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Mnemonics | 10 Question Humanities Multiple Choice Quiz

Can you figure out what these mnemnonics are going to help you memorize?

A multiple-choice quiz by tralfaz. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tralfaz

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
91,497

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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1360

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Question 1 of 10

1. How I need a drink, alcoholic of course. Hint

The first 8 elements

The presidents starting at Harding

The geologic epochs

The digits of pi

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Question 2 of 10

2. On old Olympus' topmost top, a fat-eared German viewed a hop. Hint

The digits of e

The Greek gods

The natural numbers

The cranial nerves

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Question 3 of 10

3. Rough tops eat kool jello. Hint

The digits of the square root of 30

The different species of thrushes

The "rare Earth" elements

The presidents starting at FDR

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Question 4 of 10

4. Mary's violet eyes make John stay up nights playing . Hint

The parts of a bee

The order of the planets (as they were)

The main categories of color

The months of the year (Portugese)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well. Hint

The ohms values on resistors

The Actinide Series

The colors of the rainbow

The classification of the dinosaurs

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Question 6 of 10

6. All people seem to need Domino's pizza Hint

The noble gasses

The Moslem countries formed from the breakup of the USSR

The seven deadly sins

The layers of the Open Systems Interconnection model

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Question 7 of 10

7. Sultry Carol languished grumpily near Carl, always aware virtuous men frequently take time.
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The orders in the class Insecta

The Confederate States

The elements that conduct electricity

The prime ministers of Canada

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Question 8 of 10

8. Pretty Patty met Cerberus Hint

The classification of rocks

The seasons in Russian [Cyrillic] (R, R, M, S in Roman letters)

The square root of 2

The geologic eras

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Question 9 of 10

9. Toronto girls can flirt and other queer things Canadians do. Hint

The states bordering the Mississippi River

The metric prefices

The Moh's scale

The states of Australia

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Question 10 of 10

10. Please come over for great sushi. Hint

The New England States

The first 6 asteroids (in order of discovery)

My licence plate (644 FGS)

The Linnean taxonomy

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How I need a drink, alcoholic of course.

Answer: The digits of pi

Count the letters in each word. 3.1415926

2. On old Olympus' topmost top, a fat-eared German viewed a hop.

Answer: The cranial nerves

The initial letters of the words are the same initial letters in: Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Auditory, Facial,
Vestibulocochlear (ear), Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal

3. Rough tops eat kool jello.

Answer: The presidents starting at FDR

Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson. The "k" in "kool" should tip you off.

4. Mary's violet eyes make John stay up nights playing .

Answer: The order of the planets (as they were)

As usual, the key is initial letters. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. In 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union.

5. Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well.

Answer: The ohms values on resistors

On resistors, colors denote the values: black=0, brown=1, red=2, orange=3, yellow=4, green=5, blue=6, violet=7, grey=8, white=9

6. All people seem to need Domino's pizza

Answer: The layers of the Open Systems Interconnection model

Look at the initial letters (again). The layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model are: Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data-link, Physical.

7. Sultry Carol languished grumpily near Carl, always aware virtuous men frequently take time.

Answer: The Confederate States

The key is to know which initial letters are in pairs. South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Texas.

8. Pretty Patty met Cerberus

Answer: The geologic eras

This time, look at the first two letters of each word. Precambrian, paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic.

9. Toronto girls can flirt and other queer things Canadians do.

Answer: The Moh's scale

My apologies to my neighbors to the north. Talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase feldspar, quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond.

10. Please come over for great sushi.

Answer: The Linnean taxonomy

After Kingdom we have: phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Source: Author tralfaz

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