# 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:** 433
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8641 "2025-10-09T20:00:15Z")
**Inventions that changed the world, that we can’t imagine being without** 1. The wheel 2. The number zero 3. the alphabet 4. Clothing 5. Money 6. The screw 7. Fire 8. The plow 9. Cars 10. The internal combustion engine 11. The printing press 12. Indoor plumbing ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8642 "2025-10-09T21:39:08Z")
**Inventions that changed the world, that we can’t imagine being without** 1. The wheel 2. The number zero 3. the alphabet 4. Clothing 5. Money 6. The screw 7. Fire 8. The plow 9. Cars 10. The internal combustion engine 11. The printing press 12. Indoor plumbing 13. Music Louis Armstrong has a song about it, "Ten Feet off the Ground ". Next Nobel Prize laureates, any field 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 The first Latin American author to win ---
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**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 Yes, _that_ Ivan Pavlov ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8644 "2025-10-09T22:49:40Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8645 "2025-10-10T00:37:05Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8646 "2025-10-10T00:55:45Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 The first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8647 "2025-10-10T02:24:18Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 The man that _A Beautiful Mind_ was written about. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8648 "2025-10-10T13:30:59Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 The first English-language winner and still, at age 41, the youngest. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8649 "2025-10-11T00:13:24Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8650 "2025-10-11T04:45:08Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903 The first female laureate, the first married couple to win jointly, and the first of 5 Nobels for members of the Curie family ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8651 "2025-10-11T05:06:37Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903 10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906 “For his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world’s great powers, Japan and Russia…” Pass. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8652 "2025-10-11T14:34:17Z")
It’s Baker’s Dozen, and we’re only at 10. **Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903 10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906 11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009 People were split om whether he’d actually done much to deserve it. Even as a Democrat, I feel he got the award simply for not being George Bush. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8653 "2025-10-11T15:42:36Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903 10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906 11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009 12. Albert Einstein, Physics, 1921 ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8654 "2025-10-11T15:56:11Z")
**Nobel Prize laureates, any field** 1. Gabriela Mistral, literature, 1945 2. Ivan Pavlov, Physiology or Medicine, 1904 3. Malala Yousafzai, Peace, 2014 4. Wolfgang Pauli, Physics, 1945 5. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, Peace, 1905 6. John Nash, Economics, 1994 7. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907 8. Bob Dylan, Literature, 2016 9. Marie and Pierre Curie, Physics, 1903 10. Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906 11. Barack Obama, Peace, 2009 12. Albert Einstein, Physics, 1921 13. Milton Friedman, Economics, 1976 Next: **Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8655 "2025-10-11T16:58:54Z")
**Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8656 "2025-10-11T17:54:06Z")
**Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) 3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for _The English Patient_, 1992 The Booker Prize is given each year for the best single work of fiction written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8657 "2025-10-11T18:18:06Z")
**Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) 3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for _The English Patient_, 1992 4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film _Jurassic Park_, 1994 The Hugo Award, named for Hugo Gernsback, is for science fiction. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8658 "2025-10-11T20:46:16Z")
**Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) 3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for _The English Patient_, 1992 4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film _Jurassic Park_,1994 5. Jenny Erpenbeck, International Booker Prize, 2024 For literature translated into English ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8659 "2025-10-12T14:37:57Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > It’s Baker’s Dozen, and we’re only at 10. Oops, right you are! **Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) 3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for _The English Patient_, 1992 4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film _Jurassic Park_,1994 5. Jenny Erpenbeck, International Booker Prize, 2024 6. Viktor Yushchenko, [Profile in Courage Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile_in_Courage_Award), 2005 He was President of Ukraine at the time. The award is given out by the JFK Library Foundation. ---
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**Winners of Other Prestigious International Awards** 1. Jorn Utzon, Pritzker Prize, 2003, for the Sydney Opera House (built 1973) 2. Martin Hairer, Fields Medal, 2014 (mathematics) 3. Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize, for _The English Patient_, 1992 4. Stephen Spielberg, David Koepp, and Michael Crichton, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, for the film _Jurassic Park_,1994 5. Jenny Erpenbeck, International Booker Prize, 2024 6. Viktor Yushchenko, [Profile in Courage Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile_in_Courage_Award), 2005 7. Benjamin Franklin, Copley Medal, 1753 “On account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=432) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=434)