| 100% | DAVIS | 5 | Benjamin ___, first black general in the U.S. Army |
| 63% | COLIN | 5 | ___ Powell, retired general in the U. S. Army who was honored with his second Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 |
| 55% | PHILLISWHEATLEY | 15 | First Black published poet in the U.S. |
| 51% | OBERLIN | 7 | First coeducational college in the U.S. |
| 48% | LEE | 3 | Grant's opposing general in the US Civil War |
| 47% | BEALLYOUCANBE | 13 | Slogan introduced by the U.S. Army in 1980 (5 wds.) |
| 47% | CHERAMI | 7 | Male homing pigeon used by the U.S. Army in WWI |
| 47% | LEE | 3 | Losing general in the US Civil War |
| 47% | POTTER | 6 | Lorraine, first female chaplain in the US Air Force (1973), later promoted to general (1999) |
| 47% | NCO | 3 | First-tier supervisor in the U.S.M.C. |
| 46% | OREE | 4 | First Black player in the NHL |
| 46% | RENO | 4 | Janet who was the U.S.’s first female Attorney General |
| 46% | AAVE | 4 | Dialect created by Black people in the U.S. |
| 45% | LASORDA | 7 | He managed the U.S. to its first Olympic gold in baseball |
| 45% | CARUSO | 6 | Performer in the first U.S. public radio broadcast, 1910 |
| 45% | RPI | 3 | First private engineering school in the U.S. |
| 45% | OTHELLO | 7 | Fictional general in the Venetian army |
| 45% | CAR | 3 | One of 52 million in the U. S. |
| 45% | ASHE | 4 | First Black man to win the U.S. Open |
| 45% | SHIRLEYCHISHOLM | 15 | First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress |
| 45% | YELLOWSTONE | 11 | First national park in the U.S. with parts in Wyoming that was featured in the movie "2012" |
| 45% | GENERAL | 7 | Highest officer rank in the US Army |
| 45% | PFCS | 4 | E-3s in the US Army (abbr.) |
| 45% | BREWER | 6 | Margaret, first woman in the US Marine Corps to reach the rank of general (1978) |
| 44% | NAGANO | 6 | Where the U.S. won the first gold medal in women's ice hockey |
| 44% | PVT | 3 | Lowest-ranked soldier in the US Army: Abbr. |
| 44% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S. who had a general store in New Salem |
| 44% | ATM | 3 | Device first deployed in the U.S. by Chemical Bank (1969) |
| 43% | CENTRAL | 7 | Alphabetically first time zone in the contiguous U.S. |
| 43% | MILEYCYRUS | 10 | "Party in the U.S.A." singer whose first TV series lead role was on Disney's "Hannah Montana": 2 wds. |