[music playing] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible in part by-- PRESENTER: The following program is made possible 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.

[cheering] Are they great?

Are they great?

What an audience.

What an audience.

Thanks so much for coming.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for tuning in at home.

Welcome to another edition of The Pennsylvania Game.

We have more fun than humans should.

I don't think we should waste any time.

Let's meet our new panelists for today's show.

Seat number one, the hot seat.

Here we go.

It's Ethan Lashlee.

Ethan is an electrician with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers number 5 in Pittsburgh.

He's also the mayor of Huntington.

Please say hello to Mayor Lashlee.

[applause] Pat Farnack returns for another stab at fame and fortune.

Pat can be heard on weekday mornings from 5:00 to 9:00 on WWDB in Philadelphia.

How about a warm welcome for Pat Farnack?

[applause] And sporting a new look this year so none of us could recognize him at first glance, it's John Paul Shaffer, the irreverent news director and co-host of the Bruce Bond Late Afternoon Show on WINK 104 in Harrisburg.

He's also the founding member of the Harrisburg Young Professionals, a group that encourages young professionals to relocate into the city of Harrisburg.

[applause] John Paul, good to have you back.

None of us know who you are.

All right.

We've met them.

We're having fun already.

I can't wait.

Let's start the game.

[music playing] ANNOUNCER: In 1948, Adams County native Earl Shaffer accomplished something experts said couldn't be done.

Did he A, complete the first non-stop round the world flight?

B, hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail?

C, market the first TV dinners?

Or D, find a needle in a haystack?

[laughter] SCOTT BRUCE: What did that wacky-- Ethan, what did that wacky guy do?

I don't know.

Did he complete the first non-stop round the world flight?

Did he hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail?

Did he market the first TV dinners?

Or did he, ouch, find a needle in a haystack?

Ethan, we'll go to you first.

[ringing sound] I chose market the first TV dinner.

I think the agriculture program in Pennsylvania and how we're doing, I think-- and how good we've been, I think that-- Oh, I like how you put that whole package-- a very political answer is what that was.

Man could run for office.

I see a future for you.

Pat, what do you think?

I said B, hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.

And with such enthusiasm.

I love that, Pat.

You must have energy left over from that house you're working on.

We'll talk about that later.

How about you, John Paul?

Earl is my grandfather, so I know the answer is B.

[laughter] PAT FARNACK: Oh.

SCOTT BRUCE: Is, in fact, Earl your grandfather?

No, but I think the answer's B anyway.

SCOTT BRUCE: That is a great answer, because if you're right, I would have bowed to you.

This is great.

Let's find out if he faked his way through.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.

In 1948, Shaffer returned home from World War II and hiked the 2,050 miles from Georgia to Maine to quote, "Walk the army out of my system."

The trail was sorely neglected.

Portions were overgrown, shelters abandoned, and trail markers were badly faded.

As Shaffer was completing his hike, the Appalachian Trailway News published an article explaining why the hike was impossible.

Shaffer proved his feat by his trail journal, hundreds of his slides, and sightings by fellow hikers.

Shaffer was not only the first to hike the trail, he was the first to hike it in both directions.

In 1998, he repeated the hike, making him at 79, the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail.

[applause] Ooh, impressive.

Impressive.

Listen to this.

Shaffer made it in four months, an impressive accomplishment considering that even today on a well-marked trail, most hikers take five to six months to complete the hike.

We also want to thank Lee Carsnitz.

I hope I got that right, Lee.

Lee Carsnitz of Manheim, Pennsylvania.

Lee will be receiving a one year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine for submitting that question.

And now I think we can go to a new question.

[music playing] In 1957, Carole Scaldeferri of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania had one of the most recognizable faces in the country.

Today, she runs a Christian beauty parlor, the Born Again Salon in Upper Darby.

For what was Carole famous?

A, she posed for Andy Warhol?

B, she was one of the first "Mouseketeers"?

C, she was Revlon's first covergirl?

Or D, she was an original dancer on American Bandstand?

SCOTT BRUCE: Gosh, it almost makes you think that she might go to religion after posing for Andy Warhol.

Did she pose for Andy Warhol?

Was she one of the first mouseketeers, Revlon's first covergirl, or an original dancer?

[ringing sound] Nice one on American Bandstand.

We go to you, Pat.

I said C, she was Revlon's first covergirl.

That looks sort of like a covergirl pose that she was in at the top.

Strike a pose.

A little Madonna action going there.

I like that, Pat.

How about you, John Paul?

Same answer.

Same reason.

Same answer.

Same reason.

Smooth.

No questions asked.

Move right along, Ethan.

Same answer.

Same reason.

Oh, three C's.

What does that mean, ladies and gentlemen?

All three of our contestants win Pennsylvania state lottery tickets when they have the same answers.

We pass the lottery tickets down and that always works out well because as it turns out, they all picked the wrong answer.

PAT FARNACK: Ah-- ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. She was an original dancer on American Bandstand.

Chosen as one of the dancers to be profiled every week, she appeared in Modern Screen, Teen and 16 Magazine.

When Scaldeferri turned 18, her tenure on the hugely popular show ended.

And she, like many other dancers, had difficulty adjusting to life off screen.

Today, she runs Born Again Salon, a beauty parlor in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

1997 marked the 40th anniversary of the national television debut of American Bandstand.

Dick Clark was present as governor Tom Ridge dedicated an historical marker outside the WFIL building in Philadelphia where American Bandstand first aired.

[music playing] Bandstand [applause] Right now at home, people are twisting in their seats watching the show.

I couldn't be happier.

Let's get to know our panel a little bit better.

Ethan, I find it interesting that you are a liberal democrat who has become mayor of a conservative town, but that's not what I want to ask you about.

It says right here on my card that you were stripping some furniture, and you fell through the floor of the attic down-- you're just going to have to fill me in.

What's going on here?

Well, my wife and I were stripping furniture and we were at the last part of it.

And I said, I'll take care of it.

No, I want to finish it.

And we kind of had a little argument, and I jumped into it, and there was no flooring there, and I kind of went down into the study.

And-- [screaming man sound] [laughter] All of a sudden stripping the bedroom furniture.

OK. Pat, this-- I just found this out about you, Pat.

This is very exciting.

You-- you have a new segment on your morning radio show called "Do I Look OK"?

That's right.

So you have a segment on radio that says, "Do I Look OK"?

That's right.

Well-- Do you see anything wrong with that, Pat?

Now no.

You can talk about, you know, things.

Radio is a theater of the mind, you know so-- Well, in that case, I look pretty darn good, and so do you, Pat.

Thanks for joining us.

John Paul, since you-- since I last saw you, this is the first that I've heard about the Harrisburg Young Professionals.

Tell us more about that group and how it got started.

Oh, actually, some friends of mine and myself organized it and decided that Harrisburg, being the capital city of the fifth largest state, too many people are moving to the suburbs, too many people our age graduate and move out of Pennsylvania altogether.

We're trying to encourage people to move back into the city of Harrisburg, get more businesses in downtown-- Excellent.

Excellent.

Way to go.

--a great place to live, work, and play.

Help the state.

Keep our state going, huh?

[applause] Pennsylvania.

You gotta love it.

Well, that'll get us all ready.

What do you say we jump back to the game?

Let's try a new question.

[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Pittsburgh's gold medal wrestler, Kurt Angle, provided a memorable image of the 1996 summer Olympics.

What did Angle do three years later that shocked fellow wrestlers and former coaches?

Did he A, abandon wrestling to become a bodybuilder?

B, joined the World Wrestling Federation?

C, become a Kirby vacuum cleaner sales rep?

Or D, renounce athletics and join a monastery?

SCOTT BRUCE: Hmm.

Which of these would have upset the wrestling community?

I'm curious.

Did he abandon wrestling to become a bodybuilder?

Did he join the World Wrestling Federation?

Did he become a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman?

Or did he renounce athletics and join a monastery?

[ringing sound] John Paul, down to you first.

He's busy laying the smackdown on the World Wrestling Federation.

Ooh, this man said this with conviction.

He knows.

He knows what he's talking about-- JOHN PAUL: --all right?

A big WWF fan down on the end.

How about you, Ethan?

I also had B, WWF.

Two WWF's.

Uh-oh.

It looks to me like-- Yep.

Yeah, they're just looking for lottery tickets, people.

That's right.

That's all it is.

They're looking for lottery tickets.

Pass them down.

Well, not only have they all chosen B, but I think maybe this time, hmm.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B.

He joined the World Wrestling Federation.

In 1996, when Kurt Angle won the Olympic gold medal, he fell to his knees and shed tears of joy, but in a move that has confounded fellow wrestlers and former coaches, Angle joined the WWF, something he was always told wasn't real wrestling.

Angle was considered a hero and role model in amateur wrestling because of his energy and commitment to the sport.

While some coaches are disappointed with Angle, many admit that it would have been hard to resist WWF's big money offer, and the public exposure.

Angle joined the WWF after spending his post-olympic days as a TV sportscaster, commercial pitchman, and public speaker.

WWF.

[applause] Wrestling rules.

I think my kid would have known that.

I really do.

I didn't.

OK. Let's take a look at our scores.

I see by the scoreboard, Ethan has one, Pat has two, John Paul has two.

We got a hell of a game here, huh kids?

Yeah.

[applause] [horn blowing] That means it's time for our first clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Here we go.

Get your pens ready, kids.

This melodic folk singer was born in Philadelphia in 1943.

Easy clue.

This melodic folk singer was born in Philadelphia in 1943.

See, that'd make him about 56 years old if I had to guess.

Melodic folk singer.

OK. Everybody's got answers written down, and we're going to continue on with the game.

Let's go to an all new question.

ANNOUNCER: In 1915, John Talap became the first person in Pennsylvania to do this.

In 1962, Elmo Lee Smith became the last.

What did they do?

A, die in the electric chair?

B, set major league records for bases stolen?

C, eat lunch in a Woolworths restaurant?

Or D, die of typhoid?

SCOTT BRUCE: All right.

You can't say we don't have fun questions.

[laughter] What did these guys do?

Did they die in the electric chair?

Did they set the major league records for bases stolen?

Did they eat lunch in a Woolworth's restaurant?

Or did they die of typhoid?

[ringing sound] Ethan, we'll start with you on this.

I have A, died in a electric chair.

SCOTT BRUCE: Died in the electric chair.

You feel strong about this?

I feel very strong about this.

Whoa.

Electrified.

Whoa.

And we don't even have our seats wired here.

Pat?

I said die in the electric chair too.

Although I was going to say D. I went with A.

You just said he wanted something more shocking.

Yeah.

[laughter] Don't start.

John Paul, what do you think?

I also have die in the electric chair-- Oh, it's just a lottery ticket thing.

All it is lottery tickets they're after.

These people don't even care if they're right or wrong.

They just want the tickets, but I think it might pay off for them.

Let's see.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, die in the electric chair.

In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state in the union to abolish public hangings which had become lurid spectacles.

Thereafter, each county carried out its own private hangings within the walls of its county jail.

In 1913, the electric chair replaced the gallows.

Erected in the state correctional institution at Rockville Center County, the electric chair was nicknamed Old Smokey.

In 1915, John Talap, a convicted murderer from Montgomery County, was the first person executed in the chair.

In 1962, Elmo Lee Smith, another convicted murderer from Montgomery County, was the last of 350 people including two women to die this way.

In 1990, Pennsylvania changed its method of execution from electrocution to lethal injection.

The electric chair was turned over to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

[applause] It is something.

It is something to go visit.

Here are some interesting notes.

In the days of public hangings, skilled hangman were expensive and hard to find.

As a result, prisoners were literally kept hanging for up to 17 minutes before dying.

So is that-- yeah, pretty ooh.

Let's get a new question.

ANNOUNCER: In 1997, 18-year-old Philadelphian kobe Bryant became the youngest person ever to do this.

Others have since followed in his footsteps.

What did Bryant do?

A, establish a Fortune 500 company?

B, get elected to the state legislature?

C, start in an NBA game?

Or D, enter a winning film in the Cannes Film Festival?

SCOTT BRUCE: Ooh, Philadelphian Kobe Bryant now with the Lakers.

Did he establish a Fortune 500 company?

Did he get elected to the state legislature?

Did he start in an NBA game?

Or enter-- [ball bouncing sound] There he goes now.

I think he just dribbled by.

Or did he enter a winning film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Pat, we're going to go with you.

C, start in an NBA game.

Did I?

I'm sorry.

[laughter] Did I really?

Yes.

PAT FARNACK: You said Lakers.

Yes, I think I did.

Well, let's pretend I didn't.

PAT FARNACK: All right.

You went NBA, B.

You punched in early anyway.

I saw you all punched in ahead of time.

Who's asleep at the wheel?

Pat, you went with C. What did you go with, John Paul?

Let's hope it's a C. --also.

I'm guessing more lottery tickets are coming down the row.

I have a sneaking suspicion you may be right.

I kind of thought C also.

They all knew.

They all knew.

[applause] All right.

All right.

Wait a minute.

Hey, we need a break-- I give a lottery ticket to myself for getting that-- for we're giving away the answer.

I think we'll go check with Wendy to see if I already gave away the right answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, start in an NBA game.

Son of former NBA star Joe Jellybean Bryant, Kobe Bryant entered the NBA directly out of high school.

At 18, he started for the Los Angeles Lakers, becoming the youngest person to start in an NBA game.

One year later, Kobe became the youngest all-star in NBA history, a record previously held by Magic Johnson.

Kobe represents a recent trend of talented high school players who choose the professional league rather than enter college hoops.

OK. Let's see if I can give any other answers away.

College officials, by the way, are not pleased about this trend.

College basketball has become a billion dollar industry, and the shunning of college ball by most talented high schoolers is an unwelcome development.

All right.

Let's double check our scores and see what we've got.

We've got three for Ethan, four for Pat, four for John.

This is a heck of a game we got.

[applause] [music playing] That means it's time for our next edition of Mystery Pennsylvanian.

OK.

Here's your clue number two.

A smooth operator.

The singer, guitarist, songwriter worked construction before releasing his first hit album in 1972.

A smooth operator.

When I say it like that, that's a hint.

[laughter] Singer, guitarist, songwriter worked construction before releasing his first hit album in 1972.

This melodic folk singer was born in Philadelphia in 1943.

Everybody seems to have answers.

That means we get to move on.

Let's start a whole new question.

[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Scranton native Jean Kerr wrote this book which was made into a 1960 film starring Doris Day.

Was it A, Pillow Talk?

B, Cheaper by The Dozen?

C, Please Don't Eat the Daisies?

Or D, With Six, You Get Eggroll?

OK. A Scranton native, Jean Kerr.

Did she write Pillow Talk, Cheaper By the Dozen, Please Don't Eat the Daisies or With Six, You Get Eggroll?

[ringing sound] John Paul, all the way down to you.

I went with Pillow Talk, because I'm not old enough to know any of those movies, so I just guess that one.

So that one came first and you went with it?

JOHN PAUL: Exactly.

I like your thinking on this, John.

Ethan, what do you have?

I chose B. I read the book a long time ago in school, and I think that she was the author of that.

Cheaper By the Dozen.

So that's the way you're going.

Pat, how about you?

Well, I am old enough to know the answer to this, but I don't.

SCOTT BRUCE: I don't believe it.

I don't.

But I guessed C, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and I can't really tell you why.

OK.

So just on your age factor, you should be right, right?

Yeah.

All right.

I'm voting for you.

Let's see what the right answer is.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, Please Don't Eat the Daisies.

[applause] Jean Cullens Kerr was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1923.

Many considered her to be one of America's funniest writers.

Best known for her 1957 bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the book was a collection of comic sketches on domestic life.

It became a film in 1960 starring David Niven and Doris Day and a television series in 1965.

Jean Kerr wrote with wit and wisdom about such things as how to decorate in one easy breakdown and how to drop those unwanted pounds with Aunt Jean's Marshmallow Fudge Diet.

[laughter] Marshmallow fudge diet.

Where do I sign up for that marshmallow fudge diet?

I could use that.

Listen to this.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor paid Kerr $75,000 for the rights to Please Don't Eat the Daisies.

Her husband Walter Kerr was a widely respected drama critic for the New York Times.

I wonder what he wrote up on the show.

We'll find out.

That was submitted by Peg Smith of Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Peg will be receiving a year's subscription to PA Magazine.

Thank you, Peg.

And let's move along.

[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Cliff Stitely owns and operates Standing Stone Deer Farm in Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

But Cliff doesn't make his money selling deer meat.

What does he market?

A, studio time for wildlife photographers?

B, deer urine?

C, stuffed hunting targets?

Or D, deer antlers?

Are you telling me there's a show that's classier than ours on the planet?

[laughter] I don't think-- there are just not enough shows on TV where you can even say deer urine as far as I'm concerned, and I'm going to get to say it twice now.

Was the answer A, studio time for wildlife photographers?

Deer urine?

Stuffed hunting targets?

Or deer antler?

Ethan, we'll go to you first.

I chose A.

Think that just sounds good.

How's that?

OK. That's a wonderful answer.

I like that.

Pat, what do you like?

I'll have to go with deer urine just, because I wanted the chance to say it.

[laughter] We all want to say it.

John Paul, you want to say it, too?

Yes, I do.

I went with B, deer urine.

Deer urine.

OK. Now let's let Ethan say it even though he didn't choose it.

Go ahead, Ethan.

Deer urine.

All right.

Now that we've all said deer urine-- [applause] --let's find out if we can get anyone else to say deer urine.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, deer urine.

Cliff Stitely, a former police officer and avid hunter was looking for something to do when he retired.

He bought his first whitetail deer, a buck, and several doe in 1986, and now has a herd of about 50 animals.

Unlike many native animals that are raised domestically, Stitely's deer aren't slaughtered.

Instead, he collects and markets their urine for the manufacture of scents used as hunting lures.

Collected in gallon-sized containers, the urine is shipped in bulk to plants in Michigan, New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Stitely has also developed his own line of lures which he sells retail at a local sporting goods store and a wholesale outlets nationwide.

Whoa.

You gotta love it.

You got to love it.

That brings us up to clue number three in our Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Kids, get your pens ready.

Sadly, all we have left of him are photographs and memories.

Sadly, all we have left of him are photographs and memories.

This melodic folk singer was born in Philadelphia in 1943, a smooth operator.

The singer, guitarist, songwriter worked construction before releasing his first hit album in 1972.

All my contestants are done.

By golly, let's find out what they all put down.

Pat, we'll start with you.

Jim Croce.

Jim Croce.

Jim Croce.

Jim Croce.

What's your first one?

Peter Yarrow.

SCOTT BRUCE: Peter Yarrow?

In very small print.

You wrote that very small, because you knew you were wrong, but then you felt stronger about Jim Croce.

I see how that works.

John Paul, what did you have?

Well, I didn't know on the first clue, then the second one, I thought he was a lineman for the county, so I picked Glen Campbell.

Then for the third one, I picked Tupac Shakur, because he is the only person I know that sings that is dead.

That sings and is dead?

Tupac Shakur.

Well, those are just a fine variety of choices, and I couldn't be happier with all-- you work in radio, right?

Uh-huh.

Yeah, just checking.

OK. And Ethan, what do you have?

Both of these people working for radio, I thought I had no chance.

But I figured Muddy Waters.

That's who-- Muddy Waters.

Muddy waters.

Muddy waters.

This was clear to you, wasn't it?

Yes, it was right from the beginning.

I'm guessing it was as clear as a muddy stream is what I'm guessing.

Well, let's find out.

We've got Muddy Waters.

We got Jim Croce.

We got Tupac Shakur.

What's the right answer, Wendy?

[JIM CROCE, "YOU DON'T MESS WITH JIM"] Uptown got-- ANNOUNCER: Jim Croce was born in Philadelphia in 1943.

He learned to play accordion at age five and later, the 12 string guitar while studying psychology at Villanova University.

After graduation, he struggled to make a living with his music, working construction and other jobs.

In 1972, he released his first solo LP, You Don't Mess Around with Jim.

His Life And Times album soon followed.

By the summer of 1973, Jim Croce had two number one singles, "bad, Bad Leroy Brown," and "Time in a Bottle."

Croce's career was cut short in 1973 after playing a concert at Northwestern State University in Louisiana when his charter plane crashed.

After his death, his four albums including the posthumous releases, I Got a Name and Photographs and Memories went gold.

Jim Croce, a famous Pennsylvanian.

[JIM CROCE, "YOU DON'T MESS WITH JIM"] And you don't mess around-- Ooh.

[applause] You know, week after week after week, we come through.

First, we give you the definitive history of deer urine, and now as I look at the scores, it turns out we have set a new record on The Pennsylvania Game.

Our scores are three to eight to five.

Pat with an eight has the highest score ever in the history of the show.

It's our highest scorer.

She's our winner.

[applause] Wendy, tell her what she won.

ANNOUNCER: Well, Scott, today's winner receives four complimentary passes to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one night stay at the Hampton Inn Philadelphia Airport plus 50 chances to win $1,000 a week for life from the Pennsylvania lottery.

Thank you.

It's right.

50 chances.

Excellent.

Thanks.

[applause] Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's actually 53 chances with all of our matched questions all the kids had today.

You guys all did such a fabulous job.

I'm so excited.

It was a record breaking show.

We got to talk about deer urine.

It's just as good as it gets.

I got to thank all three of you.

You were a great panel.

You were a great studio audience.

If you at home would like to send a question in to The Pennsylvania Game, please send it to The Pennsylvania Game Wagner Building, University Park, PA, 16802.

Or how about stopping by our website, wpsx.psu.edu.

In the meantime, we've had more fun than people should have, so why don't you come join us again?

Good night.

[applause] [music playing] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible in part by-- PRESENTER: 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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