This week on Granite State Challenge, the Bishop Guertin Cardinals of Nashua take on the Lin-Wood Lumberjacks.

Only one team will advance, Granite State Challenge starts now.

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Additional funding provided by NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, New Hampshire lottery, DF Richard Energy, HRCU, Cognia, and viewers like you.

Thank you.

[music playing] Get ready, 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 this week on Granite State Challenge.

If you're just joining us for the first time, you're going to notice a few changes around here.

First up, our players are all masked, we've made some changes to the set, and we don't have an audience with us here in the studio.

And all of those changes are to keep our players and our crew safe.

We've also made a slight adjustment to round three of the game, but we'll get into that a little bit later on.

Most importantly, we've got two teams here ready to do battle to see who is going to make it on to the next round.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up we have the Cardinals of Bishop Guerten High School in Nashua.

Hi, I'm Amelia.

I'm a senior and I'm a first degree black belt in American Kenpo Karate.

Hi, I'm Chris, and I'm also a senior.

And I've hiked all 4,000 footers in New England.

Hi, I'm Daniel.

I'm a sophomore, and I built my own computer.

Hi, I'm Ian.

I'm a junior, and I contacted an astronaut aboard the ISS via ham radio.

Awesome, very cool.

The team is coached by Kathryn Gann, and their alternate is Mary.

They are the Cardinals of Bishop Guertin High School.

[applause] All right.

And their opponents this week are the Lumberjacks of Lin-Wood High School.

Hi, I'm Seven.

I'm a junior, and I am the president of our local FBLA chapter.

Hi, I'm Blake.

I'm a senior, and in the summertime I work for a land surveyor.

Hi, I'm Sydney.

I'm a junior, and I'm a varsity soccer captain.

Hi, I'm Andrew.

I'm a junior, and I'm interested in welding, railroad mechanics, and backcountry skiing.

Very cool.

The team is coached by Dave Webster, their alternate is Jillian, and they are the Lumberjacks of Lin-Wood High School.

[applause] All right.

One more introduction for you, and that is our judge.

Of course, with us again is Ann Belanger.

[applause] All right teams, introductions are out of the way.

We're going to jump right into the game.

In round one of Granite State Challenge we're playing for 10 point toss up questions.

So Bishop Guertin, Lin-Wood, good luck.

Here we go.

This composer wrote the music for the Ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo.

[timer buzzer] That composer was Aaron Copland.

This artist's works include Andre the Giant Has a Posse and the Barack Obama Hope poster.

[timer buzzer] And his name is Shepard Fairey.

All right teams, these German brothers published a collection of stories, Children's and Household Tales in two volumes in 1812 and 1815.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

The Grimm Brothers.

Yes.

[ding] Foxwoods Casino opened in this state in 1992.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

Connecticut.

Yes.

[ding] This Peruvian stuffed bear is the main character of a series of books by British author Michael Bond.

[player buzzer] Seven from Lin-Wood.

Corduroy?

Sorry, no.

[error buzzer] Amelia of bishop Guertin.

Paddington?

[ding] Paddington Bear, yes.

Suffragist and political activist Carrie Chapman Catt founded this organization in 1920 to help newly enfranchised women exercise their right to vote.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

League of Women Voters.

You got it.

[ding] Tennessee lawmakers proposed making this song written by John Newton and sung by Dolly Parton the official hymn of the state.

[player buzzer] Sydney of Lin-Wood.

Is it Jolene?

[error buzzer] Sorry, no.

[timer buzzer] I do love that song, but the song we were going for this time was Amazing Grace.

All right teams, this character in Hamlet goes mad and drowns.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

Ophelia.

Ophelia is the one.

[ding] All right teams, what is 2,201 in Roman numerals?

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

MMXXI.

[ding] You got them all, well done.

This German physicist conclusively proved the existence of electromagnetic waves based on James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.

[timer buzzer] His name was Heinrich Hertz.

What is the pen name of French author Amantine Lucille Aurora Dupin?

She wrote the novels Indiana, Valentine, and Jacques.

[timer buzzer] She went by the pen name George Sand.

All right teams, this artificial waterway in Egypt connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Suez Canal.

[ding] Suez Canal is right.

A deficiency of this vitamin can cause rickets, or soft bones, in children.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

Iron.

[error buzzer] Sorry, no.

[player buzzer] Andrew of Lin-Wood.

Calcium?

[error buzzer] Closer, vitamin D. This chemical element is used in bleach and also used to keep pool water clean.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Chlorine.

[ding] Yes.

Australia is made up of six states, one of them is this island state separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Tasmania.

[ding] Tasmania is right.

Italian director Sergio Leone is famous for creating this genre of Western with a pasta inspired name.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Spaghetti Westerns.

[ding] You got it.

This optical disc storage unit, which despite its name uses a violet laser, was designed to compete with DVDs.

[player buzzer] Daniel of BG.

Laserdisc?

Sorry, no.

[error buzzer] [player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

Blu-ray discs?

[ding] Blu-ray is correct.

The 1976 one-woman play The Belle of Amherst was based on the life of this reclusive poet.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

Emily Dickinson.

[ding] Yes.

This musician was a proponent of collective improvisation.

His works include Epitaph, which takes two hours to perform.

[timer buzzer] His name is Charles Mingus.

In 1953, this reclusive writer moved to Cornish, New Hampshire where he died in 2010 at age 91.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

JD Salinger.

[ding] Yes.

The 1987 Montreal Protocol was a global agreement to protect this protective stratospheric layer.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

The ozone layer.

[ding] You got it.

All right teams, our next question is our power question.

So go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This question is worth double the points, it is a 20 point toss up question.

Take a look.

This could be the National bird of New Zealand or a fruit also known as the Chinese gooseberry.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Kiwi.

[ding] Kiwi is right.

This third installment of the Fast and the Furious film franchise has nothing to do with mass movement of land.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Tokyo Drift.

[ding] Tokyo Drift, you got it.

Cardiff is the capital of this country bordered by England and the Irish sea.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

Wales.

[ding] Yes.

This period of European history marked the transition out of the Middle Ages into the 15th and 16th centuries.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

The Renaissance.

[ding] Yes.

In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow this contralto to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington DC.

[timer buzzer] Her name was Marian Anderson.

All right teams, how many of Henry VIII six wives were beheaded?

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood?

Five?

[error buzzer] Sorry, no.

[player buzzer] Ian of BG.

Two.

[ding] Two is the correct answer, it was Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

The shapeshifting lycanthropy, a mythological character affected by lunar cycles, is better known by this name.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Werewolf.

The werewolf.

[ding] Native to South America, this is the largest living rodent in the world.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Capybara.

[ding] Yes.

All right teams, this singer often referred to as the-- [siren] --we're going to hold off on that, and maybe we'll get to that question at the start of round two.

But after round one, it looks like BG is out to a lead by a score of 190 to 30.

[applause] All right.

Excellent job Bishop Guertin, good job Lin-Wood.

We're going to roll right into round two of Granite State Challenge.

And in round two, we keep up with the toss up questions but we're going to double the point value.

So now we're playing for 20 point toss up questions, all right?

Bishop Guertin, Lin-Wood, good luck.

Here we go.

This singer, often referred to as the king of rock and roll, is known for the songs Jailhouse Rock and Blue Suede Shoes.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

Elvis Presley.

[ding] You bet.

This Arizona Senator was the 1964 Republican candidate for president, and is credited with sparking a conservative turn within the party.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Barry Goldwater.

[ding] He's the one.

This could be a game you play in the water or a Venetian merchant.

[player buzzer] Sydney of Lin-Wood.

Marco Polo?

[ding] He's the right one, yes.

All right teams, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

All right.

Despite its name, this hopping rodent is native to arid regions in the Western US.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

The kangaroo rat?

[ding] Kangaroo rat is right.

This German-born Baroque composer spent most of his adult life in England and is known for the oratorio Messiah.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Handel.

[ding] Handel is right.

All right teams, you may need a pen and paper for this question.

What comes next in this sequence, a, z, b, y, c, x, d?

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

W. [ding] W Is correct.

The handbook Scouting for Boys, published in 1908, was written and illustrated by this scout founder.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Robert Baden-Powell.

You got it.

[ding] Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas, is a native of this South American country.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Argentina.

[ding] Yes.

This Portsmouth native was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.

[timer buzzer] It was Benning Wentworth.

This German director, who left Germany in 1933 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1939, is known for the films Metropolis, M, You Only Live Once, and The Big Heat.

[timer buzzer] That director's name was Fritz Lang.

All right teams, this Roman statesman was known for his oratory.

Two of his works are on the Commonwealth and on the laws.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Cicero.

[ding] Cicero's the one.

This is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world, you may know it in its cartoon Looney Tunes form.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Tasmanian devil.

Yes.

[ding] This singer is perhaps best known for the songs, Heartbreaker, Love is a Battlefield, and Hit Me with Your Best Shot, which was used in a 2019 commercial for Chili's.

[player buzzer] Andrew of Lin-Wood.

Bon Jovi.

[error buzzer] Sorry, no.

Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Pat Benatar.

[ding] Pat Benatar is the one.

Daniel, let me buzz it.

Actor and dancer Ray Bolger is perhaps best known for portraying this character in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

The tin man?

[error buzzer] Sorry, no.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Scarecrow.

[ding] The Scarecrow is the correct one.

This singer, sometimes known as Old Blue Eyes, is perhaps best known for the song, My Way, which according to his daughter Tina, he came to hate.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Frank Sinatra.

[ding] Yes.

In 1963, this nightclub owner shot and killed the JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in police custody.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Jack Ruby.

[ding] Correct.

This Roman leader was assassinated on March 15, or the Ides of March.

[player buzzer] Seven Of Lin-Wood.

Caesar.

[ding] Yes, we'll give you that.

Julius Caesar is correct.

Although this physicist worked with quantum mechanics and unified field theory, he is perhaps best known for his thought experiment involving a cat.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Einstein?

Sorry, no.

[error buzzer] Sydney of Lin-Wood.

Schrodinger?

Schrodinger is correct.

[ding] That is the cat.

This 2013 musical, featuring music by Cyndi Lauper, known for the songs Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and Time After Time.

[siren] Oh, that musical was called Kinky Boots.

And after two rounds, Bishop Guertin hanging on to their lead by a score of 410 to 130.

[applause] All right teams, we are going to head right into our round three which we are calling our three strikes and you're out round.

All right.

Each team will be given a category with 10 questions, the captain will pick the category.

And we will go down the line player by player, asking all of the questions in the category until either three are answered incorrectly or unless we get through all 10 questions.

Make sense?

All right.

Lin-Wood, as the team trailing you guys get to pick first, and Seven, as the team captain that is your job.

And you get to pick from these three categories, three O's, a mighty wind, and get some sleep.

Three O's.

Three O's, OK.

The answers in this category to all of the following will all be words with three O's.

All right, make sense?

All right, Seven, we'll start with you.

Board game where you buy real estate and pass go.

Monopoly.

Correct.

Blake, what you call the day after today.

Tomorrow.

Correct.

Sydney, what a butterfly emerges from.

A cocoon.

Correct.

Andrew, what you might call a tenth grader.

Sophomore.

Correct.

Seven, back to you.

Rectangular Rocky Mountain state.

[timer buzzer] It's Colorado.

Blake, this is the car that pulls trains.

[timer buzzer] It is the locomotive.

That was his question.

Sydney, this primate is sometimes called the pygmy chimpanzee.

Orangutan?

Sorry, no.

That's it.

So that was your third incorrect response, it was the bonobo.

But after that, how many correct?

Four.

Four correct on your three strikes and you're out round, good job Lin-Wood.

All right, Bishop Guertin it's now your turn, and Amelia, as team captain you get to choose from a mighty wind and get some sleep.

I'm going to go with get some sleep.

Get some sleep, OK here we go.

The answers to the following will all be related to sleep.

OK?

Amelia, starting with you.

The name for this short period of sleep is inspired by felines.

REM sleep.

Sorry, it's catnap.

Chris, this Disney princess pricked her finger and fell asleep.

Sleeping Beauty.

Correct.

Daniel, this band, led by Michael Stipe, took its name from an abbreviation for a deep sleep stage.

REM.

Correct.

Ian, everything in the room gets acknowledged in this bedtime book by Margaret Wise Brown.

Bedtime stories?

Sorry, it's Goodnight Moon.

Amelia, this Metallica song is about the scarier side of going to sleep at night.

[timer buzzer] Aw, OK.

The correct response there was Enter Sandman.

And so two correct response in your three strikes and you're out rounds.

[applause] All right, good job BG, nice job Lin-Wood, picked up some points there.

We're going to roll right into round four.

In round four of Granite State Challenge we continue with the 20 point toss up questions, however, we will be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

So play smart, play strategic.

Bishop Guertin, Lin-Wood, good luck.

Here we go.

This English all girl pop group was made up of Ginger, Posh, Baby, Sporty, and Scary.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

The Spice Girls.

[ding] The Spice Girls is right.

In Greek mythology, this hero of the Trojan War was killed when Paris shot an arrow into his heel.

[player buzzer] Seven of Lin-Wood.

Achilles.

Yes.

[ding] The group of eight schools that include the New England schools Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale are collectively known as this.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

The Ivies, or the Ivy League schools.

[ding] Yep, we'll take that.

The protagonist of this 2005 book by Australian author Markus Zusak was Liesel Meminger, a book loving girl in Nazi Germany.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

The Book Thief.

[ding] Correct.

Between 1892 and 1924 over 12 million immigrants were processed through this facility in New York Harbor.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Ellis Island.

Yes.

[ding] JRR Tolkien wrote a translation and gave a 1936 lecture on this Old English epic poem.

[player buzzer] Chris of Bishop Guertin.

Beowulf.

[ding] Beowulf is right.

This biographer and historian is known for works like Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and No Ordinary Time, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1995.

[timer buzzer] Those two books were written by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

All right teams, this man originally named Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto the Medicean Stars in honor of Cosmo Il de' Medici and his three brothers.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Marius, [error buzzer] Sorry, no.

[timer buzzer] You may know him, Galileo Galilei.

Despite its name, this 1970 song by Black Sabbath is not about a Marvel superhero.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Iron Man.

[ding] Yes.

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

What is the cubed root of 8.

[player buzzer] Amelia of Bishop Guertin.

Two.

Yes.

[ding] Before he became the 38th the governor of Minnesota, this man was a professional wrestler.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Jesse Ventura.

Yes.

[ding] All 100 species of this primate are found only in Madagascar.

[player buzzer] Blake of Lin-Wood.

Lemur.

Yes.

[ding] This black dancer and choreographer founded his own dance company in 1958.

His best known work may be the ballet Revelations, which is set to jazz, gospel, and blues music and divided into three sections, Pilgrim of Sorrow, Take Me to the Water, And Move, Members, move.

[timer buzzer] And that choreographer is Alvin Ailey.

All right teams, this violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi spans a year.

[player buzzer] Andrew of Lin-Wood.

Four seasons.

Yes.

[ding] This Russian revolutionary and politician was the leader of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924.

[player buzzer] Sydney of Lin-Wood.

Stalin?

Sorry, no.

[error buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Vladimir Lenin?

[ding] Lenin is the one, yes.

This work by beat poet Allen Gisbergen was dedicated to Carl Solomon, who wrote Report From the Asylum, Afterthoughts of a shock patient.

[timer buzzer] That work was Howl.

All right teams, the first Apple computer was designed and built by this company co-founder, who is not Steve Jobs.

[player buzzer] Sydney of Lin-Wood.

Oh, I forgot.

[timer buzzer] That's OK. [player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

Steve Wozniak.

Steve Wozniak is correct.

[ding] While he served in the Missouri National Guard and fought in France during World War I, this future president never graduated from college.

[timer buzzer] It was Harry Truman.

This astronaut spent a year in the International Space Station, and his astronaut twin Mark spent the same year on Earth as part of a study on identical twins.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Scott Kelly.

[ding] Scott Kelly is right.

King Camp Gillette invented a popular safety version of this.

[player buzzer] Daniel of Bishop Guertin.

A razor.

A razor.

[ding] Yes.

This Vermont native served as the governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921, and President of the United States from 1923 to 1929.

[player buzzer] Ian of Bishop Guertin.

Calvin Coolidge.

[ding] Coolidge is right.

This inventor and engineer is best known for his design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.

[siren] We're not going to get to that one, it was Nikola Tesla is the correct response.

And by a score of 670 to 190, Bishop Guertin will be moving on to the next rounds.

[applause] Congratulations, Bishop Guertin.

Good job, we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.

And Lin-Wood, thanks so much for coming in and playing with us today, we hope you had fun.

We hope you had fun as well at home, and we do hope you join us next week when the teams from Merrimack take on the team from Sanborn High School.

We had a lot of fun here on the show today, we hope you did too.

I learned a lot, and I hope you did as well.

We'll see you next week.

Bye bye.

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, DF Richard Energy, HRCU, Cognia, and viewers like you.

Thank you.

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