1. true
2. false

AMBER actually stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," but it is a backronym for Amber Hagerman, who was the missing and murdered child whose death was instrumental in founding the program.

1. Stop looking in place.
   sobriety losing its priority
2. Sober life is possible.

Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs use backronyms as teaching tools. "Slip," for example, means "sobriety losing its priority."

1. don't even notice I am lying
   don't ever need Its lens
2. didn't even need it loud

AA's backronym for denial is "don't even notice I am lying."

1. true
2. false

In 2001, Congress passed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (the USA Patriot Act).

1. two
   three
2. four

Congress has passed three different HOME acts: the Hardship Outlays to Protect Mortgagee Equity Act, the Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act and the Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act.

1. CARLY PAC
   CARLY for America Super PAC
2. CARLY Super PAC

The name was changed to CARLY for America Super PAC, as in Conservative Authentic Responsive Leadership for You. Using the backronym avoided breaking Federal Election Commission rulings. Go figure.

1. Lisa
   Alice
2. Amy

The computer, which Jobs admitted was named for his daughter Lisa, was later given the backronym Local Integrated Software Architecture.

1. BASIC
   EASY
2. RUBY

BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, isn't as common today as it once was.

1. true
2. false

While we now relate "SOS" to "save our ship," that actually came after the SOS Morse code designation.

1. to assess the health of a newborn baby
   to assess a person before performing CPR
2. to assess the vitality of fresh fish

An Apgar score is used to assess the health of newborn babies and was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar. The backronym, which stands for "appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration," was created years later.

1. a treadmill
   a new node on the ISS
2. a telescope

NASA renamed its ISS treadmill the Colbert, the combined operational load-bearing external resistance treadmill, after write-in votes for "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options to name a new node on the ISS.

1. TEETH
   CHEW
2. CHOMP

Watson repeatedly tried to get CHOMP, or Consumers Have Options for Molar Protection Act, through congress, without success.

1. true
2. false

The Church Act, or Congressional Hope for Uniform Recognition of Christian Heritage Act, failed.

1. situational depression
   seasonal affective disorder
2. premenstrual dysphoric disorder

Seasonal affective disorder, appropriately known as "SAD," is thought to be caused by lack of light.

1. Octopus
   Spectre
2. Smersh

Enrst Stavro Blofeld runs Spectre, aka Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.