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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're about midway through the first round of our 42nd season.

Four teams have already punched their ticket to round two.

We've got two teams here with us this week who are hoping to join them.

Let's introduce them to you.

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

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

I'm Kinsey, and I'm a junior.

I'm Evan.

I'm a senior.

I'm Lauren.

I'm a senior.

The alternate for Newfound Regional high School is Kaylie, a senior.

And the team is coached by social studies teacher Amy Doolin.

And that's the team for Newfound Regional High School.

And facing off against them this week is the team from Plymouth Regional High School.

I'm Reagan.

I'm a junior.

I'm Khalil.

I'm a senior.

I'm Paul.

I'm a senior.

I'm Ethan.

I'm a senior.

The alternates for Plymouth are juniors.

Norman and Max and their coaches are programing, drafting and engineering teacher Jay Fogarty and Spanish teacher Troy Harris.

And that's the team from Plymouth Regional High School.

All right.

One more introduction, of course.

Back with us again this week.

And all week is our beloved judge Ann Boulanger.

All right.

Teams, introductions are out of the way.

We'll get to know each other a little bit after round one.

But for now, let's jump right into the game.

And in round one we do ten point toss up questions.

You got those signaling devices.

Newfound Plymouth.

Good luck.

Let's go.

This game includes 32 houses, 12 hotels and one jail.

Lauren of Newfound.

Life.

Sorry, no Plymouth.

Khalil?

Monopoly.

Monopoly is the one.

The first circulating US coin to feature a president was issued in 1909 and featured this man who was also featured on the $5 bill.

Paul of Plymouth.

Abraham Lincoln?

Yes.

Two first ladies earned law degrees.

Who were they?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama.

Sorry, no Newfound.

You had Michelle Obama.

The other is Hillary Clinton.

In 1966, Robert Weaver became the first black person to serve in the US cabinet when he was named head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development by this president.

Khalil of Plymouth.

FDR.

Sorry, no.

Newfound Nick.

Eisenhower.

Sorry.

No other direction.

We're looking for LBJ.

Lyndon Baines Johnson.

All right, teams.

Next up is a civics question coming to you on your monitors.

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 podcast dot org.

56 delegates to the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence.

Two of those delegates would go on to become president of the United States.

Who were they?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Jefferson and Adams.

That's it.

You got them both teams.

31 states have a county named for this man.

New Hampshire is not one of them.

Khalil of Plymouth, Washington.

That's right.

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon in this lunar module named after a bird.

Ethan of Plymouth.

Eagle.

The Eagle has landed.

Yes.

This US president was a star player for the University of Michigan football team and turned down offers to play professionally in the NFL.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Nixon.

Sorry.

No Newfound.

It was.

Gerald Ford was the one.

Gerald Ford.

All right, teams.

What is the theoretical coldest temperature possible called Khalil of Plymouth?

Absolute zero.

Absolutely right.

What?

Charles Dickens novel starts with the words.

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Tale of Two Cities.

Yes.

Teams.

How many liquid pints are there in a gallon?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Five.

Sorry, no.

Newfound Evan.

Eight.

There's eight.

That's right.

The text of an opera or long song is called this word taken from Italian for a little book.

Khalil Plymouth.

Libretto.

Yes.

This naturalist known as John of the Mountains and Father of the National Parks, was the co-founder of the Sierra Club.

Ethan of Plymouth.

Muir.

Yes.

John Muir.

Benjamin Harrison was the last US president to sport a beard.

Who was the first?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Probably Garfield.

Sorry.

No Newfound.

It was Abe Lincoln.

It was Abe Lincoln.

Asthma can be exacerbated by air pollution.

Spell asthma.

Evan of Newfound a s t h m a.

Yes.

You got them all.

Granite the state rock of New Hampshire can contain feldspar, quartz and mica.

What type of rock is granite?

Khalil of Plymouth, Metamorphic.

No Newfound Evan Igneous.

Igneous is right.

For the next question, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This wildcat found in North America from Canada to Mexico, including in New Hampshire, gets its name from its short, stubby tail.

Ethan of Plymouth.

Bobcat.

I was hoping the Plymouth would get that one right.

If you are driving down Alligator Alley, what state are you in?

Khalil of Plymouth, Florida.

Yes.

This man wrote the songs God Bless America.

Alexander's Ragtime Band, White Christmas and Putting on the Ritz Khalil of Plymouth.

Irving Berlin.

Yes.

George Gershwin said in 1931 that while on a train ride to Boston, the quote, steely rhythms and rattled bang of the train inspired him in the composing of this piece for solo piano and jazz band.

While it was inspired by a train, the song has been used as a theme song by United Airlines since the 1980s.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Rhapsody in Blue.

Yes.

This weapon list Martial art was invented by Kano.

Gigolo in 1882, and is the primary martial art used by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Khalil of Plymouth Aikido.

No Newfounds.

Lauren.

Karate.

Sorry, No.

Its Judo.

This capital of Australia is found near the Australian Alps in south eastern Australia.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Canberra.

Yes.

This newly discovered shape looks like a hat or a t shirt and has three sorry, 13 sides that can fill a plane with no gaps or repetition.

It takes its name from a German term for one stone and not a famous theoretical physicist.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Einstein.

Einstein is right.

If you've not seen the Einstein shape, it's very cool.

Speaking of which, Plymouth out to a cool lead at the end of round one by a score of 150 to 30.

All right, teams, before we go into round two, we thought it might be fun to take a minute to get to know the members of both teams.

And we're going to start with a team from Newfound Regional High School.

Newfound Regional High School is located in the Lakes region of New Hampshire and is eight towns or so in and around surrounding Newfound Lake, just under 400 students.

And amongst that number is Captain Nick.

And Nick.

You have, you know, lots of players on greatest challenge have interesting cars and car stories.

But yours is particularly fascinating.

What kind of car do you drive?

I have a 1955 GMC truck.

Okay.

So where did this 1955 GMC truck come from?

It was initially my grandfather's and he bought it six years ago and my dad and I helped restore it.

Nice.

And so is this your day to day truck that you drive around?

Not day to day.

Okay.

That would be tough.

Not so easy to drive, is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, Nick is joined by Kinsey, who's been training for four years.

In what, Martial art.

Kajukenbo.

Okay.

And that's jujitsu, right?

A form of jiu jitsu.

And so what makes that different from other martial arts that we might be familiar with?

Well, it's a combination of karate, judo and jujitsu.

So has a bit of stand up fighting, getting on the ground and actually fighting on the ground.

So.

And so when you do this, are you competing or are you just kind of doing it for like the challenge and the fitness of it?

Yeah, just the challenge and the fitness, although there are competitions.

All right.

So we won't see you in the Octagon then?

No, probably not any time soon.

All right.

Evan got the opportunity to travel to, I assume, California, where you went running on an unusual running surface.

Redwoods.

So these are redwood trees?

Yeah.

So how do you run on a tree?

You climb up there and you run down it.

So is the tree is it a felled tree on the ground that you're running across?

Yeah.

And how high off the ground were you when you were doing this?

Probably ten feet off the ground.

And you live to tell the tale?

Yes.

All right.

Well, that's good.

All right.

And rounding out the team is Lauren, who is a prolific reader.

How many books, how many pages did you read last year?

So last year, I read 26 books, which totaled just under 8000 pages.

And so how do you find the time to do this?

I read on my lunch breaks at work and any time during like flex or free time during school.

Pretty much, Right?

Excellent.

Do you have a favorite from this past year?

Six of crows.

Six of crows.

There you have it.

There's the recommendation.

All right.

And that is the team from Newfound Regional High School.

And facing off against them this week is the team from Plymouth Regional High School.

Plymouth is just north of actually Newfound.

We've got a battle of the 93 corridor exits 23 and 25 going on here and about 650 students from Plymouth and about nine surrounding towns led by senior Captain Reagan, who's with her family, has what I think is a clear favorite television program.

Yes, we're on our fourth rewatch of the West Wing.

Okay.

So how do you get to the fourth rewatch of it?

Well, we started back and COVID and then we decided that, you know, work wasn't really important.

So we just went right into it.

So do you get to the end and then you just go right back to the beginning and start again?

We took a short break and then we got bored, so we just went back for it.

All right.

Excellent.

I will have to check that one out then.

Khalil is next up on the team.

And we've talked a little bit about some music that you've done in the past, but you wrote here that your favorite composer is someone I've never heard of.

Who is it?

His name is Rachmaninoff.

Rachmaninoff.

And what is it about Rachmaninoff that you appreciate so much?

Well, I appreciate that.

He doesn't normally just rely on melodies such as the classical composers and the romantic composers did before him.

And he kind of incorporates the the chordal changes with his melody.

So it has this overtone feeling to every every aspect of his pieces.

And what is the primary instrument he's composing on?

Yeah.

Piano.

And can you play any of his pieces?

I he has very big hands, so it's hard to learn.

But I am attempting to learn his second piano concerto.

All right, well, good luck.

And we'll we'll have to wait to listen to that once you've got it down pat.

Now, a different kind of music is the favorite of our next player.

Paul, what is your favorite kind of music?

I like eighties rock and glam eighties rock, glam metal.

Now that's a little bit more in my zone.

And when I was growing up, that was stuff that we listened to.

How did you get into that?

Well, I like a lot of retro culture, that sort of thing.

And my family likes that too.

So I think that's how I got into it.

All right.

Excellent.

Do you have a favorite band, favorite song, anything like that, or is there too many to choose from?

There's just far too many.

Far too many.

Take it all in.

All right.

Speaking of someone who takes it all in.

Ethan here has been to Italy enough times, I think, to take it all in.

How many times you've been to Italy and Italy?

Four times.

Four times now.

You must have family there or from there.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, my.

My grandfather was born in Bologna, and that's where we always visit because, you know, we have we also have a lot of family there from him and his as well.

All right.

So if I'm going to go to Bologna, what should I make sure to not miss while I'm there?

Well, they're most famous for the two towers that they have because Boyne used to have a lot more of them.

But they're they're definitely their most recognizable landmark.

I always definitely go to the towers.

It will be all right.

And that is the team from Plymouth Regional High School.

All right, teams, great to get to know you.

We're going to roll right into round two and round two.

We don't need the signaling devices because we are going to be doing our three strikes and you're out round in this round.

Each team gets ten questions.

We go down the line player by player until all ten questions are asked or until we get three incorrect responses or three strikes and you're out.

Now, just as a reminder, if you don't know the answer, you can pass to your teammate next to you.

Each team has three passes and each question has a little bit of a clue to it in the previous question.

So Nick, on Newfound, we're going to start with you and this is your question.

This schoolyard game played with a ball, was the subject of a 2004 comedy starring Ben Stiller.

Kickball?

Dodgeball.

Kinsey, The phrase get out of Dodge refers to a busy 19th century cattle town in this state known for its gunfights, saloons and gambling.

Texas.

Close, Kansas.

EVAN All this character, played by Judy Garland, wanted to do in a 1939 movie, was to get back to Kansas.

Wizard of Oz.

We were looking actually for the character's name, which is Dorothy.

And just like that, three strikes.

And that's the end of your rounds.

All right, Plymouth, We turn our attention to you and Reagan.

We'll start with you.

Same drill.

This is your question.

If you have conceded defeat in an endeavor, you might say you have thrown in this.

Pass towel.

Thrown in the towel is right, Paul.

Arthur Dent is a towel carrying protagonist in this work by Douglas Adams.

No answer.

It is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Ethan Jackson Galaxy is a well known YouTuber and an expert on this type of pet.

Dogs.

Close cats.

Reagan singer songwriter Harry Chapman had a huge hit with this tear jerker of a song about father son relationships that takes its name from a game played by making figures with your hands and string.

Cat's Cradle.

Cat's Cradle.

Will Judge will take that.

We'll take that.

All right.

Khalil This father and son pair were the second and sixth presidents of the United States.

John Adams.

And John Quincy Adams.

Yes, Paul.

Charles Adams created cartoons about the creepy Adams family made up of Monica and Gomez Adams, their son Pugsley, and this daughter with black pigtails, who is named after a day of the week.

Wednesday.

Yes, Ethan Wednesday is derived from Woden's day.

Woden is the old English version of the name for this Norse god of war and death.

Pass.

Odin Odin is right.

Khalil in the Marvel Universe.

Odin raised this God of mischief who is born as a frost giant.

As a son.

Loki Yes.

Paul Robert Frost was an English teacher at this New Hampshire High School, located in Derry from 1906 to 1911.

Derry High School.

Sorry, it is Pinkerton Academy and that is your third strike and ends your rounds.

All right, so that's the end of round two.

In round three, our 60 second round.

I'd like to invite the alternates to come on up and join their teams at the podiums in the 60 second round.

Each team will get ten questions in a category based on a theme.

You can work together and talk together as a team, but I will take the captain's answer as the team answer and new found as the team trailing.

You get to select from these three categories.

Seeing Red, Best B and 10 to 1.

10 to 1.

10 to 1.

All right, Nick, I will take your answer as the team answer.

And this is a fun category because the answers to all the following will include the numbers ten through one in that order.

So the first one has ten, the second one has nine, the third one is eight.

Just like that.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

All right, 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

Moses brought these down from a mountain.

The Ten Commandments.

Yes.

Trent Reznor leads this band that also goes by the acronym.

NIN.

Engine nine Engineers.

Think about that.

This 2002 animated film's title is taken from a line in Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song.

Eight Crazy Nights.

Yes, Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy and Sloth are included in these.

Seven Deadly Sins.

Yes.

Game that calculated how far people are from a famous actor.

A Pass.

Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon.

These come before 4 calling birds in a holiday song up by.

Five Gold Rings.

Yes Death tolls famous Death, War, Famine and conquest are known as these gods.

They are the Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Pennsylvania's site of a nuclear meltdown in 1979.

Just missed it.

It was Three Mile Island to that one.

And four out of ten on your 62nd rounds.

All right, Plymouth, it's now your turn.

And Reagan, you and your team can select from Best B and Seeing Red, Seeing Red.

Seeing Red.

All right.

The answers to the following will all begin with the word red again.

Reagan I'll take your answer as the team answers 60 seconds, start the clock.

MLB Team Ted Williams Red Sox Yes.

Novel by Stephen Crane.

Red Badge of Courage.

Yes.

International organization founded by the Red Cross.

Yes.

This is what a late night flight is called.

Red Eye.

Yes.

These are gun violence prevention measures that have been adopted by many states.

Red Flag Laws.

Yes.

Red flag laws is right.

You should stop your car for the red light.

Yes.

13 year old Mae Lynn turned into one of these.

Red Panda.

Yes.

This term is associated with the public hysteria over communism.

Red Scare.

Yes.

This could be a type of cake with a creamy frosting or a little bit.

Red Velvet.

Yes.

Before the eastern Newt becomes a Newt, it is known as this little red salamander.

Salamander.

It is called the red eff.

So very close to a ten at ten.

But is that nine out of ten on your 60 second round?

All right.

Nice job, teams.

Thank you.

It alternates.

You can go ahead and take your seats as we get ready for round four.

In round four, we're going to pick back up with our toss up questions, but we're going to double the point value to 20 point toss ups.

But if you do ring in incorrectly, we are going to deduct 20 points.

So a lot of movement can be made in this round.

New found in Plymouth.

Good luck.

What president's known for his reticence is famous for saying quote, If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Quote, I have never been hurt by what I have not said and quote, You can't know, too.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Khalil of Plymouth, Calvin Coolidge.

Yes.

Silent Carl, for your next question is our Unitil Power Question.

It's going to come to you on your monitors.

We're double the points.

40 point toss up question.

Take a look.

The 1971 song Power to the People was performed by the Plastic Ono Band.

And this man, Khalil of Plymouth.

John Lennon.

Yes.

The Dashwood family lives in Barton Park in the novel Sense and Sensibility by this author.

Reagan of Plymouth.

Jane Austen.

Yes.

Divided into 13 circuits.

This core is found just below the US Supreme Court's.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Federal Court.

Sorry, no.

Newfound, Evan.

The Federal Circuit Court?

No, it is the US Court of Appeals.

The US Court of Appeals.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was the composer and Tim Rice was the lyricist for this 1978 musical, based on the life of the First Lady of Argentina and political leader Eva Peron.

I won't make you sing it.

It is Evita.

The Bayou Tapestry is 230 feet long and 20 inches high and depicts the Norman Invasion and conquest of England by William Duke of Normandy in this year.

Paul of Plymouth 1066.

That is right.

This element makes up about 71% of the air you breathe.

Khalil of Plymouth Nitrogen.

That's right.

According to legend, this English scientists dog diamond knocked over a candle and set fire to over 20 years of his notes and his experiment on his experiments, maybe even his notes on the laws of motion.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Newton Yes.

This could be a river in northern Italy or a companion of Tinky Winky, Lala and Dipsy could also be my niece's dog, Poe.

In 1832, John C Calhoun became the first US Vice president to resign.

In 1973, this man became the second and to date last US vice President to resign.

Some may remember Spiro Agnew.

This Dutch painter is known for his series of paintings on sunflowers.

Khalil Van Gogh.

Van Gogh is right.

This person became the first woman to serve as chancellor of Germany when she took office in 2005 and served for a little over six years.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Modo Sorry, no.

Newfound.

We're looking for Angela Merkel.

In a 1962 basketball game against the New York Knicks.

This player, known as Wilt the Stilt, scored a record breaking 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors Reagan of Plymouth.

Chamberlain.

Wilt Chamberlain's right.

Before he became president of the United States in 1993, Bill Clinton was the governor of this state, Khalil of Plymouth, Arkansas.

Yes, in what 1940 movie?

Will you find the characters?

We won't get quite to the end of that.

And kind of a big game for Plymouth here.

Big win, 460 to 50.

We'll be moving on to the next round.

Congratulations, Plymouth.

We'll see you in a few weeks when you move on to your second round game and Newfound tough opponent this week.

But congratulations on your wild card win.

I hope you had fun.

We certainly had fun having you here and we hope you had fun as well.

We hope you join us next week when the teams from ConVal.

Regional High School and Nashua South face off.

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

Challenge.

Hey, I hope you learned a lot this week, because I did as well.

We'll see you next time.

Bye bye.

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