History
Matthew
“Royalty”
Physics
Cliffs Notes
100

For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man’s theory.

Copernicus

100

Chandler Bing

Matthew Perry

100
He is the eldest son of Prince Charles and the late Diana Spencer; 3rd in line to the British Throne

Prince William

100
The distance from crest to crest of a wave.

Wavelength

100

Poet goes to hell; then purgatory (where he meets an old flame); then heaven! 

The Divine Comedy

200

First Lady Helen Taft led a fund-raising drive for a memorial to this 1912 marine disaster.

Titanic

200

Jesus found him sitting at the receipt of customs collecting taxes

Matthew

200

“Royal” name of the singer & guitarist who wast first popular in the 1980s and performed at the 2007 Super Bowl

Prince

200

The Space Age began in 1957 when Russia launched this satellite.

Sputnik

200
Mysterious rich guy throws lavish parties to impress old flame; gets shot; dies

The Great Gatsby

300

During the third of these military expeditions, the Palestinian ports of Acre & Jaffa were captured, but not Jerusalem

Crusades

300

This Texan was “Dazed and Confused” before starring in “Contact” & ”Amistad”

Matthew McConaughey

300
She starred in “Charlie’s Angels’ and was the voice of Princess Fiona in “Shrek”

Cameron Diaz

300

The unit of magnetic flux abbreviated Mx was named for this physicist.

James Clerk Maxwell

300

Achilles goes into a snit when the king steals his babe; he doesn’t get over it for several hundred pages.

The Iliad

400

In 1578, a Mongolian ruler first gave the leader of Tibet’s Yellow Hat sect of Buddhism to this title

Dalai Lama

400

Most famous for playing Shaggy in the live-action “Scooby Doo”; ”He’s only used 1% of his power”

Matthew Lillard

400

Royal family name of Henry VIII

Tudor

400

A famous and respected physicist and author at Cornell; He wrote the introduction and foreword of Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time”.

Carl Sagan

400

Depressed prince can’t decide whether to kill nasty uncle until the end of Act V (should have done it sooner ngl)

Hamlet

500

This czar established a parliament called the Duma

Nicholas II

500

In 1909 a white dude, 4 Eskimos, & this man reached the North Pole.

Matthew Henson

500
This 4-time Oscar nominee played as Queen Mary in “Mary Queen of Scotts” alongside Margot Robie

Saoirse Ronan (Sir-sha Row-nan)

500

These theorized subatomic particles take their name from James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”

Quarks

500

Bad day for a wedding: Her fiance is already married, and his wife is nuts!

Jane Eyre