| 100% | THEDEAEASCROLLS | 15 | Ancient manuscripts discovered in the Qumran Caves |
| 50% | MSS | 3 | Those found in the Qumran Caves are notable ones (abbr.) |
| 49% | QUMRAN | 6 | Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the __ caves |
| 39% | ETHER | 5 | Number discovered in the 1500s |
| 38% | HITLER | 6 | __ diaries hoax was discovered in the 1980s |
| 38% | IODINE | 6 | Element discovered in the ashes of seaweed |
| 38% | SMELL | 5 | Bad thing to discover in the pantry |
| 37% | BOURBON | 7 | Tick-borne virus discovered in the summer of 2014 |
| 36% | OMEN | 4 | Eclipse, in the ancient world |
| 36% | ELMS | 4 | Trees in the Spanish manuscript |
| 36% | MACHUPICCHU | 11 | Ancient Incan site in the Andes |
| 36% | TOGA | 4 | Attire in the ancient Roman Senate |
| 36% | STETS | 5 | Decides to leave in the manuscript |
| 36% | DENS | 4 | Caves in the wild |
| 35% | IRAN | 4 | Modern land in the ancient Sasanian Empire |
| 35% | SATRAP | 6 | Provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire |
| 35% | ANTIQUITY | 9 | Ancient times, in the past |
| 35% | COLOSSEUM | 9 | Ancient Roman stadium in the middle of Rome |
| 35% | PALMYRA | 7 | Ancient Roman city in the middle of Syria |
| 34% | BAT | 3 | Flying mammal in the caves in "The Dark Knight" |
| 34% | ATHENA | 6 | Subject of a massive statue in the ancient Parthenon |
| 34% | FIND | 4 | 7 scrolls in jars in the cave above Khirbet Qumran, to an unidentified Bedouin shepherd 1947 |
| 34% | STAFFA | 6 | Island in the Inner Hebrides housing Fingal's Cave |
| 34% | STAGS | 5 | Some subjects depicted in the cave paintings at Lascaux |
| 34% | TROY | 4 | Ancient city in the "Iliad" |
| 33% | STREET | 6 | The first __ lights were used in ancient Rome |
| 33% | CARTHAGE | 8 | Ancient city in Tunisia, destroyed by the Romans |
| 33% | CRYSTALS | 8 | Cave of the __, huge transclucent shards in Mexico |
| 33% | DEER | 4 | Animals drawn in the Lascaux caves |
| 33% | BISON | 5 | Animal in some ancient cave art |