I Scream
Some H-E-R
Synthetic Biology by Numbers
A Night at the Beach
Two letters of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
200

This director is famous for movies like Psycho, Rear Window, and The Birds.

Who is Alfred Hitchcock?

200

This type of person loves to be alone

What is a hermit?


200

The number of canonical amino acids.

What is 20?

200

This kind of catastrophe is generally feared more than it should be, but it is more common at night as the perpetrators come closer to shore.

What is a shark attack?

200

In other words, "well done Charles!"

What is Bravo Charlie?

400

This type of primate, of genus Alouatta, makes a signature sound that can be heard as many as three miles away through dense rainforest.

What is a howler monkey?

400

The name of a 2022 Taylor Swift song, it's also a type of literary character.

What is Anti-Hero?

400

3.2 billion is the approximate number of these for you.

What are base-pairs in the genome?

400

This kind of night beach activity is heavily regulated, but it's worth it for some delicious smores.

Bonfire / beach fire

400

The only Shakespeare play that fits this category.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

600

The Scream, a famous painting by this Norwegian, was inspired by a walk he had where felt the clouds turned blood red.

Who is (Edvard) Munch?

600

It comes in many forms - physical, behavioral and group, to name a few.

What is therapy?

600

2,20,200, and 1000 are numbers that describe this.

What are micropipette sizes?

600

If you go to certain beaches at night, you might get to witness a beautiful phenomenon, the molecular basis of which was explained by Osamu Shimomura and required dissection of tens of thousands of jellyfish.

What is bioluminescence?

600

The soldiers that won the US Civil War wore this kind of clothing.

What is a Yankee uniform?

800

This famous scream or cry occurred in Mexico on September 16, 1810, and triggered the Mexican War of Independence.

What is the Cry of Dolores (Grito de Dolores)?

800

An old kind of submersible vessel.

What is a bathysphere?

800

These are the sizes of the ribosome's two subunits in Svedbergs.

What are 50S and 30S?

800

This famous author wrote a science fiction story called Nightfall, about a civilization on a planet with multiple suns that is about to experience night for the first time in its history.

Who is Asimov?

800

The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland is this kind of sporting accomodation.

What is a Golf Hotel?

1000

This exaggerated scream is named after a person and is commonly used as a sound effect in several movies and TV shows.

What is the Wilhelm scream?

1000

This 11-letter noun means several small broken bits, usually the result of an explosion.

What are smithereens?

1000

The approximate number of base pairs per turn of DNA.

What is 10?

1000

Stargazing at night is a great activity on the beach. This is a star in the famous constellation Orion that also happens to be the name of a famous biotech.

What is Alnylam?
1000

General Wolfe became one of these by winning the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in the French and Indian War.

What is a Quebec Victor?