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Can you name the words that each letter in these initialisms represent?
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sproutcm
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UNESCO
U
N
E
S
C
O
AFL-CIO
A
F
L
C
I
O
NASCAR
N
A
S
C
A
R
POSSLQ
P
O
S
S
L
Q
IUPAC
I
U
P
A
C
TOEFL
T
O
E
F
L
FUBAR
F
U
B
A
R
GLAAD
G
L
A
A
D
AWOL
A
W
O
L
SCSI
S
C
S
I
TGIF
T
G
I
F
RAAF
R
A
A
F
WMD
W
M
D
CPR
C
P
R
BBC
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B
C
FBI
F
B
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kontrolfreak66
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Jul 2nd, 2010 at 16:21 GMT
29 points
Come on; we all know what the first "f" in fubar really stands for! Excellent work again!
sklegg
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Jul 2nd, 2010 at 16:29 GMT
4 points
I love these quizzes! Keep them coming. ;)
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harryturnip
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Jul 2nd, 2010 at 20:42 GMT
-9 points
fbi actually stands for female body inspector ill think youll find
sporcalicious
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Jul 2nd, 2010 at 23:01 GMT
17 points
@harryturnip: No, it doesn't, and please stop checking me out. It's creepy.
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Bulletchewer6
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Jul 3rd, 2010 at 00:16 GMT
-5 points
GLAAD is so queer!
Tintinnase
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Jul 3rd, 2010 at 02:28 GMT
3 points
nice deflection for "fubar"=]
foyherald
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Jul 3rd, 2010 at 06:15 GMT
1 point
RAAF: should also accept Royal Auxiliary Air Force as an answer, I thought I was going mad trying to spell Auxiliary!
jUNKIEd
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Jul 18th, 2010 at 17:09 GMT
19 points
I never realized how difficult it is to spell resuscitation.
kromclovinfasho
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Jul 18th, 2010 at 19:48 GMT
-2 points
AWOL technically means Absent Without OFFICIAL Leave
Dirk
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Aug 9th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT
3 points
I did better on this "hard" version than the other 4...
contrarian
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Aug 22nd, 2010 at 01:54 GMT
3 points
Nice work, sproutcm. This quiz reminds me of my mom. She taught me POSSLQ way back before the first time I SLQ'd with a girl and she loved to subtly drop it in conversation until I got married.
Gjarble
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Sep 10th, 2010 at 18:48 GMT
2 points
I second Dirk... this was definitely easier than a good portion of the other quizzes. There were 5 initialisms on the first quiz that I'd never heard of; here, there are only 3, and many of the rest are more easily associated with a specific set of words. Still very fun to play as usual, though.
featherfish81
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Sep 11th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT
1 point
Fun quiz. Maybe consider dropping a minute (or two). I answered everything I knew and still had a few minutes to guess random words.
Game published: Oct 21st, 2010 at 04:04 GMT
EmYanks2001
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 04:20 GMT
1 point
I didn't realize i already played it, but I only got 16 first time around, this time i got 22... improvement :)) MOst I just randomly guessed, not going to lie lol
sproutcm
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 04:26 GMT
2 points
This was the final one I made of these (other than the one I made with only pop culture references which is like super impossible), as I ran out of ideas:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/sproutcm/ExpandAbbrev5a
This is the crazy hard version:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/sproutcm/ExpandAbbrev5
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ereed6
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 04:26 GMT
-9 points
British broadcasting corporation was company also.
reliv1908
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 05:23 GMT
17 points
indeed, 'fouled' is not the only acceptable word. good inclusion.
BrettCaudill
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 05:26 GMT
10 points
i love quizzes where i get to swear.
halophex
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 05:30 GMT
-3 points
Absence Without Official Leave
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jtmaxwell
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 05:48 GMT
-8 points
i loved this one because it censored out both God and ****ed. ;)
hiflew
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 06:35 GMT
7 points
I always thought the A in AWOL was away. Thanks to sporcle I learn something new everyday.
crow_t_robot
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 06:54 GMT
4 points
Even if you think the mission's FUBAR, sir?
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jeje
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 07:21 GMT
-44 points
AFL-CIO, POSSLQ, IUPAC, TOEFL, FUBAR, GLAAD, AWOL, SCSI, TGIF, RAAF, WMD......never heard of them
RockMontage
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 09:49 GMT
13 points
'Fouled' up beyond all recognition? That's not what I heard when I was fighting in Normandy.
Derek_Agony
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 10:02 GMT
25 points
@jeje you've never heard of WMD? Who are you, Hans Blix?
AlexRandom
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 10:08 GMT
-3 points
I almost wrote "Clean Pretty Reliable" for CPR. Obviously been reading too much TV tropes.
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KarenNfld
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 10:27 GMT
-5 points
Yes, I agree with halophex, it's Absent Without Official Leave
rockgolf
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 11:29 GMT
-1 points
Glad you are accepting alternate answers for "Fouled" on FUBAR, but can you also "Repair" and "Recovery" for the "R"?
Tahnan
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 11:58 GMT
16 points
According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 86, AWOL stands for "Absence Without Leave": http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj2.htm#866.%20ART.%2086.%20ABSENCE%20WITHOUT%20LEAVE . If you search "*.mil" sites for the word AWOL, you'll find it's pretty much uniformly expanded as either "Absent Without Leave" or "Absence Without Leave", no "official" to be seen.
hollabackitsobi
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 12:16 GMT
-4 points
IUPAC: IB Chem HL, baby.
flagger
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 12:27 GMT
8 points
Good quiz -- I enjoy these. Because players didn't need to include the "s" on a couple of plurals, I was thrown off and thought I didn't need to include the "s" in one case where it was actually required. I thought it must not be the right word when the singular didn't give me the plural. Also, I must have typed "automobile" too fast so I managed not to get credit for "auto." (The word seems redundant anyway -- I don't think there is stock car bicycle racing.) And on AWOL -- from the military perspective, the word "official" would also be redundant: what other kind of leave would there be, "leave" in this context meaning "permission"?
AlexKrycek
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 13:45 GMT
5 points
@jeje, where do you live? If you live in Kyrgyzstan maybe, I could forgive your ignorance. These are fairly common in US, Canada & Europe (other places as well).
Samwise
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 13:53 GMT
11 points
Canadian Pacific Railway, anyone?
PurppuraSuihku
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 13:59 GMT
-2 points
I typed 'of' and it popped up in the FBI box but not in the TOEFL...
jaymc
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 14:02 GMT
10 points
Could've sworn TOEFL was *Teaching* of English as a Foreign Language. Oh well.
golaswede
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 14:11 GMT
2 points
IUPAC = International union OF pure and applied chemistry
ChileNoseJam
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 14:22 GMT
4 points
My job is in TOEFL, so I can confirm that it very definitely is 'teaching' - although it's more common to leave the O out of the acronym.
huey782
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 14:30 GMT
4 points
I'm disappointed that Non, Athletic, Sport, Circled, Around, and Rednecks weren't bonus answers.
Spacecow
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 15:33 GMT
0 points
Stunned at the inclusion of SCSI, there aren't a whole lot of people familiar with that anymore :) You could probably make several quizzes of just abbreviations for uberdorks, what with SATA and TCP/IP and UDP and SSH and SSL and IDE and COBOL and GNU and AVI and PNG and AWK and... you get the idea :D
fergus244
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Oct 21st, 2010 at 16:14 GMT
-1 points
NCIS? : )
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