# 3 items Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382 "2008-06-18T18:57:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/41 "2008-06-20T01:09:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Baker]

Sinclair  
Sheridan  
Lochley  
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Babylon 5 Captains

Shockley  
Bardeen  
Brattain

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/42 "2008-06-20T01:16:43Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]

Shockley  
Bardeen  
Brattain  
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Co-recipients of a Noble Prize in Physics.

F. Chase Taylor  
Raymond Knight  
Goodman Ace

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/43 "2008-06-20T01:30:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]  
Co-recipients of a Noble Prize in Physics.

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I was after “inventors of the transistor” but that’s cool. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/44 "2008-06-20T12:09:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Leaffan]  
Award winning?

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Specifically, the only three actresses who have won regular Tony, Emmy, Oscar & Grammy Awards.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/45 "2008-06-20T13:12:32Z")

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[QUOTE=JSexton]  
Type of fishing flies.  
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Nope. Try again.

Czech  
Eye  
Water

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/46 "2008-06-20T15:18:35Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
Nope. Try again.

Czech  
Eye  
Water  
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Glasses?

(coincidentally, a half-full bottle of Dasani and an eyeglasses case are lying at another computer station in the library where I’m typing this, and I was thinking about how describing the assemblage as “a water bottle and glasses” could possibly be misinterpreted in several ways)

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/47 "2008-06-20T15:49:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
Glasses?  
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My next clues were going to be “Stained” and “Reading.” Well done.

Next up:

Crater  
Greg  
Finger

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/48 "2008-06-20T15:59:42Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
My next clues were going to be “Stained” and “Reading.” Well done.

Next up:

Crater  
Greg  
Finger  
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Lakes?

Zoro  
Granite  
Balto

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/49 "2008-06-20T17:51:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Chefguy]  
Lakes?

Zoro  
Granite  
Balto  
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They all pulled dogsleds.

Parker Posey  
Ann B. Davis  
Isabella Rossellini

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/50 "2008-06-20T18:04:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Baker]  
Pirate Ships?

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More specifically, fictional pirate ships. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-items-game/453382/51 "2008-06-20T22:26:37Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
They all pulled dogsleds.

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Technically, they were all lead dogs on the Iditarod Trail. Balto was the original lead dog in 1925, Granite was Susan Butcher’s lead, and Zoro was the lead dog for Lance Mackey’s winning team the past two years.

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