[theme music] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible in part by-- ANNOUNCER 2: By a grant from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.

The network receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide public television for all Pennsylvanians.

ANNOUNCER: Now let's get the game started.

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

Yay!

[applause] Is that an audience?

The best studio audiences in the entire world.

And when I say world, I mean it, because tonight in our audience, we have somebody who has come all the way from Kazakhstan to be with us tonight.

We thank you, we thank all of you, and we especially thank you viewers for tuning in at home.

We have another wonderful episode of The Pennsylvania Game.

And let's not waste any time.

Let's meet our panel right now.

In the hot seat tonight, our first panelist is an Ohio transplant.

Since 1988, he's been news reporter and coanchor for the 6 and 11 o'clock news for JET, WJET-TV 24 in Erie.

Give a warm welcome to Sean Lafferty.

[applause] We've heard she sold most of her hat collection to Hollywood since we last saw her.

She's back.

Millie Bubash, the lovable State College hat lady, back for a command appearance here at The Pennsylvania Game.

Let's hear it for Millie Bubash.

[applause] And all the way down on the end, it's Scott Schraff.

He's a photojournalist by training.

Since 1994, he's been running the family's winery, Oak Spring Winery of Altoona.

Say hello to Scott Schraff.

[applause] Is this a great crowd?

Great panel.

We've got everything we need except a question.

ANNOUNCER: Mike Fink was born in 1770 near Fort Pitt, which is now Pittsburgh.

Was Mike Fink A, a legendary river boatman, B, an American staff officer-- he sold the plans for the defense of Washington, DC, to the British, C, a trapper who killed a bear with his bare hands, or D, known as a coal-digging fool-- he mined more coal in a day than any three men?

SCOTT BRUCE: Mike Fink, who oddly enough can speak Russian-- no, I made that up.

Was he a legendary river boatman, was he an American staff officer, was he a trapper who killed a bear with his hands, or was he a coal-digging fool?

Sean, we're going to ask you first.

I went with B, only because if someone's a fink, they've sold someone out.

I don't know why.

I like that follow.

It follows along.

He might have been the first fink.

Maybe.

It could be.

Let's see if you're right.

We'll find out in a little while.

Millie?

Well, I chose D. He looked, from that little picture they showed, that he was a wild one.

Coal-digging fool.

MILLIE: Coal-digging fool.

Just get right in there with his hands and dig it up.

Yeah, right.

Get it out.

All right.

I like that answer.

I live in Coal Region.

So I think you've got a chance.

MILLIE: There you are.

We'll go down to Scott.

I went with D for no particular reason.

SCOTT BRUCE: Another coal-digging fool.

You think he might have tapped into your family's wine a little bit and went wild.

Could be.

SCOTT BRUCE: That could be it.

We don't know.

On this show, anything's possible.

Let's find out what the answer is.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. The legendary Mike Fink was known as the strongest keel boatman ever.

Born in 1770 in the Allegheny Mountains near Fort Pitt, he spent most of his life on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Like many tall tale heroes, Fink was a real person, but the factual details of his life are difficult to separate from the wealth of legends surrounding his name.

He first appears in tales written in the late 1820s, and is described as a brawling keel boatman and scout noted for his marksmanship and his practice of wrestling Rocky Mountain grizzlies.

Today, the stories of Mike Fink are a rich part of American folklore.

Oh.

The answer is A, a legendary river boatman.

Nobody got it right on that one.

But that's OK, because we have lots and lots more questions to go.

And we'll jump to a new one right now.

ANNOUNCER: Rolling Rock, brewed by Latrobe Brewing Company in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is a leading domestic specialty beer.

What's the meaning of the number 33 on the back of Rolling Rock bottles?

A, 33 degrees is the coldest temperature at which water remains liquid.

B, Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

C, 33 letters spell the ingredients-- malt, rice, corn, hops, brewer's yeast, and water.

Or D, it was simply a typo when the bottle label was first printed in 1939.

SCOTT BRUCE: That's right.

Right here on The Pennsylvania Game, we're going to put all of those bar fights to rest right now.

Everybody's been saying they know the right answer.

But the fact is we know the right answer.

Is it 33 degrees is the coldest temperature at which water remains liquid, Prohibition was repealed in 1933, 33 letters spell out the ingredients, or was it simply a typo?

[chimes] Millie, we'll go to you first.

Well, I remember Prohibition.

I hate to admit it.

SCOTT BRUCE: [laughs] (LAUGHING) And it was in '33.

So maybe that was a happy day for everybody, and they wanted to remember the year.

SCOTT BRUCE: Happy day.

Have a little beer.

'33.

Have a-- And there it was.

I like your thinking.

Could be possible.

Scott, you're an alcohol kind of an expert.

[laughter] I don't remember Prohibition.

But I do remember hearing that it was the year Prohibition ended.

So we got two Prohibitions, two Bs up there.

You want to make it a clean sweep for us, Sean?

I'm going to.

SCOTT BRUCE: He's going to.

I went with B simply because remember it from the beer-drinking college days.

SCOTT BRUCE: What does that mean, folks?

Everybody gets a Pennsylvania lottery ticket.

Take one and pass it down.

You have a chance to win $1,000 a week for life.

And it's a good thing they have lottery tickets.

Because guess what?

SEAN: We got it wrong.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. When Rolling Rock was first introduced to America in 1939, the owners of Latrobe Brewing Company couldn't agree on a slogan for the back of the bottle.

Then someone came up with a 33-word quote, and to indicate its modest length scribbled a big 33 on it.

This version of the quote was set off to the bottle maker.

Unfortunately, no one realized that the big 33 wasn't meant to be part of the label until millions of bottles were produced with the number painted permanently on the back of every bottle.

Instead of throwing out all the bottles, Latrobe Brewing Company came up with a story that the 33 stood for the year that Prohibition was repealed.

The mystery of number 33 on Rolling Rock bottles has baffled beer lovers for generations.

[applause] See that?

Pennsylvania Game.

That's where you learn it.

Real quickly, here's what the 33 words are.

"From the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe, we tender this premium beer for your enjoyment as a tribute to your good taste."

Always good news.

We've learned again.

Now I think it's time to chat with our panel a little bit.

Let's find out a little bit more about them.

Sean, it says here that Erie is your hometown, or not your hometown, but your native town now.

And it's also the hometown of our governor, Governor Ridge.

That's right.

Governor Tom Ridge.

We've seen him through as a congressman, and now a two-term governor.

And from here, who knows?

Yeah.

The sky's the limit.

SEAN: Absolutely, at this point.

I would imagine he spends a fair amount of time up there, a lot of coverage?

Every now and then, yeah.

We give him an awful lot of coverage, and he's used to it.

He's more at home in front of the cameras than I think you or I are at this point.

He's a good guy.

I like him.

Nice man.

Very popular in Erie.

Sean Lafferty.

Down to Millie.

Now Millie, it says you sold most of your hat collection.

Yes, I stopped lecturing.

SCOTT BRUCE: You stopped lecturing on the hats.

Mm-hmm.

I assume that you kept a few special ones for yourself.

I kept some really nice ones for my grandchildren, yeah.

Oh, that's good.

Something to pass on.

Hats and jewelry and shoes and all kinds of nice things.

But Hollywood's always glad to get, you know.

SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah, period pieces.

The period pieces-- Hats they can use.

MILLIE: Yeah.

Well, that's great.

You're going to-- MILLIE: I miss them, though.

You'll go down in history.

Oh, I am in history.

We'll, see your hats-- well, you are in history, you're right.

I'm so old, I am history.

You created history.

Millie Bubash, thank you very much.

[applause] Scott, the Oak Spring Winery has won over 100 medals for its wines.

It's very important.

Here's my question, I think what all of Pennsylvania wants to know.

Is there a rule of thumb for how to pick the right wines for occasions?

Not anymore.

You know, they used to do the red wines with red meat, white wines with white meat.

Now basically, the way wineries are springing up is people can come in and try them.

And then they find something that they like.

And whatever goes with, and that's the way to play it.

So many varieties.

SCOTT BRUCE: Well, thanks a lot for that help, Scott Schraff.

[applause] We're learning today.

Let's go on and learn some more.

ANNOUNCER: Born in 1856 in Doylestown, Henry Chapman Mercer trained as a lawyer, and later became an eccentric archaeologist and tool collector.

For what else is Mercer famous?

A, he successfully defended Lizzie Borden.

B, he established a world-famous decorative tile company.

C, he won the hop, step, and jump competition in the first modern Olympic games in Athens, Greece.

Or D, he was the first to use euthanasia as a defense for murder.

SCOTT BRUCE: Only The Pennsylvania Game would put these answers together on one page.

Did he defend Lizzie Borden, did he have the decorative stuff, hot decorative tile, or a hop, step, and jump competition in the Olympics, or euthanasia?

We'll go to Scott first.

I chose B only because it seems to be the only one that doesn't fit.

Yes, it doesn't fit in that lineup, I don't think, in any way, shape, or form.

We'll go over to Sean.

I chose B for no reason at all.

Only because I've chosen B twice before.

It's going to be right before I'm done.

It's got to be right eventually.

That's a good way to play.

Did we make it a clean sweep, Millie?

Well, I-- no, I chose C. That sounds so silly.

SCOTT BRUCE: [laughs] Hop, skip, and jump?

Yeah, hop, skip, and jump.

SCOTT BRUCE: I have never heard of that competition.

I never have either.

Let's find out if it exists.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B. Henry Mercer founded the Moravian Tile Works.

Although he studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, Mercer never passed the bar or practiced law.

Instead, his love of history and artwork led him around the world, doing archaeological digs and collecting artifacts.

He later focused on collecting 19th century tools.

Then in 1898, his keen interest in pottery prompted him to build a castle-like pottery works for making Moravian-style tiles.

It was the first of three such concrete structures.

Before long, his architectural tiles adorned buildings throughout the world.

In 1914, he built a museum to hold what had become one of the world's finest collections of 19th century tools, and then donated it and his home to the Bucks County Historical Society.

Bucks County operates the Moravian Tile Works on a demonstration basis and still displays Mercer's collection just as he arranged it.

[applause] Beautiful tiles.

And I am told by my producer that the hop, skip, and jump competition was, in fact, a real thing in the Olympics.

So how do you like that?

That means it's time to check our score.

And it's a pretty tight race so far.

We've got Sean with 1 point, Millie with 0 still, and Scott with 1.

It's a close one.

[applause] That means it's time for our first clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Get your pencils ready.

Here it comes.

This actor lived on a farm called Stock Grange near West Chester, Pennsylvania, because it reminded him of the countryside in his native England.

[gentle music] This actor lived on a farm called Stock Grange near West Chester, Pennsylvania, because it reminded him of the countryside in his native England.

You want to write your answers down on that first line.

If you get it right, you'll get 3 points.

The middle line, you'll get 2.

And if you get it right by the bottom line, you will get 1 point.

Everybody's got something to write.

And that's a good sign, because we're back in the game right now.

ANNOUNCER: Tun's Tavern, built in 1685, is believed to be the first brewhouse in Philadelphia, and among the very first in the country.

What is Tun's Tavern most famous for?

A, it was here that Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

B, it was the first tavern to combine whiskey, cream, and coffee in a single drink.

C, it was the birthplace of the US Marine Corps.

Or D, it was the first tavern in the US to have live entertainment.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

Tun's Tavern.

Did Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence there, did they combine whiskey, cream, and coffee and immediately get ill, was it the birthplace of the US Marine Corps, or was it the first tavern to have live entertainment?

Sean, we're back to you.

I'm going with Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.

SCOTT BRUCE: It sounds good, doesn't it?

It sounds like a great place to write that.

I hope that's true, because it would be fun.

Millie?

I like that number D. It was the first tavern to have live entertainment.

SCOTT BRUCE: Live entertainment, yeah.

Yeah.

SCOTT BRUCE: Think they had-- Gals, maybe.

The Beastie Boys.

Dancing girls and-- yeah.

[laughs] Thank you, Millie.

Down to you, Scott.

I went with A because of its proximity to Philadelphia.

SCOTT BRUCE: Ah, good thinking again.

So we've got two people for the first draft of the Declaration and one Beastie Boy fan.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, birthplace of the Marine Corps.

Tun's Tavern was a brewhouse built by Samuel Carpenter in 1685.

Its name is derived from the old English word tun, meaning measured cask, barrel, or keg of beer.

On November 10, 1775, Captain Robert Mullan, who owned Tun's Tavern, turned his barroom into a recruiting headquarters, giving birth to the United States Marine Corps.

There are an estimated 3 million active and retired US Marines worldwide who have been exposed in their military training to the historical significance of Tun's Tavern.

Each year on November 10, Marines all around the world toast to their birthplace on the most important date in the history of the Corps.

Hey.

Big thank you to Russell Schaeberle of York, Pennsylvania, for sending that in.

He'll get a year's subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.

And now here's some new information.

ANNOUNCER: Louis Mahle of Philadelphia was employed by the Frank H. Fleer corporation as director of product research.

He also wrote articles for encyclopedias.

What topic did he research and write about?

A, chewing gum.

B, baseball cards.

C, moisture creams.

Or D, pharmaceutical sleeping aids.

SCOTT BRUCE: Who can put this clue together?

Fleer Corporation.

Was that chewing gum, baseball cards, creams, or pharmaceutical sleeping aids?

Millie?

Oh, I chose-- what did I choose?

SCOTT BRUCE: You chose B, Millie.

You chose baseball cards.

I chose B, baseball cards.

SCOTT BRUCE: Fleer baseball cards.

Yeah.

I like that idea.

I think you might be on to something.

Scott?

I wanted to choose B, and I hit the wrong button.

[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: We hate when that happens.

I hate when that happens.

SCOTT BRUCE: You chose A, chewing gum.

So it was a big accident for you.

Well, we'll see if accidents help on this game.

Sean?

I chose A because of what comes with the baseball cards.

SCOTT BRUCE: It is the chewing gum that comes with the baseball cards.

Could the accident be the answer?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, chewing gum.

Louis W. Mahle was born in Philadelphia in 1897.

As director of product research for the Frank H. Fleer Corporation, the maker of Dubble Bubble gum, he invented Chiclets chewing gum, naming it after an ingredient from the chicle tree.

Adams Company later bought the patent for the gum.

Mahle wrote articles about chewing gum for various encyclopedias, including Encyclopedia Britannica.

In 1961, he appeared on the television program What's My Line?

and stumped the panel, which couldn't imagine such a distinguished-looking man was in the chewing gum business.

He shared his expertise in chewing gum manufacturing with firms all over the globe.

Mahle died in Ambler, Pennsylvania, in 1998.

He was 101 years old.

Something in that gum.

[applause] Chew more gum.

Let's take a look at our scoreboard.

It looks to me like Sean has 2 points.

Millie still having a little trouble with the 0 over there.

Scott has 2, but it's still a tight game.

[applause] That means it's time for our second clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Get your pens ready.

Clue number two.

He received four Academy Award nominations for his work, including his most memorable performance as Captain Louis Renault opposite Humphrey Bogart.

[gentle music] Oh, I see some wheels turning.

He received four Academy Award nominations for his work, including his most memorable performance as Captain Louis Renault opposite of Humphrey Bogart.

This actor lived on a farm called Stock Grange near West Chester, Pennsylvania, because it reminded him of the countryside of his native England.

People are wondering, and we're wondering how we're going to get back to the game.

ANNOUNCER: Evans City, located 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, was the location of a movie that helped put the town on the map.

Can you name the setting and the movie?

Was it A, the steel mill in The Deer Hunter, B, the cell in Silence of the Lambs, C, the cemetery in Night of the Living Dead, or D, the house in Diabolique?

SCOTT BRUCE: Evans City.

Was that The Deer Hunter, Silence of the Lambs, Night of the Living Dead, or Diabolique?

We're going to go to Scott first.

I chose B.

[dings] SCOTT BRUCE: Silence of the Lambs.

Yeah.

I never heard of D. And C and A I thought were in Pittsburgh.

Well, we're also close to Halloween.

That might be a good choice right now.

OK.

We'll go over to Sean.

Because of its proximity and the steel mill and whatnot, I chose A, the steel mill in Deer Hunter.

SCOTT BRUCE: The Deer Hunter.

OK.

They're all Pennsylvania scenes, I think, yeah.

Millie?

I chose A also, yes.

SCOTT BRUCE: So we got two Deer Hunters and one lamb fan.

We got some animal fans up here.

And that's not going to work very well for them, I don't think.

Oh.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, the cemetery in Night of the Living Dead.

In 1968, Pittsburgh-based filmmaker George Romero teamed up with fellow alumni from Carnegie Mellon Art Institute and filmed Night of the Living Dead, a low-budget, feature-length horror film.

The groundbreaking film proved to aspiring directors that a successful horror flick could lead to mainstream filmmaking.

Of all the locations used in Night of the Living Dead, the most famous is the cemetery at the beginning of the film.

Five years later in 1973, Romero shot another film in Evans City, The Crazies, about the effects of chemical poisoning in a small Pennsylvania town.

See that?

[applause] You learn, you learn, you learn.

We had as a contestant on our show recently Russ Streiner, who was involved with the Night of the Living Dead.

And there's just more fun all the time.

Let's have some more right now.

ANNOUNCER: Pennsylvania's military contribution to the Civil War was great, both in men and supplies.

And it was a Pennsylvania regiment that was first to respond to president Lincoln's call to arms.

Which of the following Civil War facts is not true?

A, it was the first war in which civilians were drafted into service.

B, more men died from disease than bullet wounds.

C, it was the first war to employ aerial observation.

Or D, Pennsylvania supplied more men to the Civil War than any other Union state.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

Quick note to our panel, and those of you playing at home.

Which one is not true?

Three of these are.

First war which civilians were drafted, more men died from disease than bullets, it was the first war to employ aerial observation, or Pennsylvania supplied more men to the Civil War than any other union.

Which one is not true?

Sean, we'll go to you first.

I chose A. Don't think it was the first war in which civilians were drafted.

SCOTT BRUCE: You think they might have been drafted before that?

Or after that.

SCOTT BRUCE: Or after that.

But that wasn't the first one, I don't think.

Oh, you're right.

Before wouldn't work out, would it?

Duh.

Millie?

Well, during that time, I don't remember any airplanes or any aerial things.

SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah, nothing up in the sky.

I was there, you know.

[laughs] You're starting to push our credulity here.

Oh yeah.

OK, Millie.

So you don't think there was any aerial observation.

MILLIE: Right.

We'll go down to Scott.

I agree with Millie.

I don't think there were planes.

SCOTT BRUCE: Two people don't believe that it's up in the air.

Well, take a look at this.

Here's a little something over your head.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Among Union states, Pennsylvania's 338,000 enlistments ranked second to New York's.

Initially, few Pennsylvanians fought to free slaves.

More fought because they didn't want Pennsylvania to be dominated by the South.

While securing volunteers was relatively easy early on, able-bodied men were less enthusiastic when the death tolls mounted.

More soldiers died from pneumonia, dysentery, and other camp diseases than from bullets.

When Lincoln's call for 300,000 fresh troops in July 1862 was unsuccessful he resorted to drafting, which was unpopular throughout the state.

Pennsylvania contributed coal, food, clothing and other supplies to the war effort, and headed the Department of War throughout the struggle.

SCOTT BRUCE: All right.

Time for our mystery clue.

But real quickly, the Civil War was the first war to employ aerial observation using hot air balloons.

OK.

Mystery clue three.

Get your pens ready.

Here it comes.

His distinctive voice and facial expressions gained him more than 50 movie roles and six wives during his very visible career.

[gentle music] I hit visible hard, kids.

His distinctive voice and facial expressions gained him more than 50 movie roles and six wives during his very visible career.

This actor lived on a farm called Stock Grange near West Chester, Pennsylvania, because it reminded him of the countryside in his native England.

He received four Academy Award nominations, including most memorable Captain Louis Renault opposite Humphrey Bogart.

Everybody's done.

Let's find out what everybody said.

Millie, you got a little slot up there now.

Just stick it right in there.

Yeah, I like that.

SCOTT BRUCE: Let's see what you have.

You've got James Cagney, James Cagney, and not Cagney.

[laughter] I like it when you go back on yourself.

[applause] Good answers all the way down.

You know, actually, I think technically, you're right if it's not Cagney.

So we'll find out if that helps you.

Scott?

We have question mark, question mark, and I can't read from here.

J. Cagney.

SCOTT BRUCE: J. Cagney.

So you went with Cagney.

You got the Cagney that she's not.

OK.

Well, we'll find out if the Cagney idea is going to work in any way.

Sean?

I had Laurence Olivier.

SCOTT BRUCE: Laurence Olivier.

J. Cagney-- SCOTT BRUCE: He was born in England.

--who's different than James Cagney.

SCOTT BRUCE: Oh, that was-- yeah.

That was Janice Cagney, I think.

Yeah.

James Cagney.

SCOTT BRUCE: James Cagney.

There was a Cagney thing going on over here, I think.

He's the only old Pennsylvanian guy I could-- SCOTT BRUCE: And guess what?

[jabbers] Oh!

ANNOUNCER: Actor Claude Rains grew up poor in England.

He made his stage debut in London at age 11, and first toured the United States in 1914.

He made his first film, The Invisible Man, in 1933.

In 1935, he bought a small farm in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, which he shared with his fifth wife, Frances.

In 1939, after being nominated for his first of four Academy Awards, this one for his role in Mr.

Smith Goes to Washington, the Rains family moved to a 329-acre spread in West Chester, saying it was the best place in the world to live.

Listed in the county agricultural register as "Claude Rains, farmer," he raised pigs and steer.

In 1955, following a divorce, he sold his beloved farm.

He remained in West Chester until 1963, when he moved with his sixth and final wife to New Hampshire.

He died four years later.

Claude Rains, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Yeah!

Where's that bring us, scorewise?

It's Millie with 0, Sean with 2, Scott with 2.

We have a tie, two-way tie.

Scott and Sean!

Wendy, what'd they win?

ANNOUNCER: OK, Scott.

Today's prize is this handsome basket of made-in-Pennsylvania goodies from JJ's Basket Delights, Mechanicsburg, specializing in custom creative gift baskets for any occasion.

Plus 50 chances to win a $1,000 a week for life from the Pennsylvania Lottery.

Quickly.

Yes, look at these prizes!

Yes!

We hope you had a great time.

Please join us again on The Pennsylvania Game.

Bye-bye.

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The network receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide public television for all Pennsylvanians.

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