# 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:** 54
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1061 "2020-03-10T03:55:28Z")
Ships famous for sinking 1. Bismarck (1941) 2. Titanic (1912) 3. Vasa (1628) 4. Lusitania (1915) 5. Andrea Doria (1956) 6. Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) 7. USS Arizona (1941) 8. K-129 (1960) 9. Sultana (1865) ---
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Ships famous for sinking 1. Bismarck (1941) 2. Titanic (1912) 3. Vasa (1628) 4. Lusitania (1915) 5. Andrea Doria (1956) 6. Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) 7. USS Arizona (1941) 8. K-129 (1960) 9. Sultana (1865) 10. USS Indianapolis (1945) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1063 "2020-03-10T04:24:12Z")
Ships famous for sinking 1. Bismarck (1941) 2. Titanic (1912) 3. Vasa (1628) 4. Lusitania (1915) 5. Andrea Doria (1956) 6. Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) 7. USS Arizona (1941) 8. K-129 (1960) 9. Sultana (1865) 10. USS Indianapolis (1945) 11. USS _Yorktown_ (CV-5) (Battle of Midway, 1942) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1064 "2020-03-10T04:25:31Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Ships famous for sinking > > 1. Vasa (1628) Good one. That’s a great museum in Stockholm. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1065 "2020-03-10T07:09:01Z")
Ships famous for sinking 1. Bismarck (1941) 2. Titanic (1912) 3. Vasa (1628) 4. Lusitania (1915) 5. Andrea Doria (1956) 6. Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) 7. USS Arizona (1941) 8. K-129 (1960) 9. Sultana (1865) 10. USS Indianapolis (1945) 11. USS Yorktown (CV-5) (Battle of Midway, 1942) 12. MV Dona Paz (1987) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1066 "2020-03-10T07:41:26Z")
Ships famous for sinking 1. Bismarck (1941) 2. Titanic (1912) 3. Vasa (1628) 4. Lusitania (1915) 5. Andrea Doria (1956) 6. Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) 7. USS Arizona (1941) 8. K-129 (1960) 9. Sultana (1865) 10. USS Indianapolis (1945) 11. USS _Yorktown_ (CV-5) (Battle of Midway, 1942) 12. MV Dona Paz (1987) 13. USS _Oklahoma_ (BB-37) (Pearl Harbor, 07 Dec 1941) The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1067 "2020-03-10T07:44:57Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1068 "2020-03-10T07:57:08Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1069 "2020-03-10T08:14:37Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1070 "2020-03-10T08:59:31Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1071 "2020-03-10T09:08:24Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1072 "2020-03-10T10:09:41Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1073 "2020-03-10T11:36:17Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska > **[Baked Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska)** > > Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, omelette norvégienne, omelette surprise, or omelette sibérienne depending on the country, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue but not long enough to begin meltin... ---
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The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska [Baked Alaska - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska) 9. Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1075 "2020-03-10T13:06:48Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska [Baked Alaska - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska) 9. Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level. 10. Author Seth Kantner ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1076 "2020-03-10T13:13:04Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska [Baked Alaska - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska) 9. Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level. 10. Author Seth Kantner 11. Prince William Sound, Alaska- Site of the largest earthquake to hit the U.S… a 9.2 magnitude quake on March 28, 1964, ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1077 "2020-03-10T13:23:12Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska [Baked Alaska - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska) 9. Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level. 10. Author Seth Kantner 11. Prince William Sound, Alaska- Site of the largest earthquake to hit the U.S… a 9.2 magnitude quake on March 28, 1964, 12. Muktuk - In Inuit cultures, using the whole whale is an act of respect, including consuming its blubber and skin. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1078 "2020-03-10T14:19:10Z")
The Iditarod started on Saturday: all things Alaska 1. The Alaska Highway, approx 1,300 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Jct AK USA; gMap \> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/ra3Hus) 2. Point Barrow (Nuvuk), the northernmost point of the United States 3. Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point. Me & family there last winter, imgur \> [Anchor Point AK — North America’s Most Westerly Highway Point - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/bqNiR8) 4. Hyder, Alaska - Shares British Columbia’s 250 area code, instead of Alaska’s 907. 5. Juneau, first state capital ending with “U”. Honolulu was second. 6. The Iditarod Race, 1,000 miles across Alaska; me & family at last year’s start in Anchorage \> [Saturday 02 March 2019 — Iditarod ceremonial start, Anchorage AK. - Album on Imgur](https://is.gd/LHdgLI) 7. Author Robin Hobb 8. Baked Alaska [Baked Alaska - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska) 9. Denali (formerly Mount McKinley), the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level. 10. Author Seth Kantner 11. Prince William Sound, Alaska- Site of the largest earthquake to hit the U.S… a 9.2 magnitude quake on March 28, 1964, 12. Muktuk - In Inuit cultures, using the whole whale is an act of respect, including consuming its blubber and skin. 13. The Matanuska Glacier, the largest glacier accessible by car in the US. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/1079 "2020-03-10T14:24:52Z")
13 famous assassins (and their victims) 1. Lee Harvey Oswald (John F. Kennedy) ---
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> [@Bullitt](#): > > Ships famous for sinking > > … > 7. USS Arizona (1941) > … > 13. USS _Oklahoma_ (BB-37) (Pearl Harbor, 07 Dec 1941)… If we didn’t want two Pearl Harbor battleships, I would’ve suggested 1. Mary Rose > **[Mary Rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose)** > > The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She was launched in 1511 and served for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. She led the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, but sank in the Solent, the strait north of the Isle of Wight. > The wreck of the Mary Rose was located in 1971 and was raised on 11 October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in o... 13 famous assassins (and their victims) 1. Lee Harvey Oswald (John F. Kennedy) 2. Gavrilo Princip (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=55)