Men of Science
Watery Songs
House Party
Out of Con Text
I just want a lover like any other
100

These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist

Petri

100

Arthur Freed published the lyrics to this in the 1920s but it took another 2 decades plus for Gene Kelly to immortalize it

Singin' in the rain

100

This house in Massachusetts is actually on Turner Street, not Pyncheon Street as in the 1851 novel

House of Seven Gables

100

A memoir:
"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut"

Orange is the new black

100

Trust your friends--don't pass up this type of set-up evening, also the title of several TV shows including one Nikki Glaser hosted

Blind date

200

373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientis

Kelvin

200

In 1984 Prince "never meant 2 cause U any sorrow" with this colorful tune

Purple rain

200

Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber

A gingerbread house

200

By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy"

The Green Mile
200

Despite the pandemic & post-#MeToo caution, the organization SHRM says 1/3 of American workers have found love here

At work

300

Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes

Ptomely

300

In 1970 this "Travelin' Band" wondered "Who'll Stop The Rain"

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)

300

Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's first movie was titled "House of 1000" these

Corpses

300

This 1849 work says, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is... prison"

Civil Disobedience

300

You're a Gemini? An astrologer might suggest a lover born under this water bearer sign for a really deep connection

Aquarius

400

Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet

Saturn

400

"I Go Swimming" appeared on the album this British singer plays live

Peter Gabriel

400

From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment

Ecology

400

"Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison"

The Count of Monte Cristo

400

Maybe you'll find one on this app with a buzzy name, founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd

Bumble


500

Introduced in 1855, his process using blasts of air to remove impurities made the mass production of steel possible

Bessemer

500

The 2 title items in this Carpenters tune, No. 2 in '71, "always get me down"

Rainy days and mondays

500

In 1899 the first juvenile court in the nation was organized at this Chicago house co-founded by Jane Addams

Hull House

500

"At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts"

Crime & Punishment

500

Just remember that the root of this word for a strong, often one-sided attachment is Latin fatuus, "foolish"

Infatuation