Best of phrases, rhymes, and memory joggers to help YOU remember (sometimes useless) information!

Notes on a Clef

“Every Good Boy Deserves Favor”
Treble Clef: E, G, B, D, F

“Face”
Between Treble Clef: F, A, C, E

“Good Boys Do Fine, Always”
Base Clef: G, B, D, F, A

“All Cows Eat Grass”
Between Base Clef: A, C, E, G

Geological Time Periods

“Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak? Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism”

Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oilgocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Recent

The order of taxonomy in biology

“Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach”

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

How to spell Tuscon

“Remember well, to save confusion
C before S when spelling TUCSON”

The 7 Continents

“Eat An Aspirin After A Nighttime Snack”

“The Seven Continents
North America, South America joined in the West.
Europe and Asia meet together, and on Africa they rest.
Australia stands alone, floating down below.
And Antarctica is the loneliest, where no one wants to go”

Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, North America, South America

Worlds Longest Rivers (in size order!)

“Nam-Mi Yach-Y”

Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Missouri, Irtysh, Yangtse, Amur, Congo, and Huang-Ho (Yellow)

How to spell Cincinnati

“Cincinnati is a word
Hard to spell but easy heard.
It need not cause you irritation,
Just drop the ON from CIN CIN NATION”

Affect Vs. Effect

Spell Raven!

“Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun”

The order of planets in distance from the sun

“My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas”

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (I don’t care what they say you will always be a planet to me) Pluto.

How to Spell Mississippi

“M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
Crooked letter-crooked letter-I
humpback-humpback-I”

The colors in a Rainbow

“Roy G. Biv”

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Number of days in each month of the year

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine

The Great Lakes (in size order!)

“Sam’s Horse Must Eat Oats”

Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario!

Proper Table Setting

“The fork goes to the left of the plate, and
FORK and LEFT each have 4 letters.

The knife goes to the right of the plate, and
KNIFE and RIGHT each have 5 letters.

The same (right) properly applies to the SPOON
although many homes prefer to set it above the plate."

Points of a compass

“Never Eat Shredded Wheat”

North, East, South, West

British Hereditary Titles

“Does Mi’lord Ever Visit Brighton Beach?”

Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Baronet

To turn ... well ... anything

“Righty, tighty – Lefty, loosey”

How to Spell Massachusetts

“The simple answer to this little riddle: Two esses, two tees, with one ess in the middle.”