# 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:** 2709
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54166 "2017-08-20T05:58:34Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54167 "2017-08-20T06:01:08Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54168 "2017-08-20T10:26:43Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo He won the Nobel in 1959: [http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel\_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/quasimodo-bio.html](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1959/quasimodo-bio.html) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54169 "2017-08-20T11:16:45Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54170 "2017-08-20T12:04:51Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54171 "2017-08-20T13:56:57Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred Lord Tennyson ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54172 "2017-08-20T13:57:47Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson ---
**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:** [August 20, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54173 "2017-08-20T17:28:02Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54174 "2017-08-20T22:52:44Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer 9. Vergil, the greatest of them all ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54175 "2017-08-21T01:50:53Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer 9. Vergil, the greatest of them all 10. John Greenleaf Whittier ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54176 "2017-08-21T03:33:21Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer 9. Vergil, the greatest of them all 10. John Greenleaf Whittier 11. Emanuel Xavier ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54177 "2017-08-21T04:11:10Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer 9. Vergil, the greatest of them all 10. John Greenleaf Whittier 11. Emanuel Xavier 12. William Butler Yeats ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54178 "2017-08-21T04:22:48Z")
Poem titles or poets, alphabetically N-Z Poet last name or first name both acceptable, so for example, for A, the poet could be Dante Alighieri or Alfred Noyes. 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Ogden Nash 3. Petrarch 4. Salvatore Quasimodo 5. Rupert Brooke 6. Shel Silverstein 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8. Louis Untermeyer 9. Vergil, the greatest of them all 10. John Greenleaf Whittier 11. Emanuel Xavier 12. William Butler Yeats 13. Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609), pre-Islamic Arabian poet Next: Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54179 "2017-08-21T04:48:30Z")
Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson 2. Wendy O. 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:** [August 21, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54180 "2017-08-21T05:01:50Z")
Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson 2. Wendy O. Williams 3. Winona Ryder ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54181 "2017-08-21T05:06:26Z")
Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson 2. Wendy O. Williams 3. Winona Ryder 4. Wilma Rudolph ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54182 "2017-08-21T11:24:35Z")
Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson 2. Wendy O. Williams 3. Winona Ryder 4. Wilma Rudolph 5. Wilhelmine of Prussia ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54183 "2017-08-21T11:41:26Z")
Nm. Btw, no repeats? Of what… the same person? ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54184 "2017-08-21T11:51:13Z")
Famous women with first names beginning with W (no repeats) 1. Wallis Warfield Simpson 2. Wendy O. Williams 3. Winona Ryder 4. Wilma Rudolph 5. Wilhelmine of Prussia 6. Wanda Sykes Of the first name, I guess ---
**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:** [August 21, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/54185 "2017-08-21T11:57:08Z")
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