| 100% | KINGPRIAM | 9 | 1962 opera by Michael Tippett based on Homer's Iliad |
| 95% | KING | 4 | & 9D 1962 opera by Michael Tippett based on Homer's Iliad |
| 81% | KINGPRIAM | 9 | 1962 opera by Michael Tippett based on the Iliad |
| 40% | TROY | 4 | 2004 film based on Homer's "Iliad" |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |
| 33% | BARBEROFSEVILLE | 15 | Opera based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with "The" |
| 33% | SATYAGRAHA | 10 | 1979 opera by Philip Glass loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |
| 32% | BOD | 3 | BBC TV animated series for children based on books by Michael and Joanne Cole |
| 31% | THEREVENANT | 11 | Leonardo DiCaprio drama based on a novel by Michael Punke and a 1915 poem (2 wds.) |
| 30% | LOVEYOU | 7 | "P.S. I ___," film based on a novel which shares its title with a 1962 song by The Beatles: 2 wds. |
| 30% | WESTWORLD | 9 | HBO hit based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film |
| 30% | ABRIDGETOOFAR | 13 | Sean Connery's 1977 war film based on a book by Cornelius Ryan which also stars Michael Caine: 4 wds. |
| 30% | HUD | 3 | 1963 western based on Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" |
| 30% | THELOSTWORLD | 12 | Novel by Michael Crichton on which the sequel to 26a which was released in 1997 was based: 3 wds. |
| 30% | THOU | 4 | "O Brother, Where Art ___?" 2000 movie featuring George Clooney loosely based on Homer's epic "The Odyssey" |
| 29% | AIDA | 4 | Broadway musical based on an opera that's set in Egypt |
| 29% | SPAMALOT | 8 | Broadway musical based on material by Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| 29% | FAIRLADY | 8 | Musical based on a novel by George Bernard Shaw, "My ___" was the longest-running Broadway show between 1956 - 1962: 2 wds. |
| 29% | BOHEMIAN | 8 | & 20D The —, 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe |
| 29% | LESTROYENS | 10 | Berlioz opera based on Virgil's "Aeneid" |
| 28% | FROMTHE | 7 | Leos Janacek opera premiered in 1930 based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 28% | AIDA | 4 | Musical based on an opera |
| 28% | OEDIPUSREX | 10 | 1927 opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky based on a tragedy by Sophocles |
| 27% | AIDA | 4 | Musical based on a Verdi opera |
| 27% | HUD | 3 | Film based on ''Horseman, Pass By'' |