ANNOUNCER: What do thousands of visitors stop to see at the Linesville Spillway?

And what does Angel Wallenda do on the high wire, that no other aerialist in the world has ever tried?

We're going to find out, as we gather to play The Pennsylvania Game.

[theme music] The Pennsylvania Game is made possible in part by Uni-Marts Incorporated, with stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, serving you with courtesy and convenience, every day of the year.

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Now, let's get the game started.

Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game.

The flamboyant radio, television, and sixth grade piano recital star, Lynn Cullen.

Lynn Cullen, that's it.

That's me.

Thank you, so much.

Thank you for joining us.

We're having a great game, I feel it in my bones.

I got the questions right here.

They are supposed to have the answers but I'm looking at them, and I think, uh-uh, they don't have them.

Let's meet them.

Let's meet them.

First, our first guest, the music director of the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and an internationally acclaimed conductor, please welcome, Istvan Jaray.

[applause] Laurie Gostley-Hackett is the tech prep director for Northampton and Monroe counties, and adjunct faculty member in business communications at Lehigh University, which is a mouthful, and I don't even know what it means.

Welcome, Laurie.

[applause] And right now, they are referring to him as Big Daddy.

But when he's not acting in Cat On A hot Tin Roof, they call him Gil Aberg.

Say hi to Gil Aberg.

[applause] All right, let's jump right in.

We're going to jump right into the-- what is this?

Linesville Spillway.

I can't imagine what that is.

Let's find out.

ANNOUNCER: The Linesville Spillway located on the Northeast end of Pymatuning lake in Crawford County, features one of the most unusual tourist attractions in the world.

What will visitors see at this peculiar, roadside attraction?

A, purple algae, B, ducks that walk on fish's backs, C, the deepest sinkhole in Pennsylvania, or D, a family of albino beavers.

Well, there are your choices.

Whichever it is, it's, sort of, bizarre.

You got to pick one of them.

And pick one of them, in the next few seconds, please, and lock them in.

Purple algae, ducks that walk on fish's backs, the deepest sinkhole in Pennsylvania, which would have to be a deep one, and albino beavers.

Istvan, do it.

Have you done it?

Yup.

OK. Why did you do that?

Whatever you did, why did you do?

Which did you pick?

Well, albino, I don't quite understand what that is.

It means, no color, all white.

Oh, really?

That's why I chose it.

I thought they are colorless beavers.

So that's the whole idea.

Ha, ha, ha.

He's already got this game down.

Just guess.

Just guess.

Laurie, what do you think?

Well, I thought about it.

And I went with the same thing.

I went with albino beavers.

What is it about albino beavers?

I think that would be an exciting roadside attraction.

I would stop.

You would stop.

For a family of albino beavers, you would stop.

OK. We have two albino beavers.

Gil Aberg's looking at me like, what is this woman talking about.

Well, you grabbed me because it's albino beavers.

It is?

I cheated.

I watched them, see, so.

We have three.

They say it's albino beavers.

But what's the truth?

Let's find out?

ANNOUNCER: The answer is, B.

The Linesville Spillway is referred to as the place where ducks walk on the fish's backs.

The reason is to beat the fish to the bread, that visitors toss into the spillway, by the bags full.

Most visitors will see more fish there in five minutes than they'll see in a lifetime.

The fish are carp.

And although, they were originally from Germany, they've probably been swimming in these waters since the late 19th century, when Pymatuning was still a swamp.

No one seems to know why people started to throw bread at the fishes.

But carp have been attracted here since the concrete spillway was put in, in the 1930s.

The fish were probably first drawn to the aerated water, just below the spillway.

And carp, like many fish, like to swim upstream.

Well, all in all, I think that's pretty disgusting.

I don't know.

Did you see a duck walking on a-- I missed it.

Albino beavers would be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Definitely.

Or purple algae, even.

But, oh, phew.

Anyway.

This next one is sort of a strange one, a little tricky.

So really listen up.

All, but one, of the answers to this next question are true.

See if you can guess which one is not true.

You're looking for what is not true.

ANNOUNCER: Pennsylvania leads the nation in the production of mushrooms, potato chips, and pretzels.

We also have the highest number of covered bridges, with 225.

Which of the following is not true about Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania leads the nation in, A, percent of persons born in Pennsylvania who still live here, B, number of volunteer fire companies, C, number of licensed hunters, or D, number of Catholics.

Three of those statements are true.

One is not true.

Pennsylvania is first in three of those categories, not in one of them.

Got to vote.

[timer bell] Time of reckoning is here.

Istvan, put that number in or that letter in.

And Laurie, explain yourself.

Well-- [chuckling] Well, try to explain yourself.

I think, volunteer fire companies because they're so active, that had to be there, and hunters, and Catholics.

So that left me with, A.

It left you with, percent of persons born in Pennsylvania, still live here.

You're going with, A.

That would not be true, right?

OK. OK.

Tortured.

But she made her choice.

Gil.

Well, I really wasn't cheating.

But I also went with, A. Oh.

You guys are getting very boring.

We're determined just-- we'll stick together as a group, here.

We have Istvan.

Give me another letter.

Shall I leave now?

Did you do A, too?

Absolutely.

Yeah, I think all of those others, as far as I can remember, knowing Pennsylvania, as little as I know, that's the only one thing seems right.

Well if anyone needs a jumpstart on a car, we got the AAA here.

We can at least get that accomplished.

Let's find out if these guys are really smart or really stupid.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, number of Catholics.

The state with the highest number of Catholics is New York with 7,245,375, that's 40% of New York's population.

There are 3,638,313 Catholics in Pennsylvania, that's 31% of the population.

Pennsylvania does however, rank highest among the 50 states in the number of Presbyterians and also the number of Mennonites.

Isn't that wonderful.

That's totally useless information.

We're here to give it to you, let's meet these people a little bit more, up close and personal.

Istvan Jaray, we were just talking about the fact that we were both in Madison, Wisconsin.

And then we've been in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

You've gone on to Johnstown.

I think I'm staying in Pittsburgh.

I'm sick of following you everywhere.

Well, for a time being, it's wonderful.

But I like Johnstown very much.

So you're the maestro.

Yes.

Yes, I'm one of those who-- people say what are you doing?

And, I say, well, I'm a conductor.

And they say, on which train?

[chuckles] So I usually say, well-- [chuckles] Well, this is a guy who knows the score, in fact.

That's right.

The score so far is not so good, but we'll get to that later.

All right.

It's the bad pun show, is what it is.

Laurie Gostley-Hackett.

Boy, I'm having trouble hacking it, when it comes to your name.

And what is a tech prep director?

Well, I work with-- in a couple of counties, in around the Lehigh Valley.

I work with high schools, and the local community college, and business and industry.

It's a new education initiative and reform movement.

It's happening all over the country, and certainly in Pennsylvania.

Preparing kids for technical jobs.

Preparing kids to enter the workforce more prepared.

OK. Good idea.

Certainly.

Big Daddy, Burl Ives played that, didn't he?

You'd have to bring-- did you have to bring that up?

I'm sorry.

But I wanted to ask if that's a problem for an actor, when you've got somebody that everybody-- Kind of would be.

As a matter of fact, we have the videotape.

I stay away from looking at those things because last year, I played grandpa in You Can't Take It With You, and everybody said, you got to look at the show, Lionel.

I said, if I look at Lionel Barrymore, my goose is cooked.

I'm going to try and imitate.

So I don't do that.

I'm sure you're doing the right thing, too.

And I'm sure you're doing Big Daddy very, very well.

Listen, our next question, to get back to business here, takes us back to a really rather dark chapter in Pennsylvania history.

Let's watch.

ANNOUNCER: From the late 1890s to the early 1920s, Pennsylvania led the nation in the number of working children.

In 1906, child labor reformer, John Spargo, described the working conditions and horrors experienced by so-called breaker boys.

In what industry did breaker boys work?

Was it, A, textile mills, B, glass factories, C, coal mines, or D, lumber mills?

There are your choices and a very sad tale.

Textile mills, glass factories, coal mines, or lumber mills, where were these children working?

Have we all voted?

OK. Gil, go ahead.

Well, it pays to do your-- I think.

I better not speak up.

I saw that in the book that I brought with me, that you won't let me use.

But I was reading it at home.

And I believe it is coal mines.

OK. Coal mines.

So you've gone with, C. If I'm wrong, I'm through.

Heavens, he actually studied for the show.

You're not supposed to do that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We know these people study ahead.

I thought maybe the lumber mills.

Coal mines seems very harsh, but maybe that was the case.

May it was.

Laurie.

And I chose a different answer.

I chose, A, textile Mills.

All right.

So they're all over the place now.

One of them is, in fact, correct.

Let's find out who.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, coal mines.

Spargo described young boys known as breaker boys, who became bent back like old men from sitting for long hours crouched and cramped, as they picked out pieces of slate and other debris from the coal, as it rushed down the breakers to the washers.

The air was thick with coal dust.

The work was grueling, and accidents were common.

The score, as things stand now, is pretty pathetic.

Gil has one.

Istvan and Laurie, zilch.

Time now for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.

Listen up.

This is your first clue.

Born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania in 1904, he was given the unusual first name of Burrhus, Burrhus.

Born in 1904 in Susquehanna, he was given the unusual, and I must say, unfortunate first name of Burrhus.

If you know who that person is, write it down on line one, there.

I will give you two more clues as the show goes on.

They don't know.

They don't have the slightest idea.

We'll move on to another question.

You can keep thinking about that.

This brings us back to World War II.

Oh, I know about that.

ANNOUNCER: In 1942, eight German agents carrying detailed instructions for sabotaging war related American industries, and undermining American morale, were arrested by the FBI and taken into custody in New York and Chicago.

Among their targets was the hydroelectric plant in Niagara Falls, New York City's water supply, and the Aluminum Company of America, an industry vital to airplane manufacturing.

One of their major targets was located in Pennsylvania.

Was it A, the tunnels of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, B, the J & L steel plant at Aliquippa, C, the Philadelphia Naval Yard, or D, the Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad?

Yeah.

There's that spooky music behind there, it's scary.

Which one was it?

Tunnels, this J&L steel plant, the Horseshoe Curve, the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

You've got to pick one.

Bang, bang, bang.

OK. [timer bell] Istvan, which one?

Come on, get one right, will you.

I'd have to go with the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Probably, that's an extremely important part of the war machine.

I wouldn't argue with you.

Laurie.

I went with, B, the steel plant.

OK. That would also be a reasonable target.

Well, I went with a Horseshoe Curve.

I figured if that's gone, nothing can ship back and forth, that would be a good target.

OK.

They're all over the place again.

And, in fact, again, one of them is correct.

Let's find out who.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Blair County, on Pennsylvania railroad's main line west, was high on the would-be saboteurs hit list.

The Horseshoe Curve was important for the transportation of troops and war materials.

Damage to the tracks would have caused a major setback to our war effort.

OK. We will move on.

Lots of Pennsylvanians have made names for themselves.

And some of them have made names for themselves without using their names.

Here's the next question.

ANNOUNCER: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, and Janet Gaynor, are all famous Pennsylvanians.

But their real names are Charles Buchinsky, John Palahniuk, and Laura Gainor.

Still, other Pennsylvania stars reached fame and fortune on the strength of their own names.

Which Pennsylvanian became famous without changing his or her name.

Was it A, Jean Stapleton, B, Perry Como, C, Nancy Walker, or D, Michael Keaton?

OK. That's an easy question for you.

Which one of those people is holding on to their own name, did not change it.

Did not have a stage name.

I need your votes, right now.

And Laurie, explanation.

Perry Como.

Perry Como.

OK. Perry Como.

She doesn't have an explanation.

Just Perry Como sounds good to me too.

Gil.

Perry Como.

Perry Como.

Because she said it.

We're going to do it again.

B, B, Istvan.

No.

I voted for Jean Stapleton.

Jean Stapleton.

A great actress.

Yeah.

Great actress, and probably she kept her name.

That sounds like her name.

Let's find out if that is her name or maybe it's Perry Como.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, Perry Como of Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in TV's All In The Family, is an adopted daughter of Pennsylvania.

Her real name is Jeanne Murray.

Nancy Walker was from Philadelphia.

She probably was best known as Rosie in Bounty Towel commercials.

But her real name was Myrtle Swoyer.

Actor Michael Keaton of McKees Rocks, changed his name because there already was one.

One Michael Douglas, that is.

Michael Douglas, no doubt, Kirk Douglas's son.

Boy, what was Nancy Walker's name.

We don't even want to hear it again.

Listen, the score looks like this.

Gil is running away with things right now.

He's got three points to Laurie's one, and Istvan, zero, at this point.

[applause] So let's get to the Mystery Pennsylvanian clue.

Clue two, for you.

He taught pigeons to walk figure eights, and designed a special box, used as a bed, for his own baby daughter.

He taught pigeons to walk in figure eights, and designed a special box, used as a bed, for his baby daughter.

Born in 1904 with the unfortunate name of Burrhus.

Who is this guy?

It's a mystery to them.

That's why we call it a Mystery Pennsylvanian.

If you can figure it out on line two, you'll get two points for it at the end of the show.

We'll move on.

I direct your gaze to the monitor to center ring, in fact.

ANNOUNCER: Steven Wallenda of the great Wallendas, the most famous family of aerialists and acrobats in circus history, lives with his wife, Angel, and his young son, Steven II, in Mansfield, Tioga County.

Together, they continue to enthrall audiences with their daring high wire feats.

Angel did not learn to walk the high wire until she was 17.

Yet, she is the only person in the world to accomplish a certain aerial feat.

What is it?

A, perform with an artificial leg, B, walk the tightrope while carrying two troupe members on the balance pole, C, walk across Niagara Falls blindfolded, or D, walk a wire stretched between two automobiles moving at nearly 60 miles per hour.

Good heavens.

They all seem impossible but Angel Wallenda did do one of them.

Which one?

[timer bell] Lock in your answers.

And Gil I'll ask you, first.

Well, I went with A.

Performed with an artificial leg.

I don't know.

I figure maybe she had an injury at some earlier-- just a wild guess.

It's a wild guess, indeed.

Istvan.

Oh, mine is across the Niagara Falls.

Blindfolded.

Blindfolded, I mean, that's a heck of a feat.

Yeah.

That would be.

[chuckles] Laurie.

Well, I thought, others have done that, I thought, with Niagara Falls.

So I went with, D, stretched between two moving automobiles.

Two moving cars going 60 miles an hour, and she's walking a tightrope.

The same direction.

I can't believe any of this.

But let's find out.

She did do one of them.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is A. Angel Wallenda is the only aerialist in the world to walk the high wire with an artificial leg.

The lower half of Angel's right leg and portions of both lungs were removed because of rare spindle cell cancer.

In 1990, at Mansfield University, Angel performed what was supposed to be her last walk.

But despite the fact that doctors can do no more for her, Angel continues to walk the high wire.

Angel is a 1991 recipient of the Norman Vincent Peale Award of Positive Thinking.

I bet she is.

That's really amazing.

Her husband, by the way, did perform with those two moving cars at 60 miles an hour.

He walked a wire stretched between them.

What a family.

Next question.

Listen up.

In what-- whoops, whoops, whoops.

I'm giving away something.

I'll keep my mouth shut.

Let's just look.

ANNOUNCER: This Pennsylvania State Park was the location for Unconquered, the 1947, Cecil B DeMille movie about the siege of Fort Pitt, featuring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Boris Karloff.

The park was chosen because it had the largest remaining stand of virgin pine and hemlock, in the east.

In what State Park was Unconquered filmed?

Was it A, Nolde Forest, B, Daniel Boone homestead, C, Cook Forest, or D, Raccoon Creek?

OK.

Figure that one out.

Got a feel-- A, B, C, D. A, B, C, D. Take a pick.

I have a feeling.

Istvan.

Wait.

Raccoon Creek sounds wonderful.

Probably, that's the best place to film Unconquered.

I would film it there.

You would?

I don't know about them.

Yes.

I would hope, for your sake, you're correct because I'm feeling sorry for you.

Laurie, go ahead.

Sure.

Well, I'm feeling sorry for you, too, and me too, because I also chose Raccoon Creek.

Oh, gee.

Not you, too.

You did the same answer.

That's a kiss of death to do the same one Istvan did.

What about you?

I didn't, I figured Cook Forest is so big, it's got to have as much of anything as-- if you know what I mean.

It has a lot of trees.

Has a lot-- Yeah.

Right.

Got to have everything.

I think a forest would.

Let's-- That's my reasoning.

Let's see if Gil knows what he's talking about.

Again, he's been pretty good, thus far.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, Cook Forest State Park.

Located in the Northwestern Allegheny plateau, the park was chosen by the film's producers because it still had, quote, "natural areas and conditions, as they existed about the middle of the 18th century."

In fact, Cook Forest has not changed much in the 45 years or so, since the film was made.

Visitors come year round to see the park's magnificent stands of virgin timber.

Well, Gil said, it's very big.

Big Daddy would know what's big.

It's big, and you're way out ahead.

Let's go to the next question.

Come on, you guys, Laurie and Istvan.

Let's get moving.

OK. We've got one here, it's about a State Park.

Listen up.

It's easy for you.

ANNOUNCER: What was the original name of the state park, that is 60 miles long, only 60 feet wide, and 60% under water?

Is it, A, Theodore Roosevelt State Park, B, Hickory Run State Park, C, Yellow Creek State Park, or D, Ralph Stover State Park?

Oh, the pained expressions, I'm looking at.

It's 60 feet wide.

It's 60 miles long.

And it's 60% underwater, which is bizarre.

And we want to know what the original name of this rather strange state park is.

I need your answers now.

And Laurie, what did you choose?

I chose Hickory Run State Park.

And why did you do that?

I saw it on the map.

You saw it on the map.

And I remembered it.

I'm sorry.

That's quite all right.

Even Gil looks a little baffled by this one.

I went for D. Just seemed to me, I'd heard the name Ralph Stover State Park, somewhere, and-- Somewhere.

--the others, I had not heard of.

Yeah.

Istvan, come on.

Your time has come.

I know it.

I know it.

Absolutely.

This is it.

It must be Yellow Creek State Park.

If it's not, I don't know what to do.

It's what?

Which one did you pick?

Yellow Creek State Park.

Yellow Creek State Park.

Has to be.

I mean, you have to get it.

It must be.

At some point, luck's got to take over, here.

I hope he can conduct better than he plays this game.

Let's see.

You betcha.

ANNOUNCER: The answer is, A. Theodore Roosevelt State Park was renamed the Delaware Canal State Park in 1989.

Running 60 miles between Bristol and Easton, it is the only remaining towpath canal in Pennsylvania that can carry a full head of water for its entire length.

In its heyday, just before the Civil War, more than 3,000 boats traveled up and down the canal, moving nearly one million tons of coal a year, from north to south.

Today, the park is one of the main recreational resources in Northampton and Bucks counties, and can be enjoyed year round.

He retired from a career where his work as a researcher, inventor, theoretician, and author, made him highly influential in his field.

He retired from a career where his work as a researcher, inventor, theoretician, and author, made him highly influential.

This Is the guy who made pigeons walk in figure eights, who was named Burrhus.

When your named Burrhus, you do strange things like make pigeons walk-- it affects your life.

Who is this guy?

Do we know?

Do we know?

Do we know?

Gil.

Are we allowed to say?

Well, yes.

Gil, I want to know who you think-- I mean, just a wild guess, the pigeon man that I know is B.F. Skinner.

OK. You're choosing B.F. Skinner, and you're doing that on what-- on the third clue-- Yeah.

--is when got it.

Istvan, you got a blank slate there.

It's called John Walker.

OK.

He did the pigeons walking.

Actually, that goes very well with the zero that you have under your name.

I would say so.

Laurie.

And it's number three.

I'm number three.

OK. Laurie.

You got nothing-- Is there not fourth clue?

No, that's it.

[chuckling] That's it.

You don't have anything either?

I don't have anything.

OK. Gil's the only one, who even took a shot.

And he said, B. F. Skinner-- Skinner.

--because of the pigeons.

ANNOUNCER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, in 1904.

His life's work was devoted to behavior analysis.

His most important research was completed in the 1940s, and '50s, at Harvard University, where he was a professor of psychology.

His second daughter's birth led to his invention of the air crib, a large heated box, designed to serve as a mechanical baby tender, providing an optimal environment for naps and bedtime during the first two years of life.

B.F Skinner proved that all human behavior could be controlled through a systematic use of reinforcements and rewards, known as operant conditioning.

Among his publications, were the controversial novel, Walden Two, and philosophical essay, "Beyond Freedom And Dignity," both presented his idea of reshaping man through a culture that would systematically teach people from childhood on, to be peaceful and productive, with all destructive and wasteful emotions trained out.

B.F. Skinner a famous Pennsylvanian.

A brilliant Pennsylvanian as well, B.F. Skinner.

Gill Aberg, the only one to get it right, as he did through most of the show.

He runs away with the show.

Six points, altogether.

Laurie had one.

Istvan, at least you're consistent, I must say that.

Absolutely.

And I thank you all for joining.

Gil, you're going to get a gift pack, a pin pack, in fact, filled with stuff made in Pennsylvania, and all sorts of things are.

So I want to thank all three of you for being such good sports.

It's been a lot of fun.

Thank the audience here.

You've been fun.

And I thank you for joining us.

Please do so again, next week, when we play The Pennsylvania Game.

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