# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1) **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 351
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7004 "2021-08-03T00:13:37Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus Not quite as unusual as it sounds. The participants were not required to throw the implement with two hands, but throw it with each hand, and the combined score of each hand was used to determine the winner. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7005 "2021-08-03T03:01:06Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus 9. Bowling ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7006 "2021-08-03T13:42:28Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus 9. Bowling 10. Motor boating ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7007 "2021-08-03T14:39:42Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus 9. Bowling 10. Motor boating 11. Polo ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7008 "2021-08-03T18:38:34Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus 9. Bowling 10. Motor boating 11. Polo 12. Pelota Four times, most recently in Barcelona in 1992. No, I hadn’t heard of it before, either: [Basque pelota - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_pelota) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7009 "2021-08-04T03:38:30Z")
**Discontinued Sports/Events of the Summer Olympics** 1. Standing Long Jump 2. Tug of War 3. Cricket 4. Croquet 5. Cannon Shooting 6. [Dueling with Pistols](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646824/when-pistol-dueling-was-an-olympic-event) (20 and 30 meter distances) 7. Lacrosse 8. Two Hands Discus 9. Bowling 10. Motor boating 11. Polo 12. Pelota 13. Jeu de Paume An early form of tennis About Pelota, it’s closely related to jai alai, which may sound more familiar. I can’t find a reference for this on Google, but I know that I read decades ago that the right hand of St Francis Xavier (who was Basque) shows characteristic deformations caused by extensive pelota playing. Use of the left hand in pelota is not allowed. New Locations of Summer Olympics 1. Mexico City, 1968 ---
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Locations of Summer Olympics 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 ---
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Locations of Summer Olympics 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 ---
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**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 **-“BB”-** ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7013 "2021-08-04T07:14:31Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7014 "2021-08-04T12:01:02Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7015 "2021-08-04T12:15:00Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7016 "2021-08-04T12:47:36Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7017 "2021-08-04T13:13:30Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 9. Stockholm, 1912 TCM showed films of the Stockholm games a couple of weeks ago. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7018 "2021-08-04T13:17:06Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 9. Stockholm, 1912 10. Moscow, 1980 Notable as the US boycotted the event. It would be immoral, after all, for a foreign country to invade Afghanistan, and we wouldn’t want to support that. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7019 "2021-08-04T13:22:03Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 9. Stockholm, 1912 10. Moscow, 1980 11. Rome, 1960 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7020 "2021-08-04T15:20:03Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 9. Stockholm, 1912 10. Moscow, 1980 11. Rome, 1960 12. Los Angeles, 1984 Boycotted by the Soviet Union, East Germany, and 12 other Eastern Bloc countries, in response to the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow games ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7021 "2021-08-04T17:05:24Z")
**Locations of Summer Olympics** 1. Mexico City, 1968 2. Antwerp, 1920 3. Montreal, 1976 4. Berlin, 1936 5. St. Louis, 1904 6. Toyko, 2021 7. Helsinki, 1952 8. Athens, 1896 9. Stockholm, 1912 10. Moscow, 1980 11. Rome, 1960 12. Los Angeles, 1984 13. Atlanta, 1996 Pass ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/7022 "2021-08-04T17:16:20Z")
**All things British** 1. Drive on the left side of road ---
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