Not Quite University Challenge

[burning dog]

Not good to mock people under time pressure to give an answer either, lots of us would say anything that came into our heads rather than say nothing. Maybe it's different when there's time to consider. The "Who wrote Handel's Messiah/Water Music?" clip is funny IMO (see my post above) The studio audience thought so.

[Richard Tarleton]

Q. For what is 'My Very Excellent Mother Served Us Noodles' a mnemonic? (Order of the planets from the sun)

What happened to Jupiter?

[Rjw]

Add just

[Richard Tarleton]

Add just

Thank you. I'm being a bit dim today (see fuddy duddy thread).

[LezLee]

Thank you. I'm being a bit dim today (see fuddy duddy thread).

Sorry, I didn't notice. I don't really 'do' mnemonics, I find them at least as hard to remember as the originals they represent! Anyway how often do we need to know the planets or the rainbow colours? It's really only for quizzes, which is where we came in...

[Stanfordian]

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us New Potatoes

[cloughie]

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us New Potatoes

Ah for the days when Pluto had planetary status!

[Old Grumpy]

Not apocryphal, Dave!



The poor presenter was obviously quite thrown by this utter surrealism. A pity no-one could ask for an explanation, though I would imagine neither of them knew the meaning of 'mnemonic'.

Seemingly people where I work do not know either, I repeatedly hear them referred to as pneumonics!

OG

[LMcD]

Ah for the days when Pluto had planetary status!

I'm sure Colin Matthews would agree with you.

[Stanfordian]

Ah for the days when Pluto had planetary status!

Pluto had planetary status when I was at school. Think about poor Pluto, Walt Disney's cartoon dog. Born 1930 it's probably dead now.

[Rjw]

Quiz mnemonics

Old elephants have more skin

This helped with my A level Geography¡

[Rjw]

That's good

I have been using

My very easy map just shows us nine planets

But I like yours better¡

[LezLee]

We never used mnemonics when I was at school, though I knew the colours of the rainbow.

[Richard Tarleton]

I remember Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain for the colours of the rainbow - but frankly it's easier just to remember the planets than that mnemonic

[LMcD]

I remember Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain for the colours of the rainbow - but frankly it's easier just to remember the planets than that mnemonic

Same here - yet, when I entered 'Richard of York' in my search engine, it was the slightly different '.... gave battle ...' that came up first.