Mnemonics and Acrosstics
Famous Adoptees
Campaign Buttons
Collective Nouns
Nicknames
Potent Potables
100
ROY G BIV is an acrostic used to remember the colors of the rainbow in order, which are these.
What is RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET?
100
This most decorated United States gymnast was adopted by her grandparents after spending time in the foster care system. Since then, she has amassed 7 olympic medals and 30 world championship medals
Who is Simone Biles?
100
Clearly a successful campaign, this President served from 1953 - 1961.
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
100
Bloat means “to become swollen with fluid or gas." Grouping these barrel-shaped, pink-sweating African river horses together as a Bloat makes sense.
What is a hippopotamus?
100
This baseball player's real name was George, but he had more than his fair share of nicknames: The Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout and, of course, The Great Bambino.
100
If you like this drink and getting caught in the rain, you have something in common with the characters in the song, Escape, by Rupert Holmes which was popular in 1979.
What is a pina colada?
200
Never
Eat
Soggy
Waffles will help to remember these, as they go clockwise.
What are the cardinal directions - North, East, South, West
200
Abandoned by his father in 1810 and orphaned by his mother a year later, this writer was adopted by a family in Virginia. He's considered the inventor of detective fiction and wrote The Raven and Annabel Lee.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
Appointed to the presidency after Nixon's resignation, this President used this button when he ran against Jimmy Carter.
Who is Gerald Ford?
200
Flamboyance - The adjective flamboyance means “strikingly bold or showy,” so using Flamboyance to group these social birds that range in color from light pink to bright red, we think it’s properly descriptive.
What are Flamingos?
200
Martha Jane Cannary-Burke was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. She was acquainted with both Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.
Who is Calamity Jane?
200
This southern bourbon classic (and Kentucky Derby signature drink) is traditionally served in a silver cup over ice.
What is a Mint Julep?
300
Sams
Horse
Must
Eat
Onions organizes these bodies of water by size
What are the Great Lakes?
Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario
300
After he lost his father at age 9, he was by a tribal chief and grew up to be the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. He is known as a revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
This senator used his last name, broken down into elemental abbreviations to encourage you to vote for him in 1964.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
300
These long tailed primates from Madagascar live together in a large pod of about 25, working together to survive and thwart their predators. Group them together and you have a conspiracy.
What are Lemurs?
300
WWI German Fighting Ace Manfred Von Richtofen was known as this, as well as a foil to Snoopy when he wore his flying scarf.
Who is the Red Baron?
300
This cocktail is made with either vodka or gin and a lemon twist or olive. If you want a dry one of these, you'll be stingy with the vermouth. If you want a dirty one, pile on the olive juice.
What is a martini?
400
I Value Xylophones Like Cows Dig Milk will help to remember these in order up to 1000.
What are Roman Numerals?
400
Dave Thomas was adopted at 6 weeks old. At age 5, when his adoptive mother died, Thomas moved in with his grandmother. Thomas grew up to become the founder and CEO of this hamburger and fast food chain where he used his platform to advocate often and generously for adoption.
What is Wendy's?
400
She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
What is it with grouping terms for black birds? We know that crows are collectively a murder. However, these other large black birds, often seen as a bad omen and title of a poem by Poe, are grouped as an Unkindness.
What is a Raven?
400
Silent film actor and director Joseph Frank Keaton got his nickname from Harry Houdini, when, as a baby, he fell down the stairs without getting injured.
Who is Buster Keaton?
400
This agave based liquor is the key ingredient in both the Sunrise and Sunset. The sunrise is sweeter, as its made with orange juice. The sunset is with grapefruit juice and skips the grenadine.
What is Tequila?
500
To remember these, just remember Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
What are the order of mathematical operations
Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
500
This author of The Hobbit was born in South Africa. Within a few years, his father died while the rest of the family moved to England. 8 years later, his mother died as well. He and his brother, Hilary went to live with an aunt for the rest of their childhoods.
Who is JRR Tolkien?
500
There is a famous anecdote that during a White House dinner, a woman sitting across from this President, Nicknamed Silent Cal, stated that she made a bet she could get more than 3 words out of him. He paused for a moment and responded, “You Lose.”
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
500
An embarrassment of riches is a good thing. Know what else is a good thing? And embarrassment (the collective noun) of these rare black and white bears native to China.
What are Pandas?
500
Mary Mallon was born in Ireland in 1869, emigrated to the USA in 1884; kept in isolation in New York from 1915 until her death in 1938, mostly because she was a cook who didn't follow proper hand hygiene.
Who is Typhoid Mary?
500
Typically served with ice in an old fashioned glass, this is a duo mixed drink made of Scotch whisky and amaretto. It was named for Mario Puzo's book which was the basis for the Francis Ford Coppola movie starring Marlon Brando.
What is the Godfather?