# 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:** 463
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9244 "2022-05-17T23:45:13Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9245 "2022-05-18T00:55:20Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9246 "2022-05-18T01:13:35Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9247 "2022-05-18T01:39:28Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9248 "2022-05-18T01:53:21Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9249 "2022-05-18T01:55:05Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9250 "2022-05-18T02:26:39Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York 9. Yekaterinburg, Russia ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9251 "2022-05-18T02:59:03Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York 9. Yekaterinburg, Russia 10. Yorktown, Virginia ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9252 "2022-05-18T03:21:45Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York 9. Yekaterinburg, Russia 10. Yorktown, Virginia 11. Yreka, California, USA According to Mark Twain, writing in his autobiography, Yreka got its name through an accident. While it was still an unnamed mining camp, there was a bakeshop with a canvas sign which had not yet been put up but had been painted and stretched to dry in such a way that the word BAKERY, all but the B, showed through and was reversed. A stranger read it wrong end first, YREKA, and supposed that that was the name of the camp. The residents of the camp were satisfied with that and adopted it as the name. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9253 "2022-05-18T05:23:37Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York 9. Yekaterinburg, Russia 10. Yorktown, Virginia 11. Yreka, California, USA 12. Yemen ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9254 "2022-05-18T12:15:14Z")
**Place names beginning with a "y"** 1. Yellowknife, NT, Canada 2. Yoakum, Texas 3. Yuba City, California 4. Youngstown, Ohio 5. Yakima, Washington 6. Yamagata, Japan 7. Yuma, Arizona 8. Yonkers, New York 9. Yekaterinburg, Russia 10. Yorktown, Virginia 11. Yreka, California, USA 12. Yemen 13. Yang-Tse River, China **Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9255 "2022-05-18T12:16:34Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9256 "2022-05-18T12:26:53Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa Dowager Empress of the Romans, Queen of Hungary, of Bohemia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Slavonia, of Galicia, of Lodomeria, etc.; Archduchess of Austria; Duchess of Burgundy, of Styria, of Carinthia and of Carniola; Grand Princess of Transylvania; Margravine of Moravia; Duchess of Brabant, of Limburg, of Luxemburg, of Guelders, of Württemberg, of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Milan, of Mantua, of Parma, of Piacenza, of Guastalla, of Auschwitz and of Zator; Princess of Swabia; Princely Countess of Habsburg, of Flanders, of Tyrol, of Hainault, of Kyburg, of Gorizia and of Gradisca; Margravine of Burgau, of Upper and Lower Lusatia; Countess of Namur; Lady of the Wendish Mark and of Mechlin; Dowager Duchess of Lorraine and Bar, Dowager Grand Duchess of Tuscany. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9257 "2022-05-18T14:41:56Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9258 "2022-05-18T14:44:12Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel 5. Golda Meir ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9259 "2022-05-18T16:05:13Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel 5. Golda Meir 6. Catherine the Great ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9260 "2022-05-18T16:24:35Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel 5. Golda Meir 6. Catherine the Great 7. Corazon Aquino ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9261 "2022-05-18T16:40:38Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel 5. Golda Meir 6. Catherine the Great 7. Corazon Aquino 8. Cleopatra ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9262 "2022-05-18T17:37:01Z")
**Female World Leaders** 1. Indira Gandhi 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Maria Theresa 4. Angela Merkel 5. Golda Meir 6. Catherine the Great 7. Corazon Aquino 8. Cleopatra 9. Jacinda Ardern The only person on this list who’s still alive and in power, since Merkel’s retirement ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/9263 "2022-05-18T17:41:45Z")
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