| 100% | HARKNESS | 8 | Actual name of Captain Boomerang: George __ |
| 48% | DOLORES | 7 | Actual name of Nabokov's Lolita |
| 48% | ERNIE | 5 | Actual name of "Coach" on "Cheers" |
| 47% | WILLIAM | 7 | Actual name of a person nicknamed Bill |
| 45% | PEQUOD | 6 | The name of Captain Ahab's whaler |
| 44% | ALBERT | 6 | Real name of George VI |
| 43% | LUC | 3 | Part of Captain Picard’s name |
| 42% | OCEAN | 5 | Name of George Clooney in "The Ocean's Eleven" |
| 42% | PICARD | 6 | Last name of Enterprise captain Jean-Luc |
| 42% | AMAL | 4 | First name of George Clooney's wife |
| 42% | MARTHA | 6 | First name of George Washington's wife |
| 42% | ORWELL | 6 | Pen name of Arthur Eric Blair: George __ |
| 42% | ANN | 3 | Mary ___ Evans, real name of George Eliot |
| 41% | LAURA | 5 | First name of George W. Bush's wife |
| 41% | AMAL | 4 | ___ Alamuddin (birth name of George Clooney's wife) |
| 41% | MARTHA | 6 | First name of George Washington's First Lady |
| 41% | AMAL | 4 | First name of barrister married to George Clooney |
| 41% | IRA | 3 | First name of George Gershwin's lyricist brother |
| 41% | SILAS | 5 | First name of George Eliot’s “Weaver of Raveloe” |
| 41% | AMAL | 4 | First name of the lawyer married to George Clooney |
| 38% | GERSHWIN | 8 | Last name of American composers George and Ira |
| 38% | AMAL | 4 | First name of George Clooney's wife, who delivered twins on June 6 |
| 37% | SKA | 3 | Captain ___ (British band with one of its genres in its name) |
| 37% | GEORGE | 6 | Actual first name of Tom Seaver and Orson Welles |
| 36% | BOBBYJINDAL | 11 | Governor of Louisiana whose actual first name is Piyush: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ELIOT | 5 | George ___ (pen name of novelist Mary Ann Evans) |
| 35% | BOOMERANG | 9 | Alias of the villain George Harkness, Captain __ |
| 35% | ELIOT | 5 | George ___, pen name of novelist Mary Ann Evans |
| 34% | BUSH | 4 | George W. ___, 43rd President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "where bugs go" |
| 34% | LEATHERHEADS | 12 | 2008 comedy starring George Clooney as the captain of a struggling pro football team |