ANNOUNCER: Pittsburgh councilman Robert Garland is credited with establishing daylight saving time.

Why was it enacted?

In 1993, 11-year-old Vicki Van Meter became the youngest girl ever to do what?

We'll find out as we all play The Pennsylvania Game.

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Now let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, the woman with the $64 question, Lynn Cullen.

Whew!

I made it down the steps again.

I am waiting for the time I come somersaulting down.

Yeah.

Wow.

Well, speaking of somersaulting, we're going to put you through your paces.

I'm looking at our panel.

How's about we meet these guys?

Clyde Doll holds 23 national and three world weightlifting records.

Today at 60, he's still at it, keeping fit and helping other seniors do the same.

In addition, he coaches Pennsylvania Special Olympians in weightlifting, and provides strength and flexibility training for seniors, by a senior.

Please welcome Clyde Doll.

Clyde.

[applause] And Terri Bohen can be heard on Classy 100 FM in Erie.

The youngest of eight children, she's a member of Mayhem Inc., which is a troupe of actors who perform murder mystery dinner theater.

Say hello to Terri Bohen.

Terri.

[applause] And Dan Clemson is a Mills Brothers biographer and family genealogist currently writing the first biography-discography about the vocal group, titled Remembering the Mills Brothers.

We'll look forward to it, Dan.

[applause] OK. And I'm looking forward to a great game.

So without further ado, let's get it going.

ANNOUNCER: In 1866, Daniel Drawbaugh, the son of a Cumberland County blacksmith, used a teacup and a mustard can to invent the world's first what?

A, radio, B, telephone, C, record player, or D, electric light?

LYNN: Hmm.

I mean, what's unusual about this is in school, we learned that somebody else invented all those things.

At least, I did.

The radio, the telephone, the record player, the electric light.

But we're saying Daniel Drawbaugh, with a mustard can and a tea cup, actually invented the first what do you think, Clyde?

Uh, he invented the first electric light.

And I got the idea because lights are bright, and so am I. LYNN: [laughs] OK, OK. And a D for Doll.

Terri?

I chose-- oh, well, B for Bohen.

That's why.

Oh, that means that Dan is going to have to do C for Clemson.

Did you do that?

Well, no.

And C for Cumberland, where I live.

But I'm not going to take that.

I think I know the writer of this biography, and I'll be embarrassed if I'm wrong.

I think it's B. LYNN: B for telephone.

So we've got two telephones, and an electric light that Clyde thinks it is.

Let's see who's right.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, telephone.

At the age of 17, Daniel Drawbaugh invented a rifle, the first in a lifetime of inventions.

By 1866, he had devised a teacup transmitter and a mustard can receiver, which formed what was undoubtedly the world's first telephone.

Eight years later, Alexander Graham Bell was only hearing faint echoes from the telephone he was developing in Boston.

Far better educated and 20 years younger than Drawbaugh, Bell had the foresight to secure a patent on his invention on March 7, 1876, three days before his telephone actually worked.

Drawbaugh was a mechanical genius, but a fool about business, law, and publicity.

He didn't come up with the required $60 to file for his patent until 1880.

Despite Drawbaugh's claim to be the true inventor of the telephone, the US Supreme Court decided in 1888, by a vote of four to three, that title belonged to Alexander Graham Bell.

Oh, gee whiz.

Poor Daniel Drawbaugh.

The Supreme Court vote was just four to three, which is hardly a ringing endorsement for Alexander Graham Bell.

All right.

Clyde, you sell lights.

That's why you said light?

CLYDE: That's why I said light.

That's why you said light.

Well, too bad you didn't sell telephones, huh?

CLYDE: I had to get a plug in.

[laughs] Let's get our second question.

Listen up.

ANNOUNCER: In August 1984, the United States issued a postage stamp in honor of Roberto Clemente, the late right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The postage stamp value was A, $0.18, B, $0.19, C, $0.20, or D, $0.22?

LYNN: Oh, boy.

Remember when stamps were $0.18, $0.19.

$0.20, or $0.22?

That's a toughie.

I can't place that myself.

But of course, I'm looking at the answer.

Terri, what do you think that answer is?

I said $0.22.

LYNN: $0.22.

So you chose-- That's closest in age to me, of course.

LYNN: Oh, indeed.

Me too.

[chuckles] To all of us, in fact.

Dan?

Well, Roberto Clemente was a fine athlete and a fine gentleman, and I think he was worth more than any of those figures.

But I'll take C. OK, $0.20.

And I concur heartily with what you said.

Clyde?

I took B, because 19 is closest to the age of my liver spots.

[laughter] LYNN: OK. We're all over the board here.

Let's see what the correct answer is.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C. The $0.20 stamp was first issued in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Clemente's hometown.

Nearly 23,000 stamps were sold the first day, more than four times the usual amount of a first-day issue.

You know, in the final game of the 1972 season, Roberto Clemente got his 3,000th hit.

And tragically, later that year, he was killed in a plane crash while trying to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

As Dan Clemson said, truly a real gentleman and a great man.

You're a gentleman and quite a guy, Clyde.

You do so many things.

But what is this I hear about you working with senior citizens?

And you have them pumping cans of Campbell's chunky chicken noodle soup or something?

Right.

They only use spinach soup, though.

Oh, only spinach soup works.

Right.

But I guess, I mean, in fact, to get a little more serious, any kind of weight-- you don't have to go out and buy a weight.

No.

No, you start off with a can of soup.

And then that gets easier, then you get some heavier soup, and then you move on to the weights.

[laughs] Wonderful.

And even if somebody is in a wheelchair or whatever, they can still work out, huh?

Yeah.

The greater the challenge, the better the reward.

OK, OK.

Thanks for all your good work, and thanks for joining us today.

Terri, murder mystery-- Yes.

LYNN: --dinner.

I've done that myself.

I was paired up with the Allegheny County coroner.

I played his wife.

He sort of smelled like formaldehyde, I thought.

It was a horrible experience.

So you do this all the time?

Yes, we do a new one every year, and it's kind of a theme.

Last year, I got to be a psychic.

My name was Claire Voyant.

LYNN: Oh, yes.

[laughter] Well, welcome.

Hope you have fun.

Dan Clemson, how did you get to be the biographer and genealogist for the Mills Brothers?

Well, a lot of persistence on my part.

I first met the trio back in '76 at Monroeville at the Holiday House.

LYNN: Huh!

Yeah.

And the roots of the Clemson family and the Mills family go back to Bellefonte.

So it was an easy start.

Wonderful.

Well, we will look forward to your book and your discography.

DAN: Yes.

Yeah.

I'll have to find out what that is later.

I've never heard the word before.

Let's get to our next question.

ANNOUNCER: What do Walter P. Chrysler, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's father, and entertainer Arthur Godfrey have in common?

They all A, graduated from ICS, the International Correspondence Schools, B, got speeding tickets on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, C, fished on Spring Creek, Center County, or D, retired to Pennsylvania?

LYNN: OK. That's a trio for you.

Walter Chrysler, President Dwight David Eisenhower-- his father, excuse me-- and Arthur Godfrey.

[chimes] What would the-- [laughs] good heavens, what would they have in common?

Dan Clemson, what do you think?

Well, I wanted to pick Center County, but I don't think it's realistic.

Speeding tickets would be coincidental.

So we're trying A. LYNN: A.

You're actually employing reason on this show.

Usually doesn't work, but he's doing pretty well.

Clyde?

I took B, because I have that in common too.

LYNN: Yeah, me too.

We could all get in on that crowd.

Terri?

Well, I chose D because I don't usually employ reason, so.

LYNN: OK. You've got retired, you've got speeding tickets, and you've got an A there, Dan Clemson.

Let's see if you're right.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, graduated from the International Correspondence Schools, the world's oldest and largest correspondence school, headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Walter P. Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Corporation, took an ICS course early in his career to help him advance in his job as a machine shop apprentice.

Arthur Godfrey, famous CBS radio and TV entertainer, enrolled in the ICS mathematics course in order to qualify for the Naval Radio Research Laboratory School.

He was accepted and finished first in his class.

In its more than 100-year history, ICS has enrolled more than 10 million students.

And Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I fighter pilot ace who went on to buy and head up Eastern Airlines, he also took ICS courses in drafting and engineering.

Ooh, the score.

Dan Clemson, you are perfect thus far, and you're ahead as a result, with three points.

We congratulate you.

[applause] [chimes] OK.

This is your first clue for your Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Get it right on this one, you'll get three more points.

This enterprising Bellefonte native graduated from Penn State in 1974, destined for an important mission.

[gentle music] This enterprising Bellefonte native graduated from Penn State in '74, destined for an important mission.

Hmm.

There's a few folks in the audience who know it, I think.

I'm seeing some smiles, and some grimaces over here on the panel side.

Let's move on.

Give you another question.

ANNOUNCER: During his 1842 visit to the United States, English author Charles Dickens spent time in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

One stop on his tour is widely acknowledged as the best part of American Notes, his account of his experiences in this country.

Are his recollections of A, Independence Hall, B, the Homestead Steel Mill, C, Eastern Penitentiary, or D, the Mount Washington Incline?

LYNN: All of Charles Dickens' writings are memorable, if you ask me.

But one in particular about his writings of Pennsylvania catch people's ears.

Independence Hall, Homestead Steel Mill, Eastern Penitentiary, or the Mount Washington Incline in Pittsburgh?

Clyde, what do you think?

Well, I think the D, the Mount Washington Incline, because they don't have many hills in England, and that would have impressed him.

Yeah, I think that makes some sense.

Terri?

Being basically clueless, I chose C, the penitentiary.

The penitentiary.

OK. Yeah.

It seems like a better place to be than where you are now, huh?

Dan?

Well, this is best case illogic.

I'll pick B. LYNN: The Homestead Steel Mill.

So you guys are everywhere-- steel, jail, and riding the Mount Washington Incline.

Let's see if anybody's on the right track.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, Eastern Penitentiary.

Dickens' account of this house of horrors, in which all prisoners were kept in dark, solitary confinement for their entire sentences, is the most memorable part of his American Notes.

His chilling description concludes with this passage.

"I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body, because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it exhorts few cries that human ears can hear.

Therefore I the more denounce it as a secret punishment, which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay."

Hmm.

I guess the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment had a different definition in the last century.

How's about another question?

ANNOUNCER: In 1965, Howard W. Higbee, then Penn State professor of soil technology and former government geologist, created a painstakingly detailed map drawn, curiously enough, without roads.

The map was highly treasured by those who owned one, especially when, in the early 1970s, Higbee's original drawing and the printing plates were lost.

Was Professor Higbee's legendary map a map of A, Pennsylvania waterways, B, valuable mineral deposits in Pennsylvania, C, Pennsylvania caves, or D, locations in Pennsylvania where wild morel mushrooms can be found?

LYNN: Professor Higbee's map.

It had no roads on it.

So what was it about?

Waterways, mineral deposits, caves, or mushrooms?

Terri, what do you think?

Well, I chose the mushrooms because they're worth a lot of money, those particular ones, so they'd be valuable.

LYNN: That's true, they are, morels are.

And they are good to eat.

Dan?

Well, I like mushrooms, but I think I'll try B.

[dings] For mineral deposits, which are valuable as well.

Clyde Doll, what do you think?

B, because I want to make a deposit of a good score.

LYNN: [laughs] Well, yeah, you're due, aren't you?

Yeah.

It's been a rough game on Clyde Doll so far.

Let's see.

Maybe you finally happened upon the right answer, maybe.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, Pennsylvania waterways.

From the Lackawaxen to the Lackawanna, from Young Womans Creek to Aunt Clara Fork, some 45,000 miles of Pennsylvania waterways make up the legendary lost stream map of Pennsylvania.

Higbee's map traces every stream in Pennsylvania, and is regarded as the most accurate and comprehensive map of its kind.

It became an invaluable guide to naturalists and fishermen, and also to state water and wildlife agencies.

But in the early 1970s, the map printer went bankrupt and the original map and printing plates ended up in a Baltimore landfill.

Worse yet, the map was considered unreproducible, because the streams were illustrated in non-photographic blue ink.

But in 1991, thanks to brand-new technology, the lost stream map of Pennsylvania was successfully reprinted by Vivid Publishing Inc. of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Incidentally, Higbee died in '93 at the age of 93.

But happily, he lived to see his map successfully reproduced.

Dan, you are still in the lead, if you were wondering.

But Terri is closing in on you, so watch yourself.

She's right next to you.

[chimes] And our second clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

You were befuddled with the first.

See if this helps you a bit.

After spending a whole year working with doctors, he launched the next phase of his career.

This is a toughie.

I want to tell you that if I were sitting where you are, I'd be plenty, plenty perplexed.

After spending a whole year working with doctors, he launched the next phase of his career.

This enterprising Bellefonte native-- Dan, you're supposed to know this, a Bellefonte native-- graduated from Penn State in '74, destined for an important mission.

There's a little clue in that.

Important mission.

There's a little clue in that.

Helping you along.

And let's move along to our next question.

ANNOUNCER: Although Benjamin Franklin originally advocated the enactment of daylight saving time, it was Pittsburgh councilman Robert Garland who was largely responsible for getting it on the books in 1918.

Was daylight saving time enacted to A, save energy during the war effort, B, give farmers a longer workday, C, allow factory workers more daylight hours before and after shifts, or D, coordinate with European countries?

LYNN: OK, all of those make some sense.

Why was daylight saving time enacted?

To save energy, to give farmers more time in the fields, to allow factory workers more daylight hours after their shifts, or to coordinate with European nations?

[chimes] Dan?

Well, in this Commonwealth, I would think B would be the appropriate answer.

LYNN: Farmers.

To give farmers a longer working day.

OK. A farmer works from sun to sun.

LYNN: Sun to sun.

And a woman's work is never done.

LYNN: And a woman's work is never done.

I was wondering if you were going to finish that off.

That's right.

Terri?

Ditto.

LYNN: Ditto.

We've got three Bs, huh?

Well, there's unanimity here, but are they right or are they wrong?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, to save energy during the war effort.

Farmers actually protested the change, and daylight saving time was rescinded in 1919, after the war ended.

It was re-enacted nationwide during World War II, but wasn't officially used in peacetime until 1966, under the Uniform Time Act, to establish standard time zones.

OK. That's interesting.

So not until 1966 was it-- seemed to me it's been around forever.

But guess not.

Guess not.

OK. You ready for another-- you don't look like you're ready for another question.

You're all looking a little battle-scarred yourselves.

We're on a losing streak.

Can you handle it?

Can you take it?

Yeah, I have a perfect score.

You have a-- you do.

You do.

You have an absolutely perfect score.

Keep that streak going, Clyde.

CLYDE: (LAUGHING) I guess.

Let's get another question.

[chuckles] ANNOUNCER: In Pittsburgh, you have to cross a bridge to go just about anywhere.

Which of the following is not true about the so-called City of Bridges?

A, the Pittsburgh area has more bridges per square mile than any other place in the world.

B, every major type of bridge except the drawbridge can be found in Pittsburgh.

C, one of Pittsburgh's bridges was known as the Bridge to Nowhere, because for years it ended in midair.

Or D, there are more accidents on the Fort Pitt Bridge each year than on any other bridge in the country.

LYNN: Well, as a Pittsburgher myself, I know three of those statements are correct.

One is incorrect, but even the one that's incorrect is plausible.

So this is a toughie for you.

Have you chosen, Clyde?

Yes.

LYNN: You're going to keep your streak going?

What did you choose?

A. LYNN: A.

Because of Venice.

LYNN: You think Venice would have more bridges.

They have a lot of bridges.

LYNN: Yeah, they absolutely do.

Everybody has a bridge in Venice.

You don't mean Venice, California.

You mean-- No, Venice, Italy.

--Venezia, Italy.

CLYDE: Yeah.

I probably said that wrong.

Terri?

I chose B, because it has to have a drawbridge.

LYNN: You think it has to have a drawbridge?

Around the moat, it does.

Around the moat.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Dan?

Well, just a guess since you wouldn't help me, I took C. LYNN: You took C. That yeah, you don't think anyone would have ever had a bridge that ended in midair.

Certainly not.

So they've got A, they've got B, they've got C. Oh, boy.

Take a look.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. The Fort Pitt Bridge, we're happy to report, does not hold the nation's accident record.

But with 115 highway bridges, 20 county bridges, and 300 state bridges in the area, Pittsburgh truly is the City of Bridges.

Add to that the many smaller shorter-distance bridges and all of the foot bridges, and it's estimated that there are more bridges in the Pittsburgh area than anywhere else in the world.

Pittsburgh is also home to the arch, the truss, and the self-anchored suspension bridge.

The movable or drawbridge is the only major type of bridge not found there.

Then there's the Fort Duquesne Bridge, which for seven years from 1961 to 1968 literally ended in midair.

The so-called Bridge to Nowhere was completed in 1968, and today connects Pittsburgh's North Side to the Point.

Guess they must have run out of funds or something.

Somebody actually drove off that thing when it was like there.

[imitates sliding, crashing] Absolutely.

Yeah.

A lot of information I have here about Pittsburgh's bridges, but from the look of the panel, they don't want to hear anything more about Pittsburgh bridges.

To heck with it.

How about another question?

What do you think, huh?

Let's do it!

Sure.

ANNOUNCER: In 1993, 11-year-old Vicki Van Meter of Meadville, Pennsylvania, became the youngest girl ever to do something that the first woman ever did in 1928.

What was it?

A, finish the Boston Marathon, B, pilot an airplane cross-country, C, climb Mount Matterhorn, or D, swim the English Channel?

LYNN: Well, all four of those things would have been pretty incredible for an 11-year-old girl.

Did she finish the Boston Marathon, pilot an airplane cross-county, climb Mount Matterhorn, or swim the English Channel?

Terri, what'd she do?

Well, being a native Northwestern Pennsylvanian myself, I know that she piloted a plane cross-country.

LYNN: Oh, she did?

Mm-hmm.

LYNN: Wow.

Dan, did you know she piloted a plane cross-country?

Well, there's some young lady that's still piloting a plane across the country for a record, and I used B. LYNN: You did use B, too.

Now, Clyde?

[chuckles] Well, I took B, because my wife's a marathon runner.

[laughter] LYNN: Well, we'll think about that for a while.

And gee, your streak might be in some trouble, now.

Let's get the correct answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B.

11-year-old Vicki Van Meter became the youngest girl ever to fly cross-country.

Van Meter piloted the single-engine Cessna in a trip that took her from Augusta, Maine, to San Diego.

The budding Amelia Earhart logged more than 60 hours in the air and was accompanied by her flight instructor, Bob Baumgartner.

When she touched down in San Diego, she told a crowd of about 100 people-- It doesn't really matter what age you are.

It just matters what you think and how you feel.

If you put your mind to anything, you can accomplish it.

[chimes] LYNN: OK.

I want you to keep Vicki's words in mind, panel.

[chuckles] You can accomplish anything if you keep your mind to it.

I'll give you your third Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

His beaming personality makes him one of today's most popular television stars.

Terri's wrinkling her nose at me, and Clyde looks perplexed.

Bellefonte native.

Graduated from Penn State, '74.

Destined for an important mission.

After working with doctors, he launched the next phase of his career.

His beaming personality makes him one of today's most popular television stars.

Terri, if I were in your place, I'd be looking like you are-- TERRI: OK. --too.

But that's it.

I mean, the moment of reckoning is upon us.

And Clyde, scribble quickly.

I'm actually-- [laughs] And you said what?

The next governor of Pennsylvania.

Because they have five already, so they're going for another six.

LYNN: [laughs] I don't think you took this seriously.

[laughter] The next governor of Pennsylvania.

OK, Clyde.

Thanks for the effort.

Terri, what'd you come up with?

First I thought it might have been you.

LYNN: Me?

Because you are so beaming.

LYNN: Well, thank you.

But I did get the correct answer.

[laughter] LYNN: For those of you whose eyes aren't good enough for three, she does have "the correct answer" as what she wrote down, so you do have the correct answer.

Aha.

They're getting smart.

Dan, what do you think?

Well, you're right, I'm from Bellefonte.

So I agree he's a Red Raider, for one.

And then I remembered Commander Ricker or Riker.

But I can't think of his real name.

LYNN: OK, so you've got-- yeah.

And that ain't going to do you any good, because we want the real name.

Yeah, I know.

But you're on the-- Half a point?

You're on the right beam.

You're on the right beam.

All right, Scotty.

Or Scotty in that one anymore?

I guess not.

I don't know.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: Jonathan Frakes, better known as Commander William Riker of the television series Star Trek-- The Next Generation, was born in Bellefonte.

Originally a psychology major, the 1974 Penn State graduate switched to theater and continued his studies at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center.

He spent the next five years in New York City performing on Broadway, and working for several off-off-Broadway companies.

Frakes eventually moved to California and auditioned for the role of Commander Riker, which after seven auditions in six weeks, he finally landed.

He has since gone on to direct several episodes.

Among his other television credits are roles in The Doctors, Falcon Crest, Paper Dolls, and Bare Essence.

Jonathan Frakes, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Jonathan Frakes.

Jonathan Frakes.

Jonathan Frakes.

I bet, Dan, you won't be forgetting that.

DAN: I'll try not to.

Jonathan Frakes.

Despite the fact that you did not know Jonathan Frakes, you won this game with four whole points, and we're congratulating you for it.

[applause] And we're going to give you a deluxe Tate Farm food and gift basket.

All right.

Thank you.

And we hope you enjoy.

We-- Just Born?

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's not what we gave you.

We gave you a Just Born gift basket.

They make wonderful little marshmallow Peeps and all sorts of candy.

Thank you, panel.

You were great.

Thank you.

You were wonderful, audience.

And thank you, most of all.

Hope you join us again, when we play The Pennsylvania Game.

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