Hopkinton High V. Portsmouth High

This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Hopkinton.

High School takes on the team from Portsmouth 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 thank you so much for joining us.

We are here about halfway through our first round of play in the 41st season of Granite State Challenge.

Three teams have already punched their ticket to the next round.

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 Hopkinton High School.

They are led by junior Captain Adam.

And Adam knows many numbers.

Digits in pi.

How many?

Yeah, about 100.

And how did this happen?

How did you learn this?

I started in fifth or sixth grade.

There is a competition at our elementary school fair in math.

Who could memorize the most And I decided I would do 80 a hundred next year a little more.

And it just kind of grew from there and stuck in my memory.

And did you win the competition?

I did.

I sure hope so.

All right.

Adam is joined by senior Hal.

And Hal, you have a pretty cool internship going on right now.

Tell us about it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Right now, I'm interning at the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and this week I did my first meeting of the New Hampshire Committee on Education.

Nice.

And you think in career in politics, maybe.

Absolutely.

That's the plan.

All right.

Well, speaking of politics, Hal is joined by junior Colton, who also has a recent connection to politics.

Tell us about it.

Absolutely.

So I worked with State Senator Lou D'Alessandro of Manchester, as well as State Senator Becky Whitley of Concord.

Internships for both senators.

And it was an awesome experience and I was so glad to be able to do it.

OK, also want to be a politician.

Absolutely.

That's.

All right.

Well, I hope to vote for both of you someday.

All right.

And Colton is joined by freshman Thomas, who was a player on the JV team this year in soccer, but not just a player.

You are also a captain.

You are also captain.

How did you become the captain?

My coach chose me.

And how the team do this year.

We did pretty good.

So a bright future for the Hopkinton High School soccer team then?

Hopefully.

Awesome.

Excellent.

Well, the team alternates are freshmen Nola and Finn, and they're coached by Matthew Krogman, and they are the team from Hopkinton High School.

All right.

Facing off against them is the team from Portsmouth High School.

And Portsmouth is led by returning player and senior captain Nick and Nick.

It says here that you built a chariot.

I built five, actually.

Okay.

Tell us about it.

It was the first ever Portsmouth High School chariot race.

We brought together the robotics team and the history department, and, yeah, we raced them.

And how did it go?

Athens won.

All right.

Excellent.

No damage to the gym floor?

Maybe a little bit.

All right.

Nick is joined by sophomore Nolan.

And Nolan.

You had a pretty scary experience as a youngster in the backyard skydiving.

Tell us.

Well, we decided that in kindergarten we were going to make a movie.

And to make the movie, you needed to make a skydiving scene.

So to do the top tier special effects, they decided the best way to do it would be to lower me off a balcony with a jump rope around my waist and my neck.

Luckily, my dad came out in time and put the fun to an end.

Very, very luckily for all of us, Nolan, thanks.

He is joined by Sam, a senior who has a pretty high ranking in a in an app.

Tell us about this.

Number three, in the United States, in subway surfers, a score of 2.6 million.

To this day, my proudest achievement and that is a good score.

I assume it's a great score.

Okay.

Well, hopefully you'll get back up there on that leaderboard.

And rounding out the team is Junior Henry.

And Henry, you says here you love to travel.

You've been to seven countries.

Where and do you have a favorite?

Yeah, I've been to Canada.

Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

And I would say my two favorite experiences were going on this kind of high zipline partially above Niagara Falls.

And.

And on a class trip to Paris, France, seeing it, seeing the city from the second story of the Eiffel Tower sounds amazing.

I would do both of those things in a heartbeat.

The alternates for the team are sophomore Olivia and junior Emily, and the team's coach is Hannah Deuel, and they're the team from Portsmouth.

High School.

All right, teams, we do have one more introduction, and that is, of course, our judge back with us again is Ann Boulanger.

All right, teams, introductions are over.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

We're going to play the game.

As you know, Granite State challenge is played in four rounds and in round one, we do ten point toss up questions.

So Hopkinton, Portsmouth, good luck.

And here we go.

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was fought after Troy of Paris stole this woman from her husband, Menelaus, the King of Sparta.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Helen?

Yes.

The Baseball Hall of Fame is located in Cooperstown, New York.

The Football Hall of Fame is in Canton, Ohio.

And the Hall of Fame for this sport is located in Toronto, Canada.

Hal again.

Hockey?

Yes.

On September 25th, 1789, the US Congress approved 12 articles of amendment to the US Constitution.

Article two became the 27th Amendment.

Article one is still pending and Articles three through 12 became known as this Hal of Hopkinton, The Bill of Rights.

Yes, in 17 sorry.

In 1971, at age 47, this New Hampshire native became the oldest man to walk on the moon.

Henry of Portsmouth.

Alan Shepard.

Yes.

Warren Zevon sang and howled about these creatures, one of whom had a Chinese menu in his hand in the Soho region of London in a 1978 song.

Nolan of Portsmouth Werewolf.

Yes.

This jazz pianist, composer and bandleaders.

1937 Jazz Standard.

1 o'clock jump has been used in the movies.

Harlem Nights, The English Patient and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown and Don't Come Back.

Nick of Portsmouth.

Herbie Hancock.

Sorry, No, that was Count Basie in 2000.

Howard Dean, the governor of this state, signed the first bill in the country allowing same sex couples to form civil unions.

Hal of Hopkinton, Vermont.

Yes.

Eric Arthur Blair, the author of novels of the novels Animal.

Farm in 1984, is better known by this pen name, Nolan.

George Orwell.

George Orwell is right.

This baseball player was a catcher for several teams, including the Boston.

Red Sox.

After his baseball career, he worked as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services or OSS during World War Two.

He was known as the brainiest guy in baseball, and Casey Stengel called him the strangest man to ever play baseball.

I learned this as well.

It was Moe Berg.

In Lake Placid, New York, in the 1980 Olympics.

The United States hockey team defeated the Soviet Union.

Hockey team 4 to 3 in a game that became known as the Miracle on Ice.

The US went on to win the gold medal by beating this Scandinavian and team.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Norway.

Sorry, no.

Portsmouth.

Henry, Denmark.

Sorry, it was Finland.

Finland.

This singer songwriter was one of the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

He is known for the songs Blueberry Hill and Blueberry Hill.

Ain't That a shame?

And walking to New Orleans.

It is Fats Domino.

All right, teams.

Next up is our UNITIL power question.

It's worth 20 points.

And is coming to you from your monitors.

Take a look.

This superhero with adamantium claws is named for the largest member of the weasel family.

Hal of Hopkinton, Wolverine.

Wolverine is right before he became president of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi in the US House and Senate.

He was also the United States Secretary of war from 1853 to 1857 under this President.

Hal of Hopkinton, Franklin Pierce.

Yes.

This Barbadian singer had a hit in 2007 with Umbrella, a song that was originally written for Britney Spears.

Henry of Portsmouth.

Rihanna.

Yes.

After Oxygen.

This is the most abundant element in the human body and makes up about 18% of the body by mass.

Nick of Portsmouth.

Hydrogen.

Sorry.

No.

Adam of Hopkinton.

Carbon carbons.

Right.

This English writer who was recruited to serve in the British Secret.

Intelligence Service, the predecessor to M-1 six in 1916, wrote what many consider to be his masterpiece of human bondage in 1915.

Colton of Hopkinton.

Ian Fleming.

Sorry, No.

Portsmouth.

Nolan Hemingway.

Sorry.

It was W. Somerset Maugham.

And that sound ends round one.

And after round one looks like Hopkinton is out to a bit of a lead by a score of 80 to 40.

All right, Nice start, teams.

We are going to go into round two, and round two is our three strikes and you're out round.

This is how it works.

Each team gets ten questions, each player on the team gets one question.

We go right down the line until you answer all ten or until three strikes and you're out.

We'll give you ten points for each correct response if you get them.

All right, we'll give you a bonus of ten points as well.

And just as a reminder, each team has three passes that they can use.

And something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.

All right, Hopkinton, we start with you and Adam.

This is your question.

This rapper released her first studio album, Good News in 2020.

I don't know.

It is Megan Thee Stallion.

Hal, these two characters formed the band Wild Stallions in a 1989 movie about a time traveling excellent adventure.

Pass.

Bill and Ted.

Bill And Ted is right.

Thomas.

This 1876 novel by Mark Twain told the tale of the adventures of this titular character who was friends with Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer.

That is correct.

And just a reminder, you cannot confer as a team.

This is individual questions.

Adam, this is your question.

Tom Sawyer was a hit song by this Canadian rock band in 1981.

Pass.

All right.

That's their second pass.

Hal?

I don't know.

It is Rush Colton.

Sir John Alexander McDonald was the first prime minister of Canada.

Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?

Justin Trudeau.

Correct.

Thomas.

Before he became a solo artist, Justin Timberlake was a member of this boy band.

Pass, Pass Adam?

In Sync?

In Sync is correct.

Hal, Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in New England and Moosehead.

Lake in Maine is the second largest lake in New England.

This lake that lies between Vermont and Canada and stretches into Canada is the largest lake in New England.

Lake Champlain, Correct.

Colton In 1608, French explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain established a French settlement in what is now this Canadian city.

Quebec, Correct.

Thomas Quebec City lies on this river, which forms a boundary between Canada and the United States.

Pass You are out of passes.

So that is an incorrect response and that ends your three strikes and you're out round.

All right.

Some good gains made there, but we're going to turn our attention over to Portsmouth and same drill.

Nick, we're going to start with you this thin, wispy type of cloud is made of ice crystals and is found at heights of up to 66,000 feet above sea level.

Their name is derived from the Latin word for curl or fringe cirrus.

Yes.

Nolan, if you are pointing out that even bad events might have a positive side, you might say that every cloud has one of these linings.

Silver Yes.

Sam This fictional masked Texas Ranger has a horse named Silver.

Pass.

Pass to Henry.

I'm going to say the Lone Ranger.

You are correct, Nick, an investment group headed by this former US president, bought the Texas Rangers baseball team for $89 million.

In 1989.

He sold his personal stake in the team In 1998, two years before he was elected president.

Bush.

Which one?

George W Yes, correct.

Nolan.

George W Bush named Iran, Iraq and this country as the axis of evil.

North Korea, Correct.

Sam, this man became president of North Korea after the death of his father in 2010.

Kim Jong un.

Yes.

Henry This TV series about a group of Army doctors and nurses was set during the Korean War.

I would like to pass.

Pass to Nick.

Pass.

Pass to Nolan MASH.

MASH is right.

That is your last pass so this question goes to Sam.

This was the first US president to step into North Korea.

Donald Trump Correct.

Henry Donald Trump often referred to this Florida residence and club as the Southern White House.

Jacksonville sorry, it is Mar a lago.

And Nick, who was the first president to occupy the White House.

ADAMS Which one?

JOHN John Adams was correct, Yes.

Well done.

And that ends your three strikes and you're out round.

So a little bit of a tightening up of the score at the end of round two.

And as we go into round three, our 60 second round, I would like to invite the alternates to come on and step on up to the stage and join your teams as we go into our 60 second round in our 60 second round.

Each team gets a category and ten questions.

You guys can talk as a team and I will take the team captains answer as the team answer and you answer ten questions in 60 seconds.

We'll give you ten points for each one, an additional ten points if you get them.

All correct.

We're going to start with Portsmouth, the team trailing.

And you get to choose from these categories.

Ocean Life deal me in and all about the Benjamins.

Let's go Ocean Life.

Ocean Life.

It is okay.

The answers to all of the following will be related to the sea.

60 seconds.

Start the clock This 1951 novel by Ernest Hemingway is about a fisherman.

The Old man in the Sea.

Yes.

Captain Ahab is the protagonist in this novel by Herman Melville.

Moby Dick.

Yes.

This movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, was based on a novel by Peter Benchley.

Jaws.

Yes, This 2016 Billie Eilish song was written by her brother, Phineas.

Ocean Eyes.

Yes, Life is better here in this song in The Little Mermaid, sung by Sebastian Under the Sea.

Yes, this 1968 movie featured.

The Blue Meanies who hated music and the Beatles.

Yellow Submarine.

Yes.

This novel by Jules Verne features Captain Nemo and the Nautilus 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

It is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Charles Darwin wrote about his voyage on this ship in an 1839 book on the Origin of Species.

It is the Beagle in a picture book, My Baggage, by Meghan McDonald.

That is the time.

And how many?

Six out of ten on your 60 second round.

All right, Hopkinton, we turn our attention to you and you can choose from ocean life and deal me in.

Do me and deal me in.

Okay.

This category.

The answers to the following will include a word related to playing cards.

All right, Adam, I'll take your answer as the team answer.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

You'll find this blue gem in the Smithsonian.

National Museum of Natural History.

Hope Diamond.

Yes.

This carbonated water is full of minerals and used as a drink mixer.

Sparkling water.

Sorry, It's club soda.

She is fond of saying, off with their heads.

In Alices Adventures in Wonderland.

Queen of Hearts.

Yes.

This song by Motorhead is named for what is known as the Death Card.

Queen of Spades.

It is the ace of Spades.

This sitcom follows D.J.

Stephanie and Michelle Tanner growing up in San Francisco.

Full House.

Yes, This duo is famous for going up a hill on a quest for H2O.

Jack and Jill.

Yes.

This ape climbed the Empire State Building in a 1933 movie.

King Kong.

Yes, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Jared Leto have all played this villain, The Joker.

Yes.

This is what you might do after using a toilet flush.

Yes.

This reality series that follows crew members on Superyachts first aired in 2013.

Sorry, didn't quite get to that.

It was below deck and at the end of their round they have seven out of ten on your 60 second round.

Great job teams.

Alternates.

You can go ahead and take your seats as we roll into round four and in round four of Granite State challenge, we pick back up with our toss up questions.

But we are going to double the point value to 20 points.

We will also be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

It's a tight match right now with a very tight score, so teams, good luck.

Play smart.

Here we go.

Neither Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, nor Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, were actual Colonel's spell.

Colonel Nick of Portsmouth.

C-O-L-O-N-E-L. That's it.

This was the last state to have a paid state holiday named for Martin Luther King Jr.

The state celebrated a civil rights day, but it wasn't until 1999 that the state legislature approved a martin Luther King Jr Day by a vote of 212 to 148.

That was New Hampshire.

In 1872, Yellowstone became the first national park.

Parts of Yellowstone are found in three states, named them.

Hal of Hopkinton, Idaho.

Wyoming.

And Montana.

Yes.

All right, team, The next question is a science question, and it's coming to you from your monitors.

Take a look.

Hi, my name is Tiffany.

I'm from the New Hampshire Science Teachers Association.

And I have a science question for you.

Despite its name, the reservoir for this infectious viral disease is believed to be rodents, not simians.

Nolan of Portsmouth, Monkeypox.

Yes.

All right, teams, you have pencil and paper there in case you need it for this math question.

What is one half divided by one half?

Nick of Portsmouth one.

That's it.

The animated characters Chip and Dale were played by Andy Samberg and John Mulaney in the 2022 movie Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.

What species of animal are Chip and Dale?

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Rodent.

Sorry.

Nope.

We need the species.

They're chipmunks.

In 1689, this minister published memorable Providence's, which argued that the afflictions of the Goodwin children in Boston could be attributed to witchcraft.

This work played a large role in the Salem witchcraft trials.

Three years later, and that was written by Cotton Mather.

This czar abdicated the Russian throne in 1917.

Nolan of Portsmouth, Nicholas The second.

Yes.

All right, team.

So this next question, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

Before he became president, this man served as governor of Ohio for two terms and spent 14 years in the House of Representatives, where he was an expert on tariffs.

He was assassinated in 1901.

Hal of Hopkinton.

William McKinley.

Yes.

Edith Windsor, who was denied the estate tax protections awarded to married couples when her wife died, was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court case.

United States v Windsor, which overturned Section three of this act, often referred to as dogma, which codified non-recognition of same sex marriages for all federal purposes.

Colton of Hopkinton, The Defense of Marriage Act.

That is correct.

Author and illustrator Wanda Gag won a 1929.

Newbery Honor Award for her children's book.

About a million of these.

It is about a million cats.

Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina won 18 Olympic medals between 1956 in 1964.

She held the record for the most medals won by an individual for 48 years.

Her record was broken in 2012 by this swimmer who would go on to win 28 Olympic medals.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Michael Phelps.

Yes.

This poet, abolitionist and suffragist wrote the lyrics to the patriotic song Battle Hymn of the Republic.

The tune was from the song John Brown's Body, about the abolitionist John Brown.

That was by Julia Ward How.

Tionne Watkins, RozondaThomas and Lisa left eye Lopes were the members of this girl group best known for the songs.

Waterfalls, No Scrubs and Creep.

Adam of Hopkinton, TLC.

Yes.

In 1904, this Boston American pitcher threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

His name is now on the premier award for pitching in baseball.

Adam of Hopkinton, Cy Young.

Yes.

In 1899, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer registered this as a trademark for the painkiller, Acetylsalicylic acid Nolan of Portsmouth Aspirin.

Yes.

I'm glad you got that.

This band, which had hits in the 1970s and 1980s with songs like Come Sail Away, Mr. Roboto and Too Much Time On My Hands shares its name with a mythological river in the underworld.

Adam of Hopkinton, Styx.

Yes, this British prime minister was subject to a vote of no confidence in part over a scandal known as Party Gate Nolan of Portsmouth.

Liz Truss.

Sorry, no, Hal of Hopkinton.

Boris Johnson.

He's the one.

All right, teams, take a look at your monitor.

There are 15 species of these large ground squirrels found in Europe, Asia and North America.

The largest species is the Olympic, found only in Washington state.

All right, that is a marmot.

London was founded by Romans as Londinium around 47 to 50 A.D. on this river.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Thames.

The Thames is right.

The skin is the largest organ of the... Well, I'm not going to get to that.

And it was a tight game the whole way.

But it looks like Hopkinton will be moving on by a score of 350 to 290.

Congratulations, Hopkinton, on a great win.

We will see you in a couple of weeks when you take on your second round opponent.

And Portsmouth, tough loss in a tightly fought match.

You guys should be proud of the match that you guys played.

I hope you had fun being here.

We had fun having you guys here, and I hope you had fun at home as well.

I do hope you tune in next week when the team from Portsmouth takes on.

Sorry, Plymouth takes on the team from Salem.

That's going to do it for us this week on Granite State Challenge.

And as I like to say, every week I learned something.

And I hope you did, too.

Thanks for joining us.

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.