This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Hopkinton High School takes on the team from Salem High School.

Only one team will advance.

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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 working our way through the first round of play.

Six teams have punched their ticket to round two.

We've got two teams here this week hoping to be the seventh.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up, we have the team from Hopkinton High School.

Hi, I'm Adam.

I'm a senior.

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

Hi, I'm Flo.

I'm a junior.

It's good.

I'm Jackson.

I'm a senior.

All right.

The alternates for the team are Finn and Thomas, and the team is coached by social studies teacher Liam Callahan.

And that's the team from Hopkinton High School.

Their opponents this week are the team from Salem High School.

Howdy.

I'm Quinn.

I'm a sophomore.

Junior.

Hi.

I'm Megan I'm a sophomore.

Hi.

I'm Seth.

I'm a junior.

Hi, I'm Sophie.

I'm a sophomore.

The alternates for the team are Shay and Gabe, and the coach is social studies teacher Bernie Campbell.

And that's the team from Salem High School.

Team introductions are out of the way, but we do have one more introduction, of course.

Is our judge with us again Ann Boulanger.

All right.

Team's introductions are out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

We're going to play the game.

We'll talk a little bit after round one, but we're going to play round one first.

And these are ten point toss up questions coming at you.

So Hopkinton and Salem, good luck.

Let's play.

Thank you.

In the tongue twisting nursery rhyme, what did Peter Piper pick?

A peck of?

Quinn of Salem.

Pickled peppers.

That's right.

Who was the first US president to be impeached?

Seth of Salem.

Richard Nixon.

Sorry, No.

Hopkinton.

Colton.

Johnson.

Which Johnson?

Andrew Johnson.

That's the right one.

The San Francisco 49 ers are in Navy and are an NFL football team.

Who were the 49 ers?

The team is named for?

Adam of Hopkinton.

The Gold Rush.

Yeah.

We'll take that gold rush.

Gold miners?

Yeah.

This man was unanimously elected to the presidency twice by the electoral College.

Seth of Salem.

George Washington.

He's the one.

Teams which US president said, quote, After all, the chief business of the American people is business.

They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

In a 1925 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Colton of Hopkinton.

Calvin Coolidge.

He's the one.

Only one planet stands between the Earth and Jupiter.

What is it?

Adam of Hopkinton, Mars?

Yes.

Located north of the Arctic Circle.

This is the northernmost city or town in the United States.

Sorry flow.

Not quite there.

It is Ukiah, Vik or Barrow, Alaska.

All right, teams.

This could be the name of the barber in Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville, or the name of Jupiter's Cat in Pinocchio.

Quinn of Salem.

Is it Figaro?

It is Figaro.

You've got it.

All right.

For your next question, go ahead and look at the monitors in front of you for a picture coming right at you.

This bird is easily identified by its distinctive black chinstrap.

It is often seen flying in a V formation made up of a number of birds.

Seth of Salem.

Mallard Duck.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinton.

Adam, Canada.

Goose.

Yes.

This city is sometimes referred to as La la land or Tinsel Town.

Colton of Hopkinton, San Francisco.

Sorry, no, Salem Quinn.

Los Angeles it is Los Angeles.

This printer of the New York Weekly.

Journal was accused of libel by William Crosby, the royal governor of New York.

He was acquitted at trial when his lawyers, Andrew Hamilton and William Smith Senior, argued that the truth was a defense against libel.

Flo of Hopkinton.

Zimmermann Sorry, no right.

First letter.

John Peter Zenger was the person we were looking for teams.

This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list.

Quinn of Salem, a colon.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinton.

Adam Semicolon.

Nope, Just a comma.

Just a plain old, ordinary comma.

Before he became U.S. president, this man established the Commission for Relief in Belgium, which distributed food in Europe during World War One.

Colton of Hopkinton.

Harding Sorry, no Herbert Hoover did that.

This ancient Greek mathematician and inventor is known for proving several geometric geometric theorems, including the area of a circle and the volume of a sphere.

But he is most often associated with the screw pump.

He invented Jackson of Hopkinton.

Who is Archimedes?

Yes, Archimedes is right.

If you want to buy a vowel on this game show, it will cost you $250.

Continents are free.

Seth of Salem, Wheel of Fortune.

That's right.

In the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe by W.P.

Kinsella, which was adapted into the film Field of Dreams, the main character, Ray Kinsella, sets off on a journey across the country to try to help this reclusive author who made his home in.

CORNISH, New Hampshire reclusive author was J.D.

Salinger.

This capital city of Minnesota was once called Pig's Eye.

Landing after fur trader and bootlegger Pigs II Parents.

Adam of Hopkinton, Saint Paul.

Yes, you will find Ode to Joy in the fourth and final movement of this composer's ninth Symphony.

Adam of Hopkinton.

Beethoven.

Yes, that's right.

This singer songwriter's concert film for her Eras tour earned over $261 million, making it the highest grossing concert documentary of all time.

Colton of Hopkins.

Taylor Swift.

Yes.

All right, team, Our next question is our Unitil Power.

Question is coming to you on your monitors worth double the points?

Take a look.

The theme song for these superheroes ought to have show that were created in Dover, New Hampshire, include the words.

Turtle Power, Colton of Hopkinton, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Yes, sir.

The Doomsday or Domesday Book, A detailed record of the value of the land and livestock in England and Wales was compiled in 1086 at the request of this King is William the First or William the Conqueror.

This South American country has five World Cup titles, the most of any country.

It won its first World Cup in 1958 and its last in 2002.

Colton of Hopkinton, Brazil.

Yes, this space measurement, which is almost 5.9 trillion miles long, is also the surname of a cartoon character, Seth of Salem.

Light Year.

Light year is right after Buzz Lightyear.

And that sound ends round one.

And Hopkinton out to a bit of a lead right now by a score of o120 to 60.

All right, teams, good job.

Keep it up.

Before we roll into round two, we're going to take a moment to pause and get to know our players a little bit this week.

And we're going to start with the team from Hopkinton High School.

Hopkinton High School enrolls just under 300 students in the capital region of the state.

And from among those students we have our team Captain Adam, who is a baseball fan.

I take it because you've memorized what, every World Series winner by year.

Every World Series winner by year.

Okay.

So I was born in the year 1978.

So who won the World Series in 78?

New York Yankees.

Rough.

That's a rough year as a Red Sox fan.

So you how did this happen?

How did you end up memorizing all the teams?

You know, I was big baseball fan all my life.

I knew the ones from the seventies onwards for a while.

And then one night I decided to memorize the rest of them.

And you just did it.

Why not?

Why not memorizing things?

There you go.

All right.

Football next.

We'll see.

We'll see.

All right.

He's joined by Colton, who got to do a pretty cool trip last spring.

Yeah.

All right.

Where'd you get to go?

And why did you get to go there?

So basically, my school did an exchange program with a school in Normandy in France.

We got to stay over there with French families for about two and a half weeks.

And I obviously made really good friends with my exchange student.

His name is Hugo, and he came to stay with me this fall.

Excellent.

So this is a sister school type situation.

So you went there?

They came here.

You and Hugo still keeping in touch?

Absolutely.

Fantastic.

I love it.

All right.

They're joined by Flo and Flo, maybe an aspiring politician yourself.

You've got to meet some politicians during the primary season.

Who do you get to meet?

I met Nikki Haley and Marianne Williamson.

Was this just at campaign events around the state during the primaries?

Yeah.

All right.

Do you maybe get a chance to see any or.

I'm hoping to, yeah, hoping to.

Maybe in the next primaries when they come around.

Should I be looking out for you to be running for office in the future?

All right.

Excellent.

Well, what's one of the great things.

New Hampshire has to offer is its primary so good on you for getting involved?

You know, we talked about football a second ago in Jackson.

The last player on a team is a die hard fan of what team Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Pittsburgh Steelers.

So maybe a little unexpected for a New Englander.

Why?

How did you become a Pittsburgh Steelers fan?

It's all all runs in the family.

My dad's side, my grandparents on my dad's side were from Pittsburgh.

Gotcha.

And even though my mom and her side of the family is a Patriots fan, yeah, I just, like, fall in line.

Grandparents teach your dad to be a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

He teaches you to be a Steelers fan.

All right.

You going to continue the tradition on?

Probably.

Probably.

All right.

Excellent.

And that is the team from Hopkinton High School.

All right.

We're going to take a minute to get to know the team from Salem High School, starting with Captain Quinn, Junior.

Captain Quinn learning to do something that I think is pretty cool and fairly unusual for a high school student.

You're learning to read what?

I'm learning to read Tarot cards.

Tarot cards.

So how did this come about?

Well, I've always been a very strong believer in luck, and I've always found that the interpretability of tarot cards be fascinating.

So my library had a pact to learn how to do it.

So I picked it up recently and I've been learning how.

So you've been learning how to do it.

All right.

Excellent.

Have you have you read anyone's future I had before?

Yes.

And particularly John for Quiz Ball today, I actually read our fortune for Granite State Challenge and the card driver was the higher reversed, which can simply symbolize false leadership or being led astray by someone.

Okay, take that as you will.

I hope that no one lead you astray.

And then I read all of the questions with perfect precision.

Let's hope for that.

All right.

Speaking of precision, the next player on the team, Megan, uses some precision to be to excel at your sport.

What is it?

I do swim.

Swimming.

So you're on the swim team at Salem High School.

And so when did you start swimming?

Well, I'd always started swimming when I was younger.

And then I took a break, do dance, and then I was like, Hey, why not do it again?

I started back when I was a freshman and continue it hopefully all the way through senior year.

And when you did it as a freshman, was that the first time you started doing it competitively?

Yes.

All right.

And what's your what's your favorite event that you do is a 50 freestyle, 50 freestyle sprinting on down the line.

Perfect.

All right, Megan, you're joined by Seth, who got to meet someone I think is super cool, but you just get to meet this person.

Tell us.

I got to shake hands with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Okay, So tell everyone at home who Neil deGrasse Tyson is if they don't know.

So Neil deGrasse Tyson is a famous astrophysicist and science communicator.

And one day when I was, I think ten, I went to a presentation he did about exoplanets, and I had to sit in the front because I'm my eyesight's pretty bad and I forget exactly what I said.

But I made some comment during the show and he found it so funny that he he reached out and he shook my hand.

And it was he appreciated the cleverness of your quip.

It was hard, hard to wash my hand after that, but I had to cave in.

I bet.

I bet.

Well, that's a wonderful story, man.

And we love Neil deGrasse Tyson here at New Hampshire, PBS.

Rounding out the team is Sophie.

A bit of a musician, plays two instruments that I find anyone who can play these two instruments.

I just am so impressed.

And they are piano and cello.

Piano and cello.

And which one have you been playing longer piano for?

Like ten years.

And cello for how long?

Six years.

Six years.

Okay, that's great.

And do you get to play a lot at school or in the community at all?

Yeah.

I'm currently in our schools musical Frozen.

Playing cello.

Playing cello in the pit band?

Yeah, in the pit orchestra.

In the pit orchestra.

There you go.

Very cool.

Very cool.

Well, keep it up and hopefully the show goes well.

And this is your team from Salem High School.

All right, teams, we're going to roll into round two.

In round two, we do are three strikes and you're out round.

And the way this round works is each team gets ten questions.

We go right down the line, player by player, starting with the team captains.

Each player gets one question and we go down the line until all ten questions are asked or until three strikes and you are out.

Each team has three passes, so if you don't know, you can pass it to your teammate next to you.

And just as a reminder, there's a bit of a clue to your question in the previous question, so be paying attention to that.

We do this in alphabetical order.

So we're going to start with Hopkinton.

And Adam, here is your question.

This quiz show has been hosted by Art Fleming, Alex Trebek, Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik.

Jeopardy!

Yes.

Colton.

Mayim Bialik played Amy Farrah Fowler in this sitcom that featured theoretical physics, a theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and an experimental physicist.

Big Bang Theory Yes.

Flo.

Brian May is a astrophysicist who was also the lead guitarist for this band, fronted by Freddie Mercury.

Pass.

Jackson Your question, Queen.

Queen is right, Adam.

The chemical element Mercury is also known as this kind of silver.

Pass.

Pass.

All right, your passes are up.

Flo.

Liquid.

Sorry, it's called Quicksilver.

Quicksilver.

Jackson.

Silver was the horse of this fictional masked Texas lawman.

Ah.

Ah.

It is The Lone Ranger.

Adam, Texas is known as the Lone Star State because it was once an independent republic.

While it was a republic, it had four presidents David BURNETT, Mirabeau Lamar, Anson Jones, and this man who has a major Texas city named after him.

Sam Houston.

That's right.

Colton Houston is known as Space City and is home to the Johnson Space Center.

In 1970, pilot Jack Swigert said, okay, Houston, we've had a problem here during this ill fated mission.

Apollo 13.

Yes, Flo, this actor, also known for his role as Ren McCormack in the movie.

Footloose, played Jack Swigert in the movie Apollo 13.

I don't know.

You might be six degrees from Kevin Bacon, and that is three strikes and the end of your rounds.

All right, Salem, we come on over to you.

Same drill.

Quinn, we'll start with you.

This is your question.

You may know Boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay Junior believed by many, including himself, to be the greatest of all time by this name.

Muhammad Ali.

Yes, Megan Muhammad Ali is known for saying that he would float like a butterfly and sting like one of these.

A Bee?

Yes.

Seth, the 2007 animated film The Bee movie starred this actor who played Jerry on a sitcom where nobody learned any lessons.

Jerry Seinfeld.

Yes.

Sophie, A famous episode of Seinfeld introduced the audience to this holiday for the rest of us that featured the airing of grievances and the feats of strength.

Pass.

Pass.

Festivus.

Festivus is right.

And that's all your passes, I believe.

So we'll go back to you, Sophie.

The song Holiday Road by Lindsey Buckingham is the theme song for this 1993 movie detailing a family trip by the Griswold family.

The Giswolds?

It is National Lampoon's Vacation.

Quinn, Lindsey Buckingham was the guitarist for this band that also included Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood.

I haven't the faintest idea.

It is Fleetwood Mac.

Megan The Fleetwood Mac song Don't Stop was used in the 1992 presidential campaign of this former governor of Arkansas.

Nixon.

Sorry, it's Bill Clinton.

And that is three strikes and the end of your rounds.

All right.

Hopkinton hanging on to its lead as we roll into round three, which is our 60 second round, I'd like to invite the alternates to come on up.

And join that.

And join their teams at the podiums in our 60 second round, each team gets ten questions in a category.

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

We typically start with the team that is trailing and Salem that is you and Quinn you can talk to your team and you speak for your team, but you can talk and work together on this and you can choose from these three categories: Out of this World, The Places you'll Never Go, And Deep Purple.

What do you all think?

Probably purple.

Deep Purple, please.

Deep Purple, it will be.

All right.

The answers to the following will all include the word purple or violet.

So, Quinn, I'll take your answer as the team answer.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

He was a one eyed, one horned flying one of these and a novelty song.

Purple People Eater.

Yes.

This is given to given out to individuals who are wounded in war.

The Purple Heart.

Yes.

This is New Hampshire State Bird, Purple Finch.

Yes.

Jimi Hendrix asked to be excused to kiss the sky in this 1967 song Purple Rain, sorry, Purple Haze.

Prince saying about this precipitation in the 1980s.

Purple Rain, that's the one.

This novel by Alice Walker was made into a movie in 1995 and 2023.

Color of Purple.

Yes.

This English rock band is known for the song Smoke on the Water.

Pass.

That's Deep Purple.

This children's book features a bald little boy in blue pajamas who draws his own world, Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Yes, she blows up like a big blueberry in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.

Violet Yes.

Violet will take that.

And she is the oldest daughter in The Incredibles films.

Violet Par.

Violet Par.

We needed the last name that is good.

And is eight out of ten on your 60 second rounds.

All right.

Nice job, Salem.

Thank you.

Hopkinton we turn our attention to you.

Adam is conferring with his team as they decide between Out of This World and, The Places Gou'll Never Go.

Out of this world.

Out of this world.

Okay, Out of this world.

In this category, all of the following will be famous space aliens.

So, Adam, I'll take your answer as the team answers 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

He just wanted to go home.

E.T.

Yes.

Kryptonite can take him.

Superman.

Yes.

He is Han Solo's sidekick.

Chewbacca.

Chewbacca.

Yes.

They always want to exterminate everything in Doctor Who?

Logan still?

Pass.

It's a Dalek or Dalek.

He just wants you to live long and prosper.

Spock?

Yes.

He regenerates when he is killed and can then continue his time traveling.

Pass.

Is Doctor Who.

His friend Rocket can understand his sentences that are made up of the same working groups.

Groot.

Yes.

This little little Looney Tunes alien dresses like a Roman soldier.

Marvin The Martian.

Marvin The Martian is right.

He helped Luke learn to control the force.

Obi-Wan It's Yoda.

This little blue koala looking creature was experiment 626.

Ah Stitch Stitches is right and at the end of their round seven out of ten on your 60 second round.

Thank you alternates.

You can go ahead and take your seats.

We're going to roll into round four.

In round four, We're going to continue with our toss up questions, but we're going to add a new wrinkle.

We're going to double the point value to 20 points, but we will be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

Still a tight game.

Hopkinton and Salem.

So good luck.

Let's go.

Ulaanbaatar is the capital of this large landlocked country bordered by Russia and China.

Adam of Hopkinton, Mongolia.

That's right.

In 1841, this future author sailed out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, on the whaler Acushnet.

In 1842, he and a shipmate jumped ship.

He wrote about that experience in his first novel, Typee a peep at Polynesian life that was written by Herman Melville in 1949.

This island nation, once known as Formosa, broke away from mainland China and established its own government.

Colton of Hopkinton, Taiwan.

Yes, zucchini is a green summer squash that grows on a vine spell.

Zucchini Quinn of Salem.

Z u c c h I n i.

That is correct.

Gregory Peck played lawyer Atticus Finch in the movie adaptation based on this novel by Harper Lee Seth of Salem To Kill a mockingbird.

Correct.

In what, 1987 movie Will you hear this, That word I do not think it means what you think it means , Quinn of Salem.

The Princess Bride.

Yes.

All right, then.

The next question coming at you is coming to you on your monitors.

It's a civics question.

So take a look.

Hi there.

I'm Hannah McCarthy, co-host of NHPR's Civics 101 the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works.

We've got a few questions to stretch your civics muscles, which, by the way, can be exercised at any time by listening to our podcast at Civics 101 at podcast dot org.

Here's a civics math question for you.

Sally just turned 18 years old.

How long must she wait before she can serve in the United States House of Representatives?

Colton of Hopkinton.

Seven years.

Seven more years.

You got it.

Well, it is called a C. The say this sailing lake surrounded by Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Iran is the largest lake in the world.

Seth of Salem.

Dead Sea.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinton is the Caspian Sea, the highest mountain in our solar system.

Olympus Mons is six miles high and is found on this planet.

Adam of Hopkinton.

Mars.

It is Asrielle is the pet cat of this wizard.

An enemy of the Smurfs.

Quinn of Salem.

Gargamel.

Yes.

This defensive wall in northern.

England was begun in the year 1 to 122.

Colton of Hopkinton.

Hadrian's Wall.

That's it.

This could be a citric fruit.

A car you just bought that has problems.

Or the surname of the character Tina Fey played in the sitcom 30 Rock.

That's the time she played Liz Lemon.

And at the end of the game, it looks like Hopkinton will be moving on to round two.

All right, Good game Team good win, Hopkinton, we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks when you'll take on your second round opponent.

And Salem tough match, but a well fought game.

An entertaining game.

We had fun having you here.

We hope you had fun as well.

And at home, we hope you had fun watching today's match.

We do hope that you tune in next week when Two Lakes region teams enter Lakes and Laconia, high schools come to play.

We hope to see you then.

But more importantly, we hope you learn something this week because I did as well.

We'll see you next time.

Bye bye.

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New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, D.F.

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