The Pennsylvania Game
Flooding, mycology & ducks
Season 1 Episode 12 | 27m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know our most common duck? Play the Pennsylvania Game.
Do you know our most common duck? 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 Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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The Pennsylvania Game
Flooding, mycology & ducks
Season 1 Episode 12 | 27m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Do you know our most common duck? 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 Promotional offers are no longer valid.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(upbeat music) - [Announcer] In 1936, a flood hit many cities and towns in central and western Pennsylvania, causing extensive damage.
Waters rose to record heights, creating panic for many Pennsylvanians.
The flood came on a holiday.
Do you know what holiday?
(upbeat music) You're invited to play The Pennsylvania Game.
Test your knowledge of the commonwealth's people, places, and products.
(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.
(upbeat music) (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 music) - [Announcer] Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game," Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, it's time again to play The Pennsylvania Game, and we've got some questions that are a little bit easy and some that are a little bit hard and some that are a little bit in between, and we want you to play along with our panelists, who are, in the anchor chair again, a writer, Bernie Asbell!
(audience applauding) She is a radio news director from Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
Kelly Barron Ott!
(audience applauding) He is a master of the science of weather forecasting and the art of communicating it, Fred Gadomski.
(audience applauding) And this one's pitched right down your alley 'cause it's about one of our famous floods, and we've had lots of 'em here in Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] A severe flood hit Pennsylvania in 1936, causing damage to Harrisburg, Wiliamsport, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, and hundreds of other communities.
The flood hit on a holiday.
Was that holiday A, Saint Patrick's Day; B, Christmas Day; C, April Fool's Day; or D, Easter Sunday?
(viewer giggling) - My favorite holiday's April Fool's Day.
That's the one I celebrate most religiously, but Bernie, (audience laughing) which one do you think that flood hit on?
1936, big flood.
(audience member coughing) Remember the flood of '89?
This is the flood of '36.
(Bernie and audience laughing) A.
(card clattering) - Let's take Saint.
It just feels like a Saint Patrick's Day flood.
- [Lynn] It just feels like it.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- It would be called the April Fool's Flood, not the Johnstown Flood if it were C, wouldn't it?
- [Lynn] And with a name like Kelly, which are you going for?
- I'm going with Saint Patrick's Day too because that's when the snow usually melts and the rains come.
That makes sense.
- [Lynn] Uh-huh, and people stay indoors and find things to do.
Yes, Fred?
- It seems like an obvious attempt to embarrass me.
(audience laughing) - It is, Fred!
The only reason we put this question in is to embarrass you.
- So for that reason, I'll go with the rest of the panel, A.
- So you said, hey, you're either gonna be right with them, or you're all gonna go down together.
They all said Saint Patrick's Day.
Which day did you say, and what's the right answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, Saint Patrick's Day.
(audience applauding) In Pittsburgh, water rose to an astounding 46 feet.
In Johnstown, a rumor that the dam had broken sent people fleeing with memories of the Great Flood of 1889.
The destruction was so extensive that it provoked a national response.
(urgent music) President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Johnstown to promise that the government would act to prevent future disasters.
Congress passed the Federal Flood Act, and the Army Corps of Engineers went to work.
It was the largest preemptive measure ever undertaken for damage from natural disaster.
Over 100 dams, levees, and flood walls were built.
(urgent music) Houses were rebuilt so that the first floor was above flood stage.
The entire village of Robindale was moved from a valley up to higher ground.
(urgent music) The result did not eliminate flood damage in Pennsylvania, but it surely did help.
- I never thought about that, but you know, we have a weather expert down there.
You've written two books on FDR, so you surely must've come across that information, and Kelly is Irish, and therefore, you all got the right answer.
Let's see how good you'd do, though, if you wanted to pick a club to join and which club you might belong to.
Watch.
- [Announcer] If you were to join a mycological club in Pennsylvania, what activity would you be interested in?
A, raising mushrooms; B, using computers; C, doing exercises; or D, owning pet mice.
- [Lynn] Boy, that's an intriguing question, Kelly Barron Ott.
If you were interested in joining a.
- Mycological.
- Mycological club, well, which of those four would you be interested in?
Mushrooms, computers, exercises, or mice?
- I'm going to go with mushrooms (card clattering) for my relatives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
- Uh-huh, okay, all right.
- That's the only reason.
- Okay, sticking with the the family.
Yes, go ahead, Fred.
- Yeah, well, it seemed logical.
This is The Pennsylvania Game.
Right?
- The Pennsylvania Game.
Yes.
- I can't think of anything Pennsylvanian above mice, exercises, or computers.
Therefore, we'll go with mushrooms.
- [Lynn] Tell him about computers in Pennsylvania.
- Computers, if you had been on one of our previous shows, or maybe the show hasn't even gone or invented in Pennsylvania what everybody else, we all thought was something else.
- That's right.
- I think to be mycological about it.
- Yeah?
- I'll go with A too.
- It is so dull when you all pick the same answer, whether you're right or wrong.
Let's see which they are.
- I'll change if you want.
(onlooker laughing) - [Announcer] The answer is A, raising mushrooms.
Mycology is a branch of botany that deals with fungi.
Pennsylvania's the nation's number one mushroom grower, with Chester and Burks Counties in the east, and Armstrong and Butler Counties in the west, making up most of the mushroom production.
And Kennett Square down around Philadelphia is one of the big - Chester.
- mushroom producers, and we do, in Pennsylvania, produce more mushrooms than any state in the union.
That is true.
That is exactly true.
Two stations, again, that you are news director of in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Kelly, are WMRF.
That's the FM.
- That's the FM.
- And WIEZ, the AM.
- AM.
- [Lynn] And you're a busy, busy woman as news director, yes.
- Yes, I am, I'm busy.
- And Fred Gadomski is busy on television, trying to figure out what the weather's going to do on "Weather World," seen not only on WPSX Channel 3, but seen in Harrisburg on WITF in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on WVIA, and in Erie on WLQN.
- QLN.
- QLN.
- And on "Panorama."
- And on "Panorama," and I have a cassette I take home of it every day and look at, but you do well.
- Thank you very much, Lynn.
So do you.
- And lots of people enjoy watching you.
We gotta get some harder questions, and I think we got one.
If this doesn't stump 'em, why, I'll miss my guess.
- [Announcer] During the late 1800s, James Ritter was the best of the salesmen who made Mifflinburg famous for something it made.
Driving from town to town in a buggy pulled by matched horses, Ritter sold what?
A, straw brooms; B, butter churns; C, cuckoo clocks; or D, buggies?
- Okay, Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania.
Fred, he's famous for what?
Which of those four?
- (clears throat) Well, of course, I don't have any real idea.
- Good!
(Fred and audience laughing) - But!
- But!
- I know that this whole crew has a penchant for the bizarre.
- Uh-huh.
(audience laughing) - And therefore, I'm gonna go with cuckoo clocks.
- [Lynn] This crew, I can see why you would.
Bernie, go ahead.
- Well, I know he would not have gone around in buggies to sell straw brooms, so I think he mighta gone around in a straw broom to sell buggies.
I think I'll take D. (card clattering) - [Lynn] Well, you put A up.
- It's A.
- Did I put up A?
- Yeah.
- D. - Yeah, that's important.
- Yeah.
(laughs) - Okay.
Kelly?
- I think it's D also because there's some Amish country down there.
Maybe that's it.
- You've never heard the saying that a new broom sweeps clean?
Well, listen to this, and we'll explain all about how that saying works.
Watch.
- [Announcer] The answer is D, buggies.
It was only after the Civil War that almost everyone could afford a buggy, and the horse and buggy age lasted from 1865 until replaced by the auto around 1915.
The small town of Mifflinburg in central Pennsylvania's Union County was known as Buggytown, USA.
They were known for the quality of their buggies and for the number of buggy makers.
One description in 1878 said that every other building was a buggy shop.
In 1917, the largest, Mifflinburg Buggy Company, became the Mifflinburg Body Company, building wooden bodies for trucks and station wagons until the 1930s.
In 1978, the Heiss Coachworks was turned into a buggy museum.
You can visit the museum in Mifflinburg, Buggytown, USA.
(upbeat guitar music) - I was just telling the panel, they found the Heiss Coachworks as it had been closed down and shut up 50 years before, and it was just the way things had been, a marvelous museum.
If you're in Mifflingburg, go see Buggytown, USA.
- There still is an active buggy repair shop there, right behind the restaurant, and if you ask the man nicely, he'll let you walk back there and look up close.
- My grandfather invested in buggy whips about that time, I remember.
That's why we're so poor today.
The score is, ah, well, let's see, Bernie has three, Kelly has three, and Fred has two.
It is a close game.
Let's hear it for our panel.
(audience applauding) You're all doing too well today.
We're gonna get some harder questions.
Maybe the Mystery Pennsylvanian will stump you.
We'll give you three clues through the course of the show about a Mystery Pennsylvanian.
See if you can guess his identity.
If you can do it on the first clue, on line one, just write it down.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1912, he attended both Pitt and Penn State.
He worked pumping gas, teaching dance, and digging ditches until he joined a Broadway chorus line in 1938.
Our Mystery Pennsylvanian was born in Pittsburgh in 1912, attended both Pitt and Penn State.
He worked pumping gas, teaching dance, and digging ditches till he joined a Broadway chorus line in 1938, and let's see how you do with that.
There's some writing going on over here, and the little gray cells are operating.
Let's go to a political question now.
This is something that Governor Thornburgh did that hadn't been done for a long time before.
- [Announcer] When Richard Thornburgh was elected in 1982, he achieved something no Pennsylvania governor had done since George Earle was elected governor in 1934.
Was Richard Thornburgh the first Pennsylvania governor since 1934 to be A, re-elected; B, of the same party as the president; C, from western Pennsylvania; or D, a Republican.
(relaxed music) - Thornburgh was elected, something no governor had done since George Earle did it in 1934.
Bernie, which of those was it?
(Bernie humming) (Lynn humming) (Bernie clearing his throat) We've got them stumped, maybe, on this one.
- God, they're all such good answers.
- Yeah!
- I'm gonna go take the long shot and say A.
- Re-elected, the first one to be re-elected.
- First one to be re-elected.
- Okay, Kelly, what are you gonna say?
Which of those four?
- Oh, this one has me.
I think, (smacks) first from.
- [Lynn] First since 1934 to be re-elected, or the same party as the president, from western Pennsylvania, or a Republican?
- I'm going with A. I have no idea.
- [Lynn] Okay, we have two A's, re-elected.
Fred?
(cards clattering) - I think, it just seems like a weird connection to me, and this is a game of weird connections.
How about of the same party as the president?
- What do you mean, this is a game of weird connections?
(audience laughing) Why, they're all perfectly simple, logical answers, aren't they?
- [Announcer] The answer is B. Richard Thornburgh's election in 1982 (audience applauding) made him the first governor in 48 years to be of the same political party as the president.
(gentle music) - That's right, the first one to be the same party.
Every time the nation voted for a Democrat, Pennsylvania voted for a Republican governor, and vice versa.
Did you ever seem to- - Look what's happening.
Excuse me, look what's happening on that scoreboard.
- [Lynn] The score's tied three, three, to three, exactly.
- Mortal struggle.
- Well, you did so well on that governor question, how would you like another question about a famous Pennsylvania governor?
Let's listen.
- [Announcer] This Pennsylvania governor began his public service under President Teddy Roosevelt by developing the US Forest Service.
He believed in managing resources for the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Out of his efforts came President Franklin Roosevelt's TVA, and rural electrification.
Was this famous Pennsylvania governor A, Frank Norris; B, George Leader; C, William Scranton; D, Gifford Pinchot?
- And Bernie, since you've written two books on FDR, you just be quiet, and we'll start with Kelly (laughing) and let you go last.
Kelly, which one of those is the right answer?
- Gifford Pinchot.
- Gifford Pinchot?
D, you say.
Fred Gadomski.
- Yeah, I think that's right too.
- Do you?
- I really do.
- Uh-huh.
- It's just a guess, but I'm gonna find out the right answer by listening to Bernie.
- Yeah, Bernie's gonna give you the right answer.
- Well, I know it's Gifford Pinchot because Kelly said so.
(card clattering) (audience laughing) - [Lynn] Not from your own books?
You know from what Kelly said?
- Yes, I'm quite sure.
- I thought you'd say Frank Norris.
- He was one of the great conservationists of our history.
- [Announcer] The answer is D, Gifford Pinchot.
Pinchot knew that the farm people lived hard lives without electric light and power.
When he was governor of Pennsylvania, he introduced a plan for rural electrification, but the state Senate voted it down.
The issue got national attention, though, and during FDR's New Deal, TVA was born, and electric power began to light the nation's farms.
The philosophy of TVA?
Pinchot's creed from 25 years before, "For the greatest benefit to the greatest number for the longest time."
In 1985, rural electrification celebrated its 50th birthday, thanks to the efforts of men such as Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot.
- He was quite a man.
I'm surprised nobody said Frank Norris 'cause when you say TVA, the name Frank Norris pops to mind.
- George Norris, because of course, that would be a trick 'cause he was a senator for Nebraska, you know.
- [Lynn] I know.
(Bernie and Lynn laughing) He was not a governor of Pennsylvania.
- But he was the father of TVA.
- That's right, but the original idea did come from Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot, and he's one of the many governors of Pennsylvania who really sticks out in history, I think.
Well, this has never happened before.
Out of five questions, the score is tied with four to four to four.
Everybody has four out of five.
Let's hear it for our panel.
(audience applauding) Boy, they have done a marvelous job.
(audience applauding) Howsoever, clue number two for our Mystery Pennsylvanian, he choreographed a "Billy Rose Show" and then starred in a Broadway production of John O'Hara's story of "Pal Joey."
In 1942, he costarred with Judy Garland in the movie "For Me and My Gal."
Who is this famous Mystery Pennsylvanian?
Choreographed a "Billy Rose Show" and then starred in a Broadway production of John O'Hara's story of "Pal Joey."
In 1942, he costarred with Judy Garland in a movie called "For Me and My Gal."
While the panelists thinking, let me just tell you at home, if you'd like to write to us, we'd like to hear from you.
Maybe you've got a question you'd like to suggest from your area.
Just write to us in care of "The Pennsylvania Game," Wagner Annex, University Park, 16802.
We'd love to hear from you, so do take time to drop us a line.
"Pennsylvania Game," Wagner Annex, University Park, 16802.
Did you all write down who you think it is on the second line there?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, and you're all looking rather smug.
You're playing the game really well.
Let's see how much you know about state symbols.
Here's one for you.
(slide projector clicking) - [Announcer] Pennsylvania has several state symbols, including a state flower.
Is Pennsylvania state flower A, the violet; B, the rhododendron; C, the dogwood; or D, the mountain laurel?
- That's the one you either know or you don't, and Fred, do you know what the state flower is?
- Well, I think I know, but I don't know that I know, and that's what makes it really exciting.
- Okay.
(host and panelists laughing) - But if you've ever seen some mountain laurel in Pennsylvania, you never forget it, and therefore, I'll go with D. - I saw some poison ivy once in Pennsylvania, and I've never forgotten that, Bernie?
- Well, I don't think we would have a Laurel Mountain if the mountain laurel were not our- - That's the wrong one.
- Whoops, wrong one.
Wrong one, whoops.
- You're going with D also.
- If Laurel Mountain were not our state flower.
- And Kelly?
- And I know it's the mountain laurel too.
(card clattering) - Oh, dear.
- I hope it's the rhododendron, that you're all wrong, but let's see if our panel's right again, hmm?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, the mountain laurel.
Pennsylvania shares the mountain laurel with Connecticut.
Four states recognize the violet: Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
Two states salute the rhododendron: West Virginia and Washington.
Two states salute the dogwood: Virginia and North Carolina.
(object clattering) - Guess that was awful easy, then, huh?
Well, either you know it or you don't know it.
That's the way it's played, but it is beautiful.
- That wasn't easy.
- Wasn't it?
- No, it was hard.
- You're right.
- We just knew it.
- [Lynn] Is it that hard?
What was hard about that?
- None of these things are necessarily easy or hard, you know.
- You made up these questions.
They're easy for you, Lynn.
- Uh-huh, give us a break.
(Bernie laughing) - Okay, you did so well on the outdoors.
Let's stay outdoors for another question about animal life.
- [Announcer] Bob Ockerman of Lewisburg is one of a number of Pennsylvanians whose hobby is carving wooden duck decoys.
Decoys are usually made of cork or styrofoam now, but wooden duck decoys are popular with collectors.
The detail and beauty of a well-done decoy is magnificent.
There are large numbers of ducks in Pennsylvania, but what is the most common duck found here?
A, wood duck; B, blue wing teal; C, mallard; or D, black duck?
(relaxed music) - [Lynn] The most common duck in Pennsylvania, Bernie Asbell.
- (sighs) Well, I'll say mallard because I love mallards on neckties, and.
- [Lynn] Do you?
- Some of my favorite people wear mallard neckties, and I think that's a good reason to go for C. - I see, okay.
That's an interesting- - I'm going to go for B for an equally good reason.
(card clattering) It's a pretty name.
- The blue wing teal, yes.
Yeah, it's prettier than the name mallard, mallard, but blue wing teal, I love that, yeah.
- Actually, I don't know either, but once again, the only duck that I have any familiarity with was just, you know, many years ago in a hideaway somewhere.
It was a mallard.
- Is that right?
- That's the only duck name I know.
- You had an encounter once with a mallard duck.
(audience laughing) You wouldn't want to expand on that, I suppose, on live television, would you, Fred?
The only duck I know much about is a Donald Duck, and he's not up there.
Let's see what is the right answer.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, the mallard.
Mallards account for about half the ducks taken by hunters.
The wood duck is second, however, and when a talented craftsman finishes a decoy, it's difficult to tell the real duck from the decoy.
- Which was which?
Which was it?
Was it the last one was the real one, or the one before it?
Where's Bill Hackett?
Bill, which was real?
- [Bill] That is the first one.
- The first one was real, and the second was the decoy.
Bill Hackett's a student who worked editing that question, and those decoys are collector's items.
I mean, they, you know, bring some big bucks to sit on your mantel and look just beautiful.
Well, we're having a hard time stumping you guys.
I got to take one more try at you here, and this one'll take you to school.
You'll sorta go to school on this question.
It's about a county question again and which one has the most school districts.
- [Announcer] One Pennsylvania county leads in the number of public school districts with 43.
The second highest number of school districts in a single county is just 22.
Which county has the 43 school districts?
A, Philadelphia; B, Forest; C, Allegheny; or D, Montgomery?
(gentle music) - Yeah, now, the one that has the most, the county that has the most school districts almost has.
If it had one more, it would have twice as many as the one that's second, and so the question is which county in Pennsylvania has them most school districts?
Kelly, I believe we start with you on this one.
- I think I'll go with Allegheny.
- [Lynn] Why?
- Seems, I don't know.
I just think it seems as though there are a lot of school districts that you hear about, a lotta names from western Pennsylvania.
- [Lynn] Okay, I thought maybe you liked the name Allegheny.
(Lynn laughing) - No.
- Fred?
- Well, I'm also going.
Let me get it here.
(card clattering) I'm also going with C. I was trying to think of a county that had both a large population and quite a bit of suburban activity, and I don't know anything about counties, but I think Allegheny fits that description.
- [Lynn] Okay, Bernie, we got Philadelphia County, Forest, Allegheny, and Montgomery.
- Now, if we mean by school districts, districts where children have to travel to school.
- We mean school districts which have their own school board and their own organization of schools, and that kinda thing.
- Well, then, I will go with C, Allegheny.
- [Lynn] Why are you going with Allegheny, Bernie?
- Because I don't thin it's, you just changed my mind about being, I happen to know that Forest County has the fewest people and the most trees, and I just thought they would make those kids travel so far with all those trees, but I'll go with Allegheny.
- You're not being influenced now by your co-panelists and all.
- [Bernie] You want me to go with B?
- I don't.
You could go with C, if you may.
All picked C, let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is C, Allegheny.
Montgomery County has 22 school districts, while Philadelphia and Forest counties each has just one.
(relaxed music) - That's what I thought might throw you 'cause Philadelphia has a lotta people, but of course, they have just one school district, and of course, Pittsburgh has just one school district, but it's only part of Allegheny County, yeah, and Montgomery's the one with 22.
So Forest County, which has, you're right Bernie, not many people and a lotta trees, has one school district, and so does Philadelphia County.
Okay, well, let's see (object tapping) how you're doing on the score, first of all.
Oh, this is awful.
This is just awful.
Bernie and Fred each have seven, and Kelly has six, and that's a real close game, and you're getting too many right.
Let's hear it for our panel.
They're doing really well.
(audience applauding) Really, really well.
(audience applauding) Now, either you're catching on how to play this game, or these questions are too easy.
Which is it?
- The panel is brilliant.
(everyone laughing) - How modest of you to admit to that, Fred, but you're all doing really well.
I gotta walk over here because I wanna stand beside my slide that says Mystery Pennsylvanian, thank you.
Clue number three to the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Did you remember the first two clues?
Okay, let's see if you change your mind.
His dance routines revolutionized musical films.
He became Hollywood's number one dancing master, but he was also a successful dramatic actor and later a director.
Famous Pennsylvanian, our Mystery Pennsylvanian, his dance routines revolutionized musical films.
He became Hollywood's number one dancing master, but he was also a successful dramatic actor and later a director.
Fred, have you finished writing?
- Yes.
- Please, put your slate up for us, and let's see what you've picked here.
- I'm a master with a magic marker.
- Are you?
(spectator chuckling) - Actually, it took to the third clue for me.
I doodled weather maps the first two times.
- I see.
(Fred and audience laughing) - Low pressure, or a hurricane, and finally.
- Yeah, I gotta say, we're in trouble on number two there, a hurricane warning.
- Gene Kelly.
- Gene Kelly.
- Because I had, the clue that gave it to me was, you know, Hollywood's dance master, and it had to be Gene Kelly.
- Ah, Gene Kelly.
I never thought of him.
Kelly, who did you put?
- I put Gene Kelly all three times.
- [Lynn] I see, and Bernie?
- Well, I figured Kelly being our guest on tonight's show, I just went with Kelly too.
- So we have three Gene Kellys.
Well, it makes me feel better to know they got all the questions right, but let's see how they did on the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
They'll get their comeuppance with this one, I'll bet, 'cause I bet none of you are right on it.
Let's see.
- [Announcer] Gene Kelly wanted to be a choreographer, but we think of him as a master of dance.
He went from dance instructor in Johnstown to Broadway, then to Hollywood.
Gene Kelly costarred with Judy Garland in his movie debut.
The picture was "For Me and My Gal," the year 1942.
He choreographed "Anchors Aweigh" and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor.
Gene Kelly's biggest hits were "Singin' in the Rain," became Hollywood's number one dance master, and of course, "An American in Paris," but Gene Kelly proved himself a dramatic actor too, as in "Marjorie Morningstar," but the late 1960s, he went behind the cameras, directing "Hello, Dolly!"
and other films.
Gene Kelly has given the world a wealth of entertainment.
Gene Kelly, a native Pennsylvanian.
- As a matter of fact, a native of Highland Park in Pittsburgh, went to Peabody High School and then to Penn State and University of Pittsburgh and taught and had a dance studio, I believe, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, so he had his roots firmly, his feet firmly dancing in Pennsylvania.
Great guy, and lots of people.
I didn't realize till I researched this, that he directed "Hello, Dolly!"
and another movie called "The Cheyenne Social Club" with Henry Fonda and James Stewart.
- A really dramatic man.
- Yeah, quite a guy.
You've done much too well.
All of you got the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Fred and Bernie got eight, and Kelly got seven, and that's just, that's ridiculous.
(audience laughing) You're all fired!
We're gonna find some new panelists who don't do this well.
This is the best I think any panel's ever done, and I congratulate you, and you win the grand prize.
(Bernie chuckling) I'll give you all a ride home after the show.
(onlookers laughing) Thanks for joining us.
Hope you did as well as our panel, and you'll join us next time when we all play the Pennsylvania Game.
We'll see you then.
(audience applauding) (relaxed music) (audience applauding) - [Announcer] "The Pennsylvania Game" has been 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.
(upbeat music) (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 of the all-time great tastes!
♪ When it's time to make your mind up ♪ ♪ Make it milk ♪ (audience applauding) (cheerful music) (cheerful music continues) (audience applauding)
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