Memorizing trivia

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I am torn on what technique i should use for memorizing trivia. I’ve read a couple of topics abour trivial pursuit on here but it did’nt really seal the deal on what approach i want to take. When memorizing history i use mostly the same approach as Jonas von essen @Snillsparv. I think just popping in trivia related to a specific year in the timeline memory journey will work great. The problem appears when the trivia is more random. For example if i want to memorize the answers to all questions in a trivial pursuit. Then i would not be able to place them on the timeline journey because many questions are not related to years. For example “Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?”.
There are also many different fields of questions, history, geography, music, movies, science and so on. Therefore it would be nice to make one memory palace each for different fields. But that takes alot of loci to make and planning if I want to expand it later which will make it really time consuming to create.
I think i’ve heard some people just take a random loci that connects to the question and then place the anser in that loci. But I don’t like that idea since it’s annoying if that takes loci from other potential memory palace and because I feel like the question has to be formulated in the specifik way as the question from the trivial pursuit, for me to be able to retreive that knowledge.

These was just some of my initial thoughts when approaching this challenge and I would be happy with any tips on how to do it.

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Maybe a memory palace is not the best approach for something like this.

You could try creating a vivid scene based on keywords of the question, and then have some kind of change or progression of the scene happen based on the keywords of the answer.

This way you rely on reading the question and recognizing those keywords to trigger your scene recall and subsequent answer.

This is what @Jos1432 did for some exam questions recently with a great result! (Thread here: Can someone help me memorize this? )

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Ye i think this might be the way to go and i haven’t worked at all with more complex story creating to memorize (the most being like PAO). It will be a fun challenge.

I just have one question i think, and that is if you have the scene playing in a void or just in a fabricated place that fits the story you’re creating.

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Whatever seems to work for you. It might be good to imagine the scene in a context that makes sense for the content. So if its a fact about cows it could take place on a farm or something. The keywords and the images they invoke should be the main focus.

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Dominic O’Brien explains his technique for this in How to Develop a Perfect Memory. It’s golden.

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I see.
Could you summarize it quickly?