Memory Techniques Worksheet: Memory Palace
Memory tip (Put it in its place): Steps: choose a place you know → fix stops in order → put pictures at stops → walk the route to recall. Always walk the stops in the same order — that is what keeps your list in order. More items than stops? Add stops. A new list? Put new pictures on the same stops.
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- 1.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place a goat by the park gate, an orange by the post box, a frog by the banyan tree, a tomato by the swing, a ball by the fruit cart. What did you place by the swing? (a) tomato (b) orange (c) ball (d) frog
- 2.🏰 You have 10 items but your route has only 5 stops. What helps? (a) use no route (b) skip 5 items (c) add more stops (d) put all at one stop
- 3.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a net by the classroom door, a van by the stairs, a cat by the teacher’s desk, a pencil by the blackboard, an orange by the library. Walking the route, which item do you meet first? (a) cat (b) pencil (c) van (d) orange
- 4.🏰 What is another name for the memory palace? (a) the rhyme method (b) the pomodoro (c) chunking (d) the method of loci
- 5.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or choose a place you know? (a) walk the route to recall (b) choose a place you know
- 6.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place an igloo by the fruit cart, a monkey by the swing, a coconut by the park gate, a ball by the banyan tree, a fan by the post box. What did you place by the post box? (a) ball (b) igloo (c) fan (d) coconut
- 7.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: choose a place you know? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 4
- 8.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: walk the route to recall? (a) step 1 (b) step 3 (c) step 2 (d) step 4
- 9.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: put pictures at stops? (a) step 1 (b) step 2 (c) step 3 (d) step 4
- 10.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide. You place a jeep by the banyan tree, a violin by the park gate, a ladder by the swing, a frog by the slide, an inkpot by the fruit cart. What did you place by the fruit cart? (a) jeep (b) frog (c) violin (d) inkpot
- 11.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a cat by the door, a lamp by the shoe rack, an owl by the TV, a van by the dining table, a mirror by the sofa. Where did you place the cat? (a) sofa (b) shoe rack (c) dining table (d) door
- 12.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place a vase by the bus stop, a lamp by the fruit cart, a van by the post box, a parrot by the banyan tree, a jeep by the park gate. What did you place by the fruit cart? (a) parrot (b) lamp (c) van (d) jeep
- 13.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place an orange by the stairs, a sock by the notice board, a jug by the teacher’s desk, a rope by the classroom door, a ladder by the blackboard. Where did you place the rope? (a) notice board (b) classroom door (c) teacher’s desk (d) stairs
- 14.🏰 Which place makes the best memory palace? (a) one you never saw (b) a blank wall (c) one you know very well (d) a random new city
- 15.🏰 Can you use the same palace again for a new list? (a) only for numbers (b) only once a year (c) no, never (d) yes, with new pictures
- 16.🏰 Why must the stops always be in the same order? (a) no reason (b) to make it longer (c) it looks nice (d) to keep the order
- 17.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or fix stops in order? (a) put pictures at stops (b) fix stops in order
- 18.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place a kettle by the bus stop, a key by the park gate, a sock by the post box, a lamp by the banyan tree, a ball by the fruit cart. What did you place by the bus stop? (a) kettle (b) key (c) ball (d) sock
- 19.🏰 Which step of the memory palace is this: fix stops in order? (a) step 2 (b) step 1 (c) step 3 (d) step 4
- 20.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or put pictures at stops? (a) walk the route to recall (b) put pictures at stops
- 21.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: fix stops in order or choose a place you know? (a) fix stops in order (b) choose a place you know
- 22.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a duck by the notice board, an ant by the teacher’s desk, a lemon by the stairs, a drum by the classroom door, a net by the blackboard. Where did you place the lemon? (a) classroom door (b) blackboard (c) stairs (d) teacher’s desk
- 23.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: put pictures at stops or choose a place you know? (a) put pictures at stops (b) choose a place you know
- 24.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a jug by the stairs, a rose by the blackboard, a nest by the teacher’s desk, a ladder by the notice board, a net by the classroom door. What did you place by the blackboard? (a) ladder (b) nest (c) rose (d) jug
- 25.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide → bench. You place an ant by the park gate, a bucket by the swing, a duck by the fruit cart, a flute by the slide, a drum by the bench. Where did you place the flute? (a) park gate (b) bench (c) swing (d) slide
- 26.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: door → shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table. You place a lamp by the TV, an onion by the sofa, a bucket by the shoe rack, a frog by the dining table, a watch by the door. What did you place by the sofa? (a) frog (b) lamp (c) onion (d) watch
- 27.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a drum by the notice board, an umpire by the stairs, a flute by the teacher’s desk, a parrot by the blackboard, a lamp by the classroom door. What did you place by the teacher’s desk? (a) flute (b) umpire (c) parrot (d) lamp
- 28.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place an umpire by the teacher’s desk, a violin by the stairs, a tiger by the library, a frog by the blackboard, a whistle by the classroom door. What did you place by the library? (a) tiger (b) whistle (c) frog (d) violin
- 29.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place an anchor by the classroom door, a nest by the blackboard, a fan by the teacher’s desk, an inkpot by the stairs, a banana by the notice board. What did you place by the teacher’s desk? (a) inkpot (b) nest (c) banana (d) fan
- 30.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard → library. You place a tent by the teacher’s desk, an urn by the blackboard, an umbrella by the classroom door, a rope by the library, a lamp by the stairs. Where did you place the tent? (a) stairs (b) blackboard (c) teacher’s desk (d) library
- 31.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen. You place an anchor by the dining table, a sock by the kitchen, a van by the shoe rack, a banana by the sofa, a goat by the TV. Walking the route, which item do you meet fifth? (a) sock (b) goat (c) anchor (d) van
- 32.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing. You place a shoe by the banyan tree, an onion by the fruit cart, a whistle by the post box, an urn by the park gate, a mirror by the swing. What did you place by the swing? (a) shoe (b) urn (c) whistle (d) mirror
- 33.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: walk the route to recall or fix stops in order? (a) walk the route to recall (b) fix stops in order
- 34.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: choose a place you know or put pictures at stops? (a) choose a place you know (b) put pictures at stops
- 35.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate → swing → slide. You place a spoon by the park gate, a jug by the fruit cart, a jeep by the swing, a pencil by the banyan tree, a coconut by the slide. What did you place by the swing? (a) jeep (b) pencil (c) jug (d) spoon
- 36.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: choose a place you know or fix stops in order? (a) choose a place you know (b) fix stops in order
- 37.🏰 In the memory palace method, which comes first: fix stops in order or walk the route to recall? (a) fix stops in order (b) walk the route to recall
- 38.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your school: notice board → stairs → classroom door → teacher’s desk → blackboard. You place a coconut by the teacher’s desk, a pencil by the stairs, a jug by the blackboard, a radio by the classroom door, a kite by the notice board. What did you place by the blackboard? (a) kite (b) jug (c) pencil (d) radio
- 39.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your walk to the park: bus stop → post box → banyan tree → fruit cart → park gate. You place a ladder by the park gate, a shoe by the banyan tree, an orange by the fruit cart, a cat by the bus stop, an ant by the post box. Walking the route, which item do you meet second? (a) ant (b) cat (c) ladder (d) shoe
- 40.🏰 Memory palace — your route through your home: shoe rack → sofa → TV → dining table → kitchen. You place an umbrella by the shoe rack, a bucket by the TV, a doll by the kitchen, a coconut by the dining table, a duck by the sofa. What did you place by the sofa? (a) umbrella (b) duck (c) bucket (d) doll
Answer key
- tomato
- add more stops
- van
- the method of loci
- choose a place you know
- fan
- step 1
- step 4
- step 3
- inkpot
- door
- lamp
- classroom door
- one you know very well
- yes, with new pictures
- to keep the order
- fix stops in order
- kettle
- step 2
- put pictures at stops
- choose a place you know
- stairs
- choose a place you know
- rose
- slide
- onion
- flute
- tiger
- fan
- teacher’s desk
- sock
- mirror
- fix stops in order
- choose a place you know
- jeep
- choose a place you know
- fix stops in order
- jug
- ant
- duck
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