| 100% | ERNANI | 6 | 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi set in Spain in the 16th century |
| 78% | ERNANI | 6 | 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi set in 16th-century Spain |
| 45% | AIDA | 4 | Opera, set in Egypt, by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 45% | ATTILA | 6 | Verdi opera set in the fifth century |
| 42% | SEAPOWERS | 9 | Spain and England in the 16th century |
| 40% | AIDA | 4 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera set in Egypt |
| 38% | ATTILA | 6 | Verdi opera set during the fifth century |
| 38% | EDWARDII | 8 | History play by Christopher Marlowe set in the fourteenth century |
| 37% | ELDORADO | 8 | Fabled place in South America rich in treasure sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th century |
| 37% | DESDEMONA | 9 | Otello's wife in the opera by Verdi |
| 37% | AZTEC | 5 | Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Cortes in the 16th century |
| 36% | MONTERO | 7 | Round cap with a flap at the back worn by hunters, especially in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries |
| 36% | AZTEC | 5 | Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Hernan Cortes in the 16th century |
| 35% | LAKME | 5 | Three-act opera by Leo Delibes set in 19th-century British India |
| 34% | FALSTAFF | 8 | 1893 opera by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 34% | AIDA | 4 | 1870 opera by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 34% | LATRAVIATA | 10 | 1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 34% | JAZZ | 4 | Historical novel by Toni Morrison set in Harlem in the 1920s |
| 34% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 33% | LECID | 5 | Massenet opera set in 11th-century Spain |
| 33% | MOORS | 5 | Invaders of Spain in the 8th century |
| 33% | ALLEMANDE | 9 | Any of various popular German couple dances originating in the 16th century |
| 33% | ROSE | 4 | The Mary ___, Tudor warship that sank in the 16th century |
| 33% | CHOPINES | 8 | High platform shoes worn in the 16th century |
| 33% | AMBROISE | 8 | __ Paré, French royal surgeon in the 16th century |
| 33% | CARMEN | 6 | Opera set in Spain, with toreadors |
| 33% | AMASKEDBALL | 11 | English title of an 1859 opera by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 33% | TOMATO | 6 | Red fruit introduced to Europe in the 16th century |
| 32% | DUCHESS | 7 | 2017 book by Danielle Steel set in 19th century about a young woman, "The ___" |
| 32% | INCA | 4 | Member of an empire that ended in the 16th century |