The Pennsylvania Game
Archaeology, birds & religion
Season 1 Episode 9 | 27m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Archaeology, birds & religion
Season 1 Episode 9 | 27m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know about the Swedes who pre-dated William Penn? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle upbeat music) - [Announcer] This archeological dig is the sight of the Swedish colony that settled in Pennsylvania nearly 40 years before William Penn.
Their main house, the Printzhof, has a feature you might not expect from the 1640s.
Do you know what it was?
You're invited to play The Pennsylvania Game.
Test your knowledge of the commonwealths people, places, and products.
(gentle upbeat music) The Pennsylvania Game is 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.
(bell dinging) (upbeat music) And by the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program, promoting the taste of an ice cold glass of milk.
Milk doesn't just taste great.
It's one of the all time great tastes.
♪ When it's time to make your mind up ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (upbeat electronic music) - [Announcer] Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of the Pennsylvania game, Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Hi to you at home.
Hi to you in our studio audience.
Want you to play along with us, see if you can get better score than the best score of our panelists and our panelists are he's a writer and an author.
He's Bernie Asbell.
Bernie?
(audience applauding) She is a registered nurse, currently a hospital administrator.
She's Ann Stetcher.
Ann?
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
- And from Pittsburgh, where he is a station manager at Channel 22 TV, Eddie Edwards.
(audience applauding and cheering) You brought your family along, I see.
- Great.
(laughs) - Got some challenging questions for you and let's see how well you do.
The first one's about the first Europeans to settle in Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] These University of Pennsylvania archeologists are excavating the site of the Printzhof.
38 years before William Penn established his colony, Johan Printz of Sweden built the Printzhof on Tinicum Island, just south of Philadelphia.
The two-story logged structure, first excavated in the 1930s, had a feature you might not expect in Pennsylvania's first European building.
Was that feature A, glass windows?
B, a cast, iron furnace?
C, a primitive elevator?
Or D, a sauna room?
(gentle music) - Now, our panelists have learned that sometimes, if you go for the wildest answer, it's the right one.
But Bernie Asbell, sometimes, it's the wrong one, too.
- [Bernie] Which we have learned that.
- (laughs) Which one of those do you go for?
- Well, if I knew that those first immigrants were Finns, I would certainly go for D. - [Lynn] Sauna.
- A sauna room.
But since I don't know that they were Finns, I will go for D. - I see.
(audience laughs) Circuitous logic, but Ann Stetcher.
- What was the date?
- [Lynn] The date was 1640.
- They were Swedish.
- [Lynn] About.
- [Bernie] Can I change quick before she says her?
- [Lynn] No, no, no, no.
You can't change.
Ann?
- You had no faith in me, my man.
- You're going for D, also.
A sauna.
Okay, Eddie Edwards, they picked a sauna.
Do you agree or do you think it was a primitive elevator, a cast iron furnace, glass windows.
- Here we go again.
- [Lynn] Here we go again.
- (laughs) It's going to be a wild guess.
I am not going with them.
I read something not long ago about elevators and how they pulled people up.
- [Lynn] Yeah.
- I'm gonna go with that.
- Is Otis Swedish name?
I don't know.
Well, you might be right.
You might be wrong.
I don't know.
Let's see what it was.
- [Bernie] Eddie is gonna take the lead now.
- [Announcer] The answer is A, glass windows.
Only remnants of the Printzhof remain, but we get a good idea of the kind of structure it was from the Morton homestead, just a mile away.
400 pound Johan Printz, called Big Tub by the Indians, built the Printzhof in the 1640s.
The log and stone Morton house was built just a few years later by Morton Mortonson, great grandfather of John Morton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
It was the Swedes, not the pilgrims, who introduced the log cabin to America.
The first log building had windows made of glass.
- I guess, obviously, they brought the glass with them.
I wonder how they packed it to keep it from breaking on the- - Very carefully.
- They set it by another parcel.
- Do you think so?
(audience laughing) We always hear, though, about the pilgrims in Massachusetts and think of them as log cabins.
They didn't have log cabins at all.
It was in Pennsylvania with the Swedes, the first log cabins came.
Well, what do you know about Shakespeare?
Much about Shakespeare?
It's a nature question, but it's related to Shakespeare.
Let's see if you can shake this one down.
- [Announcer] Eugene Sheifflin wanted to give America all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare.
So, in 1890, he released 120 birds in New York Central Park.
By 1908, the birds had colonized Pennsylvania and are common today throughout the Commonwealth.
What kind of birds did Sheifflin bring to America?
A, the English sparrow.
B, the starling.
C, the robin, or D, the blue jay.
(gentle music) - [Lynn] Ann Stetcher, I know you're a bird watcher, so you obviously know the answer to this one.
- You don't remember the right things about me.
(Ann and Lynn laughing) I think the starling, he would be shot for the poor man.
I haven't the foggiest.
- [Lynn] So you're gonna go with the English sparrow?
- I'm gonna go with the English sparrow, yeah.
- Okay.
It's really simple.
If you eliminate the three wrong answers, the one that's left is the right one.
Eddie?
- And that's just what I did.
I'm going to go with A, so there you go.
(contestants laughing) - John Arnold and Joe Price, my Shakespearean colleagues, where are you now that I need you, huh?
Starling sounds so theatrical in Shakespearian and I think I'll go with starling.
- They're such dirty birds.
- Are they?
- What's in a name?
A bird by any other name would, well, let's see what the answer is.
- [Announcer] The answer is B, the starling.
Starlings can live anywhere and eat anything.
Its Latin name is sturnus vulgaris and to most, it's a truly vulgar bird and a real pest.
(gentle music) - I have to agree with you, Ann.
The guy that brought starlings to America should be, well, if not shot, he should at least be- - [Ann] Clean up the mess.
- Yes.
Yes.
We have, as you know, in parts of central Pennsylvania, state college, for example, so many starlings that if you park your car under the wrong tree at night, you will not recognize your car the next day.
It changes color.
- Shakespeare was a dirty old man.
(all laughing) - He did talk about teaching starlings to speak, though.
"I'll have a starling.
I'll be trained to say nothing more," then I forget the rest of the quote, but that's- - [Ann] Then you got the answer right.
Speak for yourself.
- You are a Shakespearean.
Yeah.
Ann Stetcher, you were born in Pittsburgh, right?
- Yes.
- And you were reared in Hollidaysburg?
- Hollidaysburg, yes.
- [Lynn] And you left Pennsylvania for a while.
- Long time.
Came back again.
- [Lynn] And went west?
- Yeah, I was in New York and in Baltimore and in Denver and I'm an Easterner.
So I decided to came back.
- And you came back to Pennsylvania.
- [Ann] Had a play his game.
- Right to center of the state.
Yeah.
Eddie Edwards, doing well at Channel 22.
You started in TV, you told me, when you were 16 years old.
- Well, it was radio, actually.
- [Lynn] Well, I'm just TV without pictures.
- As a matter of fact.
(all laughing) Yeah, you're right.
It was radio, but worked my way from radio on into television, so good start, though.
That's where most of us begin, as you know.
- Oh, yeah.
Well, I didn't begin there.
I began in the department of plant cleaning, but I worked my way up.
- I heard that story.
- Up or down to television, I'm not sure which.
The next question is a really good Pennsylvania question.
It's about in colonial times, the biggest inland settlement.
Do you know which one?
- [Announcer] In colonial America, the Conestoga wagon was used to transport goods between Philadelphia on the east coast and the town that was the largest inland settlement in America.
Was the largest settlement A, Harrisburg?
B, Lancaster?
C, Pittsburgh or D, Scranton?
(gentle western music) - Question number three.
So Eddie Edwards, I believe it's your turn to pick first.
In the colonial America, what was the largest inland settlement?
Which of those four?
See if you know anything about Pennsylvania history.
- I think history has taught me to say this time, Bernie, I'm gonna catch up with B. I'm gonna say Lancaster.
- Okay.
Lancaster or Lancaster?
- Lancaster.
- Okay.
Bernie?
You know your Shakespeare.
Do you know your inland settlements?
- Oh.
- [Lynn] Oh, he says.
- [Eddie] I got a feeling he's gonna- - Oh yes, oh yes.
- You gonna say Lancaster?
Really?
- [Bernie] Some hunch tells me it's Lancaster or Harrisburg.
Or Scranton or- - [Ann] So you want me to go with A?
- [Announcer] No, no.
- No.
What are you gonna go with, Ann?
It's either Harrisburg, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, or Scranton.
- Obviously.
- I will narrow it for you.
- [Ann] Could I go with E?
- [Lynn] No, you have to go with one of those four.
What do you think?
- Boy, they're really close together.
I would go with A or B, but I'm going- - [Lynn] They're miles apart.
- Well, they're.
Oh, malarkey.
And who'd wanna say Scranton?
I'm gonna go with my cohorts here.
They're been nice to me so far.
- [Lynn] You're all saying B, which means again, friends, we are all right or we are all wrong and I've seen both happen.
Let's see this time.
- [Announcer] The answer is B, Lancaster, the largest inland settlement until the turn of the 19th century.
(audience applauding) The Conestoga wagon was first built in Lancaster, named for the Conestoga Creek and the village named after the Indian tribe, Conestoga.
The Conestoga wagon was larger than the Prairie schooners that were to head westward at a later time.
Pulled by six horses, the Conestoga was curved so as to prevent barrels from breaking through at the front and back.
Chains were used to lock the wheels so that five ton loads did not crush the horses coming down mountains.
A distinctive decorated toolbox was stationed near the middle of each Conestoga wagon.
These ships of inland commerce carried countless loads between Philadelphia and Lancaster.
The Conestoga crossroads.
- That really was marvelous.
The Conestoga wagons, they just.
- [Bernie] That's interesting.
Had we known that that the Conestoga wagon was the place, course, then we would've known the answer.
- That's right, but now you know.
Next time we play this game and ask this particular question.
I jotted down, interestingly enough, back in 1765, colonial times, Lancaster had 32 taverns, 14 religious denominations, 500 houses, and 4,000 persons.
That's how big it was by 1765.
Let's see.
We got two right for Bernie, one right for Ann, and one right for Eddie and we're going real close, but let's hear it for our panel.
They're doing a right good job.
(audience applauding) Now, as you know, we have another feature called the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
All you have to do, panel, is guess the identity of the Mystery Pennsylvanian and write it down.
We'll have three clues throughout the show.
Here's your first clue.
Born in Philadelphia in 1902, our Mystery Pennsylvanian had a voice that Toscanini said comes once in a hundred years.
Born in Philadelphia, 1902, our mystery Pennsylvanian had a voice that Toscanini said comes once in a hundred years.
If you don't know the identity of our mystery Pennsylvanian yet, don't worry about it.
There are two more clues a-coming, so just ponder on those things.
You guys did pretty well the last time we played with Pennsylvania government.
You got one wrong and one right, all of you.
So this is another chance to see how much you know about what goes on in the state of Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] Who employs the most people in Pennsylvania?
Is our largest employer A, Westinghouse, B, SmithKline, C Hershey, or D, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
(gentle music) - Where do most people work in Pennsylvania?
There are some big companies there, as you know, from all parts of the state.
The east, the west, and the center, and all over.
Which one employs?
I believe we're up to you, Bernie.
- I just, I mean.
- [Lynn] You think the government does?
- Yeah.
That's the biggest business we've got.
- Ann Stetcher, what do you think?
- Well, I'm just such a chocolate freak.
I should go for C, but this is really boring that we're all agreeing with one another.
- [Lynn] It's okay.
You might be all right and all wrong.
(contestants laughing) You're going with D, also?
- I think I'm gonna go with D. - [Lynn] And Eddie Edwards?
What do you think?
- You know, it's gotta be one of the two, A or D, and you just everywhere you look, you can't help, but see Westinghouse.
- [Lynn] Yeah.
- I'm going to go with A.
- Of course, SmithKline in Philadelphia has an awful lot of employees, too.
And so does Hershey in the middle of the state and I'm not sure who I go with.
Well, let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is D, the state government, with about 100,000 on the payroll.
That's down from 1975 when 110,000 worked for the state.
But in terms of the ratio of state employees to general population, Pennsylvania is 49th.
Only Florida beats us.
(gentle music) - In terms of the ratio.
In other words, the number of employees working for the state to the number of population, only Florida has a better ratio than we do.
- [Bernie] Better meaning- - Better meaning fewer employees per thousand people.
- Wow.
Goodie for us.
- I was thinking maybe we were wrong, Bernie, because with all the state cuts, that it might have dropped down.
- It did drop- - A trick question.
- [Lynn] No, no.
Trick answer.
- [Bernie] I think we can get to be best, if we just dropped a few state troopers and these people will give you the driving license.
- Have you been out driving lately?
(contestants laughing) This next one is about the first person to be paid to do something in Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] Legend has it that 16 year old John Brailler of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was the first person to be paid to do something in America.
What was John the first to be paid to do?
A, donate blood.
B, deliver milk.
C, play football D, collect garbage.
(gentle music) - Well, if it were my name up there, it would be D, but it's John Brailler, Latrobe.
Ann Stetcher, this is your question to start with.
- I don't want it.
- [Lynn] You don't want this one?
You'll pass?
- I wanna pass.
- [Lynn] What do you think?
Those are charming answers.
Donate blood, deliver milk, play football, collect garbage.
- Holy cats.
- [Lynn] People get paid for all those these days, of course.
- Eddie Junior.
(all laughing) - [Lynn] No fair asking Eddie Edward's son.
What do you think?
- Oh, Lordy.
I don't know.
I gotta move on this, don't I?
- [Lynn] Yeah.
- [Bernie] Look at the lady suffer.
- [Lynn] Yeah.
- You like that, don't you?
- No, no, no.
Just admiring how seriously you take this.
- Little curl of smoke coming out of her ears.
- It's burning.
- What do you think?
- I haven't the foggiest idea.
I think that I'll go with the delivery boy.
- [Lynn] Deliver milk.
- Sure.
Since milk is our state beverage.
- [Lynn] Sure.
It used to deliver it to your house.
They don't do that much anymore.
Eddie Edwards?
- Boy.
It is.
You said this was going to be easy.
- [Lynn] It is easy.
Just put a card up.
- Yeah.
(laughing) I wanna put all.
No.
It's- (contestants mimicking stuttering) It's hard to come out.
Garbage.
They make a lot of money today and I don't think anybody ever got paid to garbage.
- Sanitary engineer collect garbage.
- The question is so ingenious and interesting and almost doesn't need an answer, but I will go with delivering milk.
I can't imagine anybody paying somebody to collect garbage when they got a compost pile right outside the back door.
- How about donate blood?
Did any of you think about donate blood?
That could be the right answer because you know.
Well, let's see.
What is the right answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, play football.
(audience laughing) The Pro Football Hall of Fame has a display that says Yale All American Pudge Heffelfinger was the first pro and has an expense account to prove that he was paid for a game in Pittsburgh in 1892.
(gentle music) And don't mention that in Latrobe.
They believe that the $10 paid to John Brailler to quarterback the Latrobe YMCA team against Jeanette in 1895 made him the first pro.
Latrobe has trading cards to celebrate the event.
They also have a picture of the first team to have all professional players back in 1897, giving Latrobe good support for its claim as the home of pro football.
- Had a team once that paid me not to play on the team.
$10.
Well, let's see how we're doing.
Bernie's ahead with three.
Let's hear for Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauding) You're a good guesser, Bernie, aren't you?
You got a question about that one?
- Well, I think I misunderstood.
- We misinterpreted the question.
- Didn't you say the first person be paid to do anything?
- [Lynn] To do something.
What was he paid to do?
Donate blood, deliver milk, play football, or collect garbage.
- If this were an important exam, I'd protest the question.
- [Lynn] You got it right!
(contestants laughing) - No, we didn't.
None of us did.
- [Lynn] Okay, I'm sorry.
Well, you were wrong.
- Chuck that out.
We all get an extra point for that.
- [Lynn] Let's see how you do.
- Audience, if you misunderstood the question, you're on our side.
- How many of you understood the question in the audience?
Okay?
Every hand went up.
See there?
- Show them the walking papers.
- Mystery Pennsylvanian clue number two.
She sang the National Anthem at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.
- [Ann] Oh, yeah.
- President Lyndon Johnson presented her with the Medal of Freedom.
She sang the National Anthem at the inauguration of John Kennedy.
President Lyndon Johnson presented her with a Medal of Freedom.
By the way, if you wanna write to us, send us an idea for a question.
We've got some good suggestions.
Our address is simply The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802.
Glad to hear from you.
So you drop us a line and thanks to all of you who have sent questions in already.
What religious groups were started in Pennsylvania?
Do you know anything about religious denominations, religious groups?
Well, we'll see.
Here's the question.
- [Announcer] Three American religious denominations can be said to have had their beginnings in central Pennsylvania.
Which of the following did not begin in central Pennsylvania?
A, the Mennonite church.
B, the Church of God.
C, the Evangelical Church, or D, the United Brethren Church.
(gentle music) - Three did.
One did not.
Question is which one did not originate in Pennsylvania?
Eddie Edwards?
- Oh, why me first?
God, help me.
- [Bernie] Appropriate.
- [Lynn] Prayer is not allowed.
Prayer is not allowed.
What do you say, Eddie?
- This is tough.
It's tough.
They've all been tough.
They haven't been, I haven't gotten many right, either.
- [Lynn] Okay.
United Brethren Church.
- Yes.
D. - Okay.
Bernie?
- I think I'll say C because Evangelical somehow sounds southern.
- Okay.
There's a Southern part to Pennsylvania, you know?
Ann?
It's called southern Pennsylvania.
What do you say, Ann?
- I'm not liking these questions.
- [Lynn] Aren't you?
- No.
- [Lynn] Actually, it's the answers.
(laughing) - Yes, you're right.
- [Lynn] Which one?
- I think I'm going to go with C. - You're gonna go with the Evangelical Church, also.
Well, somebody doesn't have to be right because there are two other choices that you didn't pick, as I see.
Which one did you pick at home?
We'll see if you're right or wrong.
- [Announcer] The answer is A.
The Mennonite church began in Europe.
The Church of God was begun when the Reverend John Winebrenner of Harrisburg broke away from the German Reform Church.
The Evangelical Church, now part of the United Methodist Church, was started in New Berlin.
The United Brethren Church was started on a farm in Lancaster County when Mennonite Martin Boehm and reformed churchman William Otterbine met in 1767 to proclaim we are United.
(gentle music) - And it is pronounced New Berlin, I understand, not New Berlin.
People do that.
You didn't do so well on the religious question, so we have one about drinking and see how well you do on that.
(contestants laughing) - [Announcer] Pennsylvania's climate was once thought to be unsuitable for grape and wine production, but this has turned out to be untrue.
Pennsylvania has the fifth largest wine making industry in the country.
34 wineries produce over 300,000 gallons of wine per year.
Of the following, which is the leading grape growing area in the state?
A, Centre county.
B, Dauphin county.
C, Erie county or D, Lancaster county.
- Well, we'll see if you know more about religion or about wines.
Bernie Asbell?
- Well, I don't like to be logical about this and I know that here in Centre county, there's a lot of wine growing, but I'm gonna say Erie because it's near that New York state wine growing region.
Where is my C?
- [Lynn] Where is your C?
Okay.
- C, C. Here's C. - [Lynn] Ann Stetcher?
- There's a lot of drinking in this area and we do have some wineries, but I remember lots of summers when I was a kid going to Lake Erie and I've gotta go with C. - [Lynn] You're gonna C, also.
Eddie Edwards?
- Well, they've convinced me.
- Go for it.
- [Lynn] You're easy, Eddie.
- Some great answers.
I'm gonna go along with.
- [Lynn] You're easy.
- New York.
You're right.
I've heard so much about New York wine.
- [Lynn] Let's see.
What's the answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, Erie county.
(audience applauding) Erie county is the leading producer of grapes in Pennsylvania because of its close proximity to Lake Erie.
The large body of water holds the humidity in the air, which in turn holds the heat.
This heat protects against late and early frosts, thus giving Erie county a longer growing season.
The county has four wineries, the oldest and largest of which is the Penn Shore Vineyards.
During the harvest season, which is late September, early October, Penn Shore harvests 50 to 60 tons of grapes a day, from which they make 12 different types of wine.
The wine produced from Pennsylvania grapes is comparable to New York wines and in taste tests, has fared well against California wines.
(gentle music) - Well, they all got religion wrong and they all got wine right.
Let's see if we can redeem themselves by seeing where a famous Pennsylvania name came from.
- [Announcer] Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was named for the Delaware River, which in turn was named for something else.
But that's the question.
For what or whom was the Delaware River named?
A, the Delaware Indians.
B, Lord De La Warr, governor of Virginia.
C, the state of Delaware or D, Henry Hudson's ship, the Delaware.
(gentle music) - Those are dandy choices you got, Ann.
Which one do you like?
- I think I'll... (Ann blows raspberry) - [Lynn] Delaware.
Delaware county.
- I lived in the west quite a while and had a lot of, I like the Indians.
- [Lynn] Okay, so you're gonna say A.
- Absolutely no logic to that at all.
- [Lynn] Eddie Edwards?
- I gotta go with Indians.
They were there first.
- [Lynn] Bernie?
- I'm the president of Lord De La Warr's fan club and I think I will- (audience laughing) - You think it was the governor of Virginia?
- [Bernie] Yes, well.
He probably never existed.
- Let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is B, Lord De La Warr, governor of Virginia.
(audience applauding) In 1610, an Englishman named Samuel Argo, en route to Virginia, sailed into the bay and named it in honor of Virginia's governor, Sir Thomas West, Lord De La Warr.
Henry Hudson visited the bay in 1609 with a ship named Hopewell and the Indians call themselves the Leni Lenape.
Settlers later called them the Delawares.
(gentle music) - So you're right.
It was Lord De La Warr, the governor of Virginia.
- [Bernie] And people wonder if we are fed the answers.
Boy, was that a blind stab.
- Was it really?
(audience laughing) - They're not fed the answers.
You'd be doing better.
Well, you got five right, Bernie.
You're in the lead.
Let's hear it for Bernie Asbell, but they're all doing well.
(audience applauding) Okay.
Here's your final clue.
We'll see how well you do on the mystery Pennsylvanian.
When the DAR refused to let her sing at Constitution Hall, she gave a concert on Easter Sunday, 1939, at the Lincoln Memorial.
And I can see some lights beginning to dawn.
When the DAR refused to let her sing a Constitution Hall, she gave a concert on Easter Sunday, 1939, at the Lincoln Memorial.
Bernie, you're scribbling.
Let's see your answer first.
What'd you put?
You put Marian Anderson on the second clue and the third clue- - [Ann] I was gonna go with Eartha Kitt.
- [Lynn] Eartha Kitt.
Eddie?
- [Eddie] That's what I had written.
- Eartha Kitt.
Two Eartha Kitts and one Marian Anderson.
Okay.
What'd you vote for at home?
Did you come up with who is our mystery Pennsylvanian?
Here's the answer.
(audience applauding) (piano playing) ♪ He's got the whole world in his hands ♪ ♪ He got the big, round word in his hands ♪ ♪ He got the wide word in his hands ♪ ♪ He got the whole word in his hands ♪ ♪ He's got the wind and the rain ♪ - [Announcer] Marian Anderson's first performances were as a child at Philadelphia's Union Baptist Church.
Her rich contralto voice won her international fame.
Marian Anderson sang for presidents and potentates, for the peoples of most of the nations of the world, and she won the lavish praise of the world's greatest musicians.
She was the first black person to sing with a Metropolitan Opera.
She was a delegate to the United Nations.
Her courage in combating discrimination is told in her autobiography, "My Lord, What a Morning".
Marian Anderson, a native Pennsylvanian.
- Voice that comes along once in a hundred years.
We're a little late.
We'll see you next time.
Thanks for joining us and we'll all gather again to play The Pennsylvania Game.
Panel, you did well.
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(upbeat music) (bell dinging) And by the Pennsylvania Dairy promotion program, promoting the taste of an ice cold glass of milk.
Milk doesn't just taste great.
It's one of the all time great tastes.
♪ When it's time to make your mind up ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (audience applauding) (upbeat music)
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