# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 338
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6741 "2025-02-03T16:11:14Z")
**Brazil** 1. Machado de Assis 2. Carnivale 3. Ayrton Senna 4. Jorge Ben Joe 5. Sérgio Mendes 6. Corcovado Mountain 7. Rio de Janeiro 8. [Archibald Tuttle, commando plumber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)) 9. Rio Roosevelt 10. 1964 Brazilian coup d’état 11. Emerson Fittipaldi 12. 2016 Summer Olympics 13. Director, Terry Gilliam **The Civil War** 1. Slavery ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6742 "2025-02-03T16:19:41Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6743 "2025-02-03T16:44:51Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery ---
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**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6745 "2025-02-03T18:50:05Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6746 "2025-02-03T18:58:31Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6747 "2025-02-03T20:54:10Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6748 "2025-02-03T21:17:08Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6749 "2025-02-03T21:19:59Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction 9. Fort Sumter ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6750 "2025-02-03T23:19:42Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction 9. Fort Sumter 10. Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vice-President of the Confederacy; later became the governor of Georgia ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6751 "2025-02-04T03:07:52Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction 9. Fort Sumter 10. Alexander Hamilton Stephens 11. Clara Barton In addition to her nursing work as the “Angel of the Battlefield”, for both Union and Confederate soldiers, she also helped locate more than 22,000 missing men after the war, and identified and properly buried many thousands. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6752 "2025-02-04T03:42:00Z")
She also had a torrid affair with a married officer while both were on Hilton Head, it was discovered many years later. **The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction 9. Fort Sumter 10. Alexander Hamilton Stephens 11. Clara Barton 12. George Henry Thomas A Virginian who remained loyal to the Union and won the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga” [when the day might otherwise have been lost.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6753 "2025-02-04T04:40:13Z")
**The Civil War** 1. Slavery 2. Abolition 3. Montgomery 4. The Gettysburg Address 5. Jefferson Davis 6. [The Great Locomotive Chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase) 7. Ironclad ships 8. Reconstruction 9. Fort Sumter 10. Alexander Hamilton Stephens 11. Clara Barton 12. George Henry Thomas 13. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain **Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6754 "2025-02-04T04:46:59Z")
**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6755 "2025-02-04T04:47:46Z")
**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6756 "2025-02-04T05:04:32Z")
**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger 4. The Taco Bell chihuahua ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6757 "2025-02-04T07:16:15Z")
**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger 4. The Taco Bell chihuahua 5. Farfel the dog _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger 4. The Taco Bell chihuahua 5. Farfel the dog 6. Smokey the Bear ---
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**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger 4. The Taco Bell chihuahua 5. Farfel the dog 6. Smokey the Bear 7. Nipper the RCA dog ---
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**Famous animal spokescritters** 1. Morris the Cat 2. Martin the GEICO gecko 3. Tony the Tiger 4. The Taco Bell chihuahua 5. Farfel the dog 6. Smokey the Bear 7. Nipper the RCA dog 8. McGruff the Crime Dog [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=337) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=339)