The Pennsylvania Game
Space travel, manufacturing & Valley Forge
Season 3 Episode 4 | 27m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Space travel, manufacturing & Valley Forge
Season 3 Episode 4 | 27m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Who helped General Washington at Valley Forge? Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania trivia alongside three panelists. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Wendy] If humans are ever to blast off to visit distant planets, future astronauts will have to endure long space flights.
Scientists studying the way humans can adapt to space are learning from the behavior of a certain Pennsylvania animal.
Do you know which animal?
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(lively music) (lively music) Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game", Lynn Hinds.
- Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, I thank you.
Thank you.
Got some very challenging questions for you today on "The Pennsylvania Game", and we've got a panel that loves challenges.
He's an author, a writer, an educator.
He's Bernie Asbell.
Let's make him welcome.
(audience applauding) She is a journalist who works in radio at Eastern Pennsylvania, Chris Novak.
(audience applauding) And a former newspaper journalist who now teaches journalism, Leola Johnson.
(audience applauding) Now, of course, the secret is to play at home.
And they're all multiple choice, so you can take a guess and see if you can get as many questions right as our panel.
And the answer to our first question, I will tell you, is not a skunk, but it is another native Pennsylvania animal, and it has to do with outer space.
- [Wendy] Scientists who are trying to find ways to keep astronauts healthy and happy during prolonged space flights are studying the dietary practices of a certain Pennsylvania animal.
What animal are they investigating?
A, Porcupine, B, Rattlesnake, C, Bear, or D, Squirrel?
- See, the reason I thought it might be skunk is 'cause those astronauts are cooped up together for long periods of times, and they... (audience laughing) Well, you've finished the joke yourself.
Bernie Asbell, what do you think?
Which one of these would they learn the most about in terms of those space flights?
Porcupine, rattlesnake, bear, or squirrel?
- Well, thank goodness we don't have to choose between guinea pigs and monkeys.
- [Lynn] You don't.
None of those are up there.
- Porcupines, they... Rattlesnakes.
Bears are too big, you can't take 'em... Squirrels.
Squirrels squirrel things away as though it's for long trips.
- I see.
Okay.
Because they take nuts on long trips, and space, and so it's squirrels.
Chris?
- Well, I thought monkey also, but, of course, that's not native to Pennsylvania.
- [Lynn] Of course it's not.
(laughing) - I'm gonna say squirrel because of the size.
- [Lynn] The size of the squirrels.
Okay.
Leola, have they convinced you?
- Yeah, they have.
But, you know, actually, (chuckling) actually, we're probably all wrong.
- You know, there is that distinct possibility.
What did you pick at home?
And are you all wrong, or did you pick the right one?
Let's see.
- [Wendy] The answer is C, the bear.
Pennsylvania's black bear goes on a crash diet every year as they hole up for the winter.
Here, the Game Commission gathers data about bears.
A hibernating female can give birth to cubs, nurse them, and still summon enough energy to defend her den.
Learning how the bears do this could help future astronauts, and perhaps even enable us to solve some diseases here on Earth.
- Isn't that the dearest picture of that little kid and that little bear?
Thanks to "Outdoor Pennsylvania", which is a program seen on the Pennsylvania public network too, for those pictures of the bear.
Not of the astronauts, but of the bears.
Well, you all got that one wrong, and I'm just terribly, terribly ashamed of all of you.
Let's go to the eastern part of the state, Chris, back to Philadelphia.
And that'll give you a little closer-to-home kind of question to work on.
Let's watch.
- [Wendy] Lucretia Mott moved to Philadelphia when she got married at age 18.
In 1840, she was sent as a delegate to the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, but was refused admission because she was, A, an American.
B, a woman.
C, a Quaker.
Or D, married to a slave-owner.
- Well, there you are.
I didn't say it was in your time period, Chris.
I said it was in your part of the state.
Lucretia Mott got married aged 18, moved to Philadelphia, 1840, delegate to the London Convention.
But they didn't let her in.
Didn't let her sit on the platform because of what?
- Oh, I know of a Quaker town near Philadelphia, So I guess I'll say a Quaker.
- [Lynn] Okay, because Lucretia Mott was a Quaker, they wouldn't...
Okay.
Leola?
- Well, she was an American, and certainly a Quaker, and married to a, she was not, I don't think, married to a slave-owner.
But I think that 1840 Convention refused to let any women be delegates, even though women had worked in the abolitionist movement.
So I'm going to say B.
- You're gonna say B, a woman.
Okay.
Bernie?
Got a C and a B so far.
- Leola did me the honor of following me last time.
I'm gonna follow her.
- [Lynn] Okay.
You think it's a woman, because she was a woman?
- Because she was a woman.
- Anti-Slavery Convention wouldn't let her in or let her sit on the platform because she was a woman.
Well, that would be a really remarkable answer, wouldn't it?
Let's see.
- [Wendy] The answer is B, a woman.
When they told her no woman could sit on the platform with male delegates, Lucretia Mott became an advocate of freeing women as well as slaves.
- Yeah, they said, "I'm sorry, even though we're against slavery and wanna end that, we don't believe that women somehow should have any rights that men have."
I'll tell you one thing, Leola.
I would not have wanted to have been a slave-owner and married to Lucretia Mott.
This was quite a woman.
- Yeah, she certainly was.
- Carrie Krieger of of Sykesville, Pennsylvania, WPSX and the "Pennsylvania Magazine" are proud to send her a year's free subscription to the "Pennsylvania Magazine" for suggesting that question about Lucretia Mott.
Let's talk a little bit before we go on.
Let's talk a little bit to Chris, because Chris, this is your second time here on "The Pennsylvania Game", and you almost won the first one.
You were right one question behind, which was a remarkable, remarkable score.
But you enjoyed the experience, 'cause you came back, and we're glad to have you.
Glad to have you back.
We've got some other questions coming up about Philadelphia in the eastern part of the state that you might feel right at home with today.
Just a coincidence, 'cause we don't plan it that way.
Leola, nice to have you back.
- Nice being back.
- [Lynn] You're lots less pregnant than you were last time you were on "The Pennsylvania Game".
- Yeah, I was completely pregnant the last time I was on this... (laughing) (audience laughing) - [Lynn] And that all resulted in one of the prettiest, prettiest little babies I've ever seen.
- Well, thank you.
- A little boy, I believe?
- [Leola] That's right.
That's right.
Second little boy.
- Second little boy.
Okay.
Family's doing well then.
- Yeah.
- It's nice to have you here, and nice to have you play "The Pennsylvania Game".
- Thank you.
- Well, let's see.
Score wise, well, we'll give you the score in a minute.
I'll tell you that.
Let's go on to the next question, 'cause somebody needs to get one more right before we get the score.
This is about a very famous Pennsylvanian from the northwestern corner of our state.
- [Wendy] This portrait of General Thomas Kane is in a chapel in Kane, Pennsylvania, the town he founded.
But there's a statue honoring Thomas Kane for something he did at which location?
A, Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
B, the Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah.
C, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas.
Or D, San Juan Hill, Havana, Cuba.
- Gosh, that's such a simple question, I hate to ask it.
General Thomas Kane of Kane, he founded Kane, Pennsylvania.
It was losted and he founded it.
And there's a statue of him there, of course, and a whole chapel.
But where else, Leola, of all those locations, would you find General Thomas Kane of Pennsylvania honored?
- Well, you know, I really don't know the answer to this question at all.
But judging by his uniform, I would say it wouldn't be Cuba, 'cause that would have to be later, in the 1890s or something.
I would say it would probably be either A or C. - [Lynn] It'd either be the Alamo or Gettysburg.
- Gettysburg.
'Cause it'd either be the Civil War, or the whole Texas thing.
And so, having narrowed it down to those, I'm going to say C, just because I like.
- The Alamo?
- Yeah, just because-- - [Lynn] "Remember the Alamo," she says.
- That's right.
That's what I'm gonna say.
- Bernie?
What do you say?
- Well, I know the answer to this, because one week ago today I was at Gettysburg.
And did that tour, you know.
(audience laughing) And there is a statue of everybody who lived in Pennsylvania, and then some.
So it's gotta be Gettysburg.
- It's gotta be Gettysburg, 'cause you walked your legs off there.
- A little round top.
It's got all these-- - Chris, I hope you're thoroughly confused by now, 'cause they've got some roundabout ways of getting to two different locations.
- I'm gonna say A, because it's in Pennsylvania.
- [Lynn] Aha!
Well, see, Thomas Kane's from Pennsylvania.
The statue could be someplace else.
- [Bernie] That meets the qualifications.
- Listen to the answer.
You might be surprised.
- [Wendy] The answer is B, the Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Thomas Kane was born in Philadelphia, but moved to McKean County and built the first log cabin in now what is called Kane.
His efforts to help the oppressed Mormon people had a lasting impact on the history of that church.
Kane is buried at the chapel at Kane, maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
A county in Utah is named for him, and a statue of Thomas Kane stands in the Utah State Capitol building.
- The Mormon people do not forget.
And Thomas Kane was so helpful in their trek out to Utah, that they honor him with a statue in the Capitol at Utah.
So none of you knew that.
And the score so far is, well, Bernie and Leola are tied.
They have a whole one right each.
Let's hear a mild applause for our panel.
(audience applauding) Just a very weak, very weak applause.
We have three clues for a mystery Pennsylvanian.
And see if you can get it on the first clue.
And if not, we'll give you two more.
Here is the first clue.
This mystery Pennsylvanian was actually born in Georgia, but he moved to Pennsylvania right young, and he punched his way to the very tippy top.
Born in Georgia, moved to Pennsylvania, punched his way to the top.
You think about that, panel.
And that's not much of a clue, but there will be clues that are a little more helpful.
Two more coming along.
Oh, here's another one with four things to choose from that you'll have to listen carefully, because this will test your knowledge of the American Revolution.
- [Wendy] During America's darkest time of the revolution, the winter at Valley Forge near Philadelphia, Washington's army began to become a more organized fighting unit.
Much of this was due to the help of European officers.
Which of these men was not an officer who helped Washington?
A, Thaddeus Kosciusko.
B, Casimir Pulaski.
C, Friedrich von Steuben.
Or D, Pierre Beauregard.
- Okay.
We all remember from American history that the famous European officers came over and helped Washington in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Which one's not one of those famous European officers, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Casimir Pulaski, Friedrich von Steuben, or Pierre Beauregard.?
And Monsieur Bernie Asbell, it's your turn to pick.
Which one was not?
Three of them were, one wasn't.
- Well, my answer is D. And the reason is because everything I know I owe to having collected postage stamps as a kid.
And I remember seeing a stamp for Kosciusko, and for Pulaski and Steuben.
I had no 3-cent Beauregard.
- Well, you may have been poor-- - That's right.
- is the reason for that.
Did he convince you, or is he making all that up, Chris?
- I'm gonna choose B. I think Bernie might be trying to throw us off, and that name doesn't sound familiar.
- Pulaski.
Okay.
Although there is, I think a Pulaski, Pennsylvania, Chris.
Go ahead, Leola.
Which one do you think?
- I'm gonna choose D, because if Bernie is right, then we'll be tied.
And if he's wrong, we'll still be tied.
(all laughing) - [Bernie] Oh, I'd love to be tied with you, Leola.
- I'll guess true on this question, 'cause if it's true, I'll pass it to... All right, let's take a look and see what the right answer is.
- [Wendy] The answer is D, Pierre Beauregard.
Beauregard was the Confederate General who ordered the bombardment of Port Sumter that began the Civil War.
Both Thaddeus Kosciusko and Casimir Pulaski were from Poland, and combined engineering skills with intelligent command and stubborn bravery.
Friedrich von Steuben trained Americans as a drill sergeant, and taught them the value of obeying orders.
- Beauregard was a guy that started the Civil War, he said.
He fired the first shots on Fort Sumpter in South Carolina that started the Civil War.
So that's what Beauregard did.
And he wasn't around for the revolution.
I thought I'd throw that name in there to trick you, but neither of you were tricked.
Wow!
We got one, Chris, that'll go up to the modern contemporary era.
This is about something that just stopped happening about a year or so ago.
Let's listen.
- [Wendy] An era in American production ended in 1987 when a Carlisle company made the last one made in the United States.
Was the product, A, Ping pong balls.
B, Bicycle tires, C, Radio tubes, or D, Aquarium filters.
- [Lynn] (laughing) Company in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, made the last one manufactured in the whole of the United States of America.
And it's not made here anymore.
But what's the answer?
Ping pong balls, bicycle tires, radio tubes or aquarium filters.
Quite a list, Chris.
- I think I'll pick C, radio tubes, just because I work in radio.
(chuckling) - Okay.
And there are lots of transistors, so they naturally wouldn't make many radio tubes anymore.
Leola, what do you think?
- Well, I have this fuzzy memory that some bicycle concern was located in Carlisle.
And so I think I'm going to say B.
- Okay.
Based on a fuzzy memory, Leola is saying B. Bernie?
- Ping pong balls, which used to be a major American industry, have all gone overseas, creating an immense ping pong gap, ping pong ball gap, and has thrown the whole balance of trade out of whack because we don't make 'em here anymore.
- How long has it been since you've been to a pet store and had to buy aquarium filters is what I want to know.
What's the right answer here?
- [Wendy] The answer is B, bicycle tires.
The Carlisle Tire & Rubber Company started rolling out bike tires in 1948.
At their peak, they made 40,000 bicycle tires a day.
But foreign competition got too stiff, and the last bicycle tire made in America was made here in Cumberland County.
Carlisle Tire & Rubber does continue to make rubber products, such as hose and inner tubes, and they still cure tires for industrial use.
- Isn't that kind of sad, that they don't make bicycle tires in America anymore?
I mean, if we go to war and need bicycles, what will we do?
Well, anyway, based on a slightly fuzzy memory, Leola Johnson has just taken a lead with three right.
Let's hear it for Leola.
(audience applauding) My memory should be so fuzzy as Leola's.
Mystery clue number two for our mystery Pennsylvanian.
When he started his sports career in the late 1960s, everybody compared him to such greats as a fellow named Mohamed Ali.
That's clue number two.
Clue number one is he was born in Georgia, but he moved to Pennsylvania, and punched his way to the top.
And number two, when he started his sports career in the late 1960s, everybody compared him to a fella named Mohamed Ali.
While our panel is scribbling noisily over there, squeak, squeak, squeak, let me tell you that if you wanna write to us with a suggested question or just a comment, our address is The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.
We would be more than delighted to hear from you.
Well, well, well, let's go to the national scene, and Pennsylvanians who have made their mark, inside the beltways, they would say today anyway.
- [Wendy] Pennsylvanians James Buchanan, Timothy Pickering, Jeremiah Black and Philander Knox all held the same prominent national position.
Were they all, A, Supreme Court Justices.
B, Vice Presidents.
C, Secretaries of State.
Or D, Speakers of the House.
- Famous Pennsylvanians all, James Buchanan, Timothy Pickering, Jeremiah Black and Philander, or Philander, which is it, Philander or Philander?
- I don't know whether it's a name or a verb.
(all laughing) - [Lynn] I think they just called him Phil Knox.
They all had the same prominent national position.
Was it Supreme Court Justice, Vice President, Secretary of State, or Speaker of the House?
And let's see, we're on one, two, three, four, five, six.
Bernie, it's your turn to start.
Yeah, you.
- Well, if I tell the reason I answer, I know everybody's gonna go running after this answer, James Buchanan is the only Vice President we've had who was subsequently elected President.
So why don't we make it be that?
We'll take B.
- Based on that logic, B would be the an... Chris, did he convince you?
- I'm gonna take B also.
He convinced me.
- [Lynn] You went right with him on that one.
Leola?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna take B too.
(Bernie laughing) But really, it's mostly because whoever remembers Vice Presidents, and I don't remember any of those people from... (laughing) - I see.
I see.
I don't think Buchanan was ever Vice President.
But let's see.
You might be right.
- [Wendy] The answer is C, Secretaries of State.
Timothy Pickering of Philadelphia was in Washington's cabinet, while James Buchanan was Secretary of State for President Polk.
Jeremiah Black, of Bucks County, served when Buchanan became President.
And Philander Knox of Brownsville was Secretary of State under President Taft.
- Ah-huh.
Okay.
Well, so much for fuzzy memories of Bernie Asbell on that one.
- Did I understand that Leola said that if you've never heard of him, he must have been Vice President?
(panelists laughing) - Yeah, that's what she said.
That's what she said.
I've got a follow up question.
This is just a little extra.
They were all Secretaries of State.
Name two other Secretaries of State from Pennsylvania.
- I know one.
- Okay, name it.
- George Marshall.
- George Marshall.
- George Catlett Marshall.
- George Catlett Marshall.
Name the other one.
You're gonna hate yourself when I tell you.
- Not George Schultz?
- No, not George Schultz.
- No, he's from Illinois.
- Not too long before George Schultz, though.
- [Bernie] Dean Atcheson?
- How about a guy named Alexander Hague from Philadelphia?
- [Bernie] Oh, was he from Philadelphia?
- Yes, indeed he was.
But they joined, Hague and Marshall, Buchanan, Pickering Black and Knox, all as Secretaries of State.
So how about that?
Well, you didn't do good on that one, so let's go back in history, to Western Pennsylvania for this one.
- [Wendy] Baron Dettmar Basse sold the land for Harmony to Father Rapp in 1804, then built a town of his own.
The Baron named his town after a nickname of his daughter, Frederica Wilhelmina.
Is that town, A, Sharon.
B, Aliquippa.
C, Zelienople.
Or D, Coraopolis.
- Okay.
Baron Dettmar Basse had a nice farm, and he sold most of it to the Harmony Society.
The Harmonist, Father Rapp, and we've talked about them before here, and they built on that property.
But in 1804, Baron Basse built a town of his own, and he named that town after a nickname of his daughter, Frederica Wilhelmina.
And what was her nickname?
Which one of those?
And what's the name of that town?
I believe we start with you, Chris, this time.
- I can't imagine a nickname for Frederica, but I'm gonna pick Sharon, because I can pronounce that.
- [Lynn] Sharon can be pronounced.
Okay.
Sharon is familiar to you, I believe, isn't it, Leola, the name Sharon?
Aren't you from near Sharon, Pennsylvania?
- Actually, I have relatives who live in Sharon, but I'm from Bluefield, West Virginia.
- No!
- Yes, yes.
So that's not any place near Sharon.
- [Lynn] Okay.
But you have relatives in Sharon?
- I do, yeah.
- Was Chris right then?
Is Sharon named after... - But I have no idea whether Chris is right.
(Chris and Leola laughing) So I'm going to pick Aliquippa, 'cause I've always liked that.
- It's a nice name.
- Yeah, it is a nice name.
- [Lynn] Bernie, what name do you-- - Actually, her nickname was Zelienople.
They called her Zelie for short.
But her real name was Cora, and opolis means city, So it was the City of Cora.
- [Lynn] But you're guessing Zelienople.
- Oh!
D, D, D, D, D. I get sold by my own little-- - You get convinced by your own... We have an A, a B and a D. Nobody picked Zelienople.
Zelie could have been her nickname, Bernie.
Let's see.
- It was.
- [Wendy] The answer is C, Zelienople.
Zelie lived in this house with her husband Philip Passavant and seven children.
Zelie had been educated in Paris, and she taught her children to write and speak three languages.
Her son, William Passavant, founded a number of churches and hospitals, including Pittsburgh's Passavant Hospital.
Zelie died at age 85, and her home, Passavant House, is home today to the Zelienople Historical Society.
- And we thank the Zelienople Historical Society for all that neat stuff that they let us get.
And we congratulate our panel for eliminating every possibility except the right one.
You really did convince yourself, talked yourself outta that.
You were right.
You were right on that.
- Sure I was.
- Aliquippa, by the way, was the name of a very fine Indian queen in Western Pennsylvania at one time.
That's why we stuck that sucker in there.
Well, you don't know much about that.
Let's go back and give you another shot at national figures.
Famous Pennsylvanian who made it big time on the national scene.
What did he make it as?
- [Wendy] George Mifflin Dallas has a claim that no other Pennsylvanian can make.
Is that unique honor, A, First Mayor of Philadelphia, B, Pennsylvania's first Senator, C, US Minister to Russia, or D, Vice President of the United States?
- Okay.
George Mifflin Dallas, the only Pennsylvanian to do this.
And of course, if it were the first Mayor, and stuff like that, or first Senator, that would make it.
So Chris, what do you think?
What was George Mifflin Dallas the only Pennsylvanian to do?
Nobody else has done it.
- Hm.
I'm gonna say the first Mayor of Philadelphia.
- [Lynn] First Mayor of Philly was named George Mifflin Dallas.
Leola?
- Well, I hate to fall back on this, but I've never heard of him, so, (all laughing) - [Bernie] Stick with it.
Stick with it.
- So he was Vice President, right?
'Cause nobody's ever heard of the Vice President.
Bernie?
- Now, did you say he's the only Pennsylvanian-- - He is the only Pennsylvanian ever to do this.
- Well, that's very confusing, isn't it?
- I don't know.
- It's possible-- - [Lynn] I'm not confused.
You're gonna say US Minister to Russia.
- The only Pennsylvania ever to go to Moscow, yeah.
In an official capacity.
- [Lynn] Okay.
- I mean, the only Pennsylvanian.
- [Lynn] There was a Pennsylvania that did that.
I'm trying to think, was it George Mifflin Dallas?
George Mifflin Dallas.
Hm.
- [Wendy] The answer is D, Vice President of the United States.
Justice James Buchanan was the only President from Pennsylvania.
So was George Mifflin Dallas Pennsylvania's only Vice President.
He was a Democrat serving with President James Polk from 1845 until 1849.
- Based on a fuzzy memory and a rule that says if you'd never heard of 'em they must have been Vice President, Leola Johnson has taken a commanding lead.
(panelists laughing) (audience applauding) I'd like to take a test in one of your classes of journalism at Penn State, Leola.
I got an idea I could figure out what the answer was, knowing your mind.
Last clue to our mystery Pennsylvanian, and let's see if we can get all of 'em get it right this time.
His record for his sport was one short of a guy named Rocky Marciano's, for the longest undefeated number of fights.
And it was quite a record.
Remember we said he moved here from Georgia, punched his way to the top.
When he started his career in the 1960s, everybody said, "Gee, he reminds us so much of Muhammad Ali."
And his record was one short of a great fight record of Rocky Marciano.
Almost made that.
And I wanna start with you, Leola, 'cause it's your turn.
Do you know who is our mystery Pennsylvanian?
- I don't know, but I guessed Larry Holmes.
- [Lynn] Larry Holmes.
On the first clue you guessed that?
- Yeah.
- Put it up there.
Let's see if you're right.
Chris?
- I guessed Larry Holmes, but on the second.
- [Lynn] On the second clue.
And Bernie?
On the third clue you get, oh, you got it on the first clue.
- I got it on the first, because I know that he's a neighbor of Chris.
His home, or something.
His business headquarters right across the street from her radio studio.
Everybody knows that.
- Right across the street from WEST WLEV, where she works, if that's the right answer.
But is it?
Let's see.
- [Wendy] World heavyweight boxing champion, Larry Holmes, lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.
When he became a professional, Larry Holmes was often compared with such boxing greats as Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
In 1978, he got his shot at the crown.
Larry Holmes defeated Ken Norton for the World Heavyweight Championship, and held the title for seven years.
When he finally lost to Michael Spinks, Holmes had a record of 48 wins and no defeats, one short of Rocky Marciano's record.
With a career that will go down as one of the best in boxing history, Larry Holmes still lives in Easton, and loves Pennsylvania.
- It's time.
Okay, if you'll just take a look to the right of where that picture ended, you can see where Chris works, 'cause it is right there.
And you all got that I hate it when you all get that.
- Should I tell you how I got that?
- Tell me how you got that.
- Just before the show, Chris told us that Larry Holmes is...
Otherwise, I probably would've said Lou Gehrig.
(all laughing) - Larry Holmes, since we did the question and got everything together, had another fight with Mike Tyson, and everybody wondered why would he come back.
You know how many millions of dollars he made for that last fight?
I'd have thought of going a couple rounds with Tyson for that amount of money.
He's quite a guy.
And he's done a lot for Easton, Pennsylvania, and is loyal to Easton.
- That's correct.
- [Lynn] Wants to live there, he's got a, - He does live there.
- a restaurant across the street, where he serves pretty good food, 'cause I've eaten there.
And it was just charming.
We went to interview him, and got some nice stuff with him, and quite a gentleman.
Lots of good sports figures come from the state of Pennsylvania, and we'll encounter some more of them a little bit later on.
Well, did you have fun today?
- Yes.
- Oh yeah.
- Learned all about... Name all the vice presidents from Pennsylvania.
(panelists laughing) You can do it on the finger of one finger, right?
That's quite a neat way to do it though, is to say, if I've never heard of-- - Pick the finger you never heard of, and you're probably-- - It must have been Vice President of the United States.
Zelienople is the answer, not Coraopolis, or Aliquippa, or Sharon.
You guys picked all the wrong answers on that one.
But a good time.
Audience, you have a good time today?
Let's hear it for our panel.
(audience applauding) They really did a nice job.
Thank you.
(audience continuing to applaud) Well, let's wrap things up and say that we hope you had a good time too.
Hope we'll hear from you.
Drop us a line.
And we'll see you next time, when we all gather to test our knowledge of Pennsylvania and play "The Pennsylvania Game".
See ya.
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