# 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:** 2893
**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:** [March 15, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57847 "2018-03-15T14:00:17Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Havery Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November, 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 BC. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57848 "2018-03-15T14:18:39Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Havery Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57849 "2018-03-15T14:25:37Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Havery Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 The only British Prime Minister to be assassinated ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57850 "2018-03-15T14:37:55Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Havery Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 9. Nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, Tokyo, Oct. 12, 1960 A particularly shocking crime, and notably photographed. > **[Inejirō Asanuma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejiro_Asanuma)** > > Inejiro Asanuma (浅沼 稲次郎, Asanuma Inejirō, 27 December 1898 – 12 October 1960) was a Japanese politician and leader of the Japan Socialist Party. During World War II, Asanuma was aligned with the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and advocated for war in Asia. Asanuma later became a forceful advocate of socialism in post-war Japan. He was noted for his support of the newly established People's Republic of China (PRC) as well as the criticism of United States–Japanese relations, making him a p... > **[Tokyo Stabbing](https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/tokyo-stabbing/)** > > October 12th, 1960. It’s election season in Japan. Three thousand people cram Tokyo’s Hibiya Hall to hear socialist party chairman Inejiro Asanuma debate the incumbent Prime Minister Ha… ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57851 "2018-03-15T15:31:31Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Havery Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 9. Nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, Tokyo, Oct. 12, 1960 10. Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy, Los Angeles, June 5, 1968 ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57852 "2018-03-15T15:58:10Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Harvey Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 9. Nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, Tokyo, Oct. 12, 1960 10. Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy, Los Angeles, June 5, 1968 11. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Prince Felix Yusupov and others assassinated Rasputin, St. Petersburg, December 17, 1916. The only victim here who isn’t royalty or a politician; however, the conspirators resented Rasputin’s political influence ---
**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 15, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57853 "2018-03-15T16:50:45Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Harvey Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 9. Nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, Tokyo, Oct. 12, 1960 10. Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy, Los Angeles, June 5, 1968 11. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Prince Felix Yusupov and others assassinated Rasputin, St. Petersburg, December 17, 1916. 12. Satwant Singh and Beant Singh assassinated Indira Gandhi, Oct. 31, 1984 ---
**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:** [March 15, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57854 "2018-03-15T18:13:53Z")
Famous assassinations. 1. Leon Czolgosz assassinated Pres. William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901 2. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963 4. Ignacy Hryniewiecki of the People’s Will movement assassinated Tsar Alexander II, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 13, 1881 5. Dan White shot Harvey Milk and George Moscone, San Francisco, November 27, 1978 6. Marcus Junius Brutus (and others) assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Rome, on The Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C. 7. John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865 8. John Bellingham assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, London, May 11, 1812 9. Nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma, Tokyo, Oct. 12, 1960 10. Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy, Los Angeles, June 5, 1968 11. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Prince Felix Yusupov and others assassinated Rasputin, St. Petersburg, December 17, 1916. 12. Satwant Singh and Beant Singh assassinated Indira Gandhi, Oct. 31, 1984 13. Khalid Islambouli and other members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad assassinated Anwar Sadat, Oct. 6, 1981 Next: Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge ---
**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 15, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57855 "2018-03-15T18:32:45Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57856 "2018-03-15T19:08:20Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57857 "2018-03-15T19:14:15Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57858 "2018-03-15T19:20:30Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 5. Giant tube worm ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57859 "2018-03-15T19:23:44Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57860 "2018-03-15T19:46:36Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57861 "2018-03-15T20:08:11Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57862 "2018-03-15T21:26:46Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) 9. Banana Slug ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57863 "2018-03-15T21:28:08Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) 9. Banana Slug 10. Schistosomes (blood flukes) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57864 "2018-03-15T22:11:14Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) 9. Banana Slug 10. Schistosomes (blood flukes) 11. Earthworms ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57865 "2018-03-15T22:13:39Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) 9. Banana Slug 10. Schistosomes (blood flukes) 11. Earthworms 12. Octopus ---
**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 15, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57866 "2018-03-15T22:15:45Z")
Non-arthropod invertebrates (i.e. no insects, arachnids or crustaceans) 1. Sponge 2. Tardigrade 3. Portuguese man o’ war 4. Geoduck 5. Giant tube worm 6. Clam 7. Medusa 8. Spanish shawl (nudibranch [Flabellinopsis iodinea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellinopsis_iodinea)) 9. Banana Slug 10. Schistosomes (blood flukes) 11. Earthworms 12. Octopus 13. Leech I’ll pass [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2892) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2894)