They were dropped at the University of Ghana by an unknown person.

The found purse contained her drivers’ license and ATM cards, however, the money was taken.

Dr. Kaufmann’s sister, Belinda Yaa Dankwaa Effah in a Facebook post on Saturday said: “Update from NSMQ Mistress’ stolen bag: Wallet /purse inside the bag has been dropped at the University of Ghana.” 

She added that, “Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann thanks whoever came to drop off the purse. She says she needs to have a perfect score so the bag also has to be dropped. The purse has her IDs, driver’s license and ATM cards. The cash is gone.”

She had earlier posted the Quiz mistress’ appeal for the bag to be returned.

After a successful final between Prempeh College, Adisadel College and St. Thomas Aquinas at the National Theatre on Thursday, it emerged that the Quiz Mistress, Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann’s handbag had been stolen.

Efforts to immediately trace the thief proved futile, forcing organizers to make public appeals for assistance to retrieve the bag which was said to have contained her ATM cards, her purse, some amount of money, reading glasses, among other valuables.

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After a keen contest of 5 grueling rounds that saw each school performing creditably, the ‘Zebra boys’ ensured their qualification for the grande finale of the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz for the third consecutive time.

But for the timely answer to the last riddle of the final round of the contest by Ghana National College, University Practice School would have succeeded in crushing the dream of Adisadel College to take another shot at winning the ultimate prize.

At the end of the contest, Adisadel College scored 36 points against University Practice’s 35 and Ghana National College’s 27.

Adisadel College, who won the contest last year are looking to retain the title and the accompanying bragging rights.

In 2015, they contested in the grande finale against Prempeh College and University Practice but placed second by just 3 points behind Prempeh College.

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They beat Saint John’s Grammar School and Accra Academy which was considered a favourite in the contest.

Having suffered an early blow from Accra Academy in the early round of the contest, PRESEC staged an impressive comeback in the 4^th and 5^th rounds to end the contest with 45 points against Accra Academy’s 26 points.

Saint John’s Grammar School ended the contest with 31 points.

The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.

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The contest was decided by a tie-breaker question after an impressive comeback by contestants of St. Peter’s School in the final round of the competition.

Before the start of the contest, the R.S Amegashie Auditorium was charged with supporters of the competing schools cheering their respective contestants on to victory.

Mfantsipim School was looking for revenge against St. Peter’s School, having lost to them on two previous occasions in 2000 and 2007.

St. Peter’s School, on the other hand, was yearning for a win to crown their 60^th anniversary celebration whilst underdogs, Kwahu Ridge SHTS was looking forward to making NSMQ history, as first-timers in the National Science & Maths Quiz.

The first round ended with Mfantsipim School and St. Peter’s SHS scoring 12 points each whilst Kwahu Ridge SHTS managed to pull two points.

Mfantsipim School’s contestants, Isaac Kwaku Asare and Darryl Thompson, were more composed in the second round doubling their score to 24 whilst St. Peter’s School ended the round with nine points, with Kwahu Ridge SHTS scoring seven points.

The two former champions had no difficulty with the “Problem of Day” as they both had a perfect score of ten points, with Kwahu Ridge making six points.Round Three ended with Mfantsipim School leading with 34 points, while St. Peter’s School and Kwahu Ridge SHTS scored 19 and 13 respectively.

In the fourth round, St. Peter’s School correctly answered all their questions, bridging the gap with leaders, Mfantsipim, from fifteen to twelve points.

In the final round of the contest, the contestants of St. Peter’s School, Richard Owusu and John-Edwin Gadasu, gave their all in a remarkable fashion to equalise with Mfantsipim.

Gadasu picked and correctly answered all the four riddles in the final round to gain twelve points.

Thus, at the end of the fifth round, St. Peter’s School and Mfantsipim School were tied at 47 points while Kwahu Ridge SHTS had 20 points.

It was all joy for Mfantsipim School as they beat their closest contender in the tie-breaker to keep alive their hope of winning their third trophy.

They will face Aggrey Memorial SHS and Anlo SHS at the quarter finals on Friday, June 23, 2017.

The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.

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Prempeh recorded 49 points in its round of 16 contest, and will now face Aduman SHS and Ghana Secondary Technical School (G.S.T.S).

Aduman SHS and Ghana Secondary Technical School also triumphed in their Thursday round-of-16 contests recording 35 and 48 points respectively.

27 schools in all are expected to qualify for the quarter-finals stage.

The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.

Contest scores

Aduman SHS: 35
ST. Monica’s SHS: 33
Presby SHTS, Aburi: 29

Prempeh College: 49
ST. Louis SHS: 29
Toase SHS: 22

G.S.T.S: 48
Wesley Grammar Sch: 36
Tepa SHS: 28

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The prelims which will take place from Monday, June 5 to Saturday, June 10, 2017, will simultaneously take place at the R.S Amegashie Auditorium and the New N Block at the University of Ghana, Legon.

108 Senior High Schools will compete in 36 contests to pick up a slot at the next stage of the competition.

In each of the 36 contests, three schools will compete in keeping their hopes of winning the competition alive.

Winners of the 36 preliminary contests will join the 27 seeded schools from the 2016 edition of the competition at the one-eighth stage. Also to progress to the one-eighth stage will be 18 losing schools with the highest scores from the prelims.

The Quiz mistresses for the prelims are Dr. Angela Lamptey of the Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences and Mrs. Gladys Schwinger of the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology; all of the University of Ghana, Legon.

The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.

Below are the 36 contests for the preliminaries of the 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz. Contests 1-18 would take place at the R.S. Amegashie Auditorium while 19-36 would be at the New N Block.

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