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

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

[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Now, let's get the game started.

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

[applause] My audience, thank you so much for that round of applause.

The best studio audience in America.

Thank you for joining us, studio audience.

Thank you for joining us at home.

And thanks to our panelists.

They're right here.

Let's find out who they are.

We're going to start off in the hot seat.

It's Bill Montgomery.

He's a certified financial planner from Exton, Pennsylvania.

He's the author of seven books.

The newest is 12 Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money.

We'll find out if he does any of those dumb things here on television.

Let's hear it for Bill Montgomery.

Thank you.

[applause] Over behind door number two, we have Debbie Hoy.

She's the host of The Morning Line, a live call in talk show heard on WRC radio here in State College.

The program is still in its infancy.

But with the continued support from management who just yesterday said, don't ever change, we want to forget you just the way you are.

The show will continue to die, I mean thrive.

Please put your hands together for Debbie Hoy.

[applause] And all the way down at gate number three is Jeff Brown.

He's an operations manager and Morning Drive personality on The Bus Classic Rock 93.7.

State College, let's hear it for Jeff Brown!

Number three!

Oh, he knows how to milk a crowd.

And I think we should milk the show.

What do you say we get started right now?

ANNOUNCER: The foggiest location in the United States is Cape Disappointment, Washington, which has nearly 3 and 1/2 months of thick fog each year.

Even so, Pennsylvania's mountains and valleys are some of the foggiest inland locations in the Eastern part of the nation.

Which one of the following months typically has the most days with dense fog?

A, February, B, April, C, August, or D, October.

SCOTT BRUCE: I know which month has the most dense host.

But the most dense fog, would that be February, April, August or October?

Bill, will go to you first.

Punch in, please.

I did.

SCOTT BRUCE: Good.

And now you can tell me what you said.

A, February.

SCOTT BRUCE: A, February.

It's my birth month.

SCOTT BRUCE: Well, that's a good reason.

My mother was in a fog when I was born so-- SCOTT BRUCE: Well, I always like to hear about a financial planner in a fog.

Very good idea.

BILL MONTOGOMERY: I'm sorry I said that.

SCOTT BRUCE: Let's-- [laughter] Let's run down to Debbie.

What did you come up with?

I came up with D. SCOTT BRUCE: D. You think October?

I travel early in the morning to go to work, and I go through lots of fog during the month of October so I said D. SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

And number three, we need you to punch in now please, if you would.

JEFF BROWN: I punched in, I believe.

But I said, A-- I see I went out and priced like microwaves and toaster ovens and wardrobes from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills, and I got the wrong game, I think.

But I'm going to go ahead and say-- I'm going to say A, February.

SCOTT BRUCE: So we have A, D. We have two February's, 1 October.

Let's find out what's really the foggiest.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, October.

The vibrant colors of fall are reaching their peak across Pennsylvania.

They're commonly masked by the misty morning fogs of October.

The lengthy nights of October often promote rapid cooling of the earth's surface on clear nights.

So that by the wee hours of the morning, the temperature has fallen to the dew point.

Condensation occurs and fog forms.

The most dense fog usually occurs near bodies of water such as rivers and lakes where there's a supply of low level moisture.

After looking at those pictures, do we or do we not have the most beautiful state in the United States of America-- Pennsylvania?

Love it.

Let's move to a new question.

ANNOUNCER: A century ago, the thought that America would forget Herman Webster Mudgett, also known as Dr.

H.H.

Holmes, was preposterous.

His death in Philadelphia in 1896 was front page news across the country.

Was Herman Webster Mudgett-- A, assassinated by German agents for spying on France, B, the first identified serial killer in the United States, C, a chemist who developed an effective treatment for TB, or D, America's first poet laureate.

SCOTT BRUCE: Herman Webster Mudgett.

How many people think he might have got beat up in school on a regular basis?

Was he assassinated by German agents for spying on France, the first serial killer, a chemist who developed a treatment for TB or America's first poet laureate?

Debbie, we'll check in with you first.

All right.

Well, I chose B. I mean, given his name, I thought the same thing you did.

He was probably teased and went nuts later on in life.

SCOTT BRUCE: He's a Mudgett.

He's killing people.

I like your thinking.

I wouldn't be.

Yeah.

I'm with you, Deb, on this one.

We'll run down to Jeff.

Jeff, what's your answer?

With the last name like Mudgett, he has to be the chemist who developed an effective treatment for TB.

SCOTT BRUCE: So you think he was maybe dipping into the chemicals a little there.

JEFF BROWN: I believe so.

Okie dokie.

And we'll come back to Bill.

The first two are negative.

I'm going to go with a positive C. SCOTT BRUCE: Positive answer.

We've got a chemist.

We've got two chemists.

We have a serial killer.

And Debbie, no wonder you're doing so well on that radio show.

With that negative attitude, let's see how it works for her.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, the first identified serial killer in the United States.

Herman Webster Mudgett, also known as Dr.

H.H.

Holmes, was a swindler, bigamist, horse thief, and pharmacist.

He was also a sadistic killer who died at the end of a hangman's noose in 1896 in a gala public event in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison.

His 100-room Chicago mansion, dubbed the castle of horror, was a maze of trapdoors and trick hallways, where authorities believe hundreds of people were murdered.

I was born with the devil in me, Holmes often said.

He's buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.

Holmes left specific burial instructions.

His body was laid out in a pine box and filled with cement.

The coffin was buried 10 feet deep and then covered with another layer of cement.

Holmes wanted to prevent scientists from digging up his corpse to study his brain.

Wait a minute.

It doesn't end there.

This is a cool cat.

At his hanging, Holmes remained cool to the very end, telling the executioner, take your time, you know I'm in no hurry.

[laughter] I like this Mudgett character.

Well, that means it's time to get a little more information about our panel.

Let's move right down here to Bill Montgomery.

I understand you're a financial planner.

It says so right here on my notes so I know that.

Now here's what I've always wanted to know.

Are you filthy disgusting rich?

Because if I'm going to a financial planner, I want him to be the richest guy in the world.

DEBBIE HOY: So is he single?

And are you single?

Debbie wants to know.

No, my first wife's in the audience here.

SCOTT BRUCE: So first wife's in the audience.

Well, that's not a good way to refer to her.

[laughter] The only one I've ever had so-- SCOTT BRUCE: So business is good?

Business is booming.

Yes.

SCOTT BRUCE: I'm glad to hear it.

Down an extra.

Well, I work in and live near Spring City, and I host a local TV show down there in Philadelphia and I write for the Mercury, a Pottstown newspaper and very busy.

SCOTT BRUCE: I guess you are.

Well, it's very good for you to take your time out and join.

My pleasure.

We'll run down to Deb.

Deb, we have a live radio show.

Now, I understand your boss is very encouraging with your radio show.

What kind of things does he encourage you to do?

Well, she.

SCOTT BRUCE: She.

Well, I've seen-- how foolish of me to say he.

She.

I mean, she is.

I mean she's very, very encouraging woman.

She encourages to at the end of the show to leave early.

So-- [laughter] There's nothing quite like dead air time on the radio.

We like that.

Thank you for joining us, Debbie.

We'll run down to Jeff.

Jeff, now, I understand you got a little Bert Parks thing going.

You actually hosted a local beauty pageant?

JEFF BROWN: Yes.

Is that one of your tougher assignments?

JEFF BROWN: It's one of my tougher assignments, yeah, because my wife's usually in the audience and she's watching where my eyes are going so-- Keep those eyes forward, young man.

Hard time.

That's right.

I just keep my eyes on them.

You got to put your eyes forward right onto the camera for the next question.

ANNOUNCER: Mary Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh in 1844.

She was the first American woman to become famous as a painter.

A strong-willed and independent woman, she is best known for her paintings of what?

A, country scenes, B, women and children, C, still lifes, or D, horses.

[music playing] SCOTT BRUCE: Mary Cassatt, what did she paint?

Did she paint country scenes, women and children, still lifes, or horses, Jeff?

Was that you Jeff or our sound man?

Excuse me.

Well, I was hoping Bill would go, so I wouldn't pick his answer again, because I'd be virtually certain of getting it right.

I'm going to say since she was strong-willed, I'm going with B, women and children.

SCOTT BRUCE: Women and children.

Strong-willed.

I like your thinking.

Bill?

Can we have Debbie go first?

I like her answers.

I like to copy her-- We must be in order, Bill.

OK.

I'm going to go with B also.

SCOTT BRUCE: Also B?

She looks like kind of a person.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

I like our thinking.

Two in a row.

Debbie?

Again, I was thinking, when you said she was a strong-willed woman, I was thinking horses, because I think that that's what they convey.

SCOTT BRUCE: We have horses, and we have strong-willed women.

So the men went for the women.

And the woman went for the horse.

And don't they always?

[laughter] Let's find out what the right answer is.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, women and children.

At a time when women painted only as a hobby, Mary Cassatt was determined to become a professional artist.

At age 16, her well-to-do parents enrolled her at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, one of the first academies in the world to accept female students.

When at 22, she declared that she could learn no more in Philadelphia, her parents sent her to Paris.

There, she became friends with a group of painters called The Impressionists who painted scenes from everyday life in brightly-colored brush strokes.

One of the impressionists, Edgar Degas, became her lifelong friend.

While Mary Cassatt had no children of her own, her most famous paintings are tender scenes of mothers and children.

Mary Cassatt, the first female artist in America to reach the same status as her male contemporaries, died in 1926 at 82.

Mary Cope-- Mary Cassatt.

Beautiful paintings.

We have a special thank you going out to Julia Stumpf of Coplay Pennsylvania for submitting that question idea.

Julia will receive a one-year subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.

We encourage you to send in your questions too.

And now, speaking of questions, here's another one.

ANNOUNCER: Author-illustrator Marc Brown grew up near Erie Pennsylvania.

His popular children's book spawned a TV show, hailed as one of the 10 best series of the 90s.

Is it A, Blue's Clues, B, The Simpsons, C, South Park, or D, Arthur?

[music playing] SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

We have Marc Brown.

Popular children's books.

Did he create Blue's Clues, The Simpsons, South Park or Arthur?

We'll run down to Bill for this one first.

Bill, what do you think?

It's a guess.

I'll suggest B. SCOTT BRUCE: You went with B. B. Yeah.

SCOTT BRUCE: Actually, you went with D is what you went with.

We have a D here, we have a B here.

We'll correct that, and we got it a B. There you go.

OK.

B, Simpsons.

OK.

And Debbie, over to you.

I just am eliminating the obvious, so I went with D. I know it's not B or C, so I went with D. SCOTT BRUCE: You know it's not B or C. So you went with D, hoping it's not A. DEBBIE HOY: Hoping it's not A. I like your thinking here.

It's a blind stinking guess just like Bill.

Right.

Good for you.

Jeff, do you have a good guess for us?

Father of four, this is a slam dunk.

And having said that, I'll get it wrong, but I think it's D, Arthur.

SCOTT BRUCE: D, Arthur.

So we have two Arthur's, we have one Simpsons.

I don't think Simpsons was on PBS, but let's find out.

What we got?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Arthur.

Marc Brown recalls the stories his grandmother told him as a child in Mill Creek near Erie.

Brown later made up bedtime stories for his own children, a tale about an aardvark named Arthur became a family favorite.

And the simple family ritual, a full-time profession.

The one-time truck driver, short order cook, and television art director trained at the Cleveland Art Institute.

He went on to create more than 100 picture books for children.

Inspiration for Arthur and his friends come from people Brown knew growing up in Pennsylvania and background illustrations often reference Pennsylvania towns.

In Arthur's Baby, for example, presents for the baby came from Duncansville and Hollidaysburg.

Brown's best selling books led to the hit PBS kids show which TV critics called one of the 10 best series of the 90s.

Very nicely done.

Time to take a look at our big scoreboard.

And the score is 1, 2, 3.

Bill with 1 point, Jeff with 2, and Debbie leading the way with 3 big points.

For the women!

SCOTT BRUCE: And that means it's time for our first clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Get your pens ready.

Here's clue number one.

Born in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in 1927, his long and distinguished sports career was anything but bland.

Born in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in 1927, his long and distinguished sports career was anything but bland.

Remember to write your answer on the top line.

If you get it right all three times, you'll get 3 points, 2 if you get it right on the second clue, and 1, if you get it right only on the third.

OK, kids.

Pens down.

Time to move along, and we've got time for a new question.

ANNOUNCER: Actor Nick Adams was born and raised in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.

Best known as bounty hunter, Johnny Yuma, in the 1959 TV series The Rebel.

Adams' promising career was cut short.

Did he, A, flee to Europe after being indicted for a felony, B, die in a stunt accident on the set of the show, C, quit show business to join a monastic order, or D, die of a drug overdose.

SCOTT BRUCE: Hey, what is that wacky Nick Adams do?

Did he flee to Europe for being indicted for a felony?

Did he die in a stunt accident, quit show business to become a monastic, whatever, or did he die of a drug overdose?

We'll go to Debbie first.

I thought he committed suicide, so I went with D. SCOTT BRUCE: You went with D, die of a drug overdose.

OK.

And Jeff?

I'm going to do that B thing, die of a stunt accident on the set of the show.

SCOTT BRUCE: He looked like a stunt man, didn't he?

Why not.

I thought so too.

How about you, Bill?

I'm inclined to go with D also.

I think he had a scandal in his life.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

So we've got two drug overdoses, we have a stunt, we have the right answer right now.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, die of a drug overdose.

Born Nicholas Adam Shot near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the TV and movie actor was often cast in the same troubled young man mold as his good friend James Dean.

In fact, his first movie role was a bit part in the 1955 James Dean classic, Rebel Without a Cause.

His career took off in 1959 when he starred as Johnny Yuma in the TV series, The Rebel.

With 23 movies to his credit, he was nominated for an Oscar for his 1963 performance in Twilight of Honor.

He died in 1968 at age 37 of an apparent drug overdose, the circumstances of which remain a mystery.

Buried in Berwick, Pennsylvania, the official cause of death is listed as accident, suicide, undetermined.

Very nice.

Good job, Bill and Debbie.

Time to go back and check our tote board.

And it looks like Debbie is pulling away.

It's 4 for Debbie, 2 for Bill and Jeff, and the game gets more exciting by the minute.

Time for our second clue in the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Here it comes.

This record-setting quarterback and kicker is famous for last minute heroics in five straight 1970 games.

This record-setting quarterback and kicker is famous for last minute heroics in five straight 1970 games, born in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in 1927, his long and distinguished sports career was anything but bland.

Boy, am I pushing that hint.

[laughs] Everybody seems to have an idea.

Everybody's writing things down.

Let's go to a new question.

ANNOUNCER: In 1893, Antonio Zambelli left Italy and brought his family-runs business to Newcastle, Pennsylvania.

For more than a century, the Zambelli family has been synonymous with A, Italian foods, B, high-wire circus acts, C, fireworks, or D, ice rink resurfacers.

SCOTT BRUCE: I love this question.

Is it Italian food?

Is it a high-wire circus act?

Is it fireworks or ice rink resurfacers?

Jeff, what do you think?

As tempting as it would be to go with The Zamboni wrote, no, I'm going to go C, fireworks.

SCOTT BRUCE: C, fireworks.

A good choice.

Bill?

BILL MONTOGOMERY: I'm going to go B, high-wire circus.

SCOTT BRUCE: B, high-wire circus acts.

And we'll go down to you, Debbie.

Well, again, I'm just-- I knew it wasn't B or D, so I went with C. SCOTT BRUCE: You went with C, went with fireworks.

Process of elimination.

Yeah.

SCOTT BRUCE: Worked our way down.

We've got two fireworks, we've got one high-wire circus act, we have a very confused panel, and an even more confused studio audience.

[laughter] ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, fireworks.

Antonio Zambelli brought only a copy of his family's fireworks recipes when he left Naples, Italy in 1893, to bring his business to America.

He chose Newcastle, Pennsylvania because its look and climate reminded him of Naples.

Antonio turned the company over to his son, George, in 1951.

At 70 plus years of age, George "Boom-boom" Zambelli is still president of the Zambelli Fireworks Company, the world's oldest and largest fireworks operation.

The Zambelli family, which produces more than 1,000 shows and grosses $10 billion annually is known worldwide as the first family of fireworks.

The first family of fireworks.

Zambelli, in fact, did the 1986 Statue of Liberty fireworks, which went off in my yard.

I was living in Brooklyn Heights at the time, and it was unbelievable.

In addition to that, he's also done four presidential inaugurations, the desert storm, troop return, and perhaps most important, the Elvis Presley stamp unveiling.

So it doesn't get any better than this, folks.

That's why you tune in to The Pennsylvania Game.

Let's learn some more stuff.

ANNOUNCER: Arkansas-native Elton Britt was a country and Western singer popular from the 1940s to the 60s.

He retired to Breezewood, Bedford County in 1960.

Which of the following is not true about Elton Britt?

A, he was cited by three presidents for entertaining US troops overseas, B, he was regarded as the world's greatest yodeler, C, he was an original cast member of the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies, or D, he was the first country artist to earn a gold record?

SCOTT BRUCE: OK, folks.

Let me repeat.

Which of these is not true, not true of the following?

Was he cited by three presidents?

Is he considered the greatest yodeler?

Was he an original cast member of The Beverly Hills?

Or was he the first country artist to earn a gold record?

Bill, we'll go to you.

Well, I'm going to say he-- he was C, he would-- push it.

He was C. He wasn't.

SCOTT BRUCE: Was not an original member of The Beverly Hillbillies.

BILL MONTOGOMERY: I think that's right.

OK.

Well, we'll find out.

Deb?

Always love The Beverly Hillbillies.

I still watch them at nick at night.

Never seen him.

So I went with C. SCOTT BRUCE: Big fan?

Yes.

We know what we're talking about.

Got it.

Jeff, what do you think?

If it's good enough for the two of them, it's good enough for me.

Three C's?

What does that mean?

On our show, that means everybody gets the Pennsylvania lottery ticket.

Please pass those down, compliments of the Pennsylvania Lottery.

And we can see exactly what type of TV our panelists watch.

Let's find out the answer.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C. Born in Arkansas in 1913, Elton Britt began playing guitar and singing in his teens.

In 1930, he was vocalist in a country recording group, The Beverly Hillbillies, not the TV sitcom.

Britt recorded a number of popular songs.

But his best known hit was the World War II ballad, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, which earned him the first gold record awarded to a country artist.

Adopted as a symbol of the war effort by patriotic audiences, President Roosevelt invited Britt, billed is the world's greatest yodeler, to the White House in 1942 to perform the song.

In 1960, he moved to Breezewood, where he lived until his death in 1972 at age 59.

SCOTT BRUCE: There's that magic music.

It's time for our third clue of the Mystery Pennsylvanian and get ready.

When he finally walked away from the game he loved at the age of 48, he had played in more games than any player in NFL history.

When he finally walked away from the game he loved at age 48, he had played in more games than any player in NFL history born in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in 1927.

His long and distinguished sports career was anything but bland.

This record-setting quarterback and kicker is famous for last minute heroics in five straight 1970s games.

I see we're running out of time, so Debbie's finishing scribbling, and we're ready to find out how they did.

Deb, you get to go first.

Hold your card up so we can all see it.

I'm afraid I'm not a big sports buff, but I went with Terry Bradshaw.

SCOTT BRUCE: OK.

So we have who was question mark.

Who was Terry Bradshaw?

And I don't think you say was Terry Bradshaw as he's still with us.

And who was Terry Bradshaw?

But that's OK.

Terry Bradshaw is your-- I think that's a very good answer especially for a non-sports person.

OK.

SCOTT BRUCE: We'll go down to Jeff.

Jeff, what do you have?

Well, it's not in the form of a question.

But George Blanda.

SCOTT BRUCE: George Blanda.

And you got him on the second try, second and third.

So we'll find out if that's going to work for you.

It could be good.

And Bill?

I was going to put you down number two but you're too young.

SCOTT BRUCE: 1927?

I made up John Bland.

SCOTT BRUCE: John Bland, you made it up.

The last one.

I think-- And thirdly-- It's John SCOTT BRUCE: He spelled it George Blandy.

That's what-- SCOTT BRUCE: We'll have to check with our judges on that.

If in fact, George Blanda is the right answer, I think they're going to give it to him if it's right.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: George Blanda, pro football's ageless wonder was born in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in 1927.

Blanda was a quarterback and a kicker for 26 pro football seasons.

He played 340 games, earned 2,002 points, and didn't retire until he was 48 years old, all three are NFL records.

Blanda is perhaps best known for an electrifying five-game spell in 1970, when at the age of 43, he starred as quarterback and kicker, spurring the Oakland Raiders to four last minute wins and a tie.

The hall-of-famer retired in 1976, one month shy of his 49th birthday.

George Blanda, a famous Pennsylvanian.

George Blanda, unbelievable.

We've had an exciting game.

Let's find out what exactly we've got in the way of score.

It looks like Bill had a very respectable score 4.

But we have a tie with 6 points each for Jeff and Debbie.

Let's hear it.

Wendy, what did these lucky people?

ANNOUNCER: Scott, today's winner receives a luxury wool blanket from the Woolrich Store of Woolrich, Pennsylvania.

Since 1830, its Woolrich, the original outdoor clothing company.

Plus 50 chances to win $1,000 a week for life from the Pennsylvania lottery.

That's right.

Lottery tickets and blankets.

What a great time.

We can't thank everyone enough.

Thanks to the studio audience.

Thanks to my great panelists.

You people at home were just fabulous.

Keep tuning in to The Pennsylvania Game.

And if you have a question, you please send it to us and we'll use it on the air and send you a free subscription to The Pennsylvania Game Magazine, and now we got to go.

Bye.

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