A Says You! Spotlight Round: Mnemonic Memory

The notes/lines on a musical staff – treble clef.

2. The colors in the spectrum – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

3. The nine planets of the solar system, in order out from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Other mnemonic devices have been suggested to include the dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake. In 2015 the New York Times suggested, “My Very Educated Mother Cannot Just Serve Us Nine Pizzas—Hundreds May Eat!”

4. The fate of Henry VIII’s wives.

5. The scientific classifications in botany and zoology – Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

6. The personal pronouns: he, she, we, I, you, it, they.