The Pennsylvania Game
Fishing, lightbulbs & Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Season 4 Episode 3 | 27m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
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Fishing, lightbulbs & Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Season 4 Episode 3 | 27m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Announcer] Some of the best game fishing in the 48 continental United States is found in the rivers and lakes of Pennsylvania.
The biggest game fish on record in our state weighed just over 50 pounds.
Do you know what kind of fish it was?
You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game."
Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places, and products.
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(bright music) Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - And I thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, thank you audience, and thanks to you at home for joining us for another edition of "The Pennsylvania Game."
Got some, I think, questions that will challenge a panel, and our panelists are, again, back in seat number one, Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauding) Let's make him feel welcome, he teaches high school in Uniontown, Laurel Highland Senior High, Paul Wallace.
(audience applauding) And one of my favorite people in the whole world, Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) Who is already protesting the fact that we have a gentleman who teaches Pennsylvania history sitting beside her on the the panel.
The answer to the first question is a big fish.
Great fishing in Pennsylvania, let's listen.
- [Announcer] Pennsylvania is known for its great fishing, thanks in part to the stocking by the State Fish Commission.
There are many kinds of fish in Pennsylvania, but the biggest fish on record in our state weighed 54 pounds, three ounces.
Was that fish, A, Northern Pike?
B, Striped Bass?
C, Chain Pickerel?
Or D, Muskellunge?
- The biggest game fish caught in Pennsylvania weighed 54 pounds, three ounces.
Which of those was it, Bernie?
I know you know how to tell a fish story.
Have you ever actually been fishing?
- You're about to hear one.
- Well, it wouldn't be a Southern Pike.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yeah, that's true.
- Well, I'm really an authority on fish, so this is unfair.
I never heard of, I mean, muskellunge are very big, it sounds like a big fish.
- [Lynn Hinds] You are a piscatorial expert, so to speak.
I see.
- That's what I am.
- [Lynn Hinds] Paul Wallace, what do you say?
- Well, striped, huh?
Striped, chain?
Not in chains.
When they're not chasing the whales up in there.
- [Lynn Hinds] No whales.
- I'll take the biggest one.
I think the biggest ones would have to be that Musky.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're going with Bernie, huh?
Miss Cullen, have you any courage of your own convictions?
- Certainly not.
- [Lynn Hinds] I wouldn't think so.
- Actually I want you to know that before these four possibilities came up, I said to myself it can only be a muskellunge.
They're ugly and they're big.
- They're ugly and they're big, therefore they are muskellunges.
Okay, what is the biggest game fish?
54 pounds.
- [Announcer] The answer is D, Muskellunge.
Muskies are strictly carnivorous.
They've been known to eat ducks and muskrats.
Young Muskies even eat each other when food is scarce.
- Biggest one, there was a big one found that was about six feet long, that they found recently down on the Monongahela River.
That was actually, it had a duck stuffed, it had caught a duck and it choked to death on a duck.
That's a pretty verifiable story.
They are big and they are mean.
What's the second biggest fish, would you guess, of those?
The Northern Pike, the Striped Bass, or the Chain Pickerel?
- A slightly smaller Muskellunge.
- [Lynn Cullen] The Pike.
- [Paul] Pike.
- The Striped Bass is actually bigger than the Pike in terms of the record caught in Pennsylvania.
The Pickerel is much, much smaller, of course.
Famous Pennsylvanian who wasn't a fish story.
This gentleman did an awful lot for our country.
And what do you know about Francis Hopkinson?
- [Announcer] Francis Hopkinson was a Pennsylvanian who lived from 1737 to 1791.
Which of these facts is most certainly not true of Francis Hopkinson?
That he was A, America's first native-born secular composer?
B, signed the Declaration of Independence?
C, designed our nation's flag?
Or D, wrote "Hail Columbia?"
- Now let me be very clear, panel, on this.
I don't want to mislead you.
Three of these statements are true about Francis Hopkinson.
Only one is not true.
And I want to know, Paul Wallace, you're first, which one is not true?
- Not true, Francis Hopkinson.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yeah.
Great man.
A lot of Pennsylvanians we don't know enough about and ought to know more about.
Three of those are true.
- Francis Hopkinson and I'll have to, that sounds like, I'm gonna go with C. - [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
You say that he did not design our nation's flag.
- [Announcer] The answer is.
- [Lynn Hinds] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We're not ready for the answer yet.
Huh?
Go ahead.
- Okay, C. I'll go with C. - [Lynn Hinds] You say he did not design our nation's flag.
That's false.
Okay, Lynn Cullen, what do you say is false?
- Well.
- [Lynn Hinds] Three are true, one is not.
Which one is not?
- You mean it's not true that Betsy Ross designed the flag or she just sewed it?
- [Lynn Hinds] This is.
No talking on this test, children.
Just put down your answer.
(all laughing) - I mean, actually half the things I learned in my civics class and it turns out not to be true.
So I suppose Betsy Ross was the figment of someone's imagination and it wasn't true anyway, right?
Right?
- I ain't saying.
I don't know.
You're going with C, also?
- [Lynn Cullen] Yeah, I am.
- Okay, Bernie, what are you going with here?
Which is not true?
- Well, it didn't take much to design the flag.
A bunch of stripes and some stars.
I wonder whether he, I'm going to vote that he was not a signer.
- [Lynn Hinds] That he did not sign.
- That he did not sign the Declaration of Independence.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
- Now we are voting what he did not do?
- He did not do.
Which one is wrong.
- [Bernie] He should have signed it.
- Francis Hopkinson.
- [Announcer] The answer is D. "Hail Columbia" was written by his son Joseph in 1798.
Francis Hopkinson was our first native-born secular composer with songs such as "Beneath a Weeping Willow's Shade."
He signed the Declaration of Independence.
And even though Betsy Ross had a hand in making the Stars and Stripes, historical evidence indicates that Francis Hopkinson was most likely the designer.
- There are actually some records of Congress paying him for his effort in designing the flag.
And the myth about Betsy Ross, she was a great lady and she actually did do some sewing on it, but Francis Hopkinson probably designed it.
We don't know enough about him.
We were talking about your teaching, Paul.
Paul Wallace from down in Uniontown way.
Laurel Highlands?
- Laurel Highlands.
- [Lynn Hinds] High School?
- Senior high.
Ninth graders.
- [Lynn Hinds] And what do ninth graders, they have to take Pennsylvania history, don't they?
- Yes.
It's a required subject.
- [Lynn Hinds] Do they view it as a required subject, which is, "Yuck, why do we have to take that" or?
- They do, but they're all gracious about it.
And most of 'em do work hard at it.
- [Lynn Hinds] You can make it interesting though, don't you think?
- Yes, if I'm allowed to say so, I use "Pennsylvania Game" as one of my extra credit things.
"The Mystery of Pennsylvania," I use that for extra credit, too.
- Do the kids get into, I mean, does this game form that?
- I've got 'em into it, and some of 'em are even looking up articles in the papers and coming through with books and even Patrick Reynolds' articles of Pennsylvania profiles.
They scrounge those up for me, too.
- So some of them may someday be television producers and we may see more shows about Pennsylvania on.
- [Paul] They'll let me know about this one.
- There's no lack of material when you talk about Pennsylvania.
So much of, I mean, our current motto is "America started here," for Pennsylvania and it really did.
This next question, Ms. Cullen, I know you like to occasionally place a bob or two on a race.
You might find this charming.
- [Lynn Cullen] Oh Lord.
- Delvin Miller is the founder of Pennsylvania's biggest stake race for harness racing.
He named the race for his famous champion horse.
Is the race called, A, Adios?
B, Au Revoir?
C, Auf Wiedersehen?
Or D, Aloha?
- Well, they all start with A and they all mean "See you later, alligator."
But the question is, Delvin Miller named his famous race after his championship horse.
And what was his horse called?
- Well, he won it going away.
And so he said, "Adios!"
- [Lynn Hinds] Adios, okay.
Bernie, what language do you like?
(Bernie and Lynn Hinds laughing) - Well, it was probably Adios.
I think he had just come back from Hawaii.
- [Lynn Hinds] So it was Aloha.
- And yes, I think it was Aloha.
- Which means hello and goodbye, depending on how you say it.
- You want it coming and going?
- Paul Wallace, what do you say about this?
- Yeah, Washington County, Washington County and in Washington PA, there's Meadowcroft Village and Adios.
He has a stuffed, he has his horse stuffed down there.
- [Lynn Hinds] Really?
- Yes.
- [Lynn Cullen] Meadows Racetrack.
- [Lynn Hinds] Is that right?
- Meadowcroft.
Meadowcroft.
- [Lynn Hinds] You guys sound like you have been to a race or two.
- The horse is there.
- What's the answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, the Adios.
The champion pacer said adios to horses in many races.
Adios set seven world records and his 589 sons and daughters went on to set their own records.
78 of them became two-minute performers.
Every August since 1967, the Adios Pace at the Meadows, the racetrack founded by Delvin Miller, has honored one of harness racing's best, Adios.
- Dick Stillings getting passed there by Louie Keith and horse coming from the outside.
Yes, indeed, Adios is.
But don't you love those answers, Adios and.
How's the score doing?
Well, my goodness.
Paul Wallace, our history teacher is ahead with two, but Lynn has tied him with two and Bernie's only one behind.
Let's hear for the panel, encourage them.
(audience applauding) - You're doing a good job.
You're doing a good job.
You get out to the races more, Bernie, you'd be tied with the other two.
Mystery Pennsylvanian.
We give you three clues during the course of the show as to who the famous mystery Pennsylvanian is.
And here is the first clue.
Born in 1898, he was compared with Walt Whitman and his epic poetry was called, "The Iliad and the Odyssey of America."
So we know it's a he and we know that he writes poetry.
Born in 1898, compared with Walt Whitman.
His epic poetry was called, "The Iliad and the Odyssey of America."
If you know, panel, who this famous Pennsylvanian was, why, just write down on line number one, his name.
That's all.
1898, epic poetry, called, "The Iliad and the Odyssey of America."
Let's go.
Well, let's go to England and have a visitor from England and see what he did.
- [Announcer] In 1673, an Englishman named George Fox visited America with a vision of planting the religion he had founded in the New World.
Was the religion George Fox founded, A, the Quakers?
B, the Moravians?
C, the Presbyterians?
Or D, the Dunkers?
- Okay, those are four, of course, religious groups and George Fox, 1673, came over here and founded a religion.
What did George Fox found?
Bernie, we're back to you.
- I believe George Fox was an early Quaker.
- [Lynn Hinds] You believe he was a Quaker?
- I thought it had been founded in England, but I guess it was here.
- [Lynn Hinds] Well.
- [Paul] Quakers.
- No.
It says he had founded in the New World.
It doesn't say it was founded here.
George Fox, but Paul, what do you say?
- Quakers.
No.
- [Lynn Hinds] George Fox.
- 'Cause that they got in all kind of trouble in England.
- [Lynn Hinds] Sly answer.
Yes.
- Moravians, German.
That's Bethlehem.
Presbyterians is out here west.
I'm gonna go with D, the Dunkers.
- [Lynn Hinds] The Dunkers.
Okay, Lynn Cullen.
- The only one I don't.
- [Lynn Hinds] We have an A and a D. - Well, the Dunkers, they were people who did not like to use the wafer for communion, they used donuts.
- [Lynn Hinds] Is that right?
- Yes.
And they dunked the donuts.
- [Lynn Hinds] I see you're going with Dunkers, too.
- Sure.
- I think that may have had to do with their rights of baptism, rather than actually communion and donuts.
But what is the right answer, who was George Fox?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, the Quakers.
The Quakers, officially named the Society of Friends, were founded by George Fox in 1647.
His dream of a Quaker commonwealth in the New World became a reality when one of his followers, William Penn, founded a colony called Pennsylvania.
- We all think of Penn, of course, being a Quaker, but George Fox was, as you know, Bernie, that you know 'cause you got it right.
Founded the Quaker religion, called the Society of Friends.
And why were they called Quakers?
- Oh, because they.
- [Paul] Shaken.
- Wrong.
It's the popular myth, but it's not right.
Because George Fox said when he appeared before judges and magistrates who were interfering with his religion, "Quake when you stand before the Almighty God."
And he quoted this so often that they call them Quakers, because he never quaked in his life, let me tell you.
- Well, I was about to say that, but I got so scared that my hands began to shake.
- I think you'll find this next question one of the most interesting questions you've ever seen.
Let's watch.
- [Announcer] Sue was in an auto accident and as a result is paralyzed from the neck down.
Like other paraplegics, she spends hours each day alone.
Being alone means that she cannot do simple, everyday things such as turn on a light or turn the pages of a magazine.
Dr. Mary Joan Willard, a native of Pittsburgh, has developed a means of enabling paraplegics to get things done.
Does this means use A, laser beams?
B, biofeedback machines?
C, talking computers?
Or D, Capuchin monkeys?
- Okay.
Dr. Mary Joan Willard, native of Pittsburgh has really, people who are paralyzed from the neck down, she's done a marvelous work in helping them to become more mobile and get things done when they have to stay alone all day.
And Paul Wallace, I wanna know what technology.
- Well, you said stay alone all day.
Okay.
I know the laser beam is in.
And stay alone all day.
I think the monkeys.
- [Lynn Hinds] You think the monkeys?
- Work for companionship and help them to do their things.
- [Lynn Hinds] All right.
And so you say D. Lynn Cullen?
- I'm gonna go with D. - [Lynn Hinds] What technology do you think that Mary Joan Willard employs?
- Well, I do know they are using monkeys to, I don't know where they are or how much they are, but I've heard that monkeys are being used to help paraplegics and shut-ins.
And so, one for the monkeys.
- Bernie, we have two people monkeying around, what do you say?
- A recent development of talking to a computer and getting.
But talking computers is something else.
So I think I will stay with the monkeys.
- You guys, in this day and age have laser beams, biofeedback machines and talking computers.
And you choose monkeys?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, Capuchin monkeys.
Dr. Mary Joan Willard formed "Helping Hands" to raise and train these agile monkeys to perform simple tasks for quadriplegics.
When Sue points a light, Henrietta knows what to do.
Tasks that were previously impossible for a quadriplegic are now done routinely from getting a cassette for music to finding the right magazine, thanks to a friendly little monkey's helping hands.
- We had a lot more film than that.
And those monkeys can do just marvelous things.
I mean, get everything ready and they're just, it's really truly remarkable.
What's truly remarkable to me is that the score is tied.
Each panelist has three correct!
Way to go, panel.
(audience applauding) We'll get them on the last three questions.
Mystery Pennsylvanian clue number two.
Noted also for his short stories, he wrote a famous account of the oratory of Daniel Webster against the incarnation of evil.
That's clue number two.
He was born 1898, compared with Walt Whitman, epic poetry, called "The Iliad and Odyssey of America."
He was noted for his short stories also, and he wrote a famous account of the oratory of Daniel Webster in his battle against the incarnation of evil.
Think about that.
While you're thinking, let me give you the address if you wanna write to us.
Here's where you write.
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Has to do with something that happened on July 4th, 1883, in a place here in Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] On July 4th, 1883, the City Hotel became the first building in Pennsylvania to be lighted by incandescent electric lights.
Thomas Edison himself selected the town for this event.
Was the town A, Reading?
B, Franklin?
C, New Castle?
Or D, Sunbury?
- Now, I don't know how you'd know that apart from just happened to know it, but let's see.
One, two, three, four, five, six, Ms. Cullen.
What's, Ben Franklin?
Tom Edison himself was involved in this venture.
It was the first building in Pennsylvania to be lighted by electric lights.
What town was it in?
- Well see, Tom was sitting around trying to figure out what town would be a good one and a little light bulb went off in his head and he thought Sunbury would be just a good name because Sunbury, he thought, right, you know.
- [Lynn Hinds] Ah, got it.
The logic is.
- The headline writers could have some fun with it.
- The logic is just implicit there and implacable and in all that stuff, impeccable and implausible, too.
- It's all those things, but I think I'll choose Reading.
- [Lynn Hinds] Reading?
Because?
- 'Cause I think that's where it was.
- I see.
Paul Wallace.
- Okay, well.
I know a lot of answers here are Franklin, but I don't think I will go with Franklin.
I'm gonna go with Lynn.
Not because Lynn did it, because Sun, no Sunbury up around the Susquehanna River.
Sunbury.
- Nobody picked New Castle.
If you were gonna light a building, what?
Let's see what is the right answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, Sunbury.
Edison built his Edison Electric Illuminating Company because he wanted a town that was near coalfields and used high price gas for illumination.
Towns such as Bellefonte and Williamsport soon followed.
City Hotel burned in 1914 and the building there today is called Hotel Edison.
- Because we don't think of Tom Edison in connection with Pennsylvania that much, but actually he did found that company right there in Sunbury and they did quite a work.
And it was proving that electricity, you see, could out beat gas and coal.
So Central Pennsylvania, Sunbury, what better place to do it?
Wrong reason, but right answer, Lynn Cullen and you'll take that every time, won't you?
Let's, anybody ever hear of Charlie Frish of Lehigh County?
Charlie had a hobby.
Let's listen.
- [Announcer] Charles Frish of Orefield, Lehigh County, sold his hobby for about $5,000 last year when he reached 73 years of age.
Was his hobby, A, raising tropical fish?
B, delivering newspapers?
C, collecting Indian head pennies?
Or D, saving aluminum cans?
- Yeah, Charlie hit 73 and said, "I'm tired of doing this, I'm gonna sell it."
And he got 5,000 big ones for it.
What was his hobby, Bernie?
Which of those four?
- Well, if I were Charlie Frish, I would've gotten in on the ground floor on aluminum cans.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
All right.
- I hope that's what he did.
- You say D. Paul, what's?
Got any hobbies of your own, Paul?
- Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yes, I do.
I wish I would've kept the Indian head pennies my dad collected when he was a milk man.
I'm gonna go with C, I think he sold that big collection.
- [Lynn Hinds] All right.
Of Indian head pennies.
- I think he should have got more for 'em.
- Okay, Miss Sunbury, what do you select for this one, down there?
- He was into fresh fish, wasn't he?
(all laughing) Ai, yi, yi, yi, yi.
(vocalizing) I'm not, this is not 'cause you're a history teacher, you understand Pennsylvania or anything?
Has nothing to do with why I'm doing this.
- [Lynn Hinds] Nothing to do with Paul Wallace being a history teacher.
What did Charlie Frish do?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, saving aluminum cans.
Saying that his feet hurt, Charles Frish cashed in his collection of almost a quarter of a million cans.
He started by walking, collecting cans along the road.
Back then, aluminum brought about 12 cents a pound and fewer collecting.
Today aluminum is over 50 cents a pound and there are fewer cans to be found along the roadside.
Charlie cashed in his hobby and provided a lesson in recycling.
- Saved a lot of cans.
And Bernie, Lynn Cullen got sucked in by a history teacher and that tied the score up.
Everybody has four right, so that's remarkable.
Yeah, and Lynn Cullen just decided that she's not copying off Paul anymore.
- Most beer cans are aluminum, but you know which ones aren't?
- [Lynn Hinds] No.
- Iron City.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're kidding.
- [Paul] Small ones.
- Nope.
- [Paul] Yeah.
12 ounces.
- [Lynn Hinds] Is that right?
- Nope.
- I don't know much about that.
I only drink Pennsylvania milk myself.
It's the state beverage, yes, indeed.
We'll let Paul start this and see if you copy off of him this time.
Has to do with a Philadelphian, famous one.
- [Announcer] Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, born in Philadelphia in 1823, was the first Black man to be elected to the office of Municipal Judge.
He was elected in 1873.
But in what city?
A, Billings, Montana?
B, St. Paul, Minnesota?
C, Olean, New York?
Or D, Little Rock, Arkansas?
- Okay, Paul Wallace.
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, born in 1823, was the first Black man to be elected to the office of municipal judge in the United States.
And I just wanna know in what city he was elected to be municipal judge.
1873 was the year.
- 1873.
- [Lynn Hinds] And what was the city?
- You know what, I'm gonna go with the far off one there.
- [Lynn Hinds] Far off.
Okay.
- Yeah, I think down there right after.
This has to be right after Civil War when reconstruction was going on, I'm gonna say D, Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Okay.
You go with Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ms. Cullen, you said you weren't gonna follow him anymore 'cause he misled you last time.
- Yeah, but the problem is I was going to do the same thing before he said it, I was.
I would think after reconstruction, you might have have seen something like that in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- [Lynn Hinds] Black judge in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1873.
Bernie, have they convinced you?
- Well, I decided before they voted that I was gonna go for Little Rock.
Not because Paul said so, but because Lynn said so.
(all laughing) - You all know that if I saw a Black man elected judge in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1873, that I'd put it in a question.
That's why you chose that.
But sometimes you can outsmart yourself.
What is the answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is Little Rock, Arkansas.
The life of MW Gibbs, described in his autobiography, "Shadow and Light" spanned history from the Underground Railroad to the California gold rush to the Foreign Service as a diplomat.
- No, it has never been this high at a tie.
Everybody has five right.
Let's say thanks to our panel.
What a marvelous job they're doing.
(audience applauding) Now, the thing that's gonna break the tie is who got the mystery Pennsylvanian first?
Okay, here's the final clue.
His first epic poem dealt with the Civil War.
His final epic dealt with America from the first English settlers to the death of Sitting Bull.
We know that he was noted for his short stories, also.
Wrote a famous account of Daniel Webster, that his poetry was epic, called, "The Iliad and Odyssey of America," his first epic dealt with the Civil War.
Final one with the history of America.
And we'll start with you, Ms. Cullen.
Did you put down a name for our mystery Pennsylvanian?
- Nope.
- [Lynn Hinds] Mr. Wallace, did you put down a name?
- [Paul] I'm gonna give it to our expert, right here.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're gonna all defer to Bernie.
What did you write?
- In that case?
Do I get a minus?
- [Lynn Hinds] I don't, if you got it right.
Let's see what you got.
- I've Carl Van Doren.
- [Lynn Hinds] Carl Van Doren.
- Who wrote a story called, "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
- Aha.
Who is our famous mystery Pennsylvanian?
- [Announcer] Born in Bethlehem in 1898, Stephen Vincent Benet would've followed the military careers of his father and grandfather had not scarlet fever weakened his eyes at age three.
But the boy discovered the magic of writing and Stephen Vincent Benet managed to produce some of the most elegant literature in his short 44 years.
His epic poem, "John Brown's Body", captured the heartbeat of the Civil War and won a Pulitzer for poetry in 1928.
His account of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" won the O. Henry Short Story Award in 1937.
His final epic "Western Star" described the settling of America and won for him a final Pulitzer in 1943.
Stephen Vincent Benet, a famous Pennsylvanian.
- Stephen Vincent Benet, for 10 years, was Doubleday's number one money maker, for 10 straight years.
Samuel Elliot Morrison, famous historian, who's also from Pittsburgh, by the way, I'll tell you, said that his poems are "Accurate in the most minute detail."
And I will tell you that for "John Brown's Body," the great epic poem of the Civil War earned him a lot of money and he invested it all in the stock market, guess the year.
- [Lynn Cullen] Oh no.
- 1929.
Had to go back to writing again, wrote "Western Star."
Stephen Vincent Benet.
The panel each got five right.
I'm ashamed of them for not knowing Stephen Vincent Benet.
But we'll give you another chance some other time.
- We had the right story but the wrong author.
- You did the right story, but the wrong author, thanks for being here.
Thanks for playing and we'll see you next time when we play "The Pennsylvania Game."
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