The Pennsylvania Game
Commonwealths, counties & raptors
Season 1 Episode 3 | 28m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the other commonwealths? Play the Pennsylvania Game.
Do you know the other commonwealths? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
The Pennsylvania Game is a local public television program presented by WPSU
The Pennsylvania Game
Commonwealths, counties & raptors
Season 1 Episode 3 | 28m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know the other commonwealths? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch The Pennsylvania Game
The Pennsylvania Game is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(dramatic music) (choir vocalizes) - [Announcer] Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians were famous for their music, but Fred Waring also gets credit for perfecting an invention.
Do you know what that invention was?
(upbeat music) You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game."
Test your knowledge of the commonwealth's people, places and products.
"The Pennsylvania Game" is made possible in part by... Uni-Marts, Incorporated, with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.
Serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
(upbeat music) And by the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program, promoting the taste of an ice cold glass of milk.
Milk doesn't just taste great, it's one of the all-time great tastes.
♪ When it's time to make your mind up, ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (groovy music) Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game," Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - I get lost back there, what can I tell you?
Welcome to "The Pennsylvania Game."
Hope you've got some answers.
We've got some good questions today.
Want you at home to play along with our panel, see if you can beat the best score on our panel and our panelists are, he's an author who's written two books about FRD and one about Anna Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor and Anna actually, Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauding) She is a broadcast journalist who works for Channel 4, WTAN in Pittsburgh and does some of the funniest stories ever seen on television, Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) But they're only fun when she intends them to be funny.
From Broadway, from the movies, most of all from television, Nancy Kulp.
(audience applauding) Okay, why not?
We've got some good questions.
Now you at home, keep track of your answers.
See if you can beat our best score of the panelists here.
And here's the first question.
Are you ready, panel?
- [Announcer] Among many famous musicians who came from Pennsylvania, the name Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians is very near the top of the list.
Touring thousands of miles each year, Fred Waring set records over a career that spanned more than six decades and have encompassed every media, radio and television, Broadway and Hollywood, recordings and concert stage.
Fred Waring also had considerable engineering skills.
Which of these inventions did Fred Waring perfect?
A, the food blender, B, the safety razor, C, the pitch pipe, D, the folding music stand.
- Okay, Fred Waring, famous Pennsylvanian perfected an invention.
Was he at the food blender, the safety razor, the pitch pipe, the folding music stand?
You have never used of his razors, I know that Bernie, you and I both.
- Well, it was really the invisible baton.
- [Lynn] Was that it?
- But then that led him, it couldn't be the food blender, so I'll say A.
- You're gonna say A, the food blender.
Okay, Lynn Cullen.
- Never heard of a Waring music stand, never heard of a Waring pitch pipe.
Never heard of a Waring safety razor, but I have heard of the Waring blender.
- [Lynn] And Nancy Kulp.
- Have you never heard of the Waring folding music stand?
- My goodness, we have three As.
Either they're all right or they are all wrong and what did you pick at home?
Did you pick A, too?
Or did you pick one of the others?
Let's see who's right.
- [Announcer] The answer is A, the food blender.
Starting in 1936, Fred Waring used the engineering skills he had acquired as a student at Penn State to perfect the Waring blender.
He had a special trunk built to take his blender on musical tours, using his spare time to experiment.
The Pennsylvanians knew if they ventured into his dressing room, they'd be asked to try his latest blended concoction.
Fred Waring, the man who taught America how to sing also gave America the Waring blender.
- Now I understand from talking to people who work with Fred Waring, Fred Waring didn't drink and when he mixed these drinks, he never knew how much alcohol and if he made you taste something, you might not be ready to perform 'cause he just dumped everything together, but he did perfect the Waring blender.
Uncle Charlie at home does not believe that the Waring blender was invented by Fred Waring and now you've seen it on television Uncle Charlie, you have to believe it, right?
Okay.
- [Lynn C.] Right, who's Uncle Charlie?
- That's my Uncle Charlie.
He knows who he is.
This next question is about some things we share with other states.
- [Announcer] Pennsylvania is called a commonwealth rather than a state.
Only three other states are referred to as commonwealths.
Which of these four is not a commonwealth?
A, Massachusetts, B, Delaware, C, Virginia or D, Kentucky.
- Okay, only four states are called commonwealth and Pennsylvania's one.
Which of these others is not?
Is it Massachusetts, Delaware, Virginia or Kentucky?
And Lynn Cullen, I believe it's your turn.
- [Lynn C.] I had a feeling you were gonna say that.
- [Lynn H.] Isn't this a dandy question?
- Yeah.
- Swell.
- And I feel like I should know this and I don't.
- [Lynn H.] I wouldn't know why.
- Commonwealth.
- [Lynn H.] It's one of those little pieces of trivia you picked up on.
- Well, this is gonna be a guess.
- [Lynn H.] Okay, guess.
- I'm gonna guess my old Kentucky home.
- Kentucky, you think Kentucky is not a commonwealth, okay.
- Right.
- [Bernie] But if you're right, then it's knowledge.
- That's true, Nancy Kulp, what do you say?
- I think I'll pass on this one.
- [Lynn H.] You can't.
(audience laughing) - I'm gonna have to say, what'd you say, Kentucky?
- [Lynn H.] Yeah, she said Kentucky.
- I think I know Massachusetts a commonwealth, Virginia, I think I'll say Delaware, B.
- [Lynn H.] Delaware, look, no you wanna put B up there.
You put C. - Well, I can't read.
- [Lynn H.] It's the one with the curls.
What did you pick, Bernie?
- Well, if Delaware were a commonwealth, all those corporations wouldn't be going down there to that state to become Delaware corporations.
I'll say Delaware.
- [Lynn H.] That's the silliest reason I've ever heard in my life.
- It may work.
- Well, it may work.
Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
What'd you pick at home?
Did you pick one of those states, what do you say, hmm?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, Delaware.
Massachusetts, Virginia and Kentucky are all commonwealths along with Pennsylvania.
The reason for using commonwealth rather than state seems to be as simple as tradition.
- You were right, Bernie, but for the wrong reason.
There is no practical difference between the two.
It's just matter of names.
- [Nancy] See, Bernie, stick with me kid.
- Being right for the wrong reasons is the only way to be.
- Okay, how are we doing over there?
We've got two for Bernie and two for Nancy so they're tied for the lead.
Lynn has one and you're all very, very close.
How you doing at home, huh?
Let's hear it for our panel.
They're doing a good job.
(audience applauding) They are doing a good job.
(audience applauding) You've picked up maybe not the same trivia that we have, but you've written for virtually every well-known magazine in America, Bernie, so you picked up a lot of trivia in your life.
- I've got a lot of trivial magazines, that's right.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lynn Cullen has one of the most creative minds I know because I also envied the stories that you were producing for yourself on TV.
You've got that special kind of spark.
As Bernie said, "You do Andy Rooney better than Andy Rooney does Andy Rooney."
- Oh, Bernie, thank you.
- Wasn't that nice?
- You should be in Pittsburgh.
- Sure, sure.
Nancy Kulp, I wanted to ask you, people remember you from many things- - That didn't refer to my mind I noticed.
- Starring on Broadway and in movies and so forth, but I suppose the most number of people remember you as Jane Hathaway on "The Beverly Hillbillies."
- I think so, yeah.
- [Lynn H.] You were always looking for a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
Did you ever find one?
- I started looking on the "Bob Cummings Show" actually.
- [Lynn H.] That's true.
- Yeah, when I was the bird watcher.
- [Lynn H.] That's true.
- And we sort of carried it.
Jane Hathaway was sort of a modification of Pamela Livingstone as I live and breathe.
- [Lynn H.] Did you ever find a yellow-bellied sapsucker?
- Oh, heavens no.
That's just like catching Jethro.
What would I have done with it if I'd caught him?
(audience laughing) Believe me.
- Never thought about that.
- I did, well, I kept my distance.
- I'd never thought about that.
Okay, we've told you that Kentucky and Pennsylvania both are commonwealths, but they have some other things in common and see if you know what they are.
- [Announcer] We've discovered that Kentucky, like Pennsylvania, calls itself a commonwealth.
Of the following, however, Kentucky can lay claim to only one.
Pennsylvania has the bragging rights to the other three.
Which of these three can Kentucky claim?
A, a great number of counties, B, the birth place of Daniel Boone, C, the oldest whiskey distillery or D, the invention of the Kentucky rifle.
- Boy, that's a question and a half.
Which can Kentucky claim and Pennsylvania has the bragging rights to the other three.
Can Kentucky claim a greater number of counties, the birthplace of Daniel Boone, the oldest whiskey distillery or the invention of the Kentucky rifle and I believe that Nancy Kulp, it's your turn to pick first.
- Do you think so?
- [Lynn H.] That's a tough one.
- I think, I don't think, I think Daniel Boone was not born there.
I think I'd say C, the oldest Jack Daniels.
- [Lynn H.] The oldest whiskey distillery, Okay, stick your letter C up there and we'll register that on our official vote-o-meter.
- We don't have a vote-o-meter.
Bernie, what do you say?
Which one can Kentucky claim, but Pennsylvania has the others.
- B, C and D. The Kentucky rifle's probably based in Kentucky windage, which is something else.
I'll say A.
- [Lynn H.] You're gonna say A?
- Because I have no reason to whatsoever.
- Okay, for no reason, Bernie Asbell picks A.
Good thinking Bernie.
- Oh, heavens.
Pennsylvania is so much bigger.
It's gotta have more counties.
- [Lynn H.] You'd think so, wouldn't you?
- And I think the whiskey rebellion was in Pennsylvania.
- [Lynn H.] Western Pennsylvania.
- I think they were drinking in Pennsylvania real, real early, so maybe they had a distillery.
- So you got it down to B or C, right?
- I'm gonna go with the obvious one, despite windage or whatever that means.
I don't know what you're talking about.
- [Lynn H.] The invention of the Kentucky rifle.
- D. - It's a really easy question.
It's only the answer that's hard as you'll discover.
Which one was does Kentucky have, but Pennsylvania has the others?
- [Announcer] The answer is A. Kentucky has 120 counties to Pennsylvania's 67.
Whiskey's been distilled in Pennsylvania since 1753.
Michter's Jug House in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, is the oldest operating distillery site in the United States.
Michter's had its beginning when Swiss Mennonite, John Shank began making whiskey on the banks of Schnitzel Creek, long before whiskey was made in Kentucky.
Though I came to be called the Kentucky rifle, the famous long rifle of early America was first made in Lancaster and was originally called the Pennsylvania rifle.
Up until after the American revolution, the rifles were not decorated.
After the war, ornate carvings were added.
By about 1840, grass and silver made the rifles quite handsome.
A craftsman could make one rifle in about 8 to 12 weeks, which he then sold for 8 to 12 dollars.
Today, a Pennsylvania in pristine shape might sell for 50 to $75,000.
Daniel Boone was born in Bungstown, Berks County in 1734.
Took a Pennsylvania rifle with him to Kentucky.
Boone found the lightweight deadly accurate rifle well suited to survival in the wilderness.
- We gotta know, Bernie, what is Kentucky windage?
- Well, as any former infantry man knows, you get the target right in your sight.
Then you, then you figure out how fast the wind is blowing and then you compensate accordingly.
That's called Kentucky windage.
- The Pennsylvania rifle, though, which was indeed manufactured in Pennsylvania years before Kentucky helped to win the revolutionary war because the British all used muskets, which weren't very accurate and Pennsylvania was accurate.
Up to 300 yards, you could hit the eye of a squirrel.
I mean, they really were accurate.
And then again, in the war of 1812, the land battle fought Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, it was the Pennsylvania rifle that carried the day in that battle, even though it was fought after the war was declared over.
Let's go now to- - [Lynn C.] Let's pass that one.
- Our mystery Pennsylvanian.
We'll be giving you three clues, panel, and you at home, throughout the course of the show to a mystery Pennsylvanian, a famous Pennsylvanian and you see if you can get it on the first clue, the second clue or the third clue.
Here's the first clue.
Born in a log cabin, he later owned a better home and lived for a term in a famous home.
Our mystery Pennsylvanian, born in a log cabin, later owned a better home.
Lived for a term in a famous home.
Put down your answer under number one if you know the answer and we'll be checking again as we get more clues throughout the show.
So, panel, you begin to write there if you know the answer to that one.
- Why would I do that?
- We'll give you more clues if you don't, so let's get now to our next question, which has a certain, a certain charm to it I think you'll say.
We wanna know something that was invented in Pennsylvania and the answer just may surprise you.
- [Announcer] In 1979, Irvin and Clarence Scott were brothers who pushed a cart through the streets of Philadelphia selling paper.
In 1907, they invented a product that we take for granted today.
What did the Scott Brothers invent?
A, toilet paper, B, tissues, C, paper towels or D, paper bag - Boy that's a toughie.
Did the Scott Brothers of Philadelphia invent toilet paper, or the tissues, paper towels, or paper bags.
Bernie, we're back to you again.
This has nothing to do with windage.
- No, it doesn't.
- [Lynn C.] Oh, I don't know about that.
- [Lynn H.] What do you think?
You're gonna go with tissues.
- That's right.
- What we call Kleenex, but that's really a brand name, right?
Okay, Lynn Cullen, what do you say?
- Yeah.
- [Lynn H.] What'd those Scott Brothers invent?
- I got it in the bag.
- [Lynn H.] In the bag, they invented the paper bag you think, okay.
And Nancy Kulp.
- Obviously they changed their minds later, but I think, no I'm gonna go with A.
- [Lynn H.] With A, toilet paper.
- I know we shouldn't discuss, I'm gonna go with A.
- Okay, you picked, we have a B, a D and an A, but we have no C. Did any of you at home pick C?
- [Nancy] I could vote twice if you want.
- No, one vote's enough.
Did anybody cover the letter C?
Well, we'll find out what the right answer is.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, paper towels.
(audience laughing) The Scott Brothers started their business making toilet paper with the slogan soft as old linen.
One early ad read, they have a pretty house mother, but their bathroom paper hurts.
(audience laughing) When they got shipment of paper too rough for toilet paper, they invented the paper towel.
- That supposedly is a true story.
When they got got a shipment too rough for toilet paper, they said what are we gonna do with this paper, and they said let's make paper towels.
- They started making, first of all, toilet paper, so that should be the correct answer.
- But somebody else was making toilet paper before they made it, though.
They were the first ones to turn the shipment of toilet paper into paper towels.
- Into paper towels.
- 'Cause it was too rough for toilet paper.
- Never mind, we don't have to go there.
- I think in Pittsburgh, they don't like you to say toilet paper on TV.
- [Lynn H.] Really?
- You say bathroom tissue.
- Bathroom tissues, they're right to say bathroom tissues.
Let's go outdoors for our next question, 'cause you guys gotta know more about outdoors than you do about indoors.
- [Lynn C.] I don't know much.
- Let's see.
- [Announcer] Pennsylvania Raptors is an organization devoted to helping a particular kind of animal.
Is that animal A, snakes, B, hawks, C, turtles or D, song birds?
- Boy, I don't know the answer to that one, do you?
Is it A, snakes, B, haws, C, turtles or D, song birds?
Raptors, Lynn Cullen, I believe we're down to you again and I know you're a great outdoor person.
- Well, birds sometimes sit in the raptors, don't they?
- [Lynn H.] They do indeed, and sing, right.
- [Nancy] In the raptors?
- In the raptors, it was a joke.
- What do you say?
- [Lynn C.] I don't have the slightest idea.
- You're gonna say songbirds.
I like songbirds, I hope you're right.
Nancy Kulp what did you pick?
- Oh, that doesn't say eagles, does it?
- [Lynn H.] Well, it says hawks, snakes, turtles or songbirds.
- I think I'll go with B, I know they're having, they're attempting, even now, there's a group who are attempting to save the eagle here in Pennsylvania.
I don't know what a raptor is.
- [Lynn H.] Okay, we'll find out.
- Rhapsody in blue, no, that's- - We'll find out whether you're right or wrong.
- Before the answer's even came up, something in my head said snakes.
- [Lynn H.] It did.
- So that must come from some deep knowledge that I don't even know about.
- Deep subterranean knowledge that goes back to a primordial time, probably one of your ancestors sitting around a campfire and all that.
What are raptors, are they one of those four?
Let's find out.
- [Announcer] The answer is B, hawks.
A raptor is a bird of prey.
Hope Carpenter of Pennsylvania Raptors rehabilitates hawks and owls that have been injured, nurses them back to health and then releases them back into the wild whenever possible.
Hope Carpenter knows that raptors play an important role on the balance of nature, feeding on rodents and thus keeping their population controlled.
Raptors are vital in our ecosystem and in maintaining the quality of life in Pennsylvania.
She likes to share her knowledge about raptors with school children.
Hope Carpenter of Pennsylvania raptors is one of the best friends that hawks and owls have.
- Yeah, raptors are just gorgeous.
Well, we have three for Bernie and three for Nancy, so you two are tied for the lead and how are you doing at home?
Do you have more than three?
Let's hear it for our panel, they're doing well, all right.
(audience applauding) Time now for mystery Pennsylvania clue number two.
Are you ready here?
This is the second one.
His fiance died when he was a young lawyer and I will even add that his fiance's name was Ann.
He hated slavery, but did not know how to end it.
Who is this famous mystery Pennsylvanian?
His fiance, Ann, died when he was a young lawyer.
He hated slavery, but did not know how to end it.
If you've got a question or a suggestion for a question from your area, write to us here.
Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park 16802.
Be glad to hear from you and we'll try to use your question on the air and if we do we'll give you credit for it.
Let's go now back to one of the panel's favorite categories, Pennsylvania counties, 'cause they know all there is to know about Pennsylvania counties.
Don't you panel?
Uh-huh, here's the question.
- [Announcer] If Greta Garbo wished to be alone in Pennsylvania, into which county should she move?
In other words, which Pennsylvania county has the smallest population?
A, Sullivan County, B, Elk County, C, Forest County or D, Potter County.
- Okay, which county has the smallest pop, now that doesn't mean the smallest people, but the fewest number of people.
Okay, all right, okay.
Is it Sullivan, Elk, Forest or Potter.
There might be a logic to this, there might not, so sometimes there is and sometimes there isn't and I believe that Nancy Kulp, we might be starting with you on this one.
- Yeah, since I didn't campaign in any of those, I would have said Fulton, but Fulton isn't up there.
Therefore, I would say C, Forest, simply in the assumption that there are more trees than people in Forest County.
- [Lynn H.] There's a real logic to that answer.
- I've never hard of any of them, I don't know any of them really.
- I'm choosing C for a different reason 'cause there are fewer- - Of course you are.
- There are fewer people than trees.
- Oh, I see, you've got this as the opposite reason from hers.
- [Nancy] That's what I meant.
- [Bernie] No, you said more trees than people.
- [Nancy] Oh, I see.
(audience laughing) - Lynn Cullen, I know you're thoroughly confused by now, aren't you?
- Yeah, I'm thoroughly confused.
- [Lynn H.] What do you say?
- Well, I'm taking B, Elk County because there are more elks than people.
(audience applauding) - That's great, great.
Nobody picked Potter County 'cause there are more potters than people or Sullivans than people.
Well, let's see what you did at home and whether you're right or wrong.
We've got a couple of Cs and a B.
Who's right, huh?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, Forest County with a population of 5,072 according to the 1980 census.
About half of Forest County's 428 acres are in the Allegheny National Forest.
If you guess Sullivan County, you were close.
It's second smallest with just over 6,000 people.
Elk County has over 38,000 and a herd of elk.
Potter County has almost 18,000.
- The logic was good at the both ends because it was.
There are more trees than people because it's Allegheny National Forest.
- [Nancy] That's just like Fulton.
I would never have known it, if I hadn't known Fulton.
- Let's go to sports 'cause I know you all know your sports and love your football, okay.
- Who's winning?
- This is about some famous sports figures that's from Pennsylvania, mm-hmm.
- [Announcer] These two NFL quarterbacks met in Superbowl XIX.
They also met in millions of homes thanks to this commercial for Diet Pepsi.
They are, of course, Dan Marino from Pittsburgh and Joe Montana of nearby Monongahela.
Southwestern Pennsylvania has long been a breeding ground for great pro quarterbacks.
Only one of the following four signal callers is not from southwestern Pennsylvania.
Is that player A, George Blanda, B, Joe Namath, C, Johnny Unitas or D, Len Dawson?
- Okay, a lot of quarterbacks from western Pennsylvania.
Which one of these is not from western Pennsylvania, George Blanda, Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas, Len Dawson.
A lot of talent there and a lot of talent on our panel.
Which one of those do you come up with, Bernie?
- Just the other day I was gonna look up on a map to see where Beaver Falls is and I didn't look it up, but I'll say that it's not southwestern, I'll say Joe Namath.
- Okay- - [Nancy] Is not from Pennsylvania?
- What do you say?
- [Bernie] Well, not from southwestern Pennsylvania.
- What do you say, Lynn Cullen?
- I say Bernie's wrong.
- [Lynn H.] Okay.
- I think Joe Namath is from southwestern Pennsylvania.
I also think Johnny Unitas is, so it's a toss up- - [Lynn H.] Between Blanda and Dawson.
- Between Blanda and Dawson and I'm ba, ba, ba.
- [Lynn H.] Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
- Oh.
- [Lynn H.] You're going with D, aren't you, Lynn, Len Dawson.
- [Lynn C.] Len Dawson.
- [Lynn H.] Okay, Nancy Kulp.
- Well, Beaver Falls, as far as I know, is north of Pittsburgh.
So that would make it northwestern, so I'll have to go with Joe Namath.
Didn't you read it carefully?
- All right, let's see which one of these famous signal callers was not from southwestern Pennsylvania, okay.
- [Announcer] The correct answer is D. Although he was one of football's all-time great quarterbacks, Len Dawson hails from nearby Alliance, Ohio.
George Blanda, whose 26 seasons played and 2002 points scored are both NFL records was born in Youngwood, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Beaver Falls, about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, was the home of Joe Namath, the flamboyant playboy who gave respectability to the old AFL by leading his New York Jets to an upset victory over Baltimore in Superbowl III.
Johnny Unitas, who holds the record for throwing at least one touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games and is considered by many to be the greatest quarterback to ever play the game was born in Pittsburgh.
Marino and Montana continued to uphold the tradition of great quarterbacks from southwestern Pennsylvania and should combine to win many more NFL championships.
- Joe, next year, I'm buying.
(audience applauding) - Yeah, kind of looks like neither one is buying.
Well, okay, some of the pictures from this, by the way, were from "30 Years in Pro Football," by Rutledge Books and we wanted to thank them for letting us use those.
The next question is silly.
And you'll just have to take a guess.
There's no way to know.
It's a silly question I tell you in advance, so make up a silly answer.
- [Announcer] James Henry Mitchell was a Philadelphia inventor.
He invented a machine that produce a baked good.
His device was first tried out in 1892 at the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Massachusetts.
The name of the produce his machine made was named after a Massachusetts town.
Was his product A, Boston creme pie, B, the Concord cracker C, Fig Newton or D, ice cream sandwich.
- Okay, what did he invent and those are all towns in Massachusetts.
The Boston creme pie, the Concord cracker, the Fig Newton or the ice cream sandwich?
Sandwich, Massachusetts.
Where are we up to now?
Are we back to you?
- We're up to no good, that's what we're up to.
- [Lynn H.] We certainly are.
- I think Nancy answered first last.
- I think- - [Lynn H.] Okay, then you answer first this time, Bernie.
What do you say?
- I always thought the Fig Newton was named after apples falling on people's heads, but I'll say it's- - [Lynn H.] You're gonna say Fig Newton.
Okay, Lynn Cullen.
- I don't wanna appear to be a copycat, but I sort of thought it the Fig Newton.
- [Bernie] You destroyed us on the last one.
- Yeah, you really wiped us out.
I'll take the Fig Newton.
- Oh, they're all gonna go with C, all right.
- Not because of him.
- C is kind of the average answer on this one.
Did you pick something different at home or are you going with the Fig Newton also?
Let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, the Fig Newton.
James Henry Mitchell's machine could simultaneously make a cookie and fill it with preserves or jam.
The cookie was called the Newton after the town of Newton.
As figs became the most common filling, the cookies were rechristened Fig Newtons.
- So when you eat a Fig Newton, you know it came from a Philadelphia inventor.
The top score is five and Bernie and Nancy share that score.
How you doing at home?
Let's have a round of applause for our panel.
You're doing all right.
(audience applauding) Okay, our next one is about Fred Waring, no, I turned one card too many.
The next one is our third clue for the mystery Pennsylvanian.
Are you all ready for the third clue?
Although he was expelled from college twice, he attained something no other Pennsylvanian can claim.
No bachelor could claim it either.
Who is our famous mystery Pennsylvanian.
If you know the answer, write it down under line number three.
- He attained something, no bachelor?
- Although he was expelled from college twice, he attained something no other Pennsylvanian can claim, no bachelor can claim it either could claim it either.
So those are the clues.
Was born in a log cabin and he lived in a better home and lived for a term in a famous home.
His fiance died when he was a young lawyer.
He attained something no other Pennsylvanian attained and no bachelor could claim it either, so, what do you got?
You don't know.
You got Lincoln once, that's good, I'm glad I threw you off on that one.
You're gonna say Lincoln again.
What do you say?
- Oh, you want the answers now?
- [Lynn H.] What do you say Lynn Cullen?
Yeah, we're ready for the answers.
- Well, the only thing I wrote was Buchanan, but it can't be because it doesn't work anymore.
Sorry, that was my first.
- Nancy Kulp, what do you say?
- All I could think of is Cole Porter.
- Cole Porter, what is the right answer?
Let's see our mystery Pennsylvanian feature.
- I haven't the faintest idea.
- Let's see our mystery Pennsylvania feature.
Listen, it might surprise you, okay, here we go.
Take a listen.
- [Announcer] James Buchanan was born in a log cabin in Cove Gap near Mercersberg.
Despite being dismissed for disorderly conduct, he managed to finish college at Dickinson in Carlyle and practice law in Lancaster.
His home there, Wheatland, looks much as it did in 1848 when he bought it.
Buchanan never married after his fiance, Ann Coleman, died.
Instead he devoted himself to public service as congressman, senator, Secretary of State and ambassador.
As candidate for the presidency in 1856, he made no speaking trips, campaigning instead from Wheatland and was elected to be the nation's 15th president.
The only president from Pennsylvania and the only bachelor president.
Buchanan hated slavery, but worked to keep the union together through compromise.
When the turned the presidency over to Lincoln, he said, "If you're as happy entering the White House as I shall feel upon my return to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
(audience applauding) - All right, very good.
See, you should have had more confidence.
You had the right answer.
James Buchanan, Pennsylvania's only president and only bachelor president.
Well, how'd you do at home?
Five is the top score on our panel here.
We hope you beat that at home.
We thank you for playing "The Pennsylvania Game."
We hope you'll join us next time.
We'll see you then, so long.
(audience applauding) (upbeat music) - [Announcer] "The Pennsylvania Game" has been made possible in part by Uni-Marts, Incorporated with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.
Serving your with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
(upbeat music) And by the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program, promoting the taste of an ice cold glass of milk.
Milk doesn't just taste great, it's one of the all time great tastes.
♪ When it's time to make your mind up, ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (audience applauding) (upbeat music)
Support for PBS provided by:
The Pennsylvania Game is a local public television program presented by WPSU













