This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Plymouth.
Regional High School takes on the team from Salem High School.
Only one team will advance.
Granite State challenge starts now.
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It's time for New Hampshire high schools to match wits in a high stakes scholastic showdown.
It's time for granite State challenge.
Here's your host, Jon Cannon.
Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us on Granite State Challenge.
We're about midway through our 41st season of Granite State challenge.
Four teams have already punched their ticket to the next round.
We've got two teams this week hoping to do just that.
Let's introduce them to you.
First up, we have the team from Plymouth Regional High School.
They are led by senior Captain Dash and Dash.
You got your scuba certification this summer.
How did that come about?
Yeah, I just thought that it'd be fun to do over the summer.
Went and dove in Winnipesaukee.
All right.
How long did it take to get your license?
It took about six weeks.
Okay.
Any interesting things on any of your dives.
Well, on my last certification dive, we went and explored a shipwreck, and I got bitten by a fish.
Okay, well, that's interesting for sure.
All right.
He is joined by Junior Khalil.
And Khalil, you are a pilot.
I am.
Tell us about that.
Yeah.
So get.
I got my license from Laconia Municipal Airport down in Laconia, and I'm flying a Piper Warrior right now.
Single engine.
Nice.
That's fantastic.
That's a great achievement at such a young age.
That's awesome.
Khalil is joined by Senor Natalie, who has been doing ballet for a long time.
Tell us.
I have been doing ballet for 14 years.
Okay.
Up on point and everything.
Yes.
I've been doing pointe for four years.
And do you do this as a competition or just performances?
Just performing for the love of the dance and the love of the dance.
Awesome.
All right.
And Natalie is joined by sophomore Reagan and Reagan.
You do a lot of running sports.
Which sports?
Yeah, I do.
Cross-country Nordic indoor track and outdoor track.
Do you have a favorite?
Outdoor track.
Ok And what's your events?
I do the 1600 The 4x4, the four way and the high jump.
That's a lot of events and the high jump.
Excellent.
Well, the team alternates are Jason, Alex and Trevor, and the team is coached by Jay Fogarty and Troy Harris and they're the team from Plymouth Regional High School.
All right.
And their opponents this week is the team from Salem High School.
They're led by senior Captain Luke, who is drummer of sorts.
Tell us.
Yeah, I march the bass drum in our schools indoor percussion group.
Okay, so why the bass drum?
I got put on it when I joined three years ago, and I've just stuck with it and stuck with it.
You love it?
Yeah.
Okay, Awesome.
Luke is joined by Senior Grace, who's doing something I think is really awesome.
You are writing and directing your own one act play.
How did that come about?
Yes, it's true.
So I've been writing ever since I was a little kid and I talked to my theater director about, like, possibly doing something for our one acts.
And I wrote out the script and I sent to him and he liked it so much that he wanted to take it to this festival that the state hosts is where all like these schools from New Hampshire get together and they just do it for like the love of theater.
So I'm really excited and they're going to do it.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Good luck.
All right.
Grace is joined by Mohammed, who went on a recent trip to Dubai.
Well, three or four years.
Okay.
And what did you think of Dubai?
It was great.
It was just how you would think.
It is like although like if you go on TikTok or anything, you see people in Dubai.
That's exactly how like Like you would imagine it.
Okay.
So would you recommend it as a travel destination?
All right.
All right.
We'll see if we get there.
All right.
And Mohammed is joined by Senor Jess, who, like me, shares a love of what beverage?
Coffee.
Okay.
And so give me some tips, some coffee drinking tips.
Oh, honestly, just like any time I go to a coffee shop, like, try a bunch of local coffee shops.
There's a ton that I love in Portsmouth, I go with my brother all the time and just expand your horizons, just like try some.
I tried to it was, I think, like a charcoal mocha, which like doesn't sound super appetizing, but it was actually really good.
Well, I think that's good advice to try new things.
All right.
The team alternates are Lizzie, Sarah and Kelsey, and the team is coached by Bernie Campbell, and they are the team from Salem High School.
All right.
And of course, one more introduction.
You know her.
We all know her.
It is our judge Ann Boulanger.
All right, Teens introductions are out of the way.
Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.
We're going to play Granite State challenge.
And as you know, we play in four rounds in round one.
We do ten point toss up questions.
So Plymouth and Salem, good luck.
And here we go.
In 1903, Cuba leased land around this bay to the United States in perpetuity.
Dash of Plymouth, Guantanamo Bay.
That's it.
James Earl Jones made his film debut in the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove.
He also provided the voice of Darth Vader and this patriarchal character in The Lion King.
Dash of Plymouth.
Oh, no.
Mufasa.
Yes.
In June of 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
In what country is Waterloo located in today?
Grace of Salem, Russia.
Sorry.
No.
Plymouth Reagan, Belgium.
Belgium is right.
Actor Jean Wilder portrayed Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based on the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by this author.
Natalie of Plymouth.
Roald Dahl.
Yes.
Bob's best friend, Al is a mycologist.
What does Al study?
Dash of Plymouth cells.
Sorry.
No.
Salem.
Grace.
Mushrooms?
Yes.
In the 1943 case, West Virginia State Board of Education V Barnett, The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, ruled that students do not have to do this to the flag if it conflicted with their religious beliefs.
Khalil of Plymouth.
Say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Yes.
Pope Gregory, the 13th who was Pope from 1572 to 1585, is perhaps best known for this still used timekeeping system.
Luke of Salem, the Gregorian calendar that is it.
In 1953, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v John R Thompson Company that restaurants in Washington, D.C. could not refuse to do this.
Khalil of Plymouth exclude black people.
Yes, take that.
In 1941, the British Navy sunk this German battleship named for a former German chancellor in the North Atlantic, killing 2100 individuals.
Khalil of Plymouth.
The Hindenburg.
Sorry.
No.
Salem, it's the Bismarck.
On June 21st, 1788.
New Hampshire became the ninth state to do this.
Dash of Plymouth.
Ratify the Constitution.
That is it.
This short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in The New Yorker in 1948, is set in a small town as it prepares for a gruesome annual tradition to ensure a good harvest.
Grace of Salem.
The Lottery.
Yes.
These single celled organisms were among the first forms of life on earth, and there are probably millions of them in your body right now.
Most of them good and in your gut.
Some of them also help ferment cheese.
Luke of Salem bacteria.
That's it.
Singer songwriter.
Eunice Kathleen Raymond's first hit song was I Loves You Porgy.
She is also known for the song Strange Fruit about lynching.
She is better known by this name Luke of Salem.
Billie Holiday.
Sorry, no Plymouth.
It is Nina Simone, this right which protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment, takes its name from the Latin term for Show Me the Body.
Khalil of Plymouth.
Habeas corpus.
That is correct.
Thurgood Marshall was the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Who was the second.
Dash of Plymouth.
Thomas?
Yes.
Clarence Thomas.
This primate is found in mangrove forests in Borneo.
Its name comes from its large nose.
Khalil of Plymouth.
The big nosed ape.
Sorry, No.
Salem.
Jess Bonobo.
Sorry.
No, It is the proboscis monkey.
PROBOSCIS monkey.
All right.
Teams our next question.
Is our UNITIL power question is worth double the points.
20 point toss up question coming to you from your monitors.
Take a look.
This superhero has been called the Scarlet Speedster and has been five different people.
Athlete Gary Garrick, scientist Barry Allen, Barry's nephew, Wally West, Barry's grandson, Bart Allen, and Chinese American teenager Avery Ho.
Luke of Salem.
The Flash.
The Flash is right.
All right, teams.
On February 3rd, 2002, in Super Bowl 36, Adam Vinateri kicked a field goal in the last seconds of the game against the Rams, giving the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl win with a score of 20 to 17.
The NFL uses Roman numerals to identify Super Bowl games.
What is 36 in Roman numerals?
Khalil of Plymouth.
XXXVI.
That is correct.
In in that note, we'll save that question for later at the end of round one on fire.
Both teams but Plymouth in the lead by a score of 100 to 60 great start teams.
Let's keep it going in to round two, which is our three strikes and you're out round.
In this round, each member of the team gets a question worth ten points.
We'll give ten questions to each team as we go down the line and we'll give you ten points for each one.
A bonus of ten if you get them.
All right.
And as a reminder, there's no talking during this round.
All right.
And as a reminder, each team has three strikes and something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.
We'll start with Plymouth Dash.
After the Beatles broke up in 1970, this bassist for the band formed a band called Wings.
Paul McCartney Yes.
Khalil Most of the species in this family of birds live in the Antarctic and use their wings for swimming, not flying penguins.
Yes, Natalie, this penguin is a supervillain in Sorry, the penguin is a super villain in this city and that is protected by Batman.
Gotham That is right.
Reagan.
You will find the city of Batman in the Anatolia region of this country near the confluence of the Tigris and Batman rivers pass pass to Dash pass pass to Khalil.
Turkey.
Turkey is right, Natalie.
This founding father proposed that the turkey and not the bald eagle be the symbol of the United States.
FRANKLIN Ben Franklin is right.
Reagan Benjamin Franklin published and wrote for this almanac.
Pass.
Poor Richard's a third.
Dash.
Say it again.
Poor Richard's poor Richard's is right.
Khalil this almanac is published in Dublin, New Hampshire.
Farmer's Almanac.
Well, we'll take that.
We'll take the Farmer's Almanac, Natalie in a children's song, there was a farmer who had a dog in this was his name.
Old MacDonald.
The dog's name was Bingo.
Sorry, Reagan.
The name of this wild dog native to Australia rhymes with bingo Dingo.
Yes.
And Dash in this board game.
First released in 1963, players try to create a rodent catching device.
Mouse trap.
Yes.
All right.
And that ends your three strikes round.
A good round for Plymouth.
Well done.
All right, Salem, we're going to turn our attention to you.
Same drill.
Luke, we'll start with you.
Here's your question.
Comedian and actor Robin Williams voiced the genie in this 1992 animated film, Aladdin.
Yes, GRACE This artist's 1973 album, Aladdin Sane, followed his 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Elton John, Sorry, it's David Bowie.
Mohammed This novel by H.G.
Wells tells the tale of a martian invasion of Earth.
Pass pass All right it's 2 passes.
Luke?
The War of the Worlds.
War of the Worlds is right.
Grace Orson Welles is famous for a 1938 radio drama based on War of the Worlds.
He was also the director and star of this 1941 film about newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane.
Pass All right, That's your third pass, Mohamed.
Did you mean to say strike, don't I?
Can we make that a strike instead of a pass?
We can't, no.
Oh, then strike again.
Okay.
It is Citizen Kane.
I'm sorry, Jess.
The film Citizen Kane opens with a dying Charles Foster Kane mumbling this word.
I don't know.
It is Rosebud.
All right, Luke, the Rose Bowl parade happens on or close to.
Oh, that's three.
Okay, well, that is the end of your 60 second round.
All right, tough round.
But no big deal.
We're going to go into round three, so I would like to invite all of the alternates up to join their teams for our 60 second round.
In our 60 second round, both teams will get ten points in a category and you guys can talk as a team, you can confer as a team and Salem as the team trailing.
You get to choose first from our categories.
Today they are stone face, deadline and animal habitats.
Stone face, stone face.
Okay, The answers to all of the following will be individuals with names that reference a rock mineral gem element or metal.
Okay, so 60 seconds.
Look, I'll take your answer as a team answer.
You can talk to the team as a team.
Start the clock.
This fictional character lived in Bedrock and was married to Wilma.
Fred.
Fred Flintstone.
Yes.
You will find a statue of this fictional boxer in Philadelphia, Rocky.
Yes.
He sings the song Sweet Caroline.
Neil Diamond.
Yes.
He assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald.
Ruby Jack Ruby.
Yes.
She was the prime minister of Israel.
Golda Meir.
Yes.
He was the lead singer for the band Queen.
Freddie Mercury.
Yes.
He is a fictional pirate created by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Pass.
It is Long John Silver.
The 2009 movie Precious was based on this author's novel, Push.
Pass.
It was Sapphire.
Sometimes he is Tony Stark, Iron Man, Yes, folk and blues singer known for the songs Good Night Irene and Midnight Special.
Pass.
It is Lead Belly, and that is ten questions.
Seven out of ten on your 60 second round.
All right, Plymouth.
We turn our attention to you and dash.
You guys can choose from either deadline or animal habitats.
DEADLINE.
DEADLINE.
Okay.
The answers to the following will be related to the word dead dash.
I'll take your answer as the team answer 60 seconds.
Start the clock.
Jerry Garcia was the Grateful Dead.
Yes.
What a fan of the Grateful Dead is dead.
Dead Head.
Yes.
What you might call the end of the road.
Dead End.
Yes.
This is new Hampshire's motto, Live or Die.
Yes.
1988 movie starring Bruce Willis as John McClure.
John McClane, Die Hard.
Die Hard.
Yes.
Salt Lake in the Middle East.
Oh, Dead Sea.
Yes.
This series about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
Walking Dead.
Yes.
This 1989 movie starred Robin Williams as English teacher.
Dead Poets Society.
Yes.
This location in the Mojave Desert in California's Death Valley.
Yes.
Ryan Reynolds plays this teacher.
Deadpool.
Yes, that is correct.
All correct.
Ten out of ten.
Well done, Plymouth.
All right.
Thank you so much, Alternates.
You guys can take your seats as we roll on into round four.
So in round four, we are going to continue with our toss up questions, but we're going to double the point value to 20 points, but we will be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.
So a lot can change in round 4.
Plymouth and Salem.
Here we go.
Good luck.
In 1977, the band Heart, featuring Sisters, Nancy and Ann Wilson had a huge hit with this song named after a ferocious saltwater fish.
Grace of Salem.
Barracuda.
Yes, this English author and mathematician created a rabbit who was habitually late, a hookah smoking caterpillar and a queen with a propensity for calling for heads to be chopped off.
Khalil of Plymouth.
Lewis Carroll Yes.
In 1954, British runner Roger Bannister became the first person to do this in under 4 minutes.
Khalil of Plymouth run a mile?
Yes.
Founded in 1978, Badlands National Park features stunning layered rock formations and is home to prairie dogs, bison and bighorn sheep.
In what state will you find?
Badlands National Park, Dash of Plymouth, South Dakota.
That is Wright's toot and common or King Tut is often is also sometimes referred to as the boy King, as he was only eight or nine years old when he became Pharaoh Spell Pharaoh Khalil of Plymouth.
P-H-A-R-A-O-H. You got them all well done.
Dodge City, the site for the Western TV series Gunsmoke was once the home of lawman Wyatt Earp and had the reputation of being a Wild West town.
In what state is Dodge City located?
Luke of Salem, Nevada.
Sorry, no, that's a good guess.
It was Kansas.
All right, teams, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.
Before he was appointed, the first US secretary of war in 1789 by George Washington, this man was chief artillery officer in the Continental Army.
And before that, a bookseller in Boston and that man is Henry Knox teams.
This could be something you wear to stay warm or a slang word for eating very fast.
Muhammad of Salem scarf.
That's it.
Who was the first sitting US president to visit North Korea?
Khalil of Plymouth.
Donald J Trump is the one.
In 1938, Thornton Wilder's Play Our Town, premiered in Princeton, New Jersey.
The play was set in this fictional New Hampshire town.
Luke of Salem.
Peyton Place.
Sorry, no.
Also a good guess.
Grover's Corner is what we were looking for.
The fictional guide, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, published by Mega.
Dodo Publications, a publishing company on Ursa minor Beta has these two words printed on its plastic cover.
Don't panic.
The first manned mission that landed men on the moon was the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
The last manned mission that put men on the moon was Apollo 17 in 1972.
How many manned missions have put men on the moon?
Khalil of Plymouth.
Seven.
Sorry, no.
Luke of Salem four.
Sorry.
No, it was six.
Apollo 13 was aborted.
Never landed on the moon.
Audiences went ape over this movie released in 1933, starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot.
Luke of Salem.
Planet of the Apes.
Sorry.
No.
Plymouth.
A little bit before that was King Kong.
All right, guys, there is a civics question coming to you from your monitors.
Take a look.
Chris Sununu became governor of New Hampshire in 2017.
His father served as governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989. Who was Chirs Sununu's his father, Dash of Plymouth.
John Sununu.
John Sununu is right.
And a special thanks to New Hampshire's kid governor, for that question.
This novel by Roald Dahl, about a young member of the Wormwood Family, was made into a film in 1996 and a musical that premiered in London in 2011.
And on Broadway in 2013.
Reagan of Plymouth.
Matilda.
That's it.
Painter Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms.
Paintings.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom from want, Freedom of religion and Freedom from Fear are based on the Four Freedoms speech by this American President.
Dash of Plymouth.
FDR.
FDR, Yes.
In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Backlund Backlund announced the creation of Bakelite, the first synthetic form of this.
And this is what I learned.
First, synthetic form of plastic.
This English singer songwriter has had hits with the songs Shape of You and thinking Out Loud.
Luke of Salem.
Ed Sheeran.
Yes.
In 1917, the US paid this country $25 million for the US Virgin Islands.
Khalil of Plymouth, the Netherlands.
Sorry, No.
Luke of Salem.
Sorry.
It was Denmark.
Denmark.
This could be the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet.
An airline or a triangular shaped landform created by river sediment deposits.
Khalil of Plymouth Delta.
Yes.
This branch of the US Armed Forces was formed in 1915 when the US revenue cutter service and the US.
Life-Saving service merged dash of Plymouth Coast Guard.
Yes.
This poet's work, Thomas and Bula won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987.
She was the first black Poet laureate of the Library of Congress, where she served from 1993 to 1995.
And to top it all off, she and her husband are also avid ballroom dancers.
Her name is Rita Dove.
All right, teams, take another look at those monitors in front of you.
You are looking at a red ruffed lemur, one of 100 extant species of lemur endemic to this island nation.
Luke of Salem, Madagascar.
That is right.
In 1801, John Marshall was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Who is the current chief justice?
Dash of Plymouth.
Roberts John Roberts is right.
In 1949, General Omar Bradley became the first person to fill this role, which is currently held by General Mark Milley.
He was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
All right, teams, a math question for you.
Have pencil and paper.
What is the square root of 81 multiplied by the square root of 36?
Khalil of Plymouth.
36.
Sorry, Salem.
Jess, 54.
That's the right answer.
You will find an eclectic collection of people, including Karl Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Oscar Wilde and Sonny Liston on the cover of this 1967 Beatles album.
Natalie of Plymouth, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
One of my favorites.
Yes.
In 1870, Hiram Revels became the first black member of either.
Chamber of US Congress.
He was elected by this state's legislature to fill the seat held by Albert Brown, who had vacated the seat when the state seceded from the union in 1861, it was Mississippi, and by a score of 580 to 150, a high scoring match, Plymouth is moving on to the next round.
Congratulations, Plymouth, on a great win.
Salem, thanks so much for coming.
Congratulations on your wild card win and thank you so much for being here.
We had fun.
We hope you had fun being here as well.
And we hope you had fun at home.
We hope you join us next week when the team from Bow High School takes on the team from Mascoma Valley Regional High School.
And that's going to do it for us this week.
As I like to say, I learned something and I hope you did, too.
Thanks so much for joining us.
We'll see you next time.
Major funding for the production of Granite State challenge is provided by UNITIL.
Additional funding provided by NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, The New Hampshire Lottery.
D.F.
Richard Energy, Cognia, HRCU and viewers like you.
Thank you.