It's a new season of Granite State Challenge, a new set, a new logo, and two new teams.

The Bobcats of Plymouth Regional High School take on the Timberwolves of Prospect Mountain 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, John Cannon.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 43rd season of Granite State Challenge.

Our season started back in the fall with our Super Saturday testing event with 32 teams.

We've whittled it down to 16, and two of those teams are here with us this week to see who's going to advance.

Let's introduce them to you.

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

Hi, I'm Reagan, I'm a senior.

Hi, I'm Norman.

I'm a senior.

Hi, I'm Max, I'm a senior.

Hi, I'm Yuiry, I'm a sophomore.

The alternates for the team are Mason and Abe, and the coaches are drafting teacher Jay Fogarty and world languages teacher Troy Harris.

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

Facing off against them this week is the team from Prospect Mountain High School.

Hi.

I'm Loralie.

I'm a senior.

Hi, I'm Jude.

I'm a sophomore.

Hi, I'm Lucas, I'm a freshman.

I'm Liam, I'm a junior.

The alternates are Kira and Kaydens.

And the team's coached by social studies teacher Amanda Van der Linde.

And that's the team from Prospect Mountain High School.

So those are our teams.

But we do have one more introduction for you.

And that is, of course, our beloved judge.

Back with us again for the 43rd season.

Ann Boulanger.

All right.

Teams introductions are out of the way.

Let's play some Granite State challenge.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

As you know, we play in four rounds.

And in round one we do ten point up questions.

So Plymouth Regional, Prospect Mountain.

Good luck.

Here we go.

How many strings are there on a violin.

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

Four.

Yes.

This man who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1828 to 1830, and again for less than a month in 1834.

He is known as the Iron Duke.

Reagan of Plymouth.

Duke of Wellington.

Yes.

All right, teams, if you fall down and injure your patella, what part of your body did you injure?

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

Your knee.

Yes.

All right teams take a look at your monitor for this question.

Only eight individuals have been made honorary U.S. citizens.

One of them was Casimir Pulaski.

Pulaski was a Polish military officer who fought in the U.S.

Revolutionary War and was killed during the Siege of Savannah.

You will find a park named for him in Manchester, New Hampshire, and this statue of him on a horse, which is appropriate since Pulaski is known as the father of this mounted branch of the military.

Loralie of Prospect Mountain.

Calvary.

Yes.

We'll give that to you.

All right.

Teams.

Tweety bird, the cartoon canary, is famous for saying, I thought I saw a puddy tat.

Who was the cat he was referring to?

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Sylvester?

Yes.

Sylvester is right.

All right.

Teams, in a poem by Edward Lear.

Which two characters went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat?

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

The owl and the Pussycat.

You got it.

This could be a city in Arizona.

The surname of an actor who played the Joker.

Or a mythological bird that rises from the ashes.

Max of Plymouth.

Phoenix.

Yes.

First called Lexiko and Criss-Cross Words, unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts created this board game in 1938.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Scrabble.

Yes.

Scrabble is right.

All right, teams, our next question is kind of a math question.

So you might want to grab that pencil and paper.

The movie wicked is based on the work of Frank L. Baum and the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.

How many years separate the release of the two movies?

Loralie of Prospect Mountain.

95 Sorry, no.

Plymouth Regional.

You were close.

It is 85.

All right.

Teams.

This artist, often referred to as the Mother of American Modernism, is known for works depicting flowers.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Georgia O'Keeffe.

Yes.

The 1948 musical Kiss Me Kate, is about the production of a musical version of this Shakespearean comedy.

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

The Taming of the shrew.

Correct in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.

What song of longing does Dorothy Gale sing before she is swept to Oz by a tornado?

Reagan of Plymouth.

Somewhere over the rainbow.

That's right.

The Connecticut River serves as the border between these two states.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Vermont and New Hampshire.

Yes.

Teams.

This could be part of a river system.

A letter in the Greek alphabet, or the name of an airline.

Norm of Plymouth Regional.

Delta.

Yes.

Aaron Copland won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition of this orchestral suite that was created for a Martha Graham ballet of the same name.

Norm of Plymouth.

Appalachian Spring.

That is correct.

All right, teams, for this next question, take a look at your monitors.

You are looking at the Cuvier's dwarf, at no more than 4.9ft in length.

It is the smallest of the six species of this family, of small members of the alligator family, found in central and South America.

Norm of Plymouth Regional.

Caiman.

It is a Caiman, yes.

Teams who served the shortest term as U.S. President.

Max of Plymouth Regional.

Harrison.

Which one?

William.

William Henry Harrison.

That is correct.

In 2005, this team swept the Houston Astros and won their first World Series since 1917.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

The Boston Red Sox.

Sorry, no.

Plymouth?

Reagan.

The Cubs.

No.

Same city.

Wrong color socks.

It's the White Sox.

All right.

Teams.

In 1815, this man sold 6487 books from his personal collection to Congress for $23,950 to help rebuild the Library of Congress after 3000 books were lost when the British looted and burned the Library of Congress in 1814.

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

Madison.

Sorry, no.

Prospect Mountain want to give it a shot?

Lucas.

Jefferson?

Thomas Jefferson is correct.

In 1982, this former first lady established a famous treatment center for addiction in Rancho Mirage, California.

Loralie of Prospect Mountain.

Roosevelt.

Sorry.

No.

Plymouth Regional?

You may know it as the Betty Ford Clinic.

Born in Kinderhook, New York in 1782, English was President Martin Van Buren's second language.

What was his first?

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

German.

Sorry.

Nope.

Plymouth Regional.

Reagan.

Dutch.

Dutch is correct.

And that is the sound that ends round one.

So a strong round for Plymouth.

But Prospect Mountain hanging in there by a score of 120 to 60.

All right, teams, we're going to take a break in the action right now and get to know our players a little bit more.

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

Plymouth Regional High School of course is in Plymouth, but it serves many of the surrounding towns and of the members of the team.

We're going to start over here with Yuriy.

So, Yuriy, you've got, a fairly unique name.

Tell us what it is named after?

Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, the famous Russian cosmonaut.

Are you a fan of space?

Yes.

Yeah.

Any plans to go to space at any point in time?

If it comes up, I will.

Okay.

If it comes up, you'll do it.

All right.

Excellent.

Yuriy is joined by Max.

Max, very exciting day for you tomorrow in the family.

Tell us what's about to happen.

We're getting a new puppy.

Oh, a new puppy.

All right.

Great addition to the family.

What kind of what kind of puppy are you going to get?

A miniature schnauzer.

Miniature schnauzer.

Okay.

Have you had a miniature schnauzer before?

Have you?

No, but my mom's family dog as a child was a miniature schnauzer.

So for her birthday, she really wanted one.

Well Happy birthday to Max's mom.

Good luck with the new puppy.

All right, next we go to Norm.

Got to take a ride up in the sky.

Maybe not to space, but close.

Tell us.

I went on a hot air balloon ride.

Okay.

Where do you get to go on a hot air balloon ride?

Boulder, Colorado.

Okay.

And what can you tell me?

It was that good scenery.

It was great scenery.

Big, big mountains out there.

But, yeah, it was a little, a little frightening to be in that basket with a bunch of people.

Yeah, I can, I would imagine so.

All right, well, next time you go up, I will watch you from the ground.

All right.

And rounding out the team is team captain Reagan.

This is your third season on Granite State Challenge.

So what exciting thing do you have coming up in the near future?

Yeah, I've kind of run out of fun facts.

So just a life update.

I have a haircut coming up next week, and I'm pretty excited.

Any any plans?

Are you going to do drastic change or kind of keep it the same?

Just a trim.

Okay.

Keep trim.

All right.

Well, I'm sure it'll look great.

That is the team from Plymouth Regional High School.

All right.

And now we turn to their opponents this week.

That's the team from Prospect Mountain Regional High School up in Alton serving the towns of Alton and Barnestead.

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

So Liam I'm a I'm a history teacher.

You're a fan of history.

Most of my students like World War II.

But you're a fan of?

World War I.

So what is it about World War I that, makes you such a fan?

Well, I always found the trench warfare type system of war quite interesting.

And about those were also quite interesting.

Yeah.

So, any particular battle?

Battle of the Somme.

Okay.

Very good.

Excellent.

All right.

Alongside is Lucas, who has a pretty cool collection.

Collection, I think is pretty neat.

What is it that you collect?

License plates.

License plates?

Okay.

I have one from all 50 states.

Most of the provinces and territories in Canada.

I also have some from other countries, such as, the Dominican Republic and Panama, and I think a few others.

Okay, let me ask you this, favorite state license plate.

Arizona.

Probably.

It's good.

It's a good pick.

The it's also the most, it's also the most underrated.

The most overrated is California, and the worst is Delaware.

Okay.

All right.

Sorry.

Delaware.

All right.

Right now, alongside is Jude, who loves to be on stage.

So we talking, acting, singing, dancing?

All of the above.

All of the above.

Okay, so anything fun coming up this season?

In April, I have my school's production of Much Ado About Nothing.

And also in the spring, I'm in a dance recital.

Okay, excellent.

Well, good luck with both of those.

Break a leg.

Yeah.

I guess we should say.

And team captain Loralie.

New Hampshire is not the first state you've lived in.

How many states you've lived in?

Five.

Five states.

So besides New Hampshire, favorite?

South Carolina.

What is it about South Carolina you love so much?

The people and the culture and I've got family down there.

Oh, okay.

So you get to visit often.

Fantastic.

Excellent.

So that's Loralie, and this is the team from Prospect Mountain Regional High School.

All right, teams, thank you for that.

No need for the signaling devices.

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

So in this, round, each player gets a question, ten questions per team, and we go down the line, one question per player.

Now, if you don't know the answer, you can pass to the player next to you.

And you have three passes.

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

So we do this alphabetically.

That means Plymouth.

We start with you.

And, just as a reminder that something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.

So keep that in mind.

Here we go.

Reagan, this is your question.

This poet wrote, how do I love thee?

Let me count the ways in her sonnets from the Portuguese collection Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Correct.

Norm.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's husband Robert wrote a poem about the Pied Piper of Hamlin, who was hired to rid a German city of these.

Rats.

Yes, Max.

Comedian Patton Oswald played Remy the Rat in this 2007 movie.

Ratatouille.

Correct.

Yuriy.

Future four star general George Patton competed in this five event sport in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

Pass.

Pentathlon?

Pentathlon is correct, Reagan.

We go next to Norm, the modern pentathlon features the sports of swimming, shooting, equestrian, showjumping, pistol shooting and this sport that uses an epee.

Cycling?

Nope.

It is fencing.

Max, this poem is famous for writing that good fences make good neighbors, In his 1914 poem Mending Wall.

Frost?

Robert Frost is correct.

Yuriy, In a 1977 interview with David Frost, this president said in response to a question about whether a president could do something illegal, well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Nixon?

Nixon is correct.

Reagan.

Back to you.

Actress Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda on the series Sex in the City, competed in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor of this state.

California.

It is New York.

Norm.

If you are arrested, police are required to read you your Miranda rights, which include your right to an attorney and a right to remain silent.

The rights were established in this 1966 Supreme Court decision.

The Miranda decision.

It is, Miranda v Arizona.

That is the three strikes and the end of your round.

All right, we now turn over to Prospect Mountain.

Same drill, we'll go right down the line.

Loralie, starting with you, this is your question.

Adam West, Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, and George Clooney are all among actors who have played this caped crusader.

Batman.

Correct.

Jude.

Michael Keaton originated the role of this demon in a 1988 movie directed by Tim Burton.

Not applicable.

Okay, it is Beetlejuice.

Lucas.

The first movie Tim Burton directed chronicled this bow tie wearing characters search for his stolen bicycle.

Nightmare Before Christmas.

No, sorry, it's Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, all right Liam.

The English pop band Herman's Hermits had a hit with their 1966 song that was not about the many marriages of this king, but about a woman who married many men with the same name.

Liam?

I don't know.

It was Henry the Eighth.

And is that the third strike and the end of your round.

All right, so round two is in the books.

We're going to go right into round three, which is our 60 second round.

I would like to invite the alternates to come on up and join their teams at the podiums.

Everybody gets to play in the 60 second round.

Here's how it works.

All right.

Each team gets ten questions in a category.

You can talk together.

But I do take the captain's answer as the team answer.

And we're going to start with the team trailing right now which is Prospect Mountain.

So you get to choose first from our three categories this match.

Love you.

Keep a lid on it or j jams.

J jams.

J jams it is.

all right Prospect Mountain.

So the answers to the following will include two letter J's okay So once again Loralie, I'll take your answer as the team answer, j jams.

60 seconds.

Start the clock.

This singer is known for the songs Me and Bobby McGee and Piece of My Heart.

Janis Joplin.

Yes, she is known for the songs Rhythm Nation and Nasty.

Janet Jackson.

Yes, this Irish author wrote Ulysses.

James Joyce, James Joyce.

Correct.

The flag is a recurring subject and works by this American artist.

Pass.

It is Jasper Johns.

Filmmaker known for his work on the TV series Lost, Star Wars and the Star Trek films.

Pass.

It is JJ Abrams.

These two characters went up and down a hill.

Jack and Jill.

Yes, he was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Pass.

It is John Jay.

This blond and perky ponytailed singer and dancer got her start on Dance Moms.

JoJo Siwa.

Yes.

He was an outlaw and leader of a notorious gang.

Pass.

It is Jesse James.

And he was the editor of the Daily Bugle in the Spider-Man comics.

Pass.

It is J. Jonah Jameson.

And at the end of your round.

Five out of ten.

Nice job, Prospect Mountain.

Hang tight.

We're going to go over to Plymouth and Plymouth.

Reagan, you and your team can select from Love You and keep a lid on it.

Love you.

Love you.

Okay, so in this category, the answers to the following will begin with the letter U.

So, Reagan, I'll take your answer is the team answer 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

This is a 1920 novel by James Joyce that Latinized the name of Ulysses.

Yes, this is Something to keep you dry and a song by Rihanna.

Umbrella?

Yes.

This four stringed instrument is.

Ukulele.

Yes.

This is something you wear beneath your clothes and.

Underwear?

Sorry.

And a Captain Superhero.

Underpants.

This mythological creature has been portrayed as both a horse and a goat like creature.

Pass.

It is unicorn.

He or she just calls balls and strikes.

Umpire.

Yes.

This is what you get when you remove one wheel from a bicycle.

Unicycle.

Yes.

This is a planet that spins on its side.

Uranus.

Yes.

This is a place where everything is perfect.

Utopia.

Yes.

This is one of the five food tastes.

Umami.

Umami.

Umami is correct.

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

Well done.

All right.

Thanks so much.

Alternates, you can go ahead and take your seats as we get ready for round four.

In round four of Granite State Challenge, we pick back up with our tossup questions, but we're going to double the point value to 20 points.

We will be also deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

So play smart and strategic a lot can change in round four.

So Plymouth Regional, Prospect Mountain good luck.

Here we go.

This could be a band fronted by Phil Collins or a book in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Genesis.

Yes.

There are only two operational nuclear power plants in New England, the Millstone Plant in Connecticut, and this plant in New Hampshire.

Lucas, Prospect Mountain.

The Seabrook plant.

That is right.

This replacement of civilian law by military authority, usually in times of national crisis or sometimes during a coup de tau is known as this type of law.

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

Martial law.

Correct.

All right, teams, our next question is our Unitil power question worth double the points so 40 point toss up coming your way on your monitors.

Take a look.

This 19th century abolitionist, orator, writer and former slave once said "power concedes nothing without a demand.

It never did, and it never will" Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass is right.

Actor Sissy Spacek played singer Loretta Lynn in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter and High school student Carrie White in a 1976 movie based on a novel by this author.

Jude of Prospect Mountain.

Stephen King.

Correct.

Newport, New Hampshire native Sarah Josepha Hale was the editor of Godey's Lady's Book, author of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb and a strong advocate for making this a national holiday.

My favorite, it's Thanksgiving.

All right, teams.

The CDC recommends pneumococcal vaccination for children younger than five years and adults 50 years or older.

The vaccine can help prevent pneumonia, spell pneumonia.

Lucas, of Prospect Mountain.

P n e m o n i a Sorry, that is incorrect.

Yuriy, of Plymouth Regional.

P n e u m o n i a That's correct.

Missed that first U.

All right, teams.

What is the Roman numeral for the year 2025?

Sorry, ran out of time there.

It's MMXXV.

All right, teams, this form of medieval plain song made famous by monks is named after Pope Gregory the First.

Reagan of Plymouth Regional.

Gregorian Chant.

Correct.

After drumming for Nirvana, Dave Grohl founded and became the lead singer for this band in 1994.

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Foo Fighters.

Correct.

Mount Mitchell, at 6684ft, is the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River.

In what state will you find it?

You'll find Mount Mitchell in North Carolina.

This lead singer for the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, known for songs like Iron Man and Crazy Train, was the star of a reality TV series on MTV along with his wife Sharon and two of his children.

Loralie of Prospect Mountain.

Ozzy Osborne.

Yes.

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

Take a look.

Hi, I'm Patricia Lovejoy, Senior Deputy Secretary of State and here's a New Hampshire civics question for you.

The President of the United States is not elected by direct votes.

He or she is elected by the Electoral College.

How many electoral college votes does New Hampshire have?

Lucas of Prospect Mountain.

Two Sorry, no.

Plymouth Regional.

Reagan.

Four.

Four is the correct answer.

Teams.

Our next question is a math question.

You may want pencil and paper there for you.

What is the area of a triangle with a base of 20in and a height of 12in?

Norm of Plymouth.

120 units squared.

Yes, 120in.

This disgraced man is the only.

And that sound ends the game.

And it looks like it is going to be Plymouth.

Moving on to round two.

All right Plymouth, congratulations on your win.

We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks as you take on the winner of our next game and Prospect Mountain tough loss today.

Congratulations on your wild card victory.

We're glad to have had you here.

We had fun.

We hope you did as well.

And we do hope that you at home had fun and that you tune in next week.

When the teams from Souhegan High school and Trinity High School face off.

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

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

We'll see you next time.

Major funding for the production of Granite State Challenge is provided by Unitil.

Additional funding provided by Bangor Savings Bank.

Safety Insurance, NEA New Hampshire, Aroma Joe's and viewers like you.

Thank you.