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| Device | Answer | Description |
| ROY G. BIV | Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet | Colors of the spectrum |
| My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto | Order of the planets |
| Every Good Boy Does Fine | E-G-B-D-F | Musical Scale |
| Every Bible Gets Dusty After Easter | E-B-G-D-A-E | Standard guitar tuning |
| Lucy Can't Drink Milk | L-C-D-M | The Roman numerals in order for 50, 100, 500 and 1000 |
| HOMES | Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior | The Great Lakes in North America |
| Sam's Horse Must Eat Oats | Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario | The Great Lakes, in order from west to east |
| See Mr. Huron Eating Oranges | Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario | The Great Lakes, in order of size |
| King Phillip came over for ginger snaps | Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species | proper ordering of the biological groupings used in taxonomy |
| I Am A Person | Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific | 4 Oceans |
| Can Old Senators Demand More Political Power Than Junior congressmen? Tough Question | Quarternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississipian, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian | geology periods |
| Some old hen caught another hen taking one away | S(in) = O(pposite)/H(ypotenuse) C(os) = A(djacent)/H(ypotenuse) T(an) = O(pposite)/A(djacent) |
trigonometry equations |
| Device | Description |
| thirty days hath September, April, June and November | remember the number of days in the months |
| Feed a cold, starve a fever | when sick |
| Righty tighty, lefty loosie | direction to loosen/tighten nuts from bolt |
| Leaves of three, let it be: berries white, take flight! | detect poison ivy |
| Rain before seven, fine before eleven | forecast weather |
| Red sky at night, sailors delight! Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning! | forecast weather |
| spring forward, fall back | daylight savings time |
| This is the way the disciples run Peter, Andrew, James and John Philip and Bartholemew Thomas next and Matthew too James the less and Judas the greater Simon the zealot and Judas the traitor |
remember the names of the disciples |
| "knuckle method" - count the months across your knuckles ( at the base of your fingers), both on the top of the knuckles and between the knuckles.Starting on the left, the first knuckle corresponds to January (and has 31 days), the indentation between the first and second knuckles is February (with 28 days), the second knuckle is March (with 31), then the indentation is April (30), the third knuckle is May (31), the next indenttion is June (30), and now the fourth knuckle is July (31). Now go to the next hand, and we start out with a knuckle for August (31), then Septemember (30), then October (31), then November (30), then December (31) | remember the days of the month |
