Compound Words
Award-Winning
Named After Places
Series
Mysteries
100

Setting up a tent to sack an employee

Campfire

100

This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2019, becoming the first non-English-language film to do so

Parasite

100

A Chinese specialty dish characterised by its thin, crispy skin and is often eaten with spring onion, cucumber, sweet bean sauce and thin dough pancakes

Peking Duck

100

The ninth installment of this initially grounded film series involved reaching space with a rocket-propelled car

Fast & Furious

100

The hairy subject purportedly shown on 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film

Bigfoot

200

Boats sail on marijuana

Seaweed

200

This titan in the scientific field is the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes - a shared 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Marie Curie

200

A vegetable resembling diminutive cabbages

Brussels Sprouts

200

This educational TV series with a colourful cast of fuzzy characters first aired in 1969

Sesame Street

200

In 1518, between 50 and 400 people took to this activity uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end in Strasbourg, Alsace

Dancing

300

A baby hen in a pod

Chickpea

300

Nominated for a record-breaking 12 categories at the 2025 Game Awards, this title took 9 of them home including 2025’s Game of the Year

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

300

A disputed disorder in pop psychology where hostages develop a bond with their captors

Stockholm Syndrome

300

The 2019 film El Camino is a sequel to this highly acclaimed TV series

Breaking Bad

300

The name for this theoretical obscure agent that counteracts gravity by pushing space-time apart

Dark Energy

400

A neutral coloured canine

Greyhound

400

Receiving the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Song, this collaboration between three Detroit musicians also became their first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single

Lose Yourself

400

One of the most famous metals of the pre-industrial era, this material is characterised by exceptional hardness and by a watered, streaked appearance

Damascus Steel

400

The 2006 reboot to this film series was thrust into chaos when a year earlier, it was revealed that the new lead had blonde hair and blue eyes

James Bond

400

The location where nine Soviet ski hikers mysteriously died in 1959 as the result of a “compelling natural force”

Dyatlov Pass

500

The dark hours of day hide a female horse

Nightmare

500

Winning the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, this book about a father and son is renowned for its meandering subject matter and writing style

The Road

500

A political and military alliance established in 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries to counterbalance NATO

Warsaw Pact

500

The sixth main installment of this game series is set primarily in the Caribbean Sea during the Golden Age of Piracy

Assassin’s Creed

500

The nickname for a strangely powerful radio signal picked up by Ohio’s Big Ear telescope 1977, which some claim is one of the most compelling potential signs of extraterrestrial intelligence ever recorded

The Wow! Signal