- [Announcer] During the early moments of the Battle of Gettysburg, a Pennsylvanian named John Reynolds was in command.

When General Reynolds was killed, the man who took his place was to gain fame after the war.

Do you know his name?

You're invited to play The Pennsylvania Game.

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

The Pennsylvania Game is brought to you 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.

(relaxed music) (retro pop music) Now let's get the game started.

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

- Thank you very much.

(audience applauds) Thought about not coming out that time.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We are delighted to have you with us for another edition of The Pennsylvania Game.

We're delighted to have Junior Girl Scout troop 1200 from Lemont-Houserville too, and you'll hear them as the program progresses and they applaud our panel.

He's back to try it one more time, Bernie Asbell.

(audience applauds and cheers) If we get into trouble, we can straighten it out with the law, his Honor Judge Charles Brown is with us.

(audience applauds) And a man who has appeared before Judge Brown many times, Kevin Nelson, our very own Kevin.

(audience applauds) He was only getting a radio story when you appeared.

John Reynolds was from Lancaster, and he was a general during the Civil War, and he was famous for being the most expert in using expletives, and he got killed.

- [Announcer] When General John Reynolds was the first northern commander killed at Gettysburg, the senior officer who assumed command was the same man who had given the nod to return fire at Fort Sumter, April 12th, 1861.

He is better remembered today for something else he did.

Was that man A, Abner Doubleday, B, Lew Wallace, C, William McKinley, or D, John Burns.

- Same guy assumed command at Gettysburg, initially, in the early hours of the battle, as had given the nod to return fire at Fort Sumter, which you all know started the Civil War.

Yet he's famous for something he did later, and that's kind of an intriguing question, Bernie Asbell.

- One of these four gave the order to return fire at Fort Sumter.

- Well, that's what they say.

- That's what they say.

- [Lynn] I read that in the book somewhere.

- Huh?

- And you've written books, so I know you know it's true.

- Oh, if it's in a book, it's true.

Well, there's only one answer that's impossible because we would've all heard it, that was Abner Doubleday.

- [Lynn] Old Abner Doubleday, little Abner Doubleday.

Yes sir.

- Well, I thought I would like to answer Abner Doubleday, since I'm a baseball fan, and there is some legend about him in baseball.

But since Bernie said Abner Doubleday, I'm gonna try to just see if we can't get a winner and maybe somebody else will be a loser.

So Lew Wallace wrote books and Bernie wrote books, and it oughta mean something here.

- Lew Wallace did write books, I remember that.

Kevin we're A, B, and obviously you're gonna pick C because C is next, no, what are you gonna pick?

- Hi, I'm sorry, I've gotta go.

I don't.

(Lynn and audience laugh) I think I am going to actually, Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball, but that's another show for another time.

- [Lynn] I see, okay.

Well did he invent?

- No, he actually didn't do it.

He got the credit for it, but he didn't do it.

William McKinley, 'cause I know what he went on to do.

- [Lynn] What did he go on to do?

- Wasn't he a?

- A president?

He might have been.

These guys were all in the Civil War, but what's the right answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, Abner Doubleday, best remembered today for a game he developed.

We remember him as the father of baseball.

Lewis Wallace was a northern general, best remembered for a novel he wrote in 1880 called "Ben Hur."

William McKinley, who attended Allegheny College in Meadville, escaped Confederate bullets for four years, only to die from an assassin's bullet as our 25th president.

John Burns was a 74-year-old Gettysburg man who picked up the flintlock he had used in the War of 1812 and joined the ranks to get even with the rebs for driving off his cows.

(laughing) - That's the most marvelous story, I think, to come outta the Civil War.

John Burns was 74 years old, and he was mad 'cause they drove off his cows, so he grabbed his gun and went out and fought with the Union forces.

- [Bernie] You know that I knew it was Abner Doubleday.

- I knew that you knew it was Abner Doubleday, sure, of course.

- War somewhere else.

- This next question I apologize for, it's a little long.

I got carried away, but it's some, to me, some fascinating information about Pennsylvania.

Take a listen.

- [Announcer] The Pennwalt Corporation often holds its annual meeting at the Friends Select School, next door to the Pennwalt Building.

It's a reminder that the firm was founded by five Philadelphia Quakers back in 1850.

Originally called the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, Pennwalt still makes industrial chemicals of several varieties.

It uses hundreds of thousands of tons of salt, for example, to make chlorine and caustic soda.

But Pennwalt is diversified.

They use state-of-the-art technology to manufacture pharmaceuticals, such as time-release capsules.

When the company started in 1850, they had just one product.

Was that product A, lead to make paint, B, lye to make soap, C, tin to make cans, or D, phosphorus to make matches?

- The reason this question is so long, it's a marvelous example of what happened to Pennsylvania industry.

In 1850, small companies started, and today, some of them are large corporations and diversified.

But when they started in 1850, the five Quakers, or members of the Friends Religion, what did they make?

Lead to make paint, lye to make soap, tin to make cans, or phosphorus to make matches?

They only made one thing.

Chuck, it's your turn to go first.

- This is so easy when I'm at home watching this.

I mean, it seems to be so easy.

I had a feeling it would be like this.

The Friends were awfully, awfully clean people and surely it would've occurred to them to make soap for their fellow members.

- So their product was lye.

- What do I want?

B.

- You want B?

- B, well.

- Kevin, what do you think?

- Oh, I think one darned lye on the panel is enough.

- [Lynn] Get the lead out and pick one then.

- I'm gonna get the lead out and go for phosphorus.

- [Lynn] Phosphorus to make matches.

- Hope I can make a match on this.

- Did they have matches back in 1850?

Bernie, what's?

- I'm going for lye, not 'cause they were clean, but because lye is the truth.

- Lye is the truth.

- That's right.

- That reminds me of Orwell's "1984" and doublespeak.

What did they make back in 1850?

- [Announcer] The answer is B, lye to make soap.

(audience applauds) Soap was typical of colonial products.

Settlers used wood ashes to produce potash, then boiled with animal fat to make a harsh, foul-smelling soap.

As small companies produced a better lye for a better soap, homemade goods were outgrown.

And out of those small companies with one product, grew companies such as Pennwalt with a range of products, from electronic equipment that sorts over half the lemons grown in this country, to sophisticated materials for the modern world of communications, keeping Pennsylvania at the heart of today's industry.

- And those five Quakers would be amazed at all the stuff that Pennwalt does today.

And Girl Scouts, wouldn't it have been awful to have to go to the store and buy a can of lye and make soap at home?

That soap was awful rough too, I say.

Yeah, it was indeed.

Wouldn't it be nice to have four choices, Judge Brown, every time you had to make a decision?

- Yes.

Yes it would.

I don't have that, I sometimes have a lot of leeway, and sometimes it seems like there's only one right answer, but it's difficult to get there.

- Sure it is.

You play this game at home and do well?

- Oh, at home, I am a wiz.

- I see.

- And I can see what tonight is going to be like.

- [Lynn] Are you a native of Pennsylvania?

- Of Bellefonte.

Yes.

- Really?

- [Lynn] So you've grown up and stayed in Bellefonte all your life then?

- Well, went away, went to college at Juniata College in Huntingdon, and NYU in New York, and right back home, Bellefonte.

- Well one trip to NYU's enough to bring you back to Bellefonte, I would say.

Kevin Nelson, nice to have you here.

- Good to be here.

- It's nice to see that new sport coat.

Every time you appear now, it's a new sport coat.

- That's right, Lynn.

- Did you buy an interest in a clothing store or what?

- Well, actually I own the coat.

It's the underwear that's rented.

- I see, I see.

(laughing) You're rather handsomely done up tonight too, Bernie Asbell.

I wanted to say that that is a very nice combination.

- Well, I been seeing Kevin outta school every once in a while, I have to try to keep up with him.

- I'm getting fan mail that says, "Be sure and say hello to Bernie."

In fact, that's all it says is, "Be sure and say hello to Bernie."

So you may be.

(laughing) Let's go down to Westmoreland County, to a drugstore, something invented there.

- [Announcer] It was here at Strickler's Drugstore in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, that Dave Strickler made the world's first.

The year was 1904.

The question is world's first what, A, ice cream cone, B, hot fudge sundae, C, milkshake, or D, banana split?

- [Lynn] Now there's been a lot of research, Kevin Nelson, done on this, and this has been authenticated, historically accurate.

- Two of my favorite things, desserts and drug stores.

Now I know it's not the ice cream cone, 'cause that was done at the Saint Louis World's Fair.

- I see.

- I could just be bluffing.

- [Lynn] And the Saint Louis World's Fair was not in Latrobe.

- No, not that year.

So how about a banana split?

I feel somewhat like a banana tonight.

- Okay, he says it was a banana split in 1904 that was invented at Strickler's Drugstore, there in Westmoreland County.

Bernie?

- I know that the world's largest banana split was once done in Pennsylvania, so we can't overdo that.

I think that man invented, that's Sue Paterno's hometown.

Do you know that?

- Is that right?

- Invented the milkshake.

- The milkshake he says.

Okay, what flavor?

Never mind.

Chuck, what do you say?

- Well, since the World's Fair must have been in Latrobe at some time, and it is correct that the ice cream cone was invented at or about or at the 1904 World's Fair, it has to be A, the ice cream cone.

- I would've picked hot fudge sundae, simply 'cause that's my weakness, I love hot fudge sundaes.

But is hot fudge sundae the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is D, banana split.

Dave Strickler ordered special banana boat glasses from Westmoreland Glass in nearby Grapeville, and the banana split was born.

They sold for just 10 cents, and were so popular that students from nearby Saint Vincent's College took the idea back to their homes, and soon banana splits were everywhere.

But the banana split was born right here at Strickler's in Latrobe.

- Thank goodness that it was, let's check the score.

Kevin tightened things up, he got that one right.

Bernie has a slight lead with two, Chuck and Kevin both have one, it's anybody's game.

Encourage them.

Let's give them a nice hand of applause.

There we go.

(audience applauds) This will fix them, the Mystery Pennsylvanian tonight.

All right, here's clue number one.

And if you know the answer, panel, write it on line one.

Born in McKeesport in 1890 of a theatrical family, he had theater in his blood, born in McKeesport in 1890, theatrical family, he had the theater in his blood.

We've narrowed it, sort of the area down, and there'll be more clues, and we'll see if they can figure out from the later clues.

I love this question.

A woman named Elizabeth Drinker kept a diary, so we know a lot about colonial life in Pennsylvania.

- [Announcer] In 1799, a Philadelphia woman named Elizabeth Drinker recorded in her diary that she had done something for the first time in 28 years.

Her experience in avoiding something was not that unusual in colonial days.

Did she, for the first time in 28 years, A, take a bath, B, eat a tomato, C, leave her home, or D, wear shoes.

- Well, now there that gives you a lot to pick from.

Elizabeth Drinker, 1799, recorded in her diary that she'd avoided doing something.

She did it for the first time today, she said in 28 years.

What was that something?

Which of those four, Bernie Asbell?

- Me first?

- Yeah, you first, you first.

- Well, matter of fact.

- [Lynn] No, you don't write on this one, you pick a card.

- Oh, that's right, I like to avoid the whole subject of that Drinker family because, for 28 years, - They didn't bathe, you say.

- That's right.

- You say Elizabeth Drinker, for the first time in 28 years, took a bath in 1799.

Chuck, what do you say?

- Well, none of them really make any sense.

So therefore, obviously, it could be any one of the four of them.

I'm only gonna take a little flyer at this, only because I haven't tried C yet, and I haven't won too many yet either.

I haven't been right too often, but we'll try that.

- Folks may have stayed home a lot back in those days.

- 28 years.

- Kevin?

- This was 18?

Oh, 17.

- 1799.

- [Lynn] This was colonial, or right after Colonial.

- That's different.

- Yeah, sure, sure.

- Okay, well here's the logic.

- [Lynn] Okay, here we go.

Listen to this folks.

- You remember at Valley Forge, they didn't have shoes.

- That's right.

- And that was somewhere in that century, so I'll bet she didn't wear shoes.

- Yeah, and if you ever wore those colonial shoes that they made.

- Who could blame her?

- Tomatoes were thought to be dangerous to eat.

What is the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is A, take a bath.

In Colonial America, taking a bath was not a common experience.

Rural homes, washing up with just a pitcher full of warm water was much easier than heating a tub full over the open fire.

Even in Philadelphia, our most modern city, there was no water supply until 1801.

In fact, it wasn't until the 1830s that the Saturday night bath became an American institution.

- Yeah, you'd have liked growing up back in those days, Girl Scouts, 'cause you didn't have to take a bath every week.

As a matter of fact, not only was a bath uncommon, people did wash about the hands and the face and so forth, and perhaps under the armpits and so, but in 1865, Vassar College passed a rule that said girls must bathe twice a week, whether they need it or not.

- Those animals.

- And they did.

So baths are kind of a recent addition.

So for the first time in 28 years, Liz Drinker took a bath in 1799.

- And in honor of that, Judge Brown and I are taking one today.

(laughing) - Taking one here tonight, we certainly are.

- You'll get this one right, 'cause you guys know all about Pennsylvania newspapers and one was started in Pennsylvania.

- [Announcer] You'd never know it now, but when it started over 100 years ago, it was the Saturday edition of the Daily Sun and Banner.

Today, this weekly publication goes out from Williamsport to the whole nation.

Is it called A, Grit, B, Pluck, C, Home, or D, Discover?

- [Lynn] Now Judge Brown, if it'll help you, I'll tell you, those are all four are legitimate names of publications.

I did not make those up.

I actually found all four of those names written down somewhere.

But which one goes out from Williamsport to the whole nation?

- Well, I'm not as convinced that B, C, and D aren't made up by you, but I know that A was not made up.

The question is whether or not it's the right answer, and one of these has gotta be true, and true grit seems to make sense to me.

- Or whether grit was what Elizabeth Drinker washed off on her first bath in 28 years.

- Forget that will you please.

- Kevin, what do you say?

- Is Pluck for people who have chickens or guitar players?

- Guitar players.

- Oh yes.

- [Lynn] It could be, I don't know.

- I know that Grit is published in Williamsport and I'm not, although I would love to get a subscription, I'm not familiar with Pluck, Home, or Discover, so I'll pluck A up here.

- We'll get you a subscription to one of those, you can pick which one.

Bernie?

- Well Discover is America's great new science magazine.

Wonderful magazine.

I choose Grit.

- [Lynn] We all choose grit.

What is that Williamsport paper?

100 years old, goes out to the whole nation.

- [Announcer] The answer is A, Grit.

Grit was named in tribute to the founders, who got by largely on the determination to publish the positive aspects of life instead of the negative.

So each week, these presses consume 320 tons of paper, and thousands of gallons of ink, to spread good news to readers of Grit.

- Well they all three nailed me on that one, didn't they?

They knew it was Grit.

We'll look into Pluck, there is a magazine called Pluck.

Let's see about the score.

Well, if you add Chuck's score and Kevin's score together, it equals Bernie's score.

Bernie has four.

Let's hear it for Bernie Asbell.

(audience applauds) You're on a roll tonight, Bernie.

(panelists chuckle) - Grit.

- I'm glad to see you do that, 'cause lately you've been slipping a little bit, Bernie, on your right answers.

- Oh I know.

- Let's go for mystery clue number two.

His first play on Broadway was in collaboration with George S. Kaufman.

It wasn't his last play nor his most famous play.

He was born McKeesport 1890, theatrical family, theater in his blood, first play on Broadway, collaboration with George S. Kaufman, wasn't his last play, nor his most famous play.

And if you know, just write it on line two, and we'll be another clue if you don't know it.

And if you wanna write to us, you write it on a postcard or a letter, write Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, PA, and the zip is 16802.

We are always so glad to hear from all of you.

This is another one that goes back to colonial times and it's something that's not true, well, let's see.

- [Announcer] Dr. Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence and was one of the nation's best-known citizens.

He had many accomplishments.

Which of these facts is not true of Dr.

Rush?

A, first professor of chemistry in America, B, gave Tom Paine the title "Common Sense," C, founded America's first free clinic, or D, opposed bleeding to cure disease.

- Now there are three of these, Kevin, that are true of Dr. Ben Rush.

Old Dr.

Rush, they called him.

One is not true, which one is not true?

- You know, bleeding to cure hemophilia is not a very good idea.

- It's true.

- But that's so ridiculous, that's probably not it.

The first free clinic, he was probably a capitalist.

- He did not.

I see, okay.

- Wants to get paid.

- [Lynn] Bernie, which of this is not true of Dr. Ben Rush?

- Dr. Benjamin Rush was also America's first psychiatrist.

- True.

- And though he may have had a medical background, I'm going to guess that he was not a chemist.

- Not a chemist, okay.

Chuck, what do you say?

- Well, I have a much, much better way of doing this than I did before.

I've thought about this, I've studied it.

I know a lot about American history, and I'm gonna do whatever Bernie Asbell does.

(Lynn and audience laugh) - I think, in this case, you might be sorry, I don't know.

What was it that Dr.

Rush did not do?

He did the other three.

- [Announcer] The answer is D, he did not oppose bleeding to cure disease.

In fact, Dr.

Rush's theory of bleeding was opposed by some of his peers.

When you get a look at some of the surgical instruments used to bleed patients, you'll be glad you weren't sick back in those days.

Benjamin Rush was a professor of chemistry at the College of Philadelphia, and did write the first American textbook on chemistry.

Dr.

Rush suggested the title "Common Sense" to Tom Paine, and his Philadelphia dispensary was the nation's first free medical clinic.

- Suggested to Tom Paine, "Why don't you call your pamphlet 'Common Sense'?"

And Tom Paine gave that famous reply, "How do you spell that?"

Okay.

He did not.

(panelist chuckles) In fact, he may have been one of Washington's doctors, and of course Washington might have lived a little bit longer had they not drained so much blood out of him.

Something started in Pennsylvania in 1945.

Kind of a nice something I think, but what?

- [Announcer] In 1945, at the Farm on the Hill, near Swiftwater, Monroe County, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph van Hoevenberg started the first one.

Their efforts were successful.

What began in a small way grew rapidly and is thriving today.

What did the Vans introduce back in 1945?

Was it A, great books seminar, B, honeymoon resort, C, Montessori daycare center, or D, ski lodge?

- Okay, started in 1945 in Pennsylvania, near Swiftwater, Monroe County.

But what was it that started?

And I believe, Bernie, we're back to asking you first.

- Can I get caught asking about where's Monroe County?

Do you know?

- I wouldn't know, Bernie.

I wouldn't tell you if I did, that might help you too much.

- It sure might, it sure might.

- [Lynn] I'll tell you where Adams County is, but I'm not telling you where Monroe is.

- I'm tempted on the honeymoon resort, but I think we will try, I didn't see any mountains in that picture.

That was pretty late, they started.

- [Lynn] You are going on your honeymoon.

Is that what you're doing?

- We're going on our honeymoon - [Lynn] Okay, Chuck, what are you doing?

- Will you please make up your mind?

This is getting difficult.

(Lynn and panelists laugh) I'm going back now to, I'm going to another theory, which is not to follow you this time.

Monroe County, of course, is the Poconos, and that's known for ski lodges and honeymoon resorts, and you'd think they've had 'em before 1945.

And what was your answer?

- He went with the honeymoon.

- [Bernie] I went with the honeymoon resort.

- Well then.

- And I wish I hadn't.

- I'm gonna cover a ski lodge, although there surely must have been a hundred of those.

- [Lynn] They might read books back there, I don't know.

Kevin, what's the?

- I think after a truly successful honeymoon, you'd need a daycare center.

- I see, Montessori?

- Yeah.

- Swiftwater, the Vans, 1945.

What did they start?

It's doing well.

- [Announcer] The answer is B, a honeymoon resort.

Honeymooning in the Pocono mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania has become a multimillion dollar business.

Actually, Monroe County had catered to vacationers for a century, but out of the rustic setting of the Farm on the Hill came the honeymoon capital of the world.

While honeymooning in the Poconos conjures images of heart-shaped bathtubs, that's just a small part of the appeal.

The unspoiled beauty of the area attracts tourists of all kinds, year round.

Quite a change from that simple beginning.

And honeymooners have changed also.

Today, about half of the newlyweds who honeymoon in the Poconos are starting their second marriage.

- Is that a sign of the times?

About half are starting on their second marriage.

- I missed, instead of a room with a heart-shaped bathroom, I got one shaped like a spleen, it was horrible.

(panelists laugh) - Let's go from Monroe County over to Schuylkill County for our next question, something started there too.

- [Announcer] In 1948, an appliance salesman named John Walson of the Appalachian coal mining town of Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County, was first to come up with an idea.

Was the idea, A, a laundromat, B, rental appliances, C, service contracts, or D, cable television.

- 1948, appliance salesman named John Walson came up with this idea, which was it?

Laundromat, rental appliances, service contracts, or cable television.

Chuck, you're first on this one.

- Well, I certainly don't have the slightest idea, therefore I am where I've been just about all evening with this.

But the first thing that comes to mind, just to throw something up there, is D. - [Lynn] Cable television, okay, 1948 was the year.

Kevin Nelson?

- Rental appliances.

Rent to own.

- Put a coin in your slot.

Bern, what do you say?

- Sorry, I gotta think fast here.

- [Lynn] Yes, you do.

- Cable television started in Pennsylvania, but let's go with cable television.

- Oh, we have two cable televisions and a rental appliance.

We have no laundromat, however.

- [Charles] I'm flattered.

- Elizabeth Drinker could have gone.

What's the answer?

- [Announcer] The answer is D, cable television.

John Walson put three TV sets in the store with stations pulled in from Philadelphia, 90 miles away.

The TV set sold well, but customers demanded to be hooked up to the mountaintop aerial, and cable TV was born.

- Yep.

Cable TV, 1948.

Clue three for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

He won a Pulitzer in 1929 for a play that featured characters such as the Lord, Moses, and Noah.

His play in 1929 featured characters like the Lord, Moses.

Any idea, Kevin Nelson?

- On line two, for some reason, I wrote George M. Cohen.

- George M. Cohen.

Judge Brown?

- I didn't write anything, and I dearly wanted to give an answer tonight of John Montgomery Ward, the baseball Hall of Famer from Bellefonte, so I don't know.

- Put it down.

Moss Hart.

Oh, this famous man from McKeesport was such a good playwright, and his play is such a famous play.

But what is the famous play?

And who is this famous playwright?

Let's listen.

- Mark Conley was born in 1890 to parents who were former actors, then running a hotel in McKeesport.

When he was seven, they took him to Pittsburgh to see "Cyrano," and Mark Conley discovered that the magic of the theater could renew the spirit like religion.

He was to write novels and screenplays, but he's best remembered for his Pulitzer-winning play, "The Green Pastures."

Based on Roark Bradford's book, "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillin'," "Green Pastures," is a tribute to the literal faith of the Black religious experience, with the Lord walking and talking with Moses and with Noah.

Mark Conley, a famous Pennsylvanian.

- Was indeed, and "Green Pastures" was a beautiful, beautiful play, and performed many, many times.

I want to ask you one more follow up to the cable television answer, if I may.

Pennsylvania is the second largest, has the second most number of cable television sets.

What state has the most number of cable television systems?

Systems.

- Systems.

- Yeah.

We have 353.

- Oh, you mean companies.

- [Lynn] Yeah, they have 502.

Hurry, we only have 10 seconds left.

- New York state.

- The answer is Texas, believe it or not.

Hope you enjoyed yourself.

We'll see you next time when we all play The Pennsylvania Game.

Bye for now.

(audience applauds) - [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.

(relaxed music) (audience applauds) (retro pop music) (retro pop music continues) (retro pop music continues)