| 100% | MARIS | 5 | Breaker of Ruth's record in 1961 |
| 67% | MARIS | 5 | Breaker of Ruth's record |
| 67% | AARON | 5 | Breaker of Ruth's record |
| 53% | MARIS | 5 | Surpasser of Ruth in 1961 |
| 47% | AARON | 5 | He broke Ruth's record in 1974 |
| 44% | MARIS | 5 | Roger who broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1961 |
| 42% | NEHRU | 5 | World leader with a role in 1961's annexation of Goa |
| 41% | ROSE | 4 | Breaker of a Cobb MLB record |
| 41% | GARNER | 6 | Julia ___, actress who plays the character of Ruth Langmore in Netflix's "Ozark" |
| 41% | MARIS | 5 | Roger who set a home run record in 1961 |
| 41% | MARIS | 5 | Roger who set the home run record in 1961 |
| 40% | BOAZ | 4 | Husband of Ruth, in the Bible |
| 39% | MCGWIRE | 7 | Record breaker of 1998 |
| 39% | SEVEN | 5 | Drake's record-setting number of simultaneous top 10 singles in July 2018 |
| 39% | REGISTRAR | 9 | In charge of official records |
| 38% | ANNAL | 5 | Record of events in 2014, say |
| 38% | MARIS | 5 | Ruth chaser in 1961 |
| 38% | MARIS | 5 | Roger ___ (baseball player who broke the single-season home run record in 1961) |
| 37% | THORPE | 6 | Breaker of the 400-meter freestyle world record at the 2000 Olympics |
| 37% | TRIPLE | 6 | One of Ty Cobb's record 295 in the A.L. |
| 36% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 36% | GRAHAM | 6 | Type of crackers in s'mores |
| 36% | DASHCAM | 7 | Recording device placed in the front of a car |
| 36% | CHRONICLE | 9 | Historical record of events in time order |
| 36% | SIXTY | 5 | Ruth's record homer count |
| 36% | MEALIE | 6 | Ear of corn, esp. in S. Africa |
| 36% | STRATEGIC | 9 | First S in OSS, precursor of CIA |
| 36% | IDEA | 4 | Breaker of writer's block |
| 35% | SCORECARD | 9 | Way of recording shots per hole in golf |
| 35% | AUGUST | 6 | Month of birthday of racehorses in S hemisphere |