REAL MEN OF SCIENCE
POP & ROCK
FRENCH NOVELISTS
GARDENS
WORD ORIGINS
200
'These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist'
a Petri dish
200
'Deepak Chopra performed the 2010 wedding ceremony of Swizz Beatz & this R&B songstress'
Alicia Keys
200
'In 1845, the same year he began "Les Miserables", he was elected a peer of France'
(Victor) Hugo
200
'Built by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, Rikugien Garden in this capital reproduces scenes from famous poems'
Tokyo
200
'This dog, of which there are more than 20 breeds, takes its name from the Latin for "earth"'
a terrier
400
'373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist'
Kelvin
400
'"Bubbly" was a No. 1 single from "Coco", her debut album'
Colbie Caillat
400
'Louise Colet's 1859 novel "Lui" was a scathing account of her relationship with this "Madame Bovary" author'
(Gustave) Flaubert
400
'Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam has over 4 million of these flowers on display showcasing the latest hybrids'
tulips
400
'The name of this ballroom dance with gliding turns comes from German for "roll" or "turn"'
a waltz
600
'Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes'
Aristotle
600
'This indie rock group lit up the charts with its 2010 album "The Suburbs"'
Arcade Fire
600
'This sci-fi writer's "An Antarctic Mystery" attempts to finish Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"'
Jules Verne
600
'A mile-long canal winds through its gardens commissioned by Louis XIV & designed by Andre Le Notre'
Versailles
600
'This word for the art & science of good eating goes back to Greek for "belly"'
gastronomy
800
'With his book & TV show named this, Carl Sagan popularized astronomy for bil--thousands, at least'
Cosmos
800
'It's no "Nightmare"--MTV's 2006 Best New Artist was the metalcore band called Avenged this'
Avenged Sevenfold
800
'This Guy, a master of the short story, also wrote 6 novels, including "Bel-Ami" & "Pierre et Jean"'
Guy de Maupassant
800
'In 1913 his wife Ellen planted the first actual rose garden in the White House's West Garden'
(Woodrow) Wilson
800
'This term for a novice or beginner is from Latin & Greek for "newly planted"'
a neophyte
1000
'Introduced in 1856, his process, using blasts of air to remove impurities, made the mass production of steel possible'
Henry Bessemer
1000
'"Lisztomania" was a 2010 hit for this French band with the name of an American city'
Phoenix
1000
'Before her time with Chopin, she had an affair with Alfred de Musset, a basis for "Elle et Lui"'
George Sand
1000
'Neptune's Fountain & The Abundance are statues found in the Boboli gardens behind this Florentine palace'
Pitti Palace
1000
'Murray Gell-Mann adopted this word for various hypothetical particles from "Finnegan's Wake"'
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