Lay Some Acronyms on Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: All are correct

BOGO stands for "Buy One, Get One." BOGOF means "Buy One, Get One Free" and BOGOFF means "Buy One, Get One For Free." They all mean the same thing. These abbreviations can be found at acronymfinder.com.

Answer: WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You Get." It is pronounced "whizziwig." The first WYSIWYG program was a word processing program called Bravo that was developed in the 1970s. WYSIWYG programs today include Windows Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, FrontPage for webpage programming and many others. The incorrect answers stand for: "What You See Ain't What You Get," "What You See Bears Only A Faint Resemblance To What You Get," and "What You See Has A Semantic Meaning Which May Or May Not Be What You Get." No one intentionally programs software using these last three concepts.

Answer: GIGO

GIGO is "Garbage In, Garbage Out." It means that if data that is incorrect or nonsensical is put into a computer, the resultant data will also be incorrect or nonsensical. It is not clear who came up with the acronym. It may have started with Charles Babbage, the inventor of computing devices, who was reportedly asked by someone if his computer would output the correct answer if nonsense was input.

Instead of answering Mr. Babbage tried to comprehend why anyone would even assume that could happen.

Answer: Colors of a rainbow

ROY G BIV is a mnemonic for the colors of a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. It is also a mnemonic for the colors of the visible spectrum. A mnemonic is a memory aid, or any phrase or wording that helps people remember certain information. "Every good boy does fine" is a mnemonic for the notes associated with the lines of a music staff. Starting from the bottom the notes are E, G, B, D, and F.

Answer: Freaks, Irregulars, Defects and Oddities

A FIDO results from a mint error. Something extra will appear on the coin by mistake. Examples include the three-legged buffalo, spiked head, floating roof and mustached Roosevelt. The 1937 three-legged buffalo US nickel was printed with one leg missing from the buffalo.

A spiked head results from a die crack appearing on the coin, sometimes reaching to the portrait and appearing as a spike. The floating roof coin is a US penny. Overpolishing of the die at the mint resulted in the loss of some lines to the roof of the Lincoln Monument on the coin, making it appear that the roof is floating.

The mustached Roosevelt is a US dime with a die mark under Franklin Roosevelt's nose, making it appear he had a mustache. Some numismatists (coin collectors) prefer to call these "error coins."

Answer: SNAFU

SNAFU, in the cleaned-up version, stands for "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up." It is a cousin of FUBAR (Fouled-Up Beyond All Recognition), FUBB (Fouled-Up Beyond Belief), FUMTU (Fouled-Up More Than Usual), JANFU (Joint Army-Navy Foul Up), NABU (Non-Adjusting Bull Up), SAPFU (Surpassing All Previous Foul-Ups), SUSFU (Situation Unchanged, Still Fouled Up), TARFU (Things Are Really Fouled Up) and TUFU (The Ultimate in Foul Ups.)
BEDOC stands for "BEDs OCcupied."
TAMFR means "This Ain't My First Rodeo."
BTDTBTTS is "Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt."

Answer: Sealed With A Kiss

Other acronyms found on envelopes include HOLLAND (Home Our Love Lasts And Never Dies, also Have On Little Lace And No Drawers), and SWALCAKWS (Sealed With A Lick 'Cause A Kiss Wouldn't Stick.)

Answer: AFK

AFK stands for "Away From Keyboard."
WAFWOT is "What A Foolish Waste Of Time."
DKDC is one of my personal favorites: "Don't Know, Don't Care."
LIFO is an accounting term for "Last In, First Out."

Answer: Happy idiot news talk

HINT occurs when the weatherperson, for instance, takes credit for a nice day or is lambasted by the anchor(s) for a stormy day. Another unflattering phrase for television news anchors is "talking heads"--a mouth without thought processes.

Answer: MAD

MAD stood for "Mutually Assured Destruction." Basically there was a detente in that each country knew that if they fired nuclear missiles at the other, the other country would fire their nuclear missiles back. There was a good chance both the US and the USSR would be nearly wiped out in the process. No one would win.

Answer: From the initials of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury

By saying "Shazam" Billy Batson became Captain Marvel with the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury. The character was created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck in 1939 for Fawcett Comics.

There were also the Lieutenant Marvels. These were three boys, all named Billy Batson like the real Captain Marvel, who somehow discovered that if they all said "Shazam" together they would each become a superhero. Billy's twin sister, Mary Bromfield, eventually came into the picture and she too could say "Shazam" and become the superheroine Mary Marvel. I'm not sure if this would work for just anyone. I personally have been too self conscious to try yelling out "Shazam" in a public place.

Answer: George H.W. Bush

POTUS is "President Of The United States." It is an acronym used by the Secret Service. "The President" does not show enough respect. "President of the United States," on the other hand, takes too long. POTUS is short while still including the full title. And, as you can well imagine, the POTUS is the main topic of conversation in the Secret Service.

POTUS was devised during Rutherford Hayes' administration. It was invented by a telegraph operator as a simple, shorthand code to be used in telegraphing press reports. He also used YA for yesterday, YAM for yesterday morning and YAP for yesterday afternoon. As simple as it was, there did ensue some confusion. One telegrapher saw YAP and copied a story about the "Island of Yesterday Afternoon."

Answer: You Are What You Eat

The simple premise of YAWYE is that if you eat young you stay young. The YAWYE philosophy emphasizes eating the right foods rather than trying to lose weight by eating less.

Answer: Nixon

CREEP consisted of John Mitchell, Campaign Director; Stuart Magruder,Campaign Manager; Maurice Stans, Campaign Finance Chairman; Hugh Sloan, Jr., Campaign Treasurer; Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Campaign Midwest Finance Chairman; James W. McCord, Campaign Security Coordinator; G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, Campaign members; James W. McCord, Campaign Security Coordinator; and Donald Segretti and Fred LaRue, Campaign Political Operatives, among others.

The committee illegally laundered money, used hush funds and broke into the Democratic National Campaign headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC.

These actions led to Richard Nixon's eventual resignation from the Presidency in 1974.

Answer: KISS

"Keep It Simple, Stupid."
BISS means "Because I Said So." SIASD is "Stupid Is As Stupid Does" from the movie, "Forrest Gump". KIBO is "Knowledge In, Baloney Out," or words to that effect.

Answer: No Middle Initial

According to acronymfinder.com there are 23 other definitions for NMI. These include "Need More Information," "National Monuments and Icons," "Non-Maskable Interrupt," "N-Methylimidazole," "National Maglev Initiative" and "Normalized Mutual Information."

Answer: IRAN

"Inspect and Repair As Necessary" refers to periodic maintenance on any type of equipment. The equipment is inspected at regular intervals and any needed repair work is then carried out before the equipment is put back into service. IRAN is designed to cut down on unscheduled maintenance from breakdowns.
CHINA stands for "Come Home, I Need Action." JAPAN is "Just Always Pray At Night." MOZAMBIQUE is just a nonsensical answer, designed to throw you off.

Answer: Computing

COBOL stands for "COmmon Business Oriented Language." It was developed by a committee set up by the US Department of Defense to find a common business computer language. The committee included members from three governmental agencies and six computer manufacturers. Today COBOL can be found in Windows software as well as UNIX and LINUX operating systems. Other early programming languages include BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslating system,) Lisp (LISt Processing and recursion), ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language), and APL (the terse but descriptively named A Programming Language.)

Answer: NIMBY

NIMBY stands for "Not In My BackYard." Similar acronyms include GOAH (Get OuttAHeah), GOOMBA (Get Out Of My Business Area), NIMFOS (Not In My Field Of Sight), PIITBY (Put It In Their BackYard), and the hardcore NIMFYE (Not In My Front Yard Either.)
NIABY is "Not In Anyone's BackYard." NOPE is "Not On Planet Earth" and BANANA is "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything."

Answer: United States Navy

The acronym stands for "ADministrative COMmand, SUBORDinate COMmand, amPHIBious forceS, PACific fleet." The new world record acronym as listed in "The Guinness Book of World Records" is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. It is from Russia and means: "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR."