This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Hopkinton High School takes on the team from Plymouth Regional 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, John Canning.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Granite State Challenge.

This week, we have our second semifinal match up.

We had a great match last week.

We're hoping for just the same this week.

These two teams, 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 a senior as well.

Hi, I'm Conrad.

I'm a senior.

Hey, I'm Jackson.

I'm a senior.

All right.

The alternates are Flo and Finn, and the team is coached by social studies teacher Liam Callahan, and they're the team from Hopkinton High School.

And their semifinal opponents are the squad from Plymouth Regional High School.

Hi, I'm Raegan.

I'm a junior.

Hi, I'm Khalill'm a senior.

I am Paul.

I'm a senior hi I'm Max I'm a junior.

The alternates are Ethan and Norman, and the team is coached by programing, drafting and engineering teacher Jay Fogarty and world language teacher Troy Harris.

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

All right, teams are introduced, but we do have one more important introduction that, of course, is our judge.

Back with us again.

Ann Boulanger.

All right, teams introductions are out of way out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those buzzers.

We're going to play some Granite State challenge.

As you know, we play in four rounds and in round 110 point toss up question.

So Hopkinton and Plymouth, good luck.

Here we go.

What 2020 Song by Taylor Swift is named for a type of sweater.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Maroon.

No, sorry.

Hopkinton, Adam Cardigan is right.

This former president ran on the ticket of the Anti-Slavery.

Free Soil Party in the 1848 presidential election.

Reagan of Plymouth, Vermont.

Sorry.

Now Hopkinton.

Adam Tyler.

No is Martin Van Buren.

This company was named for the Greek goddess of victory.

Khalil of Plymouth, Nike.

Yes, this May holiday may be more celebrated in the United States than it is in Mexico.

Jackson of Hopkinton, Independence Day May 4th.

Sorry, No.

Plymouth.

Khalil Cinco de Mayo.

Cinco de Mayo is right.

In this 2009 film, widower Karl.

Fredrickson attaches thousands of balloons to his house and accidentally floats off to South America.

Conrad of Hopkinton, up.

Yes, this could be an organ in the body or a type of being shaped like that organ in the body.

Max of Plymouth Kidney Yes.

Four of the last ten governors of this state have served time in prison.

Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan, Daniel Walker and Otto Kern, Khalil of Plymouth, New Jersey.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinton.

Colton, New York.

No.

They were all governors of Illinois in a 2023 study that measured player's heart rates, which Nintendo racing game was rated the most stressful?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Mario Kart.

That's right.

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

Power Question.

It's worth double the points.

So 20 point toss up coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look.

You can try your luck at this game.

In 45 states, including New Hampshire, Khalil of Plymouth, Blackjack.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinton, Adam Roulette.

Sorry.

No.

Remember, it's the power question.

We were looking for Powerball.

All right, teams, A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another.

A graphene is the letter is the written representation of that sound with a letter or letters.

What is the term for the smallest unit of meaning?

In a word that cannot be further divided?

Khalil of Plymouth Syllable.

Sorry, no.

Is a morpheme A morpheme?

This rapper and singer is known for songs like Sunflower and Better Now, and his heavily tattooed face and body Conrad of Hopkinton Post Malone.

Yes, this could be a species in the tetraodontidae family or the band who plays with Paul of Plymouth A Blowfish.

Yes.

A year on this last planet in the solar system lasts 165 Earth years.

In 2011, it completed its first 165 year orbit since its Discovery Ragan of Plymouth.

Neptune.

Yes.

All right, teams, Our next question is a civics question coming to you on your monitors from Marge Chiafery, the vice chair of New Hampshire Civics.

Take a look.

In 1999, this state became the last state to name a holiday after Martin Luther King Junior Reagan of Plymouth, New Hampshire.

That is right.

This author and illustrator created Benjamin Bunny, Peter.

Rabbit and Squirrel Nut King Reagan of Plymouth Potter.

Yes.

Beatrix Potter's right.

The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, is the headquarters of the DOD.

What does DOD stand for?

Jackson of Hopkinton, Department of Defense.

That's right, Queen Elizabeth.

The second was served by 15 UK prime ministers during her reign.

Who was the first Khalil of Plymouth?

Robert Benjamin Disraeli No, sorry.

Hopkinton.

Colton Churchill.

Churchill's right.

Big John and Cannon are each brand of down rigger, which are used to keep lures at a consistent depth while trolling.

If you are using a down rigger, what are you doing?

Khalil of Plymouth Fishing.

You're fishing.

That's right.

This singer, dancer and actor was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture.

She starred in the 1927 film Silent Film.

The Siren of the Tropics.

She also aided the French resistance during World War Two and refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Ella Fitzgerald.

Sorry, no.

Hopkinson Adam Johnson sorry is Josephine Baker is the person we're looking for.

All right, for the next question, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

This social worker and reformer co-founded.

Chicago's Hull House with Ellen Gates star in 1889.

Hull House was a settlement house that provided services to immigrants.

Khalil of Plymouth Addams.

Jane Addams is right.

All right.

Team's next question is a math question.

You may want some pencil and paper as a fraction.

In simplest terms, what is three fourths times 5/8?

Khalil of Plymouth.

Man.

Five is sorry.

Time ran out.

Adam of Hopkinton, 1530 seconds.

That's right.

All right.

And that sound ends the round.

And so at the end of round one, looks like Plymouth out to a bit of a lead by a score of 100 to 60.

All right, teams round one is in the books.

But before we move on to round two, we're going to take a pause in the action and spend a little time getting to know one another.

We're going to start with the team from Hopkinton, Middle High School, Hopkinton Middle High School.

The high school portion is in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, about 300 students.

And among that number is senior Captain Adam.

And you know, we've been calling you Adam on the show.

That's what the name on the podium says.

But apparently that's not what everyone at Hopkinton High School refers to as.

Yeah.

So some of my close friends, Conrad included, call me Ted.

Okay.

So where did Ted come from?

Not really sure to be honest.

In 10th grade chemistry, someone a couple of my friends just looked at me and said, I looked like someone who might be named Ted, and it stuck from there.

All right, well, you look like an Adam to me, so I'm going to keep with that, if that's all right with you.

All right.

Colton, the next member of the team did something that some New Hampshire students get to do every summer, but some may not know about it.

Tell us.

So I took part in the ASP course that.

St Paul's offers every summer.

And the ASP stands for the Advanced Studies program.

Exactly.

Okay.

Yep.

And so students who do it can choose different areas of study, right?

What did you choose?

Long governance.

Think you've seen past episodes that would come?

Probably.

It's no choice.

Yes.

Yeah.

Law and governance is no surprise.

Did you do anything as part of that learning experience that was particularly cool.

Interesting.

Visiting various courthouses around the state, conducting a few mock trials, and then one big giant town hall with all the people from ASP at the end of the course.

Very cool with like minded students like yourself.

Exactly.

Very, very cool.

All right, Conrad, last time you were on the show, we talked about you wanting to hike Mount Washington barefoot.

And but this time we're going to talk about a close range incident you had with a baseball.

Tell us about it.

So, yeah, I was a camp counselor and I was just sitting and drinking my water.

It was at lunchtime and some kid really wanted to play catch with me.

And I just I just didn't know.

So she just came up behind me and threw a baseball right at my head.

Okay, so you weren't expecting the ball.

You didn't miss it.

It just hit you?

Yeah, I just.

I was just doing my own thing.

And then.

Were you okay?

Yeah, it was fine, but it was an interesting experience.

I bet.

Maybe not going to be a camp camp counselor after that.

Try.

Well, hey, if you had been injured, your teammate Jackson could help with you because you're thinking about a career in sports.

Yeah, sports, medicine.

Sports medicine.

So why sports medicine?

Well, I mean, I love sports, so it would be kind of like, I mean, a job.

It would be great to have fun while working.

And my family has a long history of of medical.

You got medical professionals in the family.

You love sports.

But the two things together.

Perfect.

All right.

That's the team from Hopkinton High School.

All right.

We move on over to Plymouth Regional High School up in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

About 650 students from all around the region up there near Plymouth.

And the team captain is Reagan, who as a youngster got to go on a number of bicycle trips, fond memories of these bicycle trips.

You know, there was candy, so that was nice.

But other than that, it was rough.

So let me ask your parents must have made you go on these trips, right?

Yes, I guess it was an adventure.

So that was fun.

All right.

Any memorable moments?

There is this one bed and breakfast in the middle of Missouri that had dolls in every room, which was just concerning.

Yeah, Maybe we got out of that quickly.

Yeah, maybe not memorable for all the right reasons, but, hey, what's better than spending time with family?

Am I right?

All right, Khalil Next up on the team, we've talked a lot about music with you.

Khalil On your time on Granite State challenge, but you wrote down here that you actually have a favorite cord in all of music.

What is it I do?

It is the final chord of Igor.

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Ballet.

Okay, so what is special about this chord?

Well, it spells out d e a D, okay.

And that's significance to The Rite of Spring, because it's the the point of The Rite of Spring where the ballerina who gets sacrificed dies.

Gotcha.

So we end with the DAED chord.

All right, well, there you go.

All right.

Something a little less morbid with Paul.

He's listened to the entire discography of what band?

Rat.

Rat.

So we talked on your first round game about your sort of love of sort of eighties hair metal music.

What is it about rats?

I really like piercy screeching vocals on Demartini and Crosby, like the one two punch on the lead guitar.

And I like the anthemic choruses.

And this is this is quite a disarming discography, right?

We're not talking one or two albums.

We're talking How many?

We're talking six albums.

Six albums.

So there you go.

If anyone from Ratt is watching at home, send Paul some swag.

All right, Max rounding out the team.

You know, a lot of Granite State Challenge students.

They're around 16 years of age.

They get their license, they get a car, they start driving.

You did something a little bit different.

Well, different.

I decided at 16 to take a motorcycle course, get my license and buy a motorcycle.

So your mode of transportation is just the motorcycle.

Just the motorcycle.

But I do have my mom's car if I need to get somewhere, so.

Right.

Because, you know, if it's the wintertime, the weather's bad, you need an alternative mode of transportation.

That's fantastic.

Hopefully always wear a helmet.

I do.

All right.

Well done.

This is a team from Plymouth Regional High School.

All right, teams introductions and get to know you's out of the way.

We're going to roll into round two are three strikes and you're out round and again.

In this round, we give each team ten questions.

We go down the line player by player until all ten questions are asked or until three strikes and you're out each team has three passes that you can use to pass to your teammate next to you.

And something in the previous question will be the inspiration for the next question.

So be on the lookout for that.

We're going to do this alphabetically.

Hopkinton, we'll start with you And Adam, this is your question.

Matthew Broderick played Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks 2005 movie The Producers.

He also played this high school student who took a day off from school.

Ferris Bueller.

That's right.

COULTON The first Ferris wheel was found on the midway of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which was held in this Illinois city.

Springfield, Chicago.

CONRAD This poet called Chicago, quote, the City of Broad Shoulders in a 1914 poem.

Robert Frost.

It is Carl Sandburg.

JACKSON Carl Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for his biography of this president Pass passed.

Adam, your question.

Pass Colton, your question Can you repeat the question.

You bet.

Carl Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for his biography of this president, FDR.

Sorry, it was Abraham Lincoln.

And just like that, your three strikes round is over.

All right, Plymouth, we turn our attention to you.

Same drill Reagan and we'll start with you.

This is your question.

These two sisters have won a combined 30 grand slam titles in tennis of Venus and Serena Williams.

That is correct, Khalil.

The Planet Venus is often called a twin to this planet because they are similar in size.

Earth.

Yes, Paul.

According to legend, this city was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus.

Brown?

Yes.

Max.

In 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed this river and started a civil war.

Pass.

Rubicon.

Reagan is correct.

Khalil Julius Caesar and this Egyptian queen are said to have had an affair.

Cass.

You know, it's Sorry.

That's clear.

Cleopatra You were there.

Paul This author's play, Anthony and Cleopatra, was first performed in 1607.

Shakespeare Correct.

MAX Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra in the 1963 movie Cleopatra.

She also played Margaret Maggie the Cat.

Pollitt in the 1958 movie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by this playwright whose first name is the name of a state.

Tennessee Williams.

Tennessee Williams is right.

Reagan.

Tennessee Williams is also the author of the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire.

The movie version of the film starred this actor as Stanley Kowalski.

Pass Khalil, your question?

Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando.

Paul Marlon Brando played Jor-El, the father of Kal-El, who would go on to be a super hero in this 1978 film.

Superman.

Yes, Max.

In the early iterations of Superman, he would sometimes go into one of these to change from Clark Kent into Superman, which would be very difficult feat today as they are hard to find.

Pass.

Reagan telephone booth at phone booth is correct and that's the end of your eight on your three strikes round.

All right so Plymouth building on that little below a little bit.

But we're going to go into round three, which is our 60 second round alternates.

I'd like to ask you to come on up and join your teams at the podium in the 60 second round.

Each team gets ten questions in a category.

We'll give you ten questions for each correct response and a bonus of ten questions if you get them all correct.

Teams can talk together and work together in this round, but we do take Captain's answers as team answers and Adam as the team of Hopkinton trailing right now.

You get to select first from our categories.

They are shake it up a hairy situation and rain rain go away.

Situation Hairy situation, a hairy situation.

Okay.

In this category, the answers to the following will be related to hair.

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

Start the clock.

This character, created by Astrid Lindgren is known for her red pigtails.

But if it was Pippi Longstocking.

Yes, she was a Gorgon with a head of snakes.

Medusa?

Yes.

This poofy hairstyle is named for the mistress of King Louis, the 15th.

Afro is the pompadour.

The Rachel is a hairstyle name for a character on this sitcom.

Friends?

Yes.

Her hairstyle looked like she had two cinnamon rolls on the side of her head, which is pretty peculiar.

Princess Leia.

Yes.

This cartoon character is known for her towering blue bouffant hairstyle.

Marge Simpson.

Yes.

She threw down her locks to be saved by a prince.

Rapunzel.

Yes.

This band was known for their mop top hairstyle.

The Beatles.

Yes.

She was known for her long locks, which covered up her nakedness as she rode through town.

Joan of Arc does Lady Godiva.

This 1967 musical was all about the hippie subculture in war protest.

Hairspray, it is Hair was that one.

And at the end, seven out of ten on your 60 second rounds.

All right, Plymouth.

We turn our attention to you and Reagan.

You've been talking to your team.

You know you can choose from shake it up or rain.

Rain go away.

Rain, rain go away.

All right, rain, rain go away.

It is.

The answers to the following will include the word rain.

Reagan, you can talk to your team.

I'll take your answer as the team answer 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

1984 Song by Prince for Purple Rain.

Yes, though usually tropical you will find temperate ones of these in the Pacific Rain Forest.

Yes.

This is where Dorothy wanted to go.

The.

Yeah.

Back to Kansas.

Pass Over the Rainbow.

Yes.

Nice.

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise starred in this movie about a man and his autistic brother, a rainy day in New York is Rain Man.

This active volcano is the tallest mountain in Washington state, Rainier.

Yes.

This is a song by Luke Combs and the saying that states that one bad When it rains it Pours.

Yes, you might have one of these slowdowns in a baseball game.

A rain delay.

Yes.

Russia invaded this country in February.

Ukraine Yes.

This cold water fish is found in Pacific tributaries in Asia.

Rainbow trout.

Yes.

This 1982 song by the Weather.

Girls was a number one dance hit.

And It's Raining Man.

Yeah, it's raining men.

It's raining.

Yes, that is correct.

Nine out of ten on your 60 second rounds.

All right.

Thank you, Alternates.

You can go ahead and take your seats as we go right into round four.

In round four, we're going to pick back up with our toss up questions, but we're going to be doubling the point values to 20 point toss ups and taking 20 points away.

Four incorrect responses.

So still kind of a tight match, Hopkinton and Plymouth.

So play smart in strategic.

Here we go.

This former governor of South Carolina caught a lot of heat when she failed to name slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

When asked about it by a voter at a campaign stop in Berlin, New Hampshire.

Colton Nikki Haley.

Yes.

This Greek nymph was only able to repeat the last words spoken to her after Zeus, his wife Hera, cursed her so that when she later fell in love with Narcissus, she couldn't tell him what she felt.

Conrad of Hopkinton?

Echo That's right.

A fire in January of 2024 at Sunapee Manor in Sunapee, New Hampshire, almost destroyed the barn where this band led by Steven Tyler, got its start.

Paul of Plymouth, Aerosmith.

That's right.

The Residents Act of 1790 set up the creation of a capital district for the United States along this river.

Reagan of Plymouth Potomac.

Yep, this small Galla form is native to Europe, Asia and Africa, but it has been introduced to North America, where you may or more than likely not find it in a pear tree.

Reagan of Plymouth.

Partridge That's right.

This woman is perhaps the first female self-made millionaire.

She made her fortune selling hair products and cosmetics for black women.

Reagan of Plymouth Walker.

Yes.

C.J.

Walker.

You will find Transylvania, the Danube River and the Carpathian Mountains in this country.

Paul of Plymouth, Romania.

Yes.

The name of this city, located on the Mississippi.

River, means the red stick in French.

Adam of Hopkinton.

Baton Rouge?

Yes.

Almost 13,000 union soldiers died in this Confederate prison in Georgia in just a little over a year.

Paul of Plymouth Andrewsville.

We'll give you that.

An alumni of Hanover High School in New Hampshire.

This musician rose to fame after his 2022 album, describing the season of the sticks, the time in New England when all the leaves fall off the trees.

But before the snow, Max of Plymouth, Noah Khan.

That's right, teams.

What is the term for when you are infected by a virus but not showing any symptoms?

Colton of Hopkins Asymptomatic.

That's right.

This novel by Madeline Lengel features Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murray and Calvin O'Keefe as they travel through space and time to save Meg and Charles' father, from the black thing.

Khalil of Plymouth, A Wrinkle in Time.

That's right.

This Korean dish is made with fermented vegetables, usually cabbage or radish.

In the winter.

It is often stored in the ground in earthenware pots called onggi Colton of Hopkins Kimchi.

Yes.

Amanda Gorman, Maya Angelou and Robert.

Frost have all read their poems at this event held every four years.

Adam of Hopkinton Presidential Inauguration.

That's right teams.

What is 99 in Roman numerals?

Adam of Hopkinton, XCIX That's right.

People opposed to technology are often called this name from English workers who smashed machinery in textile mills that they believed were threatening their jobs.

Khalil of Plymouth luddites Yes, tonometry is a procedure your ophthalmologist might use to check the fluid pressure in your eye and test to see if you have this eye disease.

Khalil of Plymouth.

Cataracts.

Sorry, no Hopkinton?

Is the glaucoma test.

Rapper singer and we won't get to that.

And looks like Plymouth hanging on to win the match by a score of 430 to 280.

All right, Congratulations on your win, Plymouth.

We'll see you next week in the Granite State.

Super challenge in Hopkinton.

It was a good run.

You made it this far, but tough loss today.

You should be proud of your achievement.

We had fun having you here.

We hope you had fun as well at home.

We do hope you tour.

Tune in next week for our final match of the season.

The Granite State Super Challenge.

When this team from Plymouth Regional takes on the team from Merrimack High School.

That'll do it for us this week.

I hope you learned something, because I did as well.

We'll see you next time.

Bye bye.

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