 16); Morgan Academy then played Hamburg Johanneum Gymnasium on Monday 21 January 1952, whom they beat 23-18 * 9 February 1953 Bangor County School for Girls (The School for Girls), north Wales (winners: Gwerfyl Davies, Ann Hughes, and Ruth Powell-Jones captain) v Leyton County High School for Girls; Bangor won by one point; it was the first time that girls had won in the final * 21 January 1954 The Methodist College, Belfast (boys, David Moore aged 12, Michael Skinner aged 14, Brian Templeton aged 15, and captain Cedric Thornberry aged 17) v The Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (boys, winners: Alisdair Maclean aged 14, son of a teacher, he wanted to study industrial chemistry, from

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, he later studied Technical Chemistry at the

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; Billy McTaggart aged 12, son of Stornoway cinema manager, he wanted to study law, and was originally from Paisley; and Ian Mackay aged 13; all three were patrol leaders in the Stornaway scouts; and captain Ronald Urquhart aged 16, his father was deputy headmaster, and he wanted to be a doctor) Stornoway beat Belfast 30–28; it was the first year that islands off the coast of the United Kingdom were entered, and one of those teams reached the final * 9 January 1955 The Academy, Dumfries (girls) v Grove Park School, Wrexham (boys, winners: Michael Burke, Martin Thomas, Eric Stansfield, and Colin Bowen) * 9 January 1956 Newtown Girls' Grammar School,

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(winners: Elizabeth Lewis aged 12, Ann Humphreys aged 13, Noelyne Hopkins aged 15, and captain Isabel Stoner aged 16) v

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, Northern Ireland (boys, captain Bruce Cantlon aged 16 from Armagh, David Hammond aged 14 from Belfast, and Donald Stewart and Gordon Corrigan, both aged 13 from Omagh); Armagh were beaten by one point; Newtown played the girls of Falkonergårdens Gymnasium of Copenhagen, and Armagh later played the boys of the

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from Wilhelmshaven,

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in Germany; Newtown also appeared on the TV version of ''

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'' at Lime Grove Studios on Saturday 16 January 1956 with their Physical Culture teacher Mrs Kathleen Arthur * 7 January 1957 Glanmôr County Secondary School for Girls, Swansea v Sutton Coldfield High School for Girls (winners: Brenda Emery captain and head girl aged 17, Angela Clifton aged 14, Diana Herd aged 13 of Wylde Green, and Margaret Scaife aged 12 of Little Sutton); it was the first victory for an English team since the radio competition had begun; the finalists played teams from Denmark, Holland and Germany, as would happen the following year; Sutton Coldfield v of Netherlands on Monday 14 January 1957, Sutton Coldfield were beaten 37–36; Glanmor played of Antwerp on Monday 21 January 1957; the team were awarded the prize on Wednesday 13 March 1957 * 2 January 1958

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, High Wycombe (girls, winners: Shirley Sandifer aged 16 of South Heath (

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) and Susan Rapp aged 12 of The Lee) v Dr Williams School, Dolgellau (girls: Olwen Davies aged 12 of Leominster); Dolgelly lost by 4 * 8 January 1959

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, London (girls: Stephany Tomalin aged 12, Linda Krause aged 13 of Pinner, Patricia Nabarro aged 17, and Meriel Jagger aged 14) v

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, Huntly (winners; won 39–37) * 24 December 1959

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v Mackie Academy,

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(winners: captain Ian Campbell aged 17 of

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, Gordon Shanks aged 13 of Stonehaven, James Freeman aged 15 from Kirkside at St Cyrus, and David Stoney aged 12 of Stonehaven; won 41–35); John Bone aged 14 of

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was replaced in an earlier round as he was rushed to hospital for an appendix operation; they were taken on a night out around London by the show producer on 7 January 1960, with their teacher Mr Watt; after the final, Mackie played the

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and Rotherham played the

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* 29 December 1960

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, Dungannon (Ann Spotswood aged 16 from Moy, County Tyrone and played the piano, Elizabeth Beatty aged 15, Eileen Mullan aged 13, and Christine McAllister aged 12) v Grove Park School (girls, winners: Josephine Boenisch, Gwenillian Aubrey, Caroline Griffiths, and captain Veronica Lloyd); Dungannon were beaten 53–52 * 21 December 1961 Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School, York (boys, winners: Peter Waugh and Geoffrey Blunt) v

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, Swansea * 20 December 1962 High School of Stirling (boys) v Hull Grammar School (winners) * 22 December 1963 Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, Cambridge (winners) * 20 December 1964 The academy, Montrose (girls, winners: Morag Cuthbert, Frances Wilkinson, Helen Brett, and Patricia Mandeville) v Stafford High School; the trophy was presented on 20 January 1965 by Denis Morris, the head of the Light Programme; Stafford High were beaten 46–34, and the programme was recorded at Montrose Town Hall on Tuesday 15 December 1964 * 26 December 1965 The High School, Falkirk (boys, winners) * 27 December 1966 The Grammar School, Bassaleg (boys, Roger Panting aged 12, James Pierce aged 13, Stephen Dix aged 15, and captain Christopher Elliott aged 17) v St Martin-in-the-Fields High School (girls) * 7 January 1968 King's Norton Grammar School for Girls (Verity Kemp aged 12 of King's Heath, Jane Herbert aged 15 of Northfield, Grace Baron aged 16 of King's Heath, and Mary Watt aged 13 of Northfield), Birmingham v Greenock Academy (girls, winners) * 22 December 1968 Leyton Senior High School for Girls v Grove Park School, Wrexham (boys, winners); the 21st anniversary series, broadcast from 15 September 1968 * 21 December 1969 The High School for Girls, Stroud v Queen Elizabeth Grammar School for Girls, Carmarthen * 2 January 1971

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, Dundee (boys) v

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, Leicester (winners: John Peet – captain –

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Law from 1971 to 1974 – later chair from 2008 to 2012 of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, John Vale – Lancaster University from 1974 to 1977, Andrew Leak, and Stephen Walton) * 22 January 1972 Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire (winners) v Cardinal Vaughan School, London * 27 January 1973 Musselburgh Grammar School v The County Girls Grammar School, Newbury (winners: Juliet Weale aged 17, Anne O'Flynn aged 16, Helena Chamberlain aged 14, and Caroline Gibbs aged 13; Newbury won 53–46); the final was recorded in November 1972, and the trophy awarded on Monday 29 January 1973 at the school * 20 February 1974 Kirkcudbright Academy, Kirkcudbright v Broadoak School, Weston-super-Mare * 4 January 1975

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v The Grammar School, Cheltenham * 20 February 1976

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, Isle of Man v

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, Scotland * 22 February 1977 Macclesfield County High School for Girls (winners: captain Elaine Scragg later competed in the 1978 ''Supermind'', she studied music at Durham, where she played the bassoon, and is now Elaine Crook) v Thomas Magnus School,

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* 23 February 1978

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(James Oates aged 12, Ian Ashurst aged 14, Nicholas Hird aged 15, Graham Osgood aged 18 captain), Camberley v

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; the final was recorded on Friday 10 February 1978 * 25 December 1978 St Patrick's High School (

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) v Brinkburn Comprehensive Sch, Hartlepool (now Hartlepool Sixth Form College from 1985) * Monday 4 February 1980 Peterhead Academy (Richard Aitken aged 17, Dianne Ralph aged 12, and Donna Kinlan aged 14) v Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (winners, won 74–68) * 23 December 1980

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(Robert Rowe, Chris Gidlow – History from 1984 to 1987 at Oriel College, Oxford), Canterbury v Wycombe High School, High Wycombe (winners: Barbara Page, Claire Wilful, Julie Bungey, and Sarah Graves); the trophy was presented by Mark Carlisle, the

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* 22 December 1981 Girvan Academy (winners: Kenneth Brown, Murray Pratt, Kirsteen Browning, and Marie Walker); the trophy was awarded by

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, Secretary of State for Scotland) * 21 December 1982 Seaford Head School, Seaford (winners: Fiona Hanley, Sean Hanley, Neil Dench, and Philip Barden); the trophy was awarded by Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Education * 14 December 1983 Emmbrook Comprehensive School, Wokingham (winners: Sarah Lowe, Katherine James aged 12, sixth formers Jameson Wooders and David Bryant) v

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; the trophy was awarded by Sebastian Coe; in one of the earlier rounds, Emmbrook scored the highest points total ever for the competition; Emmbrook had been coached by teacher Mrs Merise Corbett, and the programme was recorded on Wednesday 7 December, being a cliffhanging final * 19 December 1984

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, Accrington v City of Leeds School (winners) * 16 December 1985 Upton Grammar School, Slough * 1 December 1986 Christ College, Brecon (winners: Oli Hide, Andy Li – captain, Gavin Doig, and Robin Pinniger); the trophy was awarded by Sir David Attenborough in January 1987 in London

Television Top of the Form finalists

* 24 December 1962 Grove Park School for Boys,

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(J Salisbury, RG Thomas, JS Williams, and D Williams) v Kingston Grammar School for Boys (winners: Ian White – Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford) * 1 May 1963 The Grammar School for Girls, Weston-super-Mare v

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(boys, winners: Hugh Gibson, Barry Stevens, Harry Cowie, and Bill Smith); Belfast won 39–33 * 23 December 1963 Brownhills High School for Girls, Stoke-on-Trent (winners: Dianne Bamber or Lawton – studied music at the

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, Lesley Steadiman, Jacqueline Bamford, and Mary Pedley) v Hull Grammar School (boys) * 26 March 1964

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, Stirling (boys, Hamish Meldrum – later Chairman of the BMA from 2007 to 2012) v Barnsley and District Holgate Grammar School (winners: Andrew Wood – History at Oxford) * 10 December 1964 Portsmouth High School (a direct grant school, not independent) * 1 April 1965 Sutton Coldfield Grammar School (girls, winners: Alison Mercer captain from Castle Bromwich, aged 17 deputy head girl, studied English, Janet Brown age 14, Mary Nolan aged 13, Marilyn Black aged 12) v Paston School (boys), North Walsham; Sutton won 43 to 37; 16 year old Marilyn Black would join with 12 year old Christine Agg, 13 year old Helen Tyrell, and 15 year old Judith Blomeley on the radio 21st anniversary series on Tuesday 15 October 1968 on Radio 2 against Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, later losing to Leyton Senior High School for Girls in the second round on Tuesday 26 November 1968 * 30 December 1965 Allan Glen's Boys School, Glasgow v Cathays High School, Cardiff (boys) * 9 June 1966

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(winners) * 28 December 1966 Hastings High School (girls) v

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(girls, winners: Marie Bishop age 17 - she wanted to be a doctor, and played the flute in the Warwickshire Youth Orchestra, Elizabeth Wilson aged 15 from

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, Janet Vaughan aged 14, and Vanessa Webb aged 12), Leamington Spa * 28 December 1967 Burnt Mill School, Harlow v Kirkton High School, Dundee (winners: Fiona Anderson, Michael O'Rourke, Morag Smith, and captain Gordon Cobban) * 12 June 1969

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(boys) v Torquay Girls' Grammar School (winners); the trophy was given by sports presenter Peter Dimmock; it was filmed on Wednesday 21 May 1969, Torquay won 61 to 56 * 20 June 1970 Salisbury (winners: Alison Greenlees, Andrew Parton, Diane James, and Tom Owen from South Wilts Grammar School and Bishop Wordsworth's School) v Inverness (Irene Anderson, Andrew MacDonald, Margaret MacDonald, and Charles Bannerman from Inverness Royal Academy); the finalists competed with teams from the Netherlands in Transworld; on 3 August 1970 it was recorded at Inverness Royal Academy with other teams from Aberdeen Academy and Salisbury; later competed on 5 August 1970 in Hilversum, Netherlands; the Dutch teams from The Hague, Eindhoven and Deventer; it was broadcast from 15 September 1970 with Salisbury v Eindhoven and continued until October 1970; Hazlehead Academy featured Morag Ogilvie, Raymond Berry, Christine Cook, and James Treasurer; Hazlehead Academy would be opened by the Queen on Wednesday 7 October 1970; Inverness beat Eindhoven 38–27, Inverness beat Deventer 42 to 30; a ''Birmingham Post'' review on 30 September 1970 said – 'very few programmes can boast the education quality and mental stimulus that distinguishes Transworld Top Team' * 8 June 1971 Luton Sixth Form College v Kenilworth Grammar School (won 53–43, winners: Jane Broughton, Alison Love, Ross Beadle, and Martin Clarke); this was the 10th anniversary series, so the week afterwards, Kenilworth challenged a 'representative team' from the first series; Kenilworth played a team from Minneapolis on Transworld Top Team on 23 November 1971 Transworld would be recorded between August 14 and 1 September 1971, Kenilworth beat New Orleans 52–42, Kenilworth beat Minneapolis, Kenilworth lost to Baltimore 47–34; In the Transworld competition, Oban High School featured Mary Nicol, Anne Hay, Stuart Ross, and Kenneth MacIntyre * 1 August 1972

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(male and female, winners: Margaret Samuel – Medicine at Barts) v Manchester (Mike Murphy, Phil Smith from St Augustine RC Grammar School of Wythenshawe, and Josephine Finan – Modern Languages at Cambridge, and Anne Heaton from Hollies Convent Grammar School); the two teams competed against Canadian teams in Trans World * 11 June 1973 Elgin Academy (winners: Wilma Grant studied ecology at Edinburgh University, David Knight of Duffus studied medicine at Aberdeen University, Lynn Scott, and Kenneth Lindsay, studied History and English at Aberdeen University, who was also the son of the Director of Education of

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, and later a BBC radio newsreader; filmed at Elgin on 16 May 1973, it ended in a draw 41-41, the tie breaker was won by Elgin) v Derby (all sixth formers - Anthony Kelk and Paul McCrea from

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, and Gillian Duckworth and Jane Sutton from Homelands School; Derby School had become comprehensive in September 1972; Derby School became Derby Moor Academy in 1989; Homelands School also closed in 1989); Elgin went to Hong Kong for Trans World, with St George's School, Hong Kong at Kowloon (servicemens children) against three Australian teams An assistant producer on ''Mastermind'', Mary Craig, who kept the scoring total, worked on ''Top of the Form'' for ten years and met her husband, an RAF officer, in Hong Kong, on a Transworld episode, marrying in 1975. * 17 June 1974 Loughborough (two males from

Loughborough Grammar School , religion = Christian , head_label = Headmaster , head = Dr Daniel Koch , r_head_label = Chaplain , r_head = Revd E J York , chair_label = Chairman ...

and two females from Loughborough High School, Lucy Stein, Robert Satchwell – 1977–80 Christ Church, Oxford 1st Maths, Anna McKay, and Mark Poole) v

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, Darlington * 9 August 1975 Gower (Susan Raad, Michael Isaac, Alison Maull, and David Smith) v Leeds (Francis Bruynseels – head boy of his school in 1975, Jane Dougherty, Stephen Moriarty from St Michael's College)

Other television competitions

* Monday 3 May 1965 BBC1 multilingual (German)

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of Hamburg, recorded mid-April 65, it was recorded as two versions, one English one German; Latymer won 38-31 in the English version (John Barton aged 16, Peter Bennington aged 17 of Putney, Stephen Ankers aged 15 of Teddington, Mark Woodland aged 14 of Wandsworth); the German presenter was Hans Friedrichs of ZDF * Monday 18 June 1973 BBC1 multilingual (French), the first bilingual TV quiz, where alternate rounds were English or French, with subtitles against Laurence Meary from Lycée et collège Victor-Duruy, Christian Dors from

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, Brigitte Godelier from Lycée Marie Curie (Sceaux), Eric Laboureur from Lycée Jacques Prévert (Boulogne-Billancourt).

Notable contestants

* Film star

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, who represented

Latymer Upper School (Slowly Therefore Surely) , established = , closed = , sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , head_label = H ...

; (v Westminster City School on Tuesday 16 November 1976, first round in the series; v Kingswood School, Bath on Tuesday 11 January 1977, second round; v Macclesfield County High School for Girls on Tuesday 8 February 1977, semi-final; Latymer lost this round) *

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, whose story was told during a BBC Four documentary about the quiz programme * Vivien Stuart (1969), later a

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and television announcer. *

Hilary Benn Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since a by-election in 1999. He served in the Cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under both Tony Bl ...

, represented

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in 1969 who were contentiously eliminated in a second round match. * Robbie Fields, identical twin of Randolph and now owner of Posh Boy Records, was also a member of the 1969 Holland Park School team. Fields was asked the three-point question: "I was born in Valencia in 1867, who am I?" and answered " Blasco Ibáñez", prompting presenter Geoffrey Wheeler to take a deep breath and pronounce the answer correct and leaving viewers baffled. * 15 year old Derek Reeh of Newbury, who was in the school cricket team, and appeared on Wednesday 28 September 1966 on BBC1 for Newbury Grammar School, with captain 17 year old Harvey Mitchell of

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, who wanted to study history; 14 year old Philip Kinns of Speen, who liked stamp collecting; and 12 year old Neil Readmond of Newbury who wanted to be a teacher. Derek Reeh (born 17 January 1951), of Newbury Badminton Club, would study Aeronautical Engineering at

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from 1969 to 1972 and would later be an RAF Jaguar pilot, and the chief test pilot for

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from 1995, flying the first British two-seat

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''ZH590'' on Friday 14 March 1997 over

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. Dr Philip Kinns (born 4 April 1952) joined Stanley Gibbons in 1970, and has worked with the

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. * 13 year old

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, of Peterborough, was in a team of four boys against Kings Norton Grammar School for Girls, broadcast on Sunday 22 October 1967 on the new BBC Radio 2, which was recorded on Tuesday 19 September 1967. Also in the team were Michael Conning aged 12, Martin Bradshaw aged 15 of

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, and the captain Martin Chambers. It was recorded in the school hall with John Ellison; Tim Gudgin was at

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. *

Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, (''née'' Middleweek; born 26 March 1949) is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party sh ...

, Labour MP from October 1974 to May 1979 for

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- as Helene Middleweek she competed for

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on Thursday 19 November 1964 on BBC One; later aged 19, she would be the second female president of the Cambridge Union in March 1969; aged 22 she tried to be selected for Hitchin against the 26 year old Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu, the first female president of the

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, and also a law graduate from

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but as a 24 year old social worker was selected to fight

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on Saturday 25 November 1972, until Enoch Powell stood down as candidate on Thursday 7 February 1974, and despite Enoch Powell casting a postal vote for her, she came second by 6,901 votes

Popular culture

''Top of The Form'' was satirised in the 1960s pre-Python television series ''

At Last the 1948 Show ''At Last the 1948 Show'' is a satirical television show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions (although it was not credited on the programmes), in association with Rediffusion London. Transmitted on Britain's ITV network in 19 ...

''. "Natural Born Quizzers", an episode of Steve Coogan's comedy series ''

Coogan's Run ''Coogan's Run'' is a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Tyler, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, ...

'', involved a thinly-disguised version of the show. In 2008, Dave Gorman traced the history of the show on BBC Four. A similar quiz for British schools in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

called ''Top Marks'' was broadcast by BFBS Germany.

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