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What we don't have

An archive that hides its holes is a website with confidence. Everything below is missing, incomplete or contradictory, and stays on this page until it isn't.

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The open list

9 items. Each one comes off this page when it is filled, and not before.

Contestant names, every edition

The 2026 championship put roughly 117 students behind buzzers across 13 recorded contests. Published sources name 1. Pulse Ghana ran an article headlined "Meet the contestants" that names nobody. MyJoyOnline's "profiles of the three grand finalists" profiles the three schools. Nobody failed to look this up. It was never written down.

Disputed

Everything before 2026

We hold champions for 1994 to 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.

Disputed

Regional and zonal rounds

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

Disputed

Round-by-round for the quarter-finals

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

Partial

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

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 carry rights questions we have not worked through.

Partial

Video

Not one of the 13 contests links to its broadcast. Official video gets embedded or linked, never rehosted, but the URLs still have to be found and matched to contests.

Partial

Officials

Three adults are named in the 2026 record we hold: Nana Yaw Adu, plus Mr. Franklin Odum and Mr. James Williams Akapunlinba as school coordinators. There were dozens.

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Evidence for the first one

Two articles that promise contestants and deliver schools.

  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.