(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Among many firsts in the nation, Pennsylvania has the tallest chimney in the United States.

It's part of the Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County.

Do you know what famous American landmark is the same height as our chimney?

You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game".

Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places and products.

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Serving you with courtesy and convenience every day of the year.

(text dinging) (bright music) (upbeat music) Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.

(audience clapping) - Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hi there, hi there.

We had a little trouble last time we played the game, the panel got too many right, so we got some hard questions this time that will stump you at home and you in our studio, and I hope, stump our panelists.

He's a regular game player, writer, teacher, Bernie Asbell.

(audience cheering and clapping) She is a television journalist from Channel 10 Altoona, Barbara Petito.

(audience cheering and clapping) And a television journalist from Pittsburgh, Channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Lynn Cullen.

(audience cheering and clapping) I gotta say right off the bat before I forget it, that Naomi Fry of Homer City and Dom Metz of Williamsburg will both get, thanks to "Pennsylvania Magazine" and WPSX, a year's subscription to "Pennsylvania Magazine".

They both sent in this question, and I got it on the same day, so we're gonna send each of you a subscription.

About a chimney, yeah.

- [Narrator] The Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County, boasts the tallest chimney in the United States.

The chimney is closest in height to which of these famous landmarks, A, Niagara Falls, B, the Washington Monument, C, Sears Tower, Chicago, or D, Mount Rushmore Monument, South Dakota?

- Okay, we have the tallest smokestack or chimney in, you've seen it if you drive Route 22, it's really beautiful.

But which one of those is it closest in height to, huh?

- Well, the last time I measured them.

(Barbara and Lynn C laughing) It was exactly the same height as the Washington Monument.

- I see.

- Although one may have shrunk.

- (laughing) Okay, Barb Petito, he's going with the Washington Monument, what are you?

- The last time you measured them.

- Yeah, oh yes, I do that regularly.

- Bernie sometimes.

- That's tough to compete with.

- [Bernie] I do research for this program, so.

(Lynn H laughing) - That's tough to compete with.

(Bernie laughing) I'm gonna follow Bernie's lead.

Well, maybe, no, maybe Sears Tower, Windy City.

- Oh, maybe.

- No, I'm gonna go with B, I'm gonna do B.

- [Lynn H] Okay, they're both doing B.

- We're doing B.

- Ms. Cullen, what are you doing?

- Well, that puts me in an unfortunate position since I was going to go with B too, and now I just look like a copycat again.

(Barbara laughing) Which is what always happens to me when you stick me in this seat.

- [Lynn H] You get to start on the third question.

- Well, of the four, I think that is the least tall, and I think a smokestack, or whatever we're talking about, as high as Niagara Falls, or Sears Tower, or Mount Rushmore, would be absurd, so I'm going with B.

(Barbara laughing) - I think you're all wrong, I really do, but I'm not sure I remember which it is, but let's see, are they right or wrong?

- [Narrator] The answer is C, Sears Tower in Chicago.

(audience clapping) If you've driven along Route 22 in Indiana County, you've seen the Homer City station in the distance.

Its three cooling towers make it look like a nuclear plant, but it's not.

The three generating units burn more than four million tons of Pennsylvania coal each year, providing electricity for our state and for New York.

The stack on unit number three has a base diameter of 93 feet and is 32 feet across the top.

Its 1,216 feet height makes it the tallest chimney in the country.

- It's about twice as tall as the Washington Monument as a matter of fact.

- It is, yes.

- And I forgot to measure it from the nose down on Lincoln in Mount Rushmore, but it's not very high at all, you can.

- This one goes down among the more surprising answers since we've started the game.

- And everybody thinks that's an atomic power plant.

It's not, it's a coal-burning plant, okay?

This one's about a great detective from literature, and we'll let Bernie go last since he's a literary type.

(Lynn C and Barbara laughing) Let's watch.

- [Narrator] The first detective of modern fiction was created by a writer in Philadelphia in 1840.

Was that writer, A, Robert Louis Stevenson, B, Edgar Allan Po, C, John Dixon Carr, or D, Charles Brockden Brown?

- Those are nice names all, and if you're gonna be a famous writer, you have to have a middle name.

You don't have a middle name, Bernie, you've gotta go with Bernie?

- I do, I just deny it.

(Barbara laughing) - Barbara Petito, if you wanna be a great writer, you need a middle name.

- Yeah, you do.

Mine is Anne and.

- Barbara Anne Petito.

- Yeah, that's a little obvious though.

Oh, I think I'm gonna go with C. - [Lynn H] C, John Dixon Carr.

- John Dixon Carr, I like that name.

- Okay, that would make a good name.

- I think it's good.

- Lynn Cullen, created the first detective of modern fiction, 1840.

- I am sick of being put in the position of being stupid on this program.

(Bernie laughing) (Barbara laughing) - It's the whole purpose of the show is to make you look stupid, (laughing) you know that.

(Barbara laughing) - I don't even recognize two of those names.

I never heard of these people, they could pump gas around the corner for all I know.

- [Barbara] C does.

- C does?

(laughing) (audience laughing) - C does.

- I don't think it was Po because I think he was later.

Robert Louis Stevenson, I don't think so.

So it's C or D as far as I'm concerned, and I don't know who either of them are, so it's either is, either or, either nor.

- Okay, she says D, Bernie, what do you say?

(table banging) - I never heard of Robert Louis Stevenson.

(Lynn C and audience laughing) Edgar Allan Po lived in the Bronx, I believe.

(Lynn C sighing) John Dixon Carr, if he's not alive today, lived very, very recently.

Everybody knows it was Charles Brockden Brown.

Do I have D?

Yes, I do.

- Okay, uh-huh.

We have two Ds and a C?

I told you this was gonna be a tough show.

What is the answer?

- Oh no.

- [Narrator] The answer is B, Edgar Allen Po.

(audience clapping) Po lived in Philadelphia from 1838 until 1844, while he wrote "The Raven", "The Gold Bug", and the novel that introduced the first detective of modern fiction, "Murders in the Rue Morgue".

- And who was the first detective that he created?

Does anybody remember that?

- They were misdelivering his mail.

He lived in New York.

- Well, he lived in Philadelphia for three years.

(Bernie laughing) And while he lived in Philadelphia, he actually wrote those books.

- Did he really?

- And "Murder in the Rue Morgue", created Monsieur Dupin, who was the first, I may be saying that wrong, my French is terrible, but Monsieur Dupin, who was the first detective of modern fiction.

John Dixon Carr was a very famous crime writer from Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

And Charles Brockden Brown was a very famous writer from Philadelphia also.

Robert Louis Stevenson I also never heard of, Bernie.

(Bernie laughing) - But Po must've had a PO Box in Brooklyn.

- Yeah, Po had a PO box.

- That's what it was that had you confused.

- Oh, he did live in Brooklyn for a long time, up near the Bronx, but he lived in Philadelphia for about three years.

Barbara, you are the, now, let me get this right, you are the bureau chief for WTAJ Channel 10 Altoona Centre County Bureau.

- Correct, correct.

- What's all that mean?

- Well, it's a big title, Lynn, and I take it seriously.

(Lynn C laughing) And I'm just in charge of the Centre region and some of the outlining counties as well.

We have an office here in State College, which we just opened last October, and we're excited about that.

We're able to go live right out of the Centre region, which helps us in our coverage area, so it's.

- So when there's a fire, you're the one that chases it.

- There you go.

- And then tries to get the pictures of it and all that stuff, uh-huh.

- There you go, yeah, so it's exciting.

- You guys met each other, strangely enough.

- Well, I was gonna say, Barbara's territory goes far afield of State College.

We met in Phoenix, Arizona, both covering the Fiesta Bowl.

And I never saw anybody work as hard as this woman.

- [Barbara] God bless you.

- Well, you did, I'm serious.

- She is terrific.

We had a lot of fun.

- I thought I was working hard 'til I saw her.

- We did, we had a lot of fun.

- We'll call the boss to be sure and watch this program.

(Lynn C laughing) - Okay, okay.

- So you get credit for it.

Well, let's go to an easier question now.

- Good.

- This is a really easy one right here.

- [Narrator] Governor George Wolf from Easton, Northampton County, signed a bill into law in 1834 that was attacked as a device of the devil.

Did Governor Wolf sign a law mandating, A, free public schools, B, a state lottery, C, the National Guard, or D, state liquor stores?

- [Lynn H] This was the year 1834.

- 1884.

- When Governor George Wolf, from Easton in Northampton County, signed a bill into law, and it was actually attacked as a device of the devil.

And I wanna know what law did he sign, free public schools, state lottery, National Guard, or state liquor stores?

And Ms. Cullen, you're always complaining you never get to start, so here you go.

- Well, I'll tell ya, this is easy.

- Yeah.

- I think it is too.

- Because I agree, it is a device of the devil.

(Barbara laughing) - All right, and it is.

- State liquor stores.

- State liquor stores.

(audience laughing) And is that because liquor would be cheaper if you could buy it elsewhere?

Or no, nevermind.

- You betcha.

(audience laughing) - Bernie, go ahead.

- Well, there's no more devilish device than taking kids off the street.

(Barbara and Lynn H laughing) And teaching 'em how to read and write, and thereby create all sorts of mischief.

- We have liquor stores and public schools, Barbara, you see how the answers range (laughing) on this one?

- I'm gonna, I think, go with Lynn on this one, I'm gonna go with state liquor stores.

- Uh-huh, you're going to the liquor store.

- Maybe the lottery, but I don't know, I think.

- And Bernie is going to school.

What was criticized as a device of the devil?

- [Narrator] The answer is A, free public schools.

(audience clapping) One-room schools, such as this one at Meadowcroft Village in Avella, soon we're educating boys and girls all across the state.

Pennsylvania's plain sects had feared the loss of their language and culture with tax-supported education.

And in a real sense, these schoolhouses did help produce the American character.

- Yeah, yeah, they said, lots of religious groups said, "If we have to send our kids to public school, it'll do away with our culture and our character," and so they called 'em devices of the devil.

The one-room schoolhouse you saw, thanks to Meadowcroft Village near Avella, and boy, is that what we're seeing, did you see the dunce cap in the corner?

That's neat.

- That's great.

- We're gonna get dunce caps for all of you.

(audience and panel laughing) So far, the score is, Bernie's ahead with one right.

(audience and panel laughing) Mild applause, very mild applause.

(audience clapping) Nice going, Bernie.

This native, here's mystery clue number one, we have three clues to a mystery Pennsylvanian.

Here's the first clue.

Panel, if you get it on the first clue, write it on line one.

Native Buckeye came to Pennsylvania to go to school, stayed for a long time.

He became a dentist, and then he moved to Eastern Pennsylvania to write about the West.

Native of Ohio, Native Buckeye, came to Pennsylvania to go to school, became a dentist, then moved to Eastern Pennsylvania to write about the West.

That's a kind of a heavy clue, but be patient, there shall be, will be other clues as we go along.

Oh, here's a neat name question.

- [Narrator] Robert Fulton had built a successful submarine before 1800, but the only submarine launched by the North during the Civil War was in Philadelphia in 1862.

Was this civil war submarine called, A, the Alligator, B, Nautilus, C, Pandora, or D, Shark?

- Now, you've heard before on this show that Robert Fulton really should have been credited as the inventor of the submarine more than the steamboat, because he really built one that worked.

And in fact, France turned it down because they thought it was too terrible a weapon to use.

But they did have, now, this was back before 1800, the only submarine they actually had and then tried in the Civil War was built in Philadelphia, 1862, and I wanna know, was that Civil War submarine called the Alligator, the Nautilus, the Pandora, or the Shark?

(Lynn C sighing) And Bernie, I want you to start, it's your turn.

(Lynn C sighing) - Yeah, no, when they retired it, that submarine, they made it into a sort of a fitness center.

- (laughing) Oh.

- I think it's called the Nautilus, yeah.

- The Nautilus, okay.

(audience laughing) Barbara Petito, that's.

- No, I don't think that's right, I think it's the high fin, it's the Shark.

- [Lynn H] The Shark, we have a Nautilus and a Shark.

Ms. Cullen, what'd they call that submarine?

- Well, of the four names, if someone was asking me, name, I would choose Nautilus too.

I think it sounds like the best name for a submarine.

- Uh-huh, okay, so when you put your letter B up there, that will be your vote for the Nautilus.

(Barbara laughing) And then I will tell you that they never got to use it 'cause it's sank while they were towing it out to test it.

(audience laughing) - Oh, it was heavy.

- What would you call it if you knew it was gonna sink, huh?

- [Narrator] The answer is A, the Alligator.

(audience clapping) The Alligator was 46 feet long, six feet high, and 4 1/2 feet wide.

Propelled by 16 oars, each oar was built like a duck's webbed foot, opening and closing like a book, and thus, it could be rowed underwater.

Never used in battle, the Alligator was lost at sea while being towed off Cape Hatteras.

- Isn't that amazing?

They rowed it underwater, and it had these duck feet and it would row like, and it would open up and you would paddle and it would close it back.

But how did they get the valves?

That must've been a real engineering accomplishment for 1862.

The Alligator.

Maybe it sank out of embarrassment (laughing) 'cause of its name.

(panel and audience laughing) Suppose.

Oh, the name Smith is one of those names that Pennsylvania is familiar with, but why in this case?

- [Narrator] In 1919, Robert Smith, working with one other person in Pottstown, started a business that is still going strong.

Does Robert Smith's business make, A, pies, B, cough drops, C, chewing tobacco, or D, guns?

- Robert Smith, 1919, working with one other person in Pottsville, or Pottstown, started a business, still going strong.

What does that business make, Barb Petito?

- Cough drops, cough drops.

Smith Pies, that was a woman.

Chewing tobacco, no.

I'm gonna get this one right, Lynn?

(Barbara laughing) - Yeah, yeah, yeah, what are you going with?

- This is cough drops.

- [Lynn H] Cough drops, Smith Brothers, but, okay, Lynn Cullen?

- Well, cough drops is Smith Brothers, right?

So you would've mentioned both brothers, I think.

Pies was Mrs. Smith.

Chewing tobacco, I don't know, but there is a gun called Smith & Wesson.

- Wesson.

- Wow.

- Yes, who also makes oil for cooking.

(Lynn C and audience laughing) Yes, Bernie?

Robert Smith, working with one other person.

- I was gonna say, "Smith and his partner Wesson," until you got so enthusiastic about it.

(Barbara laughing) - I'm enthusiastic about Barb's answer too.

- It was not cough drops, 'cause this Mr. Smith didn't wear a beard.

- Oh.

- So let's go.

- [Barbara] He could've grown that beard later.

(Barbara laughing) - He had an exercised jaw, and I think it was chewing tobacco.

- You guys got 'em all covered except pies.

- Except pies.

- Okay, who was the other person working with Robert Smith?

Let's see.

- [Narrator] The answer is A, pies.

(audience groaning and clapping) The one other person was his mother, Amanda Smith.

From his mother's kitchen, Robert Smith built a thriving business.

And today, you can still buy Mrs. Smith's delicious homemade pies.

- Mrs. Smith made some real nice pies, she said, "Bobby, why don't you take these, put these in the backseat of the car and drive 'em downtown, see if you can't sell 'em," and boom.

- That's neat.

- So the other person was indeed his mama.

Well, the score is still tight.

(Lynn C and Barbara laughing) I told you it was a hard show.

Let's hear it for Bernie Asbell, he has a whole one right.

(audience clapping) (Lynn C laughing) Put up an extra column for me on the scoreboard, okay?

(Barbara laughing) Mystery clue number two.

If you have it on this, write it on line two.

He published his first novel in 1904.

The name of his novel was a woman whose first name was Betty, her last name was the author's first name.

Remember, he came from Ohio, went to school in Pennsylvania, became a dentist, and stayed around and went to Eastern Pennsylvania to write about the West, and published his first novel in 1904.

Its title was a woman whose name was Betty, and her last name was the author's first name.

While they're cogitating on that, cerebrating even, let's give you our address in case you wanna write to us with a question or a comment.

Pennsylvania Game.

- I don't know if that's right.

- Wagner Annex, University Park, PA, 16802.

(Barbara laughing) He wrote about the West, that's kind of a heavy clue, don't you see, boys and girls?

Here is another one that goes back to the Revolutionary War, which I think is what they all studied for to get ready for today's program.

(Barbara laughing) Here's the question.

- [Narrator] Timothy Matlack was born in 1736, and lived to be over 90 years old.

He was awarded a silver urn for something he penned.

Was it A, letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, B, the American Crisis pamphlets, C, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, or D, the Declaration of Independence?

- Okay, and I wanna read this very carefully, and then I'm not gonna comment.

Timothy Matlack, born in 1796, lived to be over 90.

He was awarded a silver urn for something he penned.

Was it, one of those four choices, letters from an American farmer, the American Crisis pamphlets, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, or the Declaration of Independence?

Ms. Cullen, again, it is your privilege and pleasure to go first.

- You're so kind.

- Yeah, they do end up being tough questions when (laughing) it's your turn to go first, don't they?

- I'm about to make a total fool of myself.

Now, I know this guy didn't write the Declaration of Independence, but maybe he penned it, if you know what I mean.

Maybe he had real good penmanship, so they said, "Hey, Matlack, come on over here, this is gonna be an important document, you write it."

- Little Timmy in school had good, okay.

- D. - Bernie, are you convinced by that logic?

- What year did you say he was born?

- [Lynn H] He was born in 1736.

- Oh.

- And he lived to be over 90 years old.

He almost made it to 100.

- Yes, the declaration was very well penned and it was not in Thomas Jefferson's handwriting.

So there was 12 copies of it, you know?

- Is that right?

- There were 12 copies written.

- Is that right?

- And he probably wrote all 12.

There were no Xerox machines at the time.

- I heard there were a dozen copies.

(Barbara laughing) But you may be right.

(Lynn C and audience laughing) - 12 copies handwritten, 12.

- Barb, are you convinced by these two.

- Yeah, I feel the pressure here to go with D, I'm gonna say a Declaration of Independence too.

- You all think that Timothy Matlack penned the Declaration of Independence.

(Barbara laughing) And it was not in Tom Jefferson's handwriting.

Well, (laughing) let's see, what's the answer?

- [Narrator] The answer is D, the Declaration of Independence.

(audience clapping) Timothy Matlack engrossed the final handwritten copy.

So when you read the original Declaration of Independence, the words may be Thomas Jefferson's, but the handwriting is Tim Matlack's.

- [Bernie] Right, good old Tim.

- Tim wrote a real neat hand, he did.

Isn't that pretty?

- Except he didn't know an F from an S. (audience laughing) - Yes, and, "Perfuit," and things, yeah.

(panel laughing) That is a little bit of a, yeah, yeah.

- "The perfuit of happiness."

- "Happineff."

- You guys, I tell you what.

- "Happineff."

- You guys have done so well on this that I'm gonna award you a trip.

(Barbara laughing) And the only question is, how shall we travel on this trip?

- [Narrator] On May 9th, 1977, Karl Striedieck left Lock Haven, Clinton County, to set a world's record.

He traveled 1,016 miles in just 14 hours and three minutes.

How did he travel, A, riding a moped, B, driving a motorboat, C, soaring in a glider, or D, hitchhiking?

- Okay, Karl Striedieck, 1977, left Lock Haven, Clinton County, that's up north here, of course, traveled 1,016 miles, Bernie, in just 14 hours and three minutes, it was a world's record for that mode of travel.

How did he travel, moped, motorboat, glider or hitching?

- I have to be first?

- Well, you know.

- 'Cause they're all gonna follow me, you know?

- I'd kinda like it if you go first.

- No, no, no, I'm gonna get my card ready.

- They're all gonna follow me.

He hitch-huck.

- Hitch-huck?

- Yeah.

(laughing) - [Lynn H] He'd have to get rides like one after another, wouldn't he?

Barbara?

- Hitchhike for 14 hours to go 1,000 miles.

- 14 hours and three minutes, Barbara.

- Oh, excuse me, well, that makes all the difference then.

(Lynn H laughing) Gee, I don't know how fast, I wanna say glider, I don't know how fast a glider can go though, and then the wind and.

- [Lynn H] Probably depends on how fast the wind is blowing, I would suppose.

- It could be something goofy like hitchhiking, but boy, you'd have to be on with a.

- That's 70 miles an hour, he broke the law no matter what way he went.

(audience laughing) - Yeah, that's true, that's true.

Yeah, I'm gonna go with hitchhiking, only because I know it's glider.

(laughing) (audience laughing) - We got two, yeah, you sound like Bernie Asbell now, "I'm going with D 'cause I know it's C." (Bernie laughing) - I know it's C. - Lynn Cullen?

- Why do I think he went from east to west?

Do I know that?

- No, I don't think you know that.

- Oh.

- Oh.

- Well, if he went from east to west, he didn't get that far in a glider, because the winds go the other way.

I don't see what body of water he, "From Lock Haven."

- Motorboat.

- Motorboat.

Motorboat.

- We have two guys hitchhiking, one guy riding a motorboat.

(Barbara laughing) And let's see how Karl Striedieck himself traveled.

- It's a moped.

- What was that record?

- A moped, right.

- Moped.

- [Narrator] The answer is C, soaring in a glider.

(audience clapping) Karl Striedieck of Port Matilda set the world record for the longest trip ever in a motorless craft.

His trip spanned Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee, as he soared high above the Appalachian and Clinch Mountains.

He had to take a picture at the return point near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, before soaring back to Lock Haven.

The year before, Karl took the picture from the wrong side of the glider, so he had to wait until 1977 to achieve the world's soaring record.

- That's a long trip, I'll tell you.

And when you ride Allegheny Airlines and you come across that little ball ridge, and for a couple of minutes there, the plane, and that's those updrafts, all the way to Tennessee and back, isn't that marvelous?

The world's soaring record is held from right here in Pennsylvania.

Literature and Philadelphia.

We think that Bernie has an advantage, but maybe not.

(Bernie and Barbara laughing) 'Cause this was before your time.

Here's the question.

- [Narrator] Rebecca Gratz was born in Philadelphia in 1781, and died in 1869 at age 88.

The beautiful Rebecca was the inspiration for a character named Rebecca in what novel, A, Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", B, Walter Scott's, "Ivanhoe", C, Sinclair Lewis' "Elmer Gantry", or D, Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun also Rises"?

- This gives the show class, this is a literary question.

The beautiful Rebecca Gratz, born in Philly in 1781, died 1869, was indeed the model for one of these Rebeccas in a famous novel.

And the only thing you have to know is which one, Barbara Petito?

It's your turn to start.

- (laughing) Yeah, me.

Rebecca, gee.

(Bernie sighing) Sawyer, Mark Twain.

I'm gonna say Mark Twain.

Yeah, I'm gonna (laughing) guess.

- Mark Twain?

- I'm gonna say Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer".

- Becky Thatcher was the famous Rebecca.

Okay, Lynn Cullen, what do you say?

It's a reasonable guess.

- I don't think it's Sinclair Lewis, I don't think it's Ernest Hemingway, I don't think it's Walter Scott, that Rebecca was, and she was, Mark Twain.

She would've been pretty on in years if Mark Twain ever knew her.

But gosh, she was pretty, wasn't she?

I think he fell in love with this old, beautiful woman, and Becky's.

- He fell in love four or five times a day, I think.

(audience laughing) Bernie?

- Doesn't matter when she was, Becky Thatcher still plucks at my heartstrings.

- Yeah, she does, doesn't she?

- So it doesn't matter how old she was or anything like that.

- Who was the famous Rebecca who was modeled after the beautiful Rebecca Gratz?

- [Narrator] The answer is B, Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe".

(audience clapping) Writer Washington Irving was so smitten by the beautiful Rebecca Gratz that he told Scott about her.

Scott was writing "Ivanhoe" at the time.

Although the real-life Rebecca was in love, she would not marry outside her Jewish faith.

She never married, but raised her sister's nine children.

- And I'm not sure they have saints in the Jewish faith or not, but if you raise your sister's nine children and don't get married, you ought to be achieving sainthood, I think.

Well, everybody's got at least one right.

(Barbara laughing) But Bernie still has a slim lead with two right.

(Bernie laughing) Mr. Bernie Asbell, let's hear it.

(audience clapping) That means I got six right.

These are hard questions, they are, I admit it.

- Oh, boy.

- But they're fun, and they're all true.

- Really, Lynn?

- These have been verified.

- Aw.

- And actually, nevermind.

(Barbara and Lynn C laughing) Clue number three, he wrote 25 novels in just 20 years, but the purple prose of his 1912 novel set the style for the classic Western.

Mystery Pennsylvanian wrote 25 novels in 20 years, but the purple prose of his 1912 novel set the style for the classic Western.

Just write it down there on line three, folks.

He went to school here in Pennsylvania, became a dentist, went to Eastern Pennsylvania to write about the West.

First novel, 1904, the title was a woman named Betty, the last name of her was the author's first name, and he wrote these 25 novels.

And what have you got, Lynn Cullen, for our?

- I had Louis L'Amour for the first one, no.

- Louis L'Amour.

- But, third, I decided Zane Grey.

- [Lynn H] Zane Grey on the third, all right.

Barb Petito, you have a guess?

- Joe DiMaggio.

- Joe DiMaggio.

(audience and Lynn C laughing) - I don't know.

- Bernie has AB Guthrie.

- I decided.

- Which he pointed out, and he has Zane Grey.

- Grey for the third.

- What did Zane Grey write, his first novel?

- I don't know.

- All those novels that you mentioned.

- Purple prose indeed.

- [Lynn C] Betty what?

- [Narrator] Although he was born in Ohio, Zane Grey adopted Pennsylvania as his home.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's dental school in 1896 and went into practice.

But in 1904, Zane Grey was tired of dentistry, so he moved into his brother's cottage in Lackawaxen, Pike County, in order to write.

His first novel was called "Betty Zane".

Then in 1912, his "Riders of the Purple Sage" sold a million copies and established the Western novel.

By the time of his death in 1939, Zane Grey had written 54 novels.

- That's quite a, well, he did write the classic Western, of course, and did set the style for everybody, as Tom Mix, as we discovered, set the style for the movie cowboy.

Zane Grey, really, who was born in Ohio, but spent so many years writing Westerns in Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania, set the style for the classic Western.

Quite a writer, you ever read much of his stuff?

- I wish you hadn't asked.

- I see.

- Yeah, no, I haven't.

(Barbara laughing) - I did in preparation for this, "Riders of the Purple Sage", which was 1912, the big classic, takes place in Utah.

And I'm not sure that the Mormon church would like Zane Grey much, 'cause he really takes 'em on pretty heavy in that novel.

But they're fun to read, and it's the typical kind of cowboy that is the hero and rides out and rescues the fair maiden and all that.

Zane Grey who wrote many of his novels in Pennsylvania.

Panel, I've gotta say.

(Barbara laughing) That you did not really distinguish yourself a whole lot today.

This one was tough.

- I wonder if anybody here remembers that famous losing streak of the Baltimore Orioles.

(audience laughing) - We almost topped it.

- I think we almost topped it.

(laughing) That's right.

- Right, that's right.

- Bernie came out a little bit ahead, but, boy, everybody got one right.

But let's hear it for me.

(Barbara laughing) 'Cause these were my questions and I stumped 'em today.

(Bernie laughing) (audience clapping) See ya next time for "The Pennsylvania Game".

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