This week on Granite State Challenge.

The team from Con Val Regional High School takes on the team from Hopkinton 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 with in a high stakes scholastic showdown.

It's time for granite state challenge.

Here's your host, John Cannon.

Hello, everyone.

And thank you so much for joining us for Granite State Challenge this week.

We are making our way through the first round of this, our 40th season.

And to celebrate our 40th season, we have a special 40th season question.

Question number 40 later in the game.

I also want to mention on the top that we are keeping in place a lot of the safety protocols that we used last season, and that includes our third round being a three strikes in your out round with a new twist, which we'll get to when we get to round three.

But without further ado, let's introduce you to the two teams competing on this week's match.

First up, we have the team from Con Val Regional High School, and they are led by Senior Captain Mirror Mirror is joined by senior Kendall, senior Leah and senior Sam.

Their alternates are seniors.

Elijah and Gwyneth and the team is coached by Chris Hyder and Eric Bowman.

And facing off against the team from Con Val is the team from Hopkinton High School.

They're led by junior captain Giselle.

With Giselle is junior.

How a sophomore Colton and sophomore Adam.

Their alternates are Leah and Piper, both juniors.

And the team is coached by Matthew program in And those are our teams this week.

But of course, we'd also like to introduce you to our judge, Anne Boulanger, All right, teams introductions are out of the way.

Let's play the game, grab those signaling devices.

And as you know, we play Granite State Challenge in four rounds and in round one, we do ten points.

Toss up questions.

Can Val Hopkinton.

Good luck.

Here we go.

Some states are named for kings.

Some are named for people.

Some are named for local places.

This is the only state named for another country.

Leah of Cornwall, Georgia, sorry.

No, although judges keep that in mind.

Yeah, we should give that to Georgia.

We will accept that answer.

Well done.

All right.

This editorial cartoonist sometimes referred to as the father of American cartoons created the elephant and donkey representations for the Republican and Democratic parties and the modern representation of Santa Claus.

His name was Thomas Nast.

This member of the Monitor Lizard family is native to some Indonesian islands.

It can grow to lengths of ten feet and weigh as much as £150, making it the largest extant lizard on earth.

Colton of Hopkinton Komodo dragon.

Correct.

This street in New York City is also known as the Great White Way because it was brightly lit at night You may know it better as Broadway in this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, a brother and sister abandoned by their parents, make their way to a house in the woods made of gingerbread and other sweets.

Kendall of Carnival, Hansel and Gretel.

Yes, Oklahoma was the first musical written by this pair who also wrote Carousel, South Pacific, The King and Di and The Sound of Music.

Adam of Hopkinton, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Yes, this musical instrument has 88 hammers and two to three pedals.

Kendall of Carnival Piano.

Yes.

Teams.

What State's name means Green Mountain?

Hal of Hopkinton, Vermont.

You got it.

This author who created the characters Stuart Little and Charlotte The Spider, was also the coauthor with William Strunk Jr. Of The English Style Guide.

The Elements of Style.

Mirror of Carnival White.

Yes, E.B.

White is correct.

This educational computer game from the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium was released in 1974 and took learners on a simulated pioneer trip along a 2170 mile route that began in Independence, Missouri.

Mirror of Cornwall, the Oregon Trail.

Yes.

Formed by Congress in 1933.

This agency was created to provide flood control, navigation, electricity and economic development to the Tennessee Valley Sorry, we're not quite in time as the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The last TV ad for this addictive product aired on January 1st 1971 during the Johnny Carson show.

Hal of Hopkinton Cigarets yes in the famous Monty Python dead parrot sketch the Norwegian Blue Parrot was pining for these water filled valleys that were carved by glaciers in Scandinavia.

Giselle of Hopkinton.

Yes, fjords is right.

The state flower of this state is the Mayflower, also known as the trailing Arbutus Gazelle of Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

That's right.

Before he became the head coach of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick was the head coach of this Ohio team from 1991 to 1995 where he had a losing record of 36 and 44 He was the coach of the Cleveland Browns.

Goodbye, farewell and Amen.

The finale of this sitcom is the most watched finale of any television series and the most watched episode of a scripted series.

Pal of Hopkinton MASH.

Yes, Teams on what statue will you find?

The poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Mirror of Cornwall, The Statue of Liberty.

That's the one this country singer wrote and performed the songs I Will Always Love You and Nine to Five Mirror of Cornwall.

Dolly Parton.

Yes, there is an urban myth that we can't deny or confirm that every episode of Seinfeld features a visual or verbal reference to this man of steel.

Hal of Hopkins is Superman.

Yes, you got it.

Actor Jimmy Stewart portrayed this aviator in the 1957 movie Spirit of Saint Louis.

Mirror of Carnival Lindbergh.

Charles Lindbergh is correct.

This famous holiday ruminant who saved Christmas on a foggy night first appeared in a 1939 booklet distributed by the Montgomery Ward's department store pal of Hopkinton.

Rudolph.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Indeed.

All right, teams, this next question is our picture question.

So go ahead and take a look at the monitors in front of you.

This dime sized butterfly I found only in the Pine Barrens near Concord Airport is the state butterfly of New Hampshire and an endangered species.

Giselle of Hopkins.

Bernard Karner.

Blue.

Yes, Pulitzer Prizes, established in the will of newspaper publisher William Pulitzer in 1917, are administered by this Ivy League school Adam of Hopkinton Columbia.

Columbia is right in 1925.

In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors Calvin Coolidge stated that the chief business of the American people was this he said the chief business of the American people is business.

All right teens in what family will you find Morticia Wednesday and Uncle Fester, Giselle of Hopkins, the Addams Family.

You got it when he announced his retirement in January of 2022 this New Hampshire politician was the longest serving state secretary of state in the US.

He served in that position for 45 years Hal of Hopkinton.

Bill Gardner.

Correct.

In what sport will you find a hoop, a ball, clubs, a ribbon and a rope mirror of con val rhythmic gymnastics.

Correct.

This plant native to Mexico in Central America, is named for botanist and the first US minister to Mexico.

Joel Roberts.

Point set.

Kendall of Cornwall Poinsettia.

That's it.

Teams.

What river forms the border between New Hampshire and Vermont?

Adam of Hopkinton.

The Connecticut River.

You got it.

The state flag of Wyoming features a silhouette of this large grazing animal.

Hal of Hopkinton.

The Buffalo.

Buffalo is correct.

And that sound goes round one.

And after round one, Hopkinton out to a bit of a lead in a tight match by a score of one 50 to 100 All right.

Well done on round one, teams.

Go ahead and keep those signaling devices in your hands, because we're going to roll right into round two, where we continue with the toss up questions, but we're going to be doubling the point value.

So we're playing for 20 point toss up questions.

Colin Bell, Hopkinton.

Here we go.

What novel begins with the line It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife The first line to Pride and Prejudice.

All right, teams, you have paper and pencil there in case you need it.

If you have three baker's dozen of donuts delivered.

How many donuts do you have?

Sam of Cornwall.

39.

39 is right All right, teams.

Our next question is our unit sale power question.

It is worth double points.

So this is a 40 point question coming to you from your monitors.

Take a look This children's educational show which first aired in 1971, was rebooted in 2009.

The original show featured actors Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno I remember it well.

It was called The Electric Company.

All right.

Teams radio stations can be and stations or FM stations.

AM is short for amplitude modulation.

What is FM short for Kendal of Carnival frequency modulation?

You got it.

The First Baptist Church and the First Synagogue in the in the colonies were both founded in what is now this state, which was founded around the belief in religious freedom.

Sam of Cornwall, Rhode Island.

Yes, to us, presidents have received honorary knighthoods from Queen Elizabeth.

The second name, either one of them We would have taken Ronald Reagan or George W Bush.

This South Korean boy band formed in 2010 and features Gin, Sugar.

J-hope R M, Jimin V and Jungkook Mirror of Con Val Beats.

Yes.

This singer known for songs like Peggy Sue and That'll Be the Day died in a plane crash in 1959 along with singers Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.

Leah of Con Val.

Buddy Holly.

Yes the state bird of this land locked state is the seagull.

You'll find a memorial to the bird in the state capitol commemorating the, quote, miracle of the gulls.

When the birds saved crops of Mormon settlers from an infestation of crickets in 1848.

Leah of Cornwall, Utah.

Yes.

All right.

We have reached the 40th question of the match, which is our 40th season question worth 40 points.

And it comes to us from season 25 in The Wizard of Oz.

The Munchkins were grateful to Dorothy for causing the death of the Wicked Witch of the East.

What was the Munchkins parting advice to Dorothy?

Hal of Hopkinton Follow the yellow brick road.

You got it by this alien botanist who just wanted to go home, showed up in the backyard of the Taylor family in a 1982 movie.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Yes.

This poisonous arachnid is known for the hourglass shaped marking on its abdomen.

Sam of Cornwall, the Black Widow.

You got it.

This small and stocky non-sporting breed of dog was the first non-sporting breed in the United States and is named for a New England city, which Giselle of Hopkinton.

Uh, York Terrier.

Sorry, no.

Kendall of Boston Terrier.

The Boston Terrier?

Yes, this activity, usually associated with knights, became the state sport of Maryland in 1962.

Tale of Hopkinton Jousting Yes.

This 3065 foot mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire, is named for a bird known for its mournful call Lear of Cornwall.

Loon.

Loon Mountain is right.

Teams.

What Monarch is the state of Virginia named for a mirror of Cornwall.

Elizabeth the first.

First, yes.

Correct.

Timothy Bellamy played this character in the 2019 film adaptation of the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Giselle.

Laurie is right.

Written between 1000 1012.

The Tale of Genji by Japanese author Masaki Shiki BU is considered by many to be one of the first examples of this genre of writing.

Leah of Cornwell Novel.

Novel is correct, and that sound is round two.

And we've got a pretty tight match here.

Colin Bell out to a lead now by a score of three 22 to 50.

So a bit of a back and forth match.

Good job teams we are going to go into round three, which is are three strikes and you're out round in this round.

Each team gets a category with ten questions, ten points for each correct response and we'll go down the line asking each one of you a question.

Each team has three passes you can pass to your teammate next to you.

And we continue until you get three strikes and you are out.

So Hopkinton as a team trailing, you get to choose first from our categories and Giselle as team captain.

It is your call.

You can choose from these categories.

T time top hats and place names.

T time, t time.

Okay.

The answers to the following will all contain a single letter.

T Giselle, this large dinosaur was a carnivore with tiny arms.

Tyrannosaurus Rex.

We'll take that T-Rex.

You got it.

How rapper Faheem Rashid Najim is better known by this name.

Pass past Colton to pack.

It is T-Pain.

So that's one strike.

Adam, this black leader in a speech known as the Atlantic Compromise, called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship.

Pass.

Pass.

Gazelle.

Booker T Washington.

Correct.

How you might have played this early form of baseball when you were a kid?

Tebow.

Correct.

Colton.

This item of clothing can be graphic or plain white T-shirt.

Correct.

Adam Fans of this singer known for the song Shake It Off sometimes.

Call her this he swift.

T Swift is right.

Giselle He wrote the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock has that is your last pass, Hal.

T.S.

Eliot.

T.S.

Eliot is correct.

Colton.

Tuberculosis is also known by this name.

I don't know.

It is TB.

Adam.

The Boston Celtics used to play in Boston Garden.

Now they play here TD Garden.

TD Garden is correct.

Giselle, final question.

This three girl group had no one hits with the singles creep waterfalls, no scrubs and Unpretty I don't know.

It is TLC.

And at the end of your round six correct responses.

All right, we turn over to Con Val and Mira.

As team captain, you get to choose from our remaining two categories top hats and place names.

Place names.

Place names.

The answers to the following will be an individual with a first or last name that is also a place first or last name that is also a place seven.

So a score correction was seven correct for you?

HOPKINTON All right, Con Val, place names.

Mira, we start with you.

First question.

Many consider him the best basketball player of all time.

Michael Jordan.

Correct.

Kendall.

This actor got her start at age seven in the movie.

I Am Sam I don't know.

It is Dakota Fanning.

Leah This actor played Billy Elliot on the stage and Spider-Man in the movies.

Has since passed.

Sam Same question.

Can you repeat the question?

Sure.

This actor played Billy Elliot on the stage and Spider-Man in the movies.

I don't know.

It is Tom Holland's Mirror.

He was the drummer for The Who has passed Kendal.

Same question.

The drummer for The Who.

You have one more pass All right, Leah.

I don't know.

Tough category is Keith Moon was what we were looking for.

And one correct response on your round.

All right.

So a tight match.

Con Val still holding onto that lead by a score of three 30 to three 20.

But as we roll into round four, so in round four, we are going to continue with our ten.

Oh, sorry.

20 point toss up questions.

However, we will be deducting 20 points for any incorrect responses.

Teams.

It is a close match.

So play smart and play strategic.

Good luck.

While they were both competing for the Republican presidential nomination, George H.W.

Bush called Ronald Reagan's economic plans, now known as Reaganomics, This layer of con val trickle down economics sorry.

No, is it is incorrect.

Hopkinton All right.

We were looking for voodoo economics, which is what George H.W.

Bush referred to.

It as.

All right, teams.

The saying and ideas of this Chinese politician, poet and philosopher are collected in the Analects It is Confucius.

Composer Aaron Copeland wrote the music for the Ballet's Appalachian Spring and Rodeo.

He also composed the music for this 1938 ballet about a young outlaw and gunfighter who is killed at the age of 21 Is Billy the Kid?

This author, who wrote in Yiddish won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and two U.S. National Book Awards won in children's literature in 1974.

His memoir, A Day of Pleasure Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction in 1974 for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories was Isaac Bashi this singer.

This plant a member of the Bean family is probably native to Asia and Africa but has cultivated worldwide.

It is used to make blue dye Kendall of Cotton Indigo correct.

This series of civil wars were fought for control of the British throne by the Lancasters and the Yorks.

Sam of Cornwall.

War of the Roses.

Correct.

With fewer than 600,000 residents, this is the least populated state in the United States.

Kendall of Cornwall, Wyoming.

That's right.

This holiday, which marks the unofficial end of summer, was signed into law as a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland.

Giselle of Hopkins.

Labor Day.

Yes.

At six feet.

Four inches.

Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at six feet three and a half inches.

This Texas native was the second tallest president.

Leah of Cornwall.

Lyndon B Johnson.

Correct.

Teams.

What is the shape of a DNA molecule?

Sam.

A double helix?

Yes.

One country begins with the letter Q and one country ends with a letter to name them.

Hal of Hopkinton, Carter and I don't know.

All right.

Con Val Mira of Con Val guitar in Iraq.

And The Rock was the other one.

Good job.

This annual celebration started with the Pennsylvania Dutch and revolves around cloud cover and a rodent handle of con val Groundhog Day.

That's it, teams.

What are you afraid of?

If you suffer from hydrophobia?

Leah of Con Val.

Water.

Water.

Eater is right.

Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson were all original members of this boy band.

Adam of Hopkinton.

One Direction.

Yes.

This Midwestern state known as the Cornhusker State was the birthplace of President Gerald Ford.

Kendall of Nebraska.

Nebraska is right.

This mortal lover of Aphrodite, who is known for his beauty, was gored by a ball and died.

Legend has it that when he died, Aphrodite tears mixed with his blood and became the anemone flower it was Adonis.

The design of Benjamin Franklin on the front side of the Pulitzer Prize medal was created by this Exeter, New Hampshire native, also known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.

That was Daniel Chester French.

And this element can be used that is going to end the game with a strong fourth round it is Cornwall.

Moving on to the next round All right.

Congratulations.

Carnival on a game.

Well played, Hopkinton.

Congratulations to you as well for a game well played and hanging in there all the way until the end.

We'll see you in a few weeks.

Con Val in Hopkinton is a young squad.

I look forward to seeing you in years to come.

That'll do it for us this week.

Thank you so much for watching at home.

We hope you had fun.

I know we did.

And I hope you learned a lot because I did as well.

We'll see you next week.

Major funding for the production of Granite State Challenge is provided by Unitil.

Additional funding provided by NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, New Hampshire Lottery, D F Richard Energy, HRCU, Cognia, and viewers like you.

Thank you.