Can you name the words or names with Z as the second letter?

Clue	Word
Singer Osbourne
Romanov ruler
Blue
Israeli submachinegun
Comedian Eddie
Caspian Sea nation
Flowering shrub of the rhododendron family
Missouri/Arkansas mountains
Prague native
Atmospheric layer that contains trioxygen
Frank Beard was their only member without a long beard

Clue	Word
Old Central American empire
Chinese war authority Sun
Biblical prophet; his book follows Lamentations
Doubly landlocked Asian nation
Chinese region and spicy cuisine
Parks and Recreation's Ansari
Portuguese island group
'Good' band, Better Than ____
Greek pita dip with yogurt and cucumbers
His credits include Chief Wiggum and The Blue Raja
The Wizard prison in Harry Potter
Maker of dressy-casual wear
Red Wings great, now Lightning GM
Had hits with 'Last Night' and 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry'
Angular measurement in spherical coordiante system
Shelley poem about imperial impermanence
Cuzco's foe
Cthulhu diety
Guns 'N Roses' Stradlin
Grey's Anatomy's Stevens
2001 Jay-Z top ten hit
Was Smyrna in Greek, now this in Turkish
Rostov's Sea, exits to the Black Sea
2006 Football World Cup winners
Blue in Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and Asturian, but not in English
First head of the Bolshevik Secret Police (Cheka)
Hard to spell Blue Jays hurler

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Second Letter Z Quiz

by caramba

Created Mar 4, 2011 in Language
Featured May 6, 2011
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	ems24:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:14 GMT	51 points
	First thing I thought of for 'blue' was 'azul'.

	SirAuron_1:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT	33 points
	I think "azul" should be accepted as it does mean blue

	object_holder:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:21 GMT	16 points
	Nice quiz. However, "Tzu" isn't Sun Tzu's last name — it's an honorific suffix that means "Master," just like in the names Lao Tzu (also spelled "Lao Tse" and "Laozi"), Chuang Tzu (also spelled "Chuang Tse" and "Zhuangzi"). It's even the origin of the "-cius" in "Confucius" (spelled "Kong Fuzi" in pinyin).

	LockeDemosthenes:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:21 GMT	22 points
	Though it is answer elsewhere, Ezra is also a Biblical prophet. Maybe add a clarifying statement. Also, azul was my first thought, too.

	richarizard:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:22 GMT	6 points
	I was secretly hoping this quiz would include Azeroth.

	Tommy_C:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT	6 points
	Good quiz. Only one easy answer, and nothing unreasonable.

	Uhlan:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:27 GMT	1 point
	Victoria Azarenka, the grunting Belarussian tennis player?

	Ubbiebubbie:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:40 GMT	-3 points
	Tzatziki. I would laugh if I saw a kindergartner approached with that word. I would have trouble pronouncing it, let alone a kindergartner.

	caramba:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:42 GMT	5 points
	@object_holder: Your point is correct and I like how you expanded your information in an interesting way, but "Chinese honorific suffix" would not be answered correctly by most people. I didn't specify that it was a last name.

	WeaselKing1000:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:44 GMT	-2 points
	@Ubbiebubbie Erm... 'Tzat-ZEE-kee'. Not that hard, surely...?

	caramba:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:45 GMT	13 points
	Re "azul": There are probably hundreds of questions in Sporcle quizzes that could be answered quite corrctly using foreign words (in this case Spanish & Portuguese) but, unless a clue specifies that the answer is in another language, English should always be assumed. It's a short logical hop from azul to azure, anyway.

	WackyZacky:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:49 GMT	3 points
	I thought there would be a funny bonus for 'zzz'...

	caramba:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:50 GMT	3 points
	@WackyZacky: There should have been!

	caramba:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:52 GMT	1 point
	@richarizard: Your secret's out...

	Hullabaloo:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:57 GMT	1 point
	Couldn't for the life of me remember Aztec. I kicked myself when I saw it. Oh well, another day on Sporcle.

	maaxwell:	May 6th, 2011 at 19:59 GMT	1 point
	I'm sure there were some film buffs out there hoping for Yasujiro Ozu to show up, some Guns 'n' Roses fans hoping for Izzy Stradlin and some Star Wars fans hoping for Admiral Ozzel. Perhaps they're all a bit too close to Mr Osbourne in spelling though. Awesome quiz.

	drn211:	May 6th, 2011 at 20:01 GMT	3 points
	12 bonuses...Izod, (Steve) Yzerman, Az Yet, azimuth, Ozymandias, Yzma, Azathoth, Izzy, Izzie, Izzo, Izmir and (Sea of)Azov

	StatsChick:	May 6th, 2011 at 20:03 GMT	2 points
	I second that both azul and tzar should be accepted.

	Yams:	May 6th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT	3 points
	not enough edin dzeko for my liking

	caramba:	May 6th, 2011 at 20:38 GMT	3 points
	@StatsChick: Tzar has been accepted since Betraisefold's comment two months ago.

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	pfledermaus:	May 6th, 2011 at 21:45 GMT	7 points
	I can't be the only person who recoiled in horror at the thought of having to actually spell Szechuan and Tzatziki...

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	Swingo:	May 6th, 2011 at 21:54 GMT	10 points
	Just so you know, the hint for ZZ Top pretty much made my day.

	KansasJayhawk:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:05 GMT	3 points
	Well done. Just the perfect mix of obscure and not-obscure, as others have alluded to above.

	DarkPhalanx:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:09 GMT	3 points
	@Hyperion: "tzatziki" is the primary spelling on Wikipedia

	bandersnatch:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:10 GMT	3 points
	Wow - it's wonderful you included those bonus answers :D too often you walk away from a quiz thinking 'where on earth did I pluck that guess from?'

	tacobel:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:37 GMT	-2 points
	is there such a thing as "doubly landlocked" country?

	beatrixkiddo:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:40 GMT	-4 points
	when do the parks & recreation workers have their lunch? when ansari aziz.

	White:	May 6th, 2011 at 22:41 GMT	10 points
	"Szechuan" spelled correctly first time? Yes Harry Potter clue even seen? No. One day I'll do a quiz without not acknowledging a question I know... @tacobel: it means it only borders countries which themselves are landlocked. So landlocked means you have to travel through a country to get to water, doubly landlocked means you have to travel through two. The other one in the world is Liechtenstein.

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	1derfool:	May 6th, 2011 at 23:49 GMT	3 points
	There needs to be a "Second Letter Y" quiz so we can once again type in -Kyrgyzstan

	pika:	May 6th, 2011 at 23:56 GMT	0 points
	ozark? they are called the ozark mountains not the ozarks mountains

	rlorenz:	May 7th, 2011 at 00:03 GMT	1 point
	thank you Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream coat for helping me pull azure!

	NYYCano24:	May 7th, 2011 at 01:09 GMT	-1 points
	You should definitely accept Ozark without the 's' at the end...I tried spelling it Ozarc, Ozarck, and Ozzark, and even typed in Ozark Mountains before finally giving up and moving on.

	gellchom:	May 7th, 2011 at 01:18 GMT	1 point
	@LockeDemosthenes, actually Ezra isn't a prophet in the Bible. The Book of Ezra is in Writings, not Prophets, in the Hebrew Bible, and Ezra is known as "Ezra the Scribe," not "Ezra the Prophet." I believe that there is an apocryphal book called Esdras 4 or something that includes Ezra having a prophetic vision, though.

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	Ripberger:	May 7th, 2011 at 02:21 GMT	-2 points
	No, LockeDemosthenes - Ezra was not a prophet in the Bible. He was a priest. Furthermore, Ezra doesn't come after Isaiah. But neither does Ezekiel, technically. Jeremiah and Lamentations both come between Isaiah and Ezekiel. I would edit that one if I were you.