Can you name the U.S. agency acronyms?

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Agency Acronyms Quiz

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Published: June 29th, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 134,645

Tags: acronym, agency

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	John:	Sep 6th, 2008 at 21:42 GMT	25 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 15:38 GMT	14 points
	Non-american spellings should also be accepted e.g. World Trade Organisation, for us Eurpoeans who love sporcle.

	Ribhump:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 22:00 GMT	6 points
	agree, english spelling for organisation please

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	Catherine_F:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 13:26 GMT	-1 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 16:02 GMT	5 points
	I always thought it was Officers'...couldn't figure out why I was wrong...

	kchiou:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 08:44 GMT	7 points
	It is officers', this quiz had it wrong.

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	adal:	Feb 12th, 2009 at 11:45 GMT	-1 points
	Isn't it a pit picky to require the apostrophe in YMCA?

	melissa:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	3 points
	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 08:43 GMT	-1 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 08:45 GMT	2 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 23rd, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	-2 points
	I agree with Dustfinger. I'm a slow typer.

	onigiri:	Mar 24th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	4 points
	Am I the only one that tried Association for the Advancement of Retired People for AARP? Haha.

	TimW:	Mar 25th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT	0 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 03:41 GMT	-2 points
	definitely needed more time

	Sausage:	Apr 13th, 2009 at 00:05 GMT	3 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 01:17 GMT	3 points
	naacp is an organization, not an agency

	Journey2688:	May 4th, 2009 at 03:01 GMT	-4 points
	not enough time. i ran out of time. there needs to be more time.

	leSporc:	May 9th, 2009 at 17:26 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 05:11 GMT	0 points
	I agree this should be at least 7 minutes and probably more. I'll keep trying.

	44magnum:	May 20th, 2009 at 22:31 GMT	-4 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 03:39 GMT	-2 points
	SEC also stands for "Southeastern Conference"

	44magnum:	Jun 13th, 2009 at 18:54 GMT	-3 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 15:33 GMT	2 points
	@44magnum, do u always and only do miscelaneous quizzes?

	mrgenova:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 03:16 GMT	4 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 24th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	1 point
	Weird curve of of amount answered correct. Most usually have a pretty nice curve

	Chubcity:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 20:21 GMT	0 points
	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 14:27 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 15:27 GMT	2 points
	In the South, SEC is always "Southeastern Conference".

	dudie0:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 14:20 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 5th, 2009 at 21:51 GMT	1 point
	It is officerS' It needs an "s" and an "'."

	icing:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	1 point
	Loved it! Got 'em all. I agree, leave SEC as it is!

	elnok:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 14:32 GMT	2 points
	darn-- thought it was "oceanographic"

	THEJMAN:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 01:25 GMT	1 point
	How about IRS?

	jrouse88:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	0 points
	also, the "O" in ROTC is not "Officer". Officially, it is "Officers' "

	BenIsLegend:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	0 points
	"People" and "persons" should be interchangable.

	choco87:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 09:40 GMT	-1 points
	Federal Boobie Inspector for FBI

	midlifecrisis:	Feb 3rd, 2010 at 16:54 GMT	1 point
	I don't know why I kept typing Ranger instead of Reserve for ROTC. Ugh.