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Acronyms 0001   Easy

 
 
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1. OPEC stands for the Organization of Petrol Exporting what?
 
Confederations
Companies
Corporations
Countries
 

 
2. Established in 1904 by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, RADA is the Royal Academy of Dramatic what?
 
Actors
Actresses
Art
Artists

Lord Attenborough became President in 2003
 

 
3. At the 2006 football World Cup, what connection did the WAGs have to the England team?
 
Waiters and gophers
Wingers and goalkeepers
Wives and girlfriends
Writers and groupies

The New Yorker described Victoria Beckham as Queen of the Wags
 

 
4. The acronym WASP, meaning a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, originated in which country?
 
Canada
New Zealand
South Africa
United States
 

 
5. The Swedish pop group ABBA chose their name from the initial letters of their what?
 
Favourite musical keys
First names
Home towns
Surnames

Their first names were Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anna-Frid
 

 
6. In the 1964 film Carry On Spying, what was the name of the sinister organisation, a parody of SMERSH in the James Bond novels?
 
SLUDGE
SMUDGE
STENCH
STODGE
 

 
7. What type of weapon is a SAM?
 
Strategically-aimed missile
Strategically-armed missile
Submarine attack missile
Surface-to-air missile
 

 
8. In the early days of science fiction, what was a BEM?
 
Bad extraterrestrial mutant
Big evil Martian
Biologically engineered mortal
Bug-eyed monster
 

 
9. The consumer group CAMRA is the Campaign for Real what?
 
Acronyms
Ale
Artichokes
Aubergines
 

 
10. UMIST is the University of Manchester Institute of what?
 
Science and Technology
Sociology and Teaching
Space and Telescopes
Submarines and Torpedoes
 

 
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