The Pennsylvania Game
William Penn’s fee, primitive art & the Battle of Lake Erie
Season 7 Episode 4 | 28m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
William Penn’s fee, primitive art & the Battle of Lake Erie
Season 7 Episode 4 | 28m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
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And what kind of business did Christopher Demuth open in 1770 that's still in operation today as a nonprofit foundation?
Find out on The Pennsylvania Game.
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[applause] Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game-- they broke the mold on this one-- the one and only, Lynn Cullen.
Thank you.
Thank you, my heavens.
Well, let's quit while we're ahead.
After an intro like that, I'm leaving.
Wow.
MANNY GORDON: Hey, Lynn.
Bless you.
MANNY GORDON: Lynn come down those stairs, remind me of Loretta Young.
Remember, years ago in-- LYNN CULLEN: Manny, Manny, Manny, shh.
MANNY GORDON: Coming through the door.
I'm going to introduce you in a minute.
You-- oh, we're in for it.
I can tell.
Let's meet this panel.
That was Manny.
We'll meet him in just a minute.
Kevin Nelson, a familiar face, sounds the wake-up call in State College and Bellefonte on WRSC Radio.
He's one of our favorites.
Welcome, Kevin Nelson.
Love the game.
Thank you.
[applause] And new to the Pennsylvania game this year is Gwen Dunn.
Gwen is owner of Brown Eyed Susans Catering Service, which specializes in southern and creole cuisine.
She's also part owner of Collage, a multicultural gift and bookstore.
We are pleased that Gwen has joined us.
Gwen, welcome.
[cheers and applause] And yes, there he is, Manny Gordon, the guy with a mouth and a beautiful smile returns to defend his title.
What title?
LYNN CULLEN: He is known far and wide for the enthusiastic way he says-- Enjoy, enjoy.
LYNN CULLEN: Enjoy, enjoy.
[cheers and applause] And we really think that you are going to enjoy the game.
So let's get it going.
Here is our first question.
ANNOUNCER: William Penn received the greatest land grant ever given an English subject.
What was he required to pay the king for Pennsylvania?
A, 2,000 pounds.
B, two beaver skins per year.
C, his estates in England.
Or D, a shipment of tobacco per year.
LYNN CULLEN: What did he have to pay the king?
2,000 English pounds, two beaver skins, his estates in England, or a shipment of tobacco per year over the protestations of the surgeon general at the time.
[music playing] Log in your answers.
Kevin Nelson.
That was back before it was politically incorrect, so I'm going with D and a shipment of tobacco a year.
LYNN CULLEN: You are going with D. Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, tobacco to the king.
Gwen, what do you think?
I chose D also.
LYNN CULLEN: Tobacco?
Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: Tobacco to the king.
Manny, is it going to be unanimous?
MANNY GORDON: Me too.
Me too.
LYNN CULLEN: Really?
Right, yeah.
In spite of what they say-- tobacco.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, tobacco.
We have a politically incorrect panel, ladies and gentlemen.
They all said it was tobacco the king wanted.
Are they right?
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, two beaver skins per year.
In 1681, King Charles II made William Penn full proprietor of Pennsylvania.
The King's government owed Penn's father, Admiral William Penn, 16,000 pounds.
The land was granted as partial settlement on that debt.
William Penn was required only to send King Charles two beaver skins per year.
Interesting.
It was King Charles II who added Penn to Sylvania, because Mr. Penn, William, was really a very modest fellow and didn't want him to do it.
So there we got Pennsylvania.
And Sylvan in Latin means woods, see?
LYNN CULLEN: Sylvan means woods.
Will you keep your place?
Let's get-- MANNY GORDON: I'll stay in the wood, right?
Down.
Down, Manny, right.
Second question please.
ANNOUNCER: When they meet in Harrisburg to legislate and otherwise do the public's business, members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are known to be ranked highest in, A, number of women in the house; B, amount of per diem pay; C, number of hours in session; or D, number of laws passed per year.
LYNN CULLEN: All right, anyone who reads the paper knows this one.
What is it?
Number of women, amount of per diem pay, number of hours, number of laws.
Have you logged in your responses?
Yes?
Gwen, we're coming to you first.
Coming to me first.
I chose number C. LYNN CULLEN: C. Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: Number of hours.
Hours in session, yeah.
There has to be something to that.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, must be, might be.
We don't know.
Manny.
I pick number B, number two.
LYNN CULLEN: Two, you think about it per diem pay.
Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: OK. OK, Kevin.
Actually-- and it's too late.
I think that's right now.
But I went with D because I'm an idiot.
[laughter] MANNY GORDON: You'll probably win.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, I wouldn't say that.
Let's not be too harsh on ourselves.
But in this case, he might be an idiot.
We'll find out.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, first in per diem pay.
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives get more money for food and lodging than any other lawmakers in any other state capital in the nation.
Those who commute to Harrisburg from distances of 50 miles or more receive $110 a day by the state to cover room and board.
That's in addition to their salaries.
That ranks the Pennsylvania lawmakers ahead of their legislative brothers and sisters in larger states, such as California and New York, and ahead of states whose capitals have a higher cost of living than Harrisburg's.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is to say that we Pennsylvania taxpayers are either the most generous souls in the world or else the biggest suckers.
Yeah.
All right, let's meet these guys up close and personal.
Kevin?
Yes.
LYNN CULLEN: They tell me to not do this.
I just did that again.
I'm not supposed to do that.
Kevin.
Yes.
LYNN CULLEN: I understand you're a part time instructor now.
You're teaching the radio and television announcers of the future?
Com 382.
I get to mold the young minds of America.
And some of those minds are pretty moldy.
I mean-- LYNN CULLEN: I was going to say, that's a frightening prospect that you are molding young minds.
But it's great fun.
If I found out that I enjoyed doing that as much years ago, I might be doing that now instead of annoying large groups of people on the radio.
LYNN CULLEN: Gwen.
Gwen, you're a cook.
GWEN DUNN: Yes, I am.
And you're coming out with a cookbook.
Yes, I am.
LYNN CULLEN: And you have a bookstore, or a multicultural shop, and a this and a that.
My heavens, you're a busy woman.
Very busy.
I'm at the point now in my home where the family wants to know what they have to do to get a home-cooked meal.
LYNN CULLEN: Aw, you're like the shoemaker's children, huh?
Yeah, we are.
But we get together a couple of times a month for a home-cooked meal.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, I'd sure like to get over to your restaurant.
You're more than welcome.
It's catering service but I'd be more than happy to bring you something over.
All right, Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny.
MANNY GORDON: Why?
Twice, enjoy, enjoy, not Manny three times.
Twice.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, enjoy enjoy.
Where did that come from?
You're famous for that.
Well, I was just a forester in Northeastern Pennsylvania 44 years.
And I graduated Penn State in 1935 in forestry.
And one of the TV stations wanted me to do something a bit different on Fort Tommy Program.
So we're coming one day, went back from Dushore.
And I happened to stop off by Lucien rocks.
And that's the spot where Marie Antoinette was supposed to come during the French revolution.
LYNN CULLEN: Oh, yeah, right.
But they got to her-- Yeah, off with her head.
They got over here.
And I happened to say, one could really enjoy, enjoy, a view like this.
LYNN CULLEN: And that was it.
And I began to use it.
And at first, one of the TV stations said it was a little bit of corny.
But the kids went for it.
And that was it.
LYNN CULLEN: OK. Yeah, when the kids go for something, that's it.
LYNN CULLEN: That's it, enjoy enjoy.
Well, we hope you enjoy, enjoy.
And we hope you enjoy, enjoy.
And let's get to the next question and enjoy, enjoy it.
MANNY GORDON: Get moving.
ANNOUNCER: On September 10, 1813, the US Brig Niagara served as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's relief flagship when the American Naval forces defeated and captured the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.
What now-famous words were emblazoned on the ship's battle flag?
A, live free or die; B, don't tread on me; C, don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes; or D, don't give up the ship.
LYNN CULLEN: Ha, they all have a familiar ring to them, don't they?
But only one is the correct answer.
Panel, have you logged in your votes?
Yes, Manny?
I went with C. LYNN CULLEN: You went with C, don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, Kevin.
I thought it was try our thick, creamy shakes.
But since that's not there.
I went with D. LYNN CULLEN: You went with, don't give up the ship.
Yeah.
It just has to be D. I mean, come on.
We're fighting on a ship.
Let's not give it up.
LYNN CULLEN: It just has to be D. GWEN DUNN: Yeah.
Oh, Gwen.
Oh, Gwen.
It doesn't just have to be D. But maybe it is D. We'll see.
We'll see.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, don't give up the ship.
Commodore Perry didn't give up the ship and neither have we.
ANNOUNCER: After three years of painstaking reconstruction, the US Brig Niagara the Flagship of Pennsylvania, was recommissioned in traditional Naval fashion on August 18, 1990, in Erie, Pennsylvania, the ship's official home port.
The Niagara is the tallest tall ship on the great lakes.
The two-masted, square-rigged vessel is the only remaining fighting ship of her kind from the War of 1812.
LYNN CULLEN: What a beauty.
What a beauty.
I'll tell you what, every time I hear "live free or die," which was one of the choices, I think of the governor of Wisconsin, when I lived there, who wanted to change the motto of the state of Wisconsin to "eat cheese or die."
I thought it was a great idea.
But it didn't fly.
KEVIN NELSON: They finally compromised on "come smell our dairy air."
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, that's a-- yeah.
[laughter] Oh, did we all hear that?
Did we all hear that?
MANNY GORDON: No, Lynn, I didn't hear it.
He said, they finally compromised on "come smell our dairy air."
KEVIN NELSON: Our dairy air, they have a lot of dairies there.
OK, OK, listen.
Listen, you guys know what the score is here?
This is such a hot and heavy game.
Kevin's got 1.
Gwen's got 1.
And Manny's got 1.
We're knotted up.
[cheers and applause] [music playing] OK, listen up.
Here is our first clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
And if you get it on this one, you write it down, you'll get three points at the end of the game.
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, his signature as a player was the rubber bands he kept on his wrists, worn in case his socks slipped down his long, skinny legs.
[music playing] Who is this mystery Pennsylvanian born in Philly in '36?
His signature as a player was the rubber bands he kept on his wrists, worn in case his socks slipped down those long, long, long, long, skinny legs.
Oh, they're puzzled.
That's why we call it the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Let's puzzle them some more and go to the next question.
ANNOUNCER: Edward Hicks was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1780, and today is recognized as America's foremost primitive artist.
What was his primary occupation?
A, practicing law; B, coach painting; C, farming; or D, operating a distillery.
LYNN CULLEN: Hmm, OK, what was his primary occupation?
Practicing law, coach painting-- now, Gwen is married to an assistant coach.
I don't know, sometimes someone might come by and paint him.
You have to be careful-- farming and operating a distillery.
We got our answer?
Boy, you guys are fast.
You're all logged in already.
I'm used to saying, come on, come on.
You're all in.
Kevin.
I could use a drink.
I went with operating a distillery.
LYNN CULLEN: That makes two of us, actually.
Gwen.
If that was him on the picture before, he looked rather dapper.
So I'm going to go with number D also.
[ding] You got to make a lot of money operating a distillery.
LYNN CULLEN: Uh-huh.
So he looked pretty good.
LYNN CULLEN: Uh-huh, OK. MANNY GORDON: Me too, distillery.
LYNN CULLEN: You guys are getting to be rather dull.
D for dull.
You can't win them all.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, I know.
That's right.
And the rate you're going, you ain't going to win them all either.
You aren't going to have a winner here yet.
Let's see.
Let's see what the correct answer might be.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, coach painting.
The Quaker folk artist Edward Hicks had no aptitude for farming.
So he supported his family by painting coaches, furniture, tavern signs, and lettered street markers.
Profoundly religious, he believed that farming was a more Christian occupation and regarded painting as, quote, "One of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of substantial advantage to mankind."
His paintings celebrate the abundant American harvests and the Founding Fathers of our country.
But most of all, his paintings express his religious convictions and hope for universal peace.
More than 50 of his paintings were inspired by the prophecy of Isaiah in the Old Testament and were called A Peaceable Kingdom.
Oh, they're simply wonderful.
He also painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.
KEVIN NELSON: Delaware.
Why did Washington cross the Delaware?
MANNY GORDON: Get on the other side.
LYNN CULLEN: Exactly, Manny, thank you.
To get to the other side, of course.
Oh, my, my, my, my, my.
OK, dare we do another question?
Yes, let's do another.
MANNY GORDON: OK. ANNOUNCER: Located in Jefferson County, between Brockway and Sugar Hill, it is the former site of Ross Leffler School.
The school, which opened in 1936 and closed 50 years later, was the first school of its kind in the world.
Did the school train; A, game protectors; B, Special Olympians; C, guide dogs; or D, foresters.
LYNN CULLEN: OK did that school train game protector, Special Olympians, guide dogs, or foresters?
Manny is a forester.
He might know the answer to this one.
But we aren't getting to him yet.
Gwen, what do you think?
I suppose it's just a shot in the dark for you.
It is really a shot in the dark.
But I'm going to choose A. LYNN CULLEN: A, game protectors.
Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: No reason?
No particular reason at all.
LYNN CULLEN: Just have a sense it might be.
Manny.
Yeah, A, because I send many kids there for game protection.
LYNN CULLEN: [laughter] Well, Gwen, sounds like you might have guessed right, huh?
He sends kids there.
MANNY GORDON: Yeah, yeah.
Shame, I forgot to wear my game protector.
But I went with guide dogs, C. LYNN CULLEN: Guide dogs, well, are you feeling a little sorry you did that?
KEVIN NELSON: Not yet.
LYNN CULLEN: No, not yet.
Give me a second.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, even though Manny sends people there to be trained, not as guide dogs, I understand.
Well, let's get the correct answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A.
In 1932, Ross Leffler, then President of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, established a training school for game protectors, the first of its kind in the world.
A hunting lodge and grounds were purchased near Brockway in Jefferson County and converted into an academy where in-service training of the Commission's Field Force was conducted from 1932 to 1935.
By 1936, the Commission required all new employees to successfully complete an intensive course of instruction in all facets of wildlife management before becoming game protectors.
In 1986, after graduating 19 classes of what are now called Conservation Officers, the Brockway facility was closed.
The commission established its new headquarters and training complex in Harrisburg in 1987.
LYNN CULLEN: And James Sporner of Saint Mary's is going to receive a year's subscription to Pennsylvania magazine for sending us that question.
We want to thank him as well.
Our score at this point, Manny's got 2, Gwen's got 2, and Kevin, only 1.
But close game.
[applause] [music playing] And here it is, your second clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
He set an NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points on March 2, 1962 at Hershey Park Arena.
[music playing] Born in Philly in '36.
He wore rubber bands on his wrist in case his socks slipped down those long, skinny legs of his.
He set an incredible NBA single-game scoring record of 100 points in 1962 at Hershey Park Arena.
[music playing] OK, they think they might know.
Who knows?
You get two points if you get it on that second clue.
Let's get another question.
ANNOUNCER: The General Wayne Inn in Merion, Pennsylvania was established in 1704.
Named after "Mad" Anthony Wayne, conqueror of the Northwest territory, the inn has actually survived at least five different names and 14 owners.
Which of the following is not part of the inn's colorful history?
A, it's haunted.
B, the signers of the Declaration of Independence died there.
C, it was one of the most important stops on the Underground Railroad.
Or D, it's the oldest operating tavern in North America.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, just to clarify three, of those four choices are, in fact, correct.
They are true of the Inn.
One is not.
We want the one that is not true of the inn.
OK, Manny?
C. I pick C. LYNN CULLEN: You don't think it was one of the most important stops on the Underground Railway.
No.
LYNN CULLEN: OK. OK, Kevin.
I find it hard to believe it's the oldest operating tavern, although I won't find it hard to believe after the answer is-- [laughter] LYNN CULLEN: You just don't think it could be, huh?
KEVIN NELSON: No.
LYNN CULLEN: Nah, nah.
Gwen?
I found it hard to believe that it was haunted.
So I chose A. LYNN CULLEN: Why?
You don't believe in ghosts?
GWEN DUNN: No.
You don't?
MANNY GORDON: Nah.
Well, you've never been to the inn then, I guess.
GWEN DUNN: No.
LYNN CULLEN: Mm-hmm, let's find out what the correct answer is.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, the General Wayne Inn was not one of the most important stops on the underground railroad.
But because of its proximity to the rail lines, it was one of the busiest and poshest of colonial inns.
Established in 1704, it is believed to be the oldest operating tavern in north America.
Among the inn's guests are the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who stopped there with their families to dine.
But the most infamous guest of the inn is the ghost of a revolutionary war soldier.
Staff and guests of the inn claim to have seen the lost soul wandering the halls, and when he's feeling mischievous, blowing on the necks of unsuspecting female patrons.
Gwen, if you feel a little tickle there on the back of your neck.
Yeah, Manny's doing pretty well.
How are you guys doing at home?
Are you keeping score too?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Well, listen, by the way, the inn has been featured on Unsolved Mysteries.
And psychics from all over the world are always going there trying to figure this out.
So that ghost is taken rather seriously.
OK, let's take another question-- seriously.
ANNOUNCER: What highly revered artist created 43 of the murals in the State Capitol building?
A, George Grey Barnard; B, Benjamin West; C, Joseph M. Huston; or D, Violet Oakley.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, look at them.
They're thinking, how the heck am I supposed to know any of these things.
Who was it?
Was it Barnard, West, Huston, or Annie Oakley-- I mean, Violet, Annie's sister, Violet Oakley.
I don't know.
Kevin?
Well, it occurs to me I haven't gone with A yet tonight.
So-- LYNN CULLEN: What the heck.
Let's try that.
LYNN CULLEN: Let's try it.
You aren't doing real well today.
No.
All right, well.
KEVIN NELSON: I'm having a bad hair day.
What the heck.
Gwen.
I chose Violet only because she's the only female listed there.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, absolutely.
Way to go.
All right, sister.
And Manny.
I went for Benjamin West.
LYNN CULLEN: You did?
Yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, go West.
KEVIN NELSON: Can I change to B now?
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah-- [laughter] Manny went West.
And let's see if any of these people guessed the right answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Violet Oakley.
Oakley was one of the few women to break into the male-dominated mural decoration field.
In the late 1890s, she was regarded as one of America's most popular illustrators.
Her work caught the attention of Joseph Huston, the architect of the State Capitol building.
He commissioned her to paint 13 murals for the Governor's Reception Room.
The appointment made Oakley the first woman artist in America to receive a public commission of such magnitude.
Today, 43 of Oakley's murals grace the walls of the State Capitol building.
LYNN CULLEN: Did you see that George Washington pose in that-- MANNY GORDON: Yeah, yeah.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, he looked like he was doing a pas de deux with Ben Franklin or something.
I don't know.
Gee whiz.
You know, in just the mural in the Senate Chamber took Violet eight years-- MANNY GORDON: Is that right?
--to do.
Yeah, that's right.
I wouldn't tell you if-- KEVIN NELSON: I believe it.
I believe it.
That's right.
All right, yep, believe it or not, we got another question.
Can you take it?
KEVIN NELSON: Sure.
Let's do it.
ANNOUNCER: In 1770, Christopher Demuth, a German immigrant, opened a place of business in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Today, more than 223 years later, Demuth's business is still in operation as a nonprofit foundation.
Is it A, a tobacco shop; B, a law firm; C, a flour mill; or D, a medical clinic.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, that's a real puzzler, isn't it?
I mean, a nonprofit tobacco shop, a nonprofit law firm, a nonprofit flour mill, or a nonprofit medical clinic?
MANNY GORDON: Yeah, that's a real puzzler.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, it is a puzzler.
And it's too bad we don't have "none of the above," because it seems like that should be the answer.
Gwen, what do you think?
I haven't chosen, OK. LYNN CULLEN: Oh, you didn't choose!
OK, OK. LYNN CULLEN: What.
C. LYNN CULLEN: C. I have-- LYNN CULLEN: Flour mill, because-- Cooking.
LYNN CULLEN: Because, what the heck.
You know, cooking flour.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, because you use flour.
Yes, I do.
LYNN CULLEN: It's a good reason to vote for flour.
Manny.
I went nonprofit medical center, D. LYNN CULLEN: OK, medical center.
We got flour.
We got a medical center.
Come on, Kevin.
Guess right.
You got to have a lawyer.
A nonprofit law firm is just too good to believe.
So we had to do that.
LYNN CULLEN: All right.
Ah, yeah.
Unbelievable.
OK, are you guys ready for the correct answer?
Can you take it?
OK, let's do it.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, a tobacco shop.
The Demuth Tobacco Shop is the nation's oldest continuously operating tobacco emporium and one of Lancaster's oldest businesses.
To walk into Demuth's is like stepping back in time thanks to financial help from the Demuth Foundation.
Today, the shop, which attracts 50 to 75 daily customers and observers, is run merely to break even and to preserve history.
[music playing] LYNN CULLEN: OK, this is it, your last shot at our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Here is the final clue.
His statistics on the court are surpassed only by his claim to have been intimate with more than 20,000 women, yowie.
His statistics on the court are surpassed only by his claim to have been intimate with more than 20,000 women.
MANNY GORDON: How does this work here?
LYNN CULLEN: Gee.
Born in Philly in '36.
His signature as a player was the rubber bands he kept on his wrists, worn in case those socks slipped down the long, skinny legs.
Set an NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points-- he scored a lot, didn't he-- on March 2, 1962 at Hershey Park.
All right.
MANNY GORDON: I got it.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, Arena.
OK, I guess the final-- Kevin, I have a sense that you're going to surge from behind with this and you're going to know who our Mystery Pennsylvanian is.
It was the cheap, tacky clue that gave it to me though.
I think it's Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain.
LYNN CULLEN: You think Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain.
And that's what Gwen thinks as well on that third clue.
And who do you have down there?
MANNY GORDON: Ben Franklin.
[laughter] LYNN CULLEN: Well, you know, he scored with-- but he did not score 100 points-- MANNY GORDON: Chamberlain's right.
But Ben Franklin is funnier.
KEVIN NELSON: I don't think he ever scored in Hershey Park Arena.
LYNN CULLEN: No, I don't think Ben ever scored-- MANNY GORDON: 100 points.
Anyway, I think we probably know what the right answer is.
But let's learn a little bit more about our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
ANNOUNCER: Wilt Chamberlain, also known as Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, has, at 7' 1" always overshadowed other basketball legends.
More than 200 recruiters tried to woo the Overbrook High School superstar, who ultimately signed on with the University of Kansas, only to leave after his junior year to play serious basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters.
In 1959, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors.
On March 2, 1962, he led them to an historic victory when he scored 100 points against the New York Knicks in Hershey Park Arena, setting an NBA single-game scoring record.
Chamberlain retired from basketball in 1974 after having led the Philadelphia 76ers and the LA Lakers to NBA championships.
He was voted the NBA's Most Valuable Player four times and set countless other records throughout his illustrious career.
Wilt Chamberlain, a famous Pennsylvania.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain.
And our final scores stand this way.
Manny, 3, Kevin, 2.
I'm doing this in no particular order obviously.
And Gwen, our winner, with 4.
[cheers and applause] Well, you know, Gwen-- I mean, Gwen had to win.
You had to win with that question.
Your husband is, what, the assistant basketball coach.
GWEN DUNN: Yes.
Yes, he is.
LYNN CULLEN: You couldn't have gone home if you hadn't have won that.
I was getting nervous for you because-- do you know, as a winner, we have a gift for you.
We do have a gift for you.
GWEN DUNN: OK. And you might be able to use it in your catering business because it is one gallon of pure Pennsylvania-- GWEN DUNN: Oh, my goodness.
LYNN CULLEN: --maple syrup.
[applause] Thank you very much.
LYNN CULLEN: And that's compliments of Andrew's House of Maple in Ormsby, Pennsylvania.
They've been making it for 30 years.
Thank you all.
You are wonderful.
Thank you.
You were wonderful.
Thank you.
And join us next week on The Pennsylvania Game.
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