# 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:** 583
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11642 "2012-07-31T20:33:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 1. Baker’s Dozen Wins the gold! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11643 "2012-07-31T20:43:24Z")
Games you’ve played that probably won’t ever be an Olympic sport: 1. Duck duck goose 2. TV tag 3. Trivial Pursuit 4. Doctor 5. Red Light/Green Light (or Red Rover, if you’ve never heard of RL/GL) 6. Coed naked Twister 7. Baker’s Dozen 8. Nomic 9. Cowboys and Indians ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11644 "2012-07-31T20:48:03Z")
Games you’ve played that probably won’t ever be an Olympic sport: 1. Duck duck goose 2. TV tag 3. Trivial Pursuit 4. Doctor 5. Red Light/Green Light (or Red Rover, if you’ve never heard of RL/GL) 6. Coed naked Twister 7. Baker’s Dozen 8. Nomic 9. Cowboys and Indians 10. Simon Says ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11645 "2012-07-31T21:16:38Z")
Games you’ve played that probably won’t ever be an Olympic sport: 1. Duck duck goose 2. TV tag 3. Trivial Pursuit 4. Doctor 5. Red Light/Green Light (or Red Rover, if you’ve never heard of RL/GL) 6. Coed naked Twister 7. Baker’s Dozen 8. Nomic 9. Cowboys and Indians 10. Simon Says 11. Wii Boxing ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11646 "2012-07-31T21:45:48Z")
Games you’ve played that probably won’t ever be an Olympic sport: 1. Duck duck goose 2. TV tag 3. Trivial Pursuit 4. Doctor 5. Red Light/Green Light (or Red Rover, if you’ve never heard of RL/GL) 6. Coed naked Twister 7. Baker’s Dozen 8. Nomic 9. Cowboys and Indians 10. Simon Says 11. Wii Boxing 12. Zork (You are likely to be eaten by a grue.) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11647 "2012-07-31T22:47:26Z")
Games you’ve played that probably won’t ever be an Olympic sport: 1. Duck duck goose 2. TV tag 3. Trivial Pursuit 4. Doctor 5. Red Light/Green Light (or Red Rover, if you’ve never heard of RL/GL) 6. Coed naked Twister 7. Baker’s Dozen 8. Nomic 9. Cowboys and Indians 10. Simon Says 11. Wii Boxing 12. Zork (You are likely to be eaten by a grue.) 13. Jacks I’ll pass - I got nuthin’ ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11648 "2012-08-01T00:18:48Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone ---
**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 1, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11649 "2012-08-01T00:26:14Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11650 "2012-08-01T02:08:41Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla- AC/wifi Obviously he didn’t invent wifi as we know it, but it’s built on his research ---
**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 1, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11651 "2012-08-01T03:35:32Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper Granted he might be just a legend. But paper was invented around the time he supposedly lived and Chinese history credits him. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11652 "2012-08-01T03:49:18Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11653 "2012-08-01T05:49:16Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11654 "2012-08-01T12:10:01Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11655 "2012-08-01T14:39:50Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning ---
**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:** [August 1, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11656 "2012-08-01T16:29:14Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning 9. Alfred Nobel - dynamite ---
**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 1, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11657 "2012-08-01T17:05:03Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning 9. Alfred Nobel - dynamite 10. Fritz Haber - nitrogen fixation Yes, it really did change the world. It’s how you make explosives and fertilizer. ---
**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 1, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11658 "2012-08-01T19:39:01Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning 9. Alfred Nobel - dynamite 10. Fritz Haber - nitrogen fixation 11. Stephanie Kwolek- Kevlar (for bulletproof vests) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11659 "2012-08-01T20:08:43Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning 9. Alfred Nobel - dynamite 10. Fritz Haber - nitrogen fixation 11. Stephanie Kwolek- Kevlar (for bulletproof vests) 12. Herman Hollerith- electronic computers Judging from the [looks of them](http://www.techcn.com.cn/uploads/200906/1244251417vfVbMJt9.jpg) he was really into steampunk. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11660 "2012-08-01T23:53:17Z")
People who, through invention, changed the world: and their contribution: 1. Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone 2. Philo Farnsworth - television 3. Nikola Tesla - AC/wifi 4. Ts’ai Lun - paper 5. Orville & Wilbur Wright - the airplane 6. Johannes Gutenberg= the printing press 7. Charles Babbage - mechanical programmable computer 8. Nicolas Appert, father of canning 9. Alfred Nobel - dynamite 10. Fritz Haber - nitrogen fixation 11. Stephanie Kwolek- Kevlar (for bulletproof vests) 12. Herman Hollerith- electronic computers 13. Robert H. Goddard - Rockets * * * Most impressive Olympic feats in history 1. Nadia Comaneci - Perfect Tens in women’s gymnastics. ---
**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 2, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11661 "2012-08-02T02:54:26Z")
Most impressive Olympic feats in history 1. Nadia Comaneci - Perfect Tens in women’s gymnastics. 2. Abebe Bikila wins the 1960 Marathon, running barefoot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=582) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=584)