# 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:** 366
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7301 "2025-04-17T00:47:39Z")
**City names that are also English nouns or verbs** 1. Hell, Pennsylvania 2. Canton, Ohio 3. Boring, Oregon 4. Needles, California 5. Hope, Arkansas 6. Bath, England 7. Liberal, Kansas 8. Fate, Texas 9. Butte, Montana 10. Phoenix, Arizona 11. Reading, Pennsylvania 12. Flint, Michigan 13. Weed, California pass ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7302 "2025-04-17T02:56:16Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard Conan Doyle never told us his full first name - I suspect it was George. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7303 "2025-04-17T04:07:36Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler AKA, “The Woman” ---
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**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7305 "2025-04-17T07:17:44Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson ---
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**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson Holmes once referred to him as “the smartest of the Scotland Yarders” ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7307 "2025-04-17T12:13:00Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7308 "2025-04-17T13:25:25Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7309 "2025-04-17T14:14:52Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7310 "2025-04-17T15:25:56Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee 9. Langdale Pike ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7311 "2025-04-17T15:48:55Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee 9. Langdale Pike 10. Jabez Wilson The pawnbroker from “The Red-Headed League”. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7312 "2025-04-17T19:17:55Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee 9. Langdale Pike 10. Jabez Wilson 11. Inspector Bradstreet Although he appears in three short stories, his first name is never revealed. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7313 "2025-04-17T22:39:51Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee 9. Langdale Pike 10. Jabez Wilson 11. Inspector Bradstreet 12. Professor James Moriarty Despite his great significance to the canon, he appears only in “The Final Problem”. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7314 "2025-04-18T21:27:16Z")
**Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales** 1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard 2. Irene Adler 3. Mycroft Holmes 4. Mrs. Hudson 5. Inspector Tobias Gregson 6. Mary Morstan Watson 7. Baker Street Irregulars 8. James Larrabee 9. Langdale Pike 10. Jabez Wilson 11. Inspector Bradstreet 12. Professor James Moriarty 13. The Grice Patersons Perhaps a married couple, mentioned in “The Five Orange Pips” in one of Conan Doyle’s many tantalizingly-cryptic references to Holmes’s other cases: _The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my headings under this one twelve months, I find an account of… the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa…_ Pass. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7315 "2025-04-19T14:40:05Z")
**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 ---
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**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 2. The Little Rock 9 ---
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**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 2. The Little Rock 9 3. The Central Park 5 The five men who were falsely accused and convicted of assaulting a jogger in Central Park in 1989.. They were later exonerated. Trump took out full-page ads after the assault calling for the return of the death penalty. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7318 "2025-04-19T15:18:43Z")
**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 2. The Little Rock 9 3. The Central Park 5 4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner God bless 'em - martyrs to freedom: [Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner) ---
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**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 2. The Little Rock 9 3. The Central Park 5 4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner 5. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Donald (Deke) Slayton – collectively known as the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Famous groups of people** 1. The Chicago 7 2. The Little Rock 9 3. The Central Park 5 4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner 5. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Donald (Deke) Slayton – collectively known as the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts. 6. The Beatles [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=365) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=367)