# List memorization for the Complete Nerd **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-memorization-for-the-complete-nerd/346513 "2006-02-28T20:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-memorization-for-the-complete-nerd/346513/21 "2006-03-03T04:33:11Z")
> [@Hooleehootoo](#): > > What I may do next is use that to learn the opponents in the elections (Who did FDR beat in '32, '36, '40, '44?) or the Vice-Presidents. By all means, do the Vice-Presidents. Until you know Richard M. Nixon from Richard M. Johnson and Cactus Jack Garner from Sunny Jim Sherman, you can’t be certified as a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-memorization-for-the-complete-nerd/346513/22 "2006-03-03T16:35:11Z")
I’ll second the Animaniacs “Nations of the World” song. I’m going to memorize that one for fun one of these days. I like memorizing favorite song lyrics/poetry myself, because it’s artistically rewarding and can be really impressive too. I once nearly picked up a guy (at my bachleorette party, so I wasn’t really looking…) because we discovered that we both knew all the words to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” (I have since I was about 13, long before I knew what it all meant, too!) Wikipedia has a “List of lists,” also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_lists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-memorization-for-the-complete-nerd/346513.md?page=1)