Tokyo Cement All Island Schools Quiz is back, with 5.2 million rupees up for grabs!
This year too, this mind boggling edutainment experience will be telecast island wide on Sundays, at 5.30 pm on Swarnavahini. Don’t miss the excitement of watching Sri Lanka’s best young minds go head-to-head in a quest to become national quiz- stars and win one million rupees for their alma mater.
Sri Lanka’s biggest quiz competition specially designed for school children, theTokyo Cement All Island Schools Quiz,has returned for a second year with its fabulous one million rupee grand prize, cash rewards and gifts. Costing a stupendous Rs 5.2 million in prizes and organisation costs, this mega educational competition is conducted across the island, facilitating all schools and school going children with the opportunity to showcase their knowledge on a competitive and enjoyable platform. This massive effort at encouraging Sri Lankan youth to search for knowledge is endorsed by the national educational authority, the Ministry of Education.
“The Tokyo Cement All Island Schools Quiz was designed with the objective of enhancing General Knowledge of School Children and encouraging them to participate in a competitive environment , Creating good values , grooming them to be well rounded citizens and future leaders.” said Mr. Billy Walpola, the Director of Marketing, Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC.
With the success of the competition last year, this year, more schools have stepped up to the challenge from the 25 districts of the country.Last year’s participants too, have returned to attempt for the million rupee grand prize. As a result, over the past few weeks a total of 542schools, compared to 512 schools last year, participated in the quiz programme. These heated battles saw the emergence of 32 teams of district level quiz champions. Over the next 8 weeks these 32 district level winnerswill face off against each other in the first round of a marathon quiz session that will be telecasted island wide, on Swarnavahini, every Sunday, from November 16, 2014 onwards.