There’s yet another controversy associated with the popular

televised Schools’ Challenge Quiz (SCQ) programme in Jamaica.

In the latest debacle, a clip showing the quarterfinal

match between Munro College and Ardenne High seems to have brought up some

painful memories for the latter.

in the Schools Challenge quiz quarter final match between Munro & Ardenne,the presenter awarded the question to Ardenne even though Munro buzzed.The producer of the show has rejected our protest even though the error is obvious and not a matter of interpretation. — thedot (@mannishwaata)

in the Schools Challenge quiz quarter final match between Munro & Ardenne,the presenter awarded the question to Ardenne even though Munro buzzed.The producer of the show has rejected our protest even though the error is obvious and not a matter of interpretation. — thedot (@mannishwaata) @TVJGM pls RT pic.twitter.com/3XZtNdYCXOJune 15, 2020

With the scores tied at 25 apiece, Munro College

seemingly buzzed in to respond to the Mathematics question “An article was

bought for $200 and sold for $350 what was the percentage…?†The buzzer went

off before the question was completed but the final word seemed to have been ‘profit’.

However, despite Munro’s buzzer light illuminating

first, host Marline Stephenson Dalley called on Ardenne to respond. The St

Andrew-based school replied “seventy-five per centâ€, to which Stephenson-Dalley

declared their response correct.

This happened to me when I was the Coach for the Immaculate High School team. Our opponent buzzed, SCQ erroneously called on ICHS to answer and my girls understandably were confused&didn’t answer.They deducted 2pts.We lost. We protested orally&wrote a letter.They ignored us.— Angel Beswick-Reid Ÿ‡¯Ÿ‡² Ÿ–¤Ÿ’šŸ’› (@iamangelbr)

This happened to me when I was the Coach for the Immaculate High School team. Our opponent buzzed, SCQ erroneously called on ICHS to answer and my girls understandably were confused&didn’t answer.They deducted 2pts.We lost. We protested orally&wrote a letter.They ignored us.— Angel Beswick-Reid Ÿ‡¯Ÿ‡² Ÿ–¤Ÿ’šŸ’› (@iamangelbr) June 15, 2020

Ardenne would go on to win the match with 31 points to

Munro’s 29.

However, the St Elizabeth-based Munro College took

issue with the call.

Information technology specialist and Munro alumnus, Larren

Peart, posted the clip on Twitter and said the school had protested the

presenter’s call to award the question and the two points to Ardenne, but said

the show’s producer rejected it. Peart tagged Claire Grant, general manager of

Television Jamaica (TVJ), which produces SCQ, in his tweet.

Several persons replied to Peart’s tweet, agreeing

that the call was incorrect, to which he said about one, “it brings the entire

thing into questionâ€.

In 2016, Ardenne was involved in another dispute, this

time with Camperdown High School, over a scoring matter. In that instance,

Camperdown was declared the winner, beating Ardenne with a score of 34-32.

However, TVJ later said there was a scoring error during the buzzer section,

the match’s final round, when producers failed to add two points to Ardenne’s

total for a correctly answered question.

The judges said that the match should have ended in a

tie had it not been for the scoring error. A request for an injunction by Camperdown

was turned down. The school agreed to TVJ’s request for a rematch with Ardenne,

which it subsequently lost.