Delightful
Ditties
Descriptive
Diction
Dazzling
Drive-Ins
Distinguished
Developments
Dramatic
Documents
Dynamic
Dances
Darwinian
Diversions
100

___ all the people
Livin' life in peace

Imagine

- John Lennon (1971)

100

"Slay"
(2010s)

Doing something exceptionally well

100

A meek, small individual and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy a powerful piece of jewelry and save the world.

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

100

In 1966, the IRRI in the Philippines releases a semi-dwarf, high-yield Indica variety of this food that ushers in the Green Revolution

High-Yield Rice

100

A young wizard discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a school acceptance letter from a half-giant.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- JK Rowling (1998)

100


The Twist (1960s)

100

Trouble (1960s)

200

___. ___. ___. ___. ___. ___. ___.
Take care, TCB

Respect
- Aretha Franklin (1967)

200

"Tude"
(1970s)

Cocky or arrogant demeanor

200

Archaeology professor ventures to seize a biblical artefact known as the Ark of the Covenant. While doing so, he puts up a fight against Renee and a troop of Nazis.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

200

In 2007, the first one of these was introduced with a prank-call order of 4,000 lattes from a nearby Starbucks.

iPhone - the first U.S. smartphone without a physical keypad
200

Four English children are relocated to a large, old country house following a wartime evacuation. The youngest discovers a magical land travelling through a wardrobe in a spare room.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- C.S. Lewis (1950)

200


Disco (1970s)

200

Careers (1950s)

300

And the cares that hung around me through the week,
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak,
When we're out together dancing ___ ___ ___

Cheek to Cheek
- Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman (1935)

300

"Geeked"
(1980s)

Filled with excitement or enthusiasm

300

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.

The Godfather (1972)

300

In 1984, molecular biologist Alec Jeffreys devises this process to make the analysis of more than 3 billion units more manageable by comparing only the parts of the sequence that show the greatest variation among people

DNA Fingerprinting

300

The story is narrated by a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. She is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she falls in love

The Fault in our Stars

- John Green (2012)

300


MC Hammer - Can't Touch This (1990s)

300

Ticket to Ride (2000s)

400

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a __ __ __ __ 

Candle in the Wind

- Elton John (1997)

400

"Zooty"
(1940s)

Dressing flashy in manner or style

400

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

400

In 1976, the Cray-1 is installed in the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s the first one of these to successfully implement a system that allows a single operation to quickly be performed on a large set of data

Supercomputer

400

Farmers in California during the Dustbowl strive for better futures.

The Grapes of Wrath
- John Steinbeck (1939)

400


Gangnam Style (2010s)

400

Balderdash (1980s)

500

Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be __ __ __?

Mack The Knife
- Bobby Darin (1959)

500

"Stan"
(2020s)

Big fan. Combination of "stalker" and "fan"

500

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Casablanca (1942)

500

The development of this 2021 vaccine is considered historic—according to the WHO, there were 241 million cases worldwide in 2020, with an estimated 627,000 deaths.

Malaria Vaccine

500

A symbologist and cryptologist become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together.

The Davinci Code
- Dan Brown (2003)

500


The Dougie (2000s)

500

Catan (AKA The Settlers of Catan)
1990s