[theme music] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible, in part, by-- NARRATOR: By a grant from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.

The network receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide public television for all Pennsylvanians.

ANNOUNCER: Now let's get the game started.

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

[applause] Hey.

The best studio audience in the world.

Thank you for showing up.

Thank you, at home, for tuning in.

We've got an exciting game for you today.

I can't wait.

Let's find out who our panelists are.

We'll start off right here in the hot seat, it's our first guest.

He's one of the Compu Dudes, heard Thursday nights on WHYY FM in Philadelphia.

When he's not running the Compu Dude office, he's teaching at colleges or consulting for corporations, he's studying computer history, and working on his yo-yoing.

Please say hello to Peter Cook.

Hello.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

Now, our next contestant gave us her laundry list of feeble excuses about why she shouldn't be a panelist, but we told her that she had overdrawn her shame account.

She's a writing instructor, as a matter of fact, freshman writing at Elmira college.

Please welcome D.L.

McGann.

[applause] Hi, D.L.

And D.L.

Is surrounded by Compu Dudes.

It's WHYY FM'S other Compu Dude.

When he's not messing with computers, he's a private pilot, an amateur astronomer, and a model rocket enthusiast.

Please put your hands together for Scott Manning.

[applause] All of this combined intelligence on one Pennsylvania Game.

I can't wait let's start.

ANNOUNCER: Chuck Kristensen's hobby has grown into the world's most active such enterprise.

An arachnophile, Kristensen's basement in his Feasterville, Pennsylvania home is a pharmaceutical lab filled with A, snakes, B, spiders, C, bats, or D, bees?

SCOTT BRUCE: All right, what was Chuck about here?

Was it snakes?

Was it spiders?

Was it bats or bees?

Well, these are-- we have some fun stuff.

And, by the way, we have a plentiful supply of each of these, underneath your podiums, right by your knees.

SCOTT MANNING: Excellent.

Excellent.

SCOTT BRUCE: Let's go to Peter, first.

Peter, what do you think?

B, spiders.

SCOTT BRUCE: You went with B, spiders.

Yes.

SCOTT BRUCE: You have a strong feeling about this?

PETER: Very strong.

Very strong.

Very strong.

SCOTT BRUCE: A Compu Dude who knows.

D.L.?

Well, because I actually have arachnophobia, it has got to be spiders.

We got two people that are very positive.

Can we make it a clean sweep?

I think we can.

B, spiders.

SCOTT BRUCE: B, spiders, all the way down the line.

What does that mean on our show?

Everybody gets lottery tickets.

Take one and pass them down, the Pennsylvania lottery tickets, with a chance to win $1,000 a week for life.

Now we're going to find out if it's a creepy, crawly spider.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, spiders.

Thousands of plastic cups, containing 50,000 living spiders, line the shelves in the basement of Chuck Kristensen's home in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia.

This is the lifeblood of Spiderpharm, spelled with a P-H, the world's largest supplier of spider venom.

Kristensen, a trained entomologist, painstakingly extracts or milks the venom from his specimens, which include everything from deadly black widows to fist sized, African king baboon tarantulas.

One order, typically, just a few drops of venom, can require hundreds of tranquilized spiders, and the better part of a day, to harvest.

Spider venom, according to Kristensen, who started this mom and pop operation as a hobby in 1980, is aiding scientists in the development of new medicines and in understanding how the human brain works.

[applause] Yes, indeed.

The Kristensens recently relocated to Yarnell, Arizona.

It seems spider collecting is easier in Arizona, and his neighbors there aren't as freaked out by the spiders.

And he did make an offer for D.L.

To move in with them with the spiders.

So that should be kind of fun.

Let's find out some more fun.

ANNOUNCER: Born in Pittsburgh in 1884, Evelyn Nesbit moved to New York at age 16, became known as the most beautiful artist, model in America.

Her life story was captured in the 1955 film titled, A, The Bad And The Beautiful, B, The Original Beauty And The Beast, C, Woman In The Window, or D, Girl In The Red Velvet Swing?

SCOTT BRUCE: Hey, there's a good one for you kids.

What do you think?

Was Evelyn Nesbit, The Bad And The Beautiful, The Beauty And The Beast, The Woman In The Window, or The In The Red velvet Swing.

We'll go down to D.L., and you can answer first.

The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing.

She knows.

Look at that look.

Look at that look.

Look at that cat smile-- Too much trivia.

SCOTT BRUCE: --Cheshire cat smile.

Way too much trivia.

She knows.

What do you think?

Let's go down to Scott.

I had no idea, so I picked C, Woman In The Window.

Woman In The Window.

So we've got a woman swinging through a window on a red velvet swing.

SCOTT MANNING: Hey, here we go.

SCOTT BRUCE: Followed by Peter.

What do you got, peter?

We're connected by wireless ethernet here.

I picked C. SCOTT BRUCE: So we have two women in the window, they're connected by wireless internet to each other, but, apparently, not to anyone with the correct answer.

[laughter] ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Girl In The Red Velvet Swing.

Evelyn Nesbit was born in 1884, in Tarentum, near Pittsburgh.

At age 16, and beautiful, Evelyn moved to New York, where she posed for artists and photographers.

One journalist described her as quote, "The most exquisitely lovely human being, I ever looked at."

Charles Dana Gibson, famed for his Gibson Girl, sketched Evelyn with her hair streaming down to form a question mark and called it, The Eternal Question.

Photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr.

captured the weary Evelyn sprawled across a polar bear rug, and named his famous photograph, Tired Butterfly.

In 1905, Evelyn married Harry K. Thaw, an unstable millionaire from Pittsburgh.

A year later, her jealous husband shot and killed Stanford White, her former lover and Thaw was sent to an asylum for the criminally insane.

Evelyn, divorced and struggling, took stage and film parts to survive.

She died in 1967 in a Hollywood nursing home, having lived to see the 1955 film about her life, Girl In The Red Velvet Swing.

[applause] See, you learn, you learn, you learn, that's the beauty of The Pennsylvania Game.

And now, we're going to learn, learn, learn, a little more about our panel, panel, panel.

We'll start right over here with Peter Cook.

Peter.

Hello, there.

SCOTT BRUCE: Guess what?

I think we have something in common.

What's that?

I'm a bit of a computer nut, myself.

PETER: OK, well-- And I think I have something in my basement that you have in your basement.

Oh, yeah?

A graveyard of old computers.

Oh, yes.

Well, it's in my basement, the garage, the attic, everywhere.

SCOTT BRUCE: I know the feeling, exactly.

I have about 20, at last count.

How about you?

There are about 30, 40.

SCOTT BRUCE: And now, do you have the whole range, Macintosh and PCs?

Yeah.

A whole range.

And looking for, now, odd ones on eBay.

SCOTT BRUCE: So now you're out hunting.

Oh, yes.

I turned one of my original Mac Pluses into the fishbowl.

PETER: You did that?

Yes.

I did that because-- Cool.

SCOTT BRUCE: --I have a lot of free time on my hands.

Well, yeah.

It's not leaking at all?

Not yet.

Not yet.

Great.

But I also want to comment on great tie.

Thank you.

I love it.

Shows up good on TV.

Thank you.

We'll move down to DL.

DL, apparently, your parents could only afford the two initials there.

It was a poor but honest upbringing.

SCOTT BRUCE: A poor but honest upbringing.

Is there a story behind the DL?

I'd love to hear it.

Only that, my freshman year in college, the guy that was standing beside me in the bookstore, who had struck up a conversation with me, saw me write out my check.

And I had written out the check with my real name.

And he said, oh, I really hate that name because I used to be engaged to a girl named that.

And he asked me what my initials were, and he introduced me to his friends after that, as DL.

SCOTT BRUCE: As DL?

And I thought, I can live with that.

The rest is history.

Here you are.

DL, I like it.

[applause] We'll run down to Scott Manning, next.

Scott, it says here that you brought your first computer in 1978.

Yes Yes.

I was the first person in my high school, Lord Often, by the way-- SCOTT BRUCE: Lord?

--yeah, to have a computer.

And it hasn't-- Actually, I don't have all the old computers because I had to get rid of them.

They just had to go.

SCOTT BRUCE: They just had to go.

Yeah.

So I only have eight or nine, that actually work but they're all online now, so.

SCOTT BRUCE: And look at this, you got an easy place to get rid of them, if you want to.

SCOTT MANNING: Yeah.

You bet you.

Yeah.

So you went straight from the slide rule to the computer.

I still have the slide rule.

SCOTT BRUCE: There you go.

That's my man.

That's our panel.

And on that happy note, let's jump right back into the game.

ANNOUNCER: In 1938, the Boys Association of Ashland, Pennsylvania, donated and erected a monument that's one of a kind.

The memorial, located in Schuylkill County was erected in honor of what group?

A, coal miners, B, mothers, C, firemen, or D, the Molly maguires.

SCOTT BRUCE: Schuylkill County, up in my neck of the woods, as a matter of fact.

So a lot of these make sense.

Was it coal miners, mothers, firemen, or the-- [bell ringing] --and the firemen are here now, or the Molly maguires?

Will go down to Scott, first, on this one.

I picked C. I think, I recall driving by that.

I think.

SCOTT BRUCE: You think it was the fireman.

I think so.

And you were probably influenced by our lovely fire bell.

SCOTT MANNING: No.

Not really.

Not even a little bit.

We'll go over to Peter.

Total guess.

I have no idea.

I unfortunately haven't been there.

I put, B, mothers.

SCOTT BRUCE: B, mothers.

Yes.

And a wild guess.

PETER: Wild guess.

You know what?

This is The Pennsylvania Game, this is a really smart move.

D.L.

Well, I've been through it a lot of times.

But I have no clue.

So I chose coal miners.

SCOTT BRUCE: You've actually been there and you don't know.

I like the observation powers.

I was driving very fast.

SCOTT BRUCE: Well, let's find out.

You were driving very fast.

OK.

Well, that's a good excuse.

OK.

Well, we've got a B. We've got an A. We've got a C. Let's see, if somebody's narrowed it down.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, mothers.

In 1938, the Mothers Monument, the only one of its kind, was donated and erected by the Ashland Boys Association in the borough of Ashland, Schuylkill County.

This inspirational monument to motherhood is based on the famous Whistler's Mother portrait, and sits at the top of a steep set of stairs surrounded by a small park, perfect for reflecting on the debt of gratitude owed to those who bore and raised [applause] If you're going to have a memorial, it should be for mom.

Hi, Mom.

I've never said hi to you on TV before.

Let's check our scores.

What do we have?

We have Peter with two points, D.L.

with two points, and Scott with one point.

It's a tight game.

Could go any way at all.

That means, it's time for our first clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Let's see what we have.

Born in Hollidaysburg-- born on a Hollidaysburg farm in 1885, she ran off to Pittsburgh in her teens, to study music and dance.

Born on a Hollidaysburg farm in 1885, right outside of Altoona, for those of you who don't know.

She ran off to Pittsburgh in her teens, to study music and dance.

Write your answer down on that first line.

If you get it right, and you have it right all the way through, you'll get three points.

If you get it right on the second line, you'll get two points.

And if you get it right on the third line, you'll get one point.

I see everybody's writing something, and that's a good sign because we're running desperately out of time.

And that means, we jump right back to the game.

ANNOUNCER: In 1886, John A. Reyer a German immigrant, started a business in Sharon, on the Pennsylvania, Ohio border, that's still going strong today.

Reyers is A, the world's largest shoe store, B, the first toupee manufacturer and retailer, C, home of the first brassiere factory, which originally featured bras made of ribbon and handkerchiefs, or D, the national repository for outdated currency plates?

SCOTT BRUCE: All right.

What did I buy when I went to Reyers?

Did I get my new shoes?

Did I get my old toupee?

Did I get my bra, stop, or outdated currency plates?

We'll go to Peter, first.

Peter.

Again, I'm going from just the ether here, take, D. SCOTT BRUCE: Did it work last time?

Yes.

Then keep that theme up, my friend.

You went with the currency plates.

D.L.

I missed the ether, I chose C. SCOTT BRUCE: You chose C, without any ether, and that could work, and bras, very lacy, look pretty.

Scott.

I went with the most ridiculous and picked B, toupees.

SCOTT BRUCE: Pick B, toupees.

So we have C, B, D. We have all three but A. Watch.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Founded in 1886, by John A. Reyer, a German immigrant shoemaker.

Reyers has grown to become the world's largest shoe store.

Reyers draws 1,000 customers daily, and 3,000 on its busiest days, to Sharon, Pennsylvania, an old steel town located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Owned since 1954 by Harry Jubelirer, a second generation shoe man from Pittsburgh, the family run business stocks 175,000 pairs of shoes in its 36,000 square feet of space.

Women sizes run from 2 to 15 in widths from quintuple A to double E. Men's sizes go up to 22.

Open seven days a week, Reyers attracts local customers and draws some 600 tour buses a year, that drive here from as far away as Toronto.

[applause] Reminding us of the famous old adage, big shoes, big feet.

David Letterman once plugged the store on his show and the store's incredible selection was also featured in, On The Road with Charles Kuralt.

So, you see, we're all over the place in Pennsylvania.

Let's go to a new question.

ANNOUNCER: Jonas Salk developed the first effective polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh in 1952.

On whom did Salk first test his vaccine?

A, himself, B, his children, C, children who recovered from polio, or D, his wife.

SCOTT BRUCE: There's a heck of a good question.

Now, who did Salk test this out on?

Was he a brave man, and did he do it on himself?

Did he do it on his own children?

I kind of find that one hard to believe, but who knows.

Did he do it on children who recovered from polio, or do he do it on his wife?

You know, they could have had a fight that day.

Let's find out.

D.L., we'll go to you first.

I took the high road, and said, himself.

You took the high road and said, himself.

A very noble cause.

I'll bet it's wrong.

We'll go to Scott.

Well, I picked A, as well.

SCOTT BRUCE: Himself?

We got two, himself.

Couldn't believe he had informed consent back then, so.

All right.

Now, you better hope you get the right answer, or at least a lottery ticket.

Peter?

And I picked A, also.

SCOTT BRUCE: We have lottery tickets.

[ringing] These guys aren't playing to win.

They're playing for lottery tickets.

That's all it is.

Take one, and pass them down, please.

Now, we'll find out from Wendy Williams, exactly how wrong they are.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C. While at the University of Pittsburgh, Jonas Salk developed an inactivated virus vaccine that provided immunity against polio.

On July 2nd, 1952, Salk tried his injectable vaccine on children who already had polio and recovered.

After the vaccination, their antibodies increased.

Salk then tried it on volunteers, who had not had polio, including himself, his wife, and their children.

The volunteers all produced antibodies, and none got sick.

After massive field tests, the vaccine quickly came into wide use in 1955, and helped to reduce the incidence of polio.

In 1960, live, less expensive, oral vaccine was introduced by Albert Sabin.

Salk's efforts to eradicate the crippling disease made him a household name.

[applause] A household name.

A very important man.

But here's some information.

Salk refused to patent the vaccine, and despite his achievement, he has never received his field's highest honor, the Nobel Prize.

Something I think we should do, now, as a matter of fact.

Let's go back and see our scoreboard.

We've got Peter still has got his point.

I'm sorry.

Peter has two points, D.L.

has two points, Scott has one point, still a close game.

Still close.

Anything can happen.

That means it's time for our second clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian, and here it comes.

Movie stardom eluded her.

And in 1937, she was forced to take up a profession that eventually made her wealthy, famous, and powerful.

Movie stardom eluded her.

And in 1937, she was forced to take up a profession that eventually made her wealthy, famous, and powerful.

Born on a Hollidaysburg farm in 1885, she ran off to Pittsburgh in her teens, to study music and dance.

People are looking incredibly confused.

But that's OK, they're writing something, as well they should because the ding, ding, dings are running out.

And that means we'll have a new question now.

ANNOUNCER: In 1948, the nominating conventions of all three parties, the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive parties, were held in Philadelphia.

It marked the first time in history that conventions were broadcast on TV.

Which of the following is not true.

A, there were only 350,000 TVs in America at the time, B, seven inch, black and white viewing screens cost $150 to $200, C, at the time, only 18 cities had TV stations, or D, the oppressive heat in the auditorium caused Thomas Dewey to faint on camera during his acceptance speech.

SCOTT BRUCE: Once again, I remind my panelists, and you playing at home, that we're looking for which one is not true, meaning three of them are.

Were there are only 350,000 TVs in America?

Were seven inch TVs $150 to $200?

Were there 18 cities with TV stations, or did the oppressive heat cause Thomas Dewey to faint on camera?

We'll go down to Scott, first, on this.

I'm going to say, D because I don't recall ever hearing of that, so-- SCOTT BRUCE: Yes, and you would think that would make the news.

Yes.

We heard about Bush barfing, we would hear that.

OK.

Let's go over to Peter.

This is a guessing game.

I just pick A. Guessing game.

Guessing, guessing, guessing, always smart.

PETER: Absolutely.

D.L.

I chose D, also.

SCOTT BRUCE: We have two faints, and a wrong guess.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Republican presidential nominee, Thomas Dewey, didn't faint on camera during his acceptance speech but he well could have in Philadelphia's crowded convention hall, made hotter from the newsreel and TV lights.

Although, television was invented before World War II, only about 350,000 Americans had receiving sets in 1948.

Only 18 cities had TV stations, and they offered very little original programming.

Network owners, who also manufactured TV sets, hoped the history making event would get people to buy the $150 to $200 black and white sets.

Others found it hard to believe that anyone would sit at home and watch little pictures in a box.

But television was transforming politics in ways nobody ever dreamed of, and it was doing it right there, live from Philadelphia.

[applause] Hey, wait a minute.

You're sitting at home, watching little pictures on a box, aren't you?

Here's some information for you.

In 1948, 2,200 reporters covered the convention.

In the year 2000, that number swelled to 15,000.

Unbelievable as it may be, here's some more unbelievable information.

ANNOUNCER: Inventor Nathaniel Wyeth, brother of painter Andrew Wyeth, was born near Chaddsford, Pennsylvania, into America's foremost family of artists.

What invention was patented by Nathaniel Wyeth in 1973?

A, the plastic soda bottle, B, the VCR, C, the telephone answering machine, or D, Velcro.

SCOTT BRUCE: Always important to look at the date here, 1973, Nathaniel Wyeth.

Was at the plastic soda bottle, the VCR, the answering machine or Velcro?

And I think I have a call coming in on my other line.

Peter, what do you think?

Well, initially, I thought Velcro.

But I knew Velcro was used in the Apollo space program.

So I took A, the plastic soda bottle.

SCOTT BRUCE: The plastic soda bottle.

Good choice.

I like it.

D.L.

Having no technological expertise at all, I went for C. SCOTT BRUCE: Went for C, the answering machine I think that seems like about the right time to me.

I don't know.

Scott?

Well, I'm pretty sure he didn't do B, C, or D. So I went with A, the soda bottle.

SCOTT BRUCE: You went with the soda bottle.

So we have soda bottles surrounding an answering machine, right here on The Pennsylvania Game.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, the plastic soda bottle.

Nathaniel Wyeth's two sisters and his brother, Andrew, followed in the footsteps of their father, artist and illustrator, N.C.

Wyeth.

Nathaniel, a budding inventor from childhood, was more interested in figuring out what made things work.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's engineering program, and eventually went to work at DuPont corporation in Wilmington, Delaware.

In 1967, Wyeth began work on his best known invention, the plastic soda bottle.

He developed a resilient and safe plastic that could withstand the pressure produced by a carbonated beverage, without exploding.

Although, recycling was not a major concern in 1973, the polyethylene terephthalate or pet soda bottles, Wyeth invented, are perhaps the most commonly recycled household products used today.

SCOTT BRUCE: Very common.

That brings us right up to our third clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Pens ready, kids.

Here we go.

This Hollywood gossip columnist was noted for atrocious grammar and an exotic collection of trademark hats.

Hollywood gossip columnist, atrocious grammar, exotic hats, born on a Hollidaysburg farm in 1885.

She ran off to Pittsburgh in her teens, to study music and dance.

Movie stardom eluded her.

And in '37, she took the profession up that eventually made her wealthy, famous, and powerful.

And just as a further hint, her favorite politician was Hubert H. Humphrey.

There we go.

And everybody's got something written down.

And it's time.

If you could take your placard, D.L., and place it right in that slot, in front of you.

And we'll take a look and see what you have.

You have Billie holiday.

That was a good guess at the beginning.

I like that.

Then you went with our famous answer here, question mark and the mysterians.

We get one of those, every show.

And you ended with Hedda Hopper.

I think that's a very good choice.

Let's see what Scott has.

We also have Billie holiday, Billie holiday, and you shared the question mark.

Very good.

Well, I don't think the question mark, and the mysterians is going to come up as the answer but we'll find out.

Over to Peter.

We have Liza Minnelli, Billie holiday, and Billie holiday.

Billie holiday was a heck of a theme running all through there.

Let's find out if Billie holiday snuck in.

ANNOUNCER: Hedda Hopper was born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg in 1885.

At age 22, she moved to New York City, worked as a chorus girl, and later acted on stage, and in silent films.

She was 38, when she followed the film business to Hollywood, following a failed marriage to stage actor Dewolf Hopper.

She appeared in more than 100 films, and new everyone in the business.

In 1935, at age 50, roles were scarce and she survived by selling real estate, and working odd jobs.

An assignment, writing a weekly fashion article, led to an offer to write a Hollywood gossip column.

Soon, she and rival, Louella Parsons, were the reigning queens of gossip.

Bitchiness was their stock in trade, and flamboyant hats were her trademark.

By 1941, her enormous power could make or break a career.

She died in 1966 of heart problems.

Hedda Hopper, a famous Pennsylvanian.

Hedda.

Hedda, Hedda, Hedda Hopper.

And what did Hedda do to our scoreboard?

Well, it looks like Hedda Hopper helped our scoreboard quite a bit, and changed it.

We had a three way tie.

And now D.L.

Has pulled out, so it's a four to three to three, D.L.

Win.

Couldn't be happier.

Wendy Williams, tell her what she's won.

ANNOUNCER: Well, color me a winner.

Scott, today's bright star receives an assortment of creative products from the Binney and Smith company of Easton, Pennsylvania, Crayola, the power of creativity, plus 50 chances to win $1,000 a week for life from a Pennsylvania Lottery.

That's right lottery tickets, and all kinds of coloring fun.

I think that freshman writing class is in for a real treat.

And they are all the shiniest colors in the box.

There you go.

It couldn't get any better than that.

We hope you had a great, time joining us at home on your little TV boxes.

Studio audience, thanks so much for being here.

Our panelists, I thank you so much.

We hope that you will come and join us at The Pennsylvania Game, any chance you get.

And send your questions in, if you get a chance, we'd love to use them here, on the game.

Bye.

[applause] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible, in part, by NARRATOR: By a grant from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.

The network receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide public television for all Pennsylvanians.

ANNOUNCER: Guest accommodations provided by the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus of Penn State.

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