Jim On Granite State Challenge

Cannon is now the third host of granite state challenge since its premiere in 1984.

Jim on granite state challenge. Tom bergeron of dancing with the stars was host of year no. Hosted by jim jeannotte the popular quiz contest began the season with granite state challenge super sunday at manchester community college. Big shoes to fill but cannon is more than up to the challenge. Emphasizing quick recall of factual material in all major disciplines as well as a smattering of pop culture trivia and new hampshire matters granite state challenge is a rousing competition as.

Granite state challenge is an american television quizbowl game show that airs on new hampshire public television and began in 1983. Granite state challenge is a quiz show on new hampshire pbs locally produced for more than 30 years. Jon cannon a bedford high school social studies teacher took over for jim jeannotte. Prior co hosts include lori warriner.

Jon cannon became the host in the 2018 2019 season. Durham nh the high school quiz show granite state challenge has a new host for the first time in 34 years. He follows in the footsteps of tom bergeron who was the host for the first year of the show and jim jeannotte who hosted the show from 1985 until his retirement in 2018. A long time judge for granite state challenge jim mcshane recently became an octogenarian 80 years young this past summer.

Jim jeannotte legendary host of granite state challenge from 1985 to 2018. It features two teams of high school students battling it out for points and bragging rights. How long have you been the host of granite state challenge. Starting in the second season and continuing to 2018 jim jeannotte took over hosting duties.

He went on to stardom and i ve been there 29 years ever since. Well right now we re in the middle of our 30th year and i ve been there 29 years. Although born in springfield ma jim was brought up in dover nh and attended the local schools graduating from dover high school in 1945. Host of granite state challenge.

46 new hampshire high school teams took a qualifying.