{"id":1799,"date":"2010-07-16T18:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/16\/friday_quiz_science_mnemonics\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T18:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:09:36","slug":"friday_quiz_science_mnemonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/16\/friday_quiz_science_mnemonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday quiz: science mnemonics"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the same puzzle of the day desk calendar that gave us the science anagram puzzles post<\/a> back in February, here’s an entry called “Abbreviated Science”!
\nThere are six science-related1<\/a><\/sup> mnemonics<\/a> listed below. The actual calendar page also listed the six answers and asked you to match them up (answer = scientific field + description – e.g. for the “Every Good Boy Deserves Football” mnemonic, it would have said “Field: Music. Description: the lines of a treble staff”). However, the combined expertise of this audience should render the answers unnecessary; I got three without looking at any part of the answers (although two of them weren’t the exact mnemonics I was taught at school), and got another two once I knew which fields they were from.
\nAs before, please submit only one answer per commenter per hour, to give people in other time zones a chance to take part!<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n(Also: I suspect this will be waaaaay too easy, so let’s spread it out).
\nTime permitting, I’ll update the post with the answers as they come in.
\nHave fun!
\n1) Big Boys Romance Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls
\n(Eva has it right that these are colours: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White. But colours of what…?)<\/strong>
\n(Bob subsequently guessed the right answer – colours of resistors, in electronics, apparently)<\/strong>
\n2) Better Go Home Every Night Completely Paid
\n(Mod Scientist knew this one, and registered just to claim the bragging rights! It’s the nations of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. Not science, but I did warn you!)<\/strong>
\n3) Camels Often Sit Down Carefully; Perhaps Their Joints Creak<\/p>\n