This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from four mountain regional high schools faces off against a team from Nashua High School South.

Only one team will advance.

Granite State challenge starts now.

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It's time for New Hampshire high schools to match with in a high stakes scholastic showdown.

It's time for granite state challenge.

Here's your host, John Cannon.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Granite State Challenge.

We are in the quarter final round of our tournament.

And the two teams that we have for you this week won their first round games and they're going to do battle this week to see who makes it on to the semifinals.

Let's introduce them to you.

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

They are led by Senior Captain Jacob.

Jacob is joined by seniors Marcus Cullen and Enrique.

Their team alternate is Grace.

And the team is coached by Nick Belsky.

And facing off against Wall Mountain this week is the team from Nashua High School South.

They are led by senior captain Sri.

Sri is joined by senior cameto senior Keshav and sophomore Curtis.

Their alternates are senior Ricci and sophomore year.

And the team is coached by Lexie Duvall.

And finally, just one more introduction and that is, of course, our judge and Bulandshahr All right, teams, introductions are done.

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

And as you know, we play in four rounds round one.

We do the ten points toss up questions.

So good luck for Mt.

Nashua South.

Here we go.

The team from this country marches in first at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Marcus of Fall Mountain, the host country sorry, no national south Street, the home country.

I know both guesses, but it is Greece.

All right, teams.

This state is known as both the Old North State and the Tar Heel State.

K12 of Nashua, South North Carolina.

North Carolina is right.

This businessman and inventor who first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1963 suffered a severe chest injury during a kidnaping.

Marcus of Fall Mountain.

Tony Stark Tony Stark with 28 medals to his name 23 gold, three silver and two bronze.

This athlete holds the record for the most Olympic medals.

Enrique a fall mountain.

What is Michael Phelps correct Borneo is just one of the over 17,000 islands found in this island nation club of national self Indonesia.

Correct.

This cape at the tip of Chile marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meets Marcus.

The fall mountain cape of good hope.

Sorry no national south that's in Africa.

Cape Horn is the cape we're looking for here.

This was designated as New Hampshire's official state fruit in 2006 courtesy of National South Pumpkin Pumpkins.

Right.

The first Legoland theme park was opened in this country in 1968 and reek of fall mountain Denmark.

You got it.

This chemical element has an atomic number 14 and lends its name to a region in Northern California K-12 of Nashua South Silicon.

Yes this Babylonian king claimed he received a collection of laws from Shamash, the Babylonian God of Justice.

Crypto of natural self.

Hammurabi.

Yes.

All right.

Teams, how many miles per second does light travel call in a fall mountain?

600,000.

Sorry, no.

Three of Nashua, South.

6 million.

Sorry.

Nope.

It's 186,000 miles per second.

All right, teams.

You will find a reference to this hall in Asgard in Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.

Curtis of Nashville South.

Yes, according to the proverb, what should you do while the iron is hot?

Enrique a fall mountain strike.

You got it.

A style of shorts is named for this British island territory known for its pink sand beaches.

Sri of natural south salmon soaring up Bermuda for Bermuda shorts.

This tiny town in Virginia is home to a large Marine Corps base.

The FBI Academy and Laboratory and United States Drug Enforcement Administration Training Academy Sorry.

Sorry.

It's also where my sister was born, Quantico, Virginia.

This former president represented the slaves who had revolted on the ship La Amistad before the Supreme Court in the 1841 case, United States versus the Amistad SRI of Nashua South, John Quincy Adams.

He's the one in this South Korean drama series.

Contestants play children's games for a chance to win a $45.6 million prize.

The catch is the losers die.

Sree of Nashua South Quit game.

Yes, the poem Cry of Children, published in 1843 condemned child labor and was written by this Victorian poet also known for the poems in her collection sonnets from the Portuguese Marcus of Fall Mountain Emily Dickens sorry now south it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

This photographer is best known for his landscapes of the West, including Moonrise Hernandez, New Mexico and monolith.

The face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley was Ansel Adams, who we were looking for there.

All right, teams, you have paper and pencil there in case you need it.

New Hampshire's highest peak is a little over 1900 meters tall.

How tall is it in millimeters.

Three of Nashua, South a million.

900?

Yes, a million.

900,000?

Yes.

The Deck of Moron, a collection of novellas by 14th Century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio is structured as a collection of 100 stories told by a group of ten people who are sheltering in a villa to avoid this illness.

Marcus.

A Fall Mountain.

Spanish Flu.

Sorry, no cases of national self.

Bubonic plague.

That's the one.

All right, teams.

Next up is our picture question.

So go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This 1874 sculpture by New Hampshire resident Augustus Saint Goddam depicts this leader of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Who was the subject of an 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and recap Fall Mountain Hiawatha.

Yes.

On December 25th to 26, 1776, George Washington quietly crossed the Delaware River with the Continental Army and led a surprise attack on Hessian troops encamped in this New Jersey City.

Jacob, a Fall Mountain.

Trenton.

That's it.

This singer sometimes referred to as the King of Soul had hits with the songs You Send Me and a change is going to come case of of Nashville itself.

Marvin Gaye.

Sorry.

No it was Sam Cooke.

This cup that Jesus allegedly drank from at the Last Supper has been an object of myth and legend.

For centuries.

Cary of Nashville itself.

Holy Grail.

That's it.

This gymnast who holds the record for the most world medals with 25 and the most world gold medals with 19, is considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time.

Case of National South on Bath.

She's the one teams whose faces will you find carved into Mt.

Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Marcus of Fall Mountain, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

You got them all well done.

In 2016.

This musician was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for quotes for having created new poetic expressions with the great American song tradition end quote.

Was Bob Dylan.

This character from the Marvel Universe was first introduced in 1964 in Tales of Suspense.

No.

52 as a Russian spy and enemy of Iron Man Curtis of Nashville self black widow.

Yes this French theologian was a key figure in the Protestant Reformation.

His major work Institute's of the Christian Religion was first published in 1536.

Curtis of Nashville South Martin Luther sorry no of fall mountain reach Lou sorry knows John Alvin and that sound is round one at the end of round one looks like Nash will sell out to a bit of a lead All right great round teams.

We're going to roll right into round two.

And in round two we continue to toss up questions, but we're going to double the point value.

So we're playing for 20 points, toss up questions.

Here we go.

In 2012.

The album 21 by this artist won six Grammy Awards and recap Fall Mountain Taylor Swift sorry now that she was South Street.

Adele Adele is who we were looking for beginning in 1831 over 60,000 indigenous people were removed from their homes in the southern United States by the United States government in March to land in the West in what is known as this trail tree of National Trail of Tears.

That's it.

All right, teams we have reached our unity power question.

This is a 40 point question coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young founded this band known for songs like Back in Black and Highway to Hell in Sydney, Australia, in 1973 Shreve, National Assembly, AC DC.

Yes teams, according to the proverb, you shouldn't do this to a gift horse.

Curtis of Nashville self.

Look it in the mouth.

That's right.

This antibiotic was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming Curtis of Nashville self penicillin.

That's correct.

In 2008 when she won the Indy Japan 300 this driver became the only woman to win an IndyCar Series race.

Keisha of Nashua South.

Smith Sorry no format.

We're looking for Danica Patrick.

This viral disease which leads to inflammation of the brain and eventual death is spread.

When an infected animal bites or scratches, another animal marks a fall mountain rabies.

That's it.

This is the largest freshwater loch in Scotland and perhaps home to a large, legendary creature of Nashua South, Loch Ness.

That's it.

This could be part of the exhaust system of your car or a long scarf.

Shreve, Nashua, South Tailpipe.

Sorry, no Call it a fall mountain muffler.

That's correct.

All right, teams, we've reached the 44 40 question to celebrate our 40th season.

And this question comes to us from season 31.

In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln uses the phrase fourscore and seven years ago.

How many years are in the score, Curtiss of Nashville itself?

20.

That's correct.

In the 1826 poem, A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clark more what danced in the heads of the Sleeping Children.

Enrique Fall Mountain Dreams of Sugar Fairies.

Fairies.

Do we give them sugar fairies?

Sugar, sugar plum fairies.

We'll give that to you, Enrique.

All right.

This form of jump rope features two ropes to turners and at least one jumper in Jacob.

A Fall Mountain.

Double Dutch.

That's right.

Sherbet is a delicious frozen dessert made with sugar water.

Cream or milk, and usually a fruit juice spell.

Sherbet.

Jacob a fall mountain.

S h e brt.

Sorry.

No natural south curtis.

S h e r brt.

Sorry.

So close.

It's s h. E. R b e t. This musician's third album, because I Love You, included the songs Juice and Tempo.

Jacob A Full Mountain Lizzo That's right.

All right, teams, you have paper and pencil there just in case you need it.

What is the least common denominator of one half for fifths and seven eighths three of Nashua, South?

40.

40 is correct.

This actor, director and producer created the character, the 2000 year old man with Carl Reiner.

And that one we're looking for Mel Brooks.

Timbuktu is often used as a metaphor for a faraway place.

There are even some people who believe it is not a real place.

But while it may be far away, it is real.

In what country will you find?

Timbuktu.

Jacob.

A Fall Mountain.

Mali That's it.

She is the first woman to win a best director Golden Globe Award.

She won for the 1983 film Yentl.

Was Barbra Streisand on that.

And that sound is round two.

And at the end of round two, Nash was self hanging on to their lead All right.

Great job teams.

We're going to go into round three.

And in round three are three strikes in your out round.

Each team gets a category with ten questions, ten points for each question and a bonus four of ten points if you get them all correct.

And we'll go right down the line until three strikes are out.

And just a reminder, each team has three passes as well.

Fall Mountain is the team trailing.

You get to choose from these three categories, fruits and vegetables.

Guess who?

And AT&T.

You think you got And Jacob, you are the one who gets to decide this is fruits and fruits and vegetables.

Okay, so the answers to the following will all include a fruit or vegetable All right.

Jacob this company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne Apple Correct.

Markus In this novel by Roald Dahl, a young boy travels across the world in a giant fruit.

James in the giant peach.

Correct.

Colin In the 1940 film, based on this John Steinbeck novel, Henry Fonda starred as Tom Joad Grapes of Wrath.

Correct.

Enrique, this picture book by Robert McCloskey featured a mother and her daughter and a bear and her cub searching for berries in Maine.

Goldilocks, sorry, is blueberries for sale.

Jacob in this fairy tale, a small vegetable is placed under a tall stack of mattresses to test a young woman's potential royal lineage.

Princess Anne, the correct.

Marcus Sidney Poitier starred as Walter Lee Younger in the 1961 film adaptation of this novel by Lorraine Hansberry.

Grapes of Wrath It Is A Raisin in the Sun.

Colin Stanley Kubrick directed this 1971 movie based on a 1962 dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess Grapes of Wrath.

It is a Clockwork Orange and that is your third strike four correct on your three strikes rounds All right.

Nashua South.

We turn to you and Shiri as team captain.

You get to choose from guess who and AT&T guess who, guess who.

All right.

The answers to the following will contain the word who or the sound who All right, Sri, this web portal and search site was launched in 1994 as Gerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web Yahoo!

Correct.

Chorizo.

Cindy Lou.

Who and her family live in this town.

Whoville.

Correct.

Up before he became the 31st president.

This man was a mining engineer.

Hoover.

Correct.

Curtis.

This escape artist and illusionist was known as Harry Handcuff Houdini.

Correct.

Sorry.

In this book by Dr. Seuss, a large elephant hears a very tiny voice Horton hears a who.

Correct.

Correct.

So in 1969, this English rock group released the concept album.

Tommy That's the same question.

Curtis Same question.

I don't know.

It is The Who.

Sorry.

He was the first director of the FBI No, I don't know.

It is J. Edgar Hoover career.

So this genre of story doesn't reveal the identity of the murderer until the end.

Who done it?

Correct.

Case of you might call a violent troublemaker this hooligan.

Correct.

And Curtis, this BBC series features a time traveling time.

Lord Doctor Who.

Correct.

Eight out of ten on your three strikes rounds.

All right.

Great job.

Nash was out on that fall.

Mountain.

All right, we go into round four, and in round four, we pick back up with the toss up questions.

20 points.

But we will be deducting 20 points for any incorrect responses so far.

Mountain National Self.

Good luck.

Here we go.

The March of Dimes was established by President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1938 to combat this disease.

Marcus of Fall Mountain Polio.

Correct.

The movie Apocalypse Now was based on the novella Heart of Darkness by this author, Jacob A Fall Mountain.

Joseph Conrad.

Correct.

This actor has played pilot Captain Steven Hiller in Independence Day.

Muhammad Ali and Ali.

And Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena Williams.

In the 20, 21 film, King Richard Enrique of Fall Mountain Will Smith corrects in 1890.

This state became the first US state to give women the right to vote.

Jacob a fall mountain Wyoming correct.

Teams what do you call the hunk of turf taken out of the ground when you swing a golf club and Rick air fall mountain divot.

That's it All right teams you may need paper and pencil.

You have it there.

What is 20% of 263 of Nashua South.

43.

Sorry no.

Jacob a fall mountain.

52 52 is right teams.

This martial artist and actor was born Lee Jun fan in Hong Kong.

He is known for the movies Enter the Dragon and Fist of Fury, three of Nashua South.

Bruce Lee.

Yes.

All right.

Teams complete this proverb.

An ounce of prevention is worth and reach a fall mountain.

A pound of cure that is it's from 1989 to 2000 sorry from 1789 to 20, 21.

118 people have served on the United States Supreme Court.

Five of them were women.

The first became a justice in 1981. Who was she Looking for?

Sandra Day O'Connor, this baseball center fielder who played for the New York and San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets is known as the say hey kid you could say hey Willie Mays, if you are spelunking what icicles shaped calcium salt deposits might you see above your head of of Nashua South stalagmites.

Say that again slide that way.

Can you say that again clear like Matt was at a with a what slag might.

Incorrect.

Jacob a fall mountain stalactites stalactites is what we're looking for.

All right teams in what part of the body would you find?

The cochlea courtesy of national self the ear correct.

In 1967 at the beginning of the Six Day War, this country closed the Suez Canal.

The canal remained closed for eight years.

Jacob a fall mountain Egypt.

Correct.

Students have been singing school's out by this artist since 1972 Alice Cooper teams.

How many vertebrae are there in the human spine.

There are 33.

The term carpe diem work can be traced back to the Roman lyric poet Horace.

What does carpe diem translate to in English?

Curtis of Nashville South.

Seize the day.

Correct.

Clarence Thomas is the second black person to serve as a supreme Court justice.

He was appointed by President George H.W.

Bush to replace this justice who was the first black person to be appointed to the court.

Shreve Nashua, South.

Thurgood Marshall.

He's the one.

This 1889 novel by Mark Twain features engineer Hank Morgan, who travels back in time after getting hit on the head.

Jacob a Fall Mountain Time Machine.

Sorry.

Now it is a Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's court, while perhaps best known for his poetry.

Carl Sandburg also wrote a multi-volume biography of this president's is Abraham Lincoln before he became mayor of New York and a presidential lawyer.

This man was a United States associate attorney general and United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Three of National Assembly Giuliani.

Rudolph Giuliani is correct.

And at the end of the day, it looks like in a tight one, Nashua South will be moving on to the semifinals a great game.

Nashua South.

That was a tight, tight match, folks.

Fall Mountain.

Great job.

Congratulations on a hard fought match.

We hope you had fun.

We had a lot of fun having you guys here.

Nashua South.

We'll see you in a few weeks.

We hope to see you knit you next week for another round of Granite State challenge.

That'll be all for us.

This week here in the studio.

We hope you had fun.

And I learned a lot.

And I hope you did, too.

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.