This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Conval Regional High School takes on the team from Portsmouth High School Only one team will advance.

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It's time for New Hampshire High Schools to match widths in a high stakes scholastic showdown.

It's time for granite state challenge.

Here's your host, John Cannon.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Thank you for joining us for another exciting week of Granite State Challenge.

We're halfway through the quarter final round of our 40th season.

We've got two teams here with us this week that punched their tickets last round.

They're going to do battle to see who takes it to the semifinal round.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up is the team from Conval Regional High School, and they are led by senior captain.

Mirror.

Mirror is joined by seniors Leah, Kendall and Sam.

Their alternates are also seniors.

They are Elijah and Gwyneth.

And the team is coached by Chris Hyder and Eric Bowman.

And facing off against them is the team from Portsmouth High School.

They are led by senior captain Francis.

Francis is joined by senior Rio senior jose and junior Nick.

Their alternate is senior carina and their team is coached by Hannah Deuel Those are our teens.

But I would also love to introduce our judge as always and volunteer All right, teams, introductions are out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

We're going to play the game.

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

We do ten point type of questions.

Oh, con valve, Portsmouth, good luck.

And here we go.

The Boston Marathon stretches from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the Back Bay of Boston.

How many miles do runners run in the Boston Marathon?

Kendall of Cornwall, 26.2.

Correct.

This 1946 musical about sharpshooter Annie Oakley with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin featured the competitive song.

Anything you can do, I can do better.

Josie of Portsmouth.

Annie, get your gun.

Correct.

This 1995 movie was the first feature length computer animated film.

Reel of Portsmouth Toy Story.

That's the one teams what is the only number without a Roman numeral?

Francis of Portsmouth zero.

That's the one who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president after his assassination.

Leah of Con Val Grant Sorry.

Now Francis of Portsmouth.

Andrew Johnson.

He's the one this baseball player was known as the Sultan of SWAT and the Bambino.

He began his career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

Mirror of Con Val.

Babe Ruth corrects This twisted dough treat has been the symbol of German bakers since the 12th century.

Francis of Portsmouth Pretzel.

That's it.

Insect bodies are separated into three sections the head, the abdomen, and this middle section where you will find the legs.

Mirror of carnival thorax corrects teams.

How many planets in our solar system are smaller?

Than Earth?

NEC of Portsmouth two.

Sorry, Neo Con Val Mirror 33 Mars, Mercury and Venus In what city will you find?

The Brandenburg Gate.

Sam of Conval.

Berlin.

That's the one who wrote and illustrated the 1987 children's picture book.

A House for hermit crab about a hermit crab looking for a home Francis of Portsmouth.

Carl.

Eric.

Carl is correct.

Montpelier, the name of the capital city of this state, is taken from a city in France.

Joseph of Portsmouth, Vermont.

Correct.

This landlocked country in the Horn of Africa was once known as Abyssinia.

Sam of Ethiopia.

Yes.

In 1981, Kim Carnes had a hit song about the eyes of this Hollywood icon and Lowell, Massachusetts native known for the films Jezebel, Dark Victory and All About Eve Mirror of Cornwell.

Betty Davis.

Yes.

In 1967, Katherine Switzer was the first woman to complete this race as in officially registered competitor.

At multiple points during the race, race manager Jock Semple tried to rip her race number off her shirt.

Kendall of Boston Marathon.

Yes in 1998 the Supreme Court found that most of this iconic island long thought to be part of New York was mostly in New Jersey.

Mirror of Cornwell Ellis Island.

That's right.

This actor won three best actress Oscars the first in 1934 for her role in Morning Glory and the last for her role in the 1981 film on Golden Pond Mirror of Cornwell.

Katharine Hepburn correct.

If you are in Scotland celebrating Hogmanay what are you celebrating Francis of Portsmouth Halloween.

Sorry.

No Mirror of Carnival Easter.

Nope.

You are celebrating New Year's or New Year's Eve.

All right, teams, you have more than 300 million of these tiny air sacs in your lungs.

Francis of Portsmouth Sorry.

Out of time.

Cornwall.

Sam Oh, LVI correct.

This pioneering rock and roll are and his comments invited people to rock around the clock and shake, rattle and roll in the early 1950s.

Sorry Rio is Bill Haley and the comets lazy Sunday was a 2005 Saturday Night Live digital shorts that featured Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell on their way to see the film version of the first installment of this series of novels by C.S.

Lewis Francis of Portsmouth Chronicles of Narnia.

Correct.

All right.

The next question is the picture question.

So go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

You are looking at the 19 02 painting a reconnaissance by this painter and sculptor known for his depictions of the American Old West Leah of Carnival Cole Sorry.

No All right.

Is Frederick Remington was the correct response teams which manned Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon.

Francis of Portsmouth 11.

Yes.

All and correct.

You have paper and pencil there in case you need it.

Teams The number of letters in this single digit number is the same as the number.

Francis of Portsmouth four.

Correct.

This American playwright wrote The Glass Menagerie The Night of the Iguana.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Jose of Portsmouth, Tennessee Williams.

Correct.

Teams in what South American country will you find?

The port city of Valparaiso.

Francis of Portsmouth, Chile.

That's right.

In what city would you have found?

The largest library in the ancient world, said to be home to as many as 400,000 papyrus scrolls.

Leah of Convent Alexandria.

Yes.

In this 1946 movie, when the character Zuzu hears a bell ring, she tells her father, George Bailey, that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.

Nick of Portsmouth.

It's a wonderful life.

Yes.

Mackerel pods get their name from their large hind legs and are known for hopping on.

What continent will you find?

MACRA pods?

Kendal of Carnival Australia.

That's right.

This retired United States Supreme Court justice served as the attorney general of New Hampshire from 1976 to 1978 Francis of Portsmouth.

Kennedy.

Sorry, no combo.

Sorry.

We're not quite in time is David Souter.

It's who we were looking for.

This painter and illustrators works were featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post for over five decades.

Works on the cover included a 1943 depiction of Rosie the Riveter and in 1957 cover the rookie featuring the Red Sox locker room Those were painted by Norman Rockwell and that sound is round one after round one look at this tight tight tied match between carnival Val and Portsmouth All right teams that's just how we like it we're going to roll right into round two and in round two we're going to continue with the toss up questions.

We're going to double the point value.

So these are 20 point toss up questions on Val in Portsmouth.

Good luck.

Let's go.

If a football team dumps ten gallons of Gatorade on their coach, how many cups would that be?

Leah of Cornwell.

160.

Correct.

All right, teams.

The next question is our unit sale power question is worth double the point.

So this is a 40 point toss up question coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look This 2008 Disney film features a TV star dog voiced by John Travolta who believes he has the super powers he has on the screen.

Kendall of Conval Walt Boldt is right in golf.

What is being two strokes under par on a hole called Frances of Portsmouth Eagle?

Yes.

This science fiction author is perhaps best known for his 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

This is the second largest island in French Polynesia and a favorite location for the painter Paul Gauguin.

Francis of Portsmouth.

Tahiti.

Yes.

The four treaties that deal with the treatment of adversaries during war are named for this Swiss city.

Jose of Portsmouth.

Geneva.

Correct.

Teams in what organ will you find?

The info Friar Vena Cava Francis of Portsmouth.

The Heart.

That's right.

At 145,556 square miles.

This is the fourth largest state in the US and home to Glacier National Park.

Francis of Portsmouth, Montana.

Correct.

All right, teams.

We have reached the 44 40 question to celebrate our 40th season and this question is worth 40 points comes to you from season 31.

This theater was a key venue in the Harlem Renaissance and is famous for its amateur nights and helped launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix James Brown, the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey.

Francis, of course, the Apollo.

Correct.

This change in wind speed and or direction over a short distance can be vertical or horizontal and can have a devastating impact on wind, on aircraft, Francis of Portsmouth Turbulence.

Sorry, no it is wind shear.

Wind shear.

All right.

Teams Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy found in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a character found in English folklore spell mischievous mirror of Con Val.

Am I s c h i.e.

the o U.S. well done in 1865 this real person became the first non mythical woman to appear on U.S. currency.

Before that, all the women on currency were allegorical people.

This woman was a member of the Powhatan people and later the subject of a Disney movie.

Sam of Carnival Pocahontas.

Correct.

Teams in what?

17.

Sorry?

Yes.

1726.

Novel by Jonathan Swift.

Will you find the fictional island nation of Lilla puts.

Francis of Portsmouth Gulliver's Travels.

Yes.

Kirk Douglas portrayed this Dutch post-impressionist artist in the 1954 film Lust for Life.

Francis of Portsmouth Van Gogh.

That's correct.

English primatologist Jane Goodall has spent her adult life studying the social and family interactions of this primates.

Sam of con chimpanzee.

Yes.

You'll find the Elgin Marbles displayed in the British Museum.

They were taken by agents of the Seventh Earl of Elgin between 18 01 and 1812 from this country.

Francis of Portsmouth, the Netherlands.

Sorry, no.

Sam of Cornwall, India.

No.

They were taken from Greece in the film Dead Poets Society.

The students step up on their desks as their teacher, Mr. Keating, is leaving and say Oh, Captain, my captain.

What poet wrote the poem.

Oh, Captain, my captain in 1865 about the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Mira of Cornwall.

Well, Whitman.

That's right.

Teams, what shape will you find in the center of a Scrabble board?

Francis of Portsmouth Star.

That's right.

New York City is made up of five boroughs the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and this borough that is often reached by ferry Francis of Portsmouth, Staten Island.

Correct.

All right.

That's round and round two in Portsmouth, taking a bit of a lead by a score of three 52 to 70.

All right, teams, we're going to go into round three.

And in round three are three strikes and you're out round.

Each team will get ten questions in a category.

We'll give you ten points for each correct response and a bonus of ten for getting all of them correct.

And we'll go down the line player by player until you get three strikes and you're out or until all the questions have been asked and you get three passes per team.

Conval, we're going to start with you.

Is the team trailing?

And Mira is team captain.

You get to make the call These are the categories.

The kids are all right, barking up the wrong tree.

And on fire.

On fire on fire.

The answers to the following will all be related to the word fire.

All right.

Mira.

In this 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury.

Firemen burn books.

Fahrenheit four 51.

Correct.

Leah.

Johnny Cash saying this song about Temptation written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore.

Has Ring of Fire.

Ring of Fire is correct.

Sam the poem Fire and Ice published in 1920 was written by this New England poet I don't know is Robert Frost Mirror Mrs. O'Leary's cow is often blamed for an 1871 fire in this city.

Chicago.

Correct.

Leah this early rock n roller had a huge hit with the song Great Balls of Fire.

That Pit Bull.

Sorry, Kendall.

It is Jerry Lee Lewis.

Sam, this singer songwriter claimed that we didn't start the fire in a 1989 song.

That was a laundry list of 20th century events.

People in fads past That was your last past mirror.

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.

Billy Joel is what we were looking for.

Correct.

Leah in this 2004 movie, The Plastics Keep a Burn book of gossip and rumors about their classmates being girls.

Correct.

Kendall The Talking Heads had a hit with this 1982 song about an ordinary guy Um, I don't know.

It is burning down the house.

And that is your third strike.

And five.

Correct.

On your three strikes rounds.

All right.

Nice job, Conval We turn to Portsmouth and Francis as team captain.

You choose from our remaining categories.

The kids are all right and barking up the wrong tree.

The kids are all right.

All right.

The answers to the following will all be related to goats or the word goat.

The kids are all right.

Get it?

All right, Francis.

This quarterback is known as the goat.

The greatest of all time.

Tom Brady.

Correct.

Rio in this Norwegian fairy tale, three goats must pass over a bridge with a troll underneath it to get to a field.

Billy goats.

Gruff.

Correct.

Josie, this astrological sign is a goat.

Capricorn Correct.

Nick This style of facial hair gets its name from a goat's beard.

Goatee, correct.

FRANCIS You might call someone who is blamed for the mistakes of others.

This scapegoat.

Correct.

Rio in this 1881 novel by Swiss author Johanna Sperry, a young girl goes to live in the Alps with her grandfather and makes friends with a young goatherd named Peter Past.

Heidi.

Josie.

Heidi.

Correct.

Nick.

The children and the nanny in this movie.

Sing the song The Lonely Goatherd with marionettes.

Mary Poppins.

Sorry.

It is the sound of music.

Frances, this species of goats is found in the Rocky Mountains.

As Rio.

Same question.

Mountain goat.

Correct.

Josie, this comedian who grew up in New Hampshire and is known for his songs about a lunchroom lady, and Hanukkah also has a song called The Goat Song.

Adam Sandler, correct, Nick.

Grover Underwood is a character in this series of novels by Rick Riordan that is half goat and half human.

Percy Jackson.

Correct.

And that is the last question.

Nine out of ten on your rounds.

Very well done.

All right, teams.

That brings us to round four.

And in round four, we're going to continue with the 20 point pass up questions.

However, in this round, we deduct 20 points for incorrect responses.

So play smart and strategic carnival in Portsmouth.

Here we go.

Principal Krupp has been hypnotized to think he is this scantily clad superhero when he hears finger snapping in this series of books by Dave Pilkey, Rio of Portsmouth, Captain Underpants.

That's it.

This law that states that the pressure of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with its volume at a constant temperature is either known as Marriott's law for French physicist physicist Edmund Marriott, or this law named for an Irish born scientist also known as Boyle's Law Teams.

Who is the captain of the Millennium Falcon in the Star Wars world?

Kendall of Cornwall.

Han Solo.

That's right.

Rescued from a battlefield during World War One by American soldier Lee Duncan.

This German shepherd went on to star in 27 movies you may have heard of them Rin Tin Tin.

This author created the 100 Acre Wood, home to Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore.

Francis of Portsmouth and Milne.

Correct.

This gemstone is a variety of the mineral barrel and gets its green color from traces of chromium or vanadium.

Mirror of con emerald.

That's it, teams.

Where did Elvis Presley sing about staying?

At the end of Lonely Street in a 1956 song written by Tommy Durden in May.

Boren Axton The End of Lonely Street, you'll find Heartbreak Hotel.

This fictional character created by Beatrix Potter is the brother of Flossy Mossy and cottontail Mira of Con Val Peter Rabbit four rat.

After serving as chancellor of Germany for 16 years, this woman retired in 2021 Jose of Portsmouth.

Angela Merkel correct.

According to the proverb What do birds of a feather do?

Sam of Cornwall flock together.

That's right.

Despite its name, this arboreal marsupial native to Australia is not a member of the Bear family.

Nick of Portsmouth Koala.

Correct.

The fourth album by this British rock band was released in 1971 and had no official name it featured the song Stairway to Heaven Francis of Portsmouth.

Led Zeppelin.

Yes.

This space probe launched by Nassr includes the golden record with the sound of whales, babies, birds and a message from President Jimmy Carter.

They put the Golden Record on Voyager published in 1839.

The Voyage of the Beagle chronicled the travels and findings of this naturalist Leah of Cornwall, Darwin.

Yes, this massacre of close to 300 Lakota people by the United States Army occurred in 1890 in South Dakota when the Army tried to disarm the Lakota Jose of Portsmouth.

Little Bighorn.

Sorry.

Now, Val it is Wounded Knee.

There are more than 9000 species of this spore bearing vascular plant, including Bird's Nest, Leather Leaf, Boston and Silver Leah of Cornwall.

Fern.

That's right.

In the 1945 musical anchors away Gene Kelly danced with this cartoon mouse Sam of Con Val.

Mickey Mouse.

Sorry.

Now sorry.

Kendall can't ring in Portsmouth.

It is Jerry from Tom and Jerry.

And in Switzerland.

We are not going to get to that question.

And it looks like in the end, it was Portsmouth pulling away.

Moving on to the semi final rounds.

Congratulations, Portsmouth.

Congratulations on your win.

We'll see you in a couple of weeks in the semifinal in Cornwall.

Congratulate Parsons on your first round victory.

And we hope you had fun today.

You played a good game, and we hope you had fun at home as well.

We hope you join us next week for our final quarter final game.

That'll do it for us for here this week.

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

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.

New Hampshire Lottery.

D F Richard Energy, HRCU, Cognia and viewers like you.

Thank you.