# 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:** 1763
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35244 "2015-06-14T01:54:40Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese 9. James Bond: speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French and German, and speaks, reads and writes a passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. 10. Eddie Morra, “Limitless” - English, Italian and (not very good) Chinese ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35245 "2015-06-14T02:06:53Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese 9. James Bond: speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French and German, and speaks, reads and writes a passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. 10. Eddie Morra, “Limitless” - English, Italian and (not very good) Chinese 11. President Jed Bartlet - English, Latin, German ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35246 "2015-06-14T03:27:41Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese 9. James Bond: speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French and German, and speaks, reads and writes a passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. 10. Eddie Morra, “Limitless” - English, Italian and (not very good) Chinese 11. President Jed Bartlet - English, Latin, German 12. Jane Hathaway, The Beverly Hillbillies, - English, French ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35247 "2015-06-14T05:12:17Z")
Fictional characters who spoke more than one language 1. Miss Lamb, in Jane Flory’s novel The Liberation of Clementine Tipton, English and French 2. Albus Dumbledore, from the Harry Potter series, over 200 languages including Mermish, Gobblydegook and Bulgarian 3. Ziva David, NCIS, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian, etc etc etc 4. Howard Wolowitz, The Big Bang Theory, English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, Yiddish, Klingon and Sindarin. 5. C-3PO, Star Wars, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication 6. Jason Bourne, English, Russian, German and probably a few others 7. Cmdr. Spock, “Star Trek” - Vulcan and English (Federation Standard), and probably many others 8. John Blackthorn, “Shogun”- English, Portugese, Latin, (some) Japanese 9. James Bond: speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French and German, and speaks, reads and writes a passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. 10. Eddie Morra, “Limitless” - English, Italian and (not very good) Chinese 11. President Jed Bartlet - English, Latin, German 12. Jane Hathaway, The Beverly Hillbillies, - English, French 13. Jason Bourne, “The Bourne Identity” movie and novel series - English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Russian… and more. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35248 "2015-06-14T05:14:23Z")
New Topic Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35249 "2015-06-14T05:59:02Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35250 "2015-06-14T06:25:42Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35251 "2015-06-14T13:20:16Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35252 "2015-06-14T13:24:51Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35253 "2015-06-14T13:58:11Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker 5. The Talented Mr. Ripley ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35254 "2015-06-14T16:25:29Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker 5. The Talented Mr. Ripley 6. Mystic Pizza One of his first. Was it his very first? ETA: It was his film debut. [From Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Pizza#Cast): In his film debut, Matt Damon has a very small part—his sole line in the film being, “Mom, do you want my green stuff?” while eating lobster. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35255 "2015-06-14T17:12:48Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker 5. The Talented Mr. Ripley 6. Mystic Pizza 7. The Legend of Bagger Vance Anyone else shocked to realize _Saving Private Ryan_ came out seventeen years ago? ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35256 "2015-06-14T18:14:12Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker 5. The Talented Mr. Ripley 6. Mystic Pizza 7. The Legend of Bagger Vance 8. Glory Daze as Edgar Pudwhacker ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35257 "2015-06-14T22:58:23Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4, Saving Private Ryan 4. The Rainmaker 5. The Talented Mr. Ripley 6. Mystic Pizza 7. The Legend of Bagger Vance 8. Glory Daze 9. School Ties ---
**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:** [June 14, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35258 "2015-06-14T23:10:51Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. The Rainmaker 6. The Talented Mr. Ripley 7. Mystic Pizza 8. The Legend of Bagger Vance 9. Glory Daze 10. School Ties 11. Titan A.E. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35259 "2015-06-15T00:14:35Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. The Rainmaker 6. The Talented Mr. Ripley 7. Mystic Pizza 8. The Legend of Bagger Vance 9. Glory Daze 10. School Ties 11. Titan A.E. 12. Rounders ---
**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:** [June 15, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35260 "2015-06-15T02:26:22Z")
Matt Damon movies (2001-and before) 1. Good Will Hunting 2. Ocean’s Eleven 3. Dogma 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. The Rainmaker 6. The Talented Mr. Ripley 7. Mystic Pizza 8. The Legend of Bagger Vance 9. Glory Daze 10. School Ties 11. Titan A.E. 12. Rounders 13. Chasing Amy Next: Contemporaries who didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence 1. George Washington ---
**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:** [June 15, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35261 "2015-06-15T02:38:51Z")
Contemporaries who didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence 1. George Washington 2. Patrick Henry ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35262 "2015-06-15T02:52:32Z")
Contemporaries who didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence 1. George Washington 2. Patrick Henry 3. John Dickinson ---
**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:** [June 15, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35263 "2015-06-15T03:50:02Z")
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