ANNOUNCER: Do you know where you'll find Pennsylvania's own version of Lady Liberty?

And do you know what Betty Speziale did in 1989 that no other woman had ever done before her?

We'll all find out as we play The Pennsylvania Game.

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Now let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, the probing, the prine, the ever questioning Lynn Cullen.

Hidey-ho.

Hidey-ho ho.

Thank you so much.

[audience clapping] Oh, shucks, don't know what to say.

I think they're trying to kill me here.

They keep made me walk down those stairs, and I'm going to break my neck someday.

Well, hello.

Look who's here.

You look like Dick Van Dyke coming down.

LYNN CULLEN: God forbid.

A-ha, why don't you meet this guy.

He's already being a wiseacre, we might as well find out who this is.

He's been involved in television for ages in the Erie area-- Uri area-- that ain't easy to say-- actually, for more than 15 years.

Please welcome Phil Fatica.

[audience clapping] Thank you, Lynn.

Hi, everybody.

LYNN CULLEN: And here comes a judge.

In fact, she is the judge of the Court of Common, please-- also in Erie County.

Please welcome, Judge Stephanie Domitrovich.

[audience clapping] Thank you.

Thank you.

LYNN CULLEN: We better watch ourselves today.

And, finally, he's the morning man extraordinaire and a native Altunin.

He is the Rog in Roger and Dick in the morning on Wally 104 Altoona.

Please welcome Roger Corey.

Thank you.

Hi, everyone.

All right, they give me these little cards like a little cheat sheet here.

And it says, we all know that agriculture is Pennsylvania's number one industry.

I didn't know that.

Did you know that?

No, I didn't know that but it says we did.

We know that-- it says, we know that but did we know this?

ANNOUNCER: Pennsylvania ranks 37th nationally for total land farmed, and only 17th for the number of farms.

Yet Pennsylvania's 53,000 farm families are said to be the most productive in all the Northeastern United States.

In fact, Pennsylvania leads the nation in the production of several farm products.

For which of the following farm products is Pennsylvania ranked number one in the nation?

Is it, A, milk and dairy products.

B, Thanksgiving turkeys.

C, mushrooms.

Or, D, Christmas trees.

LYNN CULLEN: They're all grown here, but only one of them in-- only one of them do we rank number one.

And I need you to figure out which one that is, and then explain to me why you think that's true.

Phil, what do you think?

That's a good one.

That really is.

Before we continue here, we have to tell you that Stephanie and I have filed a class action suit against you people.

There's just too many questions here pertaining to the central and the eastern part of the state.

We have to get those questions up in Erie County.

OK, I'll see-- maybe I have a few.

PHIL FATICA: And because Erie and Crawford and Warren counties have a great deal of dairy farmers, I voted for A. you voted for A, milk and dairy products, OK. G wigh, g wigh?

G wigh.

What did you vote for?

I voted for A also.

I'm a big lover of milk and dairy products, and we have a lot of production in that area at Erie County.

So that's where my heart lies, in A. LYNN CULLEN: OK, Erie area.

Roger Corey, you're not in the Erie area.

No, Blair County.

And thank you very much.

And I didn't go for A because I know you're from Wisconsin.

I said mushroom, C. LYNN CULLEN: You did.

Yeah, I like salad.

Yeah, they grow them underground in caves and stuff, don't they?

And pick mushrooms.

OK, let's see, in fact, if these Aryans know what they're talking about and if Roger might be.

Oh-oh.

LYNN CULLEN: Right.

The answer is C, mushrooms.

Pennsylvania's the nation's number one mushroom producer, supplying nearly half of all mushrooms used in the United States.

Pennsylvania's more than 200 mushroom farmers who grow 166,000 tons of mushrooms each year at a value of $256 million.

The most widely harvested commercial mushroom is the agaricus, more commonly known as the button mushrooms.

Pennsylvania farmers also grow specialty varieties, including the shiitake and the oyster mushroom.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, you were absolutely right, Roger.

Wisconsin, America's dairyland.

Although milk and dairy products, it's Pennsylvania's number one cash product.

So you were sort of right but got written off.

Give us a half.

No, we don't give half.

He's trouble, this guy, I can tell.

Listen up, here's your next question.

Since 1986, a 17.5ft 450 pounds replica of the Statue of Liberty has welcomed travelers through Pennsylvania, much the same way her better known sister does for New York visitors.

Where is Pennsylvania's Lady Liberty located?

Is it, A, the Susquehanna river, Harrisburg.

B, near the Betsy Ross Bridge, Philadelphia.

C, the Golden Triangle, Pittsburgh.

Or, D, Presque Isle Bay, Erie.

LYNN CULLEN: I don't know, everybody's laughing at this one.

I don't know what's so funny.

One of them is in fact correct, and we need you to guess and/or tell us.

And, your honor.

I think strong ladies of character deserve to be together, so Betsy Ross and Lady Liberty, that's where I have made my decision.

LYNN CULLEN: Betsy Ross, near the Betsy Ross Bridge in Philly.

You've got B. OK, OK, Roger.

I thought for a minute it might have been the Golden Triangle but since Barry Bonds left town, I knew that couldn't be right.

So I said it was in the Susquehanna river in Harrisburg.

LYNN CULLEN: OK. Don't look at me.

I don't have a slightest idea-- Well, they have a small statue of Bonds down there, don't they?

ROGER COREY: Not anymore.

LYNN CULLEN: So I don't think.

ROGER COREY: So it went with spanking.

PHIL FATICA: But you notice there's a question about Erie on there, Presque Isle Bay, right?

LYNN CULLEN: That's right.

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: Yes.

And we both know Erie so well.

We know it's not D. We eliminated.

We know it's not C. And I agree, a lady of character needs to be with a lady of character so B. LYNN CULLEN: So you put B.

Boy, these guys from Erie stick together, don't they?

They stick together and they go down together.

[laughter] Let's get the answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Susquehanna rivers Lady Liberty set atop an abandoned railroad piling upriver from Harrisburg.

Constructed of discarded Venetian blinds and plywood, the replica was originally built in 1986 to commemorate the Statue of Liberty's Centennial.

Although the statue was intended to last only two months, it wasn't until 1992 that the committee to save Susquehanna's Lady Liberty removed the worn and weathered statue and made plans to construct a new replica, a permanent, two ton, 24 foot statue which will be erected on July 4, 1993.

Until then, passers by will find a huge torch in Lady Liberty's place.

Right, discarded Venetian blind.

She looks so pathetic lying on that truck.

You are now what, teaching TV to high schools?

PHIL FATICA: I teach a class in broadcasting and I also do what you do, I host a program on the PBS affiliate in Erie WQLN.

It's a program called Focus.

And it's a community affairs news program.

I get to be host like you.

Isn't that fun?

Yes.

Isn't that fun?

Yes, I enjoy that a great deal.

And the judge here probably watches you.

Oh, yes.

Faithfully, faithfully.

What do the judges-- what do male judges wear under those-- do you all-- like in the summer, can you wear shorts under those robes and stuff?

A lot people might not even know that.

A lot of people ask me what female judges wear under their robes, but I always say as hairdressers-- as someone-- as you-- I'm now I'm gone away.

LYNN CULLEN: You sound like me.

You sound like me.

As only our hairdressers know what our hair is all about, I always say only my husband knows what goes on under this robe.

LYNN CULLEN: That's a perfectly reasonable response.

I shouldn't have asked the question, I'm sure.

Roger, you do like a lot of oldies concerts.

Tell me some of the oldie groups that you've met and dealt with.

Oh, boy.

Chubby Checker, great guy.

LYNN CULLEN: Got names, oh, wow.

Yeah, Jerry Lewis and the playboys, Beach Boys, Marcels, just about everyone's been through town now.

LYNN CULLEN: All of them.

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: That's great.

LYNN CULLEN: Sonny and Cher?

What?

No, not yet.

They were in town I think in 1968 but I don't remember.

[laughter] OK, let's get back to the game.

We're having too much fun.

Here's the next question.

ANNOUNCER: Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1916, this mystery writer created a character who became one of the most popular detectives in modern fiction.

21 of his books featured this tough off-beat detective who lived on a houseboat he won in a card game.

Which detective was made famous by this Pennsylvania mystery writer?

Was it, A, Lew Archer.

B. Mike Hammer.

C, Sam Spade.

Or, D, Travis McGee.

LYNN CULLEN: Those are your possibilities.

One of them is the correct answer.

We're looking for the fictional detective created by John MacDonald.

And it's a mystery I can tell to Roger.

Roger, have you voted, though.

We need a response.

I think it might have been Travis McGee, MacDonald McGee.

Scottish people stick together like Erie people stick together.

PHIL FATICA: But we're not doing well, notice.

Did you car pool?

Well we almost did.

LYNN CULLEN: Tortured reasoning but might make sense.

OK, you in?

No, good reasoning there because Hammer and Spade I know for sure.

Now Travis McGee is the character created by John MacDonald.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, there's some agreement.

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: I selected someone different than these two simply because it's someone different than these two.

That's it.

LYNN CULLEN: OK. Well, we ended up with is she selected dad.

I don't know.

Let's find out if, in fact, that's true.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Travis McGee.

Mystery writer John D MacDonald first started writing short stories while serving in the army during World War II.

He wrote his first Travis McGee novel, The Deep Blue Goodbye in 1964.

His writing career spanned more than 40 years and produced 77 books, 21 of them about his most famous character, Travis McGee.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, quick check of the score shows Roger way out in front.

Not way out in front.

He's got three, he's really doing well.

Her honor isn't doing so hot.

And Phil has got one, got one in fact.

[audience clapping] Good job.

Good job.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, take a look or-- take a look?

Give a listen, in fact.

There's nothing to look at.

You have to hear me.

It's your first clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania-- just North of Pittsburgh-- this pioneering ecologist began her career as a Marine biologist.

Gee, that inadvertently rhymed.

This pioneering ecologist began her career as a marine biologist, born in 1907.

There's folks in the audience who already know it.

I can see that.

And you'll have to figure it out.

If you get it on the first time you get three whole points.

But let's get back to the regular game.

We'll have two more clues for you, so don't despair.

Here's your next question.

ANNOUNCER: Registered Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, that mysterious notation on bakery goods is one way the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture protects its consumers.

Such a reference can be a bit confusing, especially if the cookies purchased were baked in Boston and sold in LA to a tourist from Phoenix.

What does it really mean when a package of chocolate chip cookies bears the registered Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture notation?

Does it mean, A, the bakery is inspected monthly.

B, chocolate chips are accurately counted.

C, all ingredients come from Pennsylvania.

Or, D, the product may be sold in Pennsylvania.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, I saw the judge was very quick on that.

That's the kind of thing you might learn in law school, she might know that.

No copying, no copying.

OK, we've got our answers logged in.

Phil.

I have to go with the logical choice that it's going to be sold in Pennsylvania.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, he says that's a logical choice.

Are you agreeing?

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: Of course.

Of course I concur in that.

LYNN CULLEN: Concurring opinion.

Roger.

No, I really think that the bakery has to be inspected.

It's one of those legal things, your honor.

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: OK. LYNN CULLEN: OK, we've got the Erieans together again.

It never has gone well for them when they have stuck together.

[laughter] Let's see if they can break their streak.

Here we go.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, the product may be sold in Pennsylvania.

While the 1933 Pennsylvania bakery law requires that bakers, including those who make pasta, pretzels, potato chips, and snacks made from cornmeal, must be licensed to sell their products in Pennsylvania, registration does not imply approval of the product itself.

But consumers can be assured that the baker's plant and employees must meet specified Pennsylvania standards, which are among the most stringent in the country.

OK, we've got a close game going here.

We've got Roger with three, and Stephanie one, Phil with two.

But you didn't need to know that, did you?

Pennsylvania's iron and steel, Pennsylvania's food, Pennsylvania's railroads played a very important part during the Civil War for the union effort, obviously, but so did Pennsylvania's people.

Watch this.

ANNOUNCER: Pennsylvania played an important role in preserving the union during the Civil War.

In fact, Pennsylvanians were the first to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers.

All told nearly 350,000 Pennsylvanians served in the union forces.

How many were African-Americans?

Was it, A, 800.

B, 8,600.

C, 10,800.

Or, D, 25,100.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, figure that out, figure that out, how many of them were African-Americans.

Take a stab.

And Stephanie, what do you think?

Very well, I thought it would be a substantial number.

And statistically I randomly selected C. LYNN CULLEN: OK, 10,800.

Roger.

ROGER COREY: Same logic.

I have no excuse.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, C too.

You came up with C. Phil, what do you think?

PHIL FATICA: No, I think it would be smaller.

I'd say A. LYNN CULLEN: A, 800.

OK, we've got an 800, two 10,800s.

And who the heck knows?

We'll find out right now.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B.

Of the 350,000 Pennsylvania volunteers, 8,600 were African-Americans.

11 regiments of Black troops received training under Colonel Louis Wagner at Camp William Penn, eight miles North of Philadelphia, from June 1863 until the end of the Civil War.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, the score now, Roger, three, Phil, two, Stephanie, one.

It's tight.

And the Mystery Pennsylvanian can completely change this.

So let's-- so let's go to the second clue for the Mystery Pennsylvania.

In the words of Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas, "She wrote the most important chronicle of this century for the human race."

Justice Douglas said of her, "She wrote the most important chronicle of this century for the human race."

Born in 1907 near Pittsburgh.

She was an ecologist who began her career as a marine biologist.

Hm.

LYNN CULLEN: Hm, we're getting those ums and wrinkled brows.

Think about it, think about it.

There'll be one more clue coming up, coming up.

And I direct your attention to the monitor for our next question.

ANNOUNCER: Enshrined at the chapel in Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland is one of the oldest paintings of the Blessed Virgin in the world.

In 1955, a faithful reproduction of this painting was blessed in the miraculous chapel in Czestochowa, and then brought to the national shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

The original painting dates back to the 5th century AD, and is often referred to as, A, the beautiful Madonna.

B, the blessed queen.

C, our lady of Poland.

Or, D, the Black Madonna.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, if you took art history in college maybe you can get back into the recesses of your brain and pull the right answer out.

Roger.

As a matter of fact I did take some art in college, and it was the Black Madonna, D. LYNN CULLEN: D. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

PHIL FATICA: I agree, the Black Madonna.

LYNN CULLEN: D. STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: I thought it was logical to pick, C, Our lady of Poland.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, she likes to be logical, but she might be wrong.

We'll find out.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, the Black Madonna.

Legend has it that the Black Madonna, or dark Madonna as it is sometimes called, was painted by Saint Luke, the evangelist, in the fifth or sixth century.

The dark coloring on the faces and hands of mother and child was characteristic of pictures painted at that time.

Four million people go to kneel before the sacred icon every year in Poland.

While many others visit its reproduction at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

ROGER COREY: How about that.

OK, OK.

There you have it.

And now if you-- we go from art history to geology.

And of you take geology in school?

PHIL FATICA: Mh-mm.

Oh-oh, you're in trouble.

We're already in trouble.

ANNOUNCER: An interesting geological formation can be found less than a mile South of Colebrook in Lebanon County.

The local people of the area have named this rock formation based on its appearance, which due to erosion looks much like the head of an animal.

Is this natural landmark, A, dinosaur rock.

B, wolf head.

C, rooster knob.

Or, D, eagle's edge.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, dinosaurs, wolves, roosters, and eagles, I wonder what it would be.

Phil.

I like C but I chose B, LYNN CULLEN: Wolves, wolves.

Stephanie.

I liked C. I raised roosters for scientific experiments in high school so I thought that's-- LYNN CULLEN: it's our rooster.

That's a good one.

LYNN CULLEN: Actually, Roger, you're called rooster, aren't you?

Sometimes, yeah.

Fall season I'm called rooster.

LYNN CULLEN: OK.

I was leaning toward D eagle's edge, but I've never seen an eagle's edge.

Wolf's head I have seen.

LYNN CULLEN: Oh, you have seen wolf's head.

So we've got two wolves on either side of you, I must say, judge.

And we have a rooster.

Maybe she'll have something to crow about.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Dinosaur rock is a local name applied to a 200 million year old rock formation.

Originated as molten material that was injected into a fracture in the Earth's crust, dinosaur rock has the same composition as the lavas that are commonly erupted on Hawaii.

LYNN CULLEN: OK, there you have it.

This next one I don't know.

You might know this, people who read the newspaper a lot-- and I suspect all of you do-- may, in fact, know this next one.

Let's see.

It's sort of current events.

ANNOUNCER: There's no arguing with Betty Speziale.

In 1989, this mother of two became the first woman ever to, A, become a Superior Court judge.

B, umpire a little League World Series.

C, write a statewide syndicated newspaper column.

Or, D, referee a Philadelphia 76ers' game.

ROGER COREY: Ooh.

LYNN CULLEN: Ooh, they say.

I read about this woman, I seem to recall.

And I remember that you remember that, do you?

Stephanie-- oops, did you vote?

Do you remember that?

No, I don't but I selected D. LYNN CULLEN: You selected D, refereed a Philly 76ers' game.

Are you a basketball fan?

Yes.

You are?

No, why not?

[laughter] Roger.

Well, I thought for a second it might have been A but Stephanie didn't give it any indication of any recognition so I knew that wasn't right.

And Speziale is a great name for an official.

So-- ROGER COREY: I chose D. Refereed the 76ers' game.

PHIL FATICA: I like that choice.

That was my logic too, you got a real probably a nice Italian name there who would probably end up being an umpire for Little League World Series, B. LYNN CULLEN: A-ha, B, an umpire.

Either way they see her umpiring or refereeing something, but which sport is it?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B. Betty Speziale calls them as she sees them.

On August 22, 1989, she became the first woman ever to umpire a Little League World Series.

It was Europe versus the Far East in the first game of the series played in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

OK. And here is your final clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

She is the only American woman field naturalist who became a household name.

They're looking at me like, a household name?

So who ever heard of her?

Where does that narrow it down?

LYNN CULLEN: Yeah.

She became a household name, the American woman field naturalist.

Justice Douglas said of her, "She wrote the most important chronicle of this century for the human race," for heaven's sakes.

She was a pioneering ecologist.

All those are great clues.

I'll be surprised if any of you bright people don't know who this incredible woman was.

You have the answer in front of you.

Well, yes, I do.

I'm terribly bright.

Roger, who is she?

Oh, Lynn, I have no idea.

LYNN CULLEN: None at all.

Not even guess?

Not even a guess?

I thought it might have been Jacques Cousteau's wife, but that's not right.

I knew that wasn't, I just have a nah, nah.

He doesn't know.

Phil.

PHIL FATICA: You mind if I hold these up?

No.

Yeah, let's see what you got.

I wrote Rachel Carson all three times because of Silent Spring.

STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH: Yes.

And I thought that that's where she was from.

Rachel Carson.

Rachael Carson.

OK, OK, good-- a good guess.

I just checked into the hotel room and I thought of Lysol, so I thought Miss Lysol.

That's all.

LYNN CULLEN: Miss Lysol.

Something tells me you and Roger maybe aren't right on this one.

But I didn't carpool with him.

Yeah.

You know he's the only one who's got a chance.

Let's see, in fact, if you picked up some big points here.

ANNOUNCER: Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, just North of Pittsburgh.

A marine biologist by training, she became a national heroine and a household name for daring to write about the dangers of pesticides in her now famous book Silent Spring.

Though vilified for the book by some, Supreme Court Justice William Douglas called it, "The most important Chronicle of this century for the human race."

She died of cancer on April 14, 1964 at the young age of 56.

Rachel Louise Carson, a famous Pennsylvanian.

You know, she really was-- she pretty much founded the entire science of ecology.

It really didn't exist before her.

PHIL FATICA: It's a wonderful book.

Extraordinary woman, incredible book.

I mean, her vision-- she was a visionary, in fact, and a crusader.

Remarkable human being.

When you look at the environmental movement now, it wouldn't be there if it weren't for Rachel Carson.

Her writing was very poetic too.

LYNN CULLEN: Right.

Did you read Silent Spring?

Parts of it, parts of it, yes.

Only parts.

OK, and I'm sure now it is, in fact, required reading in an awful lot of courses in high school and certainly at the college level.

Yes.

College level.

And I did know that even though I did have the cards because she's from Pittsburgh.

She was from the Pittsburgh area.

You won.

You won big because you knew Rachel Carson.

And he's from Erie.

And I'm from Erie.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

You were great.

Thank you.

You were [kiss] wonderful.

And thank you.

You were wonderful.

Join us next week when we play The Pennsylvania Game.

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