Memories Trivia Quiz

Answer: Women

Taken from "Reginald on Besetting Sins," the quote is one of many clever statements. The very short story tells of a woman who tells the truth.

Hector Hughes Munro was perhaps better known by his pen name 'Saki.' He lived from 1870 to 1916, when he was killed in conflict during the Great War.

As for elephants, studies have shown that elephants do, in fact, recognize people who have been cruel to them, and will react to such people negatively for years.

Answer: Ellipsis

The fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar are as follows: period (.), comma ( , ), colon ( : ), semicolon ( ; ), hyphen ( - ), dash ( - but longer ) apostrophe ( ' ), question mark ( ? ), exclamation point ( ! ), quotation marks ( " ), brackets ( [] ), parentheses ( () ), braces ( {} ), and ellipsis ( ... ).

These are punctuation marks, and not to be confused with other symbols that are also in common use within the language... (there's that ellipsis again) such as ampersands ( & ), asterisks ( * ), dollar signs ( $ ), etc.

As you go through the quiz, you may notice that ellipsis being used again and again...

As one quiz-taker has noted, the question mark can also be called an eroteme, so I have included that as a possible answer.

Answer: Shirley Temple

Curly rhymes with Shirley, and of course her last name is Temple, which goes well with curly hair near a little girl's temples.

The image-name technique is just one of many memorization techniques available to help with recollection. Others include (not an exhaustive list) acronyms, acrostics, chaining, and the keyword method.

Answer: Simon

This game of memory skill was invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison and launched in 1978 through the Milton Bradley company.

Later versions and variants of the game included "Simon Squared" (a two-player game), "Pocket Simon," "Super Simon" (with eight buttons), "Simon Trickster" (with three variations - "Simon Bounce," "Simon Surprise," and "Simon Rewind").

Answer: Concentration

"Concentration" is also known as "Memory," "Pelmanism," "Shinkei-suijaku," "Pexeso," and "Pairs." The game is as simple as it is described in the question. The matching pairs can be anything from pictures to colors to patterns, or whatever one can think of that comes in pairs.

Answer: amnesia

Definition of memory: 1. ability to hold in the mind; 2. specific thing remembered.

Synonyms listed on thesaurus.com are (ability to hold in the mind): anamnesis, awareness, camera-eye, cognizance, consciousness, dead-eye, flashback, memorization, mind, mind's eye, mindfulness, recall, recapture, recognition, recollection, reflection, remembrance, reminiscence, retention, retentiveness, retrospection, subconsciousness, and thought.

Antonyms make for a smaller list: amnesia, forgetfulness, ignorance

Synonyms for the second definition (specific thing remembered) are: concept, cue, fantasy, hint, image, jog, memo, memoir, mnemonic, picture, prod, prompt, reminder, representation, suggestion, thought, and vision.

Answer: Texas

A Memory Lane can be found in both Hamilton and Harrison, Texas. Arkansas also has two Memory Lanes - in Van Buren and Sevier. Other cities that have a Memory Lane are El Dorado in California, York in Pennsylvania, Florence in Wisconsin, Hoke in North Carolina, Kershaw in South Carolina, and Chester in Tennessee.

Answer: April 25

Many countries of the British Commonwealth observe Remembrance Day on November 11th. Australia and New Zealand do recognize that date as well, but their own Anzac Day takes a much greater precedence.

In Germany since 1996, January 27th has marked the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism.

For Japanese-Americans, February 19th marks a Day of Remembrance for Roosevelt's 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066, interning all Japanese in detention camps throughout the country's western states.

May 4th is the date that the Dutch hold their Remembrance Day, followed by Liberation Day on May 5th, marking their liberation from German forces in 1945.

Answer: Scrapbooking

"Creative Memories" was founded in 1987 by Rhonda Anderson and Cheryl Lightle. The company is based on the Direct Selling business model, allowing individuals to start up their own business as a "Creative Memories" consultant. In this current computer age, the idea of scrapbooking has grown to include digital media as well.

Answer: Gaia and Uranus

Gaia and Uranus gave birth to the first generation of Titans: males Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius and Iapetus and females Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea and Themis.

Thus, the other options - Hyperion, Coeus, and Iapetus - were all siblings of Mnemosyne. They, along with Oceanus and Crius, fathered the second generation of Titans.

Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past."

George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in 1949. It has also been made into various stage, television and film adaptations.

Only double-plus-ungood people haven't read this novel yet.

Answer: An Affair to Remember

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr starred together in "An Affair to Remember" (1957), a remake of "Love Affair" (1939), starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunn. Another version of the story was made with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in 1994 (also by the name of "Love Affair").

The 1957 version garnered four Oscar nominations, but no wins.

Answer: Twisted Every Way

"Twisted Every Way" is a duet between Christine and Raoul in "The Phantom of the Opera."

"Cats" opened in the West End in 1981, followed by Broadway in 1982. The musical is based on T.S. Eliot's 1939 "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," a childhood favorite of Webber's.

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was named for the Prussian King Frederick William IV, who celebrated his 49th birthday on the day that Nietzsche was born. He was a classical philologist before diving into philosophy, and is best known for his influence in existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism.

Answer: Luke

1 Corinthians 11:24, 25 (NIV): "and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.""

The passage in Luke only uses the same words in reference to the bread, as seen in chapter 22 verses 17-19: "After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.""

Answer: Episodic buffer

The original model described a central executive that acted as a supervisory system to control the flow of information from its slave systems; the phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketchpad. These two slave systems covered what we see (visual-spatial) and what we hear (phonological).

The concept of the third slave system - the episodic buffer - was added to the model in the year 2000. This system was said to link information across domains with chronological ordering. i.e. - the memory of a story or movie scene.

(Information paraphrased from Wikipedia article "Baddeley's model of working memory")

Answer: memorized a shuffled pack of 52 playing cards in 24 seconds

Memorization of a shuffled deck of playing cards is the last of the 'decathlon' of memory events. Wang wasn't the fastest in that event, but his accumulated point total was enough to clinch the title when he did it. He DID set world records in two other events (2280 digits in One Hour Numbers and 480 digits in Five Minute Numbers)

The different 'decathlon' events are: One Hour Numbers, Five Minute Numbers, Spoken Numbers (read out one per second), 30 Minute Binary Digits, One Hour Playing Cards (as many decks as possible), Random Lists of Words, Names and Faces, Five Minute Historic Dates, Abstract Images, and Speed Cards (fastest memorization of one deck of cards).

The 28 packs of cards record was accomplished by England's Ben Pridmore.
The 300 random words record was accomplished by Germany's Simon Reinhard.
The 120 historic dates record was accomplished by Germany's Johannes Mallow.

Answer: Dollhouse

Created by Joss Whedon, "Dollhouse" ran for two seasons (2009-10), and starred Eliza Dushku as one of the programmable dolls named Echo. As the series continued, it became apparent that the technology was fallible, as memory wipes would not completely erase everything, and previous memories would cause issues with other imprints - thus creating some very interesting story lines.

Answer: Magnavox Odyssey

Ralph Baer (yes, the same man who developed the Simon game) had a working prototype of the Odyssey in 1968, but the game did not go into production until 1972. Poor marketing allowed the Atari Pong game to surpass it after its release in 1975.

Wonder Wizard 7702 and Coleco Telstar were both released in 1976.

Answer: Québec

Québec's motto "Je me souviens" was carved above the parliament's main entrance in 1883, as commissioned by Eugène-Étienne Taché. Taché was the architect of the parliament building and Assistant Commissioner for Crown lands in the province of Québec.