Acronyms 4 U

Do you know the meanings behind these much used acronyms?

QUESTIONS

1. What does SEO stand for in terms of websites?

2. Who or what is FLOTUS?

3. When used in the workplace or advertising, what is KISS?

4. Inside any computer there is a ROM and a RAM chip. What do these BOTH stand for? (One point if you get BOTH)

5. What in the USA is a WASP?

6. What does HIV stand for in the medical world?

7. The PIRA were the armed wing of Sinn Fein that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, what did PIRA stand for?

8. In accounting and analytic terms what is MTD?

9. If a person is a SME, what are they?

10. If you have ever had to sign in to a password protected website, you have probably filled out a CAPTCHA form. This is where you have to either type in a code from the screen or click on an image. But what does CAPTCHA stand for?

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ANSWERS

1. What does SEO stand for in terms of websites?
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION

2. Who or what is FLOTUS?
FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES (The President’s wife)

3. When used in the workplace or advertising, what is KISS?
KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

4. Inside any computer there is a ROM and a RAM chip. What do these BOTH stand for? (One point if you get BOTH)
READ ONLY MEMORY and RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

5. What in the USA is a WASP?
WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT

6. What does HIV stand for in the medical world?
HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

7. The PIRA were the armed wing of Sinn Fein that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, what did PIRA stand for?
PROVISIONAL IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY

8. In accounting and analytic terms what is MTD?
MONTH TO DATE

9. If a person is a SME, what are they?
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

10. If you have ever had to sign in to a password protected website, you have probably filled out a CAPTCHA form. This is where you have to either type in a code from the screen or click on an image. But what does CAPTCHA stand for?
COMPLETELY AUTOMATED PUBLIC TURING TEST to tell COMPUTERS and HUMANS APART