| 100% | GEORGES | 7 | __ Claude, French inventor of neon lighting |
| 49% | MONIER | 6 | Joseph __, French inventor of reinforced concrete |
| 49% | GIFFARD | 7 | Henri __; French inventor of the airship |
| 49% | APPERT | 6 | Nicolas __, French inventor of food canning |
| 47% | REAUMUR | 7 | 18th-century French inventor of a temperature scale |
| 47% | DAVY | 4 | Inventor of a miner's light |
| 45% | EDISON | 6 | Inventor of the phonograph and the light bulb |
| 43% | EDISON | 6 | US inventor of the phonograph and light bulb |
| 43% | MONET | 5 | French painter of "Water Lilies," Claude ___ |
| 43% | ATHOS | 5 | Dueler of French lit |
| 43% | DEBUSSY | 7 | French composer of Clair de lune, Claude __ |
| 42% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind |
| 42% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for blind people |
| 42% | ESSAI | 5 | Bit of lit, in French |
| 41% | CAMILLE | 7 | First wife of French impressionist Claude Monet |
| 41% | MONET | 5 | Claude ___, French painter of "Water Lilies" |
| 41% | ATHOS | 5 | Title character of 19th-century French lit |
| 41% | BOVARY | 6 | Title character of 19th-century French lit |
| 39% | HARICOT | 7 | Variety of French bean with light-coloured edible seeds |
| 38% | DEBUSSY | 7 | Claude —, French composer of 1902 opera Pelleas et Melisande |
| 37% | EDISON | 6 | Thomas, reputed US inventor of the light bulb |
| 37% | ROUGETDE | 8 | & 2D Claude Joseph —, composer of French national anthem La Marseillaise |
| 36% | MONTGOLFIER | 11 | Joseph-Michel —, French inventor with brother Jacques-Etienne of the first practical hot-air balloon in 1783 |
| 35% | POPPY | 5 | ___ festival of Giverny, fest celebrating the flower that inspired the French artist Claude Monet |
| 35% | NAPIER | 6 | Inventor of logarithms |
| 35% | NAISMITH | 8 | Inventor of basketball |
| 35% | NOBEL | 5 | Inventor of dynamite |
| 34% | EDISON | 6 | Inventor of Menlo Park |
| 34% | BERLINER | 8 | Inventor of the gramophone |