# 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:** 3445
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68889 "2019-11-10T01:21:04Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils But my Middle School was “Red Devils,” so I’ll go with that. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68890 "2019-11-10T01:25:17Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68891 "2019-11-10T01:57:06Z")
Panthers, but we were never #1. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68892 "2019-11-10T03:47:18Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68893 "2019-11-10T04:09:04Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs 9. Titans ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68894 "2019-11-10T18:05:17Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs 9. Titans 10, Beavers (yes, for real) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68895 "2019-11-11T02:51:29Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs 9. Titans 10, Beavers (yes, for real) 10. Trojans Nobody could penetrate our defense. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68896 "2019-11-11T05:53:23Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs 9. Titans 10, Beavers (yes, for real) 10. Trojans 11. Oranges ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68897 "2019-11-11T07:21:07Z")
Your high school sports teams’ name 1. Panthers 2. Wildcats 3. Tigers 4. Eagles 5. Colts 6. Red Devils 7. Bullpups 8. Chiefs 9. Titans 10, Beavers (yes, for real) 10. Trojans 11. Oranges 12. Rams I went to two different high schools. Pass. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68898 "2019-11-11T07:41:10Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen One of the greatest poets of World War One, killed in action at age 25 on November 4, 1918 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68899 "2019-11-11T13:23:11Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel Each movement of his “Le Tombeau de Couperin” is dedicated to the memory of a friend (or in one case, two brothers) who had died fighting in World War I. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68900 "2019-11-11T13:26:46Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni Italian artist, head of the Futurist movement, wounded in 1915, and died in a riding accident while convalescing. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68901 "2019-11-11T15:07:34Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford In 1915 financed a diplomatic mission to try to broker a peace between the European nations ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68902 "2019-11-11T15:38:42Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford Lyricist who wrote “Keep the Home Fires Burning,” one of the most popular war-era songs. She and her son, living in London in the war years, were the first American citizens to die in a German air raid on March 7, 1918. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68903 "2019-11-11T15:54:00Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble Famous astronomer. Served in the American Expeditionary Force. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68904 "2019-11-11T16:08:59Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble 7. Ernest Hemingway Was an ambulance driver with the Red Cross. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68905 "2019-11-11T20:19:26Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Christy Mathewson Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher with the New York Giants who was accidentally gassed during a training exercise in 1918. This, in turn, weakened his lungs and resulted in his developing the tuberculosis that eventually killed him in 1925. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68906 "2019-11-11T20:35:21Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Christy Mathewson 9. Alice Fitzgerald Served as a nurse with American forces as the “Edith Cavell Memorial Nurse”. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68907 "2019-11-11T21:04:29Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Christy Mathewson 9. Alice Fitzgerald 10. Harry S Truman Captain, U.S. Army. Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/68908 "2019-11-11T21:54:18Z")
101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection 1. Wilfred Owen 2. Maurice Ravel 3. Umberto Boccioni 4. Henry Ford 5. Lena Guilbert Ford 6. Edwin Hubble 7. Ernest Hemingway 8. Christy Mathewson 9. Alice Fitzgerald 10. Harry S Truman 11. Winston S. Churchill Minister of Munitions [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3444) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3446)