The Pennsylvania Game
Mother Jones, inventions & a PA billionaire
Season 10 Episode 2 | 28m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
What PA invention has yet to be topped? Play the Pennsylvania Game.
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The Pennsylvania Game
Mother Jones, inventions & a PA billionaire
Season 10 Episode 2 | 28m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
What PA invention has yet to be topped? Play the Pennsylvania Game. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Let's get the game started.
Now, here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game.
His smile is a bowl of cherries, but his jokes are the pits.
Scott Bruce.
[cheering, applause] Thank you.
Thank you, studio audience.
Thanks for tuning in, folks at home.
Thanks, Wendy Williams, for that lovely introduction, "the jokes are the pits."
All right, Wendy.
OK, we've got another exciting round of The Pennsylvania Game.
We've got three fun panelists.
I can't wait to get started.
Let's meet them right now and find out who they are.
Our first panelist won her seat on The Pennsylvania Game in a special drawing at WITF-TV.
She's a legal secretary by profession.
She enjoys poetry, crossword puzzles, and a good joke.
I think that's because she doesn't know what she's in for on The Pennsylvania Game.
[laughter] Please say hello to Sue Zuercher.
[cheering, applause] Bless you.
SCOTT BRUCE: And he's back for more.
He's the host of The Penn State Football Story and Penn State hoops.
Give a warm welcome to Brian Allen.
[cheering, applause] Brian obviously has a fan club here.
Mary Saylor is from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
She's a retired Penn State professor.
She's also an accomplished artist and die-hard scrabble player.
It's nice to have you on the program.
Come on, let's hear it for Mary.
[cheering, applause] These guys look comfortable and relaxed.
What do you say we give them their first question?
ANNOUNCER: In 1902, John Mast was manufacturing an unusual combination of slaw cutters, fishing floats, and popcorn in his Lititz factory when he patented a product that, even to this very day, is the most popular of its kind.
Did Mast patent, A, the safety pin, B, a mousetrap, C, the wrist watch band, or D, potato chips?
[music playing] SCOTT BRUCE: Nice music, too, huh?
[laughter] Did John Mast patent the safety pin, the mousetrap, the wristwatch band, or potato chips?
Sue, we're going to you.
I went with A. SCOTT BRUCE: You went with A?
I went with A. SCOTT BRUCE: Just you felt like A?
There was nothing else there that I thought it could be.
SCOTT BRUCE: Well, I think it was a good choice, the safety pin.
[laughter] Interestingly enough, I'm using an A to hold up my pants right now.
Oh, wow.
[laughter] Brian, we'll go to you.
Well, I know Mr. Mast didn't make the first potato chips because, obviously, Lay's makes the best potato chips.
[laughter] And Timex has the best wristwatch band.
I'm going with B, mousetrap, because no one's ever made a better mousetrap.
MARY SAYLOR: Victor.
SCOTT BRUCE: Uh.
MARY SAYLOR: Remember the big B, Victor?
AUDIENCE: No.
A lot of logic.
I don't know why.
I don't know why the crowd's turning on you.
BRIAN ALLEN: They are turning on me.
It's so early.
I think mousetrap is a fine answer.
Mary, we'll go to you.
What do you think?
Did I push the right button?
SCOTT BRUCE: Well, I have no idea.
Push it.
You can push the button you want right now.
There you go.
D. SCOTT BRUCE: D?
D is what came up.
It's perfect.
That's right.
SCOTT BRUCE: We're happy.
And it was only because I got a button to work.
SCOTT BRUCE: It was because you got the button to work?
None of the other buttons would work for you?
[laughter] Well, that's why I'm using the safety pin because my button didn't work either.
[laughter] I don't know where we're going with this show, but Wendy, give me the answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, a mouse trap.
In 1902, Mast created his famous mousetrap, which was really an improvement on an earlier invention to kill the mice that were eating his popcorn.
Mast gave up on manufacturing the food products altogether and instead put his energies into producing his better mousetraps.
Today, Woodstream Corporation makes John Mast's mousetraps, those simple mechanical snap traps which are sold under the trade name "Victor."
Some 30 million mast-like traps are sold each year, outselling all other us mouse traps combined by about 2 to 1.
[music playing] And they groaned.
BRIAN ALLEN: They laughed at Fulton, too.
Hahahahaha.
[laughter] Did you know that some 4,400 other patented mousetraps have come and gone over the years because they proved to be too complex?
Mast killer-bar, trigger rod, and bait pedals simply and reliably did the dirty deed in a flash.
AUDIENCE: Woo.
I think I stepped on one.
OK, with that out of the way, how about a new question?
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: In 1864, Joseph Binney established the Peekskill Chemical Company in Peekskill, New York.
The company packaged and distributed hardwood charcoal and produced a substance called Lampblack, a black pigment.
Today, the company is located in Pennsylvania and is known as Binney & Smith.
Does Binney & Smith manufacture, A, macadam and tar products, B, photocopy and fax machines, C, crayons and other kids products, or D, circus and theatrical makeup?
SCOTT BRUCE: OK, Binney &, Smith-- macadam and tar products, photocopy and fax machines, crayons and other kids products, circus and theatrical makeup.
Brian Allen, we go to you first.
Well, B was good to me the last time.
So I am going to go with B again, photocopy and fax machines.
SCOTT BRUCE: Photocopy and fax machines.
Sure.
You just figured if you just stay with Bs, you're going to win all the way?
Well, that's how I did my SATs and got into Penn State, so I'm just going to stick with that.
[laughter] Sure.
We might want to look into changing those SATs.
I don't know.
But it's good to have you with us.
OK, Mary, how about you?
I picked C because it's the right answer.
SCOTT BRUCE: You pick C because it's the right answer.
Oh, is this a woman with confidence?
Wow.
Confidence is so attractive.
Because an art-- I'm a retired art teacher.
SCOTT BRUCE: Ooh, an inside track we have now.
All right.
She thinks she knows.
Sue Zuercher, what do you think?
It's crayons, C. SCOTT BRUCE: Sue knew, too.
Oh, we have to Cs.
Brian's feeling a little left out.
I think he just took the Brian because his first name begins with one.
I think that's all it is.
I don't know the B. I don't know.
Let's find out.
What's the right answer?
ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, crayons and other kids' products.
In 1900, the newly formed Binney & Smith company bought a water-powered stone mill along Bushkill Creek near Easton.
It was an ideal location because of the nearby slate quarries used in making their slate pencils.
In 1903, the company made its first box of crayons.
Benny's wife, Alice, named the crayons "Crayola" by joining the French word "craie," which means chalk, with "ola," meaning oily, an appropriate name since the crayons, originally sold with eight colors to a box, are made mostly of paraffin wax, an oil derivative.
Today, the biggest box of Crayola brand crayons holds 96 colors.
Of course, many more colors have been created over the years.
Periodically, some are retired to the Crayola Hall of Fame or renamed.
[music playing] In 1962, the color "flesh" was renamed "peach," partially as a result of the US civil rights movement.
And I was really happy because I don't know about you, but I didn't know anyone that color.
[laughter] I looked at it.
I looked at it.
Look at the four of us.
It doesn't match any of us anywhere down the line.
BRIAN ALLEN: No peach.
No peach anywhere here.
OK, enough of this foolishness.
Let's get to our panel chat.
Let's meet these people a little more up close.
This is fascinating.
First of all, I find out you're a fan of The Moody Blues.
I love them.
SCOTT BRUCE: And just being here is probably like being on the threshold of a dream, I'm guessing.
Sort of.
SUE ZUERCHER: A dull life, but yeah.
I have it right here that you once followed the band's limo after a concert.
Today, that would be called stalking.
Yeah, I know.
[laughter] They didn't catch me, and I got lost anyway.
[laughter] So did you catch up?
You didn't catch up with them?
No, my girlfriend took a wrong turn.
SCOTT BRUCE: Well, that-- We ended up lost for about 45 minutes.
Well, anyway, it's good that you found your way here.
We're happy about it.
Brian.
Scott.
I found out-- [laughter] Brian, last time you were here, you left immediately to go to the Marine Corps marathon.
Now you're going to be in the Disney Marathon?
Exactly.
SCOTT BRUCE: I just had one question.
Are you going to be Mickey Minnie or, my guess, goofy?
There you go.
[laughter] Goofy.
It couldn't be any other.
Very exciting.
You're actually going to run the Disney Marathon?
Yeah, I'm going to run it for the Four Diamonds fund.
The THON at Penn State has the largest student-run philanthropy.
And that's how I'm going to raise money and awareness by torturing myself for 26.2 miles.
I'm very pleased to hear about it.
OK, Mary, how about you?
Scrabble is your big game, which is showing up well.
Obviously, you do a lot of reading and a lot of areas.
Is that correct?
That's absolutely right.
SCOTT BRUCE: And do you play Scrabble both on computers?
Yes, I have a computer Scrabble game, and I score 500 a couple of times, which is pretty high.
SCOTT BRUCE: That's very high.
My favorite is playing with my friend Joe, who taught me how to play for blood and now regrets it.
[laughter] That explains why they're doing so well on the show.
OK, let's not waste time.
A new question, Wendy.
ANNOUNCER: Hardman Philips was a British subject who never became an American citizen because he believed the United States government was doomed to fail.
In 1821, he built a factory at Point Lookout, a suburb of Philipsburg, and became the first to manufacture a certain product in the United States.
What was it?
A, cigars, B, glue, C, screws, or D, household scissors?
[music playing] SCOTT BRUCE: OK, did Phillips of Philipsburg manufacture cigars, glue, screws, or scissors?
Mary, we're going to go to you first.
Punch in, please.
I'm going to pick D because the other one seemed too logical.
[laughter] And you said, it's The Pennsylvania Game, let's get logic the heck out of here right away.
[laughter] I like that thinking.
How about you, Sue?
I went with C because Phillips-- Phillips screwdriver.
Phillips screws.
Hey, there's now no logic.
Logic.
We can only guess that Brian will go, I'm guessing for a B.
Well, no, I don't want to accuse anyone of cheating or anything, but I also went with C because of the same logic.
Phillips screwdriver.
SCOTT BRUCE: Screws.
And we'll probably both be wrong, but-- SCOTT BRUCE: So we have two Cs and a D. We'll see if Mary can cut out the right answer right now.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, screws.
[cheering, applause] [cheering, applause] Hardman Phillips built his celebrated screw factory on Moshannon Creek at the lower end of Philipsburg in 1821.
The mill was in operation for 15 years.
At the height of production, 1,000 screws were produced there each week.
Some scoundrel reportedly burnt the factory down in 1859.
Today, the only sign that the factory once existed is a stone monument erected at the mill site by the Moshannon chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and two screws which are preserved at the Philipsburg Historical Foundation.
[music playing] And you will notice that the screws do not have a Phillips head.
[laughter] Kids, it's time to check our scores.
Let's take a look at the big tote board.
It looks like Sue has two, Brian has two, Mary has 1, a close game.
Let's hear it.
[cheering, applause] Not bad for the rookie.
SCOTT BRUCE: That's right.
BRIAN ALLEN: That's for the rookie.
SCOTT BRUCE: And that means it's time for our first clue in the mystery Pennsylvanian pens ready.
As a teenager in the late '40s, he began doing his now-famous Kirk Douglas impression while working as an usher at a Pittsburgh movie house.
As a teenager in the late '40s, he began doing his now-famous Kirk Douglas impression while working as an usher at a Pittsburgh movie house.
Write that down on the top line.
If you get it right on all three lines, you will win three points, which, believe me, is very helpful at the end of the show.
OK, everybody's down and ready.
I think, Wendy, you can bring us a new question.
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: When Forbes Magazine released its 1996 annual ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans, the highest ranking Pennsylvanian captured number 17.
Is the richest Pennsylvanian, A, Richard Mellon Scaife, B, Robert Sheetz, C, Teresa Heinz, or D, Walter Hubert Annenberg?
SCOTT BRUCE: Who's the wealthiest Pennsylvanian?
Is it Scaife, Sheetz, Heinz, or Annenberg?
Sue, we go to you first.
I can't see, but I'll say-- SCOTT BRUCE: A is Scaife, B Sheetz.
B, Sheetz.
With all the Sheetz stores-- SCOTT BRUCE: With all those Sheetz stores, he's got to be making some money.
Right.
OK, Brian, what do you think?
[laughs] Well, why don't we just go on together, and then we'll have the same shit?
Yeah, I like that logic, Sheetz.
We see Sheetz everywhere.
SCOTT BRUCE: That's true.
We do see Sheetz.
There are some on my bed.
[laughter] Don't egg me on.
Mary, to you.
I go with Sheetz too, because I want a lottery ticket.
[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: Oh, that's cheating now.
She knows if she gets three, we get Pennsylvania lottery tickets.
Everybody gets one.
They all said, Sheetz.
Let's find out if that's the correct answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Walter Hubert Annenberg of Wynnewood is the richest man in Pennsylvania with an, estimated net worth of $3.7 billion made in publishing.
Convenience store founder Robert Sheetz is certainly wealthy by most standards but not rich enough to make the top 400 list.
Richard Mellon Scaife of Pittsburgh inherited a tidy fortune, $855 million, and ranks 164th in the nation, fifth richest in the State.
Not far behind is Teresa F. Heinz, widow of Senator John Heinz of Pittsburgh with $800 million.
She ranked sixth wealthiest Pennsylvanian and the 179th richest American.
Annenberg got his money the hard way.
He earned it.
The other wealthiest Pennsylvanians inherited their fortunes.
Yeah, I did some checking.
I rank about two or three behind if I cashed in all those lottery tickets.
All right, how about a new question for me now?
ANNOUNCER: For almost 60 years, Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, was a familiar sight at strikes all across the United States.
The Black-bonneted figure attracted national attention for organizing and aiding workers wherever injustice was found.
What was her major accomplishment in Pennsylvania?
A, spearheading child support and alimony legislation, B, establishing the United Mine Workers Union, C, forcing State government to recognize a woman's right to work in the public sector, or D, pressuring the legislature to pass an effective child labor law.
SCOTT BRUCE: OK, did Mother Jones spearhead child support and alimony legislation, established the UMW for State government to recognize a woman's right to work in the public sector, or pressuring the legislature to pass an effective child labor law?
We are going to go to Brian first on this.
Well, let's see child support and child labor laws, pretty important.
But I went with C because a woman's right to work, I think, is so important.
SCOTT BRUCE: So important.
Sure.
[chatter] Yes, Brian is-- I'm trying to find a date.
Brian's trying to get a date.
OK, Mary.
She seemed impressed.
Mary, what do you think?
I'm going to go with D because Pennsylvania has some pretty good child labor laws that have a long history.
SCOTT BRUCE: The effect of child labor laws, OK. Good thinking there.
Sue, how about you?
I'm going to go with A. SCOTT BRUCE: A.
--just because nobody else did.
SCOTT BRUCE: Child support, so we can all be different this time?
OK, let's find out if any of them got the right answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, pressuring the legislature to pass an effective child labor law.
A paid organizer for the United Mine Workers, Mother Jones could be found wherever injustice was found.
Above all, she put her heart and soul into the plight of coal miners.
In 1914, she aided striking coal miners in Arno, Pennsylvania.
Armed with only brooms and mops, she and a band of women stood guard around the clock, sending strikebreakers fleeing and preventing scabs from entering the mines.
Later, in Kensington, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones assisted striking textile workers.
10,000 of them were children.
Many had been maimed in the mills.
She organized an army of boys and girls and marched with them from Philadelphia to New York, condemning the horrors of child labor.
The Kensington strike was lost, but Mother Jones's crusade aroused public opinion and led the Pennsylvania legislature to pass and enforce a new child labor law.
When she died in 1930 at the age of 100, she was referred to as the centenarian Joan of Arc.
Interesting fact.
OK, time to check our scores.
As we look down, it is Sue, two, Brian, two, Mary, two, we have a tie.
[cheering, applause] Yes.
This is exciting.
Keep it up.
We all get prizes.
OK, time for your second clue of the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
And here we go.
"Throughout his career in show business, he has been known as an energetic comic with a talent for elastic facial expressions."
"Throughout his career in show business, he has been known as an energetic comic with a talent for elastic facial expressions."
Remember, as a teenager in the late '40s, he began his doing his now-famous Kirk Douglas impression while working at an usher in a Pittsburgh movie house.
I think people have answers.
They're writing them down.
They better go because it's time to go to a new question.
[upbeat music] ANNOUNCER: In 1992, the Quigley Corporation of Doylestown began manufacturing a new product.
By 1996, it had become so popular that retailers were having trouble keeping it on their shelves.
Is Quigley Corporation the maker of, A, Cold-Eeze, zinc cold lozenges, B, Nicotrol, the nicotine patch, C, Rogaine, hair replacement therapy, or D, DHEA, synthetic hormone supplements?
[music playing] SCOTT BRUCE: OK, what did these Quigley people make?
Was it Cold-Eeze, was it Nicotrol, was it Rogaine, or synthetic hormone supplements?
Mary, we go to you first.
I took Cold-Eeze because that was such a hot topic lately.
SCOTT BRUCE: Ah, well, that's good thinking.
Yeah, we do try to keep current here on The Pennsylvania Game.
Sue, how about you?
I took D because I didn't think anybody could make up synthetic hormone supplements as an answer.
As an answer?
[laughter] You didn't think-- That's good logic.
[laughter] I like that logic.
She didn't think our crack staff would come up with anything that clever.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Sue.
And Brian, how about you?
Well, I figured since everyone's trying to kick that smoking habit, I'd go with Nicotrol.
Three completely different answers.
Only this time, one of them's right.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A Cold-Eeze, zinc cold lozenges.
Sold as an over-the-counter cold remedy, a new study suggests that it may help mitigate many symptoms of the common cold, the leading cause of doctor visits and missed work.
More importantly, the zinc lozenges may shorten the duration of the common cold by several days.
Dr. John Godfrey, an organic chemist, developed the lozenge and holds the patent for the formulation.
It's believed zinc attacks the cold virus and keeps it from multiplying.
Cold-Eeze was first introduced in 1994 in McCall's magazine and later on the cable Television Network QVC.
By January 1997, Quigley Corporation was producing 500,000 bags of Cold-Eeze per week.
I have a note here.
"Sales skyrocketed after Cold-Eeze was featured on a segment of ABC'S 20/20.
So after appearing on our show, right through the roof again.
[laughter] No way that can pass.
Hey, Wendy, how about another question?
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister.
Henry moved with his family to Philadelphia in 1866 and later studied under Thomas Eakins.
Nearly forgotten in the US by all but a few, he was honored posthumously in 1996 for his work.
Was Tanner, A, the first Black artist to have his painting hung in the White House, B, featured on a $1 postage stamp, C, named father of the motorized wheelchair by the National Center on Accessibility, or D, the only Black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in the Spanish-American War?
SCOTT BRUCE: A toughie.
A toughie here.
The first Black artist to have his painting hung in the White House, the first featured on a $1 postage stamp, named the father of motorized wheelchair, or the only Black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for Heroism in the Spanish-American War?
Sue, we go to you first.
I went with B. SCOTT BRUCE: B, featured-- Because I thought I saw that.
SCOTT BRUCE: You thought you saw the dollar postage-- I thought I did.
SCOTT BRUCE: You may have licked it.
I may have.
That's a possibility.
Down to you, Brian.
Well, I love to draw, so I consider myself an artist.
And, of course, I'm Black, but I don't have any paintings and the White House, so I'm going to go with that, A, yeah.
Sure.
Well, I hope it works out for you.
Well, thank you, Scott.
And if not, I hope you get a picture hung in the White House.
BRIAN ALLEN: Maybe I can be the first.
Mary, how about you?
I went with A, too, because he studied with Eakins, who was a very famous artist.
SCOTT BRUCE: I see.
She used-- BRIAN ALLEN: --the logic into the thing.
SCOTT BRUCE: She knew stuff.
Brian, don't be complaining.
I think she's taking you along somewhere.
Let's find out what the answer is.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Henry Ossawa Tanner was one of the leading African-American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the first Black-American painter to gain international attention.
Born in Pittsburgh, he grew up in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts under one of the finest teachers in the nation, Thomas Eakins.
To escape racial barriers in the United States, Tanner spent most of his life as an artist in Paris.
Widely acclaimed in France, Tanner had been all but forgotten in the United States, except by a few collectors.
That is, until 1996, when a two-year search concluded with the selection of Tanner's 1885 oil painting, Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, for display in the Green Room, Hillary Clinton's office.
It is the first painting by a Black artist to hang in the White House.
SCOTT BRUCE: Time now for the third clue in our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Here we go.
The 1960s TV program that made him famous was based on a comic book.
He may be the prince of puzzlers, but his success is no little.
Little.
I was going to say that first.
SCOTT BRUCE: As in little.
That would be a hint.
'60s TV program that made him famous, based on the comic boo.
He may be the prince of puzzlers, but his success is no riddle.
Everybody seems to have an answer on this one.
I don't think we need to waste any time.
Let's find out if anyone's got the right answer.
We'll go to Brian first.
Brian, hold that board up.
This is embarrassing because I thought it was Frank Gorshin at first.
But I said no, he's not that popular, so Rich Little.
SCOTT BRUCE: Rich Little?
Then I went Rich Little again, the French version, of course, or the Spanish version, Richard Pequeno.
[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: That would actually be Spanish, Brian, I believe.
Yes, Spanish.
And then-- SCOTT BRUCE: Or Paquito.
And then we went with Frank Gorshin.
SCOTT BRUCE: Frank Gorshin?
Yeah.
SCOTT BRUCE: So you think you're right by the time you got that three?
I know I'm right by the third.
SCOTT BRUCE: You know by the third?
I have supreme confidence that I am right.
SCOTT BRUCE: He believes.
Mary, what do you think?
I didn't have a clue.
I couldn't remember one single solitary comedian.
But there was a guy in my seventh-grade class who could really imitate Kirk Douglas.
[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: Joe Zamek.?
Yes.
SCOTT BRUCE: Joe Zamek.
I think I remember him.
BRIAN ALLEN: Joe.
Old crazy Joe.
Joe used to travel around to all the schools.
He used to just enroll in class just to do a quick Kirk Douglas.
Boom.
He was out the next day if I recall.
That's right.
OK, after Joe you went to who?
That was the only name I could think of.
SCOTT BRUCE: So you just-- --might leave a blank.
SCOTT BRUCE: So you just wrote Harris down and then Seinfeld, who's famous for not doing any impressions whatsoever.
OK, let's find out about Sue.
Oh, I started out with Rich Little.
SCOTT BRUCE: Rich Little.
Then, I went to Jim Carrey-- SCOTT BRUCE: Jim Carrey.
And then I went with the right-- SCOTT BRUCE: Frank Gorshin.
So we have two Frank Gorshins and a Seinfeld.
[laughter] Wendy, what's the-- who's our mystery Pennsylvanian?
ANNOUNCER: Frank Gorshin, a Lawrenceville native, is known for playing the Riddler in TV's Batman series.
As a teenager, Gorshin worked as a movie usher in Pittsburgh while he practiced his Kirk Douglas impersonation.
Even today, as Kirk Douglas and Marlon Brando, impressions are key to his nightclub act.
Following his stint on Batman, Gorshin made frequent TV appearances and landed movie roles.
His film credits include That Darn Cat!
Body Double, and 12 Monkeys.
In 1996, he returned home to play the French ambassador in George Gershwin's musical of Thee I Sing with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Frank Gorshin, a symphony Pennsylvanian-- [music playing] And that jumps us to our scoreboard, where we have Sue with three points and a tie for first.
Brian and Mary with four points each.
[cheering, applause] Congratulations.
That means they both win prizes.
So Wendy, tell us what they've won.
ANNOUNCER: Yes, Scott.
It's one night's free lodging at Briarwold Bed and Breakfast of York and 50 chances to win $1,000 a week for life from the Pennsylvania lottery.
And hang on to that.
That's right.
They've won lottery tickets, and they've won prizes.
We'll have our other prize out for you in just a minute.
Things are going so well.
We have two winners, and everybody's a winner.
We want you to join us again at The Pennsylvania Game.
Come on back.
Thanks to our panelists for doing such a great job.
Thanks, at home.
You guys were great.
Bye.
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ANNOUNCER: This program was made possible by a grant from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.
The network receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide public television for all Pennsylvanians.
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[applause]