In Popular Culture
- A version of the story is told by the song Don Christopher by Indie rock band Bishop Allen on their album November, though the song says that Christopher Columbus "lopped the tip right off the shell."
- The song, titled after the story, The Egg of Columbus is by The Extraordinaires, an Indie band out of Philadelphia, PA, and is featured on their album Electric and Benevolent.
- In the anime series of Lupin the Third film, The Columbus Files, the egg itself is a priceless artifact that was owned by Columbus.
- In the Japanese novel The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe, the egg of Columbus is mentioned several times.
- In the anime series Sora no Otoshimono, the event of Columbus and the balancing of the egg is alluded to.
- The narrator in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the islands of East Egg and West Egg saying, "They are not perfect ovals -- like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end..."
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