This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Dover High School takes on the team from Souhegan 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 thank you so much for joining us as we make our way through the first round of our 42nd season of Granite State Challenge.

We've already got two teams who have punched their ticket to the second round, and we've got two teams here this week hoping to join them.

Let's introduce them to you, shall we?

First up, we have the team from Dover High School.

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

I'm Travis, and I'm a senior.

I'm Jake.

And I'm also a senior.

I'm Leviathan.

And you guessed it, I'm a senior.

Their alternates are Martin and Sofia.

The team is coached by math teacher Tim Elliott, and they are the team from Dover High School.

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

I'm Kason.

I'm a junior.

I'm Caleb and I'm a junior.

I'm Morgan.

And I'm a junior.

I'm Emma.

And I'm a junior.

The alternates for Souhegan are Maya, Sam and Erin and the team is coached by social studies teacher Nicholas Drinkwater.

And they're the team from Souhegan High School.

All right, Those are our teams this week.

But we do have one more introduction before we get started.

And that, of course, is our judge.

Back with us again is Ann Boulanger.

All right.

Team's introductions are out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices because we're going to jump right into round one.

In round one of Granite State Challenge.

We play ten point toss up questions.

So Dover, Souhegan, Good luck.

Here we go.

A ball in this sport can weigh up to £16.

Travis of Dover Bowling.

That's right.

O Captain, my captain.

Our fearful trip is done.

The ship has weathered every wreck.

The prize we sought is won.

These are the opening lines of a poem by this author about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Sorry.

No.

Dover.

Travis.

Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman is right.

This wild and crazy guy, in addition to being a well-known comedian, actor and writer, is also a. Grammy winning banjo player.

You may have seen him on a few things.

It's Steve Martin teams.

What are the three inalienable rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence?

Maddie of Dover.

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That's it.

You got all three.

Around 1500 species of this parasitic plant are often used in Christmas decorations that you do not want to be found under if you do not want to be kissed.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Mistletoe.

That's right.

This expatriate American poet was a fascist collaborator with Italy during World War Two.

Name we were looking for.

There's Ezra Pound.

This is the only US president to hold a patent for an invention.

It is patent number 6469 and was awarded in 1849 for a device to lift boats over shoals.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Lincoln.

That's right.

Abraham Lincoln.

All right.

So this next question, go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

21 species of this mammal are found in the Americas, including the nine banded seven banded pink fairy screaming hairy and big hairy variety cases.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Armadillo.

Yes.

12 U.S. generals have served as president of the United States.

Only one of them was elected in the 20th century.

Who was he?

Kasen of Souhegan.

Eisenhower.

That's the one.

Teams what superhero is, quote, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Kasen of Souhegan.

That's right.

All right.

For this next question, go ahead and take another look at your monitors there.

This member of the must Still a Day family is found in western and central North America from Canada to Mexico.

Its name is also a verb for continually harassing or annoying someone.

Travis of Dover Badger.

That's right.

This could be a large ocean going vessel or a game where you sink a large ocean going vessel.

Emma of Souhegan.

Battleship.

That's right.

The fictional setting for this author's novel, Cujo is Castle.

Rock, Maine, and the fictional setting in his short story.

Stand by Me is Castle Rock, Oregon.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Stephen King.

That's right.

Teams.

Only one U.S. state is bordered by only one other state.

What is that state and what is the state it shares a border with?

Kasen of Souhegan.

Maine, New Hampshire.

That is right.

This desert valley in eastern California with a morbid name is known for its high temperatures.

On July 13th, 1913, the temperature was recorded as 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest ambient temperature ever recorded on Earth.

Travis of Dover, Death Valley.

That's right.

A pack leader in the Cub Scouts is sometimes referred to as this name, which is taken from the name of the leader of the Wolf Pack in Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle.

Book.

The term there is a killer.

The name of this text of the Texas City Texarkana is a portmanteau of Texas and these other two states.

Jack of Dover, Arkansas, and Kansas.

Sorry, no.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Arkansas and Oklahoma?

Nope.

You had Arkansas, right?

The other was Louisiana.

Louisiana.

This unit of measurement is used to determine the distance to objects outside our solar system.

It is equal to around 3.26 light years.

It was coined by astronomer Herbert Turner in 1913 and is short for Parallax of one second.

Hans Solo claimed the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel run in less than 12 of them.

Travis, of Dover.

Parsecs.

That's right.

In a 1947 speech to the House of Commons, this British prime minister said, quote, Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise.

Caleb of Souhegan.

Winston Churchill.

He is the one.

If someone wants you to be on your best behavior and mind your manners, you might be told to mind these two letters.

Maddie of Dover.

Ps & Qs.

That's right.

Teams, What is the brightest star in the sky as seen from Earth?

Morgan of Souhegan.

The Sun.

That's the one.

If it begins with a K, this could be the pet dog of Superman.

If it begins with a C, it could be a type of currency.

Leviathan of Dover crypto.

Yes.

This city was built on seven hills.

Palatine, Capitoline, Caelian, Viminal, Esquiline, Quirinal, and Aventine.

Travis of Dover, Rome.

That is correct.

For our next question.

Well, we're going to wait for that question at the beginning of round four and after round one.

Look at this.

We've got a tight game with Dover or sorry, Souhegan in the lead by a score of 100 to 90.

All right, teams, before we roll into round two, let's get to know each other a little bit as we like to do.

First up, we're going to talk to the team from Dover High School.

Now, Dover is located over on the eastern side of New Hampshire, and it serves students, about 1500 students from Dover, Barrington and Nottingham, I believe.

And the team is led by team Captain Maddie.

And Maddie is a runner, right?

And not just country cross-country.

You also run track.

Okay.

So do you prefer the distance?

I do events.

So what's your what's your best event?

I like the three K, the three K. All right.

And how many laps is that around the track?

15 laps.

Do you have to keep count yourself as you're running around?

No.

There's a guy at the finish line.

There's a guy who does that for you.

All right.

Have you ever thought that you were, like, almost done, only to find out that you weren't?

Yes.

That's probably no good.

All right.

Maddie is joined by Travis, who's also an athlete, plays a different sport.

You play soccer?

Soccer.

How long have you been playing soccer?

For?

A while.

For ever.

Really?

Forever?

For as long as you can remember.

Yeah.

Okay.

Do you just play on the school team?

Do you play on any other team?

I play on the travel team that we have for our town.

All right.

Excellent.

And you thinking about maybe at the next level playing soccer?

I've thought about doing a club soccer team for college, but haven't made up my mind yet.

There you go.. Well, keep it up.

You stay in good shape.

It's good for you.

All that good stuff.

All right.

Travis is joined by Jake.

Jake plays a different kind of sport.

Maybe it's competitive.

What is it?

It's chess.

All right, So how did you get into chess.

During COVID.

Had a lot of free time.

Gotcha.

And what do you like about chess?

I like how complex it is for such a seemingly simple game.

Okay, so I don't play a lot of chess.

I'm not very good at it.

But do you have, like, a signature move that you?

D4.

D4 All right, I'm going to go research what the D4 is.

And the team is rounded out by Leviathan.

Who, according in your own words, is deeply obsessed with this character, comic books.

Batman comics.

Batman comics.

And do you have in there's a lot of Batman comics over the years.

Do you have any favorites recommendations.

They might like?

Absolute personal favorite If the Batman Contagion arc?

It's very relevant post COVID.

So to have that going for it.

But if I had to say what would like the Objective best comic I would recommend for most people, I would say probably no man's land, but you will sink a lot of time into reading it.

It's no man's land.

It is.

I'll have to check that out.

That is Leviathan, and that is the team from Dover High School.

All right.

We now turn our attention to their opponents, the team from Souhegan high school.

So he again, is located in the southern part of the states.

About 750 students from the towns of Amherst and Mount Vernon.

And the team is led by returning player and now Captain Kasen and Kasen, you have a very special vehicle that you drive.

Tell us about it.

Yeah, it's a 2004 Honda Civic.

It was my grandparents, grandparents.

2004 Honda Civic.

Still alive and kicking.

How's it do?

How's it doing?

Run super smooth.

Haven't had any problems with it, so.

Yeah, I like it.

On how many miles are on that bad boy.

About 110,000.

So it's got a while to go.

Yeah, it's got some life left in it.

All right.

Excellent.

Joining Kasen is Caleb.

Who does something that's not uncommon with Granite.

State Challenge players, which is mock trial.

Tell us how you got into mock trial.

Well, I got into it because it was advertised by the school.

And you guys practice.

How often do you practice?

Three days a week for an hour and a half.

Three days a week for an hour.

So that's a pretty big commitment.

Now, do you get the opportunity to compete against other schools in mock trials and things?

So we do.

The University of New Hampshire Mock Courtroom in Concord.

Okay.

And how's the team doing?

Doing all right.

Fantastic.

All right.

Well, if I ever need a lawyer, I know who to call.

All right, Next up on the team is is an athlete.

We've got Morgan, who's playing a sport that was new to you when you came to high school.

What is it?

Yeah, I started playing ice hockey freshman year.

Ice hockey freshman year.

So the school has a girls hockey team, Right.

Which is pretty great.

In the state of New Hampshire.

Was it hard for you to learn how to play hockey?

I did figure skating when I was younger, so.

Kind of jump right into it.

So you already felt comfortable on the skates and stuff.

How's the team this year?

We're okay.

Just okay.

It's fun, though, so that's why you do it.

And lastly on the team is Emma.

Emma is a junior and also plays a sport.

What's more, do you play lacrosse?

Lacrosse?

How'd you get into that?

I joined eighth grade year.

Okay.

And you've never played before.

Did you pick it up quick?

Yes.

But then I was changed my position into a goalie freshman year.

Okay.

So what is the most important thing for a goalie in lacrosse to do?

Keep moving forward.

Keep moving forward.

Okay.

I thought you were going to say stop the ball from going into the net, but that was too obvious.

Keep moving forward.

Now I know something.

All right.

And that is the team from Souhegan High School.

All right, teams, we're going to roll right into round two.

And in round two, we do our three strikes and you're out round.

So we're going to start with Dover.

Each team gets ten questions.

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

If you don't know the answer, you can pass it to your teammate next to you.

Each team gets three passes and always be on the lookout because there is a clue for each question in the previous question.

Okay, So, Maddie, we will start with you.

And this is your question.

You can be a bobcat, a wolf and a we below in this.

Boy Scout group.

Cub Scout?

That's right.

Travis The Cubs are a major League.

Baseball team located in this city.

Chicago.

That's right, Jake.

In the 1972 song, the band Chicago sings about spending this day in the park.

Saturday.

That is right.

Leviathan John Travolta starred in the movie Saturday Night Fever.

About this kind of dancing.

Disco.

That's right.

Maddie Jimmy Fallon starred in the movie Fever Pitch about a fanatic fan of this team.

The Patriots.

It's close.

It's the Red Sox.

Travis The Red Sox won their first World Series in a 86 years in 2004 when they beat this team.

The Yankees.

It is the Saint Louis Cardinals, Jake.

Saint Louis sits along this river.

The Mississippi.

That's correct.

Leviathan, the Mississippi River begins in this state that borders Canada and Lake Superior.

Pass.

Maddie.

Minnesota.

Minnesota is right.

Travis This is the only one of the Great Lakes that is found entirely in the United States.

Michigan.

Lake Michigan is right.

And final question, Jake.

The Michigan Wolverines defeated this team to win the 2023 National College Football championship.

Pass.

Can you repeat the question?

The Michigan Wolverines defeated this team to win the 2023 National College Football Championship.

Syracuse?

Sorry.

It is the University of Washington and that ends your three strikes rounds.

All right.

Good job.

Dover puts some points on the board.

Souhegan we'll see how you do.

Same drill.

Kasen this is your question.

In 1786, this founding father created the long arm, a wooden pole with a claw on the end to get books off of high shelves.

Benjamin Franklin Correct.

Caleb.

Franklin Pierce University is found in this New Hampshire town.

Keene.

It is Rindge.

MORGAN Hawkeye Pierce was the main character in the TV series of this TV series about a mobile medical unit and set during the Korean War.

I'm not sure it is.

MASH.

Emma At the end of the Korean War, these two countries were separated by the DMZ or the demilitarized zone.

Pass.

Kasen?

North Korea.

South Korea?

That is correct.

Caleb In 2019, he became the first U.S. president to visit North Korea.

Donald Trump Yes.

MORGAN The Disney character, Donald Duck, has three nephews with rhyming names.

Who are they.

Pass.

Huey, Louie and Dewey, Correct?

Kasen.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to organize these.

Books.

That is correct.

In 1921.

Caleb In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win this award for her book, The Age of Innocence.

Nobel Prize.

It is the Pulitzer Prize, and that is your third strike and ends the rounds.

All right, teams.

Good job in round two.

We're going to move on to round three.

In round three is our 60 second round.

I would like to invite the alternates to come on up and join their teams in the 60 second round.

Each team gets ten questions in a category.

Each category has a theme and the teams can work together and talk together as a team.

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

Souhegan, as a team trailing you, will get the chance to select first.

So Kasen you can talk to your team and you can choose from these categories: Animal Attraction, Water Feature and A Capital Idea.

Kasen.

We'll take Animal Attraction.

Animal Attraction It is.

Okay.

The answers to the following will be book titles that include an animal.

Kasen, I will take your answer as the team answer.

60 seconds.

Start the Clock novel featuring Scout and Boo Radley.

To Kill a mockingbird.

Yes.

Eric Carle book about a ravenous, pretty butterfly.

Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Yes, Laura Numeroff picture book about a rodent and consequences.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Yes.

John Steinbeck novel about George, Milton and Lennie Small.

East of Eden.

It is of Mice and Men.

Margery Williams book about a stuffed bunny who wants to become real rabbit.

It is The Velveteen Rabbit 1960 picture book about Fish by Dr. Seuss.

One Fish, two Fish, Redfish, Bluefish.

Yes.

Scott Odell Novel based on the true story of Juana Maria, who was left alone on an island for 18 years.

I don't know.

It is Island of the Blue Dolphins.

1972 novel by Jean Craighead George about an Inuck girl.

I don't know.

It is Julie and the Wolves 1969 autobiography by Maya Angelou.

The Caged Bird Sings.

Judge, think about that.

We'll see what the judges say.

Okay, That's a No.

Four out of ten on your 60 seond round.

Alright, Dover, we turn our attention to you and Maddie.

You could talk to your team, but you can choose from Water Feature or A Capital Idea.

Capital idea.

A capital idea.

All right.

The answers to the following will be state or country capital cities that begin with the letter A.

All right, Maddie, I'll take your answer as the team answer 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

This is the capital of Greece.

Athens?

Yes, this is the capital of Turkey.

Ankara.

Yes, this is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Abu Dhabi.

Yes, this is the capital of Ghana.

Accra.

Yes, this is the capital of the Netherlands.

Amsterdam?

Yes.

This is the capital of the state of Georgia.

Atlanta.

Yes.

This is the capital of the state of Maine.

Augusta.

Yes.

This is the capital of the state of Maryland.

Annapolis.

Yes, this is the capital of New York State.

Albany.

Yes.

And this is the capital of Texas.

Austin.

All right.

That sounds like ten out of ten to me on your 60 second round.

That's an extra ten points for you, Dover.

Congratulations.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Alternates, you are all set.

You can return to your seats as we prepare for round four.

All right, So in round four, go ahead and grab those signaling devices because we're going to pick back up with our ten point toss up questions.

Sorry, These are 20 point toss up questions.

Not only are we going to be doubling the point value to 20 points, but we're also going to be deducting 20 points for incorrect responses.

So it's a tight game, believe it or not.

So Dover and so he can play smart and strategic.

Here we go for the first question is actually going to come to you on your monitors.

And it's a civics question from Peter Richard, trustee for New Hampshire Civics.

Take a look.

Only one amendment to the U.S. Constitution has ever been repealed.

The 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors, was ratified by the states in 1918 and repealed by this amendment in 1933.

Kasen of Souhegan.

21st.

That is right.

This King's wish to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon led to England's break from the Catholic Church and the formation of the Church of England.

Caleb's of Souhegan.

King Henry the 8th.

That's right.

This legendary ghost ship is allegedly doomed to sail the seven Seas forever and is also the name of an opera by Richard Wagner and a green glowing pirate ghost on SpongeBob SquarePants is the Flying Dutchman.

Sherilyn Sarkeesian, who starred with her husband Salvatore Bono, in a musical variety show in the 1970s and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1987.

For her role in Moonstruck is better known by this single name.

She is better known as Cher.

All right, teams, this member of the Monitor.

Lizard family is found in Indonesia and can be as long as ten feet, making it the largest extant species of lizard in the world.

Kasen of Souhegan.

Komodo dragon.

That is right.

Bottle sizes for this bubbly French wine include Methuselah, Salomon nazar, Balthazar and Magnum.

You can apparently buy those size bottles of champagne teams.

What woman counted the ways she loved her partner in sonnets?

23 in her collection of sonnets from the Portuguese.

So Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

A thermometer is used to measure temperature.

An anemometer is used to measure wind speed.

What is used to measure atmospheric pressure?

Kasen of Souhegan.

Barometer.

A barometer is right.

It is easy to see why Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was a well-respected inventor.

After all.

He created these to correct for distance vision and to help with close up vision needed for reading.

Travis of Dover eyeglasses.

Sorry.

Sorry.

No.

Souhegan.

Kasen.

Bifocals.

Bifocals specifically.

All right, teens.

Our next question is our Unitil Power Question.

It's worth double the point.

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

Take a look.

This is a legal agreement that gives a third party the authority to handle someone's legal or financial affairs.

It is called the Power of Attorney.

The title range of this bay located between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and a bit of Maine is the highest in the world.

It's the Bay of Fundy.

On December 17th, 1983, Orville Wright flew at a height of ten feet for 12 seconds at Kitty Hawk, a feat that is memorialized on the license plate of this state where the flight occurred.

Sorry, Maddie didn't quite get there in time.

And that is a buzzer.

And after a tight game and a good round four.

Souhegan will be moving on to the next round by a score of 290 to 250.

Wow, what a game team.

Congratulations.

Souhegan.

Good game, good match, Tough game.

Dover, you played well you fought hard.

Came up just short.

I'm sorry about that.

But we do hope you had fun and we hope you had fun at home as well.

We hope you join us next week when the teams from Oyster River and Trinity face off here on Granite State Challenge.

And as for this week, I sincerely hope that you learned something, because I did too.

We'll see you next time.

Bye bye.

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Additional funding provided by NEA.

New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, D.F.

Richard Energy, HRCU.

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