# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938 "2020-01-25T03:38:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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 6, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5364 "2021-04-06T14:27:49Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz

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**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:** [April 6, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5365 "2021-04-06T14:45:21Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5366 "2021-04-06T14:56:24Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope

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**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 6, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5367 "2021-04-06T16:02:40Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5368 "2021-04-06T16:19:34Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5369 "2021-04-06T16:46:28Z")

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**Notable Living People with Colors in Their Names**

1. Millie Bobby Brown
2. Pink
3. Brian Austin Green
4. Scarlett Johansson
5. Ron _‘Tater Salad’_ White
6. Jack Black
7. Elijah Blue Allman
8. Erin Gray
9. Robert Silverberg
10. Omer Goldman
11. Vida Blue
12. Harold Edward “Red” Grange, “The Galloping Ghost”

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**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 6, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5370 "2021-04-06T18:35:28Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle

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**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 6, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5371 "2021-04-06T18:48:55Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant

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**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 6, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5372 "2021-04-06T19:37:18Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5373 "2021-04-06T19:44:46Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Rip Torn

Two tenses, no less.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5374 "2021-04-06T20:34:55Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Rip Torn
10. Samantha Sang

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**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 6, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5375 "2021-04-06T21:02:09Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Rip Torn
10. Samantha Sang
11. Bill Withers

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**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 6, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5376 "2021-04-06T21:22:21Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Rip Torn
10. Samantha Sang
11. Bill Withers
12. Edgar Lee Masters

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**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:** [April 6, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5377 "2021-04-06T21:40:46Z")

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**Notable people with verbs in their names**

1. Mark Spitz
2. Robert Burns
3. Bob Hope
4. Ben Folds
5. Britney Spears
6. Dick Trickle
7. Robert Plant
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Rip Torn
10. Samantha Sang
11. Bill Withers
12. Edgar Lee Masters
13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry

She wrote the 1957 play _A Raisin in the Sun_, the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. At age 29, she became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She was only 34 when she died in 1965.

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**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 6, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5378 "2021-04-06T22:13:50Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens

_Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, that’s the town the knew me when._

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5379 "2021-04-06T22:15:43Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens
3. America Ferrera

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**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:** [April 6, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5380 "2021-04-06T22:25:54Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens
3. America Ferrera
4. Georgia O’Keeffe

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**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 6, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5381 "2021-04-06T22:43:48Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens
3. America Ferrera
4. Georgia O’Keeffe
5. Cuba Gooding Jr.

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**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:** [April 6, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5382 "2021-04-06T23:06:58Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens
3. America Ferrera
4. Georgia O’Keeffe
5. Cuba Gooding Jr.
6. Kathy Ireland

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5383 "2021-04-06T23:09:44Z")

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Notable people with towns, states or provinces, geographic regions or countries in their names

1. Lorraine Hansberry
2. Gary Owens
3. America Ferrera
4. Georgia O’Keeffe
5. Cuba Gooding Jr.
6. Kathy Ireland
7. Brittany Snow

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