Over here, where are you from?

What's your name?

KATIE: Katie.

Katie from-- KATIE: Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh, based on the triangle where the three rivers meet, so everything in that town is based on the triangle, which means, to motorists, you can be one block from somewhere and see where you're going and not ever get there.

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ANNOUNCER: Now let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, Scott Brooks.

[applause] The purple?

They react to my suit.

Thank you.

Welcome to The Pennsylvania Game.

Welcome, you folks at home.

Let's waste no time.

Let's meet our panel.

I'm so excited.

Steve.

Steve Wagner is back.

He is an anchor reporter for WGHP radio in Harrisburg.

I'm told that's short for "We hire parakeets."

[bird chirping] When he's not producing award winning programs, mile island.

Please give a big hello to Steve Wagner.

[applause] Also joining us is Barbara Marder.

Barbara is in private practice as an individual, marriage, and family counselor.

She also conducts workshops in assertiveness training, anger and conflict management, procrastination, and parent education.

Please give a warm welcome to Barbara.

[applause] So much.

Chris Rawson is also with us today.

Chris is the chief drama critic for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and a former chairman of the American Theaters Critics Association.

In addition to other assignments, he reviews about 180 plays a year in Pittsburgh, New York, London and elsewhere.

Please say hello to Christopher Rawson.

Chris.

[applause] Thank you, Chris.

This promises to be a fun panel and a great show.

I know the studio audience is ready and I think the purple suit might have done it, so let's-- [scream, laughter] --let's have a question.

ANNOUNCER: In 1940, an Austrian biochemist named Ehrenfried Pfeiffer fled the Nazi regime and settled in Kimberton, Pennsylvania.

There he established the Kimberton Farm School, where he shared his pioneering ideas about agriculture.

At the time, he was largely ignored, even ridiculed, but what began as a tiny movement is today a respected industry.

Did Pfeiffer help introduce A, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, B, the use of hormones and growth stimulants in livestock, C, organic farming, or D, genetic engineering in agriculture.

HOST: Reach deep in your thinking caps on this one kids.

Pesticides, hormones, organic farming, or genetic engineering.

Pretty heavy stuff.

Steve, we're going to start with you.

What do you think?

My first impulse was to say genetic engineering in agriculture but that would imply some vision on his part and I think the average person doesn't have a vision beyond four seconds max.

So I went with C, organic farming.

HOST: Organic farming.

Yeah.

And most organic farming stuff doesn't have an attention span either.

Right.

Yeah.

Very good thinking.

I like it.

Barbara, what do you think?

I put B because it's the beginning of my first name.

My favorite kind of answers.

You know what?

That gets her a lottery ticket right there.

That's a great answer.

Lottery ticket to Barb.

Barb with a B. Chris, if you pick C, you got a lottery ticket coming.

No.

Well, actually the problem is three of those three of those answers are so technical they don't mean anything to me, so of course I went with organic, C. Send them down a card kids for his initial.

OK, we've got two organic farmers and Barb.

Let's see who's right.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, organic farming.

Pheiffer is regarded as one of the pioneers of organic agriculture.

His Kimberton farm school, a biodynamic model farm, is where many early organic farmers, including publisher J.I.

Rodale learned their craft.

Paul and Betty Keen, founders of Walnut Acres Farm in Penns Creek were other early students of Pfeiffer's.

The Keens started growing their crops organically, followed a strict program of crop rotation, and used only natural methods of pest control.

Today Walnut Acres is a $7 million family run retail and mail order business that began with the marketing of their homemade apple butter.

That sale was the first time a processed food was sold as organic, and marked the humble birth of the organic foods industry.

When Pfeiffer first introduced it in this country, the notion of organic agriculture was mostly ignored, even ridiculed.

Today it's a $1.9 billion industry with deep roots in Pennsylvania.

Wow.

Rodale established a 60-acre experimental organic farm in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

This is all just fascinating to me because I had thought that organic farming was attempting to grow vegetables in the shape of your organs.

They're turning on me.

Get me a question, quick.

ANNOUNCER: Bellefonte is often remembered as home to many Pennsylvania governors, but other famous people called Bellefonte home as well.

Which of these people is not a Bellefonte native?

A, Jacob H. Meyers, B, George Gray Barnard, C, Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, or D, Colonel Jack Haverly.

HOST: If only you people could see their faces now.

That's right.

We picked this question especially because no one knew any of them.

No one has a clue who these people are, but, remember, it's probably going to be a guess.

I'm guessing but it is the one who is not a Bellefonte native Myers, Bernard, Nevin, or Haverly.

Barbara Marder, you get to choose in first.

I pick C this time because Chris's initial.

HOST: Chris's initial.

OK, for that, Steve gets a lottery ticket.

OK, Chris.

Where did you go?

Well I owe you one, Barb, because I couldn't return the favor.

Nevin is the only one I actually know.

He's a musician, and there's a us postage stamp in his name, so I went with C. Very good, C. OK, well, we have two C's.

How about you, Steve?

I went with D because it says Colonel.

Some guy came up to me before the show he says, you're guessing.

Well, yeah, I'm guessing, but, as far as, I know there was never anybody in Bellefonte above the rank of Sergeant.

I couldn't prove that one way or another, but here's a guy who probably can.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C. Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was a composer from Edgeworth near Pittsburgh.

Jacob H. Meyers was born in Bellefonte and is the inventor of the automatic voting machine.

His voting machine was first used in Lockport, New York, on April 12th 1892.

Famous sculptor George Gray Barnard was born and raised in Bellefonte.

Among his most famous works are the statues around the main entrance of the State capitol building in Harrisburg.

America's foremost minstrel man Colonel Jack Haverly spent his boyhood in Bellefonte and went on to found the famous Mastodon Minstrels.

Many famous Broadway showmen and producers got their start under Haverly's tutelage.

As Steve just pointed out to me, apparently, he gave himself the rank of Colonel, and poor Ethelbert was the guy now from-- Ethelbert!

Could you imagine going-- This is the kid who every day went to school and went, so you want my lunch money now?

That was pretty much it.

That's all you're going with in Ethelbert.

OK, kids.

It's time to meet our panel and learn a little bit more about them.

Steve, you have a dramatic critic sitting right next to you.

You didn't tell-- We didn't tell you that he's also an English Lit professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Perhaps, he'd be willing to read the manuscript for Blossom ti What do you think?

Maybe.

It's kind of an unusual premise, but there were these horse droppings near three mile island which were infested with radiation that soon engulfed the world, you know.

No takers from the publishers yet, you know.

And not real surprising there either.

It's an allegory.

OK, all right, let's jump over to Barbara.

Barbara, it tells me-- they tell me that you have parking karma.

Parking karma.

The only thing I can possibly think of is that every time you come out of a mall your car must pop right to the front.

What does it mean exactly?

Well, it was there before I went into the mall.

You managed to always get the space?

About 95% of the time?

How do you do that?

Karma.

So there you have it, folks.

Follow Barbara around when you go to the mall.

You'll get the good parking spaces.

I guess that's the way to do it.

Chris, I heard a wonderful story about you.

Something to do with Julie Andrews, was it?

Actually Julie Harris but you know what?

I'd really rather talk about your costume designer.

This old thing?

Yeah, yeah, I mean we do, when we write our reviews, we do normally pay some attention to the costume and what it might stand for and what kind of drives it might represent in the character, and I'm getting-- Talk to me.

I'm getting a strong read here, but I'm working on it.

But no real definite answer.

Not yet.

OK, well, I expect to be totally trashed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

Don't ask him back.

So I'll tell you what, there's never going to be another purple suit on me on this show.

Bring me a new question.

ANNOUNCER: On October 11, 1924, a train traveling on the Cambria and Indiana railroad line was robbed by a seven-member gang.

The bandits killed a guard and escaped with Culver Mine's $33,000 payroll.

Eventually, two of the bandits were apprehended and later executed.

What led to their capture?

A, they had guilty consciences and turned themselves in, B, their mothers turned them in, C, the bandits posed as miners but their hands gave them away, or D, local bankers were able to trace the marked money as the bandits spent it.

HOST: Guilty consciences, their mothers, the bandits posed as miners, their hands gave them away, or local bankers were able to trace the money.

Chris, we're going to slide down to you for our first answer.

I have no idea.

I mean obviously I'm attracted by B, anybody would be, but I went with C just because I'm on a roll with C. Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

C's and Chris's.

OK, let's see.

Steve, what do you think?

Again, just a wild guess, but maybe that was one of the first occasions where the banks did mark money, you know, so I went with D. Entirely possible.

It's The Pennsylvania Game, anything's possible.

Yeah.

Barbara, what do you think?

I picked B again, even though Chris has lost all respect for me.

He seems to have a thing going with that C. I have admiration for her karma.

She can park, but she can't play.

Let's find out if she got this one right.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, the bandits posed as miners, but their hands gave them away.

On October 11, 1924, the Cambria and Indiana railroad line, a line that carried passengers among the small mining towns of the two counties, was carrying the Culver Mine payroll, more than $33,000.

At the concrete bridge, a flagstop between the towns of Belsano and Culver, the train was hailed by a gang member posing as a passenger.

Gang members boarded the train, killed one of the guards, and took possession of the payroll.

They made their escape by car.

Circulars giving descriptions of the gang members were quickly circulated across the country, leading police to Terre Haute, Indiana, to question two men.

Their suspicions were aroused when the two claimed to be miners.

Their soft white hands told a different story.

A search uncovered $20,000 in cash.

The two men were brought to trial, convicted, and, in 1925, executed at Rockview State Prison.

That question was submitted by Miss Gladys Sherlock of Windber, Pennsylvania, and for submitting it, she'll get a year's free subscription to the Pennsylvania Magazine.

Now it's time to go to the tote board.

Let's see what our scores are.

Chris, way out in front using the C's with a three.

Barbara and Steve right behind with one each, and that means it's time to go to our first clue for the mystery Pennsylvanian.

He grew up near Phoenixville but spent some of the most memorable years of his life in a real hole in the wall.

He grew up near Phoenixville but spent some of the most memorable years of his life in a real hole in the wall.

Kind of an intriguing one, isn't it?

Everybody seems to have an idea.

OK. Let's see if we can get a new question.

ANNOUNCER: Gene Kelly, the Pittsburgh-born dancer, singer, and actor invigorated some of Hollywood's most memorable musicals with his athletic and innovative dance numbers.

In 1985 he won the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his remarkable career.

Ironically, Kelly's childhood dream was to become A, shortstop for the Pittsburgh pirates, B, a golf pro, C, a building contractor or D, an Olympic diver.

Did you see those suits?

And you're making fun of mine?

That's musical comedy.

ANNOUNCER: The critic, ever the critic.

OK, here's the question, shortstop for the Pittsburgh pirates, golf pro, building contractor, Olympic diver.

Steve Wagner, what did Gene Kelly want to be?

He wanted to be a shortstop for the pirates because he lived right close to Forbes Field there.

So you knew this?

Yeah.

This is something you feel very strongly about.

Yes.

We have an A from Steve.

Barbara, what do you think?

I picked A also because all little boys want to grow up to be shortstops for the Pittsburgh pirates.

There you go.

A is the next answer, and how about you?

It would actually be very embarrassing to be the drama critic from Pittsburgh and not know that it's A.

First of all, we got all three A's.

Pass out cards, lottery cards.

I'm standing here right now thinking any little kid in Pittsburgh that didn't grow up to want to be a pirate.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Eugene Curran Kelly dreamed of becoming a shortstop for the Pittsburgh pirates or a hockey player, but his actress mother Haiti Kelly had other ideas.

She encouraged him to take dancing lessons.

As a child, he and his four brothers and sisters danced and sang as the Kelly Kids.

In 1929, he enrolled at Penn State as a journalism major, later transferring to the University of Pittsburgh.

In 1933 he established Kelly's School of Dance in the basement of his parents Pittsburgh home, later relocating to squirrel hill and then opening a branch in Johnstown.

The award winning singer, dancer, choreographer, and director brought a sense of fun and grace to the screen.

He was at his best in the 1951 film, An American in Paris, for which he won six Academy Awards, and for his 1952 hit Singin in the Rain.

Kelly died on February 2, 1996.

OK, I've seen the outfits he's wearing.

Chris, I think I know what I've been doing wrong.

I just haven't been singing and dancing.

Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh.

I'll find a way to sell this suit, one way or another.

Bring me a new question, Mr Question Man.

ANNOUNCER: In 1986 Ursinus college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, became headquarters for this United States Hall of Fame.

Is it the A, Tennis Hall of Fame, B, Playwriters' Hall of Fame, C, Comedians' Hall of Fame, or D, Field Hockey Hall of Fame?

HOST: Usinus College, Tennis Hall of Fame, Playwriters' Hall of Fame, Comedians' Hall of Fame, or Field Hockey Hall of Fame?

Barbara, let's go over to you.

I just picked D because I haven't used it yet today.

You know, Barbara, those usually work.

You'd be surprised.

That's a good method.

Chris, what do you say?

I've been to the Tennis Hall of Fame.

I don't think there's a Playwright's Hall of Fame.

I picked D because Barbara did.

So you're cheating.

I like that.

That's also welcome here on The Pennsylvania Game.

Steve?

Ditto.

Ditto.

D. Three D's again, kids.

I'm running out of tickets to give away.

Look at them.

Pass them down.

Let's find out if doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, D is right.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, United States Field Hockey Association Hall of Fame.

Ursinus College was selected as home to the Hall of Fame because it once had the nation's most dominant field hockey program.

Between 1962 and 1970, the Bears won all but two games, and from 1928 to 1987, the team had 59 consecutive non-losing seasons.

A glass display in Helfferich Hall features portrait plaques of each inductee as well as equipment, uniforms, scrapbooks, pennants, and photos of the 1980 and 1988 US Olympic teams.

Oddly enough, I just did find out that Gene Kelly briefly played shortstop for their field hockey team.

You're right.

I deserved it.

I deserved it.

Let's go to the tote board and see the scores.

We have a tie between Steve and Barbara at three, and Chris has five.

Chris is riding that wave.

You're playing some good games.

Time to go to clue number two on your mystery Pennsylvanian.

Let's see how we do.

His real name, we're giving his real name, was Harry Longabaugh, but most folks know him by another name.

His real name was Harry Longabaugh, but most folks know him by another name.

He grew up in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, but his exploits out West made him famous.

Longabaugh, ringing any bells?

See any bell ringing in the back?

A couple of people see it.

OK, we're through with that.

Let's go to a brand new question.

ANNOUNCER: John Luther Long was born on January 1st 1855 in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

He attended Lafayette College, later studied law, and subsequently was admitted to the York County bar Association.

By 1898 Long had made a name for himself.

Did Long A, become the first lawyer in the US to use the insanity plea at a client's defense, B, write Madame Butterfly, the now famous opera, C, established the legal practice of providing pro bono work, or D, invent the pretzel stick?

HOST: Now there's an eclectic lineup, isn't it?

We've got the insanity plea, Madame Butterfly providing pro bono work, or a pretzel stick.

I myself am wondering on this one.

Chris, we're going to come down to you first.

Yeah, I don't want to get this one right because I've been on a streak, so I went with D. You went with D, as opposed to the C. OK. We'll find out if that works for you.

How about you, Steve?

Well, I was hoping that it would be something terribly intellectual, you know.

Yes, the first lawyer to use the insani-- came from Pennsylvania.

HOST: Yeah.

No, pretzels, D. HOST: Pretzel, D. Barbara, where are you going?

It's very embarrassing, but I picked D also.

HOST: No, it's not embarrassing.

It's wonderful.

You guys are all thinking in the same lines.

It's probably wrong, but it's wonderful.

You're thinking the same way.

Let's find out.

Is it right or wrong?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, write Madame Butterfly.

John Luther Long was born in Hanover in 1855.

After attending Lafayette College, he began to study law and was admitted to the York County Bar.

He eventually moved to Philadelphia to practice real estate law.

While recuperating from overwork, Long began writing short stories, novels, plays, and operas.

In 1898, his short story Madame Butterfly was published and later made into a one-act play by David Belasco.

After seeing the play, Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini, turned the story into the now famous opera Madame Butterfly.

John Luther Long died in 1927.

Well, once again, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems our drama critic chose pretzels over Madame Butterfly.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

You know he's going to be taking a whole lot of guff in Pittsburgh next week.

One does not live by theater alone.

That's right.

You have to have pretzels when you go to the theater, right?

And you probably spilled some pretzel crumbs over the name of the author.

This is this is Pennsylvania.

There you go.

You probably have mustard on your pretzels.

And beer at the theater in Pittsburgh.

He didn't even know he saw Madame Butterfly.

Wonderful.

OK, let' go for our-- I'm very excited right now because we're going to my own personal all time favorite Pennsylvania Game question.

Here it is.

ANNOUNCER: In 1943 Pennsylvania had a team in the National football league that represented the entire State.

What was the name of the team?

Was it A, Steagles, B, Pilgrims, C, Quakers, or D, Pennslers?

HOST: Steagles, pilgrims, Quakers, or Pencilers?

Steve Wagner, we're coming back to you.

Yeah.

Pilgrims seems to be the only word that's not-- I went with B.

B, Pilgrims, and that's a fine choice.

Let's see what you think, Barb.

I probably should have done that too.

I just picked B because I didn't know.

B, you guys are riding on the same flight.

OK. No, D. Oh, D. You went with D, The Pennslers, OK. And Chris?

Well, being a Pittsburgher, of course, I went with the closest thing to the Steelers possible there, so took a stab at A.

HOST: A for the Steagles.

I like your thinking, Chris.

Here's the answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, the Steagles.

During World War II, both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles had trouble finding enough players, so they merged for one year.

The Steagles won five, lost four, and tied one, finishing just one game out of first place.

HOST: OK, mystery clue number three, pencils ready, here we go.

He took his name from the Wyoming jail where he did time and danced his last dance in San Vicente, Bolivia, in 1908.

He took his name from the Wyoming jail where he did time and danced his last dance in San Vincente, Bolivia, in 1908.

Grew up near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, but spent some most memorable years in a real hole in the wall.

His real name was Harry Longabaugh.

What name do we know him as?

OK, pencils are down all across, and we're going to go ahead and start with you, Barbara, if we can, in the middle.

Well, I started out with Butch Cassidy.

HOST: Butch Cassidy.

And then the last time, I put Sundance Kid, so I don't know.

You switched over to Sundance kid, OK, so Sundance Kid is your last answer.

That's what we're going with.

OK.

I knew-- I knew it was one of those-- one of those guys, so I had-- HOST: Jesse James.

--bounced around a bit there and ended up with the Sundance.

Sundance Kid.

OK, so we got two Sundance Kids going so far.

Steve?

Yeah, I answered the question the first time, but I gave his real name instead of his nickname the first time so-- I think we're going to have to count that because we didn't give Harry Longabaugh at that point, so yes, he's got them all right.

Well, if it's the correct answer.

If it's the correct answer, yes.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, was born in Montclair, Pennsylvania, in 1863.

He left home and headed West at age 15.

He took his nickname from the town Sundance, where he spent 18 months in jail for stealing a horse.

One of many notorious Western outlaws, he was reputed to be the best shot and fastest gunslinger of the Wild Bunch, a group of robbers and cattle rustlers who roamed the US Rocky Mountains in the late 1800s.

Led by Robert Leroy Parker, alias butch Cassidy, the two were the most famous of the members of the Bunch, sometimes referred to as The Hole in the Wall Gang.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are believed to have met their final fate in Bolivia in 1909, where they were gunned down after committing a payroll robbery.

Harry Longabaugh, a famous Pennsylvanian.

OK, once again, I want to remind our viewers at home that was a question that was sent in, and for you to send in a question, all you've got to do is send it to The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex University Park, PA, 16802.

There it is on your screens, and if we use your idea, you'll get a one year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.

Now it's time to check the big tote board, and I see Steve with six, very good, Barbara with four, Chris with seven points.

Seven points, amazing.

A wonderful job and what do we have from him?

That's right.

Baked in Pennsylvania, it's tasty cakes, lots and lots of tasty cakes, but tasty cakes wouldn't be enough alone, so we've got a great big stack of Pennsylvania lottery tickets to go with a bunch of tasty cakes.

Pass them on down to Steve, if you would.

Yeah, what's his name?

I'm sorry, to Chris.

Steve doesn't get them.

They almost didn't make them past Barbara but they did go on.

We certainly hope you had a great time enjoying yourself at The Pennsylvania Game.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.

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