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What is it?

And what popular game was created by an unemployed salesman in Germantown, Pennsylvania?

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Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, the loud but lovely Lynn Cullen.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Somebody called me loud?

Did I hear somebody call me loud?

I should wonder why.

Good afternoon, good morning, good evening whenever you're watching this.

Nice to see you here.

We've got a great show and a great panel.

Let's meet them now.

Chris Moore is a producer at WQED Pittsburgh.

Among his many production credits, he co-produced and narrated the Emmy award-winning documentary of Pittsburgh's hill district titled Wylie Avenue Days.

Please welcome Chris Moore.

[applause] And you've heard of Cher, you've heard of Madonna.

Well, this is Bubbles, co-host of The Late Afternoon Show on WNNK 104 Harrisburg.

With more than 70 pairs of shoes in her collection, she's the Imelda Marcos of Harrisburg, a recovering chocoholic.

Bubbles.

[applause] And he is co-host of The Late Afternoon Show on WNNK in Harrisburg.

He's a collector of disco hits.

His daily diet includes-- includes peas and Jell-o.

I choked on it.

Please welcome Bruce Bond.

Thank you.

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah.

[applause] OK, you guys ready?

CHRIS MOORE: Ready as we'll ever be.

You're as ready as you're ever going to be.

Well, let's get it started.

Here's number one.

NARRATOR: Award recipients from this Pennsylvania-based society include Jack Benny and Elmer T. Klassen.

Club members claim they know the secret to life.

What club is it?

A, Clowns of America, B, Procrastinators' Club of America, C, Count Dracula Society, or D, Liars Club.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, OK, which one is it?

Clowns, Procrastinators, Count Dracula Society, or the Liars Club.

Have you logged in your responses?

Yes.

Chris.

I say it's the Liars Club because they don't know the secret to life.

Easy as pie.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, we've got a Liars Club and Bubbles.

I also said the Liars Club because you can lie your way through any part of life and that may be the secret I hope not.

It's been the secret all this time, lying.

Bruce, you're not going to make this unanimous.

You got it, three D's here.

Yes, the Liars Club.

I'm a comedy fan, and I know that Jack Benny is definitely in this club.

He starred at the club, and it goes way back.

I remember this.

Yes, and I can tell you're a card-carrying member too, a-ha.

Let's get the right answer.

They might all be lying.

NARRATOR: The answer is B.

The Procrastinators' Club of America was founded in Philadelphia in 1956.

Today there are officially 6,000 members worldwide.

Of course, the true procrastinators have yet to apply.

The club promotes creative procrastination.

Members, for example, recently sponsored a trip to Spain to raise money for three ships to discover America.

The club also holds annual award ceremonies for people who have performed exceptional acts of procrastination.

Jack Benny received an award for never getting around to turning 40.

And Elmer T. Klassen, former postmaster general received an award, well, for obvious reasons.

The Procrastinators' Club of America is in the middle of its 1975 membership drive.

So send in your applications but not by airmail.

Cute, cute.

Did you see the little thing on their card?

We're behind you all the way.

I suppose the only time they're on time is their own funerals.

Oh, but we procrastinate.

Let's move on.

Question number two.

NARRATOR: One of the most popular games in North America was created on a kitchen table in Germantown, Pennsylvania by an unemployed salesman.

The year was 1930.

Was the game A, scrabble, B, tic-tac-toe, C, monopoly, or D, crossword puzzles?

LYNN CULLEN: Well, whatever it is, he was smiling because they all were very popular-- scrabble, tic-tac-toe, monopoly, or crossword puzzles.

What do you suppose it was, Bubbles?

Of course, B, tic-tac-toe.

LYNN CULLEN: Of course, B.

Of course.

LYNN CULLEN: Silly of me to even suggest there might be three other possibilities.

Bruce.

The guy's in Germantown, he's unemployed.

He's sitting down doodling.

He's making that little cross and tic-tac-toe definitely.

LYNN CULLEN: Tic-tac-toe.

Oh, yeah.

I remember that.

LYNN CULLEN: You're not going to say tic-tac-toe too.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

CHRIS MOORE: Not me, no.

Good.

I'm more of a capitalist.

Monopoly, the guy who owns the world.

Now, did you see the way he was smiling?

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, I saw the way he was-- monopoly is your response, Chris Moore says.

Let's find out if Chris is right or Bubbles and Bruce.

NARRATOR: The answer is C, monopoly.

Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman created a game based on the buying and selling of real estate.

He took the game to Parker brothers, whose representatives said it wouldn't sell because it took too long to play and contained 52 fundamental plane errors.

Darrow proceeded on his own.

He produced the game himself and sold it through Philadelphia department stores.

When the game sold out quickly, Parker brothers realized the game was a winner after all and bought the rights in 1935.

Monopoly is the best selling copyrighted game in history and the biggest thing that ever hit Parker brothers.

CHRIS MOORE: Wow.

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, not surprisingly, Charles Darrow retired at the age of 46 a millionaire many times over.

He could buy the Beano, and boardwalk, and all that stuff for real.

Let's get to know our panelists a little bit better.

Chris Moore, I see the makings of a Pennsylvania Game question here.

The longest running minority affairs program in public television is produced in Pittsburgh.

CHRIS MOORE: That's right.

In Pennsylvania.

Black Horizons, I've produced and hosted it for about 13 years now, and there were a lot of valiant people before me that kept it going.

And we've been on the air about 26 years now, going to 27 years.

Wow, 26 years, 27 years.

And that's just one little bit of what you do.

You're a very busy, busy man, I know.

And I compete with him a bit in the morning.

We both have talk radio shows.

This is the enemy here.

Bubble-- CHRIS MOORE: Met the enemy in wee hours.

Yeah, Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles, I'm not going to ask the obvious question like where did you get that?

Oh, please do.

Please do.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, where did you?

Where did you?

Well, my real name is Lynn, and neither one of us actually like that name.

So we chose Bubbles.

Thank you.

Moving on, Bruce, I choked on it in the intro.

Peas and Jell-O, that's a joke, right?

No, I mean, it's just one of those things.

I'm into vegetables, and for some reason, I like Jell-O with fruit in it, and it's just one of my favorite things.

LYNN CULLEN: Peas are not fruit.

They're a vegetable.

You like Jell-O with peas in it?

Peas in the day around lunchtime and Jell-O at night.

[rumbling] Yeah, exactly what my stomach said, I know.

Let's escape into the game.

Question number three.

NARRATOR: The Soldiers Monument in Somerset County honors those county natives who died in the Civil War.

What title did those sons of Somerset County earn for their defense of the union?

Was it A, Bloody Barricaders, B, The Flying Wedge, C, Frosty Sons of Thunder, or D, Chargers From Hell?

CHRIS MOORE: Oh.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

Can I join the Procrastinators' Club now?

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, now we have Bloody Barricaders, The Flying Wedge, Frosty Sons of Thunder, and Chargers From Hell.

My, my, my, Bruce?

BRUCE BOND: Well, I'm going to have to go with the Bloody Barricaders here.

They were tough, they were strong, and they were bloody.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, yeah.

Why are we laughing?

Chris.

I went with the Bloody Barricaders, but I wanted to choose the flying wedge, to tell you the truth, because I thought it was an old football play and-- LYNN CULLEN: It is an old football play.

--they must have used it to some degree of success.

It is an old football play, isn't it?

We know that, don't we, Bubbles?

That's right.

It's unanimous.

It's Bloody Barricaders.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, it's the Bloody Barricaders, OK. Well, the last time you guys all agreed, you were all wrong if you recall.

Let's find out if that's true this time.

NARRATOR: The answer is C, Frosty Sons of Thunder.

184 sons of Somerset County laid down their lives in defense of the union.

On September 17, 1888, the white bronze monument was erected in their honor by the surviving soldiers and citizens of Somerset County.

OK, and the Frosty Sons of Thunder is a reference to the high altitude of the mountainous country from which they came, OK?

We assure you did.

We want to thank John Kane of Harrisburg for sending that question.

And he'll receive a year's free subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine as a result.

Let's take an early look at the score.

Chris, you're ahead, believe it or not.

You've got one.

[applause] Okey-doke, time for our first Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

Guess it on this first clue, you get three points.

Born in 1864 in the town of Cochran's Mills near Pittsburgh, her given name was Elizabeth Cochran, although she was known by another.

Blank stares greet me.

Born in 1864 in the town of Cochran's Mills near Pittsburgh, her given name was Elizabeth Cochran, although she was known by another.

Yeah.

Audience looks befuddled too.

You're looking a little befuddled at home?

Let's move on.

And if you think of it at any time, just write it down.

Let's move on to our next question.

NARRATOR: Reading is well known for its factory outlets.

But the city's prized attraction is a landmark that has delighted visitors from around the globe.

What is it?

A, a Dutch windmill, B, a six-story pagoda, C, an ancient cypress tree, or D, a shoe-fly pie factory.

LYNN CULLEN: My, my, whatever it is, that's rather strange, isn't it?

A Dutch windmill, a six-story pagoda, an ancient cypress tree, or a shoe-fly pie factory.

Shoe-fly pie.

Chris Moore, what do you think?

It's a well known fact that in that area of Pennsylvania, shoe-fly pie is a very special dessert.

So I chose shoe-fly pie, D. Yes, and your Liars Club membership is very, very good standing.

Yeah, Bubbles.

I have been in the six-story pagoda.

And in fact, you can hear our radio station from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the very top of that pagoda.

And it's quite an attraction so B. LYNN CULLEN: Oh-oh, sounds like she knows what she's talking about.

Bruce?

Hey, I was a DJ in Reading.

I know this answer.

It's the pagoda.

You're right.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, Chris Moore, I think you might be in trouble here.

It sounds like it might be a pagoda.

Let's find out.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, a pagoda.

Perched atop Mount Penn in Reading, Pennsylvania, Berks County is a six-story oriental pagoda.

The building was the brainchild of William Whitman, a Reading businessman who owned a quarry on the mountain in the early 1900s.

Whitman's operation upset area residents because of the damage it caused to the landscape.

To appease his neighbors, Whitman decorated the mountain with a replica of a Philippine pagoda that he had seen in a picture.

He had intended the pagoda to be a luxury hotel but couldn't obtain a state liquor license so he sold the building.

In 1992, the building underwent $2 million in renovations.

Today visitors from around the globe are quick to identify the pagoda with the city of Reading.

Huh, couldn't obtain a state liquor license.

The LCB was tough even then, my lord.

Hey, let's see if you know anything about the birds and the bees.

NARRATOR: Pennsylvania's apple crop, which is valued at more than $61 million per year, is 90% to 95% dependent upon a certain agent to ensure pollination.

Is it A, wind, B, birds, C, bumblebees, or D, honey bees.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, all those wonderful Pennsylvania apples, we wouldn't have them if it weren't for the wind, the birds, the bumblebees, or the honey bees?

Bubbles.

The honey bees.

Pennsylvania is full of honey bees.

I've been stung every summer, and it has to be the honey bees.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, honey bees, she says.

Bruce.

Yeah, make that two on the honey bees, absolutely.

Honey bees are very important to the apple production.

I also like apples too in addition to peas.

LYNN CULLEN: Apples with your peas and Jell-O, I understand.

I feel another unanimous panel here.

It's honeybees, no doubt about it.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, honey bees, they say.

Do you say honey bees?

I wonder if that's the right answer.

NARRATOR: The answer is D, honey bees.

More than 90% of the spring cross-pollination necessary to produce a healthy apple crop is provided by Pennsylvania's honey bees.

Apple tree farmers typically rent honey bees from one of Pennsylvania's 6000 beekeepers at $15 to $20 per colony.

There are some 40,000 individual bee colonies in the state, each containing as many as 60,000 bees.

The average honey bee will collect nectar from 500 flowers in a day and produce only a half teaspoonful of honey in her lifetime.

Wind and birds play only a marginal role in the spring cross-pollination of apple blossoms.

Bumblebees, on the other hand, are actually better pollinators than honey bees.

But because they can't be imported to the apple orchards the way honey bees can, they're unreliable.

LYNN CULLEN: Huh, I wouldn't know a bumblebee from a honey bee if I saw one.

They don't have green cards.

Oh, they don't have green cards.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hey, our score is all knotted up 2, 2, 2 for our three panelists.

[applause] And here is our second clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

A 19th century journalist, she wrote her stories in the first person, a style that became her trademark.

And she used a pen name inspired by a Stephen Foster song.

CHRIS MOORE: Jeez.

LYNN CULLEN: Ooh, it's just on the tip of their cerebellums.

A 19th century journalist, she wrote her stories in the first person, a style that became her trademark and used a pen name inspired by a Stephen Foster song.

Born in 1864, real name Elizabeth Cochran.

OK, you agonized further and we're moving on.

Next question.

NARRATOR: The Philadelphia Zoo is America's first zoo.

The 42-acre zoological garden was chartered in 1859 and opened to the public on July 1, 1874.

Well known for its variety of animals and exhibits, the zoo was the first to A, abandon steel cages for natural habitats, B, introduce white lions to America, C, practice artificial insemination, or D, develop a vaccine against primate hepatitis.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, one of those is a correct answer.

Which one, of course, is the question.

I suspect we're guessing on this one.

Bruce, what did you guess?

Now, the whole city of Philadelphia is the city of artificial insemination.

We all know that.

Come on.

LYNN CULLEN: The letters are starting to come in right now, oh, no.

Yes?

Oh, artificial insemination.

I should have known.

Yes, Chris.

CHRIS MOORE: I picked artificial insemination too.

I thought it was brotherly love.

LYNN CULLEN: Bubbles, I know, artificial insemination.

No, no, no, no, it is the city of brotherly love.

That's why I picked A. LYNN CULLEN: A.

Yes, they love the animals-- LYNN CULLEN: Oh, yeah, because they wanted to get rid of those steel cages and go to natural habitats.

Yes.

LYNN CULLEN: Of course.

Of course.

How humane?

How wonderful?

I wonder if it's right, though, yeah.

We'll find out.

NARRATOR: The answer is B, introduce white lions to America.

On June 12, 1993, the Philadelphia Zoo added two white female lions to its population of more than 1,700 animals.

First sighted in Africa in 1928, these beautiful felines are not considered albinos, although they are extremely rare.

The recessive genes that cause this trait make it difficult for them to hide from predators and hunters and therefore threatens their survival in the wild.

The Philadelphia Zoo wasn't first but did abandon steel cages in its outdoor exhibits in the early 1970s.

It was also the first to discover that tuberculosis, not hepatitis, was the major cause of death among primates.

Okey-doke, so it was white lions.

In fact, hey, do you remember when Lee Iacocca's name was being bandied about to fill the senate seat of the late John Heinz?

No?

Oh, well, I, sort of, did.

And it, sort of, put me in mind of this next question, the Iacocca and Pennsylvania connection.

NARRATOR: From the early part of this century until the 1920s, this Pennsylvania town was home to 16 automobile manufacturing companies.

In fact, it was nicknamed the Detroit of the East.

Was the town, A, Pittsburgh, B, Allentown, C, Bethlehem, or D, York?

LYNN CULLEN: OK, Detroit of the East was in Pennsylvania.

Which city was it, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Bethlehem, or York?

You're all looking at me.

Chris.

I picked Bethlehem because I think that's where steel was manufactured first.

So they might have logically followed with cars.

I don't know.

I know.

Logic, I assure you, has nothing to do with any of this, no.

Bubbles.

Out of the process of elimination, I chose Allentown.

LYNN CULLEN: Yes.

I live close to York.

I don't see that being a true location.

Bethlehem, I don't think is a large enough area.

And Pittsburgh I figured was too large.

Other industry was taking place there.

CHRIS MOORE: Makes perfect sense to me.

LYNN CULLEN: Yes, right.

Bruce.

Come on, steel was plentiful in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh, it was right there.

They could make the cars.

Yeah, come on.

LYNN CULLEN: It has to be.

It has to be.

Sure.

Let's see.

NARRATOR: The answer is D, York.

From 1903 until 1928, York was home to 16 auto manufacturing companies, including Mayflower truck, Hoover wagon, and Martin Carriage Works.

At its peak, Martin Carriage produced 20,000 vehicles per year.

Although the automobile industry eventually petered out, many of the companies involved in the industry converted their operations into related metal manufacturing.

In fact, one former automobile manufacturer wound up making funeral caskets.

Oh, my, funeral caskets, is that redundant?

I mean, are there caskets for other occasions like, what'd you get for your birthday?

A birthday casket.

I don't know, gee.

[booing] All right, all right, don't turn on me.

I think we have another question, quick.

NARRATOR: In 1932, Richard H. Pough, a professional photographer and naturalist shared some of his photographs with Rosalie Edge.

The picture so moved her that in 1934 she established the world's first A, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, B, antinuclear coalition, C, Sierra Club, or D, sanctuary for birds of prey.

LYNN CULLEN: Rosalie Edge, obviously a concerned woman.

What was she concerned about?

Cruelty to animals, nuclear stuff, the wilderness or sanctuary for birds of prey.

Bubbles.

She looks like a woman who's concerned with Sierra Club.

I picked C. LYNN CULLEN: She looks like-- aha.

Yeah, I thought she, sort of, looked that way too.

BUBBLES: The nuclear thing, she didn't look that.

LYNN CULLEN: Bruce.

No, no, no, she looked like she was concerned about the cruelty of animals.

I mean, look at her.

LYNN CULLEN: The cruelty of animals.

Cruelty of animals.

LYNN CULLEN: To animals.

To animals.

LYNN CULLEN: To animals, yeah.

Uh-huh, what did she look like to you?

Well, I went more with the photographer.

Mr. Pough, it's well known the fact that he was Edgar Allen's brother.

And he took pictures that documented the cruelty to animals.

And that's the reason she was so concerned.

LYNN CULLEN: About the cruelty to animals, right, because of Edgar Allan Poe or something.

Oh, my, my, my, could we get some sanity here and get an answer?

NARRATOR: The answer is D, the world's first sanctuary to protect birds of prey.

Richard H. Pough traveled one fall weekend from Philadelphia to Hawk Mountain, where he discovered a ridgetop shooting ground where thousands of migrating birds of prey were being slaughtered.

His photographs inspired conservationist Rosalie Edge to buy 1,400 acres of mountain land midway between Allentown and Reading on the Appalachian Mountains which she converted into a sanctuary in 1934 and named Hawk Mountain.

14 different species of birds of prey passed by the area every year on their southward migration.

Between mid-August and mid-December alone, an average of 20,000 hawks, eagles, and falcons pass over the sanctuary's north lookout.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, boy, that means our final clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian coming up.

Last chance, last chance.

Circling the world alone at the age of 25, she challenged the legendary record in the novel around the world in 80 days and she won.

Circling the world alone at the age of 25, she challenged the legendary record in the novel around the world in 80 days and won.

I take it you have it, Chris Moore.

Used a pen name inspired but her real name was Elizabeth Cochran.

I think Chris knows it.

He's looking rather smug, or coy, or something.

CHRIS MOORE: Maybe it's deceitful.

Yeah?

Show us where you've been here.

Oh, it's time to show it now?

LYNN CULLEN: Yes, it's time to show it.

Well, at first I thought the name she was known by was Bubbles.

BUBBLES: Do I look that old?

She's not the first Bubble.

She was the original Bubbles, I thought.

But after your second clue, I knew it was Nellie Bly.

LYNN CULLEN: Nellie Bly.

And I wrote it both times.

LYNN CULLEN: Yes, you did.

You don't get-- you only get credit if you're right.

You'll get two whole points.

CHRIS MOORE: OK.

Bubbles, was it you, in fact?

Of course, it was.

However, I did not remember that.

I didn't have a guess until the third, and I still don't know exactly who it is but-- LYNN CULLEN: You copied Nellie.

I did.

I saw Nellie over there, and I said, he always knows what he's talking about.

I'll take his answer.

Bruce.

I have no idea.

Lizzy Borden.

Whoever that is, I don't know.

Hey, hey, what the hell.

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, right.

Lizzie Borden, is that before or after she picked up the ax?

Oh, who knows?

BRUCE BOND: I don't know.

I have no idea.

Who knows?

Chris Moore maybe had reason to be smug.

Let's find out.

NARRATOR: Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, better known as Nellie Bly, was born in 1864 in Cochran Mills near Pittsburgh.

In 1885, at the age of 21, her first journalistic works appeared in the Pittsburgh dispatch, where she adopted the pen name Nellie Bly.

In her articles, she championed women's rights.

And her exposés always increased the paper's circulation.

In 1887, Nellie Bly joined Joseph Pulitzer's New York newspaper, The World, which sponsored her celebrated round the world adventure.

Inspired by Jules Verne's novel Around the World in 80 Days, Nellie left New Jersey on November 14, 1889 to begin her solo race around the globe.

She circled the world and arrived back in Jersey city in a record-breaking time of 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

Instant celebrity status secured her position as one of America's foremost women journalists and made her, quote, "the most popular girl in America."

Nellie Bly, a famous Pennsylvanian.

There's actually a wonderful new biography out on Nellie Bly.

I happened to interview the author recently.

She was an amazing woman.

She feigned insanity to get inside an insane asylum and then got sprung from it to write an exposé.

A really extraordinary woman.

You won, not surprising.

[applause] And you know what, because you won, Chris Moore-- I get a round trip ticket to Blawnox, right?

No, you get accommodations for two.

Ooh.

At accommodations, bed, and breakfast of State College overlooking Mount Nittany and Spring Creek in State College.

So enjoy, enjoy.

Well, thank you.

And we enjoyed having you.

You were wonderful.

You were wonderful, and you were wonderful.

Join us next time on The Pennsylvania Game.

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