The Pennsylvania Game
Pontoon boats, magazines & spelunking
Season 2 Episode 9 | 27m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Pontoon boats, magazines & spelunking
Season 2 Episode 9 | 27m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) - [Announcer] From early colonial days, Pennsylvanians have been inventors.
They still are.
Gene Prunoto of Blair County invented a pontoon boat.
His boat has an unusual feature.
Do you know what it is?
You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game".
Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places and products.
"The Pennsylvania Game" is brought to you in part by, Uni-Marts Incorporated with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
(upbeat music) And from Landmark.
And Landmark is A, a savings loan, B, a bank, C, a leading mortgage lender, or D, all of the above.
The correct answer is D, all of the above.
People to people, it's just a better way to bank.
Now here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hines.
(audience applauding) - Thank you, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Nice to be here.
Thank you.
Nice to be here.
We wanna welcome the State College Woman's Club and also Troop 52 Scouts from Walker Township, in our audience, wanna welcome you to play along and match wits with our panelists.
He's a writer and a teacher from State College, Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauding) Well known for his television shows in Western Pennsylvania on flowers and gardening.
Alan Michael.
(audience applauding) And a television journalist also from Pittsburgh, Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) Now, let's get things started with the first question.
Guys, you're probably gonna have to take an educated guess on this first one.
I don't know how you'd know it, but let's see what it's about.
- [Announcer] Gene Prunoto of Duncansville, Blair County is one of many Pennsylvanians bitten by the inventing bug.
He invented an 18 foot pontoon boat with an unusual feature.
Does his boat, A, fit in a car trunk, B have a glass bottom, C run on dry land, or D, have a solar powered engine?
- For having a glass chin, but never a glass.
Well, okay, Bernie, which of those would you like to, unless you have some inside information, probably's gonna be a guess, I would suspect.
- Well, I have inside information, there's nothing to see on the bottoms of Pennsylvania rivers, so B is out.
- [Lynn Hines] Okay.
- But we have a lot of sunshine, I'm gonna try D, solar powered.
- Save taking all that gasoline along.
Alan Michael, have you ever been in a?
- That's a tough one.
I'd like to have a glass bottom on some boats, but I think the most convenient thing would be to fit in the car trunk.
So that's what I'm going to.
- You're going with A.
Okay.
And Lynn Cullen, that leaves.
- Yeah.
Don't you think it's strange that a guy who invents a boat is from a place called Duncanville?
(audience laughing) - [Lynn Hines] You think the boat really is a yo-yo is what?
- Well I. Gee.
I think you can take this boat and go on water and then drive it right out of the pond.
So it runs on dry land.
- We have a quite a division among our panelists.
We have an A, a C and a D. What did you pick at home?
And the right answer?
- [Announcer] Is A, it fits in a car trunk.
Gene Prunoto's Water Buddy is an inflatable, portable pontoon boat that comes in three sizes, 14, 16, and 18 feet.
The boat is fabricated from Magnetex, won't rust or corrode and is very sturdy.
The Water Buddy can be assembled by two people with no tools in under 30 minutes.
Prunoto said he's been a camper, hunter and fisherman for years and could never haul everything needed for a trip, so he invented a sturdy boat that can be carried in a car trunk.
Sales are brisk for the Water Buddy.
- Yeah, it really is a neat little boat.
And Alan Michael, welcome to "The Pennsylvania Game".
Bernie and Lynn are sorry that you came because you got it right and they got it wrong.
- [Bernie] Is that man an inventor for a living, Lynn?
- Well, he's in it for a living and making nice money at it.
- Oh really?
- I think he was a hairdresser before he started inventing, but he's got ideas galore.
This next one is one of the questions that's gonna stump them and going to amaze them, I think.
Watch this one.
- [Announcer] Alex Campbell came to America from Ireland.
He founded an organization whose membership includes President Ronald Reagan.
Did Campbell start the A, Disciples of Christ Church, B Screen Actor's Guild, C American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, or D, Odd Fellows Lodge?
- Well, it's one that President Reagan belongs to today.
And there's your four choices.
Alan Michael, you get to start on this one.
What did Alex Campbell start?
- Well, I don't know.
I'm purely gonna guess.
And since I'm the odd fellow here, why not go with D?
- You're going with Odd Fellows Lodge.
Okay.
That's a reasonable guess.
Ms. Cullen, ma'am?
- Well, I know that the president is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
I think he was the president of that union at one point.
- [Lynn Hines] I think that's true.
Yeah.
- Could be a member of AFTRA, too, for all I know, but that grim faced gentleman that we started this question off with, looks a bit like an odd fellow to me.
- I see.
We have two odd fellows, Bernie and you?
- I wish we could see the picture again, wasn't he wearing an old English wig or something?
- [Lynn Hines] It could have been, I don't know.
- I think we're gonna make this unanimous.
- We have unanimity.
Alex Campbell started the Odd Fellows Lodge.
Is that the correct answer?
Is that the one you picked?
Let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is A, the Disciples of Christ Church.
Alexander Campbell started the Christian association in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1809.
Campbell also organized a church at Brush Run, Pennsylvania, called Campbellites or Disciples.
They merged with the Christian Church to become the Disciples of Christ.
- Yeah, well, they went down together on that one.
I love it when we stump all three of them.
And we did it.
- [Bernie] I'll say.
Yeah, it's, Bernie, it's the religious questions that the panel never does.
- We're great on the drinking questions.
- But the religious questions, you guys go right down the line.
Folks, lots of folks on public television watch Bob Thompson's Victory Garden.
And Alan Michael is sort of the Bob Thompson of Western Pennsylvania, did a lot of shows.
Were on AM Pittsburgh with me for years, doing a garden segment every week and Tri?
- State farmer, you said farmer.
It started off as farmer and then it turned into gardener as we became more associated with the urban.
- But there is, people are so much into plants that you can, we did the show all winter long, even on house plants.
And there's no one who knows more about how to make things grow than Alan Michael.
- [Alan] Oh, I appreciate that.
- [Lynn Hines] We're delighted to have you.
- We try hard.
- Yeah, you do a good job.
Lynn Cullen's back with us, too.
We're always glad to have you, Lynn.
How are things in Pittsburgh?
- Yeah, well, I have mixed feelings about being here because here we start out and I've got double goose eggs already.
- [Lynn Hines] Well, you're tied with Bernie, so that'll bring you some comfort.
(all laughing) - That's nice.
- You will find, I said some of these questions this afternoon may amaze you.
You will find this next question, I believe, to be truly amazing.
- [Announcer] Daniel Drawbaugh was a Pennsylvania inventor who lived in Eberly's Mills, Cumberland County, all his 84 years.
In 1888, the US Supreme Court voted four to three that someone else, not Drawbaugh, had invented something.
Invented what?
A the light bulb.
B the telegraph.
C the telephone, or D, the flush toilet?
- In 1888, the Supreme Court voted four to three, they barely, bare majority that somebody else and not Daniel Drawbaugh of Eberly's Mills had invented, which one of those four, Lynn Cullen?
Pretty close vote, you'll have to admit.
So he had pretty good claim to this, they thought.
- Oh, see, now here's where I make a fool of myself because 1888, I don't really, I don't know when those things were invented.
(audience laughing) - [Lynn Hines] I don't think any of those are unreasonable, really.
- No, it, No.
Oh, just for laughs.
It's a cheap laugh.
We'll go with the toilet.
- [Lynn Hines] The flush toilet.
Okay.
We hope that answer's not down the drain.
Bernie, what's your choice here?
Supreme Court voted four to three that he did not invent this, somebody else did.
- Takes nine Supreme Court justices to change a light bulb.
(audience laughing) But only takes one, two panelists to choose D. - Okay, we have two flush toilets.
And Alan Michael, what do you think?
Huh?
- Well, the flush toilet would be my first just because.
- [Lynn Hines] Such an intriguing guess.
- Yeah, there you go, Bernie.
Gee whiz.
I have a feeling that it's the telegraph.
- [Lynn Hines] The telegraph, that's B.
- Because I think the flush toilet was invented a little earlier in England.
- [Lynn Hines] Guy named Thomas Crapper, I think, invented the flush toilet.
So, but you want put up a B there.
Okay.
I told you you'd find this fascinating.
I think the answer maybe amaze you.
Let's listen.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, the telephone.
Daniel Drawbaugh and others claimed that he had used a telephone to talk between floors in his shop, 10 years before Bell patented the telephone.
The case went to the Supreme Court where Drawbaugh lost by the narrow vote of four to three.
Among Drawbaugh's inventions is a clock powered by plates buried in the earth.
He did patent 70 inventions.
Some say that Daniel Drawbaugh, the Wizard of Eberly's Mills, was cheated on the telephone, while others say he was a charlatan.
- And the truth probably lies someplace between that.
But they did claim he had the telephone invented 10 years before Bell did.
And, marvelous inventions of Daniel Drawbaugh, a famous Pennsylvanian.
Mystery Pennsylvanian time, panel.
Here's your first clue.
There'll be three clues altogether throughout the show.
See if you can guess the identity of the mystery Pennsylvanian for the first line.
He ran for Congress from his home in Bucks County and he lost.
Among his many wins was a 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
And Bernie's picking up a pen, at least.
There'll be more plain clues a little bit later on.
Ran for Congress from Bucks County, lost, '47 he did win, he won a Pulitzer Prize.
Jot that down and we'll go to one of Lynn Cullen's favorite categories and that deals with Pennsylvania's 67 counties.
Let's listen.
- [Announcer] 15 Of Pennsylvania's 67 counties share their names with their county seats.
Of the following, which county does not have a county seat with the same name?
A Clarion, B Lancaster, C Franklin, or D Somerset?
- Well, Bernie, we're gonna let Lynn Cullen think about this for a while and start with you.
Which one of those does not have a county seat with the same name?
- Well, we've gotta break that series of zeros.
- [Lynn Hines] Gotta do that.
- Let's do it with A.
- [Lynn Hines] Clarion does not.
Okay.
Clarion County does not.
Alan, you've lived up here in Penn State College for a while, you know a little bit about some of these.
- I can't remember the county seat of Franklin, but that's my guess because I know that there is a Somerset and there's a Lancaster.
So I'm gonna go with C. - [Lynn Hines] You're going with C, Franklin.
Okay.
Lynn Cullen.
Looking at Alan Michael.
- Well, I was gonna go with Lancaster until you said that with such assurance.
I used to think it was Lancaster anyway.
And it's Lancaster around here.
- [Lynn Hines] Absolutely.
- Well, I believe in keeping my streak going.
I'm going with it anyway.
- Nobody picked Somerset, which means Somerset could be the right answer.
Or it could be one of these three.
I don't remember, let's look.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, Franklin.
Chambersburg is the county seat of Franklin County.
- Okay, I kind of hesitate to mention the score 'cause Alan Michael is leading with two right.
- Beginner's luck.
- Bernie and Lynn are losing with none right, so far.
This next one is back in Western Pennsylvania country, Lynn, so you'll remember this one.
It's about a famous inventor again.
- [Announcer] In 1850, Samuel Kier of Pittsburgh became America's first oil refiner, producing lamp oil from petroleum.
The clear burning oil lighted thousands of camps.
But before marketing petroleum for camps, Kier tried to sell petroleum for another purpose.
Was that purpose A, as a medicine?
B as a soft drink, C as a buggy lubricant, or D as a gun cleaner?
- Okay, 1850 Pittsburgh, Samuel Kier produced oil for lamps, that lighted homes and camps and all sorts of things, but before he made petroleum for lamps, he tried hard to sell petroleum for something else.
And the question, Alan Michael, you're first, is which one of those, did he try to sell it as.
- Well, I can't imagine it as a soft drink, no wonder it didn't sell.
It could be a buggy lubricant, who knows.
I'm gonna say medicine.
Obviously they tried to sell everything as a medicine.
Why not oil?
- [Lynn Hines] Why not oil?
Okay, Lynn Cullen?
- Don't think I'm copying you because you're on a roll because I'm not.
Kier's Snake Oil.
- [Lynn Hines] Snake oil.
For snake, oiling snakes.
I see.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- They say medicine, Bernie.
- I'm going with A, because my great-grandfather used Kier's Snake Oil, is that what you called it?
- Did he?
Is that what killed him?
I think it was a soft drink, maybe, but I who.
Let's say what the answer is.
- [Announcer] The answer is A, as a medicine.
Kier's genuine petroleum or rock oil was advertised as a natural remedy to cure maladies of chest, windpipe and lungs.
Kier also claimed that his petroleum remedy would cure such complaints as diarrhea, cholera, piles, burns and scalds, obstinate eruptions of the skin and facial pimples.
When the medicine didn't sell all that well, he decided to try burning it in lamps.
(audience laughing) - That's right.
And it burned a lot better than it cured all of that stuff.
See there were no teenagers, that's why it didn't sell.
'Cause if they had advertised to cure pimples, they're, well, I'd like to say the score is going nicely.
Lynn and Bernie got one right that time.
But unfortunately, so did Alan and Alan Michael is ahead with three right.
Let's hear it for Alan.
(all applauding) Clue numero two-o for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
At the age of 35, he was among the oldest men drafted into World War II.
While in the Navy he wrote 18 short stories.
That's a heavy clue right there.
Age 35, drafted into World War II and while in the Navy he wrote 18 short stories.
First clue, he ran for Congress from Bucks County and lost.
But he won a 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
If you have an idea for a question for us, for "The Pennsylvania Game", love to hear from you.
Just write to us in care of "The Pennsylvania Game".
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Well, let's get a little simpler question this time and give 'em all a chance to get one right.
It's about a woman and something she created.
Let's listen.
- [Announcer] Eleanor Johnson of York, Pennsylvania, put together the first issue of a children's magazine.
It was published on September 21st, 1928, and was distributed to elementary schools across the nation.
Was this magazine, A "Highlights"?
B "Playtime", C "Children's Digest", or D "Weekly Reader"?
- Well, all you have to do, Lynn Cullen, is remember back to when you were a little girl and what magazine you liked to read.
Eleanor Johnson, York, Pennsylvania, 1928, distributed to elementary schools across the nation.
Which of those four magazines did Eleanor Johnson create?
- Well, the one I grew up with is and really loved it, I think it interested me in newspapers and news in general and got me where I am today.
"The Weekly Reader".
- Are you mad at it or glad?
(all laughing) Bernie, what do you say?
There are four choices.
- I'm always the nasty corrector, you know, I'm gonna vote for D so I can point out that it's called "My Weekly Reader".
- [Lynn Hines] Is it really?
- Yes, it is.
- Oh, that must not be the right answer then.
- [Bernie] That may not be the right answer.
- Alan, what do you say?
- I'm glad all these people are following my lead again because that's what I trying to do as well.
- You all think that it's "Weekly Reader"?
- [Alan] Feel comfortable with that.
- [Bernie] It better be.
- Well, you ever hear of a magazine called "Children's Digest"?
Let's see what is the right answer here?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, "Weekly Reader".
"The Weekly Reader" still provides information about culture, popular events, historical and practical information.
The first issue featured the lives of presidential candidates Herbert Hoover and Alfred E Smith.
Thanks to Eleanor Johnson's efforts, "The Weekly Reader" now reaches 8 million school children across the nation.
- It is called "My Weekly Reader".
'Cause it said that right there.
"My Weekly Reader", yeah.
- [Bernie] Get an extra half of points for that.
- Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith.
- You know the other great children's magazine from Pennsylvania was "Jack and Jill" that Curtis Publishing Company published for years and years and years.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So we got lots to be thankful for.
Let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
And we're starting with you on this question.
I want you to listen carefully and not talk to Alan Michael, 'cause he's an old spelunker, that's what it's about.
- [Announcer] Unlike this cave in Blair County, many of Pennsylvania's caves have a small hidden entrance, so there are still caves to be discovered.
How many caves have been found so far in Pennsylvania?
Is the number, A 100, B 500, C 900 or D 2000?
- [Lynn Hines] Why what could be simpler than to pick how many caves they have discovered so far in Pennsylvania?
And we've rounded the number off, of course, but which is closest to that?
- 2000 seems too many.
And I've personally counted 500.
- [Lynn Hines] Have you?
- So I think I'll go with 900.
There must be 400 that I haven't discovered yet.
- You think you've missed 400 caves and you've counted 500, okay.
That's the greatest bluff.
Alan, I know you've been in a lot of those caves because you are.
- Yes, as a matter of fact, it was the only sport I could afford while I was here at State College.
'Cause all you needed it was a lamp.
- [Lynn Hines] Yeah.
How many totally.
- Oh that's a tough one.
- [Lynn Hines] Yeah, it is.
- It really is.
I'm gonna go 500, 'cause I think 100 is too small and 900 sounds too many.
- [Lynn Hines] Okay, so we have a 900 and a 500.
And Ms. Cullen, there you are, totally confused about how many caves.
- I am because what constitutes a cave?
Is it just a hole in a rock?
- [Alan] 50 foot long.
- 50 foot long.
- [Alan] There you go.
- [Lynn Hines] See, I told you he was a.
- Now that I know it's 50 foot long.
- [Lynn Hines] Sure.
- Well, it's easy, okay.
And it's C. - I told you that Alan was an old spelunker and would know what a cave was.
How many caves are there in the state of Pennsylvania?
Did you guess?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, about 900.
Most of Pennsylvania's caves are in the limestone valleys of the central and southeast part of the state.
The caves were carved out of the limestone, either by an underground stream or by water percolating through the ground.
If you explore a cave, make sure you're with an experienced caver.
- Well, the only experienced spelunker got that one wrong.
(all laughing) Do you guys, you all know about Fallingwater in Western Pennsylvania, don't you?
Well, this question is not about Fallingwater, but it's about a parallel of a Fallingwater in the east.
- [Announcer] Square Shadows in Whitemarsh, designed by George Howe in 1934 is considered the first truly modern house in the East.
Square Shadows had the first something ever in a residence.
Was it A, central air conditioning?
B gas furnace.
C indoor swimming pool, or D electric stove?
- It did have a flush toilet, I would say.
But we wouldn't put that in.
Alan, you're first.
You didn't do very well in the caves.
Let's go back into a nice plush house, yeah.
- What was the year?
- [Lynn Hines] 1934, it was a very good year.
- Hmm.
1934.
- And it was Square Shadows in Whitemarsh, designed by George Howe and it was sort of an equivalent to Fallingwater.
- The only thing that I'd really like to have in a house would be an indoor swimming pool.
- [Lynn Hines] Okay.
Let's go with that then.
- That's a good guess, I think.
- [Lynn Hines] He's going with C. Lynn Cullen.
Sounds reasonable to me.
- Yes, I think so, too.
That it looked like a heck of a big house.
- [Lynn Hines] But it was the first one in the country to have this whatever it was.
- Now don't try to, you know.
- [Lynn Hines] I'm telling you what the question.
- 'Cause I'm heading for the right answer and you're trying to knock me off it.
It was a square indoor swimming pool.
- I see, Square Shadows.
(audience laughing) Makes good sense.
Bernie, have they suckered you in to C or are you going with something else here?
- I know that the White House didn't have central air conditioning and so I don't see why this fellow, whatever his name is, should have had it.
And I think I'm gonna be, sure, of course, it's a swimming pool.
- There used to be camps in 1934 called the CCC Camps.
As now we've got CC and C, I hope you picked another choice at home, I don't think they're right.
- [Announcer] The answer is A, central air conditioning.
In 1955, Square Shadows became a private school.
And in 1980, a daycare center.
Among Architect George Howe's other credits is the PSFS Building, the tallest office building in Philadelphia.
- I gotta tell you a quick story about this.
We were looking for pictures of Square Shadow and called all over Whitemarsh and the area, nobody could find any.
And one of the students at Penn State, who helped me with the show, when I was talking to him about where can we find pictures, he said, I went to school in that building.
I got some pictures home, you want me to bring them?
And there's where they came from.
Clue number three for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
If you don't have who it is yet, you will.
The third clue is the Broadway show based on his writing ran for 1925 performances.
Many bestsellers have flowed from his typewriter.
Clue number one is that he ran for Congress from Bucks County and lost.
In '47, he won a Pulitzer.
At age 35, he was drafted into World War II and while in the Navy wrote 18 short stories.
And the Broadway show based on his writing, ran for 1925 performances.
Lynn Cullen's about to commit suicide over there.
Many best sellers have flowed from his typewriter and if she doesn't get this right, she's gonna be so ashamed of herself.
You can't think of it, can you?
Or can you?
- I don't have the slightest idea.
- [Lynn Hines] Don't you really?
Alan Michael?
- I mean I have written something down, but it can't be right.
- [Lynn Hines] What'd you write down?
- No, I'm embarrassed.
Can I show you later if it's right?
- [Lynn Hines] You can show us later if it's right.
Alan, what did you write down?
Huh?
- Boy, I don't have a. I've been sitting here trying.
- [Lynn Hines] Bernie, they're gonna hate themselves when they see.
- [Bernie] I know.
- [Lynn Hines] That the name is James Michener.
Guy who wrote the thing called "South Pacific".
- James Michener.
- [Announcer] James Michener was named Pennsylvania Distinguished Artist in 1981.
Born in Doylestown in 1907, Michener attended Swarthmore College.
Then while in the Navy, he wrote "Tales of the South Pacific", which as "South Pacific" has been performed somewhere every week since.
Upon accepting the Distinguished Artist Award, James Michener said.
- I think writers are not different from ball players or lawyers or clergymen or newspaper editors, if you do a good job, you like to be told now and then.
And for one's own neighbors to do the telling is especially rewarding, believe me.
- Isn't that amazing?
The most amazing fact is that "South Pacific", since it was done on Broadway, has appeared someplace every week in America, ever since.
It's been performed someplace.
There's a little theater in Bellefonte, I believe, doing it as we speak right now.
Every week somewhere in America, somebody does "South Pacific".
That's kind of a form of immortality if you want.
- He keeps going and going and going with "Poland" and "Alaska" and "Florida" and "Chesapeake Bay".
- [Lynn Hines] He is working on a new one right now.
- He finished "Texas".
"Texas", then "Alaska", now he's doing something somewhere in the south again.
- I can't remember what it is that he's doing.
Yeah.
- [Lynn Cullen] He ran for Congress?
- He ran for Congress.
Yeah.
Back in the days of.
- It was about the time of Kennedy, or a little early, I think Kennedy.
In fact, he was the county chairman of the Democratic Party in Bucks County and one of his neat little early books was called "Report of the County Chairman".
It was a fun little political personal diary.
- Yeah, you remember the Kennedy days when the enthusiasm for politics and that got him into it.
- Is that how you knew, Bernie?
'Cause I saw you write it down the very first.
- Oh, I never tell how I knew.
Have we got time for a quickie Bucks County story?
- [Lynn Hines] Sure.
- Now, right near James Michener, there was a very, very rich movie producer, you know, one of these wonderful estates with all the trees in a row and everything.
And somebody visited him for a weekend, went back to New York and they asked him, what is the place like?
He said, oh, it shows what God could have done if only he'd had money.
(all laughing) Bucks County, is a nice part of the state.
- That's great.
And he's proud, so proud as you heard him say, of his Pennsylvania roots.
But he's written "Centennial" about Colorado, "Hawaii" about Hawaii, "Texas" about Texas, "Alaska", "The Source" about the Mid East.
Help me the list.
- [Bernie] "Chesapeake Bay".
- "Chesapeake Bay", which is close to Pennsylvania.
- [Lynn Cullen] Nothing about Pennsylvania.
- He's never written a book called Pennsylvania.
- Or the Pennsylvania Dutch country from which he originates, that's an excellent, that would be a historical novel in itself.
Maybe we ought to just kind of write him a little petition.
- I can't remember what he's doing now.
There's a new one and I, he's gone to live there for two or three years to write this.
- [Bernie] Has "Alaska" come out?
Maybe it is Alaska?
- He was such a good writer that years ago, "Readers Digest" paid him, I forget how much, enough to live on, for the rights to publish, first rights to publish anything he wrote.
- [Lynn Cullen] Wow.
- That's the kind of deal I'd like to have.
Just pay me enough to live on.
So in case I write anything, you can have the first right to publish it.
Wow.
Well, I hate to say it, but I guess the scores ended up a lot closer than it started out.
With the Mystery Pennsylvanian, that ties Bernie and Allen with four right.
And Lynn had three right.
So that turns out to be real, real close.
Our panel did well, let's give 'em a big hand, all right?
(audience applauding) Thanks to you at home too.
We hope you played along with us and we hope that you got more right than our panel did.
And we'll see you next time when we all gather right here to play "The Pennsylvania Game".
See you then.
(upbeat music) (audience applauding) - [Announcer] "The Pennsylvania Game" has been made possible in part by Uni-Marts Incorporated with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.
And from Landmark.
And Landmark is A, a savings and loan?
B, a bank, C, a leading mortgage lender, or D, all of the above.
The correct answer is D, all of the above.
People to people, it's just a better way to bank.
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