Pop Quiz: Initialisms*

*These are not acronyms. Please do not call them acronyms. RADAR is an acronym. LASER is an acronym. FUBAR is an acronym. MILF is an acronym.

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1. ABA
a) American Bar Association
b) American Booksellers Association
c) American Basketball Association

2. CBA
a) cost-benefit analysis
b) collective bargaining agreement
c) Continental Basketball Association

3. CBC
a) Congressional Black Caucus
b) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
c) complete blood count

4. CC
a) carbon copy
b) closed circuit
c) Chocolate City

5. CIA
a) Central Intelligence Agency
b) Culinary Institute of America
c) Cleveland Institute of Art

6. DNC
a) Democratic National Committee
b) does not compute
c) dilation and curettage

7. DMC
a) Detroit Medical Center
b) DeLorean Motor Company
c) dynamic mic control

8. EMT
a) emergency medical technician
b) executive management team
c) Elektro-Mess-Technik

9. ERA
a) Equal Rights Amendment
b) Electronic Realty Associates
c) earned run average

10. TMI
a) too much information
b) Thinking Machines, Inc.
 c) Three Mile Island

11. QC
a) quality control
b) Quebec City
c) queer but correct

12. VC
a) venture capital
b) Visual C++
c) Viet Cong

Extra Credit:

HNIC
head negro in charge
Hockey Night in Canada

PDA
personal digital assistant
public display of affection

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