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Can you name the following Agency Acronyms (U.S.)? Enter a name in the box below Correctly named names will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order Also try the more obscure version chat acronym quiz You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4899 TV Shows (U.S.) 3440 Broadway Opening Lines 3369 You Do Know Jack 1441 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1408 Same Last Name 1187 And more...
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Acronym	Agency
FBI
NASA
AARP
NAACP
SEC
FCC

Acronym	Agency
ROTC
NOAA
WTO
CIA
YMCA
FDIC

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	John:	Sep 7th, 2008 at 01:42 GMT	20 points
	I like this game, but the title is incorrect. Four of the twelve acronyms listed here are not agencies of the US Government. The WTO is an international organization; the AARP and NAACP are voluntary membership organizations not affiliated with the government; the YMCA is a religious and public service organization; and ROTC is not an agency in and of itself, rather a military program.

	Quaver:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 19:38 GMT	13 points
	Non-american spellings should also be accepted e.g. World Trade Organisation, for us Eurpoeans who love sporcle.

	Ribhump:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 02:00 GMT	3 points
	agree, english spelling for organisation please

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	Catherine_F:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 17:26 GMT	-3 points
	and English spelling for "coloured". I know I should remember but it took me two minutes of scratching my chin to work out why I wasn't getting NAACP.

	dakaraja:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 20:02 GMT	3 points
	I always thought it was Officers'...couldn't figure out why I was wrong...

	kchiou:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:44 GMT	7 points
	It is officers', this quiz had it wrong.

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	adal:	Feb 12th, 2009 at 15:45 GMT	0 points
	Isn't it a pit picky to require the apostrophe in YMCA?

	melissa:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 22:49 GMT	1 point
	argh - i was SO SURE the RP in AARP was "retired people" and i wasted all sorts of time trying various combinations for the AA - only to find out that the RP stands for "retired PERSONS". who knew??

	ekedolphin:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 12:43 GMT	-2 points
	I'd give it 10 minutes instead of 5. Even for a fast typist such as myself, if you don't know the answers to all of them right away, you'll be hard-pressed to get a perfect score. Doesn't allow much time for thinking.

	ekedolphin:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 12:45 GMT	3 points
	Oh, also... according to Wikipedia, ROTC does stand for "Reserve Officers' Training Corps", not "Officer". And strictly speaking, AARP no longer stands for anything, as of 1999.

	LEE:	Mar 24th, 2009 at 02:50 GMT	-2 points
	I agree with Dustfinger. I'm a slow typer.

	onigiri:	Mar 24th, 2009 at 21:42 GMT	1 point
	Am I the only one that tried Association for the Advancement of Retired People for AARP? Haha.

	TimW:	Mar 25th, 2009 at 20:54 GMT	-1 points
	Agree with many of the above posts. Many of these are not agencies. A more general title like organisation may be more appropriate. Also more time is needed for slow typers like me as the answers are long.

	kupfernick:	Mar 29th, 2009 at 07:41 GMT	-1 points
	definitely needed more time

	Sausage:	Apr 13th, 2009 at 04:05 GMT	2 points
	It was recently pointed out to me that organization (and similar) is the original spelling, with -ise a more modern version. It stems from Latin, and checking the complete oxford confirms that this is the original English form.

	JSails:	Apr 29th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	2 points
	naacp is an organization, not an agency

	Journey2688:	May 4th, 2009 at 07:01 GMT	-2 points
	not enough time. i ran out of time. there needs to be more time.

	leSporc:	May 9th, 2009 at 21:26 GMT	4 points
	isn't the ROTC the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as opposed to the Reserve Officer Training Corps. that's what wikipedia has it under.

	44magnum:	May 20th, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	-1 points
	I agree this should be at least 7 minutes and probably more. I'll keep trying.

	44magnum:	May 21st, 2009 at 02:31 GMT	-1 points
	Hey, I got them all with over a minute to spare. It took quite a few tries but I got it!

	Samuel Spade:	May 27th, 2009 at 07:39 GMT	0 points
	SEC also stands for "Southeastern Conference"

	44magnum:	Jun 13th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	-2 points
	I finally broke 3 minutes; 2:58. I have to keep an eye on spelling! Happy quizzing, Jedidiah Plankmaker

	kevmurph55:	Jul 25th, 2009 at 19:33 GMT	2 points
	@44magnum, do u always and only do miscelaneous quizzes?

	mrgenova:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 07:16 GMT	2 points
	Not that I usually find myself defending Lindsay Lohan EVER, but when the acronym NAACP stands for the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People", is it really that wrong for her to refer to Obama as "our first Colored President"? Was that really newsworthy?

	lilhoffo87o:	Aug 25th, 2009 at 01:09 GMT	1 point
	Weird curve of of amount answered correct. Most usually have a pretty nice curve

	the_last_dodo:	Sep 2nd, 2009 at 01:23 GMT	1 point
	FBI is female body investigation

	Chubcity:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	1 point
	Retired persons? Isn't people the plural of person anyway? (Not being critical of the quiz, just the general use of English)

	zeke:	Sep 10th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	rotc should accept officers (plural) since that's what the official website lists it as (http://www.goarmy.com/rotc/) i think SEC should stay the same since the securities and exchange commission is more in line with the theme of the quiz and is a bigger organization than a regional sports league

	sampson13:	Sep 10th, 2009 at 19:27 GMT	1 point
	In the South, SEC is always "Southeastern Conference".

	dudie0:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	1 point
	This quiz is wrong: The US Army says the acronym ROTC stands for the Reserve OfficerS Training Corps, with Officers pluralized. It was on Jeopardy yesterday :-)

	waterjoe:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 01:51 GMT	1 point
	It is officerS' It needs an "s" and an "'."

	icing:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 09:34 GMT	1 point
	Loved it! Got 'em all. I agree, leave SEC as it is!

	elnok:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 18:32 GMT	1 point
	darn-- thought it was "oceanographic"

	THEJMAN:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	1 point
	How about IRS?