Moray 50 years ago this week
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This week 50 years ago a team of four brainy teenagers from Moray hit the headlines when they won an international quiz held in Hong Kong.
Top of the Form was one of the BBC's longest-running programmes.
It was broadcast on the radio from May 1948 to September 1986, and shown on TV between 1962 and 1975.
Here's the article from The Northern Scot on September 8, 1973.
ELGIN ACADEMY, winners of the British schools television quiz championship "Top of the Form", added another chapter to the school's illustrious academic record on Wednesday night when they won the Transworld Top Team" title.
The Academy took the accolade when they won a series of quizzes in Hong Kong between three teams representing the United Kingdom and three from Australia.
At the end of the series Elgin finished level on points with Derby, but took the World Book Encyclopedia Trophy by virtue of a better percentage of correct answers over the series.
The Elgin quartet – Wilma Grant, Lynn Scott, Kenneth Lindsay and David Knight – were in rare fettle in their final encounter and romped home comfortable winners over the Australian A team.
Their success has brought in messages of congratulation from all over the country and was watched with particular interest by their schoolmates, staff and practically the whole of Elgin.
Team members were presented with individual replicas of the trophy and with inscribed pens. And they brought back with them and presented to the school book on Hong Kong.
"I am naturally delighted with their success," said Mr A J. Glashan, rector. "They did a really great job."
Mr Glashan said he had been greatly impressed at the manner in which the B.B.C. who ran the competition had looked after the Elgin party in the Far East.
There was praise, too, from Lord Provost Donald McIntosh. "Everyone in Elgin must be very proud of the team. They have done the school and the town a lot of good.
"It nice to know we have youngsters like these in our midst."
All four have left academy and are about begin university careers.
