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Hugely popular general knowledge schools quiz show presented by Ray D’Arcy, stripped across the RTE2 schedule in prime time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The series ran for seven years, each series consisting of 99 programmes. Each episode had two teams of three students from secondary schools around Ireland competing against each other, leading up to a grand final in the last episode of each series. The first episode was broadcast in 1991 with the final series wrapping in the summer of 1998.