Alzheimer Who?

Let's kick it off with a linkage to yesterday's Birdbrain....Aussie PMs since Sharkbait-

Have Most Good Men Wished For Higher Knowledge, Having Ruled Gracefully?

Nitpick re Hogwarts - Shouldn't "Great Publicity" be "Great Fame" ?

Summer Olympic host cities (from most recent back to 1972)-

Broadcasting Amateur Sporting Achievements Before Seriously Large Mass Media Markets

Winter Olympic host cities-

Very Traditional Skiing Nations Love Any Cold Sport

Dr Who actors

How to pick best Doctor ? By mentally marking each Tardis scene.

If I may extend the first of your brilliant two offerings SK, and take it all the way to 1952

...Manages To Raise Mercenary Hopes.

This is actually useful stuff DA!
In my memory's case, just the initials wouldn't recall all the Melbourne Cup winners' names, so I've tried to reflect their whole names as much as possible as well (and I'm going to use this - ta for the idea)

America’s shocking viewpoint efficiently dealt Melbourne’s most memorable media event brouhahas recalling Jehovah’s might and power.

Americaine
Shocking
Viewed
Efficient
Delta Blues
Makybe Diva
Makybe Diva
Makybe Diva
Media Puzzle
Ethereal
Brew
Rogan Josh
Jezabeel
Might And Power

followed by....
Saint Dorothy, jabbing Vincent, suggested “Let’s Elope”

Saintly
Doriemus
Jeune
Vintage Crop
Subzero
Let’s Elope

So for the second most important position in Australian society, from Ponting to Benaud -

Playing With The Bat Horizontal, Cleanly Cut Last Six Boundaries

(not including stand-in captains)

Thanks Mauve, and I like your renovation.

James Bond actors (both initials) in chronological order (including the great man twice, as per the film order)-

Suave, Cavalier, Good Looking Spy Can't Resist Maidens, Their Defining Points Being Dangerous Curves

To help remember what your next hard drive will be measured in -

All Floating Point Numerical Measurements May Change Denomination - Depends How Known Magnitude Gives Technical Prefix, Eliminating Zeros.

(SI unit prefixes: atto, femto, pico, nano, micro, milli, centi, deci, deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta)

Rugby World Cup winners (since inception...and I hope the All Blacks don't win again..."z" words are tough)-

No Zealous Anglo Supporter Asks About England's Scrum Abomination

Picking up on a recently professed musical interest of yours DA (and one I share)

Progressive, Haunting Tunes By Offbeat Composers - Keen Audiophiles Appreciate Hearing Tangled, Intricate Rhythms

(Radiohead albums: Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows)

Last comment was mine - computer lost the name...

Simon L - I know they marked a low point in Australian cricket but what about Bob Simpson's second term and Graham Yallop ?

As with the Birdbrain I'll Americanise SK's suggestion with the following rhyming Presidential mnemonic going back to the war:

Old blokes: chilly but rarely cool
For now, just keep expecting to rule

Man speaks English in di subcontinent after being exported rushing jargon.

(More than 100 million native speakers)
Mandarin, Spanish, Eng, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese

(A thing of the past...the library and Dewy's legacy?)

Book a computer [000's Computer science, information & general works]
For it might suffice
Or fill your head [100's Philosophy and psychology]
With stuff on Christ [200's Religion]

See some people [300's Social sciences]
Watch them play
Or watch their tongues [400's Languages]
And what they say

Decipher signs [500's Science..]
Or add to toys [ Maths 600's Technology/Applied Science]
Sing out loud
Make some noise [700's Arts and recreation]

Each great writer [800's Literature]
Each great sage
Each great story [900's History...
Each great stage

Find a place [Geography...]
To read your text
A hero's birth
And what came next [Biography]

* note first verse starts with B for Book and then "C",'D', 'E' etc

Mr X, I deemed Simpson's second captaincy and Yallop to be WSC induced interludes to the Chappell-Hughes era.

Here's one for any poor souls who have to recall past Governors-General (both initials), starting from our current rep, and going back to the excitement of 1975...

Queen's Best Man (John) Promptly Had Whitlam Dumped. We Heard News Saying Zero Constitutional Justification Known

Eurovision Song Contest-winning nations from 2010 to 2002:

Glitzy, numbingly-repetitive songs frequently get us to laugh

...or if you prefer to remember William Hayden as Bill, amend my earlier offering to-

Queen's Best Man (John) Promptly Had Whitlam Dumped. Breaking Headline News Story- Zero Constitutional Justification Known.

The seven setters thru a Herald week:

Every Person Reckons My Domain Has Dazzling Posts, New-Style Diversions And Dynamic Solutions.

Arrgh i just wiped these. From memory :

12 Days Xmas=

December's Presents Look a Little Dear. Maybe Sweden's Giving a Little Gold Ring. Can (i) Buy Friends Here Through Donating Party Pies?

Poker Hands=

So Fantastic Fo(u)r King's Fool. He's Flushed Straight Through T(w)o the Ocean

Chinese Astrology Years since 2000=

Y2K DRew SNores. HOwever SHaky MOst RObots DO PIng RArely On TImes RAndom

Y2K DRew SNores. HOwever SHaky MOst RObots DO PIng RArely On TImes RAndom (bits)*

*to distinguish between Rats and Rabbits

As aspiring clue mongers (clue manglers), we find it vital to to be able to recall the various cryptic recipes. While it's somewhat arbitrary, the contents of DA's Puzzled seems as good a place to start as any. In case you've mislaid your copy:

Anagrams; Charades; Containers; Hiddens; Double meanings; Homophones; Deletions; Alternations;Codes; Exotics; Manipulations; Puns; Reversals; Spoonerisms; Rebuses; &Lits; Hybrids

All Crossword Compilers Have Difficulty Heeding Directions. All Crossword Editors Must Promote Rules, Submit Revisions & Love Haranguing.

(Present company excepted).

Star signs and their main month:

Jan's Con - Find Aqua's Main Piece of Awful Art. Maybe Try June's Gym. Julie Can't Always Leave Stealing Vinyl. Only Libraries Now Score Deplorable Sap.

African countries...starting top left clockwise around coastline:

Many Africans Truly Lack Education. So Every Day Some Kids Try Making Something New. Anyway, Democracy Creates Great Educational Chances. Never Being Taught Grammar Isn't Letting Students Get Great Grades in Senegal. Mothers Want Schools.

then the landlocked countries (clockwise top again):

underAchieving Mainly overBearing, Needy Children Central to Africa left Suddenly Everywhere. Suddenly underUsing Real Books left Most Males Zig Zagging in reverse. But Zipping above South Africa Let Something inside.

DA, the ex-Pom in me feels compelled to raise a minor quibble about your attempt to write England out of world cup history. Not to mention Uruguay.

In the order in which they are first introduced:

Dwarves Bilbo Kindly Fed, Debating Nonetheless Over Ousting Guests Beggars Belief. Baggins, Thief!

GymBunnies - As if I'd leave out Uruguay. I lived there for four months, and loved it. (The FIFA list was the last seven champs only, not the full megillah.)

A variation on the Fairfax setters, using a different approach:

Equip Rum (Dutch Drop), Nurtures Dimboola Drunks

So including all World Cup winners since the get-go (and noting Germany won twice as WG, and once as unified)-

Under Its Ideal, Ultimate "World-Game" Banner, Being Extensively Broadcast, Well-Groomed Athletes Indulgently Accept Giant Bonuses, Fringe Benefits, Inflated Salaries.

"Best Picture" Academy Award winners of the 21st century in this self-critical offering:

God Almighty ! Bloody mnemonics can't teach remembering or truly kick my dead brain cells to dynamic new capacity. For Oscar movies, surely memorising this has limits.

DA, may I suggest an alternative for your Fairfax compilers (with tongue firmly in cheek, and noting I'm a Herald, rather than Age reader)-

Enjoying Puzzles, Reading My Daily Herald, Despite Particularly Nasty Setters Deterring Any Devoted Solvers.

Following Mr X's lead on a rhyming mnemonic, and completing the Anglo/US/Aussie alliance with a list of British PMs going back to the war (with apologies to any dieting Palace guards)-

Could Beefeaters Be Made To Carry Wide Hips,
When Die-Hard Meatlovers Eat Chicken And Chips?

THE BRADY BUNCH
Good Manners, Perky Joviality... But Creepy.
[Greg, Martia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, Cindy]

Seven Dwarfs Go Home, Discover Servantile(?) Broad.
[Sneezy, Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey]

TABLE OF ELEMENTS:
Hastily HE LIes BEneath
But Condom Not On...
Fumbles NErvously NAbbing MaGnums,
ALready SIghs Prematurely-
Sexual Climax Aroused.
Kamasutra Can Scintillatingly Titillate:
Violet CRumbles, MaNy FEminine COaxings,
NIce CUddles, ZeN GArdens,
GEraniums ASsembled...
SEx = BRain KRyptonite.

Also while prime ministers are on topic, here's my video I mentioned on Letters & Numbers, David. 50 years of Australian leaders- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVHSDz1y0s

nib - maverick as usual. And Stormers in general, another blizzard of the first [frozen] water.

Must apologise for being off-site with this one, as I've only just recovered from a PC crash, needing a man in a van to spend some time with a defragger.

Back in action this morning -

Just had another look at my British PMs and didn't like it. So here's another attempt...more relevant to the topic...and going in the other direction, ie from Winston's first term until present day-

Churchill And Co. Excelled, Most Die-Hards Wonder,
How Westminster's Current Team Make Baffled Brits Chunder.

I know the bar has closed, but I couldn't resist a late entry after the politics of early this morning. World Cup host nations from 2022 (sob) going back to Blighty-

Questions Remain Because Self-Appointed Gods (Securing Kickbacks) Judge Football's Ultimate Setting. I Maintain Suspicion About "World-Game" Management Ethics.

^ Nice. :)
I guess they were a Qatarbove the rest.