Welcome to the all new seventh season of the award winning So You Think You Know Me, Mac.

Wits and wisdom with our four contestants as we explore Maine's past and present with your host, Jeff Gable.

Coral, Mark, Crystal and Michelle.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Let's play.

So you think you know Maine as we go.

Show number 27.

Hands on buzzers.

Maine's second highest mountain is also one of the state's most popular ski resorts.

Can you name it?

Michelle?

Cadillac number.

Oh, no.

Mark.

Sugarloaf.

Sugarloaf mountain.

Oh.

Sugarloaf mountain is the second highest mountain and is the ski resort now again.

Hands on buzzers, everybody.

Not Alaska, is a town in Aroostook County.

That and is an Indian word which means which of the following?

Now this Madawaska means porcupine.

Wide river or little Papoose.

Crystal.

Porcupine.

Porcupine?

Yes, indeed.

Crystal got the point on that question.

Madawaska is an Indian word which means porcupine.

Now, which state park is located on Maine's largest lake?

Crystal again, Bay Lily Bay State Park.

Lily Bay State Park is located on our largest lake, which is crystal just Moosehead.

Have you ever been there?

Yeah.

No.

Well, she's right about it for us.

Pretty good.

Now we have a visual question.

Everybody.

So take your peepers and follow me right over here.

This river begins in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and winds its way through Oxford and York counties before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

Can you name it?

Michelle?

Yes, indeed.

The Saco River.

Now we have pants and hands for four years.

This is a question about the sea.

For years, the depth of objects at sea has been measured in fathoms.

Now, how many feet in a fathom?

So that's ten times quickly.

How many feet?

The.

Number one is an appropriate question for the state of Maine.

What has a rich and varied legacy year concerning the sea?

How many feet in a fathom larissa's?

Six feet.

Mark says two.

And a half.

Crystal, 20, and Michelle, 20.

Well, Doctor Pecoraro, the answer is one fathom equals six feet.

So a lot of you are correct.

Laura, how many feet in 100 fathom six.

Six.

Isn't that easy?

How did you know there were six feet in a fathom?

That fascinates me.

Just something you read somewhere.

Now?

Just.

You can figure it out easily.

Okay, well, Laura had the answer.

She got points back.

Let's stop and look at the points.

Everyone has scored already.

That's the way we like to see how everyone gets in a real quickly.

Crystal, you are on the lead with ten points, and Laura, Mark and Michelle have five points apiece.

Now.

Sure.

I don't have to tell you this, but you're going to give me the question.

I'm going to give you the answer.

So you give me the question.

Here's the answer.

Portland.

Lewiston.

Bangor.

Auburn.

Mark, there are cities.

There are the four largest cities in the state of Maine.

That's what we're looking for.

Okay.

Now, just for the heck of it, just to prove that you can do that, put that in the form of a question.

Name Maine's four largest cities.

Okay.

That's right.

Now listen.

Listen to the following information carefully.

And when it's true, I'll ask you specific questions about what you're going to hear.

Bar Harbor, one of Maine's most beautiful towns, is located on Mount Desert Island overlooking Frenchman's Bay.

Its reputation as a summer resort began back in the 1880s.

Opulent summer homes called cottages, were built during this time by some of the most wealthy people in the country.

Homes with such names as Talleyrand, devil Stone, Chateau, Old Witch Cliff, and Elsinore Dotted Bar Harbor.

Certainly one of the most lavish was Wynwood House, owned by the Ate Stoats berries.

It had 110 rooms, 26 hand-carved marble fireplaces, 28 bathrooms and 52 telephones, plus 23 extensions.

The gold fixtures in the bathrooms were in economy, as Mrs. Stoltz Berry explained, because they saved polishing, you know, wing wood was demolished in 1953 to make way for the Canadian National Bluenose Ferry Terminal.

Most of the cottages of that era no longer exist.

They were either demolished or were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1947.

Fortunately, a few of these homes still stand today.

A beautiful reminder of Bar Harbor's glorious past.

And there you have it, wings over Bar Harbor.

Now for a few questions for five points apiece.

And audience, please hold your applause to me and all these five questions bar Harbor overlooks what de Michel, Frenchman's Bay, okay, the opulent summer homes were called.

What?

Laura cottages.

Cottages?

Yes.

Why did Mrs. Sperry have gold fixtures in their bathrooms?

Michelle sipped on Polish.

Yes, that's right.

They say they were economy because they saved on polishing.

Wynwood House was demolished in 1953 to make room.

For what?

Michelle lot.

That's right.

The Canadian National Bluenose ferry terminal.

And finally, in what year did the Great fire destroyed most of Bar Harbor?

Crystal 47, 1947.

How about the.

Boy, you kids didn't miss a trick on that.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Bar Harbor.

And we got a lot of that information from a new Downeast book's publication called lost Bar Harbor is the title, and that was written by G.W.

Helfrich and, Gladys O'Neil.

So thanks to Downeast Books for allowing us to use those photographs from that book.

It's for that fascinating book, and I think you might enjoy it.

Now, let's move right on to something else.

This is a short one.

Now, how many Maine counties begin with the letter K?

Borrow?

One.

Oh, no.

Crystal to two.

That's it.

What?

That crystal.

Can you name them?

Kennebec and Knox?

Kennebec and Knox County began with the letter K. I like those short questions.

You don't know what's coming.

Now imagine this situation.

You are going to Maine's capital city.

You're going to the Maine State Museum, and then you're going to visit someone who was meeting you at Cony High School.

What river will you see as you travel through the city of Augusta?

Mark Kennebec, the Kennebec River for.

Back and forth.

There's the end of the first round.

And let's go over and look at the scores.

Boy.

Good, good.

First round Michelle and Krystal are in the lead with 20 points apiece away at the tie.

And right behind them is marked with 15 and Laura with ten points.

And as always, we're glad that you could be here with us this evening with lots of good questions.

You're going to learn so much about the state of Maine, and these are the kids that are going to help us learn about the state and have fun at the same time.

First, we want to say hello to Laura Boots.

That's about beauty.

I've been practicing all afternoon to get it correct.

Laura comes to us from Portland, where she is a seventh grader at Lincoln Middle School.

She is the daughter of Richard and Gail and my colleague.

It's just me.

I got a letter from you.

Did you write to me a couple of years ago?

Yes.

What was that all about?

Well, I suggested that channel ten have a children's reading.

And so you think you know me.

And the rest is history, isn't it?

And finally, you've got to be a part of that.

Oh, I'm glad you were able to finally, after writing to us so long ago, come down and be on the show.

Is it what's it like in person as opposed to watching on television?

It's more fun, and I didn't have to say that either.

How I could.

Well, good luck to you.

Next.

Our only gentlemen on the panel this evening is Mr. Mark Babcock.

He attends Plumber Motes School in Falmouth, where he's a sixth grader.

He is the son of Ross and Joanne Babcock.

And you want a school competition to be here this evening?

Yes.

What did that entail?

First we had a written test where, we had to the top five people who scored on the test got to go to the gymnasium, and we had a playoff round of.

And whoever won that was the champion.

And we had to come up.

So.

And you are here this evening, and two of the people, two of the people in the audience took the test and I.

Well, great.

Glad to have you here this evening also.

Good luck to you, Mark.

And next is Crystal Knapp from Kingfield Elementary School.

She is in seventh grade there, and she is the daughter of Lena and Clinton Knapp.

How about that?

Now, you brought how many people with you from the town of Kingfield today?

And then about 24, 24.

Is there anyone left in King Philip?

Yes.

So what are some of your school activities?

I know that you've explained to me that you're just busy all the time.

Yeah, I play the timpani in the junior high school band, and I'm in the chorus and I'm in the choir at the church, and I'm playing the timpani.

That's the only time in school that you really got a chance to make a big noise, isn't it?

And it's illegal.

You can make all the noise you want to.

Okay, well, welcome and thank you for coming down from Kingfield.

And finally on the end of the podium this evening is Michelle O'Donnell.

Now, Michelle attends Cumberland School or the school at North Yarmouth Memorial School in Cumberland, in fact, where she is a sixth grader.

She is the daughter of Claire and Phillip O'Donnell.

And one of your activities at school is you belong to the math team here, and the math team goes to math meets.

Now tell me what happens in the math meet.

Are you just going sit down and they give you a test?

They say, what's six plus four?

Minus three times 12?

Subtract two.

No, no, it's more complicated than that.

Oh it is.

Yeah.

So you got to use pen and pencil.

Yeah.

And an eraser.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well thank you all for being here.

And I also wanted to introduce again for the second week in a row, Doctor Joseph Pecoraro.

And you work where, sir?

Department of Education in Augusta, Maine.

Why don't you explain briefly what some of your duties are with the Department of Education?

Well, I'm a curriculum consultant that spends a great deal of time doing self-evaluation in schools.

Also, high school accreditation, working on Maine studies, working on a variety of curriculum programs.

In fact, I was at, during high school as well this morning, right next to Lincoln at the school and visiting the school, doing an evaluation form.

Glad to have you here.

And my gosh, we have a big studio audience this evening.

Listen to this lineup.

The seventh grade class from Enfield Junior High School took them two hours to get here.

The top some Girl Scouts, troop number four, 78, and also the Tiger Cubs pack 158 from Lewiston, plus assorted friends, relatives and, derelicts off the street here.

This evening.

And so do you think you know Maine's audience?

Give yourself a round of applause.

That really seemed like a good.

Okay, now there's a time for you to go back to work.

That means, hands on buzzers.

It's time to play round two, which has the addition of our mystery puzzle, which is worth 15 bonus points to the contestants and gets that correct.

Now we're going to start the second round off with a visual toss up this unusual looking bird has only one nesting ground in the entire United States, and that is Metallica's rock off the Maine coast.

What is the name of this bird?

Michelle Puffin, the puffin, the Atlantic puffin.

So we'll say goodbye to the Atlantic Puffin.

And on to our first mystery puzzle.

This time it's a former governor of the state of Maine, Michelle.

And here's your clue.

And see if you can come up with the answer.

Too early, isn't it?

All right, well, let's continue.

Falmouth, Westbrook and Portland were considered as one town during the 1760s and went by a single name.

What was the name of the town?

Was it Falmouth, Westbrook or Portland to Mark Thelma?

Falmouth?

Yes, sir.

Now, that, question, just for a little added information comes to us from Virginia Vaughn, who was our seniors champion this year.

And, geez, Mark, do you go to her school?

She teaches fourth grade, and I'm in sixth grade.

Did you have Mrs. Vaughn?

No.

Did you know someone in the studio audience?

But let me ask you, did Mrs. Vaughn give you any, pointers on being on the show?

No, she didn't.

Well, that was her question.

Now, under the former governor of Maine, Mark, here's your clue.

He's just gone through that long list and picked the right one too soon.

Okay.

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman ever elected to the United States Senate.

In what year did this happen?

Was it 1944, 1948 or 1952?

March 1952.

Incorrect.

Crystal 1948 1948.

Yes.

Maine sent Margaret Chase Smith to the Capitol in 1948.

And we're sending you back to the mystery puzzle.

Former governor of Crystal.

First clue an S. Former governor of the state of Maine.

All right.

Next for everybody.

What?

State park with a beautiful sand beach is located near the first English settlement on the coast of Maine.

Crystal beach, Pompano Beach State Park.

All right, Crystal, cross your fingers.

It might be this one.

Here's your clue.

Are you.

Well, he's a former governor.

We didn't say he was a famous former governor.

Just a former governor.

Well, pence in hand, Knox County was the last county to be established in the state of Maine.

And what year did this take place?

Knox County was the last county to be established in the state of Maine.

In what year did this take place?

So closest to the correct answers, we got five points.

And let's say Larus says 1928 1785 for Mark 1899 says Crystal.

And Michelle came up with the date 1923.

No doctor Pecoraro crystal has come up with the closest answer 1899.

The correct answer is 1866.

Knox County was established in the year 1860.

Crystal, you were closest.

So here's our friend, the former governor of Maine.

There's your clue.

Okay.

Well, we'll continue right along.

Name the state's first college.

Was it Colby Bates or Bowdoin?

Crystal.

Bowdoin.

Bowdoin College, certainly.

Bowdoin.

Founded in 1794.

The first class had eight students and only one professor.

Colby was second and Bates was third.

Guess what Crystal?

Back to your friend here, the former governor of the state of Maine.

Your clue.

Here's your clue.

Kenneth Curtis.

See, it's not that you're surprised.

Say, we always say.

I always try the crowd.

That's really tough, but it just takes enough clues.

Kenneth Curtis, everyone knows Ken Curtis.

Well, you got the 15 points.

And let's stop and look at the scores.

Crystal.

That puts you into the lead with 55 points.

Michelle 25, Mark, 20, and Laura, ten.

Hands on buzzers for everybody.

Auburn is Maine's fourth largest city.

In which county is all the mark?

Androscoggin.

Androscoggin County.

Right where my feet are firmly planted at the second and Androscoggin County, Maine.

Product mark.

There's your clue.

Maine product.

Oh.

Oh.

I'm going to guess.

Blueberries.

Mystery puzzle board.

Hey, it is all berries.

Well.

There we have.

We just reviewed the score, so we don't need to go back and do that so we can fire right on to the home viewer question.

Everyone is sitting out there with pens and papers because they don't want to miss our home viewer question.

It's number 27.

This is show number 27 this season.

And this is about a shorter question as we've possibly had the season.

Are you ready.

Here it comes.

Name Maine's smallest county.

Name Maine's smallest county.

That's your question this week, folks.

Now what you do is put your answer on a postcard please, and send it to this address right there.

Copy down the address Mark at home.

Viewer question and send it.

Get it here.

Within one week we take all the correct answers and from those correct answers we select one big winner.

Who's going to win a so you think you know Maine mug and you never know.

Sometimes there are mystery prizes included.

So we always encourage you to be part of that.

And we will announce that winner following next week's program.

Now it's time for round three toss ups now worth ten points apiece.

And we also have the addition of the category board bonus five points.

Here are multiple choice nature people and Maine towns.

And remember kids, you can't lose any points.

So are you ready?

Here we go.

Visual identification first.

Again, this man is the most famous person ever to put on a Red Sox uniform.

His career spanned four decades, from 1939 until 1960.

In 1941, he became the last man to hit over 400, and in his last time at bat, in 1960, he hit a home run.

Fishing in Maine is one of his favorite activities.

Can you name him Mark Ted Williams?

Ted Williams number nine.

Ted Williams, old number nine.

Okay, Mark, we'll move right on to the under the categories Maine Towns, People in nature and Multiple Choice.

I think I'll take Maine towns.

For five bonus points.

Maine Yankee is Maine's only nuclear power plant.

And what Lincoln County town is it located?

Wiscasset.

You got it for five points.

Maine Yankee is located in Wiscasset now.

Don't be stubborn about it.

Answering this one, kids.

The mule is the mascot.

For what?

Maine college, Michel Colby college, Colby college.

Yes.

Colby college.

All right, well, Michelle, I'll give you a chance now, but the categories take multiple choice.

On New Year's Day in 1785, Maine's first newspaper appears.

Which of the following names was the correct title of this publication?

Was it The Kittery Crier, the Falmouth Gazette, or the Kennebec Journal?

Towns Gazette?

That's correct.

How much was that?

Maine's first newspaper appearing on New Year's Day in 1785.

Now, here's a folklore question for everybody.

According to legend, what was the name of the English pirate who destroyed the fort at Pemba?

Quit in the year 1632?

Oh, I can see it in your eyes.

No one knows this one.

Dixie Bowl, Dixie bowl.

Study your pirates next time.

No Eagle question.

No Eagle Island State park Eagle Island State Park was the summer home of the famous explorer, Admiral Robert Perry.

Where is Eagle Island State Park located?

On what day mark?

It's located in Mary Meeting Bay no.

Michelle, a classic Casco Bay, Casco Bay is the location of Eagle Island State Park.

What is the name of Maine's longest beach?

Mark.

Old orchard.

You got it, sir.

Old Orchard Beach.

What's it?

The illustrated map of Maine tells us it's four miles long.

Old Orchard beach.

I think I'll try Maine towns again.

Name one of the two main towns that has the same name as two Latin American countries.

Name one of the two main towns that have the same name as two Latin American countries.

Mexico or Peru.

Yes.

You have just finished touring the state house in Augusta, and you are on your way to bath.

Are you traveling north?

South?

East to west, ma'am?

South.

South?

Yes, sir.

Fantastic work.

Can you give me the name of the Hancock County town in which the Maine Maritime Academy is located?

Cast.

Team.

Next question for everybody.

The Indians were very clever people.

Not only did they build canoes out of birch bark, but they also invented something to help them walk through the snowy Maine woods.

What was this important invention, Michelle?

Snowshoes.

Snowshoes?

Yes.

Multiple choice.

Multiple choice.

The Indians referred to the Portland area as Macedonia.

This Macedonian translate as great knee deep harbor or land of many restaurants.

Deep harbor.

No great knee, which aptly describes the shape of the peninsula on which Portland is located.

Russets.

This is for everybody out Russets, Katahdin and Kenny.

Backs are all varieties.

If one of Maine's most important cash crops.

Crystal potatoes, potatoes, that's it.

Wrong.

Towns.

Maine towns.

This Cumberland County town is the home of Bowdoin College.

Can you name it?

Brunswick.

Brunswick?

Yes.

Everybody, if you are going to visit Bar Harbor and Cadillac Mountain, to which Maine county would you have to travel?

Mark Washington.

No.

Incorrect.

Someone else, Michelle Waldo?

No.

Hancock County.

Listen carefully.

Coal burning industrial plants in the Ohio Valley are believed to be the cause of acid rain.

It's a potential environmental problem to Maine's lakes, rivers and marine life.

Is this true or false, Laura?

True.

You are right.

It is true.

Lakes.

Nature.

What kind of fish am I?

I am one of the most important cold water fish in Maine.

I spend my entire life in fresh water.

I was made the official state fish on February 24th, 1969.

My mark.

Salmon.

That's it.

Law of the land.

Like salmon.

How many Maine counties begin with the letter M?

Laura?

M?

None.

None?

That's right.

No.

Mary began with a lot of, Major.

Stop and think.

Didn't.

Okay.

Major again plays her.

Looking for gold and semi-precious gemstones such as garnets is a popular hobby in the state of Maine.

What is the nickname for someone who enjoys this activity?

Is it a bloodhound, a rock hound or a panhandler?

A rock hound, Rockhound.

Yes.

Whales are seen on occasion off the coast of Maine.

Now, I'm going to give you a choice of answers to this question, which I'm sure you've been thinking about for many years.

Do all whales have teeth?

We have a tie, so I'm going to throw that question out.

Go to another one.

Before the railroad systems were completed, how did mammals receive goods or deliver goods to other states, Michelle?

By boat?

By ship or boat?

Yes.

And And that is the end of the round.

And Bailey with 70 points.

Crystal, you have won this week.

Let me tell you, that was one of the best games I know you ever had.

Crystal.

70 points, Mark and Michelle 60 points.

Laura 30 points.

Who really giving a workout this evening?

Well, as always, everyone takes home with a masseur.

You think you know Maine mug and Laura, Mark and Michelle.

You'll also be taking a Maine map and guy from our friends at the publishing company a lobster patch.

So you think you know Maine book Club and how to talk Yankee Book, compliments of the Thorndyke Press and Crystal as our winner.

A year subscription to Maine Life and one of their pretty, pretty T-shirts compliments of The Farmstead Press.

A free family admission to the Maine Maritime Museum, including a ride on their boat, the Sassy Noah up the Kennebec a years family membership to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium, and a Maine bag from the Name Publicity Bureau.

And our congratulations and thanks to all of you.

I hope you had as much as fun as we did.

And as always, we invite you back next week for more fun and games.

And until that time, this is Jeff Gable hoping that this show has helped you get to know Maine better.

Good night everybody.

This is the time.

Thank you for.