This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Fall Mountain Regional.

High School takes on the team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School.

Only one team will advance.

Granite State challenge starts now.

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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 welcome to Granite State Challenge.

We are still in the midst of our first round of play.

We have 16 teams hoping to earn that Granite State challenge trophy.

We've got two teams with you this week to do battle to see who makes it to the next round.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up, we have the team from Fall Mountain Regional High School.

They are led by senior Captain Edward, who is a mustache enthusiast.

And what kind of re-enactor?

Wild West Re-enactor.

So is a Wild West re-enactor.

Something you could do in New Hampshire?

Or do you travel around the country to do this?

Depends.

You could.

There are places that you can reenact in New Hampshire.

Most most of them are small, but most of them are out west.

Okay.

How'd you get into this?

My dad is a mustache enthusiast, and Wild West runs in the family.

Love it.

All right.

He is joined by Senior Grace, who's a bit of an amateur linguist at this point.

And there's a French word that really sort of piques that interest.

Yes, I really like the word Vaso, because none of the vowels are pronounced the way they should.

Say the word again for me.

Gwarzo.

Okay.

And none of those vowels are pronounced the way.

And do we know why?

French is kind of messed up.

Okay, well, that'll do it.

All right.

Grace is joined by Senor Kaleb.

And Kaleb is a big fan.

Of who?

Taylor Swift.

She's my one true artistic passion.

Okay.

And my understanding is that they keep track of statistics on Spotify of, like, listener levels.

Yeah.

And last year, I was in the top 0.5% of global listeners.

So that's my biggest flex.

All right.

That's a flex, indeed.

And Kaleb is joined by sophomore Braydon, who is an enthusiast of a video game that I'm familiar with, which is Mario Kart.

All right.

And you are ranked where in the world in 47 for woo hoo loop on that specific track.

Yeah, in Mario Kart seven.

Awesome.

Well, the team alternates are Quinn and Brayden, and the team is coached by Nick Belsky, and they're the team from Fall Mountain Regional High School.

All right.

We turn to their opponents this week, and that is the team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School.

They are led by senior Captain Luke.

And Luke, you run an interesting sort of project, an event at your school.

What is it?

Yeah, I run my school's podcast.

And what does this podcast do?

Who do you interview?

Well, we interview people connected to the school.

We interview teachers, students, and also people just connected to the town.

And the topics is there's no specific topic for the podcast in general, but it's just, you know, based on the idea that when you listen to other people and let them talk about what interests them and what's happened to them, you can learn a lot.

I love it.

Yes, you can.

That is wise words.

Luke Luke is joined by Junior Cade, who is a line dancer.

Tell me about how you got into line dance.

That's right.

So in my town of Rye at our town hall, every Friday, me and my friends, we go down there and it's a great chance to bond with the whole community.

All right.

Do you have a preferred musical genre?

The line dancing?

Not specifically.

I like all sorts of varieties of line dancing.

All right.

I love it.

All right.

He's joined by sophomore Charlie, who won the spelling bee at your school.

How many years in a row?

Oh, yes, four years in a row.

And is that something you just naturally talent?

Is that you work at it?

Tell me.

I practice quite a bit of practice.

Do you practice like that for Granite State challenge?

Yeah.

Okay.

I hope you do.

All right.

And Charlie is joined by freshman Amelia, who is good at making.

What kind of cookies?

Chocolate chip.

Chocolate chip cookies.

Okay.

And tell me, how do you know that your chocolate chip cookies are so good?

No one's ever said they didn't like them.

No one ever said they didn't like them.

Right.

If everyone eats them and tells you that they're great, their must be great, right?

All right.

They are the team from Saint Thomas.

Their alternates are senior Allie and Junior Merrill, and the team is coached by Katie Graham and they're the team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School.

All right.

And one more introduction.

That is, of course, our judge.

Back with us again is Ann Boulanger.

All right teams, introductions are out of the way.

We're going to play the game.

So grab those signaling devices and we're going to jump into round one of Granite State challenge where we give ten point toss up questions, so Fall Mountain, Saint Thomas, good luck.

And here we go.

In 1959, infielder Pumpsy Green became the first black player for this team, which was the last major League team to integrate its roster.

It was on the Boston Red Sox.

Swiss author Johanna Sperry is best known for this novel about a young girl who lives with her grandfather in the Alps, Luke of Saint Thomas Heidi.

Yes.

Astronauts call the reduced gravity aircraft used to simulate weightlessness.

By this rather gross but perhaps descriptive name, Charlie of Saint Thomas Vomit Comet.

That's the one.

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his novel.

The Old Man and the Sea, about an elderly fisherman, Santiago, and an 18 foot member of this species of fish.

Kaleb A fall mountain whale.

Whale is incorrect.

Sorry.

Cade of Saint Thomas Swordfish.

It is a marlin.

This game involves a pulp product, a cutting tool, and something that could be igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic.

Cade of Saint Thomas looking for the game that has a pulp product, a cutting tool and igneous sedimentary or metamorphic.

Sandbox.

Sorry, No Kaleb of Fall Mountain.

Rock, paper, scissors.

That's the one we were looking for.

In 1917, King King George the fifth changed the British royal family surname from Saxe-Coburg Gotha to this.

Luke of St Thomas Windsor.

Yes.

In 1987, the United States Congress made this song by John Philip Sousa, the official march of the United States.

Kaleb of Fall Mountain.

Star-Spangled Banner.

Sorry.

No, Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Pomp and circumstance.

No, it is Stars and Stripes forever.

Arlington National Cemetery was established in 1864 on land that had once been this man's estate.

Grace Fall Mountain General Lee.

Robert E. Lee is right.

Yes.

Without this 1915 invention by French engineer Jorge Claude.

The Las Vegas strip would be much dimmer.

Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Neon.

Yeah.

He invented neon lights.

This guitarist for the Beatles wrote the songs While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Here Comes the Sun and something.

Charlie of Saint Thomas.

George Harrison.

Yes.

This women's rights advocate and newspaper editors name is associated with a style of women's clothing that was also known as the reform dress.

While she did not invent the divided garments, she was an advocate for them.

Her name was Amelia Bloomer.

In 1959, Lee Petty won the first one of this annual race.

His son Richard, would go on to win the race seven times in his career.

Kaleb, a fall man.

Kentucky Derby.

No, sorry.

Saint Thomas.

Luke.

Indianapolis.

500.

No.

The Daytona 500.

In the U.K., they called this man who designed the first textile mills a trader.

In the US.

He is known as the father of the Industrial Revolution.

Braden of Fall Mountain.

Matthew Slater.

Sorry, No.

Saint Thomas.

Sorry.

Luke didn't get it was Samuel Slater.

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

It's coming to you on your monitor and is worth double points.

Take a look.

Created in 1941, this superhero is Princess Diana of Themyscira on her home island of Themyscira.

She's also known as Diana Prince Luke of Saint Thomas, Wonder Woman.

Yes.

You may be familiar with some lines from the metaphysical poetry of John Dawn.

Like no man is an island, entire of itself and death be not proud, though some have called the mighty and dreadful.

He is also known for this poem that uses a small, flightless insect insect as a metaphor for a relationship between two lovers.

The Poem is The Flea.

In 1970, the British Royal Navy officially ended a tradition stretching back to 1850 of providing the sailors on its ships with a daily ration of this alcoholic beverage.

Edward of Fall Mountain.

Frog.

Sorry, No.

Charlie of Saint Thomas Rum.

It is rum.

Yes.

This person ascended to the British throne in 1837 at the age of 18.

Edward fo Fall Mountain.

Victoria.

Right.

Yes.

Released in.

Well, we'll get to that question a little bit later.

And it looks like Saint Thomas has jumped out to a bit of a lead after round one by a score of 80 to 30.

All right, teams, next up in round two, we are going to do our three strikes and you're out round.

So each team will get ten questions, will give one question to each player down the line, ten points for each question until you get three strikes and you're out or until you answer all ten questions.

All right.

And as a reminder, something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.

Edward, this singer had a huge hit in 2008 with the song Single Ladies Put a ring on it.

Beyonce.

Yes.

Grace who forged the one ring in The Lord of the Rings?

I don't know.

It is Sauron.

Kaleb.

New Zealand singer Lorde had a huge hit with this song in 2013.

Royals.

Yes.

Bradon, What city is represented by the Major League Baseball team The Royals Saint Louis.

Sorry, It's Kansas City.

Edward.

Kansas City is the most populous in city in this state.

Missouri.

Yes.

Grace This man who grew up in Independence, Missouri, was the 33rd president of the United States.

You have three passes.

Eisenhower.

Sorry, it was Harry Truman.

And that is your third strike in that round.

All right.

Saint Thomas, we are going to move on to you.

Same drill right down the line, one by one until all ten questions or three strikes and you're out.

Luke, in the world of the Addams Family, this hand without a body is no pun intended.

A handy member of the family.

Pass.

Pass.

Cade, your question.

I think it is thing, Charlie.

Thing one and thing two are companions to this character.

Cat in the Hat.

Yes.

Amelia singer songwriter Cat Stevens song Father and Son was used in the scene of the funeral of this character in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Volume two.

I don't know.

You can pass or not sure.

No, it was Yondu.

All right, Luke.

The title of Harry Chapman's song about the relationship between a father and son, takes its name from this two person game played with String.

Cat's Cradle.

Yes, Cade, this fictional theoretical physicist, gave up on string theory in the seventh season of the Big Bang.

Theory.

Pass.

All right, Charlie, question goes to you.

Pass.

All right.

And Amelia, that's the last pass.

So I don't know.

I don't know.

Not sure.

All right.

It is Sheldon Cooper.

So that ends a tough third.

It's three strikes and you're out round.

But no worries.

Teams, we're going to go right from this round into round three, which is our 60 second round.

And for that round of like to invite the alternates to come on up and join your teams at the podiums.

And while they do, I will explain that in the 60 second round each team gets ten questions in a category.

We'll start with the team that is trailing and we will take you guys can do this as a group.

We'll take the captains answer as the team answer.

And the team trailing right now is Fall Mountain.

And so we will start with you and Edward.

You can choose from you can talk to your team, you bug me.

Here comes the judge and measuring up.

Measuring up.

Measuring up It is okay.

The answers to the following will all include a term for measurements.

Okay.

60 seconds.

Start the clock in this novel by Ray Bradbury, fireman burn books.

Fahrenheit 451 Yes.

In this comedy by Shakespeare, the Duke of Vienna embarks on a diplomatic mission.

Romeo and Juliet.

It is measure by measure.

This heavy and dense dessert is made with lots of butter, flour, eggs and sugar.

Pound Cake.

Yes.

This Jules Verne novel features Captain Nemo, 20 thousand Leagues under the Sea.

Judges think about that.

This composer, bandleader and trumpeter's first album, New Sounds, was released in 1951.

Louis Armstrong.

It is Miles Davis.

In this movie, a car thief must steal 50 cars in one night to save the life of his brother.

30 seconds.

It is Gone in 60 Seconds.

Kevin Bacon brings dancing to a Texas town in this movie Footloose.

Yes, the caterpillar of the Geometry month is better known by this name.

Inch Worm.

Yes, He was what his best friend and only in Toy Story.

Didn't quite get there.

And four out of ten on your 60 second round.

All right.

Saint Thomas, we come over to you and Luke.

I'll take your answer as the team answer.

You guys can choose from.

You bug me, and here comes the judge.

Here comes the judge.

Here comes the judge.

All right.

The answers to the following will be related to the United States Supreme Courts.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

This judge was known as RGB.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Yes.

He was the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

John Jay.

Yes, he was the first.

She was the first female Supreme Court Justice O'Connor.

Yes, she was the first Supreme Court justice nominated by President Joe Biden.

Jackson.

Yes.

He was the first black person named to the US Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall.

Yes.

After he served as US president, he became a Supreme Court justice.

Taft.

Yes.

How many Supreme Court justices are there?

Nine.

Yes.

What article of the US Constitution establishes the Supreme Court?

Three?

Yes.

This President holds the record for the most Supreme.

Court nominations.

It's Roosevelt.

It was George Washington.

This New Hampshire resident became a Supreme Court justice in 1990.

Stone?

I'm sorry, it's David Souter and eight out of ten on your 60 second round.

Great job, teams.

Thank you, alternates.

You guys can go ahead and take your seats for the rest of the teams.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices again, because we are going to go into round four in round four.

We're going to pick back up with our toss up questions, but we are going to double the point value to 20.

So these are 20 point toss up questions and we will be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

So still kind of a tight game can go either way.

Fall Mountain, Saint Thomas.

Good luck.

Released in 1972.

This song by Alice Cooper has become an anthem for every student at the end of the school year.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Schools for summer.

Yes.

After this teen ager was tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on a public funeral and an open casket, an act that exposed the world to the barbarity of racism in the US.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Emmett Till.

Yes.

All right, teams, for the next question, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This man's 1791 work rights of man held that political revolution was justified if the government didn't protect the natural rights of it's people.

It was written partly in defense of the French Revolution.

And in response to Edmund Burke's 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Grace of Fall Mountain Montesquieu.

Sorry.

No.

Saint Thomas.

Charlie.

John Locke.

It is Thomas Paine.

All right, teams.

This island nation's parliament is known as the all thing.

Luke of Saint Thomas, Jamaica.

Sorry, No.

Kaleb of Fall Mountain.

Australia?

No, it is Iceland.

M Night Shyamalan, who is known for creating movies featuring the supernatural and plot twists like The Sixth Sense and Signs was also one of the screenwriters for this movie, based on a children's book by E.B.

White about a mouse and his human family.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Stuart Little.

Yes.

The preamble to the US Constitution states that the people want to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of this for posterity.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Freedom.

Sorry.

No.

Fall.

Mountain.

Grace.

Liberty.

Liberty is right.

In 2021, this young poet read her poem, The Hill We Climb at the inauguration of Joe Biden.

Charlie of Saint Thomas Gorman.

Amanda Gorman.

Yes.

In 1862, these two iron clad warships fought to a draw at the Battle of Hampton Roads.

Luke of Saint Thomas Monitor and the Merrimack.

Yes.

All right, teams, a math question for you.

You have pencil and paper if you want.

You and three of your friends go out to dinner.

The total bill is $125.

You decide to leave a tip of 15%.

How much does the group leave for the server?

So I just ran out of time tips.

It's $18.75.

All right, teams, the next question is coming to you on your monitors.

So take a look.

My name is Jay.

I'm from the New Hampshire Science Teachers Association.

And I have a science question for you.

In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced that they had used the mammary gland of a six year old thin Dorset sheep and created a lamb named this Luke of Saint Thomas.

Dolly Yes.

In 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama named this person as his running mate.

Kaleb A Fall Mountain.

Joe Biden Yes.

This man, who was the last Republican governor of California, served from 2003 through 2011.

Kaleb of Fall Mountain.

Schwarzenegger.

Yes.

You'll find two houses, the Zimmerman house and the Carlyle.

House, designed by this architect in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Right.

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Yes.

In a 1986 nuclear reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union in what country is Chernobyl currently located?

Edward of Fall Mountain, Ukraine.

Yes.

This animated series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered on comedy Central in 1997.

Braden of Fall Mountain.

South Park.

Yes.

17th century French playwright Jean Baptiste Proclean is known for works like Tartuffe The Misanthrope and the doctor, in spite of himself and is better known by this name.

Edward a of Fall Mountain.

Say it again.

Jekyll and Hyde.

Sorry.

No.

It was Moliere was what we were looking for.

Teams, what English poet wrote this opening line to a poem.

How do I love the Let me count the ways I love the to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

All right, teams, go ahead and take a look at your monitor for this next question.

This species of ground squirrel comes in five varieties black tailed, Utah, Mexican, white tailed and Gunnison.

They are found in the grasslands of North America, where they live in underground burrows.

Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Gopher.

Sorry.

No.

Edward of Fall Mountain.

Prairie dog.

Prairie dog is right.

Teams.

What is the only numerical value that cannot be the denominator in a fraction?

Cade of Saint Thomas.

Zero.

That's it.

In 1994, Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 26 people.

In what country is Mount Vesuvius?

Edward of Fall Mountain, Italy.

Yes.

This city's stainless steel gateway Arch also known as the Gateway to the West, first opened to the public in 1967.

Cade of Saint Thomas.

Saint Louis?

Yes.

This scientist included 63 elements on the periodic table he created in 1871.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Mendeleev.

Yes.

The 1973 concept album Dark Side of the Moon, by this progressive rock band explores themes like greed, death, Mental Health and time.

Kaleb of a Fall Mountain.

Pink Floyd.

Yes.

In 1754, this young colonel from the Virginia militia surrendered Fort.

Necessity in Pennsylvania to the French in the French and Indian War.

It was the first battle of the war, and the only time the man ever surrendered.

Edward of Fall Mountain.

George Washington.

That's it.

This woman wrote 19 novels, 17 books of poetry, and a number of journals and memoirs.

She moved to Nelson, New Hampshire, in 1956 and lived there until 1990 when she moved to York, Maine.

One of her best known works, plant Dreaming Deep, is about her early years in Nelson and turning an 18th century farmhouse on 36 acres of land into a home.

Kaleb in Fall Mountain.

DICKINSON Sorry, no.

All right.

It is Mary Sartin.

This is the only state in the US where the majority of the population are members of a single religious denomination.

Edward of Fall Mountain, Utah.

Yes.

This author's first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950.

She would go on to write about more books about Henry and his dog ribsy and his neighbors, Ramona and Beezus Quimby.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Cleary.

Yes.

Fred Rogers.

Always change out of a suit jacket into a sweater on Mister Rogers neighborhood.

If the show had been filmed in England, his sweater would have been called this.

Kaleb of Fall Mountain.

A jumper.

That's right.

Although he rejected the title, many consider this composer to be the first impressionistic composer.

His 1894 work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, was based on a poem by Stefan.

Mallarme and was later the inspiration for the ballet.

I didn't want to finish that question anyway, and at the end of the game, by a score of 320 to 240, it looks like Saint Thomas will be moving on to the next rounds.

All right.

Thank you so much Fall Mountain for a good game.

Congratulations Saint Thomas, we'll see you in a few weeks.

Fall Mountain.

Thanks so much for coming here.

We hope that you had fun.

I know we had fun having you guys in the studio, and I hope you had fun at home as well.

I know that we did.

And this time around, I know that I learned a lot.

And I hope you did, too.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We'll see you next time.

Major funding for the production of Granite State challenge is provided by UNITIL with 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.