Can you name the words and phrases that begin with A and end with Z?

Clue	Word
Abbreviation for the home to Phoenix
Comic actor Ansari of 'Parks and Recreation'
Spanish word for rice that normally comes 'con pollo'
Former prison island near San Francisco
The whole gamut
Filled with talk or excitement
Cutting tool for shaping wood
Nobel Laureate and Costa Rican President Óscar
Lucille Ball's bandleader husband Desi
WWII concentration camp in Poland
Woody Allen-voiced animated movie
Former soap actor who appeared on L.A. Law
Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel
Original name of a Beastie Boys member

Clue	Word
Jamiroquai musical style
Five-star naval commander Chester
Former Padre and new Red Sox 1st baseman
One of O.J. Simpson's lawyers
Physics Nobel Laureate Luis who later studied dinosaur extinction
Yankee's latest inductee into the 500 home run club
Photographer husband of Georgia O'Keeffe
Bob Fosse's autobiographical movie
Lead singer for the Counting Crows
Full name of the Mexican Pacific beach resort city
Location in Moravia of Napoleon's greatest victory
Dennis Franz on 'NYPD Blue'
Famed celebrity photographer with money troubles
Joint US-Soviet space mission of 1975
Late John Coltrane musical style
Famous palentologist from Harvard
President of Spain before Franco
Writer for Lost and Felicity
Spanish pianist and composer Isaac from the late 19th century
Glady's husband and the hapless neighbor on 'Bewitched'
Creator of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Letter-based speedy card game from Wizards of the Coast

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Begins 'A' and Ends 'Z' Quiz

by sproutcm

Created Jul 13, 2010 in Language
Featured Mar 2, 2011
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	TrueNorth:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:11 GMT	3 points
	Good (hard!) quiz, but Adrian Gonzalez currently plays for the Red Sox.

	ashman:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:22 GMT	1 point
	I can never remember Adam Duritz's name. Maybe that's because I always think of him as that ugly lookin' dude who SOMEHOW managed to nail both Courteney Cox AND Jennifer Aniston.

	sproutcm:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:23 GMT	3 points
	@TrueNorth Crap, I'll fix that. This is an old quiz and, as a Red Sox season ticket holder, I'm aware that he's here now. I'll update that.

	BunnySMG:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:23 GMT	3 points
	I thought of the Soyuz rocket, but didn't thiknk to pair it with Apollo.

	beatrixkiddo:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:25 GMT	3 points
	when does saddam hussein have his dinner? after tariq aziz .....

	rockgolf:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:38 GMT	10 points
	Brutal, but fun. With barely over 25% of the answers, I was still in the 89th percentile. I wouldn't want all quizzes to be this tough, but it's nice to hit a real challenge every now & then.

	caramba:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:45 GMT	1 point
	Who had a top 20 hit in 2003 with "Angel"? Now that would probably drag the scores down even more. A Sporcle High-Five to whoever can answer that one first.

	jpahk:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:45 GMT	1 point
	if you're going to update your baseball clues, might as well admit that a-rod is now in the 600 club. :P

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	poncemanor:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 17:58 GMT	1 point
	It's "A Martinez" -- apparently a nickname, not an abbreviation. Marty: What's with you tonight? Rizzo: I feel like a defective typewriter. Marty: Huh? Rizzo: I skipped a period.

	theodolite:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:03 GMT	3 points
	Thought "Alvarez" was "Agassiz" and delighted to see the bonus.

	drn211:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:05 GMT	1 point
	Got 7 bonuses...avant-garde jazz, Agassiz, Azana Diaz, Albeniz, Adam Horowitz, Abner Kravitz and Andy Borowitz

	MoFest:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:08 GMT	2 points
	when I typed "arnaz" it didn't accept. When the answers were revealed it said "alpha blitz", perhaps some default.

	lichenboy:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:09 GMT	2 points
	All the slavic names! Argh! v or w? tz or cz? ie or ei?

	Navarro2814:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:31 GMT	13 points
	Awesome quiZ

	Vaughn:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:36 GMT	3 points
	Really loved this quiz. You might consider accepting A Nimitz along with Admiral Nimitz as 'A' is Chester Nimitz's middle initial.

	zigfreid:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:45 GMT	2 points
	Given your science background sproutcm, I was surprised not to see "ansatz."

	slujboy:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:56 GMT	8 points
	Admiral Nimitz is a bit of a stretch given the format of other names and @ Vaughn, actually it's Chester William Nimitz.

	Lindsay:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 18:59 GMT	1 point
	"A to Z" doesn't work without spaces, which is odd because I thought spaces didn't count. I never type spaces when answering quizzes, and I'm usually fine.

	dicko:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 19:03 GMT	1 point
	whatever happened to Amos Oz?

	WyattsTorch:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 19:04 GMT	2 points
	Jamiroquai is considered acid jazz? Really? Why didn't you choose someone like Sun Ra instead? Jamiroquai is best known for pop / funk / soul.

	jasperwyld:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 20:01 GMT	4 points
	Kind of sad to learn that Annie Leibovitz has money troubles... from a Sporcle quiz.

	barnztormre:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 20:23 GMT	3 points
	GRRRRRRR...misspelled Annie AND Ad-Rock's last names.

	slamb:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:07 GMT	10 points
	Too many names. And too many variations. Are we looking for a last name that starts with A and ends with Z, or a first name with A and a last name with Z? Stick to one type.

	Vails:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:25 GMT	6 points
	"The most ridiculous word Big Bird's ever seen, according to the Sesame Street song."

	chiefyratain:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:30 GMT	5 points
	I was trying to come up with last names that started with A and ended with Z, when that didn't work I just hit give up, things that begin with one letter and end with another type quizzes are usually single words, phrases and full names is much too broad, oh, and did Woody Allen do every voice in Antz? Maybe you should reword that one, and mention that it's a movie, Movies that are cartoons are more commonly referred to as animated movies, cartoon implies that it is a tv show

	BillyMumphrey:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:33 GMT	3 points
	Aziz! Light!

	chiefyratain:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:34 GMT	1 point
	Did I mention that this quiz is horrible. Not well done, Sporcle

	jaymc:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 21:39 GMT	2 points
	@WyattsTorch: I suppose you could argue about whether Jamiroquai should be considered acid jazz, but Sun Ra is decidedly NOT acid jazz. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz.)

	kingstony:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 22:14 GMT	4 points
	In UK it's spelled 'adze'.

	CorneliusTree:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:04 GMT	11 points
	Georgia O'Keefe wasn't married to Ansel Adamz? I don't know enough photographers.

	dxdtdemon:	Mar 2nd, 2011 at 23:47 GMT	1 point
	Given the difficulty of this quiz, I was looking for Aranjuez as in the Concierto de Aranjuez.

	geoboom:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 00:19 GMT	-4 points
	Referring to a Concentration Camp where countless people were killed as a"WWII Camp in Poland" is wrong---hopefully you can change the choice of words used.