♪♪ -On this wild card match, the team from Conant High School, [applause] takes on the team from Mascoma Valley Regional 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, Jon Cannon!

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our second wild card match of our 44th season of Granite State Challenge.

Back in November, 32 teams met up at Plymouth Regional High School for our test-in event.

14 of those teams automatically qualified.

We had one wild card match earlier that was won by Fall Mountain.

And in this game, we're going to find out who joins them to round out the field.

Let's introduce you to the teams.

First up we have the team from Conant High School.

-My name’s Joey I’m a senior.

-Hi my name is Donte and I'm a junior.

-My name is Lily I'm a junior.

-My name is Kylie I'm a junior.

-Alright the alternates for the team are Charlie and Roscoe and the team is coached by social studies teacher Jon Duggan.

That's the team from Conant High School.

[applause] And facing off against them in this wild card match is the team from Mascoma Valley Regional High School.

-My name is Adeline I’m a senior.

-My name is Carl I'm a junior.

-My name is Isaac I'm a sophomore.

-My name is Abby I'm a junior.

-The team alternate is Riley, and the team is coached by social studies teacher John Sweetland.

That's the team from Mascoma Valley Regional High School.

[applause] Those are our teams.

But of course, we have one more introduction for you and that is of course on the Ann-cam, our beloved Judge Ann Boulanger.

[applause] Alright teams, introductions are out of the way.

Go ahead and grab those signaling devices.

We're going to play some Granite State challenge.

Alright?

As you know we play in four rounds and in round one we do ten point tossup questions.

So Conant, Mascoma, Good luck!

Here we go.

Although Olo upena Falls is 2953 feet tall, it is the fourth highest waterfall in the world and the highest waterfall in the United States.

In what state is it located?

[buzzer rings] Joey of-- Joey?

-Hawaii.

-Yes, Hawaii is right.

In what Charles Dickens novel does the main character say, please, sir, I want some more, in reference-- Adeline of Mascoma Valley?

-Oliver Twist?

[buzzer dings] -Yes, that is correct.

This Soviet leaders preserved body has been on public display in a mausoleum at Red Square in Moscow since 1924.

Donte of Conant?

-Lenin?

[buzzer dings] -Yes.

According to a song sung by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 movie Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, this solid form of carbon is a girl's best friend.

[buzzer chimes] Joey of Conant?

-Diamonds.

-Correct.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1854 poem Charge of the Light Brigade recounts the mistaken and doomed British cavalry charge against a Russian artillery battery during the Battle of Balaclava during this war.

Joey of Conant?

-Crimean War.

[buzzer dings] -Yes.

This author created the characters Jane and Mr.

Rochester in the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, published under the name Currer Bell.

-Donte of Conant?

Emily Bronë?

-Sorry no.

Mascoma?

It was the other one.

It was Charlotte Bronë.

Alright, team, our next question is a picture question to celebrate the semi quincentennial or 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

And this question is worth 25 points.

This Prussian military officer who helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge, wrote Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States in the winter of 1788 and 1789, known as the Blue Book.

It was used in the army until 1814.

[buzzer chimes] Joey of Conant?

Say it again?

-Von Steuben?

-Yes!

Friedrich von Steuben is right.

Alright teams, which two cities in Minnesota are often referred to as the Twin Cities?

[buzzer chimes] Carl of Mascoma?

-Minneapolis and St.

Paul?

-That is right.

What part-- what part of the body would you tell an actor to break before a performance?

Donte of Conant?

-A leg?

-You would.

[buzzer dings] Alright teams who wrote The Scarlet Letter, a novel about sin and guilt in Puritan New England?

[buzzer chimes] That was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Which rapper released The Blueprint and is known for hits like 99 Problems and his marriage to the Queen Bee?

[buzzer chimes] Joey of Conant?

-Jay-Z?

-Yes.

Alright teams who plays Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe beginning in 2016?

[buzzer chimes] Donte of Conant?

-Tom Holland?

-Yes.

Alright, teams, our next question is our Unitil Power Question.

It's worth 20 points and it's coming to you on your monitors.

Take a look!

-This U.S.

secretary of State under Richard Nixon said that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

[buzzer chimes] Carl of Mascoma?

-Kissinger?

-Kissinger is right.

On August 9th, 1974, this man became the first person to resign as president of the United States.

-Joey of Conant?

-Nixon.

-Nixon is right.

[buzzr dings] Teams, a wall painting suggests that this wind instrument was created around 1000 years ago by Aboriginal people in northern Australia.

Joey of Conant?

[indiscernible] Say it again?

-Oboe?

-No, sorry.

[buzzer blares] Mascoma?

[buzzer chimes] Carl?

-Didgeridoo?

-Didgeridoo is right.

There are five Great Lakes.

A great mnemonic device for remembering them is the word homes, homies.

Name all five lakes.

Joey.

Have Konate.

Huron.

Erie.

Michigan.

Ontario.

Superior.

Correct.

You've got them all.

All right.

Teams in Moby Dick who is obsessed with killing the white whale.

Looking for Captain Ahab on that one.

A math question for you of pencil and paper, if you like.

Solve this equation for X5X minus seven equals 18.

Carl of mass gamma five.

That's right.

This river valley is often called the cradle of civilization.

Joseph Conant.

Mesopotamia.

Sorry.

No.

Abbey of mass, Goma.

The Nile.

Sorry.

No, it's.

We're looking for Tigris and Euphrates, those two rivers.

All right, teams, what is the breed of the Japanese hunting dog used in the Doge meme?

Dante of Konan.

Shiba Inu.

That's right.

It is said that this figure from Greek mythology was so beautiful that her face launched a thousand ships and started a war between two city states.

Carl of Macedonia.

Helen.

That's right.

Helen of Troy.

In 1835, this New Hampshire native became the 14th president.

Adeline of Macedonia.

Franklin Pierce.

Correct.

According to Sir Isaac Newton's telling, he was inspired to study gravity by watching one of these fall.

Not getting beaned by one.

Dante of Conan's apple.

Apple is correct.

All right.

That sound ends round one.

And at the end of round.

Look, round one looks like Konate is out to a bit of a lead.

Great job team on that first round.

Good fast paced round a lot of correct questions.

But we're going to pause in the action right now to get to know our players a little bit.

And we are going to start with the team from Konate High school.

Konate is located in the Cheshire County region.

Serves orange and what's the other town Jeffrey I always forget about Jeffrey in Orange.

And so we're going to start down here in the end with Kylie.

Kylie you it says here you're in two clubs at school, two organizations that do service.

What are they?

NHS and Interact club.

Okay.

And what type of service?

Are we talking about here?

Community service.

Okay.

And any cool things that you're looking forward to.

Doing this year and looking forward to the Dominican Republic trip where we're going to rebuild a school down there.

Fantastic.

When is that happening?

In the.

Spring?

In the spring.

Awesome.

Well good luck.

Travel safe.

And that's a great thing that you're doing.

All right, next up joining Kylie is Lily.

And Lily is a runner.

All right.

What sports do you do?

Cross country indoor track and outdoor.

Track okay, so both track seasons and cross country.

Do you have a preference for one or the other?

Yeah, I like cross country the best.

How come?

What do you like about cross country better?

I just like how it's not the same thing every time.

And I like the hills and stuff.

Yeah, the hills are great.

Instead of them monotonous going around the flat circle, I get it.

Or oval, I guess.

Awesome.

Well, keep it up, keep running.

We're going to go to Dante here and Dante, the rest of this team kind of has you to thank for existing.

Tell us.

I started this club at my school because I kind of noticed that there weren't any clubs, and I wanted to join.

Yeah.

And so I thought, since there's no clubs, I want to join, I might as well make one of my own.

Gotcha.

So you gathered up some, like, minds to put together.

So is this a trivia team?

Do you do other trivia competitions, too?

I mean, we haven't joined any other trivia competitions, but it's like, kind of like social studies centered club where we also want to participate and, all of you and also a mock a bit and trial.

All right.

Great.

Excellent.

Well, we're glad to have you on Granite State Challenge.

We haven't had Konate Konate on in a number of years.

So it is great to have you back on the show.

Speaking of a number of years Joey you are not the first person in your family to be on Granite State Challenge.

No, my Uncle Chris was on in 1994.

Okay.

And what team do you play for?

A bishop ahead.

Okay, so he was on the BG team.

How did they do?

Do you know they made it to the semifinals?

The semifinals.

So that's a pretty good run.

That's a pretty good run.

I hear 1994 was a good year for granite State Challenge.

What do you think?

What do you think is going to do you think they're going to.

Oh yeah.

Make it that far.

All right.

Good.

So you get bragging rights in the family.

Fantastic.

That's Joey and that's the team from Canaan High School.

Right now we move on to their opponents.

This week, the team from Malcolm Valley Regional High School up in Grafton County, kind of in the upper Valley region.

And we'll start down here with Abby, a bit of a linguist.

Tell us a little bit about your your language journey.

Well, I began learning languages probably around when Covid started.

And I started with Korean, then Spanish and American Sign Language.

Okay.

So, well, do you have plans to do anything with these languages after high school?

Maybe study it?

I plan to work in international business.

Oh, yeah?

Well, that'll be very helpful and hopefully pretty lucrative as well.

Excellent.

All right.

Joining Abby is Isaac, who also has a pretty, niche interest that could, make you a lot of money.

What is your area of interest?

My area of interest is nuclear radiation.

Nuclear radiation?

So how did that happen?

How'd that come about?

I was at home one night, and a video on Chernobyl showed up, and I kind of got started from there.

Okay, great.

And what's the hope?

What do you hope to do with all this knowledge?

I hope to for further studies.

And so the effects of nuclear radiation are humans and animals and try to find treatments for it.

Great.

That's fantastic.

Love it.

And something the world needs.

Excellent.

All right.

Joining Isaac is Carl.

And you know Carl you know I'm a fan of sweater vests.

And I'm particularly a fan of this sweater vest.

But unfortunately it's not yours.

No it's it is Adeline.

It is.

It is your teammate Adeline sweater vest.

So do you.

You don't own any sweater vest?

I do not Adeline came through clutch for you.

Yes.

Okay.

Did you choose that one or did she tell you this is the one you have to wear?

I did.

There were a couple options.

And this was.

And that's the one you went with?

Yes.

Okay.

Excellent.

So if you win, are you going to wear it again I if she lets me if it's a lucky sweater vest.

Fantastic.

Very very good quite generous teammate Adeline.

But you did not make this sweater vest.

But you do make clothes.

Tell us.

Yeah, I love to sew my own clothes.

I like to go thrifting and buy vintage sewing patterns and then make all kinds of vintage skirts and dresses and things.

Very, very cool.

And, what is your what is your masterpiece at this point?

What are you most proud of that you've made?

I made my own dress with the matching headband.

Okay, nice.

Excellent.

Prom dress maybe.

Yeah.

You should.

All right.

I think you should.

That is the team from Goma Valley Regional High School.

All right, teams that.

Thank you for that brief interlude.

We're going to jump back into the show.

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

So the way that this round works is each team gets ten questions and we go down the line player by player.

All right.

Each question is worth ten points.

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

We'll start with Conant as the first alphabetically.

And just as a reminder, you can't talk to each other on the team, all right.

But you can pass to your teammate.

Each team gets three passes.

All right.

So we will start with Conant and Joey.

This is your question.

This carrot chomping cartoon character is known for saying, what's up, doc?

Bugs Bunny correct, Danny.

Bad Bunny, the King of Latin trap, was born in this unincorporated U.S.

territory, Puerto Rico.

Yes, Lily.

In 1898, following a U.S.

invasion.

During this war, Puerto Rico became a U.S.

possession.

Pass.

Kylee.

Your question.

World War two.

It was the Spanish-American War.

Back to Joey.

The Spanish-American War began with the sinking of this ship in Havana Harbor in Cuba, USS Maine.

That is right.

Don't.

Maine is the largest New England state by area.

What is the smallest New England state?

Rhode Island.

Correct.

Lily Rhode Island painter Gilbert Stuart is famous for his unfinished portrait of this.

U.S.

presidents.

I don't know.

All right.

Is George Washington Kiley, agricultural scientist.

George Washington Carver is perhaps best known for his work with this legume.

Past.

Past.

Joey.

Peanut.

Peanut is right.

Dante.

The peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz, features this beagle.

I'm afraid his name.

Snoopy.

Snoopy is right, Lily.

Snoopy has an active imagination and daydreams about being a World War One flyi He's always trying to fight the Red Baron.

And that is three strikes and the end of your rounds.

Nice job Konate.

We made it all the way to question nine mascot.

But we're going to see if you can match that same drill.

And Adeline we'll start with you.

This is the largest member of the deer family.

Moose.

Moose is right Carl.

In the cartoon series Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle is a moose.

And Rocky is this species of rodents?

Squirrel.

Correct.

Isaac.

The 1976 film Rocky was written and starred this actor as the title character.

Us.

All right.

Pass to Abby.

John Cena.

That's a good guess.

It is.

Sylvester Stallone.

Adeline.

Back to you, Sylvester was a cartoon cat who was determined to catch this canary.

Tweety bird.

Correct.

Carl, known as the Hick from French Lick and Larry Legend Larry Bird spent his professional career playing for this NBA team.

Boston Celtics.

Correct.

Isaac Botica was a first century Celtic warrior queen who fought against occupying forces from this empire.

England.

Sorry.

No.

It is the Roman Empire Abbey.

Three of William Shakespeare's plays are set in ancient Rome Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and this play about a Roman general and dictator, hamlet.

Sorry, it is Julius Caesar, and that is the third strike to end your round.

All right, great job, teams, in round two we're going to roll right into round three which is our 62nd round.

At this time I'd like to invite the alternates to come on up and join their teams as we get ready to play this round.

In our 62nd round, each team gets ten questions in a category.

You can talk with each other and work as a team, and I will give you ten points for each question that you get correct, and a bonus of ten points if you get all ten of them correct.

Typically we start with the team that is trailing and right now that is you.

Mascolo so Adeline, you can talk with your team and decide from these three categories.

What a pair.

I've got your number and toe the line.

What a pair.

I've got your number.

Toe the line.

What a. Pair.

What a pair.

Okay, excellent.

So, in this category, you are going to identify the following famous pairs, of items or people or what have you.

Adeline, you can talk to your team.

I will take your answer as the team answer.

Okay.

Good luck.

60s.

Start the clock, novel by Leo Tolstoy set in the Napoleonic Wars.

War and peace.

Correct.

Jane Austen novel featuring Elizabeth and Mr.

Darcy.

Pride and prejudice.

Yes.

Shakespearean play about doomed young lovers.

Romeo and Juliet.

Correct crime fighting dynamic duo.

Bonnie and Clyde.

Batman and Robin.

What?

You might say it is raining like in a downpour.

Cats and.

Dogs?

Yes.

One roommate, like one roommate likes pigeons.

The other likes rubber duckies.

Bert and Ernie.

Correct.

They went up and then came down a hill.

Jack and.

Jill.

Correct.

Musical about the love lives of gamblers Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson.

Guys and dolls.

Guys and.

Dolls.

Correct movie about a young Hawaiian girl and a genetically engineered alien.

Lilo and stitch.

Correct.

They were kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve.

Sounds like they did a good job.

We'll check with judge.

And how many?

Nine out of ten on your 62nd round.

Great job.

Mask on.

No way to catch up on some points, Conan.

It's a tough act to follow, but, Joey, talk to your team.

You can choose from.

I've got your number and toe the line.

I've got your number.

I've got your number.

Okay, so in this category, the answers to the following will be famous musicians or groups with a number in their name.

Okay.

Musicians or groups of the number in their name.

You have 60s start the clock one, two, three.

This group of brothers was fronted by Michael Jackson.

Five.

Correct.

Harry Styles is a member of this boy band.

Maroon five.

One Direction, one Direction sorry, it's One Direction.

This industrial rock band was founded by Trent Reznor.

Nine Inch Nails, correct.

What's My name again?

And All the Small Things are two of this band songs past is blink 182.

Bono and The Edge are members of this band.

U2, correct.

They sang about rock lobsters and love sharks.

B-52s.

B-52s.

Correct.

Frankie Valli led a group that shares a name, with a Vivaldi composition.

Past is the Four Seasons.

Along with Big Boy, he made up the hip hop duo outcast.

Best is Andre 3000.

This rapper sang about being in the club.

50 cent correct.

This group sang about Jeremiah being a bullfrog in the song Joy to the world.

Let's get at is, the last one your parents know it is Three Dog Night, and that is ten questions.

And at the end of their round we turn to judge and five out of ten on your 62nd round.

Great job.

Both teams alternates.

You can go ahead and resume your seats as we get ready to launch into round four.

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

So playing smart and strategic Conant in mask Omar good luck.

Here we go.

Our first question is a picture question.

You can go ahead and take a look at your monitors.

In 1807 this man's invention, the steamboat Clermont, also known as the North River steamboat, made its maiden voyage up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany.

That man's invention, or the man is Robert Fulton.

All right, teams, a group of this family of fish is called a shiver.

Maybe because that is what you would do if you saw one.

Especially if you also heard a two tone piece of music by John Williams.

Add a of Bascom Sharp as writes Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

It had this mausoleum built for his wife Mumtaz Mahal between 1632 and 1648.

Khalil of Mask Omar Taj Mahal as writes this 16 or 17 year old was Queen of England for only nine days.

She was deposed by the Privy Council of England and replaced by her cousin Mary the First.

She was imprisoned and executed in the Tower of London.

Joey of Conan.

Anne.

Sorry, no.

That's coma.

It was Lady Jane Gray.

The Khmer Empire known for building Angkor Wat, was located in which present day country Carl of Goma, Cambodia, writes the Sagrada Familia, the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world, was designed by architect Antoni Gaudi and is located in this Spanish city.

Karl of Barcelona.

Barcelona?

Yes.

All right, teams, a coin is flipped once.

What is the probability of getting heads?

José of Conant 50.

Yes.

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

Take a look.

Hi, I'm Jade Adams, the 2025 New Hampshire's Kid governor.

Kids can do amazing things.

This composer was only eight years old when he wrote his first symphony, Symphony number one in E-flat.

He would go on to write 40 more.

Dante of Conan's Amadeus Mozart.

Yeah, that's right.

This muscular tube that is part of the digestive system carries food and liquid from your throats to your stomach, and is sometimes called the gullet.

Joy of colon.

Trachea.

Sorry, no mass coma.

Esophagus.

You got a ringing call.

It's too late.

It is the esophagus.

All right.

This singer, known as the Queen of pop, had massive hits with the songs Like a Virgin and Papa Don't Preach at a line of mask over Madonna.

Yes, teams.

What philosophical and literary movement emphasized self-reliance, nature and spiritual truth?

Carl of mass comma.

Transcendentalism.

That is right.

This could be a letter of the Greek alphabet, the name of an airline or land formation formed from sediment where a river joins another body of water.

Joseph Kony yes, this actor plays the character Tony Stark and Iron Man in the Marvel movie franchise.

Joseph Kony, Robert Downey Jr.

Yes, what novel starts with the lines?

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

Carl of Goma, a Tale of two cities.

Correct.

Who is the leader of the Autobots from the planet Cybertron and their civil war against the Decepticons?

Joey is right.

And a fast and furious final round.

And coming up just short, Canaan will lose to Max Gomer, who will be moving on to the tournament's.

Great back and forth game teams.

Canaan sorry on a tough loss.

They beat you right there at the end.

Gomer.

Congratulations on a good win.

We'll see you in February when we take on the rest of the field in this season.

44 of Granite State Challenge.

This has been two great wild card matches this week.

I we really hope that you've been watching at home that you've enjoyed them.

I know I have and you know what?

I learned something too, and I hope to see you next time.

Bye bye.

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Additional funding provided by Safety Insurance.

NEA New Hampshire.

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