Non North American people - how many Great Lakes can you name?

They’re all listed, all in one place, at Exodus 1:1-5.

. . . Donner or Donder. (I’ve always known the name as Donder, but various sources I’ve seen claim Donner.)

. . . Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon . . .

Remember Lyndon Johnson?

I tried that, but gave up. Seems I wasn’t quite the Carrollmaniac after all. See, BTW, this: The Vulture and the Husbandman, parody of The Walrus and the Carpenter.

When I was in 6th grade, we had to memorize all of the state capitols. I’ve long since forgotten most of that, but if you show me an outline map of the United States, I can fill in all 50 states in all the right places (with the possible confusion of, maybe, Maryland and Delaware).

Show me a similar map of Europe, and I could fill in all of Western Europe and perhaps most of Eastern Europe. South America, I could name a few and get them in the right place.

Show me a similar map of Africa, and I’ll be lucky if I can find just Egypt and maybe South Africa.

I know the presidents too. I can also rattle off the alphabet backwards. Quickly.

I know “Jabberwocky.” Also, all the words to the songs from the Gilligan’s Island musical version of Hamlet.

And I know three different tunes for Ashrei.

This used to be required in most states in the US around the fifth or sixth grade. I had to learn it in the fifth grade in NY, and so did the kids I went to high school with in Indiana. I can also place all the states, and spell them. I think this is one of the things that got dropped in a lot of places for computer literacy and other 21st century-type skills, because GenX seems to be the last generation to have learned this in school. I met a kid around 2005 who had learned all the state capitals on his own, and was very proud of himself. He was about 12.

Fifth grade, we had to know the states in alphabetical order, all the state capitals, and all the counties in Maryland, and the preamble to the constitution. Around that time I memorized Jabborwocky on my own. Did not retain any of that past the around age 25.

I could do a quarter decent job of drawing a map of the US, but I’d have trouble in the midwestern states.

Actually, threads like this demonstrate that I might just be getting old. In posting that outline map the Unites States (all 50 of which I can correctly place, right?), I took a closer look and saw that <gasp> there were a few more that I couldn’t think of. Arrrrrrgh! I don’t need threads like this in my life! :frowning:

For state capitols there’s a handy song.

All but I have an advantage having boated all 5.