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Five-Letter Acronyms

Can you guess these five letter acronyms and initialisms?
The answers are the acronyms. Type exactly 5 letters for each answer.
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First submittedNovember 22, 2020
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Underwater breathing device
SCUBA
Dr. Evil's favorite weapon?
LASER
Person who doesn't want anyone to build
anything near their house
NIMBY
I am not qualified to give legal advice
IANAL
Person who works in the Oval Office
POTUS
Troops from down under who fought in WWI
ANZAC
Set of 256 characters which was
expanded upon by Unicode
ASCII
Contagious disease which burst onto
the scene in late 2019
COVID
Gives awards to British movies and TV
BAFTA
Futuristic Disney theme park in Orlando
EPCOT
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A typical military mistake
SNAFU
An extremely bad military situation
FUBAR
Gecko-centric car insurance company
GEICO
Trade agreement between the U.S.,
Mexico, and Canada
NAFTA
Colorado-based agency that monitors
ballistic missiles (and also Santa)
NORAD
Initials of the Nazi party
NSDAP
Soviet prison camp
GULAG
Non-lethal self defense weapon
TASER
Uses radio waves to detect objects
RADAR
Uses sound waves to detect objects
SONAR
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HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Nov 23, 2020
Why on earth would you say NSDAP? Nazi is shorter and fewer syllables.
WT2008
+8
Level 77
Nov 23, 2020
NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) existed first. It was then abbreviated to Nazi based on a short form of the first two words.
KIS
+1
Level 81
Nov 24, 2020
i forgot to use the german words to make the acronym. doh.
Yanni47
+4
Level 77
Dec 16, 2020
@WT2008: Actually, it's only a short form of the first word. Apart from that, NSDAP isn't a real acronym, as you can't say it as a word by itself. You usually spells out the letters individually.
blizzrd33
+1
Level 79
Nov 23, 2020
ANZAC troops fought in both world wars and obviously included troops from New Zealand and Australia, not just "down under".
ruftytufty
+3
Level 79
Nov 24, 2020
But not as a separate corps under the name of ANZAC.
blizzrd33
+1
Level 79
Dec 11, 2020
The clue is terrible, because it implies that New Zealand wasn't involved and that the same troops didn't participate in WW2.
Kahikatea
+8
Level 76
Dec 16, 2020
New Zealand and Australia are generally both included in the caterogy of 'down under', even though, strictly speaking, Australia is not as far down under as New Zealand. Few New Zealanders begrudge the Australians the right to be included in the category 'down under'.
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Dec 17, 2020
I completely misinterpreted "down under" as meaning down in the trenches... can you at least capitalize it so we know what you're referring to?
sumguy
+4
Level 84
Nov 24, 2020
ASCII is not a set of 256 characters; ASCII is a set of 128 characters. Vendors such as IBM extended ASCII to 256 characters, leading to hundreds of ASCII-based code pages. Ultimately, ISO 8859-1 was chosen to serve as the first 256 characters of the Unicode standard -- not ASCII. The first 128 characters of ISO 8859-1 are the ASCII standard.
ing
+3
Level 72
Nov 24, 2020
NAFTA was (past tense) the trade agreement you mentioned. It has been superseded by USMCA (perhaps you should accept both acronyms).
WillemLAif
+1
Level 76
Nov 26, 2020
For "a typical military mistake", I tried "friendly fire", but it didn't take. What gives?
SMS
+8
Level 70
Nov 26, 2020
It's not a five-letter acronym.
KanzazKyote
+6
Level 87
Nov 26, 2020
Can you please accept USMCA for NAFTA? It fits all the requirements and is actually more accurate because it is the only one that is actually active.
BerryCJ
+1
Level 63
Dec 16, 2020
My favourite is TASER - Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, named after a book published in the early 20th century titled "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land"
Kahikatea
+7
Level 76
Dec 16, 2020
Are you sure that the current POTUS actually *works* in the Oval Office?
YellowJacket
+1
Level 78
Dec 19, 2020
Are you sure the current POTUS *works*?
BlazingWinter
+1
Level 59
Dec 16, 2020
NAFTA should be replaced with USMCA! USMCA IS BETTER THAN NAFTA!
geoquizpro
+2
Level 59
Dec 16, 2020
Without having served in the military I'm not sure about the answer for the clue "An extremely bad military situation", feel like a reference to Saving Private Ryan would be more useful
mrgodo
+2
Level 55
Dec 21, 2020
SNAFU - situation normal all fouled up

JANFU - join army navy foul up

FUBAR - fouled up beyond all recognition

TARFU - things are really fouled up

The military loves their acronyms

morcaca
+3
Level 59
Dec 16, 2020
I can't be the only one here that didn't know that gulag was an acronym.
OfTheMountain
+3
Level 63
Dec 16, 2020
for anyone interested, IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer (reddit-ism)
chaidan
+1
Level 76
Dec 16, 2020
There's a lot of nits being picked in these comments
kitsims
+1
Level 82
Dec 16, 2020
The definition of BAFTA is wrong. It doesn't only give awards to British movies and shows, any more than the Academy only gives awards to American movies.
GeographyGeek42
+1
Level 66
Dec 17, 2020
Effective July 1 2020, USMCA replaced NAFTA.
Jared0309
+1
Level 76
Dec 18, 2020
NSDAP isn't an acronym
JackintheBox
+1
Level 78
Dec 19, 2020
In the quiz description it says this quiz includes both acronyms and initialisms.
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