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A mnemonic is something or other - I can't quite remember what. I need something to help me recall that fact; something like a mnemonic.
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  Ten Terrible Titles   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Just suppose that singers set out to give you helpful mnemonics. Here are ten terrible titles but each one is designed to help you remember something. All you have to do is identify what. Use the initial letters of both song and singer.
Average, 10 Qns, glendathecat, Aug 02 20
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  I Remember That - With Help! editor best quiz   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Mnemonics help us remember things, and are a fascinating subject. How many of us can remember days of months without starting 'Thirty days hath...'? Enjoy the quiz!
Average, 10 Qns, Quiz_Beagle, Jul 20 09
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  Wait, Eat, Sleep   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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A clever little mnemonic I just made up for quiz writing (Write, Edit, Submit). Sure, that one obviously isn't common, but here are 10 mnemonics that are a little more popular.
Average, 10 Qns, George95, Jun 23 18
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Jun 23 18
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  Medical Mnemonics   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Medical students have to learn a lot. These mnemonics are helpful for them, and fun for you.
Difficult, 15 Qns, catamount, Jan 29 19
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Jan 29 19
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  Iconic Mnemonics   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Here are mnemonics that make it easier to remember all sorts of trivial stuff.
Easier, 10 Qns, bwde, Jan 24 17
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  10 Questions about Mnemonics   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Mnemonics are devices used to remember things. Most commonly, a mnemonic will use the first letter of each word in a list, creating a poem or pithy saying with those letters as the initial letters of each word. Can you guess who uses these mnemonics?
Average, 10 Qns, crisw, Apr 25 21
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  Remember These Mnemonics?    
Multiple Choice
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Mnemonics are those little aides-memoires that we all use to keep our facts in good order. How many of these have you used? (Mnemonic, by the way, is derived from Mnemosyne, the Greek muse. Mnemosyne means 'remembrance'.)
Tough, 10 Qns, Cymruambyth, Jul 29 20
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  Mnemonics Test Your Knowledge    
Multiple Choice
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Can you figure out what these mnemnonics are going to help you memorize?
Tough, 10 Qns, tralfaz, Nov 20 19
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trivia question Quick Question
If someone has told you to remember that 'Solomon has delightful crockery', what are you likely to be doing?

From Quiz "I Remember That - With Help!"





Mnemonics Trivia Questions

1. Did you know that "Super Man Helps Every One"? Yes he does, but outside of the series, he also helps you remember what?

From Quiz
Wait, Eat, Sleep

Answer: The Great Lakes

Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario make up the five Great Lakes that form the border of Canada and the United States from Ontario. The lakes connect together for one long sea road. Lake Ontario is the farthest to the east, and links to the St. Lawrence River which goes on to the Atlantic Ocean. The Welland Canal (for ships) and Niagara River (with the Niagara Falls) link to Lake Erie, which then connects back north to Lake Huron through Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River. From the top end of Lake Huron, you can go straight into Lake Michigan or north to Lake Superior.

2. Spot the mnemonic: "My Pretty Little Corvette" - Prince

From Quiz Ten Terrible Titles

Answer: Nobel prizes

The original five Nobel prizes - Medicine, Physics, Literature, Chemistry and Peace - were created in Alfred Nobel's 1896 will. A Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences was added in 1968, having been endowed by the Swedish bank Sveriges Riksbank.

3. ROY G BIV is a mnemonic for what?

From Quiz Iconic Mnemonics

Answer: Colors of the spectrum

The visible spectrum in order of decreasing wavelength is: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Wavelengths outside the visible spectrum include infrared and ultraviolet.

4. Americans think of Roy, the UK thinks of Richard of York. What are the respective mnemonics helping us remember?

From Quiz I Remember That - With Help!

Answer: Colours of the rainbow

Roy G Biv seems to be the mnemonic of choice in the US, whereas in the UK we tend to remember 'Richard of York gave battle in vain', which relates to the War of the Roses. Both give us the traditional rainbow of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Interestingly, mnemonics work whether they are logical or not. How many of you know someone with the surname Biv? There are plenty of mnemonics for numbers of pi, such as 'How I like a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics' - which gives you pi to 15 decimal places if you count the letters in each word. (3.14159265358979) and for the planets of the solar system (My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas - which would have worked before they demoted poor Pluto), but I have never seen a snappy mnemonic for Shakespeare's plays.

5. School children use the mnemonic "No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely" as an aide-memoire in what subject?

From Quiz Remember These Mnemonics?

Answer: The Royal Houses of England and UK

"No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely" is a mnemonic that helps students to keep the British Royal Houses in order: Normandy-Plantagenet-Lancaster-York-Tudor-Stuart-Hanover-Windsor. The school I attended in England named its houses after each of the Royal Houses. I was in Windsor.

6. "Dow Jones Industrial Average Closing Stock Report" stands for?

From Quiz Medical Mnemonics

Answer: Components of the intestine

It stands for the major parts of the intestine: duodenum, jejunum, ileum, appendix, colon, sigmoid, rectum.

7. How I need a drink, alcoholic of course.

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: The digits of pi

Count the letters in each word. 3.1415926

8. "Some Old Horse Came A-Hoppin' Through Our Alley". While it was in your alley, the old horse helped you memorize something to do with which branch of mathematics?

From Quiz Wait, Eat, Sleep

Answer: Trigonometry

This mnemonic is actually split up in to three smaller portions. First the three letters SOH stand for Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse, referencing the calculation you need for the sine law. Part two, CAH, is Cosine = Adjacent/Hyptoenuse, for the cosine law. Finally, TOA is the tangent ratio, Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent.

9. Spot the mnemonic: "Our Super Erotic Hogmanay" - Madonna

From Quiz Ten Terrible Titles

Answer: The Great Lakes

Bringing together Madonna's penchant for the seamier side of life together with two of her "homes" - Michigan and Scotland. Homes is, of course, one of the more familiar mnemonics for the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior).

10. Do Men Ever Visit Britain is a mnemonic for _______.

From Quiz Iconic Mnemonics

Answer: British aristocratic rank order

After Kings and Queens, the aristocratic ranks go: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron.

11. If someone has told you to remember that 'Solomon has delightful crockery', what are you likely to be doing?

From Quiz I Remember That - With Help!

Answer: Playing a game of bridge

It is in the nature of mnemonics that ever since I read 'Mr American' by George MacDonald Fraser, where the nervous hero is sent out to play bridge with Edward VII and is given this advice as to the order of trumps from highest to lowest (spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs), I have never been able to forget it - despite never having played bridge in my life.

12. There's a mnemonic rhyme that helps us to remember how many days there are in a month. How many days are there in August?

From Quiz Remember These Mnemonics?

Answer: 31& thirty-one & thirty one

You used the rhyme to get the answer, didn't you? Thirty days hath September, April, June and dull November. All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone Which hath twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine in each leap year. The rhyme dates back to at least the middle of the 15th century, and has taken various forms over the years.

13. What does this stand for: LAB RAT?

From Quiz Medical Mnemonics

Answer: Heart valves

To be more exact, the mnemonic stands for the valves between the atria and the ventricles: left atrium: bicuspid; right atrium: tricuspid. There are also the pulmonary and aortic valves.

14. On old Olympus' topmost top, a fat-eared German viewed a hop.

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: The cranial nerves

The initial letters of the words are the same initial letters in: Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Auditory, Facial, Vestibulocochlear (ear), Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal

15. Every Good Boy Does Fine

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: Music teacher

They are the notes which fall on the lines in the treble clef.

16. Did you know that "Dumb Kids Playing Catch On Freeway Get Squashed"? Their parents better not be of what scientific profession, because they should know this mnemonic off by heart?

From Quiz Wait, Eat, Sleep

Answer: Biologist

The hierarchy in the animal kingdom is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. Another mnemonic is "Dear King Philip Come Over For Good Spaghetti" as well as "Keen Paleontologists Can Only Find Good Specimens", leaving out the domain.

17. Spot the mnemonic: "Really Ugly Fighter" - Christina Aguilera

From Quiz Ten Terrible Titles

Answer: Permanent members of the UN Security Council

The Security Council's five permanent members are Russia, United Kingdom, France, China and America. Aguilera's repertoire contains the hit "Fighter" and "Beautiful", rather than "Really Ugly".

18. For what is "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles" a mnemonic?

From Quiz Iconic Mnemonics

Answer: Planets of the solar system

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The mnemonic no longer includes Pluto, which is now considered a dwarf planet, not a planet. Pluto does not meet the definition of a planet according to the International Astronomical Union, which states a planet must be "large enough to become round due to the force of its own gravity and dominate the neighborhood around its orbit." As Pluto meets neither of these requirements, it no longer qualifies as a planet.

19. 'Divorced, beheaded, she died, divorced, beheaded, survived'. What does this help us to remember?

From Quiz I Remember That - With Help!

Answer: The fates of the six wives of Henry VIII

In actual fact, this is not strictly accurate, as the actual events were; Catherine of Aragon, ended when the marriage was annulled, Anne Boleyn who was annulled then beheaded, Jane Seymour who died after childbirth, Anne of Cleves, also annulled, Catherine Howard annulled (then beheaded) and Catherine Parr, who survived him. The mnemonic also doesn't help you to remember the order of the wives.

20. What's the mnemonic which includes the name of a person that helps us to keep the colours of the rainbow in order?

From Quiz Remember These Mnemonics?

Answer: Roy G. Biv & Roy G Biv & Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain

Good old Roy, he helps us to remember that the rainbow goes from red to orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. I never met Roy until I came to live in Canada. In England, we kept the colours of the rainbow sorted with Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. Another version of the mnemonic is Run Off Young Girls, Boys In View. I wonder if the person who created Roy G. Biv knew that 'biv' is the Hebrew word for sewer pipe?

21. What do these numbers stand for? 1,3,5,7,9,11.

From Quiz Medical Mnemonics

Answer: Numbers related to the spleen

The spleen is 1 inch thick, 3 inches high and 5 inches wide. It weighs 7 oz and lies below ribs 9-11.

22. Rough tops eat kool jello.

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: The presidents starting at FDR

Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson. The "k" in "kool" should tip you off.

23. King Phillip came over from great Scotland.

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: Zoologist

The order of scientific nomenclature- Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

24. Remember that "You need might to do push-ups (from the floor). You must hold tight doing chin-ups (off the ceiling)". When doing which activity would this mnemonic come in handy?

From Quiz Wait, Eat, Sleep

Answer: Spelunking

Stalactites and stalagmites have many different mnemonics to designate the two from each other The 'mites comes from the floor and 'tites from the top. The g in stalagmites and c in stalactites also can help distinguish the differences, where g means ground, and c means ceiling. When spelunking through caves, it is always good to remember which is which.

25. Spot the mnemonic: "Smells Like A Dead Cheese" - Nirvana

From Quiz Ten Terrible Titles

Answer: Largest countries in Africa

The six largest countries in Africa, by area and in decreasing size order, are Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Libya, Chad and Niger. For anyone that's desperately interested, the top ten is completed by Angola, Mali, South Africa and Ethiopia.

26. Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand is a mnemonic for what?

From Quiz Iconic Mnemonics

Answer: Classification of organisms

Organisms are classified according to Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

27. In 'To Serve Them All My Days' by R F Delderfield the main character, teacher David Powlett-Jones, teaches his pupils the mnemonic 'All boys naughty won't memorise all those horrid hateful battles to Bosworth' - to teach them what?

From Quiz I Remember That - With Help!

Answer: The battles of the War of the Roses

This gives you [St] Albans, Blore Heath, Northampton, Wakefield, Mortimer's Cross, [St] Albans 2, Towton, Hedgeley Moor, Hexham, Barnet, Tewkesbury and Bosworth. Once again, this isn't perfect, as it misses out Ludford Bridge in 1459, Ferrybridge and Towton in 1461, Edgecote Moor in 1469 and Losecote Field in 1470, but it still gives me 12 battles I wouldn't remember without it. Ironically, in the book, someone tries to hold this against David as 'outdated doggerel', but it backfires to David's advantage, as his methods produce excellent results.

28. Geologists came up with one of my favourite mnemonics: "G for ground; C for ceiling." To what does it refer?

From Quiz Remember These Mnemonics?

Answer: stalagmites and stalactites & stalagmite and stalactite

Stalagmites - with a g, grow upward from the floor of a cave while stalactities, with a c, grow down from the roof - or ceiling - of a cave. It's a handy mnemonic when doing crossword puzzles.

29. Don't Exercise In Quicksand. Good advice, and a mnemonic for which part of human anatomy?

From Quiz Medical Mnemonics

Answer: Respiratory muscles

It stands for diaphraghm, external intercostals, internal intercostals, quadratus. The diaphraghm is the main respiratory muscle. The intercostals are between the ribs. The quadratus lumborum anchors the diaphraghm.

30. Mary's violet eyes make John stay up nights playing .

From Quiz Mnemonics

Answer: The order of the planets (as they were)

As usual, the key is initial letters. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. In 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union.

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