# The Atoz Game (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920>\
**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:** 65

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1281 "2020-03-18T00:34:58Z")

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Vehicles & Other Modes of Transporation

Autogyro  
Barque  
Cabriolet  
Dirigible  
Edsel  
Ferry  
Gondola  
Handcar  
Indian motorcycle  
Jet Ski  
Kayak  
Locomotive  
Moped  
Nuclear submarine  
Oldsmobile  
Plane  
Quad bike  
Roller skates  
Sand rail  
Tank  
Unicycle  
Velocipede  
Wagon  
X-type jaguar  
Yacht

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1282 "2020-03-18T00:46:06Z")

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Vehicles & Other Modes of Transporation

Autogyro  
Barque  
Cabriolet  
Dirigible  
Edsel  
Ferry  
Gondola  
Handcar  
Indian motorcycle  
Jet Ski  
Kayak  
Locomotive  
Moped  
Nuclear submarine  
Oldsmobile  
Plane  
Quad bike  
Roller skates  
Sand rail  
Tank  
Unicycle  
Velocipede  
Wagon  
X-type jaguar  
Yacht  
Zip line

Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1283 "2020-03-18T01:04:47Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1284 "2020-03-18T01:14:00Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1285 "2020-03-18T01:31:41Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1286 "2020-03-18T02:04:35Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler

Since Einstein’s already used

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1287 "2020-03-18T02:08:11Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Rosalind Franklin

She would have won the 1962 Nobel for the discovery of DNA along with Watson and Crick, but she died in 1958 and Nobels aren’t awarded posthumously. She was only 37 when she died.

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1288 "2020-03-18T04:27:30Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1289 "2020-03-18T04:31:39Z")

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Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr

Glamorous Hollywood star who owned a patent on a radar device used by the US Navy in WWII

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1290 "2020-03-18T04:36:15Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1291 "2020-03-18T04:53:37Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine

Recently deceased, she was (according to Wikipedia), “an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.”

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1292 "2020-03-18T09:23:55Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1293 "2020-03-18T10:04:11Z")

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Smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leibniz, Gottfried

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1294 "2020-03-18T10:04:47Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leodardo da Vinci

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1295 "2020-03-18T10:45:37Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1296 "2020-03-18T11:37:39Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James  
Nemo, Captain

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1297 "2020-03-18T14:28:13Z")

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Next up, smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James  
Nemo, Captain  
Otto Octavius

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1298 "2020-03-18T14:58:50Z")

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smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James  
Nemo, Captain  
Otto Octavius  
Pierre Curie

One of the 5 Curie family Nobel laureates; his wife Marie is the most prominent

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1299 "2020-03-18T17:18:11Z")

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Smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James  
Nemo, Captain  
Otto Octavius  
Pierre Curie  
Quest, Benton

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**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:** [March 18, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1300 "2020-03-18T17:21:39Z")

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smart people. Real or not.

Albert Einstein  
Bertrand Russell  
Carl Sagan  
Descartes  
Euler  
Franklin, Rosalind  
Galileo Galilei  
Hedy Lamarr  
Isaac Newton  
Johnson, Katherine  
Kant, Immanuel  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Maxwell, James  
Nemo, Captain  
Otto Octavius  
Pierre Curie  
Quest, Benton  
Rothschild, Mayer Amschel

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