This week on Granite State Challenge, the team from Hopkinton High School takes on the team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover.

Only one team will advance.

Granite State challenge starts now.

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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.

Thank you so much for joining us for another quarterfinal round on Granite State challenge one, teams already punched their ticket to the semis.

We've got two teams here this week to try to do exactly the same thing.

Let's introduce them to you.

First up, we have the team from Hopkinton High School, and they are led by junior.

Captain Adam.

And you're a Rubik's Cube aficionado.

Yes, a little bit.

How how how long does it take you to solve a three by three cube?

About 15 seconds out.

15?

Is that okay?

15 seconds.

That's really good.

Is this something you practice for a long time to get good at?

Yeah, I've been doing it for about five years on and off.

Okay.

And any competitions I've been to one hoping to do more soon.

All right.

Awesome.

Well, good luck.

Adam is joined by senior Hal, who's visited How many national parks?

Over 20.

Over 20.

Do you have on that list?

Any favorites?

Yeah, I would say Yellowstone and Zion were probably my two favorites.

Okay.

Yeah.

And are there any that you haven't visited yet that you are on your list?

I'm really excited to go to Glacier.

National Park in Montana and Denali in Alaska.

Ooh, fantastic.

That's amazing.

Great.

All right.

Hal is joined by Junior Colton, who's on the school hockey team.

But it's not just your school on the hopping on the hockey team.

Tell us.

No, we actually partner with two other schools to make quite a mouthful for the announcers.

We're the John Stark, Hopkinton, Hillsboro Deering, General Hawks.

So I feel bad for anyone who has to announce this on the ice.

I feel bad for you for having to announce this.

What position you playing defense on the team.

Awesome.

That's a good position right there.

All right.

And Colton is joined by Junior Conrad, who likes to make what?

Food, Pizza.

Pizza.

And where do you cook this pizza?

So I have an outdoor wood fired brick pizza oven.

And sometimes my family will just buy dough we'll make all the sometimes we'll even make the dough ourselves, which make all the toppings and we'll just cook it.

Just fire it up and have a nice family dinner, huh?

Yeah.

That's fantastic.

Maybe you'll have to invite me over some time.

All right.

The alternates for the team are freshmen, Thomas and Finn.

And they are coached by Matthew Krogman, and they're the team from Hopkinton.

High School.

All right.

And facing off against Hopkinton this week is a team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover.

And they are led by Captain Luke, who won a handwriting competition three years in a row.

But not just regular handwriting.

What specifically?

Oh, yeah, cursive handwriting.

So one of the Zanier boys or cursive handwriting contests.

Okay.

And now, is this something you just learned when you were in third grade or what have you?

At my middle school, all the second graders learned cursive, and I lost the first year, which made me really mad.

Maybe lit a fire, you know, I won the next three years.

Nice.

Well, congratulations on that is a dying art for sure.

Luke is joined by sophomore Charlie, who's a runner, runs cross-country and track.

Do you like one more than the other?

Do you have a preference?

One or the other?

I prefer cross-country.

Okay.

What is about cross-country?

I like running longer distances better than short distances.

And I like being outside.

Yeah, Yeah.

I mean, in the woods, running the trails is pretty great.

Fantastic.

Charlie is joined by junior Merrill, who does something I think is really cool, but kind of dangerous.

What is that?

I whitewater kayak.

Okay.

How did you get into Whitewater?

Kayak?

Well, I had been whitewater rafting a few times and I really liked it and I just kind of got interested in it and yeah, and so far so good.

Yeah.

Been safe.

No injuries, no scary moments.

That's good.

All right.

And Merrill, is joined by Cade, a junior who is working towards an accolade that you want to add to your title.

Yeah, that's right.

Being the chess grandmaster.

Grandmaster.

Yeah.

So being good at chess, how do you get to become a grand master.

Well you accumulate points based off of competitions with other people who are ranking and as you work up, you get that title.

All right.

And how close are you?

I'm on my way.

Definitely on my way.

So probably a couple of years out.

That's right.

That's fair.

That's fair.

Nothing wrong with that.

All right.

Welcome.

The team alternates our freshman Amelia and senior Allie, and the team is coached by Katie Graham.

They are the team from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School.

All right.

And those are the teams this week.

But we do have one more introduction, of course.

Back with us again is our judge Ann Boulanger.

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

Teams go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

We're going to play Granite State challenge in round one.

We play for ten point toss up questions.

So Hopkinton, Saint Thomas, good luck.

And here we go.

In 1853, this American businessman started a company in San Francisco to manufacture blue jeans.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Levi when give that can you give me the last name?

Do you know the last name?

Strauss.

Yes.

Good.

All right.

Teams, carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants, insectivores, eats, insects.

What do frugivores eat?

Cade of Saint Thomas fruit.

That's right.

Before he became a justice on the US Supreme Court, this man served as a senator from Alabama and was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

He served on the court from 1937 to 1971.

Hal of Hopkinton, Hugo Black.

Correct.

This associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States served from 1993 until her death in 2020.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Yes.

Author Mario Puzo wrote this 1969 novel about the Mafia that was later turned into a trilogy of films directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Hal of Hopkinton.

The Godfather?

Yes, the 1957 Merrie Melodies cartoon.

What's Opera?

Doc starred Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and the music of this German composer's operas The Ring of Nibelung, The Flying Dutchman.

Tannhauser and the second opera from the Ring Cycle, The Valkyrie.

Colton of Hopkinton.

Hans Wagner.

Sorry, No.

Luke of Saint Thomas Wagner.

Yes.

We'll give that to you.

It's Richard Wagner.

Richard Wagner.

In this 1857 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that no person descended from slaves could be an American citizen and therefore could have no standing to sue in Federal court.

Luke of St Thomas Plessy v Ferguson Sorry, no Hopkinton.

Hal?

Dred Scott?

Yes.

Good grief.

The final strip of this comic ran in 2000, one day after the death of its creator, a Luke of Saint Thomas Peanuts.

Yes.

Teams.

What do you call the lipid rich material that surrounds the axons of nerve cells?

Luke of Saint Thomas.

Nerve casing?

Sorry, No.

It is the myelin or the myelin sheath before the.

This president took office in 1913, black workers made up 10% of an integrated federal workforce.

That changed when he permitted his cabinet heads to segregate their departments.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Woodrow Wilson.

Yes.

This puppeteer performed the Muppet characters Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy and Grover, as well as Yoda in the Star Wars films.

Hal of Hopkinton, Oz Frank Oz.

Yes.

This Nashua, New Hampshire native was the 76th governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and served as a US Senator from New Hampshire from 1993 to 2011.

He also won $853,492 in a 2005 Powerball drawing when he matched five out of six numbers.

Cal of Hopkinton, John Sununu, sorry, no, it was Judd Gregg won all that money and was governor and senator.

All right.

Teams founded in 1620.

This is considered the first English colony in New England.

Cal of Hopkinton, Jamestown, sorry.

Now, Saint Thomas, Merril.

Plymouth.

Plymouth is right in New England.

These structures that convert wind to energy are the enemy of two Dons, Quixote and Trump.

Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Windmills.

Windmills.

Yes, in 1969, this politician and teacher became the first and to date only female prime minister of Israel.

She served from 1969 to 1974.

It is Golda meir.

All right, teams.

Our next question is our Unitil Power question.

It's worth a double point.

So a 20 point tossup coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look.

This superhero has no superpowers, but he does have a handy utility belt and a butler named Alfred Pennyworth, Luke of Saint Thomas, Batman.

Yes.

This show about a porous multicellular organism and his friends premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999, Luke of Saint Thomas, SpongeBob SquarePants.

That's right.

In 1972, this US president directed NASA.

Well, we will not get to the end of that question, but at the end of a good, fast paced round, it looks like Saint Thomas out to a bit of a lead.

All right, teams, great first round.

Keep that up.

As we go into our second round, we will be doing our three strikes and you're out round In this round, each team gets ten questions.

We go player by player down the line, ten points for each correct response, and we go until you answer all ten or until three strikes and you're out.

Each team has three passes.

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

So, Hopkinton, we will start with you, Adam.

This is your question.

This collection of locks, canals and channels that runs through the US and Canada connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, and it is the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Hal, the Great Lakes formed around 14,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial period.

How many Great Lakes are there?

Five.

Yes.

Colton This New Hampshire lake was the setting for the 1981 movie on Golden Pond.

It is also home to a science center you may have visited on a field trip.

Squam Lake.

Correct.

CONRAD The 1981 movie on Golden Pond starred Father Henry and daughter Jane from this acting family.

Can I skip?

You can pass.

Can I pass?

Yes.

Adam Fonda.

The Fonda family is right, Hal.

Actors Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Lily.

Tomlin and Rita moreno star in a 2023 movie 80 for Brady about a group of women traveling to see this team in the Super Bowl.

The Patriots.

Yes.

Colton, The 1992 movie Patriot Games starred Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.

The movie was based on a novel by this author who also wrote The Hunt for Red October.

Tom Clancy.

Correct.

Conrad Harrison Ford is known for playing action heroes, including.

Han Solo in Star Wars and this whip yielding archeologist, Indiana Jones.

Correct.

Adam?

This Indiana city was the home to the members of the Jackson five and is the subject of a song from the musical The Music Man.

Gary, Indiana.

Correct.

In February of 1970, Hal, this song by the Jackson.

Five all about Learning simple Things knocked Let It Be by the Beatles out of the Top Spot on the Billboard Billboard Top 100 List.

Pass.

All right, you have one more pass.

Yes.

Conrad, ABC.

Correct.

Adam This song by Lil Nas X holds the record by holding the number one spot on the Billboard Top 100 list for 19 weeks.

Old Town Road.

That is correct.

And that is the end of your three strikes round.

Nice job, Hopkinton.

We're going to turn our attention to Saint Thomas, same drill team.

And Luke, we start with you.

This 2010 movie tells the story of super villain.

GRU, who has plans to shrink and steal the moon.

Despicable Me.

Correct.

Charlie in the nursery rhyme.

Hey, Diddle Diddle Who jumped over the moon?

Cat.

Yes, Merrill, This woman was voted the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated.

She holds the record in the heptathlon and once held the record in the long jump pass.

All right, pass to Cade Snider.

Sorry, it's Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Luke.

The heptathlon includes seven events, 100 meter hurdles, the high jump, the 200 meter dash, the long jump, the javelin throw, the 800 meter run.

And this event where you hurl a heavy ball shot.

Shot Put?

Correct, Charlie, the phrase shot heard round the world refers to the opening shot of this battle on April 19th, 1775, Lexington.

We'll give that to you.

Lexington and Concord.

Okay.

Merrill.

Concord, New Hampshire is the final resting place of this.

US President.

Pass.

Pass to Cade your question.

Pierce Franklin Pierce is right.

Luke Franklin Pierce signed this act into law that effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Correct.

Charlie The band Kansas in this 1977 song claimed that we were all just dust in this.

The wind.

Yes, Merrill When a tropical storm has sustained winds of this speed, it is officially Hurricane 87.

It is 74.

Cade, this hurricane known as the great New England hurricane and the Long Island.

Express was a Category five storm that hit New England in this year, 2005.

Sorry, it was 1938.

And that is the end of your three strikes rounds.

All right, teams, at this time, I would like to invite the alternates to join their teams up at the podium as we roll into our 60 second round.

In our 60 second round, both teams will have a crack at ten questions in a category and the team trailing will choose the category first.

And the team trailing is all right.

So, Hopkinton, we will start with you and Adam.

You are the captain and you can speak for your team.

You can talk to your team, and you get to choose from these categories.

Tell me a story.

This could be and pig in a poke.

Tell me a story.

Tell me a story.

All right.

The answers to the following.

Will all include the word story.

60 seconds start the clock.

This is an amusement park in Glen, New Hampshire.

Story Land.

Yes.

You will find Woody and Buzz Lightyear in this 1995 Toy Story.

Yes.

This movie tells the story of the nothing trying to engulf the land of Fantasia.

Neverending Story.

Yes.

This musical is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.

Yes.

The Hugo Award is given out for this type of writing storybook.

Sorry, Short story.

Filmmakers will often create one of these visual aids prior to storyboard.

Yes, this is the name to both a 1970 film and a 2008 song by Taylor Swift.

Love story.

Yes, you might read one of these to a child before they go to sleep.

Bedtime story.

Yes.

One Direction had a hit with this song in 2013.

Story of my Life.

Yes.

The first season of this anthology series was titled Murder.

House.

Pass.

It is American Horror Story.

And that is eight out of ten on your 60 second rounds.

Nice job, Hopkinton.

We'll turn our attention to Saint Thomas and Luke.

You can speak for your team you can choose from this could be and pig in a poke.

We'll take a pig in a poke.

Pig in a poke.

All right.

The answers to the following will all be related to pigs.

Luke, I'll take your answer.

Is the team answer 60 seconds.

Start the clock.

He was friends with Charlotte.

The spider, Wilbur the pig.

Yes.

His catchphrase is.

That's all, folks.

Porky pig.

Yes.

He hangs out with Pooh and Tigger in the 100 acre wood piglet.

Yes, She is a muppet with a diva attitude.

Miss Piggy Yes, she has a younger brother named George.

Peppa Pig.

Yes, he is a warthog who hangs out with Timon in The Lion King Pumbaa.

Yes, she is a fancy little pig created by Ian.

Falconer.

Gwendoline the pig.

It is Olivia.

He is always surrounded by a cloud of dust in peanuts cartoons, pig pen.

Yes, they stymied the big, bad wolf.

The Three Little Pigs.

Yes.

And he is a piggy bank in Toy Story.

Piggy.

It was ham and eight out of ten on your 60 second round.

All right.

Nice job.

Teams, alternates.

You can go ahead and take your seats.

And we are going to head into 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.

So these are 20 point toss up questions.

We're also going to be deducting 20 points for any incorrect responses.

So play smart and strategic.

Hopkinton and Saint Thomas, good luck.

And here we go.

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to brown pelicans, wood storks and American Oystercatchers was founded in 1903 and is the first wildlife refuge in the US.

In what state will you find it?

Tough to take a guess on that.

But it is in Florida.

This flap of cartilage in your throat covers the opening to your windpipe when you swallow and keeps you from choking on food.

Luke of Saint Thomas the uvula.

Sorry, No is called the epiglottis.

Veronica Roth's 2011 post-apocalyptic novel Divergent takes place in this US city.

Luke of Saint Thomas, Chicago.

Correct.

All right, teams to this next question.

Go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

You are looking at Frances Perkins.

In 1933, she became the first woman to serve in the cabinet.

She served in this post in this post, which is currently held by former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.

Hal of Hopkinton.

Secretary of labor.

That is right.

This fictional detective first appeared in the 1887 novel, a study in Scarlet Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Sherlock Holmes.

That's right.

In 1950, President Truman ordered that control of these be seized by the US Army to avoid a strike.

Colton of Hopkinton Railroad.

That's right.

All right, teams, a math question for you.

If you have a pencil and paper in case you want to use it, what is one eight plus one half atom of Hopkinton 5/8?

That's right.

In this nursery rhyme, first published in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book in 1744.

A mouse ran up a clock.

Charlie of St Thomas Hickory Dickory Dock.

That's right, Teams.

What scale would you use to measure the hardness of a mineral?

Luke of Saint Thomas, moscale?

That's right.

Fidel Castro served as the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, where he served from 1965 to 2011.

He was followed by his brother Raul, who served from 2011 to 2021. Who is the current first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

It is Miguel Diaz Connell in reaction to the Protestant Reformation, this group which met between 1545 and 1563 in Italy.

In 25 sessions, laid out and clarified the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Luke of Saint Thomas, the Council of Trent.

That's right.

Teams.

Which amendment to the US Constitution ratified in 1913 allows for the popular election of U.S.

Senators.

Merrill of St Thomas.

18.

Sorry, No.

Hopkinton.

Adam 17?

17 is right.

Teams you might call something that is very tiny minuscule spell minuscule.

Luke of Saint Thomas.

M.i.n.i.s.c.u.l.e.

Sorry.

That is incorrect.

Not going to take a chance on that spelling question.

Make me do it.

M.i.n.u.s.c.u.l.e.

This poet lived with her husband, poet Donald.

Hall on Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.

Rural life and imagery was often found in her works.

Her name is Jane KENYON.

All right, teams, take another look at your monitors for the upcoming question.

Actor Nathan Lane has played notable roles on Broadway, in films and on TV, including Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Max Bialystock in The Producers, Pepper Saltzman in Modern Family.

And to moan, a member of this ground dwelling mammal in Disney's The Lion King.

Merrill of St Thomas Meerkat.

That is right.

This member of The Beatles is known for the songs.

Something Here Comes the Sun While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Taxman.

Charlie St Thomas.

George Harrison.

Yes.

In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee released papers describing his idea for this Adam of Hopkinton, the World Wide Web.

That is right.

This man, who was the poet laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 for the world doesn't end.

He was professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire.

Charlie of Saint Thomas.

Lily Collins.

Sorry.

No.

Hopkinton was Charles Simic.

Actor STOCKARD Channing played First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the TV series.

The West Wing and Pink Lady Betty Rizzo in this 1978 movie.

Merrill of Saint Thomas, Greece.

Yes.

Teams.

What would you use the formula two pi r to calculate Adam of Hopkinton?

Circumference of a circle.

That's right.

Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Geer.

Rita MacLeod was convicted of being a spy for Germany in World War One and executed by a French firing squad in 1917.

Today, many feel she was used as a scapegoat by France.

She's more commonly known by the stage name Conrad of Hopkinton, Mata Hari.

That's right.

The World Science Fiction Society has handed out this award for best novel since 1953.

Winners have included Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov, Hal Hopkinton.

Nebula Award.

Sorry, no.

Saint Thomas is the Hugo Award.

Tupac Shakur had a tattoo on his back reading Exodus 1831 in reference to a rebellion led by the South Hampton.

County, Virginia, slave in 1831.

It was Nat Turner.

This amendment to the US Constitution limits presidents to two terms.

It is number 22.

This four time NBA champion played for the Orlando Magic.

The Boston.

Sorry, folks, we're not going to get to the end of that question and by a very narrow margin of victory.

Hopkinton will be moving on to the semifinals.

All right.

Great game, Hopkinton.

Great, great match, tight match.

We'll see you in a couple of weeks when you face off against a team from Merrimack High School and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Tough loss, but a hard fought game.

Congratulations on your first win.

We hope you had fun.

We had fun having you here.

And we hope you had fun watching it at home as well.

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

Regional High School and Bow High School face off.

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

I hope you learned something.

I know I did.

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 NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, The New Hampshire Lottery, D.F.

Richard Energy, Cognia, HRCU.

And viewers like you.

Thank you.