| 100% | HUNTSMAN | 8 | Benjamin —, 18th-century English inventor of crucible steel |
| 44% | ABEL | 4 | English inventor of cordite |
| 42% | HICK | 4 | English inventor Benjamin |
| 41% | REAUMUR | 7 | 18th-century French inventor of a temperature scale |
| 41% | JOHNKAY | 7 | English inventor of the flying shuttle for looms |
| 40% | WHITTLE | 7 | Frank, English inventor of the jet engine |
| 40% | DEERE | 5 | Inventor of the steel plow |
| 40% | ARNE | 4 | Thomas —, 18th-century English composer noted for his setting of Shakespearean songs |
| 39% | HARGREAVES | 10 | James —, 18th-century English weaver credited with the invention of the spinning jenny |
| 39% | WHITTLE | 7 | Frank ---, English inventor of the jet engine for aircraft |
| 39% | WHITTLE | 7 | Frank —, English inventor of the jet engine for aircraft |
| 39% | JOHNDEERE | 9 | Inventor of the steel plow: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DEERE | 5 | Inventor of the first commercially successful steel plow |
| 38% | BABBAGE | 7 | English inventor called the father of the computer |
| 37% | SAMUELCOLT | 10 | American weaponry inventor of the nineteenth century |
| 37% | WHEATSTONE | 10 | Charles —, 19th-century inventor of the English concertina and the Playfair cipher |
| 36% | RICHARD | 7 | & 3A 18th-century inventor of the water-powered spinning frame |
| 35% | GEORGEI | 7 | 18th-century English king |
| 34% | BRONTE | 6 | Anne ___, 19th century English novelist known for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" |
| 34% | PASCAL | 6 | Inventor of a 17th-century calculator |
| 33% | ELI | 3 | 18th-century inventor ___ Whitney |
| 33% | EVERYMAN | 8 | Popular English morality play of the early 16th century |
| 33% | MDCCI | 5 | Start of the 18th century |
| 33% | CASANOVA | 8 | Libertine of the 18th century |
| 32% | BOER | 4 | Dutch settler of South Africa in the 18th-19th centuries |
| 32% | DICKTURPIN | 10 | 18th-century English highwayman associated with horse Black Bess |
| 31% | PAINE | 5 | 18th-century author of "The American Crisis" |
| 31% | ELI | 3 | 18th- to 19th-century inventor Whitney |
| 31% | CANALETTO | 9 | 18th-century Venetian painter of city views |
| 31% | EDO | 3 | Samurai stronghold of the 18th century |