Writer's Block: Trivia Day

[charliesmum]

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Charlie does, because he memorised the 'Countries of the World' song that originated on that Warner Brothers cartoon.

Over the summer we went to the PA Ren Faire, and saw the group 'The Rakish Rogues'. They were collecting money for charity and this man sitting near us gave $20 if one of the guys would sing that song. Apparently he'd done it the year previously.

Our Charlie, he who had previously memorised the Element Song, thought that was nifty, so I told him that I would give him $20 if he could memorise the song as well.

It took him until around November, but he did it.

At Christmas we went back to the Ren Faire for their Dickens Christmas thing, and one of the 'Rogues' was now playing Mr Fezziwig, and we had the chance to tell him about Charlie's feat, and he actually called Charlie on stage during one of the shows and had him do it. He was suitably impressed.

So, do I know all the countries? Probably not, but I know where I can go find out.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Which is a very fast song, and the countries are tongue twisters! I give Charlie a lot of credit for memorizing THIS.



Has he memorized the capitals of the states yet?



I heart Animaniacs so much.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Animaniacs. That was it!

It is a hard song, and the guy at the Ren Faire was really impressed that he could do it.

He's not done the states yet. I should offer him money for that as well!

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, they keep inventing new ones when he's not looking :)

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

He actually changed the lyrics to say 'Chech AND Slovicka instead of 'Chechslovica. (However it's spelled. I'm too tired to look it up.)

[theniwokesoftly.livejournal.com]

You should have him memorize the rhyme so that he can recite all the monarchs of England in the correct order. I bet Dave would get a kick out of it, too. It's super easy:

Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three
One, two, three Neds, Richard two
Harries four, five, six, then who?
Edwards four, five, Dick the bad
Harries twain then Ned the lad
Mary, Bessie, James the vain
Charlie, Charlie, James again
William and Mary, Anna gloria
Four Georges, William, then Victoria
Edward, George, then Ned the eighth
Quickly goes and abdicat'th
Leaving George, then Liz the second
And with Charlie next it's reckoned.

(Yes, I just typed that from memory.)

And the presidents in order. That one was harder, I don't know a song for it. I used the Sporcle test where you name them all in no particular order, and then I started using the one where you do name them in order. I can do it in about a minute now.