This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Oyster River High School takes on the team from Winnacunnet 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 for this.
Our 41st season of Granite State challenge.
We're getting towards the end of our first round.
Six teams have already punched their ticket to round two.
We've got two teams here this week hoping to do the same thing.
Let's introduce them to you.
First up, we have the team from Oyster River High School.
They are led by senior Captain Lincoln, who has lived on how many continents?
Three.
Three continents.
Okay.
Which continents?
Asia, Europe and North America.
Okay.
Do you have a specific place that you lived that you loved the most?
I love it here the most.
Honestly.
Okay.
What is it about here that you love the most?
It's just very pretty.
There's a lot to do, I think.
Little bit of everything, huh?
All right.
Lincoln is joined by Junior Aaron and Aaron.
You share a birthday with which holiday?
Yeah, my birthday is on Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day.
So my Aunt Sally's birthday is on Valentine's Day as well.
Yeah, I get a lot of comments about people of the same birthday.
I bet you do.
With a birthday like that.
Do people always give you Valentine's themed things on a birthday?
Not really, But definitely a lot of comments about a lot of comments about love or whatever.
Well, that's all right.
You'll have it for the rest of your life.
All right.
Aaron is joined by sophomore Annika who's a fan of what genre of movies?
I like horror movies a lot.
Okay.
So what is it about horror movies that you like so much?
Well, I like watching the bad acting.
You like it because it's funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I guess that's a good reason to watch horror movies.
All right.
And Annika is joined by James, a junior whose favorite subject in school is.
I like math.
You like math?
And what is it about math you like?
Just like how straightforward is not like, open ended answers gives you the right answer.
Right?
Are you planning on going into a field that uses math?
Definitely.
Definitely.
Awesome.
All right.
The team alternate.
Is Everett a freshman, and the team is coached by John Monahan, and they're the team from Oyster River High School.
All right.
Waiting to take them on is the team from Winnacunnet high school.
They are led by senior captain Vivian, who is a fan of birds.
Tell us about that.
When I was younger, my great aunt visited from Nevada and she took me birdwatching.
And I've always loved birds since we took our whole drive down to Plum Island to see piping clovers.
And it was pretty cool.
Nice.
So you're a bird watcher.
You go watch the birds sometimes.
Yeah, Well, that's fantastic.
You do that for the rest of your life.
All right.
Vivian is joined by Junior Anthony, who's a three season athlete.
What sports you play and do you have a favorite?
I play soccer, swimming and lacrosse.
And lacrosse would have to be my favorite lacrosse.
So the season's about to start.
You got big hopes for the season?
Yes, I do.
It's going to be lots of shoes to fill.
So a lot of shoes to fill.
But, you know, up and coming, take those shoes over maybe do maybe outperform expectations, huh?
Yes, One can help.
All right.
Anthony is joined by Adam, also a junior who plays I says here a lot of instruments.
Which instruments?
Well, it's it's a lot.
I started off with piano, with an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, marching tenors, marching, snare, marching bass, drum, marimba, glockenspiel, xylophone, all things like that French horn and vocals and the baritone range and tenor range.
All right.
So I'm hoping that you plan on having some sort of career or a future in music.
Is that true?
Yes, I do.
I'm trying to see if I can go to college for music composition.
Oh, awesome.
I love it.
Well, good luck with that.
Adam is joined by Emma, a sophomore who practiced for Granite State challenge.
With who?
My grandmother.
With your grandmother.
And how did that come about?
Well, we've always liked doing trivia together.
When I go over to our house to watch Jeopardy!
So she suggests it.
I thought it was a good idea in how to go pretty well.
All right.
Well, I hope that it goes really well for you guys.
We shall see.
The team alternates are senior Sydney and junior Chloe, and the team is coached by Kevin Fleming and they're the team from Winnacunnet High School.
All right, teams, nice to meet you.
But we have one more introduction, and that is, of course, our judge.
Back with us again is Ann Boulanger.
All right, teams, introductions are out of the way.
Go ahead and grab those signaling devices because it is time to play Granite.
State challenge.
As you know, we play in four rounds and in round one we do ten point toss up question So Oyster River and Winnacunnet.
Good luck.
Here we go.
In 1944, Iceland declared independence from this country.
Emma Winnacunnet.
Denmark, yes.
These two sisters who got their start playing Michelle on the family sitcom.
Full House, launched a luxury fashion label, The Row, in 2006, Aaron of Oyster River, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
That is right.
The REM stage of sleep usually starts about 90 minutes into a sleep cycle.
What does REM or R.E.M.
stand for?
Lincoln, of Oyster River.
Rapid Eye movement.
Yes.
In this 1967 ruling, the US Supreme Court ruled that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
Lincoln of Oyster River Loving v Virginia.
Yes.
Lyricist Tim Rice, known for his work on Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, worked with Elton John on the songs for this 1994 Disney movie, Lincoln Again, The Lion King.
That's right.
This basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest of all time, tragically died along with his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash in 2020 Lincoln of Oyster River.
Kobe Bryant.
Yes.
Teams.
Where will you find the pesky pole named for Johnny Pesky?
Aaron of Oyster River.
Fenway Park.
That's right.
On July 28th, 1870, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill designating this as a legal unpaid holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia.
Aaron, of Oyster River, Labor Day.
Sorry.
No.
Winnacunnet.
Vivian Memorial Day.
Sorry, it's Christmas Day.
Christmas Day in 1876, this Scottish born inventor submitted a patent for the telephone Annika of Oyster River Alexander Graham Bell.
That's it.
All right, teams, your next question is a picture question to go ahead and take a look at your monitors.
In a speech to Congress in 1918, this president laid out his 14 points for peace, including freedom of the seas and free trade and self-determination following World War One Aaron, of Oyster River.
Woodrow Wilson.
That's right.
You decide to call your grandmother in California at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
What time will she have to answer the phone in her Los Angeles bungalow?
Aaron, of Oyster River.
7 a.m.. That's right.
According to grammarist dot com, one of the trickiest words to spell in the English language is nauseous.
Spell nauseous.
Emma of Winnacunnet.
N.A.U.S.E.O.S?
Sorry.
No.
Oyster River Lincoln N.A.U.T.I.O.U.S.
sorry.
Nope.
It is N.A.U.S.E.O.U.S.
it's is that U at the end.
Grammarist.com is right.
You might have heard that the three smallest bones in the human body are the Malleus, the Incas and the stapes.
Where are they found?
Annika of Oyster River.
Say it again.
In the ear, in the ears.
Right.
This man was the first president of the Palestine National Authority, where he served from 1994 to 2004 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon.
Peres in 1994.
His name was Yasser Arafat.
Movie star Marilyn Monroe married this baseball player known as Joltin Joe and the Yankee Clipper in 1954 at the San Francisco City Hall.
Adam of Winnacunnet.
Joe DiMaggio.
Yes.
All right, teams, it's time for our Unitil Power question.
This question is worth double points.
So a 20 point toss up question coming to you at your monitors.
Take a look.
Billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreaves created this institution to raise seven of his 43 children with superpowers.
Anthony of Winnacunnet.
The Umbrella Academy.
That's right.
Once found throughout Southeast Asia, these great apes spend most of their time in trees and are now only found in parts of Borneo and Sumatra.
Anthony of Winnacunnet.
Orangutans correct.
A 1969 classic.
We will wait until the last round to get back to that question.
And we're out to a bit of a start here.
Oyster River with a little lead, 100 to 50.
All right, teams, nice job in round one.
We're going to go right into round two, which is our three strikes and you're out round.
Here's how it works.
Each team gets ten questions.
We go right down the line, each player getting one question and we go until you answer all ten or you get three strikes and your team is out.
We'll give you ten points for each correct response, a bonus of ten if you get them.
All right.
And just as a reminder, each team has three passes.
So if you don't know the answer, you can pass to one of your teammates.
And as another reminder, something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.
So.
Oyster River Lincoln, this is your question.
This mountain pass with a colorful name in northern New Hampshire was caused by erosion by the laurentide ice sheets.
I don't know.
It is.
PINKHAM Notch.
Aaron.
The 2002 movie Ice Age tells the story of three friends.
Diego a saber toothed cat, Sid a ground sloth.
And Manny, who is this large and extinct animal, A mammoth, yes, correct.
Annika, The last one of this large, flightless bird once found on the island of Mauritius, was killed in 1681.
The dodo.
That is right, James.
This flightless bird is found in New Zealand and shares its name with a fruit.
The Kiwi.
Correct.
Lincoln The films in this trilogy, based on the works of J.R.R.
Tolkien, were filmed in New Zealand.
I, The Lord of the Rings.
Right.
Aaron The Hunger Games trilogy were written by this novelist.
Pass.
Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins is right.
James Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is bisected by this river, made famous in a waltz by Johann Strauss the second the Danube.
That is right, Lincoln The Blue Danube Waltz is used in this 1968 film by Stanley Kubrick about an astronaut and a murderous computer named Hal.
Uh, Interstellar?
Sorry, it's 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Aaron, this epic in the epic poem The Odyssey, was written by this Greek poet.
Pass.
All right, that is your second pass.
Anikka, your question?
Um, Homer.
Homer is right.
And James.
Homer is one of the lead characters in this animated series, The Simpsons.
The Simpsons.
That is correct.
And that ends your three strikes and you're out round.
All right, Oyster River.
Nice work on that.
Winnacunnet, we come to you and Vivian, we're going to start with you.
Same drill, Vivian Exeter, New Hampshire native Daniel Chester French is perhaps most famous for his large sculpture of this seated president, Abraham Lincoln.
Correct.
Anthony Michelangelo's most famous statue.
Is this work depicting a biblical figure who took on a giant.
Pass.
Pass.
Adam David David is right.
Emma, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael are all artists, but they are.
They are also members of this crime fighting group of reptiles.
Pass.
Ok it's a pass to Vivienne.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
That is right.
Anthony Leonardo DiCaprio was the king of the world in this 1997 film directed by James Cameron.
Pass passed.
And Adam, that's your last pass.
The Titanic.
Titanic is right.
Emma This 2009 movie by James Cameron is set in Pandora in the 22nd century.
Avatar Yes.
Vivien in Greek mythology, Pandora did this and released all the evils of humanity.
Opened the box.
She opened the box.
Yes.
Anthony This is the largest Greek island and is where the Minotaur was slain by Theseus in Greek mythology.
Crete.
Crete?
Yes, Adam, This is what you call a dictionary of synonyms.
Thesaurus?
Yes.
Emma, This man, whose name is synonymous with dictionaries, published his first dictionary.
A compendium dictionary of the English language in 1806.
Oxford.
Sorry.
It is Noah Webster, Vivien Merriam Webster's 2022 Word of the year was this word that means manipulating someone until they begin to question their own reality.
Gaslight?
That is right.
And that ends your three strikes and you're out rounds.
All right.
Great job on those rounds teams.
At this time.
We're going to go into round three, which is our 60 second round.
It's a team round.
So alternates, why don't you come on up and join your teams at the podiums.
And the way this round works is each team is going to get ten questions in a category and we will start with the team that is trailing and you can choose from these categories.
All right, tower time, yellow ho ho, and have a ball.
Yeah!
Yo, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Okay.
The answers to all of the following will be related to pirates.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Okay, 60 seconds.
Start the clock.
You may see this bird perched on a pirate shoulder.
Parrot?
Yes.
This might mark this spot on a map where treasure is buried.
X?
Yes.
This book by Robert Louis Stevenson is about pirates and buried gold.
Treasure Island.
Yes.
You might find this gruesome symbol on a pirate flag.
Skull and crossbones.
Yes.
This animal swallowed Captain Hook's hand.
Crocodile?
Yes.
English pirate Edward Teach is more commonly known by this Blackbeard.
Yes.
This city's baseball team is named the Pirates.
Tampa.
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh.
Judges, think about that.
Johnny Depp played this pirate in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Jack Sparrow.
Yes, a pirate might wear this after an ocular injury eyepatch.
Yes.
A pirate might bury his gold in one of these wooden containers.
Chest.
Okay.
We'll think about that one, too.
The answer was chest.
We were going for treasure chest.
But we'll see what the judges say.
How many?
Ten out of ten on your 60 second round.
Great job Winnacunnet.
So that's 110 points.
All right.
Oyster River, tough fact to follow.
But Lincoln, you and your team will get to choose from all remaining categories, tower time and have a ball.
Let's do ball, have a ball, have a ball.
All right.
The answers to the following will include the word ball.
60 seconds.
Start the clock.
She was the star of I Love Lucy.
Lucille Ball.
Yes.
You can take a base after this pitch.
Ball 4.
Yes.
You might have played in one of these when you were little softball.
Pass.
It is a ball pit.
You will find these on a car between a wheel and a fixed axle.
Ball bearing?
Yes.
A psychic might look into this to see the future.
Crystal ball.
Yes.
This is the black ball in pool.
Eight ball?
Yes.
She rules the candy kingdom in the animated series Adventure Time and a game of and Princess Gumball.
Yes.
Goodness gracious.
Jerry Lee is the famous for this song.
Pass Great Balls of Fire.
Goku is featured in this Japanese animation, Dragon Ball.
Yes, this game was once played in schools and was also the title of a movie starring Ben Stiller.
The time was up.
It was Dodgeball.
And at the end of your round, seven out of ten on your 60 second round.
Great job, teams alternate.
You can go ahead and take your seats as we head into round four.
In round four, we'll pick back up with our toss up questions only We will be doubling the point value.
So we're now playing for 20 point toss up questions and as an added wrinkle, we'll be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.
So it is a tight game right now.
It is a tie game right now.
So play smart play strategic both teams Oyster River, Winnacunnet.
Here we go.
A 1969 clash at this bar in New York City's Greenwich Village is often credited as a key moment in the fight for LGBTQ rights in the US.
James of Oyster River.
A Stonewall bar?
Yes.
Stonewall is right.
In 1961, this pilot became the first person to travel into space.
Emma of Winnacunnet.
Green?
Uh, no sorry.
Oyster River.
You were close.
It's Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin.
In 2004, Gene Robinson was invested in Concord, New Hampshire, as this church's first openly gay bishop was a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
All right, teams we have a math question.
So you've got pencil and paper in case you want it.
What is 4/5 plus one half as a mixed number, Emma, of Winnacunnet.
14/5.
Sorry.
No, we need as a mixed number.
Can you give it to me in a mix number.
Oh, yeah.
One in the fifth.
Sorry.
No.
Oyster River, James.
Two and 4/5.
No, it is one and 3/10.
Fractions are no fun.
Animator Walter Lance is famous for creating this sometimes annoying animated bird with a famous laugh with Ben Bugs Hardaway in 1940.
The character has a star on the Hollywood.
Walk of Fame and is the official mascot of Universal Studios.
Lincoln, of Oyster River.
Tweety Bird.
Sorry, no.
Winnacunnet.
The Roadrunner.
Sorry I need you to ring in if you want to.
Vivien of Winnacunnet.
Roadrunner, It is Woody Woodpecker.
Sorry.
The 20th Amendment changed the beginning and ending date of a presidential term from March 4th to January 20th.
Who was the first president inaugurated on January 20th?
It was FDR.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In what?
Novella By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Will you find a prince, a fox, a rose and a baobab?
Trees?
James of Oyster River.
The Little Prince.
The Little Prince is right.
Nominated by Donald Trump.
This jurist is the fifth woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
Emma of Winnacunnet.
Amy Klobuchar.
Sorry, No.
James of Oyster River.
Amy Coney Barrett.
Amy Coney Barrett is right.
This actor, comedian and filmmaker who had a sketch comedy series with Keegan-Michael Key on Comedy Central, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2017 horror film Get Out.
Aaron, of Oyster River.
Jordan Peele Correct.
All right, team, The next question is a civics question coming to you from New Hampshire's kid Governor.
On your monitors, Take a look.
Only one person has served as governor of two separate states.
Sam Houston was governor of Tennessee from 1827 until 1829.
He was also governor of this state from 1859 until 1861, when he was forced out of the office for refusing to swear an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
Lincoln of Oyster River, Texas.
Texas is right.
This amendment, ratified in 1967, stated in Section one that in case of the removal of the president from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
That's the 25th Amendment in 1801, after a 73 to 73 electoral tie, the House of Representatives chose this politician as president of the United States.
Lincoln of Oyster River.
Hayes.
Sorry.
No, Anthony of Winnacunnet?
Jefferson Thomas Jefferson's right.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson signed an act of Congress creating the Grand Canyon National Park in this state.
Vivian, of Winnacunnet.
Arizona.
Yes.
This chess prodigy won the US chess championship in 1961 at the age of 14.
Lincoln of Oyster River.
Bobby Fischer Correct.
This author's first novel, The Martian Chronicles, was originally a collection of short stories that an editor suggested the author connected together to form a novel.
Adam of Winnacunnet.
Ray Bradbury Yes.
In 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented this theory, which was inspired by his noticing similarities between fossilized plants found on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Vivienne of Winnacunnet.
Pangea, no, sorry.
Lincoln of Oyster River.
Continental Drift.
Continental drift is the right answer.
All right, teams, go ahead and take a look at your monitors for the next question.
You are looking at a vase designed by this artist who worked in stained glass, pottery, jewelry and enamels.
He was the son of the man who founded a company that operates a store that Holly Golightly enjoys visiting.
And that is a Tiffany vase.
This song is the result of the combination of the music from the British song to Anacreon in Heaven and the words from the poem Defense of Fort McHenry.
Lincoln of Oyster River.
Star-Spangled Banner.
You got it.
January is named after this Two faced Roman.
God of transitions, beginnings and doorways.
Anthony of Winnacunnet.
Janis Yes.
Jacques Offenbach's comic opera Orpheus in the Underworld features the Gallop Infernal In the final scene.
The Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergere used that sound ends the round and it looks like it's going to be Oyster River with the victory by a score of 350 to 230.
Congratulations, Oyster River on a great win against a tough team.
We'll see you in a couple of weeks in round two.
Winnacunnet, tough loss, but a close fought game.
I hope you guys had fun.
We had fun having you guys here and we hope you had fun at home as well.
We do hope you join us next week with two brand new teams here on Granite State Challenge, but that's going to do it for us this week.
And I learned something this week.
I hope you did, too.
Thanks so much.
And 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.