Who's familiar with this little rag?

AUDIENCE: Oh, yeah.

Few Steeler fans.

The terrible towel.

Here's a question for you, ladies and gentlemen.

How did the terrible towel get its name?

A lot of people think it's because the Steelers were so big, and mean, and terrible.

Actually, the truth is, it tastes terrible.

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ANNOUNCER: Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, Scott Bruce.

[cheers and applause] Hi, guys.

Hi.

Oh, my people.

I love these people.

I love these people.

Hello.

Hello, studio audience.

Hello, people who have just tuned in at home.

It's lovely to have you here.

Welcome to The Pennsylvania Game, the only show with a complete money back guarantee.

All right.

We don't charge anything, but you still get your money back anyway.

Let's get a chance to find out who our panelists are today.

We've got some exciting ones.

Right here is Josephine Dumas.

She's a graduate student of the School of Communication at Penn State.

She's also an electrical engineer for Fox TV in New York City, currently on leave.

Please say hello to Josephine Dumas.

[cheers and applause] Also joining us is Bonnie Farmer.

Bonnie is a professional editor and writer.

Bonnie is a former postal clerk.

But don't worry, we did check to make sure she didn't bring any weapons.

[laughs] SCOTT BRUCE: She's a bartender, a telephone repair person.

She's involved in all aspects of community theater.

Please say hello to Bonny Farmer.

AUDIENCE: Hi, Bonny!

[applause] Also joining us is Chris Moore.

Chris is a producer at WQED TV in Pittsburgh.

He's also host of a radio talk show called Black Talk that can be heard on WCXJ.

Let's have a warm welcome for Chris Moore.

[cheers and applause] These guys are pumped, and primed, and ready to go.

I see no reason to waste time.

How about giving us a question for them?

ANNOUNCER: Bill Chilean of Burholme, Pennsylvania, invented what he hopes is the next got to have it for homeowners.

In fact, in 1996, his lawn buddy took the gold medal in the garden and home novelties division at the 12th INPEX Inventor Show in Pittsburgh.

Is the lawn buddy a remote controlled lawn mower, B, an electric garden tool caddy, C, a moisture sensitive automatic lawn sprinkler, or D, an animated lawn ornament answering machine?

[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: Tell me, this isn't a fascinating line up.

Do you think, kids?

It's a remote controlled lawn mower, a garden tool caddy, moisture sensitive lawn sprinkler, or an animated lawn ornament answering machine.

Joanne, we get to get to have you answer our first question.

I thought it was C, moisture sensitive, automatic lawn sprinkler.

SCOTT BRUCE: You like the lawn sprinkler for a lawn buddy?

Um-hmm.

Yeah, well, that's perfectly acceptable answer for me.

I like it.

It didn't get the biggest laugh, but it was the good answer.

[laughter] Bonny, what do you think?

When in doubt, go for the absolute dumbest thing, D. SCOTT BRUCE: When in doubt, go dumb.

Well, D is for dumb.

Got it.

And in this case, who knows?

It could work.

This is The Pennsylvania Game, after all.

Chris Moore, what do you think?

This is The Pennsylvania Game.

And normally, I would have followed Bonny's lead and picked D because that's the likely answer.

But for some reason, I picked A. I don't know.

My grass needs cutting.

I don't know.

SCOTT BRUCE: Grass needs cutting.

[laughter] I think Chris thinks that if he answers A correctly, we'll come and cut his grass.

No chance.

Let's find out what exactly is the lawn buddy.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Lawn buddy, according to the patent folks, is America's first animated lawn ornament.

It works like an answering machine.

A lawn ornament shaped like a rabbit, raccoon, squirrel, skunk, or gopher pops out of the ground when visitors approach your doorstep.

It might tell you that the resident is out back, away for the day, or ask you to leave a recorded message.

The idea for the talking lawn ornament was born out of exasperation after Chilean stopped several times at a client's house, only to find her not home.

Chilean's invention took the gold at the INPEX Inventors Show, the largest invention exposition show in the world and is attracting attention.

Chilean says people will buy anything, especially if it makes you laugh.

I'm trying to picture this whole thing.

I'm picturing a little vermin popping up on my lawn and saying hello, there's no one home, but we've taken your picture, so don't rob us.

[laughter] This is good.

It's a silly show.

Let's get another question.

Come on, bring it on.

ANNOUNCER: John Edward Connelly of Pittsburgh got his start in the 1950s marketing toasters to attract bank depositors, earning him the distinction by Fortune Magazine as the father of incentive bank marketing.

In June of 1996, the marketing genius was awarded exclusive, worldwide rights to distribute what?

A, Amish arts and crafts, B, Russian smog-in-a-can, C, photographs and publicity of Madonna's newborn baby, or D, reproductions of Vatican art.

SCOTT BRUCE: Well, I think we just have a silly show today, don't we?

This is a silly one.

I like these answers.

Amish arts, Russian smog, photographs of Madonna's baby, or reproductions of Vatican art.

[chimes] Bonnie, you get to check in first.

OK. Well, I'm in a rut.

I said D again because toasters to Vatican art also sounded really dumb.

Very good.

And so you went with D, Vatican art.

I think it's a good choice.

Chris, what do you think?

Well, people don't know this, but Conley is actually the Pope's brother-in-law.

[laughter] So I pick D also.

Inside-- So we've got a theme running.

Who knows?

It could go on.

Joanne, what do you think?

Well, I didn't know about the family connection, so I went with A. SCOTT BRUCE: A, so-- Amish arts If I look at the scores A, D and D, let's add it up.

OK. [laughter] It all adds up to possibly a correct answer somewhere.

We won't know until we hear from the guy.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, reproductions of Vatican art.

Pittsburgh's John Conley built an empire that employs 6,000 people and includes riverboat gambling and hotels.

Now, the marketing genius and close friend of Pope John Paul II has exclusive worldwide rights to distribute reproductions of Vatican art.

In the fall of 1996, parochial school students in Pittsburgh began peddling low priced memorabilia that carry images of Vatican art.

The fundraiser project is the first time in 2,000 years of Catholic history that Vatican reproductions have been available outside of Rome.

The 130 schools of the Pittsburgh diocese will be a test market for Conley's Vatican marketing plans, which he hopes will expand to parochial schools across the country.

Students will sell from a catalog of 45 items, costing $4.50 to $45.

That includes note cards, photo albums, carry the cross, cross pens, wrapping paper, jewelry and porcelain figurines.

Yes, despite all of the things that they are offering, I have it, on good authority, that there is no Pope on a rope.

[laughter] I know.

I wanted it.

I called in my request, but they didn't have it.

Now's a good time to meet our panel.

So let's get up close and personal and meet these folks.

Joanne Dumas.

I understand I have a note here that you're involved in a new art dance form, an African-Irish jig that you performed in Mali in Africa?

Is this obvious?

Who have you been talking to?

SCOTT BRUCE: I got-- I've got all kinds of inside sources.

That's pretty amazing.

SCOTT BRUCE: Tell us about it.

Yeah.

My husband and I went to Africa.

About four years ago, we were in Mali, and they just happened to be celebrating a Muslim holiday.

And they had a big fit, which was a dance, and music, and food.

And the women wanted me to dance with them.

And I know Irish dancing because I'm an Irish-American.

And so we did this sort of Afro-Irish dance.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

I would like to see.

Do we have it on videotape or we can do a plug?

JOSEPHINE DUMAS: Oh, no.

Oh, no.

OK.

Very nice.

Nice to have you with us.

JOSEPHINE DUMAS: Good to be here.

Bonny, now, it says here that you enjoy horseback riding from side saddle to cross-country endurance and that you practice benign neglect gardening?

BONNY FARMER: Yes.

This-- now, this sounds to me like you just don't mow your lawn.

BONNY FARMER: Basically, yes.

It's a sort of weeds are your friend in school.

Me and the bugs, me and the weeds.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

They don't say you have to actually have vegetables and fruit.

They just say garden.

SCOTT BRUCE: No.

No one have said.

That's very good.

I practice one myself, I think.

Chris, you're involved-- you've been involved in both radio and television.

Do you-- do you have a preference as to which medium you like to work in, radio or TV?

I like radio.

But I tell you, after the show, Joanne and I are going dancing.

SCOTT BRUCE: Oh, yeah.

[laughter] hear it for our panelists, kids.

[applause] OK. And on that happy note, I think we ought to jump into one more question.

ANNOUNCER: General Thomas L. Kane, founder of the Borough of Kane in McKean County, was born in Philadelphia in 1822.

As a young man, he studied law and served as a clerk in US District Court.

He was also an ardent humanitarian, fighting for such causes as the abolition of slavery and educational opportunities for women.

Was General Kane most noted for, A, gaining recognition and rights for Mormons, b heading reconstruction efforts in the South, C, marrying the famous Civil War nurse Clara Barton, or D, starting the SPCA, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?

SCOTT BRUCE: Hmm.

Recognition for Mormons, Southern reconstruction, Clara Barton, or the SPCA.

Pretty interesting.

Everybody punch in.

Chris, we're going to start with you on this one.

SPCA.

Seemed like a good guy to me.

And I'm sure he could kill other human beings in war.

I'm sure he could save animals in peace.

SCOTT BRUCE: You like the juxtaposition, do you?

Yes.

OK. Josephine, what do you think?

Well, I figured recognition for the rights of Mormons.

Because he was doing a lot of other good stuff.

That's, again, a good answer.

I like it.

Bonnie, what do you think?

I just got a lovely dog from the local-- local SPCA.

I can talk.

SCOTT BRUCE: Would you like to buy a vowel?

Please?

Consonant, maybe.

D. D sounded good.

SCOTT BRUCE: So you went with D, a very good choice.

OK, let's see if any of these guys know the right answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, gaining recognition and rights for Mormons.

In 1850, in an effort to gain understanding for the Mormons, Kane described the religion and its struggles to the Philadelphia Historical Society.

Seven years later, President James Buchanan appointed him special envoy to the Mormons.

He negotiated a peaceful resolution to the Utah war, a territorial conflict between the US government and the Mormons of Salt Lake City.

Kane returned to Pennsylvania and founded the Borough of Kane in McKean County.

In the late 1870s, he built a chapel there at the request of his aunt, a Presbyterian.

When he died in 1883, his body was buried in front of the church between the two staircases.

Today, the Kane Memorial Chapel is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and serves as a symbol of the deep friendship between Kane and the Mormons.

All right, let's do a little roundup and see what we've got in the way of scores.

I see by the big tote board, Bonny is in the lead with two points.

Yes, yes!

Two points.

[cheers and applause] I get excited about little things.

Josephine-- Josephine and Chris were only one behind.

It's time for the Mystery Pennsylvanian, kids.

Get your pens ready.

Here we go.

Clue number one.

Born in Philadelphia in 1890.

His name, by definition, means human being, a member of the human race.

Born in 1890 in Philadelphia.

His name, by definition, means human being, a member of the human race.

There will be three clues.

And as you answer, if you get it correct on all three spots, you get three points.

So this can be for big bucks, kids.

OK. We come out of our Mystery Pennsylvanian and shoot right back for a new question.

ANNOUNCER: Woodward Gymnastics Camp, located in the picturesque mountains of Central Pennsylvania, some 30 miles East of State college, was established in 1970 and is widely known as the nation's premier camp for gymnasts.

Which of the following is not true about Woodward Camp?

A, it was the first specialty sports camp established in the US, B, Vitaly Scherbo, the world's most decorated gymnast, once coached and trained at the camp, C, the camp's extreme sports programs are among the best in the world, or D , Mary Lou Retton was a camper in the 1971 summer season.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

Remember, campers, this is a not question.

Which of those was not true?

Specialty sports camp, Vitaly Scerbo, Extreme Sports, Mary Lou Retton.

Josephine.

Everybody punch in, please.

Josephine?

Well, I pick D, Mary Lou Retton.

SCOTT BRUCE: And there you have it.

In a nutshell.

[laughter] That was it, I believe.

Good answer, I think D, Mary Lou Retton is well, you can.

Bonnie, what do you have?

I said C, because I have no idea what extreme sports are.

So it was a dumb answer, and it kind of followed my D theory.

Following that dumb theory.

Absolutely.

I like that dumb theory.

OK, Chris, how about you?

There are no extreme sports at that camp.

It's more of a regular sports camp.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK. You know this.

Right here.

SCOTT BRUCE: Chris-- [laughs] I think we got another dumb.

Let's find out if anybody's dumb.

I think I'm the one that's dumb.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Mary Lou Retton never trained at Woodward Gymnastics Camp.

But other past, present, and future Olympians have.

Established in 1970, Woodward Camp is the nation's first specialty sports camp, averaging more than 400 participants per week over its 12-week season.

Nearly 80% come for gymnastics training, where they receive instruction from such people as Tatiana Gutsu, the 1992 Olympic all around champion, and Vitaly Scherbo, six-time gold medalist, who trained and coached at Woodward before the summer games in Atlanta.

The camp, which attracts athletes from around the world, has never had fewer than 40 states and 10 countries represented in any season.

The camp began as a gymnastics camp, but its extreme sports program for skateboarding, inline skating, and freestyle biking are considered among the best in the world.

Located in fabulous Woodward, Pennsylvania, also the home of the Woodward caverns.

So they do not do any of the training for the Olympics in the caverns, although I think that would lead to some rather interesting Olympic events, don't you think?

The uneven stalactite vault.

That would be fun.

Let's go ahead and get another question right now.

ANNOUNCER: Impressive libraries can be found throughout Pennsylvania.

With over 10 million items, which library contains the largest collection of any single library in Pennsylvania?

Is it A, the free library of Philadelphia, B, the Pennsylvania State University Library, C, the State Library of Pennsylvania, or D, the University of Pittsburgh Library?

SCOTT BRUCE: We're going to find out how well we know our libraries.

The Free Library of Philadelphia, Penn State's, the State Library of Pennsylvania, or the University of Pittsburgh Library.

Bonny, what do you like?

Oh.

I said A just because I think it's the oldest library.

SCOTT BRUCE: And a perfectly valid-- They collect something after a while.

Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you?

Aside from dust.

Chris, what do you think?

For the very same reason.

That's what I thought.

A. SCOTT BRUCE: A, for old.

Um-hmm A for old.

We are having alphabet problems today.

CHRIS MOORE: It's auld.

Auld.

Auld.

It's like the Scottish old.

What do you think, Josephine?

I'm a Penn State University student.

I got to say, the Penn State University Library.

Number B. SCOTT BRUCE: I admire you.

Just for-- just for sticking to your home state, you're going to win a free lottery card just for that answer right there because you were true to home.

You got to do it.

[applause] The Pennsylvania Lottery gave us a bunch of tickets, and we're giving some of them away.

So anybody that gives me a good answer, I'm going to give it to them.

Let's find out what the real answer was.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Founded by Dr. William Pepper, it is one of the largest library systems in the US, with collections totaling more than 10 million items.

Consisting of a central library, three regional libraries, the library for the blind and physically handicapped, and 49 branches, the library has provided service since 1894.

More than just books, the Free Library of Philadelphia is the only public library in the United States to rent choral music to singing groups.

The library also contains one of the most extensive collections of automotive literature in the United States and one of the largest rare book collections.

The Free Library of Philadelphia has provided the citizens of Pennsylvania with more than a century of service.

Time to check the big tote board, kids.

Let's see where we stand.

Josephine and Chris at two points each.

Bonny-- Still in the lead.

SCOTT BRUCE: Hanging on to the lead with three.

[applause] Time for Mystery Pennsylvanian clue number two.

He was a pioneering painter and photographer in the Dada, surrealist, and abstract art movements of the 1920s and '30s.

Born in Philadelphia, 1890.

His name, by definition, means human being, a member of the human race.

Pioneering painter and photographer in the Dada, surrealist, and abstract art movements of the '20s and '30s.

Everybody's scribbling now.

I think we're getting somewhere.

We're certainly getting to the next question, and we're going to do that in a hurry.

ANNOUNCER: According to the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records, Rosalie Bradford of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, holds two distinctions.

Are they A, she was the heaviest woman in history and later recorded the largest weight loss, B, she raised the most children in history and has the most grandchildren ever recorded, C, she was the tallest woman basketball player in history and scored the most points of any woman in a single season, or D, she was the youngest college graduate in history and has earned more graduate degrees than anyone else?

SCOTT BRUCE: Hmm, heaviest woman, most children, tallest woman, or the most degrees in college.

Let's punch in, please.

And we're going to go to Chris to answer this one.

Well, she was part of a little known group that didn't believe in birth control.

And that's the reason I picked B. SCOTT BRUCE: What would be on that one?

OK, how about you, Josephine?

Ooh, I'm really guessing here.

I just picked D. SCOTT BRUCE: D. Just for the fun.

I think it's collage graduate.

SCOTT BRUCE: It's a good guess.

And Bonny?

I went with educational channel.

We'd better say D, yes.

SCOTT BRUCE: D, thinking and education.

I like how they're staying loyal.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A.

At 1,200 pounds in 1987, Rosalie Bradford was the heaviest woman in history.

By 1994, she was down to 283 pounds.

Her 917 pounds weight loss was the largest ever recorded by a woman.

Now, 52 and 285 pounds, Rosalie says childhood trauma is a major cause of compulsive overeating.

Abandoned by her mother at a babysitter's home when she was only six months old, Rosalie was raised by a loving foster family until her mother reclaimed her when she was eight.

Her mother gave up her custody claim after 18 months.

But Bradford says the insecurity it caused turned into a food addiction.

At 15, she weighed 309 pounds.

By age 43, when doctors estimated her weight at 1,200 pounds, Bradford was bedridden and dying.

A friend told the diet guru Richard Simmons about her.

Simmons sent her a diet plan and gave her the encouragement to start over.

Today, Bradford counsels obese men and women through her organization Losing to Win.

Wow.

Boy, that Richard Simmons pops up everywhere, doesn't he?

[laughter] We can't waste any time.

Let's bring up a new question right away.

ANNOUNCER: In 1971, a Pittsburgh hospital developed a symbol that is instantly recognizable to people the world over.

What symbol is it?

A, medic alert, B, handicapped parking, C, biohazardous waste, or D, Mr. Yuk.

SCOTT BRUCE: Ah, Mr. Yuk.

Well, what could it possibly be?

Medic alert, handicapped parking, biohazardous, or Mr. Yuk.

Panel, we're going to go to Josephine.

I picked B.

It seemed like the timing was about right for the handicapped parking symbol to come up.

SCOTT BRUCE: Socially correct.

I like it very much.

Bonny?

Remember you said this was a silly show?

SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah.

I went for silly show answer.

D, Mr. Yuk.

SCOTT BRUCE: Mr. Yuk.

OK. CHRIS MOORE: I can't get ahead of it.

It's Mr. Yuk.

SCOTT BRUCE: It's Mr. Yuk.

Whoa.

I have a taste in my mouth.

SCOTT BRUCE: For a second, I thought you were Mr. Yuk.

I am.

SCOTT BRUCE: [laughs] Let's go to the videotape and find out who it is.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Mr. Yuk.

the poison warning symbol with a green scowling face and protruding tongue has proven to be as repulsive to children in his Pittsburgh birthplace as he is in Iceland.

Developed in 1971 by the Pittsburgh Poison Center, a Department of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, it has warned generations of children about household poisons.

Mean and green, the symbol replaced the old skull and crossbones, considered ineffective because it had been popularized in movies and cartoons.

The Mr. Yuk Poison Prevention Program is the first and largest such program in the nation.

Since its introduction, more than 650 million stickers bearing the Mr. Yuk image have been sent around the world.

SCOTT BRUCE: Ooh, yucky.

Time for our third Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

The rayograph or cameraless photograph was named after him.

The rayograph or cameraless photograph was named after him.

He was born in Philadelphia in 1890.

His name, by definition, means human being, a member of the human race.

He was a pioneering painter and photographer in the Dada, surrealist, and abstract art movements of the '20s and '30s.

OK, we all seem to have our answers.

We're going to go to Bonnie to start us off on this.

BONNY FARMER: Oh, sure.

Bonny, hold up your card, and let's see where we went.

Let's see if I got this one.

SCOTT BRUCE: Man of woman, which is my most men are.

Man Ray and Man Ray.

So if it is Man Ray, you're going to be pulling up two points.

We'll find out.

Chris, what do you have?

Well, at first, I thought it was-- since you said man, it was Homio S. Jones.

SCOTT BRUCE: S. Jones.

Who was the first man.

Then I thought-- you said photographer, and the only one I could think of was Ansel Adams.

And then Mr. Yuk.

SCOTT BRUCE: Mr. Yuk.

[laughter] I really hope you're right on that.

I really do.

Let's check in with Josephine.

Josephine, what did you have?

OK. Well, the first time I figured, it's got to be somebody whose last name is Mann.

And then I took a guess because I didn't know for sure.

And then when you said the rayograph, I thought Man Ray.

SCOTT BRUCE: Came the place for you.

Yes.

SCOTT BRUCE: If that's the right answer.

Well, we don't know for sure, but somebody's going to tell us.

Let's see if we've got the right ones in here.

ANNOUNCER: Man Ray was born in Philadelphia in 1890.

The famed photographer, sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and surrealist co-founded the New York Dada Movement with his friend Marcel Duchamp.

The international Avant Garde Art and Literary Movement flourished between 1915 and 1922.

Dadaists promoted anti-art and nonsense, declaring that chance and imagination and not established rules or craftsmanship determine true art.

Ray moved to Paris in 1921, where he experimented with cameraless photographic techniques, including solarization and negative printing.

His most famous innovation, the rayograph, was made by placing objects on sensitized paper, and then exposing it to light.

He died in 1976.

Man Ray, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Ooh.

Time to go to our tote board.

See who's going to win this big match.

Josephine and Chris with three points each.

If you add them together, they just meet Bonny, our champion with six points.

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So there you go.

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Of course, everybody wins a Slinky.

Because that's the way we are.

Yeah.

OK. Now, also, you folks at home, should you find yourself thinking up great questions for our show?

We'd like you to fill them out, send them in to us.

There's the address right there on the screen.

And we will send you a one year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.

We'd very much love to have you do it.

Give us all the ones that you can.

In the meantime, you guys all did a wonderful job.

Give them all a round of applause.

[cheers and applause] And remember, four out of five doctors recommend our show.

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