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Units and Their Namesakes
100
This capital of the Lone Star state is home to the Longhorns of collegiate athletics.
Austin, TX
100
Produced by Quincy Jones, this 1982 best-selling record featured seven singles which all reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "P.Y.T.," and the title track.
Thriller by Michael Jackson
100
Byzantium and Constantinople are among the many names in the history of this Bosporus-straddling city.
Istanbul, Turkey
100
1888 in London + 19th-century English criminals + Crimes adapted into films + English serial killers + History of the City of London + History of the City of London Police History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets + History of the Metropolitan Police + London crime history + Murder in London + Nicknames in crime + People of the Victorian era + Unidentified British serial killers + Whitechapel
Jack the Ripper
100
This SI unit is named after William Thomson, 1st Baron ____ (A.K.A. Lord ____), a British mathematical physicist and engineer, who determined the correct value of the coldest possible temperature, absolute zero, to be approximately −273.15 degrees Celsius.
kelvin (K)
Lord Kelvin
200
This capital of the Empire State is the oldest surviving settlement of the original British Thirteen Colonies north of Virginia.
Albany, NY
200
This 1980 Australian hard rock album featured an all-black cover designed as a "sign of mourning" for Bon Scott, the band's previous singer who died after the release of Highway to Hell, and was the first album of the band to feature Brian Johnson as lead singer.
Back in Black by AC/DC
200
This megacity's former Portuguese name Bombaim was anglicized in the 17th century as Bombay, a name which was changed in 1995 by the Marathi regionalist city government.
Mumbai, India
200
1831 French novels + Cultural depictions of Louis XI of France + Fictional characters with disabilities + French Gothic novels + French novels adapted into films + French novels adapted into operas + French novels adapted into plays + French novels adapted into television shows + Novels about cities + Novels about disability + Novels adapted into ballets + Novels adapted into comics + Novels adapted into radio programs + Novels adapted into video games + Novels by Victor Hugo + Novels set in Paris + Novels set in the 1480s + Novels set in the Middle Ages + Romantic novels + Works set in cathedrals
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
200
This SI unit is named after James Prescott ____, an English physicist who discovered the relationship between heat and mechanical work, which led to the law of conservation of energy.
joule (J)
James Prescott Joule
300
This capital of the Garden State is known as "The Turning Point of the Revolution."
Trenton, NJ
300
This 1973 English progressive/psychedelic rock album features an iconic album cover inspired by a graphic in a physics textbook, and contains the song "Brain Damage," with lyrics concerning the mental illness of the band's former leader Syd Barrett.
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
300
This city was known as Saigon until it was renamed in 1976 to comemmorate a communist revolutionary who founded the Indochinese Communist Party.
Ho Chi Minh City
300
1531 in science + 1607 in science + 1682 in science + 1759 in science + 1835 in science + 1910 in science + 1986 in science + 2061 in science + Astronomical objects known since antiquity + Comets visited by spacecraft + Great comets + Mark Twain + Meteor shower progenitors + Near-Earth comets + Numbered comets Periodic comets + Star of Bethlehem
Halley's Comet
300
This SI unit is named after Georg ____, a German mathematician and physicist who found that the electric current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
ohm (Ω)
Georg Ohm
400
This capital of the Old Line State is home to the largest annual crab feast in the world.
Annapolis, MD
400
This 1971 rock album by an English band has no official title, but has a name it's commonly known by. The band's four members each chose a symbol to represent himself on the album's packaging instead of a name. The album features the songs "Stairway to Heaven" and "When the Levee Breaks".
Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
400
This city located on the Baltic Sea was known as Leningrad from 1924 until 1991, when it was renamed in honor of the first bishop of Rome in Eastern Christian (as well as Catholic) tradition.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
400
1590s plays + British plays adapted into films + Cultural depictions of Theseus + English Renaissance plays + Fiction about shapeshifting + Metafictional plays + Plays about fairies + Plays about kings + Plays about queens + Plays adapted into operas + Plays based on Metamorphoses + Plays set in Athens + Plays set in ancient Greece + Plays set in forests + Shakespearean comedies + Works based on classical literature
A Midsummer Night's Dream
400
This SI unit is named after Charles-Augustin de ____, a French officer, engineer, and physicist who discovered that the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
coulomb (C)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
500
This capital of the Green Mountain State can trace its name to the Francophilia resulting from the Franco-American alliance of the Revolutionary War.
Montpelier, VT
500
This 1977 pop rock album by a British-American group was notably recorded during a period of emotional hardship in the band, with two couples in the band breaking up and the drummer discovering his wife's affair with his best friend. All four of its singles reached the Billboard Top 10, including "Go Your Own Way" and "Dreams".
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
500
This fourth-most populous capital city in the world was named Léopoldville in honor of Leopold II of Belgium from 1881 until 1966, when its pre-colonial name was restored by President Mobutu Sese Seko.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
500
Crones + Fairy tale stock characters + Female characters in fairy tales + Female literary villains + Fictional characters introduced in 1755 + Fictional characters who use magic + Mythological cannibals + Russian folklore characters + Slavic folklore characters + Ugliness + Ukrainian fairy tales + Ukrainian mythology + Villains in mythology and legend + Witchcraft in Ukraine + Witchcraft in folklore and mythology + Women in Russian mythology
Baba Yaga
500
This SI unit is named after André-Marie ____, a French mathematician and physicist and one of the founders of classic electromagnetism.
ampere (A)
André-Marie Ampère