The HPISD portion is served by McCulloch Middle School and Highland Park Middle School, which share a campus located partially in Highland Park and partially in University Park, and Highland Park High School in nearby University Park, which was ranked as the 15th best high school in the United States by the Jay Mathews Challenge Index used by Newsweek in 2008.

Richard M. Smith became Chairman in 1998, the year that the magazine inaugurated its " Best High Schools in America " list, a ranking of public secondary schools based on the Challenge Index, which measures the ratio of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exams taken by students to the number of graduating students that year, regardless of the scores earned by students or the difficulty in graduating.

It has been ranked by the 2006 Washington Post " Challenge Index " with an index of 1. 494.

Newsweek has listed Suncoast in its annual " Best High Schools in America " list, which ranks public high schools according to their score in the " Challenge Index " developed by Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews.

Miramonte High School ranks 89th of all high schools in the nation as of Autumn 2009, according to Newsweek < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Challenge Index.

* Miramonte is listed as the 89th best high school in the United States, but NOT on the Newsweek Challenge Index as stated earlier in this article.

* 1952: 3rd overall out of 57 starters, behind two factory-entered Mercedes-Benz W194 300SLs ; first in class, ahead of triple Le Mans winner Luigi Chinetti ’ s Ferrari ; second in Index of Performance ; winner, Gold Challenge Cup.

The Washington Post publishes a Challenge Index based on statistical analysis of academic rigor and achievement among high schools in the Washington DC metropolitan area ( covering school districts in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and the District of Columbia ).

In the December 2006 Challenge Index, Springbrook ranked 7 out of 23 high schools in Montgomery County, and 26 among 185 high schools in the metro area ; and placed well ahead of its traditional peer schools ( and athletic rivals ), Blair ( a science magnet school, ranked 33 in the metro area ), Paint Branch ( 62 ), and Blake ( 94 ).

Maine East has also been ranked in the top 1500 of America's public schools ( based on the Challenge Index ), as reported by Newsweek.

Public schools are ranked according to a ratio called the Challenge Index.

Classen is known as one of the state's premier high schools in academics, and has been ranked among the top 100 public high schools in America by the Challenge Index, as measured by the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and / or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2007 divided by the number of graduating seniors.

Clements was also number 373 on the National Best High Schools List by Challenge Index.

H-B Woodlawn was rated 1st in the 2005 Challenge Index in the area.

Public schools are ranked according to a ratio called the Challenge Index.

Annandale High School was ranked # 122, with a score of 1. 391, in The Washington Post's 2010 Challenge Index, an annual ranking of public high schools in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

In 2008 Annandale placed # 105 ( out of 166 ) in the Challenge Index, with a score of 1. 542, and in 2007 it was ranked # 107 ( out of 190 ), with a score of 1. 425.

In 2011, Washington High was ranked by Newsweek's Jay Mathews Challenge Index as the 497th best high school in the United States.

According to Newsweek's 2010 " Complete List of 1, 600 Top High Schools " ( which uses the Challenge Index to rank schools ), Hinsdale South ranked # 495, making it the 10th best high school in Illinois.

The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of sports games which were based around fast, action-packed gameplay and exaggerated realism, a formula which Midway would also later apply to the sports of football ( NFL Blitz ), and hockey ( 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge ).

There are also various formula categories that utilize one-make racing, such as Formula Renault and the Formula Car Challenge.

On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

His French-language book Le défi des langues — Du gâchis au bon sens ( The Language Challenge: From Chaos to Common Sense, 1994 ) is a kind of psychoanalysis of international communication.

Enniskillen Airport is the host venue for Heli Challenge: The Premier Helicopter Championship

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world.

An annual race called Challenge Fuerteventura is held there on the half ironman distance.

Since 1996 the Lake Ladoga Challenge is an annual competition for 4x4 vehicles and ATVs that travels through over 1200 kilometers of the mud, swamp and bog that surround Lake Ladoga.

* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.

McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup ( Can-Am ).

This game is commonly played in practice with only one heap ( for instance with k = 3 in the game Thai 21 on Survivor: Thailand, where it appeared as an Immunity Challenge ).

Points are awarded both in class competition and in Challenge competition, and an annual champion is crowned each September at the Pro Finale event in Lincoln, Nebraska.

*" Who is a Refugee and who is not – the Crisis of Identity as a Challenge to Protection " Online video of an address by Ms. Erika Feller, Director, Department of International Protection, UNHCR, in 2005

The MS Challenge Walk is an example of a fifty mile walk which raises money to fight multiple sclerosis.

With Havant & Waterlooville twice leading Liverpool, the match was promoted by the English FA as a fine example of what the FA Challenge Cup is all about.

* April 24 – The first ever Challenge Cup final is played at Headingley.

* Race2Space. org-Advancing the Privatization of Space Travel 2006, Race2Space, in partnership with the X Prize foundation, is seeking sponsorship in order to support the privatization of space travel, research, and exploration for the upcoming Lunar Landing Challenge Contestants October 2006.

The Challenge Cup was carried out until the year 1911 and is today seen as the predecessor to the Mitropa Cup and consequently the European Cup and Champions League.

Quiz bowl is also known by various other names, such as Academic Bowl, Academic Challenge, Academic League, Academic Team, Battle of the Brains, Brain Bowl, BrainBusters, Brain Game, College Bowl, Brain Brawl, Brain Busters, It's Academic, Knowledge Bowl, Scholar Quiz Bowl, Scholastic Bowl, Scholar's Bowl, Whiz Quiz, and Nerd-Squad.

* The National Tournament of Academic Excellence ( formerly known as the Panasonic Academic Challenge ) was held since 1988, and is sponsored by the school boards of the local counties and the State of Florida.

University Challenge is licensed from CBCI by Granada TV Ltd. and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

There is a mode called Challenge mode, which is a collection of smaller levels, usually involving only one or two corners or objects to dodge.

Since the demise of Group C ( where Japan and Germany both had successful series of their own ) Japan has largely gone its own way in sports car racing ; the Super GT series is for very highly modified production-based cars ; although prototypes are slowly returning to Japanese racing in the Japan Le Mans Challenge many of these ' prototypes ' are little more than rebodied Formula 3 cars ( although there has been a long Japanese tradition of such hybrids ; a Grand Champion series ran for many years with rebodied Formula 2 and Formula 3000 cars, rather similar to the second incarnation of Can-Am ).