- Pennsylvania was deeply involved in America's struggle for independence.

We gave our nation the Liberty Bell, the symbol of liberty known to all the world.

If you look closely, you'll see a misspelled word on the Liberty Bell.

Do you know which word?

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Here's the host of the Pennsylvania game, Lynn Hinds.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you very much, thank you, Wendy Williams, another addition to the Pennsylvania game.

We have some questions here I think that we might give you a problem or two and we hope you enjoy playing along with our studio audience and our panel and our panelists consist of a man who is a speech therapist, who's making a hobby out of his retirement years doing radio and television, he's Asa Berlin.

She's a woman who spent several years doing public television, both in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but her favorite year was the one she spent in Greece, Kathleen Pavelko.

And the television news reporter from Harrisburg Station, WITF TV, let's welcome Nell McCormack.

Now actually, Betty Mesner of Harrisburg was visiting Philadelphia and saw the Liberty Bell in its pavilion and saw a word misspelled, wanna know if we knew which word?

Since 1976, the Liberty Bell has stood in a glass and steel pavilion next to Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

If you search diligently, you can find a word on the bell that is misspelled.

Is the word A, America, B Independence, C Pennsylvania, or D, liberty.

Those are pretty basic words, Asa Berlin and Betty Pearson Mesner of Harrisburg says one of those is not spelled right.

She wants to know if anybody else has noticed that.

We checked, she's right.

Which word is it?

- Now the way you've got them up there, are those spelled correctly?

- [Lynn] We'll show you the incorrect spelling in the answer.

- Well, since this was entered by a lady and perhaps she's an independent woman, let's assume it's B, independence.

- Independence, I've spelled that word several ways myself.

Kathleen Pavelko, which word do you reckon is misspelled on the Liberty Bell?

- Well, I do take pride in my abilities as a copy editor, but I have never noticed this on my trips to Philadelphia, but I think I'm going to go with C, because that would be the worst of all.

- Yeah okay, Pennsylvania you say, Nell.

- I was going to say Pennsylvania, but for the sake of argument, I'll say America.

After all, ABC spells it A-M-E-R-I-K-A so we'll see what happens.

- Nobody thinks that liberty is.

How many ways could you spell liberty?

Mark Twain said, there's more than one way to spell a word.

Let's see which words misspelled.

The answer is C, Pennsylvania.

The inscription on the bell reads proclaimed liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

By order of the assembly of the province of Pennsylvania for the State House in Philadelphia, Pass and Stow 1753.

- Of course, the Liberty Bell was ordered to be the state bell for Pennsylvania and isn't it a little ironical that the one word they misspell was the name of the state, spelled it with only one N. Did you know that?

- No, I never heard that.

- I didn't either and I thought that can't be right when Betty Mesner, but she's right, it's misspelled.

Well, we've got to go back a ways to the beginning of this century or the end of the last century, when they were having a depression.

In the depression of 1894, Jacob Coxey, a native of Seals Grove in Snyder County, led an army of unemployed to Washington DC.

Coxey wanted the government to A, hire workers to build public roads, B give a bonus to veterans, C establish a soil bank, or D begin a social security system.

Well, I'll give you a hint.

They didn't do what he wanted done, but he went, Mr. Coxey went with leading this group of...

In fact, I grew up hearing it.

How many of you in the audience grew up hearing the Coxey's army or this rag tag, this Coxey's army.

Went from Aslan, Ohio, but he's actually a native of Seal Grove and he wanted the government to do one of those to improve or get us out of the depression.

The question is 1894, Kathleen, which won?

- Well, partly on the basis of it being called an army, and partly on the basis of thinking that civil war veterans, by the time that time period was rolling around, were in need of a bonus, I think I'm gonna go with B.

- [Lynn] That's good logic, Nell?

- It's great logic, it makes sense and plus you said it's something that hasn't happened.

Give a bonus veterans or established-- - [Lynn] Well, I say it didn't happen then at the time.

- Oh, it didn't happen at the time.

- [Lynn] He was a little ahead of his time as a matter of fact.

- Well give a bonus to veterans.

That sounds good.

- [Lynn] I'd love to give a bonus to veterans, Asa.

- Well, I think everything that Kathleen said was cogent, but since she won the first pass, I think I'll just go along with her this time.

- You think since she got the first one right, she's right on this one too.

I hate it when you're all right, but when you're all wrong, I love it.

Let's see which one this is.

- The answer is A, hire workers to build public roads.

The plan, much like FDR's plan in the depression of the 1930s was rejected and Coxey's army was arrested for trespassing on the White House lawn.

Yeah, he said, why don't we hire people to improve public roads, to get us out of the depression?

And they said, don't be ridiculous, that's a terrible idea.

And of course, FDR came along with a new deal a few years later, and that's what exactly what they did.

Jacob Coxey believed we should get back on the cash system of government.

In fact, he named his only son, are you ready for this, Legal Tender Coxey.

That's exactly right.

Asa, you're still doing your radio show, I presume.

- Still doing music, classical music and in fact, I have a second one, the brother or sister station of WPSX, WPSU.

- You do a lot of history too, and tell people about the times and the composers and so forth and I always appreciate that.

- Well it's kind of fun for me too.

I enjoy looking these up.

- When you grow up on country and rock and roll, it's nice to know a little bit about classical music.

Kathleen Pavelko, I said, has had put in years with Pennsylvania and West Virginia Public Television, but it was the year in Greece.

You spent a whole year over there in the shadow of the Parthenon, didn't you?

- Oh, actually, we had two years in the shadow of the Parthenon.

Yes, we were very fortunate.

- [Lynn] And you did some TV over there too.

- I did indeed for West German Television, but that program was seen in the United States on public television here.

- European Journal.

- [Kathleen] European Journal, it's called.

- I've seen it and it was just a nice show and congratulations to you.

Now McCormack, nice to have you back with us again and again, you're from Philadelphia, but you're working in Harrisburg, for our WPSX sister station.

Actually, there are seven public stations in Pennsylvania.

QED in Pittsburgh, WHYY, WITF in Harrisburg, WVIA in Scranton, and in Erie, it's WQLN.

And here in State College, it's WPSX.

So a sister station, we're sure delighted to have you here again.

- Well thank you for having me.

- Let's see, where are we going next?

Oh, we're gonna send you way up to the northwestern part of the state, Nell, for our next question up to Kain in McCain County.

See what you know about that.

This is Kane in McCain County.

Like several Pennsylvania communities, Kane is associated with a special day.

What is Kane's special day?

A goose day, B rain day, C groundhogs day, or D sneeze day.

Nell, we're starting with you and I'm gonna give you a little hint on this.

All four of those are celebrated in one town or another in Pennsylvania.

None of those are phony or terribly silly ideas, they're all celebrated.

Which one does Kane celebrate, however?

- Well I was hoping Kandy would be one of the answers and this is a family program, so I don't think I'll pick A. I guess I'll say...

Boy, this is a quick audience.

- I think they kill a goose and eat it is what they do on goose day, wherever that is.

- Anyway, I will say it's B, rain day.

- Rain day, Asa Berlin, do they do a rain dance in Kane?

- Well, we did have some Indians up in Northwest Pennsylvania so that's very possible, but I'm going to try to go to the most unlikely one at all.

I don't know how much pollen they have up there, but let's try sneezing.

- Sneeze day in Kane he says.

Well there Kathleen, you got those two choices and two other ones.

- Well, I know it can't be groundhogs day because I think that's Punxsutawney and goose day I think is sort of Mifflin County and that's not Kane so I think I too must go with sneeze.

- We have two people with their hankies out, hoping that the answer is D. What do they celebrate up in Kane, which one of these?

The answer is D, sneeze day.

Kane has been a crusader against ragweed, the villain of hayfever suffers.

Pulling up the noxious plant was a community project for years.

Kane's young people competed for prizes for most ragweed pulled.

Every year, truckloads of ragweed were weighed in and August 15th, sneeze day was sneeze free.

Kane's naturally low pollen count is helped by surrounding forests where ragweed plants do not grow and also by early frosts.

So if you are like me, begin to sneeze about the middle of August, Kane is a great place to spend a little vacation while hayfever season's rolling around.

Kathleen has taken the lead with two.

Let's hear it for Kathleen Pavelko.

I must warn you, however, if you get too many rights, you risk never being invited back to our panel.

We have a mystery Pennsylvanian for you.

There'll be three clues all together.

Clue one is coming right now in panel.

Just jot down, if you know in line one, his boyhood dream was to become a famous Pirate, but he became a famous Cardinal instead.

That's the first clue.

His boyhood dream was to become a famous Pirate, but he became a famous cardinal instead.

Two other clues will be coming and it shall be more apparent as they say if you don't know already.

While you guys are thinking, let's get into our next question and this is about somebody I believe she was born in Lancaster.

Peggy Shippen was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia's first mayor, but she's better known for the man she married in 1779 when she was 18.

Did Peggy Shippen marry A James Madison, B Anthony Wayne, C John Eaton, or D Benedict Arnold.

Now, those are all realistic possibilities because the wives of all of those were noted for one reason or another as I believe.

Asa Berlin, it's your turn to start.

Who did Peggy Shipman of Lancaster marry when she was just 18?

Which one of those four?

- Well, I don't know what drove Anthony Wayne mad.

- [Lynn] I love it.

Could have been, could have been.

- But I've gotta take D again and try for Benedict Arnold.

- You're gonna stick with D till that happens to be right for one of them.

Kathleen, what do you say?

- I really hate to cast dispersions on poor Mrs. Wayne, but I do think that it's Peggy Shippen married Anthony Wayne.

- Mad Anthony Wayne and irate Peggy Shipman, yes Nell.

- It wasn't James cause I think his wife was Dolly, so John Eaton, well John, well, what the heck, John Eaton, whoever you are.

- I will tell you this, John Eaton was a member of the Andrew Jackson administration and his wife caused a real scandal cause the other cabinet wives would have nothing to do with her, but the question is, was that Peggy Shipman or not?

Well, because of her reputation now, that's all I care to say.

The answer is D, Benedict Arnold.

How much did Peggy know about the plot to give West Point to the British?

Major John Andre, the man who arranged the plot, was introduced to Benedict Arnold by his ex-girlfriend, Peggy.

The picture of Peggy that her husband carried had been drawn by John Andre.

There was a lot of intrigue and George Washington always contended that Peggy Shippen, who was really very pretty and quite young of course, knew nothing about all of this, but we since know that she was pretty much in the middle of it.

John Andre, the guy that got hanged in the Benedict Arnold plot, had been her boyfriend and had drawn a picture and she took the picture.

He drew and gave it to Benedict Arnold to put it in his wallet for heaven's sakes, and introduced the two of them.

So Peggy went to Britain, of course, with Benedict.

Benedict Arnold died in London in 1804, and Peggy only lived three more years.

She died in London in 1801 and she died in 1804.

Was quite a story and quite a gal, Peggy Shippen.

Well, let's go to the Civil War since you didn't do real great about the Revolutionary War.

You did all right, you did all right.

Let's go up to a few years here.

Galusha Pennypacker was born in Chester City, Pennsylvania in 1844.

He had a distinguished career with the 97th Pennsylvania during the Civil War.

Which of these is not true of Galusha Pennypacker.

A, he was Pennsylvania's first post-Civil War governor, B he grew up in Washington's Valley Forge headquarters, C He was the war's youngest general, or D he died a bachelor in 1916.

That's what we call a hodgepodge or an oleo of facts, but three of those are true about Galusha Pennypacker.

I love that first name too Asa, Galusha Pennypacker.

Which one is not true of Galusha?

Kathleen, I believe we're starting with you this time.

- Pennypacker has a formidable name in Pennsylvania history, but I don't think he grew up in Washington's Valley Forge headquarters so I'm gonna go with B.

- That's one of the more bizarre of the four.

Nell, what do you think was not true?

- Is not true?

Well I think that one's not true as well cause if you've ever been to Valley Forge headquarters, you know that I don't think he grew up there.

- Asa, have they persuaded you?

- Yes and I hate to go with the crowd.

There was an awfully funny play about Mr. Pennypacker who had two wives and about 18 children.

So let me take D again and-- - [Lynn] You're gonna stick with D. You could hit the state lottery with that philosophy if you're... Well, what is not true of Galusha Pennypacker?

The answer is A. Galusha Pennypacker grew up in the house that George Washington had used as headquarters in Valley Forge.

At age 20, he became the war's youngest general.

He died in Philadelphia in 1916 still a bachelor.

Was the war's youngest, the Civil War's Youngest general and he did indeed grow up in the house.

I don't think that was the picture of the house that was the headquarter, but at least it was the house in Valley Forge that we visit cause nobody realized this was supposed to be a national monument, you see, until pretty modern history.

And so people lived in a thing and he did die a bachelor.

Confirmed that he said he'd seen enough war, enough battle in the Civil War that he didn't need to try to marry.

Clue number two.

Oh, before we do that, let's say that there is a tie in the score.

Asa Berlin and Kathleen Pavelko each have two correct.

Let's hear it for the duo over there, close contest.

And it's still anybody's ball game.

Clue number two, this man set or tied 17 Major League baseball records, 30 National League records, and nine All-Star game records.

So he's a famous baseball player, you know that.

This man set or tied 17 major baseball league records, 30 National League records, nine All-Star league records.

Clue number one was his dream was to become a famous Pirate, but he became a famous Cardinal instead.

Panel, just write that on line number two.

If you figured out who it is, and while they're thinking, let me remind you that if you want to write to us, suggest a question from your hometown, something you'd like to see used on the Pennsylvania Game, we'd be glad to hear from you.

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That is our address.

I see a little bit of scribbling going on, a little bit of thinking going on, and maybe we gotta take a little break and go out for something to eat or drink and the panel can relax.

That's what our next question's about.

Pennsylvanians like the rest of Americans enjoy eating out.

The question is, which Pennsylvania County has the largest percentage of its workforce employed serving food and drink?

Is that county A Allegheny, B Philadelphia, C Dauphin, or D Centre?

Now Nell, there are your choices again.

Allegheny, which is you pointed out, is in where Pittsburgh is.

Philadelphia County of course is Philadelphia and Dauphin County, Nell, is where Harrisburg is, and Centre County is where you're here to tape the show.

So you've had some familiarity with all those.

- I've eaten in all four counties.

- Where were you best served?

- Well, Philadelphia is the home of the cheesesteak and the soft pretzel.

It's gotta be Philadelphia.

- Gotta be Philly she says.

Asa, she gotta be right?

- What's the question?

- The question is which county has the largest percentage of its workforce employed serving food and drink?

- In other words, it's the question of percentage here.

Well, let me be very loyal and-- - D again, Centre County.

Alrighty Kathleen, I'm confused, Kathleen.

- I'm gonna go with D but not because I have such a fondness for D, but because of all those college students in Centre County and all of them earning extra money waiting tables.

- All of the meeting and drinking too for that matter, making it necessary to have people out there serving food and drink.

Well, what did you pick?

Allegheny, Centre, Dauphin, Philadelphia, what's right?

The answer is D, Centre County.

As of the 1982 data, Centre County employed 10% of its workforce to dispense food and drink.

Perhaps one reason for that is the thousands of students who attend Penn State.

Could be, and that just means that both of you got one right so you're still tied.

Let's see if we can untie it on this next one.

We go to Philadelphia for this one, and we go to sociology and we go to the academics for a famous term.

Dr. E Digby Baltzell who retired in 1986 after 39 years on the University of Pennsylvania faculty coined a famous term that is now in most dictionaries.

Was the term Professor Baltzell invented A wasp, B the lonely American, C man in the gray flannel suit or D suburbia.

- Well Asa, which one did he invent?

That's a pretty well-known term today and all four of those are of course, well-known sociological concepts.

- Well, let's see.

I don't wanna get stung so.

- [Lynn] And you don't wanna be all alone, and you're sure not wearing a gray flannel suit.

- I was going to say that was last thing so why not D, suburbia.

- Why not D. Very handsome hunting jacket that you have on.

Kathleen, what one did Dr. Baltzell invent?

- I think Asa and I are going to have part company along about now.

I don't think it's the man in the gray flannel suit, because I think a novelist coined that one, but I think I'm gonna go with A, wasp.

- Wasp, okay, Nell.

- The lonely American.

- Lonely American, are you feeling lonely, Nell?

Is that right you picked that.

Lee was Sloan Wilson who wrote to the Man in the gray flannel suit, but he could have borrowed the term, let's see which one of these is the right answer.

The answer is A wasp.

A native Philadelphian, Dr. Baltzell wrote several studies of class structures in America.

It was he who coined the term wasp, short for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Of course, just a well-known term today, everybody uses that a lot.

Let's go to the next question right away, because this question I think is one that you'll have to think a little bit about.

It's about a magazine started in Pittsburgh.

When an economic depression hit in 1921, the Westinghouse Electric Company in East Pittsburgh was forced to lay off some employees.

When 33 year old Dewitt Wallace got a pink slip, he started a magazine in Pittsburgh.

Did he start A Etude, B Popular Science, C Reader's Digest, or D Woman's Home Companion?

Kathleen Pavelka, which one did he start, 1921.

- 1921.

- [Lynn] Yeah, started a magazine in Pittsburgh.

Which one of those?

- The only one I can really eliminate is Woman's Home Companion, which I know is a 19th century publication.

I think I'm gonna go with Reader's Digest.

- Reader's Digest, you think it started in Pittsburgh, Nell.

Etude of course is the famous music magazine.

- Right, Popular Science I know science is very popular in Western Pennsylvania is particularly in Pittsburgh so audience, come on, gimme a break.

I'm the underdog here, I have zero.

B, Popular Science.

- Nell says Popular Science, Kathleen says Reader's Digest, 1921, Magazine started in Pittsburgh Asa.

- Well, with the exception of D, I can remember all the first three in my home when I was a kid and out of loyalty to my music show, let's try Etude.

- I love it when you all separate.

That means one of you could be right or all three of you could be wrong, but not all of you are right.

- The answer is C, Reader's Digest.

The first issue in February 1922 printed in Pittsburgh at 62 pages with 5,000 copies.

Dewitt Wallace and his partner wife, Wila Atchison Wallace, moved their headquarters to New York and saw the Reader's Digest reach a world audience.

- You think of a Reader's Digest as being in Pleasantville, New York, but it actually started because Dewitt Wallace got laid off in East Pittsburgh, and that's where the first edition of the Reader's Digest was actually published was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Well, Kathleen Pavelko just stepped ahead with that one.

She has five right and that's a real nice score, Kathleen, let's hear it for Kathleen Pavelko.

Let's see if we can get the mystery Pennsylvanian.

He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame the first year eligible.

Only Ted Williams, Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson had done that before him so he was a pretty great player.

Clue one, his dream was to become a Pirate.

He became a Cardinal instead.

He set or tied 17 major league records, 30 National League records and nine All-Star records.

Nell, do you have any idea who our mystery Pennsylvanian is?

- Well, it's sticking in my mind that there was a Cardinal who was really good at base running, he used to steal bases, but I don't remember his name, but I think it might have been somebody named Lou Brock.

- [Lynn] Lou Brock, that's a good guess.

He was a Cardinal, Kathleen.

- I'm going have a perfect score and that is, I have no idea.

- I'm gonna say I'm gonna destroy all of these sexual stereotypes about the man having the answers in sports.

I'm not even going to submit a name.

Lou Brock is a very real possibility.

- This man was called The Man from Pennsylvania.

Denora Pennsylvania is proud of Stan Musial, one of baseball's all time greats.

Stan Musial grew up with a dream, to pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

When they turned him down, he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals.

An injury to his shoulder turned him into an outfielder.

In his 22 years with the Cards, his lifetime batting average was a phenomenal .331 with 3,630 lifetime hits.

He won seven batting titles, batting over 300 for 16 consecutive seasons with a high of .376 in 1948.

The sporty news voted him Player of the Decade in 1956, and he was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1969.

Stan the Man Musial, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Probably one of the top 10 baseball players of all time.

When he tried out with the Pirates, they said the kid throws well, but he's too fragile.

He'll never make it in the major leagues and with a record like that, he proved them wrong, Stan the Man Musial, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Panel, congratulations and thank you for playing.

Had a lot of fun, hope you did too.

See you next time when we all gather to play the Pennsylvania game, bye.

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