The Pennsylvania Game
Groundhogs, floods, capitols & children’s lit
Season 3 Episode 6 | 27m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Groundhogs, floods, capitols & children’s lit
Season 3 Episode 6 | 27m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Announcer] Pennsylvania rain has produced some major floods, the Johnstown Flood of 1889, the St. Patrick's Day flood of 1936.
Do you know which Pennsylvania community holds a world record for rainfall?
You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game".
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(upbeat music) Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
Thank you.
What do you do when people are applauding and the camera shooting you?
I don't know.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We have got some dynamite questions.
We have got a dynamite audience and I wanna mention that in our audience is Cub Scout Pack 41, Den 4 from, where are you from?
- [Pack] Chester Hill.
- Chester Hill, which is near Philipsburg.
I want you to give yourselves a hand.
Thanks for being here.
It's gonna be a lively audience, I promise you that.
And we've got a dynamite panel to be encouraged by that, audience.
She's a broadcast journalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Let's welcome Lynn Cullen.
(audience applauding) This is gonna be confusing.
We got two Lynns and two Kevins.
Our first Kevin is a TV programmer from State College, Kevin Harris.
(audience applauding) And a radio guy and another Kevin from Center County, Kevin Nelson.
(audience applauding) All I know is that when we say, hey, Lynn or hey Kevin, somebody is going to answer.
We had some neat footage and pictures of a record rainfall, a world record here in Pennsylvania.
So we asked this question.
- [Announcer] Pennsylvania has claim to a world record rainfall.
On July 17th, 1942, more than 30 inches of rain fell in just four hours.
Which community holds that record?
A, Johnstown, Cambria County?
B, Smethport, McKean County?
C, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County?
Or D, Waynesburg, Greene County?
- Now, as I said, there's no real way to know this, but 30 inches of rain in four hours is, let me tell you a world record, no doubt about it.
But I wanna know, is it Johnstown, Smethport, Wilkes-Barre or Waynesburg?
And it's probably gonna have to be a semi-educated guess.
Lynn Cullen, you're first.
- Yeah.
Well, Johnstown's known for being all wet.
Waynesburg likes to be all wet because it has this rain day every year.
And I wonder if that came about as a result of a record rainfall?
So I'm just going to.
(pounding noise) - [Lynn Hinds] Shuffle your cards.
- And make an educated guess, just as you predicted.
- [Lynn Hinds] D. - D. - [Lynn Hinds] Impressionable Kevin Harris is next.
- I'll go.
No, Johnstown is too obvious.
- [Lynn Hinds] Because that was the big flood in '89.
- Right, that's too obvious.
- [Lynn Hinds] Since Noah's flood, the Johnstown flood was the next one.
- That's right.
I'm scared to pronounce C. - [Lynn Hinds] Yeah, that's right.
Wilkes Bear or Wilkes Bear.
- That's right.
One of those.
- [Lynn Hinds] Never know.
- I don't want to copy on my first one, so I'll go B, Smethport.
- Smethport, all right, Smethport, he says.
Kevin Nelson.
- Oh, there's nothing wrong with copying on your first one.
Believe you me.
- [Lynn Hinds] In fact, Kevin just said he's not sure who to copy from since Bernie's not here.
- Well actually, in fact, they changed the name of the town right after this happened.
And the guy had a problem, a speech defect and it just waned and waned and waned in Waynesboro.
(all laughing) - You'll hear imaginative answers from Kevin Nelson.
That's one of the more imagine, who does hold that world's record?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, Smethport in McKean County.
(audience applauding) If you think that 30 inches of rain isn't much, consider that 30 inches is about the average rainfall for 10 months.
When 10 months of rain fall in one day, it leaves grim reminders of the power of nature.
It's a record that Central Pennsylvania would rather not break.
- Well now it's one thing when a dam breaks as it did in the Johnstown flood of '89 and it just comes pouring down, but in four hours, to have Mother Nature do that much damage with rain, is, I think, just does us well, to be reminded from time to time of how humble we humans are.
Kevin Harris got that one right.
Let's go down by the river for another water question.
See if he gets this one right.
- [Announcer] Emlenton, Pennsylvania lies along the Allegheny River in Venango County.
Just after the Civil War, Emlenton had the most number of something per population of any community in Pennsylvania.
Did Emlenton have the most?
A, millionaires?
B, college graduates?
C, Civil War casualties?
Or D, blacksmiths?
- This may have been not only any community in Pennsylvania, but any community in the country, it had the most number of something right after the Civil War.
And just, all you have to do is pick, Kevin Harris, which one of those four?
Millionaires, college grads, Civil War casualties or blacksmiths?
- Hmm.
- [Lynn Hinds] That's good.
Hmm.
Show's till on though.
- I'll go with A, millionaires.
- [Lynn Hinds] Millionaires.
You go where the money is, is what you're saying?
- That's right.
- Okay.
Another Kevin there.
- The millionaires are in Williamsport, aren't they?
Civil War casualties would make sense.
It was right after the Civil War and I hate to make sense.
It would either be college graduates or blacksmith and you'd make more money as a blacksmith, couldn't you?
- Okay, so we're going with millionaires, blacksmiths, and it's up to you Lynn Cullen.
Right after the Civil War, Emlenton, Venango County.
- Well, the last educated guess I made didn't work out, so how about an uneducated guess?
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
- D. - [Lynn Hinds] Blacksmiths.
- [Lynn Cullen] Blacksmiths.
- We have two blacksmiths and a millionaire in our midst and nobody picked college grads or Civil War casualties.
Let's see what's the answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, millionaires.
During the oil boom in the period after the Civil War, Emlenton had seven millionaires out of a population of just 1400 people.
That meant one out of every 200 persons in Emlenton was a millionaire.
- Yeah, oil was the big thing there, instead of lumber in Williamsport, as you said, Kevin Nelson.
But one out of every 200 people were millionaires, which meant you probably knew a millionaire, which isn't a bad thing, Lynn Cullen.
- No, I suppose not.
- To know a millionaire.
- I'm not doing too well.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're not warmed up yet for today's game.
I can see that.
We'll have to bring in a relief pitcher from the bullpen sitting in Bernie Asbell's seat and doing that bad.
- Well, it's bad vibes.
See, I knew he did this to me.
- Kevin Harris, on the other hand, will not be invited back 'cause he's two out of two so far.
That's an astounding start.
So Baltimore Oriole in reverse.
- That's right.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're from Youngstown originally?
- [Kevin Harris] Yes.
Youngstown, Ohio.
- You were allowed to visit Pennsylvania, 'cause Youngstown is just over the line.
- Once in a while.
Yeah.
If you're on the north side and if you don't walk straight, you can jump over the line.
- [Lynn Hinds] You spent some time out in Arizona.
- A lot of time.
Three years out of there, in Arizona.
I missed the good weather in Pennsylvania, so I came back this way.
- I see, I see.
We're glad to have you here and thanks for joining us on the game.
And Kevin Nelson, of course, is known for his witty answers.
Not always his right answers, but that's.
- One or the other.
And now I know who to copy off of, but I have to go first this time.
- Yes, but you figured out that the other Kevin is the guy you think to copy off of.
Well, let's go to another question for you to copy off of.
And this one is about the Capitol buildings in Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] The capitol building of Pennsylvania is, of course, in Harrisburg, but three other buildings have served as capitol.
Which of these was not a Pennsylvania Capitol?
A, Independence Hall, B, Lancaster Court House, C, Old Capitol at Harrisburg, or D, York Colonial Court House.
- Of course, as you know, Kevin Nelson, we don't always, some of our answers may be imaginary, they may not even exist.
But they're your four choices.
Which one was not, meaning the other three were, at one time.
- And the darnedest thing is when you put one of those up there, I almost always take it.
Now I know Independence Hall exists and those other three are pretty much all in the same neighborhood.
So, Independence Hall.
- [Lynn Hinds] State capitol buildings.
- Well sure, but they wouldn't put the state capitol in Philadelphia, that was the national capitol.
- [Lynn Hinds] So you're gonna say.
- They are copyright laws.
- I see.
Miss Cullen, ma'am.
Which one of these was not a capitol building for the state of Pennsylvania?
- Well I've decided, this is a trick question.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay.
- I mean, why would something called the Old Capitol at Harrisburg not have been one of the capitols?
- [Lynn Hinds] Probably it was then if there was such a building.
- I say it wasn't.
- [Lynn Hinds] There was never an Old Capitol.
The one we're looking at's the only one that was there.
Kevin Harris, we got 'em divided.
- You know this is getting kind of scary because Kevin Nelson's logic made sense.
(all laughing) - [Kevin Nelson] We'll call for the nurse.
- That's right.
I agree.
It can't be Independence Hall.
- Cannot be Independence Hall.
Well, what can or cannot be shall be determined.
Let's watch.
- [Announcer] The answer is D, the York Colonial Court House.
Although it served as national capitol for nearly nine months, it was never state capitol.
Independence Hall was originally the State House of Pennsylvania.
During the War for Independence, the State Assembly met in the Lancaster Court House, then again from 1799 until 1812.
Then for three quarters of a century there was a new capitol, until it burned in 1897.
For the past 80 years, the present Capitol building has been home to Pennsylvania's government.
- Boy, did we fool them on that one, huh?
Yeah.
The Liberty Bell was ordered for the State House of Pennsylvania, not for the National Capitol Hall, that was Independence Hall and there was an old capitol building.
Lots of people don't know that, that burned down.
Well, we have a very close game.
We have Kevin Harris with two right.
Lynn and Kevin with none right.
Let's hear for Kevin Harris.
(all applauding) The game is not over yet and it does not always go to the swift of start.
So think.
Mystery Clue number one.
We have a Mystery Pennsylvanian for you.
We'll be giving you three clues in total and see if you can guess.
Write it on line one if you know the answer.
When his company started just north of Philadelphia in 1876, it was quite tiny, but it grew to be the largest company of its kind in the world.
You may not know it on that first one, that's not a real heavy clue, but think about it.
His company started 1876, north of Philly.
It was a tiny company, but it grew to be the largest company of its kind in the world.
And as I say, we'll have two more clues coming up throughout the course of the show to see if you can guess our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
All right.
Right now we're gonna go up to the other end, to Warren County for a question of a literary merit.
- [Announcer] Marion Potter of Warren, Warren County, says that the railroad and her children inspired her to write.
Which of these is the most famous of her books?
A, "The Little Engine That Could."
B, "The Little Red Caboose."
C, "Little Toot."
Or D, "Freight Train."
- Marion Potter.
Children's literature.
You've heard her name many times.
What's her famous book?
- [Lynn Cullen] "I think I can.
I think I can."
- [Lynn Hinds] I hope you can.
I hope you can.
- Listen, I'm due.
- [Lynn Hinds] Marion, you're due.
- A positive attitude is all I need here, just like the little engine that could.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay, so you're going with A, I'll bet, aren't you?
- And I'll be wrong again.
- Okay.
"The Little Engine That Could", Marion Potter.
What name comes to, from your childhood, Kevin?
- That's right.
I was just reading this this afternoon.
(all laughing) - [Kevin Nelson] You were just coloring this, this afternoon.
- [Lynn Hinds] I can believe that.
- I didn't finish it, but it, I would say the "Little Toot."
- [Lynn Hinds] "Little Toot."
Okay.
Kevin Nelson.
- "Little Toot?"
- [Lynn Hinds] We have "The Little Engine" and the "Little Toot."
What do you say here?
- The "Little Toot."
Now see, actually you misunderstood what I was doing on the last question.
I wasn't trying to get it right.
I was trying to get Kevin off the track.
And I did that beautifully.
And I think it's "The Little Red Caboose."
- "The Little Red Caboose."
We have a "Little Engine That Can," a "Little Red Caboose" and we have a "Little Toot."
So let's see which of these is, I think one of 'em's right on this one, believe it or not.
Let's see.
- [Announcer] The answer is B, "The Little Red Caboose."
When Marion Potter was married, she moved from Missouri to Warren, Pennsylvania.
She wrote "The Little Red Caboose" in 1953.
It's had 52 printings in English and has been translated into French and Spanish.
Children around the world have enjoyed 6 million copies of "The Little Red Caboose."
Marion Potter's newest children's book is "Mark Makes His Move."
- And Kevin Nelson gets an answer right.
Let's go to sports quickly for another question before we lose our panel.
And this one is about a kind of sport that takes place in the eastern part of Pennsylvania.
- [Announcer] Rural Trexlertown in the Lehigh Valley is known as a racing capitol for what sport?
A, canoeing races?
B, motocross races?
C, pancake races?
Or D, bicycle races?
- Okay, Kevin Harris, Trexlertown, it's out in the country in the Lehigh Valley.
What kind of racing do they do there?
- Pancake races.
- [Lynn Hinds] You get in a pancake and paddle.
(all laughing) - Boy.
Lehigh Valley.
- [Lynn Hinds] What kind of racing would they have there?
- I will say pancake.
- [Lynn Hinds] Pancake racing.
- I like that answer.
- Making pancakes and racing around.
Kevin Nelson.
What do you say there?
- I thought it was motocross pancakes, myself.
How fast did they get those pancakes?
- [Lynn Hinds] Nevermind.
- Bicycle races.
- [Lynn Hinds] Bicycle, you say?
- [Kevin Nelson] I don't know why.
- [Lynn Hinds] Okay, Lynn Cullen, we've got a pancake and a bicycle.
- Nope, you do not.
You've got two pancakes and a bicycle.
- Two pancakes and a bicycle.
Do you know how many pancakes it takes to cover a bicycle?
One if it's big enough.
What's the right answer here?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, bicycle races.
The Lehigh County Velodrome in Trexlertown was built in 1975.
When publisher Robert Rodale got interested in bicycle racing, he built the first world class modern velodrome in the United States.
Both amateurs and professionals race in the Velodrome from May to September, attracting an average of 2000 spectators a week.
- I was gonna ask, what is a velodrome?
Did any of you know if I'd ask it that way, what a velodrome is?
It's an arena.
- [Kevin Nelson] I thought it was a breath mint.
- No, it's not a breath mint.
It's an arena for bicycle racing.
And they've built one in Trexlertown.
They're well known and becoming world famous for their bicycle racing.
The score has been tied.
It's Kevin two and Kevin two.
Let's hear it for both Kevins!
(audience applauding) Today, your name is Kevin, or you might as well stay home, 'cause this guy's racing out of the starting block.
Here's clue number two for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Every year in early spring, home gardeners get out catalogs with his name on them and begin to dream.
Every year in early spring, home gardeners get out catalogs with his name on them and begin to dream.
Clue one of course, if you know the answer, write it on line two.
Clue one was tiny company north of Philly.
1876.
It began and it grew to be the largest in the world.
While our panel is scribbling and thinking and so forth, here's our address if you wanna write to us.
Just write to "The Pennsylvania Game", Wagner Annex, University Park 16802.
Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex University Park, PA 16802.
We will be delighted to hear from you.
We like to feature from time to time Pennsylvania products because we have a lot of companies producing great things.
And here's a product question.
- [Announcer] If you're ever a victim of anaphylactic shock, you'll be grateful to the Vespa Company of Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.
They produce an antidote for, A, snake bites, B, poison ivy, C, rabies, or D, bee stings?
- Okay.
The Vespa Company of Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.
Right in the center of the state or near the center of the state.
And those are all good antidotes to have, Kevin Nelson, but which one do they produce?
Anaphylactic shock.
- Well, if you found one of those, you'd be shocked.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yes.
- I know this one.
This is bee stings.
- [Lynn Hinds] Bee stings.
- Absolutely.
- [Lynn Hinds] He says bee stings, Lynn Cullen.
- Is he trying to mislead me?
- [Lynn Hinds] Hey, am I gonna tell you?
I don't know.
- You don't know?
I'm the one who's proving I don't know.
- [Lynn Hinds] Would he do a thing like that?
He says, anaphylactic shock, he says, bee stings.
- Well, I know you can go into anaphylactic shock with a bee sting.
I imagine you could with a snake bite.
I don't think you could with rabies or poison ivy.
So it narrows it down to A or D. And since thinking for myself hasn't gotten me anywhere, I'll copy him and do a D. - Okay.
I once had poison ivy on part of my body that I thought I had anaphylaxis, yes, Kevin Harris, what do you say here?
We've got two bee stings.
- Yeah, they're pretty positive about that.
I have no idea.
So I'll go with D. - You're gonna be sucked right in.
(all laughing) One person takes an authoritative guess and the other three, they all say bee stings.
What did you say?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, bee stings.
Allan Benton had the idea for Vespa Labs when he had a reaction to a bee sting.
It's estimated that more than 2 million people in the USA alone are allergic to bee stings.
Vespa produced an extract of bee venom that can be used to desensitize allergic persons, preventing anaphylactic shock and even possible death.
- I wish we hadn't shown that one shot, that's what.
It's very important work that they do and it really can save somebody's life.
'Cause you can die from that unless you get the antitoxin very, very quickly.
So they make a living producing that.
Wish I'd have thought of producing that 'cause it's a good idea.
Well, okay.
Everybody got that right and that's no fun.
The next one is about a man and something that he invented that every woman is familiar with.
- [Announcer] Frank DeLong was born in Danville, Montour County, in 1864.
He invented a device that every woman is familiar with.
Did Frank DeLong invent A, the potato peeler?
B, the rolling pin, C, the can opener, or D, the Bobby pin?
- We're back to you Lynn Cullen.
And we didn't have picture of Frank DeLong, but we got some great pictures coming up.
So you just have to decide which one of those.
- See, this is what's wrong with our society today.
I mean, why aren't men more familiar with potato peelers, rolling pins, can openers and.
- Bobby pins, they are.
(all laughing) Which is something else that's wrong with our society.
Nevermind that.
What do you say?
- Well, I think Mr. DeLong invented the, did they even have cans back then?
- [Lynn Hinds] I don't know.
- I don't know.
Oh, this is pathetic.
- [Lynn Hinds] 1864?
No, he was born in 1864.
- Oh, a potato peeler.
- Potato peeler.
Okay.
Kevin Harris, what do you think?
- DeLong.
DeLong.
- [Lynn Hinds] DeLong.
- The rolling pin is the longest thing on the list.
- [Lynn Hinds] That's good.
That's good.
That's good.
- I'll go with the rolling pin.
- We have a potato peeler, a rolling pin, and Kevin Nelson?
- D has been very good to me and since I have absolutely no idea what Frank DeLong did and why we didn't stop him, I'll say the.
- [Lynn Hinds] You're gonna skip the can opener and go right to.
- That's right.
- The Bobby pin.
What was it that Frank DeLong invented that women know about?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, the Bobby pin.
Frank DeLong invented the Bobby pin in response to the short bobbed hair of the Roaring Twenties.
- You gotta figure, Frank DeLong was born in 1864 and the Roaring Twenties came along and bobbed hair led to Bobby pins.
- [Kevin Nelson] Well, that's exactly the logic I used.
- Sure it was, indeed it was.
I bet.
Let's go back to an old Pennsylvania custom for this one.
This is something that was brought over by the Germans when they came here.
See what it is.
- German settlers brought the custom of Groundhog Day to Pennsylvania, but they had to substitute the groundhog for the animal that foretold the weather in the old country.
What was the original groundhog?
A, raccoon?
B, ferret?
C, badger?
Or D, bear?
- Okay, so there we are.
German settlers brought Groundhogs Day, but they didn't have groundhogs over there in the old country, they had something else and they just had to switch it to groundhogs when they got here, don't you see?
What was Groundhog Day called in Germany before they brought it over?
Kevin Harris?
Was it called Raccoon Day?
Ferret Day, Badger Day or Bear Day?
- Can't be Bear Day.
- [Lynn Hinds] Cannot be bear day.
Any reason it can't be Bear Day?
- Because he just won with D twice.
- [Lynn Hinds] I see, I see.
(audience laughing) - Boy, I will say, ferret.
- [Lynn Hinds] Ferret, okay.
What is a ferret?
- Ferret is a little.
- [Lynn Cullen] It's a long weasley rodent.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yeah.
- Yeah, it's a long weasley rodent.
- But they do live in the ground.
- They do live in the ground.
And they look a little bit like a groundhog.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Kevin?
- It's a long weasley rodent.
But she meant that in a nice way.
(all laughing) - [Lynn Hinds] That wasn't the majority statement at all.
No.
- I don't believe rac, I think they're native to America and Badger Day just sounds silly.
And of course Kevin eliminated bear for me and the way they do this, actually, they put these animals in these big wheels and that's how they invented the ferrets wheel.
- [Lynn Hinds] I see.
Yeah.
That was okay.
Lynn, do better than that.
- [Kevin Nelson] Or maybe not.
- Well, no one in their right mind is going to grab a bear by the scruff of its neck while it's hibernating and pull it out and say, "Are we gonna have six weeks of spring or aren't we?"
I mean, no one's gonna do that.
- [Kevin Nelson] You gonna have six weeks of stitches.
- They ferreted around for a ferret?
- [Lynn Hinds] I don't know.
- I'm from the Badger State of Wisconsin, you know.
- [Lynn Hinds] Yes, yes.
- They're mean critters, badgers.
I don't think you'd pull a badger out of a hole either.
I think, I forgot the question.
- [Lynn Hinds] What was the groundhog in Germany that was, they didn't have ground over here, so I think.
- They ferreted around for a ferret, couldn't find a ferret so they settled on a badger.
- Everybody got an average answer of B on this one.
What animal did they use in Germany for Groundhog's Day?
Was it a ferret?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, badger.
The origin of Groundhog Day can be traced back to the ancient Greeks who believed an animal's shadow was its sin-blackened soul.
During winter hibernation, the soul was cleansed, and if the animal awoke and could still see a shadow, it was back to bed.
The Germans modified the custom and created Badger Day.
But Pennsylvania had no badgers, so the Germans substituted the groundhog.
In 1887, the Punxsutawney newspaper declared their groundhog the official shadow caster.
And since then, every year on February 2nd, Pennsylvanians look to Punxsutawney Phil to tell us if spring is just around the corner.
- Boy, this year Punxsutawney Phil missed it by a mile.
He said it was gonna be warm right up.
And I luckily kept my long johns on.
Clue number three.
Well, let's announce the score so far, because Kevin Nelson just sneaked ahead by one with four right?
Nice going, Kevin, you're in the lead now.
(audience applauding) Okay.
Clue number three.
You'll get it on this one if his seed catalogs don't tell you his name, his most famous development may, he developed the Big Boy and the Big Girl tomato.
And every home gardener I have ever known has raised Big Boy tomatoes or Big Girl tomatoes.
So there you are, tiny company, 1876, grew to be the largest in the world.
Each spring gardeners get out his catalogs and begin to dream.
And Kevin Nelson is writing, let's, it's his turn, start with him.
Did you write a name down there?
- Yes, I did.
- [Lynn Hinds] You'll hate yourself when you learn this one.
- When you said his name was on all the packaged seed, I was gonna say Mr.
Seeds, now I don't know his first name, but Burpee.
- Burpee on the second guess.
Kevin Harris, what do you got for us there?
- Nothing.
- [Lynn Hinds] Nothing at all.
- I have no idea.
- I thought it was a made up name, but I got Burpee on the second.
- Both have Burpee on the second.
Well, let's see if the Big Boy and Big Tomato was indeed invented by somebody named Burpee.
- [Announcer] David Burpee is one of America's greatest horticulturalists.
The Burpee Seed Company began in Warminster, north of Philadelphia in 1876.
From the small enterprise, Burpee grew to be the largest vegetable and flower seed company in the world.
David Burpee developed such famous hybrids as the Big Boy and the Big Girl tomatoes.
Burpee has long worked to make his favorite flower, the marigold, the national flower.
David Burpee, a famous Pennsylvanian, has devoted his entire life to plants.
- Yeah, indeed.
Luther Burbank is a name you hear about in school.
But David Burpee of Pennsylvania is a man who devoted as much time to plants, I guess as anybody did.
He wants to make the marigold our national flower.
What do you think?
Would that be your choice?
- [Lynn Cullen] Marigolds stink.
(audience agreeing) - But she meant that in a positive way.
(all laughing) I want to know more about "Mark Makes His Move."
(all laughing) When do I get a copy of that?
(all laughing) - And is there a coloring book, right.
Okay.
Every gardener though, has gotten out Burpee's catalog and you just, the name never registers and David Burpee was indeed a very, very famous Pennsylvanian.
In 1876, he founded this company.
And today, it became the biggest in the world.
I'm not sure where it is today or not.
Well, you did all right, Panel.
Nobody really extinguished themselves.
Distinguished themselves.
(all laughing) I figured that though today, that either Lynn or Kevin would win.
And Kevin Harris, you did well.
You came out on top and the two of you, or Kevin Nelson came out on top.
Kevin Harris came in second, you got the Mystery Pennsylvanian today, which is.
- Well, how sweet of you to think of something positive to say about my dismal performance.
- It's true.
Because Mystery Pennsylvanian was a toughie.
And you got it on the second guess.
And that's rather marvelous.
- Well, it's sweet of you to say.
- Well, we thank you all for being here.
Where do we stand now?
Huh?
Audience, thank you for being here, too.
We glad you, and again, Pack 41 Den 4, we're glad you're here, too.
We're glad you all joined us also.
We'll see you next time when we all gather right here to play "The Pennsylvania game."
See you then.
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