# The Atoz Game (Part 1)

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**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\
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**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5843 "2021-05-14T20:54:10Z")

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**Visual Artists**

Arp, Jean  
Bruegel, Pieter  
Caravaggio  
Degas, Edgar  
Eames, Ray  
Fragonard, Jean-Honore  
Georgia O’Keeffe  
Hugo, Jean  
Inness, George  
Jossot, Gustave-Henri  
Kahlo, Frida  
Lichtenstein, Roy  
Murillo, Bartolomé  
Norman Rockwell  
Oldenburg, Claes  
Parrish, Maxfield  
Quentin Blake  
Rembrandt van Rijn  
Stuart, Gilbert  
Toulouse-Lautrec  
Umberto Boccioni  
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth  
Wyeth, Andrew  
Xavier, Llewellyn

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**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5844 "2021-05-15T19:54:19Z")

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**Visual Artists**

Arp, Jean  
Bruegel, Pieter  
Caravaggio  
Degas, Edgar  
Eames, Ray  
Fragonard, Jean-Honore  
Georgia O’Keeffe  
Hugo, Jean  
Inness, George  
Jossot, Gustave-Henri  
Kahlo, Frida  
Lichtenstein, Roy  
Murillo, Bartolomé  
Norman Rockwell  
Oldenburg, Claes  
Parrish, Maxfield  
Quentin Blake  
Rembrandt van Rijn  
Stuart, Gilbert  
Toulouse-Lautrec  
Umberto Boccioni  
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth  
Wyeth, Andrew  
Xavier, Llewellyn  
Yoshiko Shimada

> **[Yoshiko Shimada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Shimada)**
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> Yoshiko Shimada (嶋田 美子, Shimada Yoshiko, b. 1959) is a Japanese printmaker and performance artist who has been referred to as "Japan’s premier feminist and antiwar artist."
> Shimada has been exploring issues of gender, power, history, and nation in her artwork since the late 1980s, situating her artwork within her own complex socio-political context of being Asian, Japanese, and a woman. Her works have been exhibited expansively, both within Japan...

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**Visual Artists**

Arp, Jean  
Bruegel, Pieter  
Caravaggio  
Degas, Edgar  
Eames, Ray  
Fragonard, Jean-Honore  
Georgia O’Keeffe  
Hugo, Jean  
Inness, George  
Jossot, Gustave-Henri  
Kahlo, Frida  
Lichtenstein, Roy  
Murillo, Bartolomé  
Norman Rockwell  
Oldenburg, Claes  
Parrish, Maxfield  
Quentin Blake  
Rembrandt van Rijn  
Stuart, Gilbert  
Toulouse-Lautrec  
Umberto Boccioni  
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth  
Wyeth, Andrew  
Xavier, Llewellyn  
Yoshiko Shimada  
Zorn, Anders [Anders Zorn - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Zorn)

Next Category: Generals

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5846 "2021-05-16T13:40:52Z")

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Generals

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5847 "2021-05-16T14:13:01Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5848 "2021-05-16T14:39:23Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5849 "2021-05-16T14:56:39Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5850 "2021-05-16T16:56:56Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch

His name works either way

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5851 "2021-05-16T18:04:52Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5852 "2021-05-17T00:57:25Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam

> **[Israel Putnam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Putnam)**
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> Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790), popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). He also served as an officer with Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), when he was captured by Mohawk warriors. He was saved from the ritual burning given to enemies by the intervention of a...

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5854 "2021-05-17T03:31:49Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5855 "2021-05-17T04:48:11Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter

The World War II American Army general. Not to be confused with Walter Krüger, the World War II German SS general.

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5856 "2021-05-17T11:16:29Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5857 "2021-05-17T13:17:37Z")

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Moltke, Helmut Von

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Mills. General Mills.

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**Generals**

Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Mills. General Mills.  
Nathanael Greene

> **[Nathanael Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanael_Greene)**
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> Nathanael Greene (August 7 \[O.S. July 27\] 1742 – June 19, 1786, sometimes misspelled Nathaniel) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. He emerged from the war with a reputation as General George Washington's most talented and dependable officer, and is known for his successful command in the southern theater of the war.
> Born into a prosperous Quaker family in Warwick, Rhode Island, Greene became active in...

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Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Mills. General Mills.  
Nathanael Greene  
Oliver Otis Howard [Oliver Otis Howard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Otis_Howard)

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5861 "2021-05-17T16:39:48Z")

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Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Mills. General Mills.  
Nathanael Greene  
Oliver Otis Howard [Oliver Otis Howard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Otis_Howard)  
Pershing, john

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/5862 "2021-05-17T16:41:45Z")

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Ambrose Burnside (for the A)  
Belisarius  
Clark, Mark W.  
Douglas MacArthur  
Eisenhower, Dwight D.  
Ferdinand Foch  
Grenier, Count Paul  
Hindenburg, Paul Von  
Israel Putnam  
John J. “Black Jack” Pershing  
Krueger, Walter  
Lee, Robert E.  
Mills. General Mills.  
Nathanael Greene  
Oliver Otis Howard  
Pershing, John  
Quincy Gillmore

> **[Quincy Adams Gillmore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Adams_Gillmore)**
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> Quincy Adams Gillmore (February 28, 1825 – April 7, 1888) was an American civil engineer, author, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was noted for his actions in the Union victory at Fort Pulaski, where his modern rifled artillery readily pounded the fort's exterior stone walls, an action that essentially rendered stone fortifications obsolete. He earned an international reputation as an organizer of siege operations...

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