Same Name
Insects with hard shells or a famous British band
Beetles/Beatles
This little miss was sitting and eating a nice snack when an arachnid came and ruined her meal
Little Miss Muffet
The first record of these now internationally revered games was first held in Athens, Greece in 776 BC.
Olympic Games
Alexander Fleming noticed that a mold accidentally contaminated his petri dishes and killed the surrounding bacteria; this medicine became the first widely used antibiotic.
Penicillin
This one-eyed creature was blinded by Odysseus in its own home: a dark, damp cave where the creature kept its sheep.
Cyclops
A classic Thanksgiving staple or a Middle Eastern country
Turkey
While the cow was jumping over the moon and the little dog was laughing about it, these two kitchen items ran away together.
The dish and the spoon
1877 was the first year this tennis event was played.
Wimbledon
Henri Becquerel left uranium salts on photographic plates and noticed they exposed film even in the dark; this led to the knowledge of this dangerous decay process.
Radioactivity
The capture of this woman was the instigation for the Trojan War.
Helen
I/eye
Understandably, the black sheep had a bag full of wool for his master and the maid, but he also had a bag for this third person.
The little boy who lives down the lane
The first recorded game of organized baseball was played at Elysian Fields in 1846 in this state.
New Jersey
Roy Plunkett was trying to make a new refrigerant when he found that a cylinder had unexpectedly formed a slippery white polymer—now used as non-stick coating.
Teflon
This Greek hunter has a constellation named after him.
Orion
Thin strands of hardened protein packed into layers or a small mammal with long ears
Hair/Hare
If you were to get on the bus in the Nursery Song "Wheels on the Bus," this is what the driver would tell you.
"Move on back!"
The National League for this sport was started in the U.S. in 1876.
Baseball
Spencer Silver developed a “failed” weak adhesive at 3M. Years later, Arthur Fry used it to anchor bookmarks in his hymnal, creating these, which are now a common office supply.
Post-it Notes
The Hound of Hades is a three-headed dog also known by this name.
Cerberus
Being in a healthy state of mind or a river in France
Sane/Seine
We know that Jack and Jill were unsuccessful in retrieving their pail of water when they fell down the hill, but these two items, which were part of a home remedy, are what Jack used to treat his injury.
In 1874, the first rugby-style American football game was played between McGill University and this well-known university; the Princeton vs. Rutgers football game had been played five years earlier (in 1869), but held more soccer-style rules.
Harvard
Horace Wells attended a show where this gas was inhaled for fun and noticed it numbed pain.
nitrous oxide / laughing gas
This mortal princess's beauty was so radiant that people across the land began worshiping her as though she were a goddess, which really upset Aphrodite; when Aphrodite sent her son, Eros, to make the princess fall in love with the ugliest creature alive, he accidentally pricked himself and fell in love with her instead.
Psyche