(upbeat music) - [Announcer] Wooden bridges were sometimes built with a cover to protect them against the rain and snow.

In the horse-and-buggy days of dating, covered bridges were nicknamed kissing bridges.

Do you know how many authentic covered bridges are still in use in Pennsylvania?

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Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.

(audience clapping) - Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I always feel like Dick Clark when I walk out like that.

We're glad to have you with us today and glad to have our audience here.

And let me say in our studio audience, junior troop, Girl Scout Troop 62, from Clearfield.

Give yourselves a hand.

It's nice to have you here.

(audience clapping) And let's meet our panel for today's game.

He is an author who's written one more book than I have read in my lifetime, Bernie Asbell.

(audience clapping) And a lady who started her TV career on "60 Minutes" and moved up to "Good Morning America," now has reached the top with "The Pennsylvania Game," let's welcome Anne Stetcher.

(audience clapping) And a man who is known to TV audiences on both ends of the state, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Al McDowell.

(audience clapping) Now, let's get right to the first question.

And as you have noticed, it is about Pennsylvania's covered bridges because some of the most beautiful covered bridges anywhere are found- - [Announcer] The magic of the past is preserved in covered bridges.

According to the 1980 census, How many authentic covered bridges are in use in Pennsylvania?

Is the number A, six, B, 26, C, 126, or D, 226?

- Well, it seems that all the choices end in six, Bernie Asbell.

which six do you think it is?

- I noticed that.

I noticed that, in fact, it's so noticeable, I think I'm gonna just go for the straight unadorned six.

- Straight six.

Six covered bridges still in use, authentic covered bridges still in use, as opposed to fake covered bridges.

- That's right.

- In Pennsylvania.

Anne, did Bernie convince you with just six?

- Bernie should know because they are called kissing bridges and he remembers them very well.

So, I think I'll go with the six also.

- We have two A's going with six.

Mr. McDowell, I know you're impressionable, but how impressed were you by their logic?

- I don't know, I think Bernie's forgetting and so is Anne that the Fort Pitt Bridge is covered.

- [Lynn] That's true.

- Now it's not covered with a little roof.

It's covered with another deck of the Fort Pitt Bridge.

I gotta go with B, I think 26.

- I don't think we counted the Fort Pitt Bridge, but I think you're closer than they be, as we might say in covered bridge country.

Let's listen.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, 226.

Timothy Palmer built the first one across the Schuylkill in 1800 and the second across the Delaware in 1805.

When you stop to admire one of the covered bridges in 64 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, consider these facts.

We have more covered bridges than any state.

The longest, across the Susquehanna, was over a mile long, and all together we've had about 1,500.

Even though time and weather combined to reduce their number, Pennsylvania's kissing bridges hold endearing memories of times passed.

- There is a Covered Bridge Society in Pennsylvania and Louise Elling of Mahaffey, PA sent that in and WPSX-TV and "Pennsylvania Magazine" are pleased to present her with a year's subscription to "Pennsylvania Magazine" for submitting that question, we appreciate it.

We have more covered bridges than they have in all of New England.

- I was only counting those I kissed on, that's what Anne was doing too.

- Ah, I see.

- You're such a purist.

- We should apologize to Louise for not knowing that.

But Louise, you don't kiss on the Fort Pitt Bridge.

- If you do, you get killed.

- If you do, you get killed.

That's right.

We go up to Erie for our next question up in the Northwest corner of Pennsylvania.

- [Announcer] Harry T. Burleigh was born in Erie in 1866.

He had significant accomplishments in his field.

Was Harry T. Burleigh a, A, composer, B tennis player, C, chef, or D, painter?

- Okay, and we wanna say thanks to Charles Blockson of the Afro-American Collection Temple University for helping us with this question.

But a very famous name, Harry T. Burleigh.

What is he famous for though, Anne Stetcher?

Composer, tennis player, chef, or painter?

- I don't thank Charlie for his question at all.

(Lynn laughing) I think I'll go with B. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm gonna go with A because of the music that was played with the question.

- [Lynn] Well, we have music behind every question.

- No.

- We do if you listen closely.

- Well, I know that, but- - Oh, the kind of music.

- Don't refute me just 'cause you've got the answers.

- I don't remember what it is.

Al, what does that sound like to you, Harry T. Burleigh?

- Harry T. Burleigh to me sounds like, now you said he was a native of?

- I said he was born in Erie in 1866.

- Yeah.

And Pennsylvania is a painter's dream.

But I have to go with D, I've gotta go with D. I can dig out a D, I'm gonna go with D. - [Lynn] An A and a D. - I remember we once had a question about "The Star Spangled Banner," the music of it not being composed in Pennsylvania.

- That's right.

- And I believe Harry T. Burleigh was the man who didn't compose it, but he composed something else.

I'll go with A.

(audience laughing) - Marvelous logic.

- You get stuff right for that.

What is the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, composer.

Harry T. Burleigh composed more than 250 songs, sung by millions.

His songs include the well known "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "Deep River," "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord," And "Balm of Gilead."

- Yes, indeed, he was a black man and he wrote all those famous songs.

"Were You There When They Crucified My Lord."

- [Anne] Bernie might have been.

(group laughing) - Well, who was your Lord?

- There we go.

It's the kind of person in Pennsylvania that doesn't get a lot of recognition and Harry T. Burleigh certainly deserves it.

- [Al] The sad thing is I can sing every one of those too, wow.

- [Lynn] He wrote them all, he wrote them all.

Bernie, how's it going?

How's the Queen Isabella book coming?

- Oh, I wish you wouldn't ask that, but she's coming very slowly.

- Is she?

- As slowly as Columbus' ships crossed.

- [Lynn] That slowly, huh?

- It's very slow, it's very slow.

- That's awful.

- But, she's coming along.

- And Anne Stetcher, I mentioned that Anne is a hospital administrator now, a trained nurse, and I mentioned that she started her television career on "60 Minutes" and "Good Morning America."

I didn't mention that she was also on "Bozo the Clown."

You were on "Bozo the Clown."

- Many times.

- What did you do on "Bozo the Clown"?

- I wore a red nose.

- Did you really?

- I popped popcorn.

I talked about LBMs, which are little brown mushrooms.

- [Al] You scared me for a minute there.

(people laughing) - I know.

- As a nurse, that could- - Yeah really.

- And I danced with Bozo.

- Is that right?

- Uh-huh.

You never were quite sure what would happen.

- Is this a step up or a step down from "Bozo the Clown."

Would you suppose?

- What's your perception?

- Well, never mind then.

- Thank you.

- Al McDowell were glad to have here.

I know Al McDowell pretty well 'cause Al and I, Al started in a little radio station, McKeesport, went to KDKA radio and KDKA television, went to WFIL in Philadelphia?

- Mm-hm.

It's now PVI.

- Now PVI.

And then is back now at WTAE and is host of the most highly rated local program produced in Pittsburgh at the time, "Bingo Mania," correct?

- Mm-hm.

- And Al and I worked together on a show called "AM Pittsburgh" that lots of people remember for how many years were we there?

Nevermind.

We were there for a lot of years together.

So, I know a lot about Al.

Al has a relative who is buried at the Alamo who was there with Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and all that, right?

- Yep, Uncle William.

- Uncle William.

- Uncle William was something of an ne'er-do-well, but nonetheless.

- Swell.

- He stayed one jump ahead of the sheriff and got to New Orleans and he met young man by the name of Crockett and said, "Join us."

- Recent studies have shown Davy Crockett was a little ne'er-do-well himself, but both of 'em got caught there by saying, but that's only one of his claims to fame.

The other one is that you really saved Pittsburgh from air raids in World War II I understand.

- Yes, my father was an Air Raid Warden in the Mon Valley and the Mon Valley was a very important target for the German bombers.

I don't know how, but it was.

- And you went with him when you were a boy.

- We would go up to the hill over Glassport.

- Right.

- My dad and I, and we'd wait for the Luftwaffe.

- Yeah.

- He was an Air Raid Warden.

- Yeah.

- To come over the hill to bomb the great works of Clairton.

- And I wanna say to you that not one plane got through during World War II.

- Not one.

- Because of Al McDowell and his father.

- And dad.

- Up there.

- And dad.

- [Bernard] You said that like a McDowell.

- That's true.

- Luftwaffe.

- This question.

- Luftwaffe.

- This question is a Pittsburgh question you'll know the answer to maybe, Al.

- Well, I should.

- In 1960 at Forbes Field, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series.

Which of these is true of the 1960 World Series: A, it was the Pirate's first World Series; B, it had the first series home run; C, the pirates played the Yankees for the first time or; D, it ended with a home run?

- Okay, now I'm not, they all may be true for all I know.

Probably not though, but which of those are you sure which of those facts is true about that 1960 World Series?

And by the way, S. Melvin Zook of Belleville, Pennsylvania will receive, from WPSX and "Pennsylvania magazine," a year subscription to that very fine "Pennsylvania Magazine" for sending this question in.

Which of those is true, Al, A, B, C, or D?

- I think you're right, I think there are a couple of them true there, especially C and D, but I've gotta go with D. - D. - I think we, D, and we know who did that and how he did it.

I'll go with D. - Well, we'll see if we all know that or not.

Bernie, do you know that?

- I would say that it would was A, except that that apostrophe should be after the so it can't be that.

Therefore, we'll have to switch to C. It's the first time the Pirates played the Yankees.

- You let me make one- - In fact, there shouldn't be an apostrophe at all in that one.

- You let me make one little punctuation mistake and you have to embarrass me in front of millions of people.

- Anne Stetcher, which one, no, you're right.

It shouldn't be there.

- He might embarrass himself, it's the wrong answer too, Lynn.

(people laughing) - Thank you.

- Bernie, I really do like you.

- Uh-huh.

- I think it's D, wasn't it Bill Mazeroski?

- I ain't saying yet.

I'm saying nothing yet.

- They ain't saying, but they both picked D, let's see if what they ain't saying is right.

- I don't know if I like Mr. Zook either.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, it ended with a dramatic home run.

The first series home run was hit in the very first World Series played at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh in 1903.

Babe Ruth and the Yankees beat the Pirates four games to zero in 1927.

In 1960, Bill Mazeroski stepped to the plate and won the series with a home run.

The Forbes Field is gone.

Home plate remains where it was, but now inside a class building at Pitt.

The ball went over the left field wall, the only part of Forbes Field still standing.

- So, the pirates were in the first World Series in 1903, played in Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh and there was a home run there, but they played the Yankees in 1927.

And 1927, if you'll remember was the big year of the Yankees, the Murderers Row.

- We wouldn't remember, Lynn.

- We wouldn't remember, Lynn.

- They lost to the Yankees, but Bernie remembered that.

This is a- - You might, we don't.

- This is time for our mystery Pennsylvanian, clue number one.

Panel, if you know the answer after clue number one, just jot it down.

Clue number one is he came to Pennsylvania when he was 16 years old, he put a school on the map with his football ability.

Came to Pennsylvania when he was 16 years old, put a school on the map with his football ability.

It'd be two more clues during the course of the show so don't panic.

This is about birds, bird Watchers, take note.

- [Announcer] Phoenixville, in Chester County, was named after the fabulous bird that rises from its ashes.

Which of these Pennsylvania towns is named for a real bird: A, Avis; B, paradise; C, Pigeon or; D, Kaolin?

- Actually Bernie, if you implied Pirate's team, there could be an apostrophe after the S, but which of- (Lynn laughing) - I'm gonna step back outta that.

- Which of these is named for a real bird rather than the mythical bird, a Phoenix?

- Avis means bird so it wouldn't be that.

- Yeah.

- Paradise is something that Johnny Carson invented, that bird of Paradise.

- There is a bird of paradise.

- Is there really?

- There is a bird of paradise.

- Well, pigeon?

Ka, it must, I've never heard of Kaolin.

- Kaolin, okay.

- It must be a town in Pennsylvania.

It also must be a bird.

- A real bird.

Sure.

- It's obvious.

- Certainly.

- Is it Kaolin or- - Anne, you're a real bird, which of these do you think matches, which is a real bird?

- Thank you very much.

- You're very welcome.

Got me swinging, I don't know.

Bird of paradise is a flower.

- Okay.

- Is it?

- Kaolin is not- - Fireflies up your nose?

- Be nice.

You're gonna get me, aren't you?

- Okay.

- I don't know, who would ever live in a town called Pi, I don't know.

- Pigeon, or you're not gonna go with, you are but you're and not.

- Go with it.

- Pigeon she says.

Mr. McDowell, sir?

A, B, C or D?

- I'll tell you, Pigeon.

There was a John Pigeon who was headmaster of Kiskiminetas school in Saltsburg Pennsylvania.

- Okay.

- But that can't be it.

- [Bernie] That's not gonna help you out.

- Saltsburg is not a bird.

- Uh-huh.

- I'm gonna go with B, the Bird of Paradise.

- [Lynn] Bird of Paradise.

We have a B, a C, and a D. I'll go with A, just to make it interesting.

What's the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is C, Pigeon in Forest County.

Pigeon was named for the millions of now extinct passenger pigeons that flocked there from 1868 to 1871.

- The passenger pigeon, of course, became extinct and all.

I didn't give the score yet and I'm gonna give it later - You don't want to.

- But I wanna say that Anne Stetcher has more than these two guys put together is all I wanna say.

- [Al] Well, he worries about punctuation more than he worries about the answer.

- That's right.

Next is a product question.

- [Al] You were of a school man.

- [Announcer] This is Eberhard Faber.

In 1861 he made a product in America that his great grandfather had made in Germany in 1765.

Eberhard Faber the fourth heads the Pennsylvania company that still makes the product.

Is the product A, candles; B, cuckoo clocks; C, wind chimes or; D, pencils?

- I just adore those choices.

Anne Stetcher, candles, cuckoo clocks, wind chimes, or pencils?

- Why don't I start reading the questions and you answer?

I don't know, I haven't the foggiest.

- [Lynn] But you're going with pencils.

Okay, Al?

- It's not that I'm gonna go along with what she said.

- [Anne] And that's my pencil.

- I'm gonna choose just off the top of my head.

- Something a little, yes, Bernie?

- Well, I'm the only one who's going for D and knows it.

- [Lynn] You know that it's the pencil.

- Oh yeah.

- I hope it's- - Writers know that.

- I hope it's cuckoo clocks 'cause I think that's a better answer.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, pencils.

The Eberhard Faber Company moved to this Wilkes Barre plant 30 years ago, the original plant opened in 1861 on the site of the UN Building.

Pencils are made of graphite, not lead, and the famous Faber Mongol pencil is made of high quality, Siberian graphite.

Introduced in the 1890s, the Mongol was painted yellow.

Since then, yellow has become the most popular pencil color.

Eberhard Faber was the first to put erasers on pencils and are today the largest maker of erasers anywhere.

- I would never have dreamed that Al McDowell would have an Eberhard Faber pencil in his pocket for that.

I gotta say that the score is all tied up.

Al and Bernie together have as many as Anne has by herself.

Anne Stecher's ahead with four.

Let's hear it for Anne.

(audience clapping) Our hero.

- My girl scouts are in.

- Okay, clue number two, here we are.

He won two Olympic gold medals, he played professional baseball and professional football.

First clue was he came to Pennsylvania at 16 and put a school on the map with his football ability.

Clue two, he won two Olympic gold medals, played professional baseball and professional football.

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This next question is, again, one of my, 'cause if you like the movies, back in the old days, when everybody went to the movies, you may remember this.

- [Announcer] It was in 1906 that the Family Theatre in Forest City, Susquehanna County, became the first to try something with a movie.

What did they try?

A, smell-oo-vision; B, selling popcorn; C, ladies matinee or; D, free China dishes.

- Now, McDowell, do you remember free China dishes at the movies when you went on a certain night, family night, they gave you a plate one night and the next week they gave you a cup and a saucer.

- No, but I remember ladies matinee 'cause I was an usher.

- Which one of those?

Your turn to start on this one.

- My turn to start.

- Yeah, 1906.

- 1906.

The Family Theatre.

- Yeah.

- I am going to try, I am going to try D, free China dishes I think.

- Yeah.

- Back in the days of, what was the old soap?

Not Oxydol, something gold, I'm gonna try D. - Yeah, okay, Bernie?

- No, I think they began giving away China dishes when popcorn stopped attracting people to the movies.

I'm gonna go with selling popcorn.

- So, they started with selling popcorn in 1906, Anne?

- Yeah.

- You're a movie fan, I know, which one do you?

- Oh right.

1906.

- Yeah.

- I adore popcorn.

- Yeah.

- You do not.

- Oh, you don't know me.

Yet.

I think I'll go with.

- Okay.

- And it's a family theater.

- Yeah.

- So, I can't see the ladies matinee.

- [Lynn] Right.

You're going with B is what you're going with.

- You got it.

- You're all gonna be absolutely delighted and amazed- - That we lost.

- At the answer because none of you are right.

I don't think, let's, huh?

Let's take a look.

- Go with A?

- Yeah.

- It could be, nobody picked C, nobody picked.

- The answer is A, smell-o-vision.

They dipped cotton in rose essence and blew it over the audience with an electric fan while showing a news film of a Rose Bowl game.

- Wild.

- Everybody up that way in Forest City remembers the old Family Theatre, but nobody had any pictures of it.

We wanted to show you what it looked like, but the owner of that actually dipped cotton in rose essence and blew it over the audience with fan while showing a Rose Bowl game.

Isn't that nice?

Sure is.

- Unless you're allergic to it.

- You got a little advantage on this next one, Anne, 'cause you're an outdoor person.

I know you like to go hiking out through the fields of Pennsylvania.

- Yeah, I also miss Clara Barton.

- [Announcer] If you were walking in one of Pennsylvania's wetland areas, you might see a Virginia Rail, a Common Gallinule, a Shoveler, and a Gadwall.

Would you recognize them as being A, wildflowers; B, a bird; C, a mushroom; D, a frog?

- Bernie, you're first I believe.

Yeah, Bernie's first on this.

If you were out walking in Pennsylvania wetland area as you saw a Virginia Rail, a Common Gallinule, a Shoveler, and a Gadwall, which of these four, Bernie, would they be?

- I'm gonna say wildflower, shall I tell you why?

- Sure.

- Please.

- 'Cause as soon as it said wildflower, Anne clapped.

- Aha.

- And she's a well-known outdoor person.

- And she also is a well-known person for misleading people on correct answers, Anne?

- I know that.

- Moi?

- Ya, yama.

- Oui, oui.

Birds.

- I know that.

- You know that they're birds.

- Yep.

- 'Cause you used to know a bird watcher.

You told me that once, Al?

- Well, those names again, I'd shoot 'em but I'm not gonna shoot 'em now since she said they're a bird, I'll go with her.

- I kind of thought they might be mushrooms or frogs, but nobody picked mushrooms or frogs.

They picked A or B.

- [Announcer] The answer is B, a bird.

The Virginia Rail is a delicate bird.

The Common Gallinule, somewhat more sturdy.

Along with the Shoveler they are endangered as we lose our natural wetlands and it would be a real loss to see the Gadwall and other marsh birds become extinct.

- They're not just birds, they're neat birds.

Now they're arguing with each other about misleading.

That's allowed, you're allowed to mislead your- - I'll never trust Anne Stetcher again.

- I wouldn't, I never have.

- I'm glad you were first, I wouldn't either.

- Now this next one is about a female.

So, Anne, this may give you an advantage too.

I'm not telling them they should agree with you necessarily, but it's a famous lady Pennsylvanian.

- [Announcer] Her real name is Mary Ludwig, but Pennsylvania gave her an $80 annual pension for services she rendered during the Revolutionary War under a more famous name.

Is Mary Ludwig the real name of: A, Florence Nightingale, B, Betsy Ross; C, Molly Pitcher or; D, Clara Barton?

- [Lynn] Anne, it's your turn to start and I- - Get me with the nurses again didn't you.

- [Lynn] Well, there you are.

I haven't the foggiest idea.

- Good.

- Thank you.

- I love it when you don't know.

- That's you you're here.

- Any help, guys.

- [Lynn] We could have gotten all kind of experts here, but we wanted you.

- C - You got it.

- Everybody's saying C. Okay.

(audience clapping) - If you're wrong guys, you're in trouble.

- Most of the time when the audience helps, the person's wrong, Al?

(audience laughing) - Well, yes, it could be my first wife, but of course that's out of the question.

I think I know Molly.

I know why her name was Mitchell and I gotta go with, I gotta go with, Anne.

- You gotta go with C. - Yeah.

- I gotta go with C. - Bernie?

Are you a man of your own firm opinions?

- I'm not going with Anne.

I'm going with Molly.

- I see.

- Whoops.

- How confident do you feel?

- [Lynn] They all put Molly up.

- [Announcer] The answer is C, Molly Pitcher.

At the Battle of Monmouth, Mary Ludwig carried pitchers of water to the fighting men.

They called her Molly Pitcher.

When her husband fell wounded, she took his place with the guns.

For this, Pennsylvania honored her as one of the few women to get a pension after the War for Independence.

- And she was quite a woman.

Well, this is the last time Anne Stetcher will ever be invited to be on "The Pennsylvania Game."

Out of eight questions, Anne Stetcher has six correct.

Let's hear it for Anne Stetcher.

(audience clapping) That's fantastic.

Did you study for this?

- No, my pals are helping me.

- Yeah, be ut your pals aren't doing as well as you are.

Clue number three for our mystery Pennsylvanian.

He died in 1953, a year later a Pennsylvania town changed its name to honor him.

Clue is again, he won came to Pennsylvania, 16 year old, put a school on the map with his football ability, won two Olympic gold medals, played pro football and baseball, and he died in 1953, a year later a Pennsylvania town changed its name to honor him.

Mr. McDowell, it's your turn to start.

Who do you think the mystery Pennsylvanian might be?

- Can you read my printing?

- Jim Thorpe he says.

And Anne Stetcher, what do you say?

Walking up the back way?

She says Jim Thorpe on the third clue.

And Bernie says Jim Thorpe, but on the second.

- Oh, so it must be right.

- Wait a minute, I almost blew it.

I was gonna say Jim Carlisle.

(group laughing) - [Announcer] Jim Thorpe was an Indian born in Oklahoma.

In 1904 at age 16, he came to the Carlisle Indian School where he led the football team to four straight championships.

After winning two gold medals in the 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe played baseball with New York, Cincinnati, and Boston.

In 1919, he played pro football for the world champion Canton Bulldogs.

Jim Thorpe died in 1953 and was buried in Oklahoma.

A year later, his body was brought to Mauch Chunk, which was renamed Jim Thorpe in honor of this famous Pennsylvanian.

- The town was named what?

Monk, Monk Chunk?

- Mauch Chunk.

- Mauch Chunk.

- Mauch Chunk.

- Mauch Chunk.

- You've gotta kinda to pronounce it.

You've done well, panel.

So, next time we'll have harder questions for them.

Thanks for being here in the studio.

Thanks for being at home.

Thank you, panel, for being here.

We'll see you next time (audience clapping) wen we all gather right here to play "The Pennsylvania Game."

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