# 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:** 376
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7502 "2011-09-14T15:13:06Z")
Show biz duos where one partner went on to much bigger success than the other. 1. Will “Fresh Prince” Smith and Jeffrey “DJ Jazzy Jeff” Townes 2. Wham - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley 3. Al Franken and Tom Davis 4. Kathy Najimi and Mo Gaffney 5. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari 6. Annie Lennox and that guy 7. Simon and Garfunkel 8. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook 9. Ike and Tina Turner ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7503 "2011-09-14T15:51:50Z")
Show biz duos where one partner went on to much bigger success than the other. 1. Will “Fresh Prince” Smith and Jeffrey “DJ Jazzy Jeff” Townes 2. Wham - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley 3. Al Franken and Tom Davis 4. Kathy Najimi and Mo Gaffney 5. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari 6. Annie Lennox and that guy 7. Simon and Garfunkel 8. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook 9. Ike and Tina Turner 10. Fred and Adele Astaire ---
**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:** [September 14, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7504 "2011-09-14T18:00:31Z")
Show biz duos where one partner went on to much bigger success than the other. 1. Will “Fresh Prince” Smith and Jeffrey “DJ Jazzy Jeff” Townes 2. Wham - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley 3. Al Franken and Tom Davis 4. Kathy Najimi and Mo Gaffney 5. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari 6. Annie Lennox and that guy 7. Simon and Garfunkel 8. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook 9. Ike and Tina Turner 10. Fred and Adele Astaire 11. Michael McKean and David Lander ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7505 "2011-09-14T18:51:21Z")
Show biz duos where one partner went on to much bigger success than the other. 1. Will “Fresh Prince” Smith and Jeffrey “DJ Jazzy Jeff” Townes 2. Wham - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley 3. Al Franken and Tom Davis 4. Kathy Najimi and Mo Gaffney 5. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari 6. Annie Lennox and that guy 7. Simon and Garfunkel 8. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook 9. Ike and Tina Turner 10. Fred and Adele Astaire 11. Michael McKean and David Lander 12. [Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Jones) ---
**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:** [September 14, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7506 "2011-09-14T18:58:15Z")
Show biz duos where one partner went on to much bigger success than the other. 1. Will “Fresh Prince” Smith and Jeffrey “DJ Jazzy Jeff” Townes 2. Wham - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley 3. Al Franken and Tom Davis 4. Kathy Najimi and Mo Gaffney 5. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari 6. Annie Lennox and that guy 7. Simon and Garfunkel 8. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook 9. Ike and Tina Turner 10. Fred and Adele Astaire 11. Michael McKean and David Lander 12. Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones 13. George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva Next category: Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers First to fly across the U.S. (“crash by crash,” as one biographer wrote). It’d make a helluva movie: [Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Rodgers) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7507 "2011-09-14T19:11:53Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7508 "2011-09-14T19:15:18Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin ---
**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:** [September 14, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7509 "2011-09-14T19:16:04Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7510 "2011-09-14T20:09:15Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan ---
**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:** [September 14, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7511 "2011-09-14T20:21:37Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7512 "2011-09-14T21:33:56Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7513 "2011-09-14T21:46:24Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright without them, some of the others wouldn’t have any aviation to pioneer ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7514 "2011-09-14T22:29:41Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright 9. Igor Sikorsky ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7515 "2011-09-14T22:36:54Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright 9. Igor Sikorsky 10. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier ---
**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:** [September 14, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7516 "2011-09-14T23:26:13Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright 9. Igor Sikorsky 10. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier 11. Harry Houdini Set some early aviation records. He’s credited as being the first person to fly a plane in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7517 "2011-09-15T00:32:51Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright 9. Igor Sikorsky 10. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier 11. Harry Houdini 12. Floyd Bennett First person to fly over the North Pole. (Richard Byrd sometimes gets credit- they were together but Bennett was the pilot.) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7518 "2011-09-15T00:47:19Z")
Aviation pioneers 1. Cal Rodgers 2. Charles Lindbergh 3. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin 4. Glenn Curtiss 5. Burt Rutan 6. Otto Lilienthal 7. Alberto Santos-Dumont 8. Orville and Wilbur Wright 9. Igor Sikorsky 10. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier 11. Harry Houdini 12. Floyd Bennett 13. Alexander Graham Bell New category: North American Rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links. 1. [Nelson River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7519 "2011-09-15T01:56:11Z")
New category: North American Rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links. 1. [Nelson River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River) 2. [Mackenzie River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_River) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7520 "2011-09-15T02:30:40Z")
New category: North American Rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links. 1. [Nelson River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River) 2. [Mackenzie River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_River) 3. [Nanook River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_River) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7521 "2011-09-15T05:09:07Z")
North American rivers of the Arctic Watershed, with links. 1. [Nelson River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River) 2. [Mackenzie River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_River) 3. [Nanook River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanook_River) 4. [Hornaday River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornaday_River) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=375) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=377)