| 100% | ALCORN | 6 | ___ State University (first Black land grant college established in the US) |
| 40% | OBERLIN | 7 | First coeducational college in the U.S. |
| 39% | PHILLISWHEATLEY | 15 | First Black published poet in the U.S. |
| 39% | JULIEDASH | 9 | First black woman to direct a feature-length film distributed theatrically in the United States |
| 36% | UNI | 3 | College, in the U.K. |
| 36% | UNIS | 4 | Colleges, in the U.K. |
| 35% | DAVIS | 5 | Benjamin ___, first black general in the U.S. Army |
| 35% | TULSA | 5 | City in the US state of Oklahoma |
| 35% | SPELMAN | 7 | College established in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary |
| 35% | LEE | 3 | Grant's opponent in the US Civil War |
| 35% | ALABAMA | 7 | Montgomery's state that was the first US state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836 |
| 35% | PORTLAND | 8 | Biggest city in the US state of Maine |
| 35% | ILIAMNA | 7 | — Lake, largest in the US state of Alaska |
| 35% | BLOOMINGTON | 11 | State university city in the Midwest |
| 35% | AMES | 4 | College town in the Hawkeye State |
| 35% | OREE | 4 | First Black player in the NHL |
| 34% | CHICAGO | 7 | Most populated city in the US state of Illinois |
| 34% | YALE | 4 | University that awarded the first Ph.D. in the U.S. |
| 34% | YALE | 4 | College that awarded the first Ph.D. in the U.S. |
| 34% | SIGEP | 5 | Largest college fraternity in the U.S., familiarly |
| 33% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 33% | SIGEP | 5 | Largest college fraternity in the U.S., in brief |
| 33% | ASHE | 4 | First Black man to win the U.S. Open |
| 33% | SHIRLEYCHISHOLM | 15 | First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress |
| 33% | URI | 3 | School in the smallest U.S. state |
| 33% | URI | 3 | Sch. in the smallest U.S. state |
| 33% | DEL | 3 | The first US state: Abbr. |
| 33% | NYU | 3 | College in the Empire State |
| 33% | IOWA | 4 | State whose land became part of the US in the Louisiana Purchase |
| 33% | ABRAHAMLINCOLN | 14 | President who signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act in 1864, setting aside land for preservation for the first time: 2 wds. |