Vanguard/Industry Acronyms
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VPN

Virtual Private Network

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Italy, Japan, and Germany's alliance's name during WWII

What is the Axis Powers?

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A word that means a fear of confined spaces.

What is claustrophobia?

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Name of the 2020 ESPN sports documentary that focused on Michael Jordan's final season

What is "The Last Dance"?

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The Mona Lisa painter

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

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CRG

Crew Resource Group

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What the acronym PEMDAS stands for in Math's order of operations

What are parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction?


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A term for an animal that is active primarily at night

What is nocturnal?

200

The New York Jets and New York Giants Share this stadium.

What is MetLife Stadium?

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In Greek mythology, she is goddess of wisdom and warfare

Who is Athena?


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CXD

Client Experience and Digital

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The three trailing dots used at the end of a sentence that indicates something has been omitted from quoted text, or that a speaker or writer has paused or trailed off in speech or thought.

What is an ellipsis?

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A word that describes something that happens every two years

What is biennial?

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Host country for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

What is Qatar?

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Riddle me this: 

The more there is the less you see.


What is "Darkness"?

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CUSIP

Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures

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The ancient civilization who built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru

Who are the The Incas?

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The study of earthquakes 

What is seismology?


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Player who holds the record for the most home runs in MLB history

Who is Barry Bonds?


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The name of Homer's eldest daughter in The Simpsons


Who is Lisa?


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OCEAN

Orchestrated Crew Experience Application Network

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The capital city of Norway


What is Oslo?

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The name for a word that reads the same backwards and forward (e.g. racecar) 

What is palindrome?

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The MVP of the 2016 NFL season

Who is Matt Ryan?

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Notable guitar player who teamed up with Michael Jackson for the 1982 song “Beat It”

Who is Eddie Van Halen?