Mnemonics - do you have a list of good ones/site you use?

[alcozar]

Finding ones that stick in the mind hard to come by and was wondering if anyone has a list of them that you use (and don't mind sharing)/website you use and recommend.

2 that have stuck so far are the Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain and My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets. Shocked how easy they stick in your head compared to rereading questions/answers and memorising that way (my usual method).

[Istenem]

Finding ones that stick in the mind hard to come by and was wondering if anyone has a list of them that you use (and don't mind sharing)/website you use and recommend.

2 that have stuck so far are the Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain and My Very Easy Method Just Listed Nine Planets. Shocked how easy they stick in your head compared to rereading questions/answers and memorising that way (my usual method).

'Listed' standing for saturn and uranus?

i don't use mnemonics personally, i should probably learn the champagne bottles though. ops:

[grecian]

I like Space Men Vote Earth Most Jolly of the Solar Universe's Nine Planets for the solar system (as was).

But the trouble is that mnemonics often concern things you know anyway (e.g. planets, the rainbow) - so the only ones I tend to find helpful are things like BROM 4689 for remembering Marlborough's victories on the continent in 1704-1709. (That came in useful on an SWP the other day, which is why I remember it.)

[alcozar]

Lol, stupid typo, listed should have been set up, gomen.

[Nil Satis]

One I don't use, but which I might now have to learn, is this one for the Kings and Queens:

Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three,
One-To-Three Neds, Richard Two,
Harrys Four-Five-Six... then who?

Edwards Four-Five, Dick the Bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned Six (the lad),
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...

Will & Mary, Anne of gloria,
Georges (4!), Will Four, Victoria,
Edward Seven next, and then
Came George the Fifth in 1910...

Ned the Eighth soon abdicated,
So George Six was coronated,
Then Number Two Elizabeth...
And that's all, folks (until her death...)!!

[cp999]

SHMEO: the Great Lakes in decreasing size order.
SVAGJ: The pilots of Thunderbirds 1 to 5.

I remember the top one as a pseudo-word, and I won't go into how I remember the second

[grecian]

SHMEO: the Great Lakes in decreasing size order.
SVAGJ: The pilots of Thunderbirds 1 to 5.

SVAGJ's good - that has caught me out in quizzes many a time. So boring to have to remember that sort of crap!

[fotherz]

Henry VIII's wives are in order of surname if you think of Seymour as CEEmour:

Aragon,
Boleyn,
Ceemour,
Cleves,
Howard,
Parr

[grecian]

That's wonderful Fotherz - keep it up. Wikipedia disagrees with my classification, but I remember the layers of the atmosphere in reverse alphabetical order - troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere).

[Istenem]

Henry VIII's wives are in order of surname if you think of Seymour as CEEmour:

Aragon,
Boleyn,
Ceemour,
Cleves,
Howard,
Parr

spotters badge for Fotherz, i like that very much.

[David Healy]

That's wonderful Fotherz - keep it up. Wikipedia disagrees with my classification, but I remember the layers of the atmosphere in reverse alphabetical order - troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere).

This is something I've never bothered to learn, but this is good. I needed it earlier on this evening when we were asked "What lies between the troposphere and ionosphere?" at a pub quiz.

I suggested mesosphere as a guess. The rest of the team suggested stratosphere, as they had never heard of mesosphere. As it turns out, we were both right.


My helpful mnemonic:

If you're Friends with Frasier, Seinfeld Cheers.

[JG]

Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle FCGDAEB

Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit

FACE



I'll explain later, although the last two are pretty obvious and the first one is linked to the other two.

[fotherz]

Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit

The notes that lie on the lines of a stave.

FACE

The notes in-between.


So presumably the first one is a tune?

[mr lugsy]

Foxy cheerleaders get dates/dicked after every ballgame... is the order of sharps;fcgaeb

i prefer: Fruitchat Chaps Gleeful Delight After Emptying Bandit

the order of flats is beadgcf ,someone else can expand upon this.