This week on Granite State Challenge.

The Knights from Kingswood Regional High School take on the Clippers from Portsmouth 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.

If you've been tuning in, you know, we're about three weeks into our 43rd season.

And now that we're four weeks into it, we've got two new teams hoping to make it to round two.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up we got the team from Kingswood Regional High School.

Hi, I'm Liam and I'm a senior.

Hi, I'm Jiner and I'm the senior.

Hi, I'm Sam and I'm a senior.

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

The alternates for the team are LJ and Oliver.

And the coach is English teacher John Struble.

And they're the team from Kingswood Regional High School facing off against them in this week's match.

Is the team from Portsmouth High School.

Hi, I'm Nolan and I'm a senior.

I'm Jack and I'm a senior.

I'm Aadit and I'm a junior.

I'm Iliya and I'm a junior.

Their alternates are Josh and Anthony.

And their coach is reading and writing specialist, Hannah Deuel.

And they are the Clippers from Portsmouth High School.

Those are our teams this week, folks.

But we do have one more introduction for you.

And that of course, on the Ann cam is our judge, Ann Boulanger All right everybody, introductions are out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices teams because we're going to play some Granite State challenge.

As you know we play in four rounds and in round one we do ten point tossup questions.

So Kingswood and Portsmouth, good luck.

Let's play the game.

Who is the protagonist in The Legend of Zelda franchise?

Jack of Portsmouth.

Link.

Link is right.

Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon were both members of this church, often associated with pacifism and also known as the Religious Society of Friends.

Iliya of Portsmouth.

Quaker.

That's right.

In 1957, this Arkansas governor called out the National Guard to prevent black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School.

Liam of Kingswood.

Eisenhower.

Sorry, no.

It was Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas.

All right, teams, go ahead and take a look at your monitors for a picture coming at you.

Thomas Jefferson was greatly influenced by the works of this 17th century English philosopher when he was drafting the Declaration of Independence.

Jack of Portsmouth.

John Locke.

Yes.

In 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound in this state.

Spencer of Kingswood.

Alaska.

Yes.

In the 2018 movie The Black Panther, T'Challa wears a suit made of this fictional metal.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Vibranium.

Correct.

It took this artist four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Liam of Kingswood.

Michelangelo.

Yes.

This Chinese technology company released the video sharing app TikTok in 2016.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

ByteDance.

Yes.

Teams.

What pop star sang the song Cardigan?

Jack of Portsmouth.

Taylor Swift.

That's right.

In 2021, this journalist co-wrote Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with historian Katherine Howe about the rise and fall of his mother Gloria's family.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Anderson Cooper.

That is right.

All right, teams, next questions a math question.

So we've got pencil and paper if you need it.

If you have placed 80% of the pieces in a puzzle with a thousand pieces and your dog eats the remaining pieces left.

How many pieces did she eat?

Jack of Portsmouth.

200.

That is right.

Three members of this art punk band met at the Rhode Island School of Design when they were freshmen.

They are known for the songs Burning Down the House, Psycho Killer, and Once in a lifetime, Iliya of Portsmouth.

The Talking Heads.

That's right.

In July of 1944, 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations gathered at the Bretton Woods Conference held at this hotel and created the world Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

The Mount Washington.

Yes is Mount Washington hotel.

Teams What is a poem with 14 lines called Liam of Kingswood.

Sonnet.

A sonnet is right.

The 1941 movie Citizen Kane opens with the main character, Charles Foster Kane, on his deathbed, murmuring the word Rosebud.

What is Rosebud?

Spencer of Kingswood.

His lover.

Sorry.

No.

It's a good guess for an old movie.

It was his sled.

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

Take a look.

Hi, I'm Jade Adams, the 2025 New Hampshire's kid governor.

And I have a civics question for you.

New Hampshire has elected three women to serve as governor.

Can you name all three?

Iliya of Portsmouth.

Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Kelly Ayotte.

They are right.

Yes.You got them all.

All right, teams, what was the name of the van Scooby-Doo and the gang rode around in?

Spencer of Kingswood, the Mystery Machine.

That is right.

This chain of 800 coral islands stretches over 180 miles and includes the Dry Tortugas and Key Largo.

Samuel of Kingswood.

Great Barrier Reef.

Sorry, no.

Portsmouth.

Jack.

Key West?

Nope.

We were looking for the entire chain, the Florida Keys.

All right.

Published in 1962, this novel features Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs..

Which.

You'll find that in A Wrinkle in Time.

All right.

Teams an electric circuit has a current of five amps and a resistance of two ohms.

What is the voltage of the circuit?

Sam of Kingswood.

2.5.

Sorry.

No.

Iliya of Portsmouth.

Ten volts.

Ten volts is right.

This former first lady was the chairperson of the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the United Nations.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Roosevelt?

Yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Plant life in the ocean is found in this zone, which stretches from the ocean surface down about 656ft.

Iliya of Portsmouth.

Continental slope.

Sorry, no.

Kingswood.

Liam.

The survival zone.

No.

It's known as the sunlit or euphotic zone.

All right, teams with an atomic number of 92 and the symbol of U, this is the heaviest naturally occurring element.

Aadit of Portsmouth.

Uranium.

Correct.

All right, teams, next question's a picture question.

Go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This extinct species of giant mackerel shark may have been up to 67ft in length.

Its Latin name translates to giant's tooth.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Megalodon.

That's right.

The talking snowman Olaf in the Disney Frozen movies was voiced by Josh Gad, who also played Elder Arnold Cunningham in this Broadway musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the TV series South Park.

Iliya of Portsmouth.

The Book of Mormon Book of Mormon is right.

and that sound ends round one Portsmouth out to a lead by a score of 160 to 40.

Great start, teams.

Before we go into round two, let's take a break in the action and get to know our players this week.

We'll start with the team from Kingswood Regional High School, Kingswood Regional High School is located in Wolfeboro, but serves many of the surrounding towns in that part of the lakes region.

And we're going to start down here on the end with Spencer.

And Spencer, it says here you competed in something called skills USA and placed first in the state in three axis CNC machining.

What is that?

I did.

So skills USA overall is a competition that's comprised of a collection of skills.

Each has their own individual like miniature competition.

I competed in, three axis machining, which in layman's terms, if you can imagine a drill bit that can cut sideways and you get to tell it where you want to go, it can cut anything to make anything.

So metal wood, it doesn't matter.

Exactly.

First in the state, first in the state.

All right.

Excellent.

Keep it up.

All right.

Joining Spencer is Sam who is, you have a pretty cool job maybe on a ski mountain.

A local ski mountain.

Tell us about it.

Yeah, I'm a volunteer ski patroller at King Pines ski area.

Okay.

And what does the typical day for, ski patroller look like for you?

Do a lot of skiing around looking for people who have fallen and gotten hurt.

End up doing a lot of courtesy rides for people come up the lift and, just can't quite make it back down to the bottom.

Gotcha.

And the courtesy ride means?

So one of our other patrollers gets to bring down a sled.

We call it a toboggan.

And it's, give them a ride down the mountain, get to sit in the back, and we get to pull from the handles in the front and bring them all the way down.

Excellent.

All right, well, keep that up.

Next on the team is, Jiner, who is fully fluent in what?

In Mandarin.

Okay.

How'd you learn Mandarin?

So, I was initially born in New York, and then I moved to China for a few years, lived there and went to school there for a bit.

And that's how I learned.

All right.

And you still speak it sometimes in the home and everything.

The whole family speaks it.

So.

All right.

You want to share anything with us in Mandarin?

Oh, yeah.

Of course.

Let's do a line.

(Speaking in Chinese) So that just means good afternoon.

It's an honor to be here.

All right.

Excellent.

It's an honor to have you here.

Thank you.

And rounding out the team is team captain Liam.

And, also a competitor.

But instead of CNC machining, what do you compete in?

Speed cubing.

Speed cubing.

So we're talking Rubik's cube.

Yeah.

So your traditional three by three cube.

All right.

And you came in 30th in your most recent competition.

Yeah.

All right.

It was pretty tough competition.

Well, you know, I know some kids who are into that, and they're really, really good.

What's your best time?

I think around 24 seconds.

All right.

I couldn't do it in 24 years.

So 24 seconds sounds pretty good to me.

That is the team from Kingswood Regional High School.

All right.

And next we're going to talk to the team from Portsmouth High School.

Portsmouth is of course in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

But it also serves the towns of Rye and Greenland in addition to Portsmouth and Newington, I believe.

And so we're going to start with Iliya at the end here.

You rode your bike a lot in 2024.

How much did you ride?

I rode 6000 miles.

6000 miles.

So that's like going from here to the West Coast and back.

So, you know, what did you do?

Was if for competition.

What for?

So I race multiple disciplines.

I'm one of the founding members of our road cycling team at Portsmouth High School.

And I race on the mountain bike team as well.

I ride all year round, rain or shine.

Okay.

Hopefully mostly shine.

Yeah.

Hopefully.

Right.

So very cool.

You have a mountain bike team and a road racing team at Portsmouth High School.

Fantastic.

Keep it up.

All right.

Next up is Aadit who is another kind of competitor.

But what do you compete in?

I'm a four time national qualify for debate.

So we're talking like speech and debate.

How does that how does that work?

What does a competition look like?

Yeah.

So the style of debate is public forum where each team will give a speech and then the other team has a chance to appose it.

And then in the end, the winner is decided by a judge.

All right.

And you do this by yourself, with a team.

Yeah.

So we have a partnership and then the partnership.

Each partner gives a speech, and eventually whoever can give the strongest speech is obviously the best.

All right.

So four time national qualifier.

Let's see if we can get you a national championship this year.

All right.

Next up is Jack, who is a recent, resident of New Hampshire.

Where did you move from?

I moved from Minnesota about four years ago.

Four years ago?

From Minnesota.

Where in Minnesota you from?

Twin cities area.

Okay.

Twin cities area.

Okay.

How is the transition to New Hampshire been thus far?

It's been great.

I've really enjoyed the change of scenery.

Oh, yeah.

When we were all pretty friendly.

Maybe not Minnesota friendly, but we're pretty friendly.

What's your favorite part of New Hampshire so far?

I like being by the beach and close to some mountains.

Yep.

Yeah, you can do it all.

Beach, mountain, city.

Right.

You got it all in close proximity.

Well, welcome here.

We're glad to have you here.

And then the captain of the team is Nolan, who has done something that I don't recommend.

And you don't recommend, which is what?

Trying to get on a moving train.

I was at a cross-country meet, and I see the North Conway Scenic Express running by, and I think to myself, that doesn't look like it's moving that fast.

I bet I could get on there.

Wait for all but the last car to pass.

There's, like, these two handles sticking out there just yelling, grab me.

You shouldn't.

I grab it.

This thing yanks me, throws me on the ground.

I hit it like an earthquake.

It hurt.

Bad idea.

Yeah, I don't recommend it.

And while you lived to tell the tale, Nolan, I would not recommend anybody at home.

Try this at home.

Unless you're cool.

All right, there we go.

And that is the team from Portsmouth High School.

All right, teams, thanks for that break in the action.

We're going to pick right back up into the game with round two which is our three strikes and you're out round.

So we do this one by one team by team.

And the way it works is this.

Each team gets ten questions.

We go down the line.

Each player gets a question.

And we keep going until all ten questions are asked or until three strikes and you're out.

Each team has three passes that you can use in.

Just a reminder that something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.

All right.

So be on the lookout for that.

We will start alphabetically.

Kingswood.

That means you and Liam.

This is your question.

In this nursery rhyme, a woman with way too many children lives here.

A shoe.

A shoe is correct.

Jiner, the Shoemaker Levey Comet collided with this planet in 1994.

Uranus?

It is Jupiter.

Sam, Jupiter was the Roman god of thunder and the sky.

And the king of the Roman gods.

Who was the king of the Greek gods.

Zeus?

Yes, Spencer, Zeus rules from Mount Olympus.

What sporting event takes its name from Mount Olympus?

The Olympics?

That's correct.

Liam, back to you.

In 1980, this president announced that the United States would not compete in the Moscow Olympics because the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan.

Reagan.

It was Carter.

Jiner, in 2001 under this US president, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks.

George W Bush.

That's correct.

Samuel, George W Bush narrowly defeated this vice president in the 2000 presidential election.

Pass.

Pass.

Two passes to you, Liam.

Gore.

Al Gore is right.

Back to you, Jiner.

This man who used to sing with Art Garfunkel is known for many songs, including You Can Call Me Al.

Pass.

That is your last pass.

So, Samuel.

Weird Al Yankovic No, it is Paul Simon.

And that is your third strike that ends the round.

All right, nice job Kingswood.

We turn our attention over to Portsmouth.

Same drill, same process.

And, Nolan, we'll start with you.

This is your question.

This green puppet makes his home in a trash can on Sesame Street.

Oscar the grouch.

That's right.

Jack, Oscar Wilde wrote the fairy tale The Selfish Giant, which this group known for songs like Stayin Alive and How Deep Is Your Love, referenced in their 1968 song When the Swallows Fly Pass.

Aadit?

Pass.

Iliya.

The Bee Gees.

Bee Gees is correct.

Nolan, back to you.

Before the Bee Gees were known for their disco songs, they sang ballads like this 1968 song named for a four syllable New England state.

Massachusetts.

That's right.

Jack, this singer who lives in western Massachusetts, is famous for a song about having Carolina in his mind.

Neil Diamond.I It is James Taylor.

Aadit, Jonathan Taylor Thomas provided the voice for this young cub in the 1994 movie The Lion King.

All right, it is Simba and Iliya Matthew Broderick provided the voice of the adult Simba in The Lion King.

He is also known for playing this character in the movie about three teens playing hooky in Chicago.

Pass.

Nolan.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Yes, Ferris Bueller is the person we're looking for.

You've got it.

Jack, the first Ferris wheel was designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. And was placed at the center of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, held in this Illinois city.

Chicago.

Correct.

Aadit, the original Broadway, the original production of the Broadway musical Chicago was directed and choreographed by this man.

Hamilton.

It is Bob Fosse, and that is three strikes to end your three strikes round.

All right, so after two rounds, Portsmouth is hanging on to its lead.

But we're going to start our 60 second round.

I'd like to invite the alternates to come on up and join their teams at the podium.

In our 60 second round, each team gets ten questions in 60 seconds to answer as many as they can.

We'll give them ten points for each correct response and an additional ten points if they get them all correct.

You can talk and work as a team, but we'll take the team captains answer as the team answer and Liam as the team trailing right now.

You get to select first from our three categories, which are Rick Roll The Addams Family and Fiddle Me This.

All right, we'll do Rick roll.

All right.

We're going to get Rick rolled here.

And, the answers to the following will include the word Rick or the letters R I C K, in that order.

Okay.

So, Liam, again, you could talk to your team.

I'll take your answer as the team answer.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

Animated sitcom about a mad scientist and his grandson.

Rick and Morty.

Yes.

Musician who sings about a super freak.

Pass.

It is Rick James.

Actor who shrunk his kids in a movie.

Rick Owen's?

Matthew Broderick.

It is Rick Moranis.

He played Snape in Harry Potter movies and Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Alan Rickman.

Yes, this is what the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is called.

Brickyard.

Yes, this is a sport or a chirping insect.

Cricket.

Cricket.

Yes, this could be a wild horse, a basketball team or what John McCain was called.

Maverick.

Yes.

This five line poem could be about a man from Nantucket.

Limerick.

Yes.

This two wheeled vehicle pulled by a person.

Pass.

It is a rickshaw.

This man hosts a travel show on PBS.

Rick Allen.

It is Rick Steves.

And after the end of their round on the Ann Cam.

Six out of ten on your 60 second round.

Portsmouth.

All right, we turn to you.

So, Nolan, you can choose you and your team can choose from the Adams Family and fiddle me this.

I think we're going with the Adams Family.

Adams family.

Okay.

The answer to the following will be people whose last name is Adams.

Okay, so again, take your answer as a team.

Answer, Nolan.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

She founded settlement houses in Chicago.

Pass.

It was Jane Adams.

He was the second president.

John Adams.

Correct.

He is known for his black and white landscape photos.

Ansel Adams.

Correct.

He followed in his father's footsteps to the white House.

John Quincy Adams.

Correct.

He became the mayor of New York in 2022.

Eric Adams.

Correct.

She is the daughter of Morticia and Gomez.

Wednesday Addams.

Correct.

Canadian who sings straight from the heart and everything I do, I do for you.

Bryan Adams.

Bryan Adams is right.

She played Giselle in the movie enchanted.

Amy.

Amy Adams.

Correct.

This revolutionary agitator lends his name to a beer brand.

Sam Adams.

Yes.

He wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Oh, I've read this book.

Yeah.

Pass.

It is Douglas Adams.

And at the end of your 60 second round, eight out of ten.

All right.

Thank you alternates for participating.

You can go ahead and grab your seats as we get ready to roll into round four.

In round four, we're going to pick back up with the toss up questions.

But we're going to make two changes.

We're going to double the point value to 20 points.

And we will be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

So playing smart and strategic Kingswood, Portsmouth, good luck.

Let's go.

Niagara falls is a group of three waterfalls American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Horseshoe Falls.

American Falls and Bridal Falls are both in New York State, while Horseshoe Falls straddles the border between New York State and this Canadian province.

Liam of Kingswood.

Ontario.

Correct.

Something tiny can be said to be minuscule.

Spell minuscule.

Liam of Kingswood.

M I N I S C U L E Sorry.

No.

Portsmouth.

Okay.

You're gonna make me spell it.

It's m-i-n-u-s-c-u-l-e. All right, teams, this Boston Celtics player nicknamed Larry Legend was infamous for his trash talking.

Jack of Portsmouth.

Larry Bird.

That's right.

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

It's worth double the points.

So a 40 point tossup question coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look.

This ancient Greek philosopher and author of The Republic is credited with saying, the measure of a man is what he does with power.

Iliya of Portsmouth.

Plato.

Plato is right.

The title of John Greene's novel The Fault in Our Stars, is taken from a line spoken by Cassius and addressed to Brutus in this play by Shakespeare.

Liam of Kingswood.

Julius Caesar.

Yes.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Junior declared free at last, free at last.

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last in a speech given on the steps of this building.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Lincoln Memorial.

That is right.

Teams.

Who is the first vice president to take over the role of president after the death of his predecessor.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Johnson.

Sorry, no.

It was before that.

John Tyler.

Sir Isaac Newton divided the visible spectrum into seven colors.

What are they?

Liam of Kingswood.

Red.

Orange.

Yellow.

Green.

Blue.

Indigo.

Violet.

Correct.

This French Enlightenment writer and philosopher known for the novella Candide, was also an advocate for freedom of speech and the separation of church and state.

Jiner of Kingswood.

Rousseau.

Sorry.

No.

Portsmouth.

It was Voltaire.

In New Hampshire the House of Representatives and Senate are not known as the legislature.

They are known as this.

They're known as the General Court.

To date, this US president had the longest life span.

Nolan of Portsmouth.

Jimmy Carter.

Yes.

To date, this is the only country to have played in all 22 World Cup tournaments.

Jack of Portsmouth.Brazil.

Brazil is right.

and that sound ends the game a strong game for Portsmouth High School, who will be moving on to round two.

All right.

Nice job Portsmouth.

Congratulations on your victory.

We'll see you when we get to you in round two.

And Kingswood.

Tough match today but we're glad you came.

We hope you had fun.

We had fun having you here.

And we hope you had fun as well at home.

Watching us this week.

We do hope you join us next week for Granite State Challenge, as the teams from ConVal Regional High School and Nashua South face off.

That'll do it for us at Granite State challenge this week.

And, I learned something and I hope you did as well.

We'll see you next time.

Bye bye.

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