Compound Words, but Harder
Travelling through water in a tuxedo
Swimsuit
The second highest-grossing film of all time
Avengers: Endgame
The rule that for any right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides
Pythagoras's Theorem
Given how he won five Grammys for his diss track in 2025, this musical artist’s feud with another rapper can hardly be considered a minor matter
Kendrick Lamar
This is the term for homogeneous solutions in which water acts as the solvent for one or, known as solutes that are dissolved within it
Aqueous
Cow feed made from flexible metal strands
Haywire
The second highest mountain above sea level
K2
The only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing roughly every 75–76 years
Halley’s Comet
The name of the titular machine from the documentary Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Deep Blue
The British military’s solution to convincing 19th century soldiers to take their quinine antimalarial solution was to serve it with this ration, birthing a classic cocktail
Gin
Shards of ice puncture skin using mouthparts
Frostbite
The second longest river system (including tributaries)
Amazon
A narrative principle emphasising that every introduced element in a story should be necessary for a future plot element
Chekov’s Gun
This figure was assassinated by an agent of his political rival with an ice axe in Mexico City
Leon Trotsky
Despite having 43 quintillion possible configurations, the solution for a Rubik’s Cube can always be attained in this number of moves or less
20
A reactionary card game played by a mythical fire-breathing beast
Snapdragon
The second most common element in the Milky Way Galaxy (estimated spectroscopically)
Helium
The experiment which involved developing a conditioned reflex using a bell
Pavlov’s Dog
Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with this product he bought from a trader named Ea-nāṣir, that he decided to write the oldest customer complaint we know of
Copper
The Sargasso Sea is the recently-confirmed solution to a mystery about this fish’s life cycle
Eels
(American/European)
Circular ring of earth placed over tombs
Wheelbarrow
The second longest serving monarch of a sovereign state with a verifiable reign
Queen Elizabeth II
The philosophy that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one
Occam’s Razor
German brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler split in 1948 over disagreements about their shoe business, going on to establish Adidas and this company respectively
Puma
A fictional version of this animal is the solution to the Sherlock Holmes whodunit The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Snake