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Can you name all the English alphabet code words? Enter a code word into the box Correctly named code words will show on the chart below Words do not have to be guessed in order You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today You Do Know Jack 27815 TV Shows (U.S.) 27011 Russia's Borders 26607 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 14697 Commonest English Words 10953 Same Last Name 9001 NCAA Div I Winning Streaks 8775 President By Vice President 6637 And more...
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Morse code	Character	Code Word
.-	A
-...	B
-.-.	C
-..	D
.	E
..-.	F
--.	G
....	H
..	I
.---	J
-.-	K
.-..	L
--	M

Morse code	Character	Code Word
-.	N
---	O
.--.	P
--.-	Q
.-.	R
...	S
-	T
..-	U
...-	V
.--	W
-..-	X
-.--	Y
--..	Z

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	SporcleAdmin:	Sep 1st, 2008 at 22:28 GMT	44 points
	This has been moved to a misc category and we fired the intern.

	davidr:	Sep 27th, 2008 at 22:17 GMT	6 points
	It could be filed under Language, perhaps?

	davidr:	Oct 4th, 2008 at 02:34 GMT	1 point
	Those who do well at this quiz will have a greater understanding of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-F16WoHO4A (Music video published by Universal Music. Do not watch if you are likely to be offended by bikini-clad women using power tools, single/double entendres or allusions to bad language.)

	Mr_Xenophobe:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 13:24 GMT	12 points
	It's called the phonetic alphabet. File it under phones ;-)

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	ntnon:	Nov 10th, 2008 at 01:15 GMT	6 points
	"Juliet" is showing up as "julietT", and "Whisky" should surely be acceptable without the "e".

	Kr!s:	Nov 24th, 2008 at 18:30 GMT	4 points
	100% but....I had to learn the phonetic alphabet in the military...

	KC:	Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:10 GMT	0 points
	fun but easy.

	jessbowen:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:19 GMT	1 point
	brought me back to my days of taking flying lessons - fun. Couldn't remember Quebec for the life of me!

	davidr:	Jan 11th, 2009 at 00:06 GMT	4 points
	This is properly referred to as the NATO alphabet. There are many other phonetic alphabets: for example, the LAPD and many other US law-enforcement agencies use Adam, Boy/Baker/Bravo, Charles, ...; the US Military used to use Able, Baker, Charlie, ... and the British Royal Airforce used a slightly different one that started the same way.

	Matt le sac:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 01:47 GMT	-2 points
	davidr you are wrong the royal air-force phonetic alphabet is this one

	Emil:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	2 points
	Got the all right but had to rewrite whisky as whiskey. Of course both spellings should be accepted.

	Solonet:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 12:15 GMT	2 points
	I use this quiz to make sure I remember it. I only need it in emergancy cases, so Sporcling at work is like training... almost :D

	fishmonkey:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 14:36 GMT	2 points
	got them all eventually - haven't needed to use this for a long time. btw - the vid davidr posted a url for is hilarious!

	BigThing:	Feb 17th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	2 points
	Got em all, learned this years ago and nice to return to it. Nearly missed U, W and N though. Odd to me that Q isn't guessed more often while not many people have a problem getting X...

	TheDixieFlatline:	Feb 28th, 2009 at 08:11 GMT	0 points
	I missed Sierra Papa & Yankee - lack of intellegence, perhaps? (sorry ...)

	BDoug88:	Mar 2nd, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	2 points
	I'm so much more used to police codes (Adam, Boy, Charles, David...) I didn't do so well.

	adam:	Mar 17th, 2009 at 05:12 GMT	2 points
	whiskey tango foxtrot...i missed 3 easy ones. you'd think all the hooah training would help.

	The Snakes:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 23:21 GMT	0 points
	Indigo should be acceptable for 'I'. That's what we use in the UK.

	davidr:	Apr 5th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	1 point
	@Matt le sac: I said the RAF used to use Able, Baker, Charlie..., specifically until they adopted the NATO alphabet in 1956.

	davidr:	Apr 5th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	2 points
	@The Snakes: I've seen a few references to the police using `Indigo' but the British military use `India', as far as I can see.

	Siani:	Apr 16th, 2009 at 00:26 GMT	1 point
	when since has juliet had two t's and i kept spelling sierra with one r. and davidr i always use india. different countries have slight differences so your right

	Sal_Paradise:	Apr 27th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	5 points
	A certain Wilco album hepled me out here...

	scootem:	Apr 28th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT	2 points
	Learning this makes telling your bank your postcode over the phone so much more fun.

	katie:	May 21st, 2009 at 16:17 GMT	1 point
	this is soooooo easy!

	micah:	May 22nd, 2009 at 22:35 GMT	2 points
	I'm kind of ashamed by how much watching Dollhouse helped with this quiz.

	Will16:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 04:34 GMT	0 points
	I am thirteen and I already knew it

	Narufreak96:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	2 points
	I think michael can be acceptable for mike. i learned it with michael.

	is89:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	2 points
	Good times, finally a quiz I'm good at. My dad taught me this (no idea why) when I was proper tiny. Although I kept on wanting to put in more Greek letters.

	Onno:	Jun 22nd, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	3 points
	Should have thought of a certain Bloodhound Gang song.

	planetmutty:	Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	1 point
	26 out of 26. This took me back to my days in the air cadets. Some things you never forget.

	MetalMagnum:	Jul 5th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	1 point
	I always seem to forget "hotel". Well, i almost got them all, at least!

	Caesar:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	2 points
	@bigthing: it may be because xylophone there is basically nothing that begins with X, whereas there are a few more for Q. Or was it a retorical question and I'm being dumb??

	Scuba_Steve:	Aug 28th, 2009 at 02:31 GMT	1 point
	Seems like a quiz where you would get them all or you get none. I had to be able to spit out all 26 in under 8 seconds in ROTC.

	Armand:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	1 point
	@scuba_steve--yeah when i was in JROTC we first years had contests to see who could say them all the quickest. good times, good times.

	johnmeeks1974:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	1 point
	Fun sporcle quiz. I remember this from my own days in the U.S. Air Force. I agree with previous poster about the 'all or nothing' nature of this quiz. 'Tis a shame that an intern got sacked over this quiz!

	sugarpill11567:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 18:59 GMT	1 point
	nailed it

	Mr_Xenophobe:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT	1 point
	I just said them all in under 8 seconds. Can I join the ROTC Steve ? And what is the ROTC ? And whisky shouldn't have an E in it. E is in Irish whiskey but not in Scottish whisky. And yes maybe some American brews might have an E but we taught 'em how to speak in the first place. Not our fault they messed up the language when we left 'em on their own ;-)

	rideo:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 20:49 GMT	1 point
	got to thank sg-1 for most of the ones I got lol. poor show from me!