Alliteration
Following the first (and so far only) invocation of NATO's article 5, some nations opposed the invoking party's military responses. In a petty protest, many restaurants and even government cafeterias adopted this name for a certain preparation of potatoes.
Freedom Fries
Nietsche coined an appropriate, if perhaps a bit obvious, name to describe the ideal to which humanity should ascribe itself. It is unconfirmed if a similarly uncreatively named DC hero was named after this concept - the creators never confirmed it.
Superman
A weakened version of this conjecture is now a Millenium problem. A slightly different weakening was recently proved false by our very own Philip Milton Engel.
Integral Hodge conjecture
It's not obviously Cajun cuisine, but the modern implementation of this matroyshka-style Thanksgiving... centerpiece seems to descend from Louisiana. John Madden ate one (or part of one) during a Saints-Rams game in 1996.
Turducken
This combat sport is iconically, if not especially frequently, paired with chess.
Boxing
Home to cultural icons including, but not limited to, Chicago's Consulate of Mexico, UIC's Molecular Biology Research Building, a Costco, and Clay and Theo's apartment, this street roughly separates the approximation of a nightlife found on Taylor street from the medical district.
Ashland avenue
Another direct connection! It's incredibly common knowledge that the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles were named after Italian Rennaissance artists. This turtle in particular is certainly better known than his artist counterpart, known variously for his works David (1408-09) and Pazzi Madonna (1425-30), in marble.
Donatello
The Mertens conjecture states, roughly, that the Möbius function approximately alternates between +1 and -1. It was proven false in the 1980's, which was disappointing in part because it would have proven this much more famous open problem true.
The Riemann Hypothesis
Napolean Bonaparte's favorite animal has unfortunately been lost to history. Napoleon Dynamite's favorite, on the other hand, is very well documented as being this hybrid.
Liger
1930, Montevideo, Uruguay. A YMCA instructor invents Futsal, an indoor version of this other sport, very popular in its continent of origin.
Soccer (Fútbol if you like)
It's likely that more people know the name Charles Manson than about his particular crimes. Conversely, more people know about the flavoraid-based mass suicide in this cult leader's Guyana colony than know the man himself.
Jim Jones
The British Museum contains many fascinating exhibits, some of them even acquired legitimately! You wouldn't want to confuse their giant squid for his klutzy mid-century high school redhead namesake.
Archie
Fermat's last theorem is, famously, a conjecture proven right. This renowned mathematician, better known for other work, conjectured a strengthening: if n many kth powers sum to a kth power, then n is at least k.
Leonhard Euler
In the marshes of northwestern Europe,
Benelux
Pencak Silat is a full-body combat sport. It has a greater emphasis on weapons than other martial arts of its region, and is most popular in this archipelagic equatorial country.
Indonesia
It's not often that there's a revolution in technique for a sport as old as the high jump. Nevertheless, this reversal of then-conventional wisdom was introduced in 1968 and has been the standard technique since.
Fosbury Flop
A direct connection! This good-hearted bird was given a name four years after his first appearance, after a then-recent music festival.
Woodstock
Though he never published this conjecture, it is named after this mathematician, better known for his work with urns.
Pólya
Chapaguri is a metaportmanteau, a combination from Neoguri and another brand of instant ramen, which is itself a portmanteau of jajangmyon and what distinctly non-Korean noodle dish
Cricket is certainly a very popular sport, but not so much in the US. In fact, this college is the only one to have a varsity cricket team in the country.
Haverford college
King of Norway in the mid 11th century, he died to his namesake Godwinson in York, marking the end of the Viking Age. He lives on though as the leader of Norway in several different iterations of Sid Meier's Civilization.
Harald Hardrada
Tourists to Australia might be surprised to see various streets and parks, named after John, a noted colonist and massacrist. Not least of which because he shares his name with a superhero known for an aesthetic in direct contrast to the joyful, sunny vibe of Melbourne beaches.
Batman
Hilbert's problems were mostly stated in noncommittal ways, so it's hard to say they were proven wrong. One of them though, was "Find a way to determine if a diophantine equation has solutions," whose premise was proven false since in fact it is uncomputable. What number was it?
10
Colonialism, for all its faults, is fantastic at coming up with insensitive portmanteau names. Tanzania is one of these - a portmanteau of what other two placenames?
Tanganyika and Zanzibar
This traditional Irish sport, a variant on Gaelic football, involves hitting a slioter with a camán.
Hurling