# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1009
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20164 "2013-10-04T16:44:26Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20165 "2013-10-04T16:46:08Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in _ **The World Is Not Enough** _ ---
**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 4, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20166 "2013-10-04T16:49:32Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20167 "2013-10-04T17:42:13Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20168 "2013-10-04T18:43:16Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on _ **SpongeBob SquarePants** _ ---
**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 4, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20169 "2013-10-04T18:45:15Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Princess Bubblegum (_Adventure Time_), mad scientist ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20170 "2013-10-04T19:17:57Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), mad scientist 10. Captain Adelaide Brooke, leader of the doomed Mars mission (Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars”) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20171 "2013-10-04T19:23:36Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), mad scientist 10. Captain Adelaide Brooke, leader of the doomed Mars mission (Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars”) 11. T’Pol (Star Trek: Enterprise) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20172 "2013-10-04T22:50:27Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), mad scientist 10. Captain Adelaide Brooke, leader of the doomed Mars mission (Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars”) 11. T’Pol (Star Trek: Enterprise) 12. Dr. Ellie Arroway, astrophysicist (Carl Sagan’s _Contact_) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20173 "2013-10-05T00:33:50Z")
13 Fictional Female Scientists 1. Dr. Jane Foster (Thor), astrophysicist 2. Dr. Moira MacTaggert (X-Men), geneticist 3. Abby Sciuto (NCIS) Forensics Specialist 4. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who), astrophysicist/astrometricist 5. Dr. Christmas Jones, allegedly brilliant physicist played by definitely NOT brilliant Denise Richards, in The World Is Not Enough 6. Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz (The Big Bang Theory), microbiologist 7. Dr. Susan Calvin (in various stories by Isaac Asimov), robopsychologist 8. Sandy Cheeks, female squirrel scienist on SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), mad scientist 10. Captain Adelaide Brooke, leader of the doomed Mars mission (Doctor Who: “The Waters of Mars”) 11. T’Pol (Star Trek: Enterprise) 12. Dr. Ellie Arroway, astrophysicist (Carl Sagan’s _Contact_) 13. Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Doctor Who) Physicist, among other things New Thread: Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. _Numb3rs_, various episodes ---
**Author:** ![Gladys\_Overnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gladys\_Overnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gladys_Overnow)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20174 "2013-10-05T00:43:08Z")
New Thread: Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code ---
**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 5, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20175 "2013-10-05T00:58:21Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett A Nazi spy races to reveal Allied plans for the D-Day invasion. Great novel! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20176 "2013-10-05T01:54:49Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks Kids’ book with a plot that centers on cryptography. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20177 "2013-10-05T03:14:58Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20178 "2013-10-05T17:21:46Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20179 "2013-10-05T18:14:54Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe 7. The Matrix (not necessarily including the character “Cypher”…) ---
**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 5, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20180 "2013-10-05T19:24:49Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe 7. The Matrix (not necessarily including the character “Cypher”…) 8. _The Adventure of the Dancing Men_, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20181 "2013-10-05T21:31:47Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe 7. The Matrix (not necessarily including the character “Cypher”…) 8. _The Adventure of the Dancing Men_, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [/QUOTE] 9. _National Treasure_ 1 & 2 ---
**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 5, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20182 "2013-10-05T23:30:00Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe 7. The Matrix (not necessarily including the character “Cypher”…) 8. The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [/quote] 9. National Treasure 1 & 2 10. Enigma Movie about the Bletchley Park codebreakers: [Enigma (2001 film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(2001_film)) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/20183 "2013-10-06T00:42:17Z")
Fiction Dealing with Codes/Ciphers 1. Numb3rs, various episodes 2. The Da Vinci Code 3. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4. Alvin’s Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks 5. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 6. “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe 7. The Matrix (not necessarily including the character “Cypher”…) 8. The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [/quote] 9. National Treasure 1 & 2 10. Enigma 11. Windtalkers Movie about the Navajo code talkers. (Navajo and other Native American languages really were used as code, but the movie is fictional.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1008) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1010)