| Mnemonic |
Subject |
Explanation |
| Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me (Quick) |
Astronomy |
Stars by temperature - from a Class O blue-white giant, through a G-class yellow dwarf like Sol, to an M-class red dwarf (giant?). The Q-class are oddities like neutron stars and black holes, that don't exactly have a temperature. |
Kindly Put Cat Out For Going Stinko or
Kings Play Chess On Five Green Squares |
Biology |
Taxonomic groupings - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
i.e. - Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae, Homo, Sapiens (guess who!) |
| HOMES |
Geography |
The five Great Lakes - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior |
Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve
Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three |
History |
Kings of England - William the Conqueror, William Rufus, Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard Lionheart, John, Henry III
There's more to this one - it goes up to Victoria or so - but I don't know the rest. Do you? |
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