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The gap ledger

What we don't have

An archive that hides its holes is just a confident-looking website. Everything below is missing, incomplete or contradictory, and will stay listed here until it isn't.

Contestant names, every edition

Across the 13 contests of 2026 — 39 team appearances, roughly 117 students — published sources name 1. Pulse Ghana ran an article headlined "Meet the contestants" that names none. MyJoyOnline's "profiles of the three grand finalists" profiles the three schools. This is not an archive that failed to look; it is a record that was never made.

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Every edition before 2026

We hold champions for 1994–2025 and nothing else — no runners-up, no scores, no dates, no venues, no contestants. The official past-winners page carries the same single field, and for 2010 and 2011 not even a year label.

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Regional and zonal rounds

The official site covers regionals for 2019–2025 only. Roughly 25 years of regional and zonal history is absent everywhere we have looked. 107 of the 174 schools in 2026 arrived through regional qualifiers that have no public record here.

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Round-by-round for the quarter-finals

All nine 2026 quarter-finals are held as final totals only. The contests were broadcast; the round progression exists on video and in nobody's database.

Partial record

Round 4 of the second semi-final

PRESEC 44, St. John's 25, Tamale SHS 16. Rounds one, two, three and the final total are recorded. Round four is not, in any source located so far.

Partial record

The PRESEC quarter-final score

Pulse Ghana's live tracker records PRESEC winning on 23. NSMQ's own quarter-final review names 56 as the highest winning score of the round, PRESEC's. Unresolved, and shown as disputed rather than quietly picked.

Disputed

School metadata

No crests, colours, regions, founding dates or first-appearance years for any of the 31 schools here. Crests in particular carry rights questions we have not worked through.

Partial record

Video

Not one contest on this site links to its broadcast. Official video will be embedded or linked, never rehosted — but the URLs still have to be found and matched to contests.

Partial record

Quiz mistresses, coordinators and officials

Three adults are named in the 2026 record we hold: Nana Yaw Adu. There were dozens.

Partial record
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The evidence for the first one

  1. Meet the contestants: PRESEC, AUGUSCO and Accra Academy battle for 2026 NSMQ crown
    Pulse Ghana · press · retrieved 2026-09-11
    Headlined "Meet the contestants". Names no contestants. Retained as evidence of the gap, not as a source of names.
  2. NSMQ 2026: Inside the profiles of this year's three grand finalists chasing glory
    MyJoyOnline · press · retrieved 2026-09-11
    Profiles the three schools. Names no students.