# The Atoz Game (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920 "2020-01-24T21:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 167
**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, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3322 "2020-08-01T20:00:56Z")
People who lived before 1000 A.D. Archimedes Basil of Caesarea (St. Basil the Great) Cleopatra Diocletian Euclid Formosus Gupta Hammurabi Ibn al-Muqaffa Justinian Karanus of Macedon Lucius Junius Brutus Muhammad Nefertiti Onan Pythagoras Qiu Shiliang Romulus Augustulus Sugawara no Michizane Thucydides Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Virgil ---
**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 1, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3323 "2020-08-01T20:16:26Z")
People who lived before 1000 A.D. Archimedes Basil of Caesarea (St. Basil the Great) Cleopatra Diocletian Euclid Formosus Gupta Hammurabi Ibn al-Muqaffa Justinian Karanus of Macedon Lucius Junius Brutus Muhammad Nefertiti Onan Pythagoras Qiu Shiliang Romulus Augustulus Sugawara no Michizane Thucydides Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Virgil Wang Jun ---
**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 1, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3324 "2020-08-01T20:58:08Z")
People who lived before 1000 A.D. Archimedes Basil of Caesarea (St. Basil the Great) Cleopatra Diocletian Euclid Formosus Gupta Hammurabi Ibn al-Muqaffa Justinian Karanus of Macedon Lucius Junius Brutus Muhammad Nefertiti Onan Pythagoras Qiu Shiliang Romulus Augustulus Sugawara no Michizane Thucydides Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Virgil Wang Jun Xenophon ---
**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 1, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3325 "2020-08-01T22:49:44Z")
People who lived before 1000 A.D. Archimedes Basil of Caesarea (St. Basil the Great) Cleopatra Diocletian Euclid Formosus Gupta Hammurabi Ibn al-Muqaffa Justinian Karanus of Macedon Lucius Junius Brutus Muhammad Nefertiti Onan Pythagoras Qiu Shiliang Romulus Augustulus Sugawara no Michizane Thucydides Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Virgil Wang Jun Xenophon Yingtian ---
**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, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3326 "2020-08-02T01:04:38Z")
People who lived before 1000 A.D. Archimedes Basil of Caesarea (St. Basil the Great) Cleopatra Diocletian Euclid Formosus Gupta Hammurabi Ibn al-Muqaffa Justinian Karanus of Macedon Lucius Junius Brutus Muhammad Nefertiti Onan Pythagoras Qiu Shiliang Romulus Augustulus Sugawara no Michizane Thucydides Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Virgil Wang Jun Xenophon Yingtian Zeno Pass ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3327 "2020-08-04T00:42:45Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3328 "2020-08-04T00:48:58Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary ---
**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 4, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3329 "2020-08-04T00:57:55Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt ---
**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 4, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3330 "2020-08-04T01:03:07Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3331 "2020-08-04T02:39:26Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3332 "2020-08-04T03:45:17Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3333 "2020-08-04T04:15:13Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States I couldn’t resist 😃 ---
**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 4, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3334 "2020-08-04T04:22:40Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3335 "2020-08-04T04:35:51Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam Indianapolis, IL, USA ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3336 "2020-08-04T04:45:31Z")
The one in Indiana would be a better choice ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3337 "2020-08-04T10:17:44Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam Indianapolis, IL, USA Jerusalem, Israel ---
**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 4, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3338 "2020-08-04T12:06:15Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam Indianapolis, IL, USA Jerusalem, Israel Kuwait City, Kuwait ---
**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:** [August 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3339 "2020-08-04T13:19:29Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam Indianapolis, IL, USA Jerusalem, Israel Kuwait City, Kuwait Lima, Peru ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3340 "2020-08-04T13:34:47Z")
Cities of the World Athens, Greece Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dallol, Ethiopia Edinburgh, Scotland Frankfurt, Germany Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States Hanoi, Vietnam Indianapolis, IL, USA Jerusalem, Israel Kuwait City, Kuwait Lima, Peru Mumbai, India ---
**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 4, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/3341 "2020-08-04T13:39:48Z")
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