Can you name the words that the letters stand for in these acronyms, officially used by the US government?

created by puckett86

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Correctly named initialisms will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: GovSpeak
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ATF
A
T
F

BEP
B
E
P

CDC
C
D
C

DEA
D
E
A

EPA
E
P
A

FCC
F
C
C

HUD
H
U
D

IRS
I
R
S

JAG
J
A
G

KSC
K
S
C

LOC
L
O
C

MSA
M
S
A

NASA
N
A
S
A

OSHA
O
S
H
A

ROTC
R
O
T
C

SSS
S
S
S

TSA
T
S
A

USCG
U
S
C
G

VA
V
A

ZIP
Z
I
P

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What's It Stand For? U.S. Gov't Edition Quiz

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	halophex:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 05:38 GMT		27 points
	In my whole life of writing down ZIP codes, I never knew ZIP stood for anything ... thanks Sporcle.

	tiffwi:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 06:07 GMT		-3 points
	Are the answers actually initialisms, though? It says "enter initialism in the box below," but isn't the initialism what's already given, such as FCC or TSA (or in the case of clues like NASA or OSHA, acronyms)? And now I'm curious, is there a term for the individual words that make up an initialism/acronym?

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	prockstar83:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 07:36 GMT		21 points
	Since when are the Black Eyed Peas a federal program? I didn't realize the government paid Fergie's salary.

	WeaselKing1000:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 10:12 GMT		21 points
	"A thousand eyes...twisted tail...trapped forever! EPA! EPA!"

	Khazar49:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 12:32 GMT		6 points
	I never would've guessed what does JAG stand for if not for Catherine Bell.

	Tony_A:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 13:13 GMT		12 points
	The fact that many of these are not really acronyms notwithstanding, I've never seen some of these in this form, such as LOC and KSC.

	BoL:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 13:38 GMT		3 points
	I agree with Tony_A. I have seen LOC b/c I'm working on a dissertation, but I've never seen KSC or even BEP in an acronym. But good quiz.

	Dralcoffin:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 15:24 GMT		5 points
	In the main page tagline, "it's" should be "its." Come on, Sporcle. ;)

	dancastro:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 15:51 GMT		8 points
	The stats page shows only the individual words. But for the whole initialisms you must take the less guessed word of each one (only if you know all the words you know the meaning of the initialism). So the percentages of right answers are: IRS 87.2, EPA 83.1, CDC 71.7, DEA 71.4, FCC 64.9, ATF 61.8, USCG 61.3, KSC 60.7, VA 60.4, TSA 59.9, NASA 58.9, HUD 57.6, OSHA 49.8, ROTC 45.1, JAG 42.9, LOC 18.5, SSS 18.4, ZIP 9.9, BEP 7.8 and MSA 6.2. No surprise IRS is the best known (even I knew it... not being from the U.S.) "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" (Benjamin Franklin).

	dudemanbearpig:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 17:22 GMT		13 points
	TSA: Testicle Safety Assessors.

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	robhop:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 21:01 GMT		2 points
	This was a really interesting quiz. Learn a few I did no know.

	eab21:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 22:15 GMT		5 points
	It's the freakin' FCC!

	ClintT13:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 22:40 GMT		3 points
	Can you accept "aeronautic" for aeronautics? I tried aeronautic and aeronautical, but never thought to add the s. I just assumed I had the wrong word. You already accept shortened versions of other answers (metro for metropolitan), so I'm not asking too much.

	tudorrose16:	Oct 3rd, 2011 at 23:51 GMT		2 points
	Anybody else know these because of The West Wing? Great quiz, puckett86.

	montylaw:	Oct 4th, 2011 at 01:57 GMT		1 point
	I'm learning a lot from this quiz and that's a good thing.

	shakescene:	Oct 4th, 2011 at 05:27 GMT		4 points
	For those who feel too smug or too frustrated or too underchallenged, there's a Sporcle quiz of British or UK abbreviations (not mine), where you can guess what NUFC and HMRC stand for.

	NotBurt:	Oct 5th, 2011 at 17:31 GMT		4 points
	Every librarian I have known and worked with refers to the Library of Congress as "LC," not "LoC." The OCLC is the Online Catalogue of the Libray of Congress, the two main cataloguing systems are Dewey Decimal and LC, and LCSH are the Libray of Congress Subject Headings.

	jaspa:	Oct 6th, 2011 at 03:35 GMT		7 points
	There is no limit to the number of sequels this quiz could have. The United States Government operates under two official languages: English, and Acronyms.

	shoredude2:	Oct 9th, 2011 at 04:31 GMT		1 point
	@Tony_A: Anyone in Florida would know that KSC is Kennedy Space Center. However, I agree I've never heard the Library of Congress referred to as LOC.

	elnok:	Oct 13th, 2011 at 23:45 GMT		1 point
	CRAZY too much time. That said, some of your answers might be correct technically, but are not referred to by their initials even by people who work in the government. A better "K" would be KSA; a better "L" would be LC. Also, CDC's first C is plural, so giving it away with the singular version's cheap!

	TofuGirl:	Oct 24th, 2011 at 01:24 GMT		1 point
	I really like this format. Could you tell me the settings you used to be able to create this?

	krh5038:	Jan 12th, 2012 at 07:41 GMT		-1 points
	Would be nice if you accepted "veteran" as well as "veterans"

	nuwriter:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 00:22 GMT		1 point
	And we'd all be far better off without all of these.

	Acid_Snow:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 21:30 GMT		1 point
	Don't think we'd be better off without ZIP codes. And MSA is useful for lots of things; I knew it because I had to do a large project on recycling in the nation.