Can you name the code words for each letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

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NATO Phonetic Alphabet Quiz

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Created Oct 9, 2007 in Miscellaneous
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	Alex:	Aug 26th, 2008 at 08:52 GMT		3 points
	This has nothing to do with science. Fire the foolish intern that put it here.

	SporcleAdmin:	Sep 1st, 2008 at 18:28 GMT		107 points
	This has been moved to a misc category and we fired the intern.

	davidr:	Sep 27th, 2008 at 18:17 GMT		7 points
	It could be filed under Language, perhaps?

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	Mr_Xenophobe:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 09:24 GMT		26 points
	It's called the phonetic alphabet. File it under phones ;-)

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	ntnon:	Nov 9th, 2008 at 21:15 GMT		6 points
	"Juliet" is showing up as "julietT", and "Whisky" should surely be acceptable without the "e".

	Kr!s:	Nov 24th, 2008 at 14:30 GMT		4 points
	100% but....I had to learn the phonetic alphabet in the military...

	KC:	Dec 8th, 2008 at 01:10 GMT		-2 points
	fun but easy.

	jessbowen:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 21:19 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 10th, 2009 at 20:06 GMT		8 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.

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	emilkr:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 13:09 GMT		-1 points
	Got the all right but had to rewrite whisky as whiskey. Of course both spellings should be accepted.

	Solonet:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 08:15 GMT		4 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 10:36 GMT		1 point
	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 17:56 GMT		1 point
	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 04:11 GMT		2 points
	I missed Sierra Papa & Yankee - lack of intellegence, perhaps? (sorry ...)

	BDoug88:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 20:32 GMT		0 points
	I'm so much more used to police codes (Adam, Boy, Charles, David...) I didn't do so well.

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

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	davidr:	Apr 5th, 2009 at 15:38 GMT		2 points
	@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 15:39 GMT		3 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.

	SianiFletcher:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 20:26 GMT		-1 points
	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 18:51 GMT		9 points
	A certain Wilco album hepled me out here...

	scootem:	Apr 28th, 2009 at 12:50 GMT		7 points
	Learning this makes telling your bank your postcode over the phone so much more fun.

	katie:	May 21st, 2009 at 12:17 GMT		-3 points
	this is soooooo easy!

	micah:	May 22nd, 2009 at 18:35 GMT		13 points
	I'm kind of ashamed by how much watching Dollhouse helped with this quiz.

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	Narufreak96:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 01:06 GMT		-4 points
	I think michael can be acceptable for mike. i learned it with michael.

	is89:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT		1 point
	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 17:21 GMT		4 points
	Should have thought of a certain Bloodhound Gang song.

	planetmutty:	Jul 2nd, 2009 at 06:13 GMT		2 points
	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 01:14 GMT		2 points
	I always seem to forget "hotel". Well, i almost got them all, at least!

	Caesar:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 15:02 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 27th, 2009 at 22:31 GMT		-1 points
	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 15:39 GMT		0 points
	@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 01:25 GMT		0 points
	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 14:59 GMT		-2 points
	nailed it

	Mr_Xenophobe:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 19:11 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 16:49 GMT		-1 points
	got to thank sg-1 for most of the ones I got lol. poor show from me!