| 100% | MULLERY | 7 | Alan —, first England footballer to be sent off, against Yusgoslavia in 1968 |
| 30% | APRIL | 5 | When Browning wanted to be in England |
| 30% | SETI | 4 | Institute hoping to be involved in first contact |
| 29% | RECEIVERS | 9 | They are sent in to deal with failing institutions |
| 29% | RATS | 4 | Rodents said to be the first off a sinking ship |
| 29% | AARON | 5 | Last name likely to be first in a roll call |
| 29% | SHEPARD | 7 | Alan who was the first American in space |
| 28% | EMAIL | 5 | Clinton was the first president to send one |
| 27% | FRUIT | 5 | ___ flies, first living organisms to be sent to space |
| 27% | SOL | 3 | — Campbell, footballer who first transferred to Arsenal in 2001 |
| 27% | NAME | 4 | First line to be filled in on many forms |
| 27% | TOBACCO | 7 | Rolfe was the first to cultivate this in Virginia |
| 27% | INCISORS | 8 | Teeth that are typically the first to grow in |
| 27% | JANEADDAMS | 10 | First American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1931: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ALEKSEI | 7 | Leonov who was the first man to walk in space |
| 27% | ODESSA | 6 | City that was home to the first car in Russia |
| 27% | TRIPLELUTZ | 10 | Donald Jackson was first to land it in international competition |
| 27% | ARMADA | 6 | Fleet sent by Philip II of Spain against England in 1588 |
| 26% | EMAIL | 5 | The first one was sent in 1971 |
| 26% | MARATSA{FIN} | 12 | First Russian to be inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 26% | MILE | 4 | Roger Bannister was the first to run it in under four minutes |
| 26% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
| 26% | NEIL | 4 | First name in NASA's prestigious list of astronauts who have been to the moon |
| 26% | HAYES | 5 | First president to have a phone in the White House—its number was "1" (1877) |
| 26% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol |
| 26% | SMS | 3 | Protocol that was first used to send the text "Merry Christmas," for short |
| 26% | CANA | 4 | Town in Galilee where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle |
| 26% | LAIKA | 5 | Dog who became the first living being to orbit the Earth in 1957 |
| 26% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 26% | SAUDIS | 6 | Women who were legally permitted to drive for the first time in 2018 |