# 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:** 1686
**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 9, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33704 "2015-03-09T00:25:33Z")
Famous women, but no repeating the same country. 1. Indira Gandhi - India 2. Margaret Thatcher - England 3. Eleanor Roosevelt - United States 4. Imelda Marcos - The Philippines 5. Gerti Cori - Czechoslovakia 6. Queen Isabella - Spain 7. Madame Marie Curie - France 8. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma 9. Anita Ekberg - Sweden 10. Celine Dion - Canada 11. Natassja Kinski - Germany 12. Catherine of Siena - Italy 13. Maria Kirilenko - Russia In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 14. Gerti Cori First American woman winner! ---
**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 9, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33705 "2015-03-09T00:33:07Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck ---
**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 9, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33706 "2015-03-09T00:39:12Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu ---
**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 9, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33707 "2015-03-09T02:47:47Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom The latest American woman to win, in 2009, for Economics. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33708 "2015-03-09T04:08:26Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33709 "2015-03-09T04:17:36Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33710 "2015-03-09T12:44:05Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33711 "2015-03-09T13:28:47Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer Physics, in 1963, for discoveries re: nuclear shell structure. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33712 "2015-03-09T13:47:30Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer 9. Mother Teresa ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33713 "2015-03-09T15:27:01Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer 9. Mother Teresa 10. Jane Addams ---
**Author:** ![Celan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Celan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33714 "2015-03-09T16:21:29Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer 9. Mother Teresa 10. Jane Addams 11. Toni Morrison ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33715 "2015-03-09T16:52:14Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer 9. Mother Teresa 10. Jane Addams 11. Toni Morrison 12. Mairead Corrigan (shared with her friend Betty Williams) ---
**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 9, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33716 "2015-03-09T17:32:58Z")
In honor of March being National Women’s History Month: Women Nobel Award Winners 1. Gerti Cori 2. Pearl Buck 3. Rigoberta Menchu 4. Elinor Ostrom 5. Marie Curie 6. Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie) 7. Selma Lagerlof 8. Maria Goeppert-Mayer 9. Mother Teresa 10. Jane Addams 11. Toni Morrison 12. Mairead Corrigan (shared with her friend Betty Williams) 13. Malala Yousafzai I’ll pass. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33717 "2015-03-09T17:45:57Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel **The Boundless** ---
**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 9, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33718 "2015-03-09T17:47:20Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Bumbles bounce! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33719 "2015-03-09T18:22:27Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Monsters, Inc. ---
**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 9, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33720 "2015-03-09T18:41:47Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Monsters, Inc. 4. Harry and the Hendersons ---
**Author:** ![Celan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Celan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33721 "2015-03-09T18:42:47Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Monsters, Inc. 4. Harry and the Hendersons 5. The Magnificent Guardian ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33722 "2015-03-09T18:44:33Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Monsters, Inc. 4. The Magnificent Guardian 5. The $6 Million Man (Andre the Giant played Bigfoot) ---
**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 9, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/33723 "2015-03-09T18:48:53Z")
Fiction in Which Bigfoot or a Yeti Appears: 1. Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless 2. Rankin Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Monsters, Inc. 4. The Magnificent Guardian 5. The $6 Million Man (Andre the Giant played Bigfoot) 6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor The yeti are on the side of good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1685) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1687)