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From frequent observations of the programme as both a student and an unemployed layabout, a compound noun with a space in it has never been presented as an answer, words are always munged together provided the munging is valid according to the Oxford Dictionary. I deduce from this that single-word-with-no-spaces responses are either an official rule or a very strong point of etiquette (it would feel wrong to see somebody try to use a space, IMO).
If you have a strong stomach for data, you can review the round-by-round details of more than 800 games here to support or dismiss my theory: http://cdb.apterous.org/index.php
It will take only one spaced compound noun to prove me wrong :-)